Psychology
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Trump and Norman Vincent Peale
In my last article, “An Insane Person for President?” I argued that someone completely disassociated from reality was insane, and that defined Trump. I even cited a comment from his niece, Mary Trump, a…
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An Insane Person as President?
Webster defines insane as “exhibiting a severely disordered state of mind,” “unable to think in a clear and sensible way,” or “people having a severely disordered state of mind.” All of those definitions…
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The Dog Whisperer and the Ego
Have you ever watched Cesar Milan’s show, The Dog Whisperer? Its newest rendition is called Better Human, Better Dog. It’s very spiritual. In the show, Cesar Milan, a dog trainer, takes on challenging…
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The Next Five Years
The next five years, in terms of climate change, could be brutal. Wading through the beginning of this article could also be brutal. But if you can get through it (it’s not long),…
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Divine Madness
At the end of my last article on Empedocles, he claimed that the only way to make our way through the illusions of this finite material world is through Strife or “Madness.” This…
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Empedocles: Cosmologist and Magician: Part II
In my last article, “Empedocles: Cosmologist and Magician,” linked here, I laid out Empedocles’ story of the cosmos and his story of the soul and merged the two. For background, please read that article.…
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Give It Up: You Can’t Improve Yourself!
I recently heard this line, “You can’t improve yourself,” in a talk by Alan Watts. It struck me in two ways. First, it was rather depressing to think that I couldn’t improve this…
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Our Lived Life
Should we base our life on abstract ideas, or should our “lived life” dictate those abstract ideas? Off the cuff, many of us say, of course, our lived life should dictate those ideas.…
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Four Features of a Mystical Experience
What is the role of consciousness in the study of the universe and our life here on earth? We take our everyday consciousness as our default setting, thinking it gives us the proper…
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Subjective and Objective Knowledge
In our modern scientific era, we don’t pay much attention to “subjective” knowledge; instead we prefer “objective” knowledge. That is knowledge that is fact based and empirically verifiable. If we can’t demonstrate a…
