Positive therapy is where we say (or assume) that we can obtain mental health (or freedom from mental restriction and suffering) deliberately, in a rational and purposeful way. There is...
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According to Umberto Eco, the universe – when it comes down to it – is a harmless kind of enigma. It is ‘harmless' because it doesn't do any harm; it's...
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What does it mean to live in a world that is made up of our assumptions? How does that even work? How practicable I think is this? The first thing...
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We never see consciousness on its own; we only ever see it in the service of thought, we only ever see it in the service of some idea or other....
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The nullity puts infinite pressure on us to achieve something that is not at all possible and which cannot therefore ever be achieved. Needless to say, obeying this relentless pressure...
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Consciousness is like monotonic fluorine, or monatomic oxygen, in that we never come across it in day-to-day life! We never do and we never will. Saying that consciousness is like...
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Identifying with the concrete sense of self is a irreversible process, a process that works one way but not the other. We can check in but not check out, in...
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To live in the world, and fundamentally not to know what that world is (or not to know what it means to live in it) is existential pain, is existential...
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As odd and peculiar as it might seem, our underlying or ‘unconscious’ motivation for just about everything we do is always to ‘escape the simulation’. This is our ‘secret agenda’...
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The self is always 'incorrigibly rigid' in its nature; we can say that the self is 'incorrigibly rigid' because it is bound by its very nature to protect certain beliefs...
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Our default state is to be swallowed up by whatever drama it is that happens to be going on for us at the time. To be swallowed up by whatever...
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There are only two things in the world, determinism and freedom, and only freedom is real. Of the two of these things however, determinism is the only one we know...
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