Miscellaneous Traps for the Soul
A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge. ― China Melville The understanding that all of my thoughts, …
Suggestion and Other Creative Fictions
Self suggestion makes you master of yourself — W. Clement Stone Suggestion is an effective method of how to learn faster to influence subjective phenomena reifying a particular creative fiction. …
Awakening Into Mindfulness
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn …
The Puppy and the Puppy Trainer
There’s a world of difference between a dog that is off the leash and a dog that is trained to be off the leash — Don Sullivan To explain why …
Determinism and Free Will
The human nervous system has become so complex, that it is able to affect its own states, making it functionally independent of its genetic blueprint, and of the objective environment. …
The Puppy and the Puppy Trainer
There’s a world of difference between a dog that is off the leash and a dog that is trained to be off the leash — Don Sullivan To explain why …
Reification
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us — Rabindranath Tagore Some otherwise competent individuals repeatedly and knowingly act counter to their own interests. They are not …
Recursive Traps
“It is often possible to discern a structure to people’s difficulties, in which internal states and external events continually create the conditions for the recurrence of each other.” — Paul …
Nietzsche’s Perspectivism
Some clerics are certain that their religion is more valid than all the others. The same certainty that my perspective is correct and others are wrong holds for sports fans, …