Mental Health - The Negative Psychologist

The only genuine (i.e. ‘non-fake') type of joy is the type of joy that comes when we discover that what we thought was true, actually isn’t true at all! This...

Mental Health

Meditating For Profit

Mar 27. 2020

When we meditate we don't do so for profit – on the contrary, we meditate out of our ‘actual integrity as human beings'. ‘Doing things for profit' and ‘doing things...

Mental Health

Nonsensicality Due To Self-Referentiality

Mar 20. 2020

'The human condition', says Eckhart Tolle, is that we are ‘lost in thought'; we could equally well say that our default condition is that we are ‘obsessed with nonsense'. Being...

Mental Health

The Violence Of Institutions

Mar 18. 2020

Institutions inflict violence on reality. Institutions commit violence on reality (we might say) because they ignore the subtlety of reality completely – they act as if reality were not ‘what...

Mental Health

Who’s In The Driving Seat?

Mar 13. 2020

When thought is allowed to take control then it sets us an impossible task – it drives us ever onward in the doomed attempt to accomplish something that can never...

Mental Health

Reflex Mind

Feb 28. 2020

‘Living life in the wrong way', to borrow Lawrence Durrell's phrase, is where we spend all our time feeding the mechanical reflexes that live in us and turning our backs...

Mental Health

There Is No Choice In Neurosis

Feb 22. 2020

When we’re having a bad time then this – as Greg Tucker says - proves (apparently quite definitively, too) that we exist and so this is a good thing. It's...

Mental Health

Positive versus Negative Therapy

Jan 18. 2020

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...

Mental Health

Entropy And The Self

Dec 05. 2019

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...

Mental Health

Marrying In Haste, Repenting At Leisure…

Nov 21. 2019

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...

Mental Health

Private Worlds [1]

Oct 28. 2019

The greatest and most insidious danger that we face in life is a danger of our horizons narrowing down and narrowing down without us noticing what is happening, until we...