Nobody really understands this thing called ‘mental health’ – we talk about it an awful lot but we don't have a clue what we're talking about! The problem is that...
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The main thrust of human endeavour is to create and maintain the world that supports and validates the particularized ego or self. This is what we’re at and let no...
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There is this ridiculously futile thing that we all do almost all of the time. There are various ways in which we can talk about this ‘ridiculously futile thing'. One...
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The determinate environment ‘tells us who we are'; it tells us who we are and we actually like this – we take it as ‘a positive'! From one particular (and...
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Thought’s covert function is to distract our attention away from ‘openness', even though it will never admit this. Far from admitting such a thing, thought claims is that it is...
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So if there are ‘no wonders for the self’, what does this mean exactly? Undoubtedly there are no wonders for the self – how could there be? What is the...
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Our life is an idea, not a prosaic fact. By this we don't mean a rational idea, or ‘logical category', but more a kind of ‘dreamlike' or ‘poetical' idea. It’s...
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Aggression is how we create negative freedom for ourselves! Admittedly this statement probably isn't going to make a hell of a lot of sense to anyone who happens across it,...
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When Macbeth says that life is ‘a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing' he could be talking about the thinking mind’s account of life...
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No matter what it may like to think, the rational mind does not ‘rule' the psyche! To be sure, it constantly tries to do so, and very often it may...
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We talk about consciousness a lot, we have even made it into a modern scientific discipline – ‘consciousness research' – and quite possibly we feel that we going to get...
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What is ‘the vibration'? One way to answer this rather cryptic question is to say that what we are calling ‘the vibration’ is the inevitable result of the use of...
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