The Negative Psychologist - Page 2 of 39 - Alternative Thinking on Psychology & Mental Health

When we get cut off from the core of who we are then we become the helpless prey of external mechanical compulsions. We could also say – if we wanted...

Philosophy

Detached Perseverance

Feb 06. 2017

According to Adi Shankara, when we perceive the Atman then the world as we know it – the illusory world of attractive and repellent appearances – immediately ceases to exist....

Mental Health

The Torture Never Stops…

Feb 03. 2017

Equilibrium states of consciousness are - in effect – tortuous. To wake up and be faced with yet another day full of nothing but an unrelieved E-state of consciousness (in...

Information Theory

The Inverted Magic of the Literal World

Jan 25. 2017

Just as myth and metaphor contain magic, so too does literal or concrete language come with its own brand of ‘inverted magic’. Everything comes with some sort of magic! A...

Philosophy

The Super-Glitch

Jan 21. 2017

The essential problem that we are constantly trying to solve with our thinking (or almost all of the time) is the ‘problem’ of our unreality. This is the problem that...

Mental Health

What it Means to be a Person

Jan 16. 2017

Mental health can be thought of as a way of talking about how much autonomy we have in our relationship with the world. This is a fairly obvious statement, once...

Philosophy

Mythological Content

Jan 08. 2017

There are two types of content consciousness can have – one is rational and the other is mythological. In the particular type of a culture we live in ‘rational content’...

Negative Psychologist

Trapped in a World of Aggression

Jan 05. 2017

Everything the self which is who we think we are does is inherently aggressive. Everything ‘the self which is a thought’ does is aggressive – thoughts are always aggressive! Why are...

The System of Thought

With Every Thought We Create a Self…

Jan 01. 2017

Artwork: The Illusion of the Self (2011) by Theresia Lynch With every thought we create a self – here is a thought, here is a thought, and here is another thought...

The System of Thought

Anything Else is Codology

Dec 29. 2016

Life is a risk but when we try to avoid this risk all we are doing is creating a perfectly sterile situation for ourselves – a situation which is –...