THE FIFTH ACCESS CYBER THERAPY AND QUANTUM CYBERDYNAMICS With the advent of psychiatry and twentieth century psychology, people threw out thousands of years of previous psychological insight and practice. The insights of various eastern disciplines, such as yoga, Zen Buddhism, and Sufism, have come back into fashion via the […]
The Metaphysical Jungle
What we call depression today has at least something in common with what ancient Christian writers used to call acedia: nobody knows exactly what it is. This is, however, probably insufficient to identify depression with acedia. In actual fact, there seems to be a massive difference between what medical science believes to be depression and […]
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William James: Instinct
The Principles of Psychology, William James (1890) CHAPTER XXIV. [1] INSTINCT INSTINCT is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance . That instincts, as thus defined, exist on an enormous scale in the […]
By ALFRED KAZIN Philosophers of considerable reputation are usually more admired than loved, but William James inspired affection even among his fellow philosophers. Alfred North Whitehead referred to him as that “adorable genius.” His Harvard colleague and department head, George Herbert Palmer, said “We found in him a masterful type of human being, developed […]
“In considering] the problem of why it is so hard for men to be happy, [we see that one source of unhappiness is] the inadequacy of the regulations which adjust the mutual relationships of human beings in the family, the state and society. . . . [When we think about this,] we come upon a […]
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The Six Basic Human Needs
(Taken from Tony Robbins talk on Why We Do What We Do, which was modified from an original TED talk give in 2006) Certainty (covers survival and needs) Uncertainty (this one seems almost counter-intuitive until you take some time to think about it) Significance (men in particular, being testosterone-driven, seek significance and will die for […]
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Pornotopia
Here are a few selections from a terrific article about pornography entitled, The Pornographic State published in 1994. This paper was and is prescient regarding the present state of discourse regarding First Amendment and other rights in America. The article, written by two lawyers and published in the Harvard Review, describes what they call Pornotopia […]