Human beings are highly resistant to acquiring self-knowledge. Our ego, the turtle shell of our mind, readily embraces willful, even militant, ignorance as self-protection against the humbling reality of how we instigate and then cover-up our participation in self-defeating … [Read more...] about The Joy of Militant Ignorance
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Jordan Peterson’s Blind Spot
With his lectures, interviews, and YouTube exposure, Jordan Peterson is having a positive influence on many thousands of people. The Canadian psychologist has been described as “the most influential public intellectual” in the Western world. He has, however, become a … [Read more...] about Jordan Peterson’s Blind Spot
The Inner Critic is a Primitive Brute Force
The inner critic is a brute force, a totalitarian tyrant, lurking in the human psyche. It’s a primitive part of us that operates with the mentality of a psychopath. It harbors a capacity for evil. Yet many mental-health practitioners tell their clients the inner critic can be … [Read more...] about The Inner Critic is a Primitive Brute Force
The Self-Defeat of Passive Morning Thoughts
What do you start to think about upon awakening in the morning? Is there a recurring pattern or theme to your early morning thoughts and reflections? Those first moments upon awakening are, for a lot of us, unpleasant if not disturbing. That’s when people are evaluating their … [Read more...] about The Self-Defeat of Passive Morning Thoughts
12 Ways We Fail to See or Experience Reality
We humans are capable of acquiring profoundly deep understandings of reality. We’ll likely at some future time have a much deeper intellectual grasp of what are now scientific, metaphysical, and cosmic mysteries. Reality is defined more narrowly, however, for the purposes … [Read more...] about 12 Ways We Fail to See or Experience Reality