Is there perhaps one basic insight, one key awareness, that we humans have to learn, and learn quickly, to help us avoid catastrophe from climate change, nuclear weapons, spreading psychosis, and multispecies extinction? I recently purchased a book titled A Gap in Nature: … [Read more...] about Why We Urgently Need Inner Truth
Consciousness
Are You Living Your True Story?
Everyone needs a story, as the saying goes. The best kind of story provides us with meaning and purpose, and it reflects values and beliefs to which we subscribe. Ideally, it tells us right from wrong, explains our suffering, and guides us going forward. Such stories, which go … [Read more...] about Are You Living Your True Story?
Get to Know Your Psyche’s Operating Systems
People tend unconsciously to falsify reality. We’re usually not aware of how and why our sense of reality is distorted, which is an impediment to our intelligence. What's causing this distortion of reality? At play in our psyche, with distinct and separate “operating … [Read more...] about Get to Know Your Psyche’s Operating Systems
Illustrating the Characters Who Mess With Our Mind
I’ve been slowing down my writing production over the past year, as my mind and psyche shift away from the mental side into more intuitive and contemplative states. For many years I’ve been “drawing” portraits of the psyche in the language of depth psychology—with words, phrases, … [Read more...] about Illustrating the Characters Who Mess With Our Mind
Don’t Let Inner Passivity Undermine Democracy
Most people, including mental-health professionals, are unaware of how strongly we know ourselves and identify with ourselves through a condition of non-being known as inner passivity. This mental and emotional identity is a widespread psychological condition that’s … [Read more...] about Don’t Let Inner Passivity Undermine Democracy