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The Tao of Chan and AURELIS
Chan Buddhism, or Zen as it is known in Japan, stands as a profound synthesis of two great traditions: Taoism and Buddhism, reflecting the universal truths that underlie human spirituality. AURELIS, as a modern path to inner growth, resonates with this perennial tradition. AURELIS weaves the essence of Eastern and Western wisdom into a contemporary Read the full article…
Five Aurelian Values in Conservative and Progressive
When understood deeply, conservatives and progressives are united by their shared longing to preserve and cultivate what is truly meaningful. The five Aurelian values – openness, depth, respect, freedom, and trustworthiness – offer a powerful tool to explore this deeper alignment. These values are not separate forces. They are deeply interconnected, with each value gaining Read the full article…
AURELIS & Stoicism: A Shared Journey
Throughout history, individuals have sought paths to inner peace, resilience, and a life well-lived. Stoicism, rooted in the wisdom of Ancient Greece and Rome, and AURELIS, a modern growth philosophy steeped in psychology and neuroscience, offer compelling answers. Though separated by time and culture, these philosophies share striking parallels ― yet their differences are equally Read the full article…
Is the Aurelian Mind a Global Mind?
Can a single framework embrace the vast diversity of human thought while uniting us in our shared humanity? The Aurelian mind, with its foundation in openness, depth, respect, freedom, and trustworthiness, proposes just such a vision. Rooted in the AURELIS philosophy, the intention is to transcend the boundaries of culture, ideology, and tradition, offering a Read the full article…
The Power of Self-Suggestion
What we tell ourselves – both consciously and non-consciously – plays a crucial role in our mental and physical well-being. Our thoughts, words, and self-talk influence how we perceive the world and how we experience it. Through Compassionate self-suggestions, we can shape our inner reality in ways that promote healing, growth, and peace. Self-suggestion vs. Read the full article…
What is Aurelian Autosuggestion?
Aurelian autosuggestion is a method rooted in the AURELIS philosophy, which emphasizes the power of the mind to influence the body and promote inner growth. Unlike traditional suggestion techniques, which often involve direct commands or affirmations, Aurelian autosuggestion is more subtle and works by gently inviting the deeper, subconceptual layers of the mind to participate Read the full article…
Aure-Lisa — the Big Picture
This is about the big picture of humanity — Who we are. Increasingly, it’s also about super-A.I. — What it can become, and collectively — Why it matters. AURELIS, combined with Lisa as a Compassionate A.I. coach-bot (Aure-Lisa), is uniquely positioned to be of support in this big picture with significant implications for the future Read the full article…
(AURELIS) Autosuggestion Starts where Positive Thinking Ends
The term ‘autosuggestion’ is sometimes associated with positive thinking and the use of affirmations. However, AURELIS-autosuggestion is very different in terms of going much further into depth. AURELIS-autosuggestion – further in this text called ‘autosuggestion’ – is like the whole lake (the human mind) where positive thinking/affirmations only skim the surface. Thus, on the surface, Read the full article…
People want Visible Growth
These are five questions that you, as a coachee, can answer for yourself. Like a gardener A gardener watches his tomatoes grow ― and his lettuce and his carrots. A little more every day. And “he sees that it is good.” People (and not even just people) like to see a clear progression in growth. Apparently, that is Read the full article…
Ready for a Change from Within?
These are five questions that you, as a coachee, can answer for yourself. It is interesting to be very honest with yourself in this. It’s interesting also to really try to feel what these questions mean to you and how you really deal with them yourself. Take your time for this. Taking time is already a Read the full article…
AurelisOnLine = Communication with Your Deeper Self
Communication in openness, respect, and freedom. If you feel any coercion at all, then please revise the way you are practicing. This is AUTO-suggestion. You’re the one in charge. You can find AurelisOnLine here. At the time of writing, it’s free. This is not about letting go of your critical sense. Of course, that is never the Read the full article…
Three Answers to Reality-as-Construction
The first answer lies in pragmatically choosing an option. The second lies in not choosing. The third lies in being the choice. Constructionism shows that we are necessarily and significantly active in constructing reality as we perceive it — a costly error in many respects such as playing a causal role in many psycho-somatic issues. Read the full article…
Autosuggestion in Mental Pattern Recognition and Completion
Cognitive neuroscience increasingly proves the mind/brain to be a prediction machine. This points to the immense possibilities of autosuggestion. Please read about the predictive brain. An excellent scientific book about this is The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, by Andy Clark (2023). Pattern Recognition and Completion (PRC) is the way the Read the full article…
AureLisa One-Pager to Philanthropy
Are you a philanthropist? Then you may be interested in the AureLisa promises enumerated here. Proper backing for each point is abundantly available in scientific and other publications (books, articles, blogs, white paper, etc.). We are serious. If you are too, please let us know. Our philanthropic take is to be robustly embedded in a Read the full article…
Eco-AURELIS
AURELIS is about inner growth. Therefore, it is a ‘green project.’ Healing oneself and healing the planet is the same. As a project, AURELIS is about being aware of this. This is about how green is your mind. This is about sustainability from the inside out. This is about how AURELIS can help or may Read the full article…
Aurelian Expectations
Well-oriented expectations can be powerful self-fulfilling prophecies. This is ancient wisdom and scientific fact. In profundity, they should be handled carefully and, most importantly, with good aim. (In this text, with ‘expectations’ is meant the kind that involves one also in-depth.) Expectation + (self-)deception = placebo Deception should never be used if anyhow avoidable. If Read the full article…
DailyTwinkles
Each day a small text to think about, brought in an esthetically appealing format through social media. Practically Dailytwinkles come through Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram. They come from the start in eight languages: English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Russian. We will go to 40 languages soon. At each subscription, you get Read the full article…
Five Ethical Values in AURELIS Sessions
These values can help you toward a deeper immersion in AURELIS sessions ― a crucial element of effectiveness. Ethics and effectiveness Generally, these seem two very different domains, even close to irreconcilable. This impression may stem from the fact that ethics is seen chiefly as the do’s and don’ts an individual needs to comply with Read the full article…
AURELIS in Everything?
There are AURELIS books, blog-essays, and mental exercises about many domains. Can AURELIS-specific expertise be genuinely relevant in all of these? AURELIS-specific expertise This is about a specific layer in the human mind. It’s a pretty big and important layer ― if not, pragmatically seen, the most important one. At the same time, it’s the Read the full article…
Some more Advise for Coach and Coachee ― Related to a Questionnaire
This relates to one of these questionnaires: Ready for a Change from Within? People want Visible Growth Another use of these questions is when the future has become the present. You have lost the desired 20 pounds. Now, the aim is to keep it that way. You can then take this ‘test’ to see where you Read the full article…
Why AureLisa?
The AureLisa project aims to value the total human being on many domains and to support the individual through 1000+ AurelisOnLine sessions of autosuggestion, A.I. coach-bot Lisa (see: Introducing Lisa), and more. Altogether, this is about a paradigm shift with huge practical implications. See also: The Lisa Revolution. The importance of AureLisa in ten points You Read the full article…
The Lisa Revolution ― A.I. Towards Personalized Mind-Related Healthcare
The Lisa revolution is bound to disruptively innovate mind-related healthcare, based on a modern scientific view on the human being and using A.I. to bring practical results and proof. [Please read about the AureLisa Global Consortium. If you have been contacted in this regard, the revolution is welcoming you. Otherwise, if interested, don’t hesitate to Read the full article…
AURELIS Coaching is Open Therapy
One may call it ‘fundamental’ psychotherapy. This is Open to the subconceptual level inside the coach and coachee. As in Open Leadership, Open Religion, Open Mindfulness. Not one more kind of psychotherapy It is not just one more construct on top of the many but based on what underlies conceptual psychotherapy in general, being what Read the full article…
Mental Patterns and AurelisOnLine
This starts from the view of the human mind as an immense bunch of mental patterns. AurelisOnLine is a tool to help you change these patterns from inside out, towards your aim, and congruent with yourself. This text starts from theory. For the pattern view, see Patterns of Everything. You find a more user-oriented explanation Read the full article…
AureLisa Short – Body & Mind
This is, as short as possible, what AureLisa is about. Are you interested in participating in the AureLisa Global Consortium? This is what the project is about, basically: People get ill in body and mind; therefore, they can heal through the same. Body and mind are not two separate parts, but two viewpoints on the Read the full article…
AURELIS Levels in a Pyramid
This is what AURELIS (+ Lisa) is about. From abstract to concrete, a lot has been worked out or may soon be ready for deployment. All levels are profoundly consistent. Please also take a look at: Introducing AURELIS (Animated Video). Or you may prefer AURELIS in a nutshell (Animated Video). You find here a written Read the full article…
AureLisa Global Consortium
Toward a reality based on the human-being-as-is, with local and global implications in every human endeavor. The main intended audience of this text is a consortium of possible collaborators. For the shortest intro, see: AureLisa Short – Body & Mind Please also read: Narrative introduction to AURELIS and Lisa White Paper & Pitching with a Read the full article…
AureLisa White Paper
Here is a white paper about the direction of the AureLisa project, with a link to AureLisa pitching (one pager). Feel free to share this. To see Lisa pitching herself (2’), click here. For a description of an intended AureLisa global consortium, click here. For a one-pager toward philanthropy, click here. You can watch an Read the full article…
Accept and Commit
In-depth, these two concepts are much intertwined to such a degree that they can be seen as the basis of an undivided philosophy of life ― quite congruent with AURELIS. For instance, burnout I have described burnout using this metaphor: an evolution from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. The ostensible burnout phase happens in the Read the full article…
Autosuggestion: So Little, So Much?
In a culture bent on crudely decisive action, subtle autosuggestion is frequently disregarded. Yet, in the end, it may be more effective than anything else, in positive and negative ways. Subtle dance Did you ever look at a couple dancing the tango while asking yourself how they can make such complex movements together? There is Read the full article…
Why AURELIS is no Therapy
The difference is fundamental in aim and means. What is ‘therapy’? An ill person goes to someone in search of a cure. What he wants is good therapy that brings him back to the state without illness. Therapy is what accomplishes this feat. AURELIS? AURELIS does not bring the ill person back to the state Read the full article…
Letting Yourself Go
To many people, this is a tricky part of meditating or any meditative exercise. Nevertheless, it is crucial. Without letting go, there is only a staying put. Involved in properly ‘letting go’ are depth and rationality. Meditative stance Without the big endeavor to meditate oneself into nirvana, a meditative stance is an everyday life way-of-being Read the full article…
The ‘Auto’ in Autosuggestion
Four letters ― a world of difference within them. Suggestion So friendly and so close and overlapping that there is a spontaneous reaction before you consciously know it. This is the aim of AURELIS autosuggestion. There is no coercion involved at all. [see: “Autosuggestion versus Hypnosis”] Please, will you do this for me ― which Read the full article…
Autosuggestion versus Hypnosis
People ask me about this. I see a fundamental difference related to a spontaneous flow – or not – of free will. Hypnotic suggestion Hypnosis is real and scientific in the sense that many scientific hypnotic organizations exist in many countries. I studied at one of them in my country, Belgium. One can get a Read the full article…
How AURELIS Innerly Works
This is mostly about AurelisOnLine sessions, also about coaching. At the core, they work through the level of patterns ― more cloud-like than clock-like. Please go to [see: “How Do AURELIS Sessions Work? (Animated Video)“] What’s in a pattern? A pattern is a meaningful conglomerate of elements, each of these not being easily graspable as Read the full article…
AURELIS and Other Alternatives
AURELIS is sometimes seen as ‘alternative, therefore present in the same boat as all other alternatives.’ I find that disturbing. As a comparison That would be like throwing present-day regular medicine in the same boat as the worst alternatives to the leeches, venipunctures, and scarifications that were regular medicine two hundred years ago. That would Read the full article…
AURELIS Values in Diplomacy
As in coaching, ethical values are yardsticks to keep on a decent track within diplomacy. The ‘AURELIS five’ are nothing more nor less than this. They are also a means for gaining confidence. Diplomacy overlaps with mediation and negotiation. The best diplomacy being transformative, this overlaps with [see: “AURELIS Transformative Mediation“] (not meditation) [see: “Transformative Read the full article…
About ‘Now’ during an AURELIS Session
This is important each time someone uses an AURELIS session. At the same time, it’s something for the ‘advanced’ user. For one person, it is easy to swoop in; for the other, it is a job of thinking, feeling, perceiving for a while. Of course, you can do AURELIS sessions with a specific purpose in mind. Read the full article…
AURELIS & Expansion of Consciousness
The term ‘consciousness expansion’ is peculiar in many ways. How can consciousness be expanded? What does this ‘broad-minded’ mean? Is this mainly a feeling, or is it much more than that? [see: “Expansion of Consciousness“] AURELIS skill Expanding consciousness in all openness, kindness, and compassion, soft, firm, and realistic, in full acceptance of who you are and who Read the full article…
AURELIS = YOU as a Total Person
Suppose someone comes to you, and it turns out that he has not heard or thought much about the ‘non-conscious’. Then it is important to outline this as part of the ‘environment within which AURELIS works.’ The following is an example of a text as understandable as possible, just straightforward, that could be used in this Read the full article…
Slipping into Short Meditation
The aim is to reinforce AurelisOnLine sessions through regular and short (1-2 minutes) exercises that you can do at any time during the day, whenever you feel like it, even while not disturbing your other activities. Part of your life This way, your communication with your deeper self can become much more a part of Read the full article…
Symbolic Healthcare
Concerning the mind, healthcare has always been covertly symbolic, and it still is. Now is the time to make it overt. About symbolism Symbolism is a straightforward communication with subconceptual mental patterns, unlike using an analogy. [see: “Symbols and Signs“] In many cases, the use of symbolism is pretty undifferentiated. This is enough for the Read the full article…
Future of Mental Healing
This is an AURELIS view. Of course, AURELIS (+ Lisa) is in the picture. One can see this as the pure use of Compassion in its complexity and effectiveness. If you want to cooperate, please contact us through the form or at lisa@aurelis.org. About ‘mental healing’ In the broadest sense, mental healing is about the Read the full article…
What AURELIS is About
This text is no special revelation. You find openness in all blogs. In this one, I just put elements together. See also: [see: “Introducing AURELIS (Animated Video)”] Basically AURELIS is about the total-person, being fundamentally different from mere-ego. [see: “AURELIS Philosophy in a Nutshell (Animated Video)”] The total-person is one whole in body/mind, as well Read the full article…
Introducing Lisa (Animated Video)
Without further delay, in this animated video, I bring you an introduction to Lisa. [Lisa animated video – 13:15′] If you want to cooperate, please contact us. If you have feedback, please let us know. This is a draft version. Here is the full written text. Hi, my name is Jean-Luc Mommaerts. I am a Read the full article…
AURELIS Philosophy in a Nutshell (Animated Video)
Without further delay, in this animated video, I bring you the AURELIS philosophy in a nutshell. [AURELIS philosophy nutshell video – 4:43′] If you want to cooperate, please contact us. If you have feedback, please let us know. Here is the full written text. Hi, this nutshell should clarify whether AURELIS is for you ― Read the full article…
Four Bodhisattva Vows & AURELIS
On the path towards personal ‘awakening’ (mental growth), Compassion is crucial. [see: “Compassion, basically”] Bodhisattva A ‘bodhisattva’ is a Buddhist term for one on the path to personal awakening while caring for all others. It’s a very inclusive path, therefore Compassionate. I’m no Buddhist, but I see the Buddhist philosophy as quite inspirational to the Read the full article…
How Do AURELIS Sessions Work? (Animated Video)
Here you can access an animated video about how to start and do an AURELIS session – 4:40′. (same version without moving hand) If you want to cooperate, please contact us. If you have feedback, please let us know. Here is the full written text. Hi, as part of the AURELIS project, there are more Read the full article…
Introducing AURELIS (Animated Video)
Without further delay, in this animated video, I bring you an introduction to AURELIS. [AURELIS animated video – 11:19′] If you want to cooperate, please contact us. If you have feedback, please let us know. Here is the full written text. Once upon a time, there was a body and a mind, and they were Read the full article…
Lisa = Mental Hygiene
So is the AURELIS project in general, supporting a natural flow from the psychological viewpoint. Such mental hygiene is always relevant. [see: “AURELIS in Healthcare Context“] If you don’t know Lisa, please meet her at [see: “Lisa“] Lisa does not perform any diagnosis. Moreover, she sees a user’s symptoms mainly as possible entry points towards Read the full article…
Is AURELIS More than Constructed?
In constructionism, a constructed therapy does not work according to its social construction but through an underlying, fundamental reality. How is AURELIS situated in this? [see: “Constructionism“] Turmoil in the land of psychotherapy As you might already know or read now, there is turmoil. In short, the specific psychotherapies have been shown – in meta-analyses, Read the full article…
AURELIS in Healthcare Context
Can AURELIS be a part of healthcare as one corner of a triangle with the client/patient central to the happening? The ‘deeper mind’ as domain Many people with persistent mind-related problems, including psycho-somatic issues, do not seek professional help. With AURELIS – including Lisa [see: “Lisa“] – they have additional options while staying totally within Read the full article…
From Common Factors to AURELIS
If only common factors work, then only common factors should we teach and reimburse. Does this point towards AURELIS? You bet. The science According to a ton of scientific studies, clearly and robustly, psychotherapeutic methods are ineffective. This may be hard to swallow, so I repeat. Lots of studies and even many meta-analyses show no Read the full article…
In Search of Nonbelief
Taking Inner Strength as goal, nothing should stand between it and the person as an individual. Lending much-needed proper support to this is the Aurelian way. In this blog text, the concept of ‘belief’ denotes the result from a continual search for deeper meaning whereby this result doesn’t flow naturally from inside out. Such belief Read the full article…
Inner Strength
I talk in many blogs about Inner Strength. ‘AURELIS’ ends on Inner Strength. It’s the goal of anything within this project. So, what is Inner Strength? The being of your true self. The growing more and more towards more and more yourself. Then you can and do act as a total person. Inner Strength being Read the full article…
Complexity of Complexity – About Being an Organism
Is this important? Indeed, it has the direst consequences. For instance, in a Western democracy, comes COVID, the difference in outcome is hardly fathomable. Complexity We are complex creatures, being (almost) infinitely more than the sum of our parts. [see: “Complex is not Complicated“] That way, intractable things happen within us, and we don’t see Read the full article…
Can I? Should I? Will I? (in Medicine)
A time of many crises is also a time of many opportunities. In medicine, the challenge is that of a radical turnover. Are we ready? Is medicine ready? ►►►WHY read this? For physicians and patients alike, to go with the flow will lead to a different flow, soon enough.◄◄◄ Physicians used to be magicians. We’re Read the full article…
AureliCare
Yes, yes, yes, I know one cannot change the world through wishful thinking. But one needs to start somewhere. Also, it’s quite romantic to keep trying. ►►► WHY read this? Try and keep trying. Finally, we will succeed together. ◄◄◄ AureliCare is an envisioned healthcare system in which the deeper mind is promoted for what Read the full article…
Mind – Medicine – 2020
The human mind has always been prominent in health matters. In 2020, more than ever. In this text, I talk about the ‘mind’ to denote not only conscious awareness but the totality of meaningful processing that goes on mainly (not exclusively) in the brain and that, with an open eye, we would readily see as Read the full article…
Your Mind-Brain, a Giant Pattern Recognizer
It might still not be evident to you, dear reader, how an AURELIS session works, how it can have a substantial influence upon your body and mind. ►►► WHY read this? Deep insight into the structure of your mind makes you see the why and how of AURELIS sessions and more. ◄◄◄ I’m not going Read the full article…
AURELIS Quick-Course
This text is for you if you have never heard of AURELIS. Many blog texts You can find many blog texts about AURELIS here. The present text is stand-alone. Mental patterns Look at a painting. What do you see? One can say ‘a Madonna with child.’ Another one can say ‘many paint molecules that are organized Read the full article…
Psychotherapists in AURELIS setting
Looking into my crystal ball, I see many changes coming gradually from the future towards psychotherapy and psychotherapists. One thing is for sure: It will be exciting. See also Aurelis Coaching Institute. I write this text from an AURELIS/Lisa standpoint. My crystal ball is nice to me. It shows me the future in these terms, Read the full article…
Beyond Cosmetics
Where ‘depth’ is involved, in many cases, efficiency runs counter to appearances. AURELIS ends on Inner Strength. This goes way beyond cosmetics. Since AURELIS is specifically depth-minded, this is specifically important. A drawing from my PhD thesis: You think you draw something to you and actually, you’re drawing it away from you, endlessly… until the Read the full article…
AURELIS = Responsibility
Every aspect of AURELIS intends to make you freer, therefore more responsible. Not guilty Please read this other blog first. It’s important: [see: “Always Responsible, Never Guilty”] Many times already, I pointed towards aspects of responsibility that come together with AURELIS. Indeed, gaining insight into the human ‘total being’ also brings more opportunities to influence Read the full article…
Is Lisa the Durable Answer?
Lisa promises mental support for an indefinite number of people one-on-one and simultaneously. In this, the ‘heart’ is most important and most durable now and in the future. Who is Lisa? [see: “Lisa”] In short, Lisa-software has three purposes, as: an assistant to AURELIS, guiding users to the appropriate AURELIS tool(s) an A.I. coaching chatbot, Read the full article…
Motivating towards Sustainability
How to attain durable motivation? Especially in case of a future-oriented goal such as sustainability, one needs to go towards ‘deep’. People are difficult to motivate towards the future. Not because ‘caring for the future’ is irrational, but because human motivation internally is not always rational. One can be motivated for a while, then things Read the full article…
People, Planet, Profit
One should not be against ‘profit’ except as an exclusive goal. In the latter case, it’s an addiction. In all other cases, it can be an instrument towards doing good. What is Profit? Profit = good striving. The etymology of ‘profit’ is very positive: related to proficiency, from the Latin verb proficere: to accomplish, make Read the full article…
Quit Smoking Without Gaining Unwanted Weight
AURELIS promise: this is possible for everyone. ‘Unwanted’ = you don’t want it. This is not about what someone else would want – including me – nor ‘what society wants.’ Unless then again this is what YOU want. I have seen things that I would rather have not. Like: people (including some of my patients Read the full article…
Free App to Relieve Stress and Symptoms
A key to your inner strength in any situation of acute stress. A practical instrument to carry with you. A 1′ movie explaining the app in five keys Please look at this before proceeding. Where to find this app You can download it on your android smartphone using this link. The app is also available Read the full article…
Lisa
Lisa will be an in-depth companion to many people, as well as a continuous coach on many domains. Who’s that girl? ‘Lisa’ is the name of the project in which Lisa is the A.I. female coach, Lars is the male variant. I use the term ‘Lisa’ indiscriminately. Lisa is a coaching chat-bot based on A.I. Read the full article…
Psyche, Soma, AURELIS
Let’s dive into it head-on today. The influence of psyche (mind) on soma (body) is probably huge and AURELIS can mean immensely much in this. ‘Not knowing’, doesn’t mean ‘knowing that not’. There are still enormous gaps in present-day medical knowledge. Of what seems to be certain today, a lot was not certain yesterday. A Read the full article…
Why Humanism Needs AURELIS
I admit: this title is quite highbrow. I need to do some explaining. [see also: “Humanism with a Vengeance”] Humanism = taking human being into account as-is. Not as some organization portrays it if this runs counter to obvious reality, of which science and rationality are pretty good critics, even if not necessarily the only Read the full article…
Power of Placebo < Autosuggestion
The placebo effect is well known, but not well understood. Many explanations have been suggested, including belief, hope, classical conditioning, expectation, endorphins, and the meaning response. All boil down to autosuggestion , in the sense of ‘communication with the nonconscious’. [Note that I published about this myself in a high-level medical scientific journal: Mommaerts JL, Read the full article…
Medically Unexplained Syndromes (MUS)
Being very common, MUS-patients need recognition of their suffering, a good relationship with their physicians and others, a sense of control and a proper action plan. Needed foremost towards this is a realistic understanding of mind=body wholeness. [This text is the result of a small literature research by me in top medical journals. This is Read the full article…
G.I.M.O.: AURELIS Action Planning
G.I.M.O. – Goals, Insights, Motivations, Obstacles – is an AURELIS tool to be used within every single coaching event. It is also the formalization of AURELIS action planning in general, in this specific sequence. Please also read [see: ” G.I.M.O.“]. Quite dynamic This is why I call it ‘action planning’ instead of ‘action plan’. In Read the full article…
A Disease is a Continuum, Not an Entity
Medical textbooks generally list diseases as crisp entities. This may be OK in a book, providing exemplars of reality. However, real reality is different. This has several far-reaching consequences. To be or not to be? Many diseases – if not all – are not binary conditions. To be or not to be, is not the Read the full article…
Imagine: an AURELIS Future
Or give it any other name. It’s about concepts. At the most abstract level: a synthesis of rationality and depth, both as much as possible. [see: ‘AURELIS USP: ‘100% Rationality, 100% Depth’] Are you in for a culture shock? Indeed. If ‘AURELIS’ will happen, it will provoke a different culture, worldwide. The best way to Read the full article…
Using AURELIS = ‘Dangerous’?
For many people, the ‘deeper self’ is quite unknown territory. Could it be ‘dangerous’ to deal with this field? To be more specific: could one become mentally confused because of this or, in an extreme case, can it even encourage a surge of psychosis? The intake of 15 grams of aspirin (one and a half Read the full article…
Enlightenment, Kant, AURELIS, Growth
It’s time to bring things together. This is according to me the only way forward. ‘Western Enlightenment’ points to a historical period from +/- 1650 onwards, till +/- first part of 19th century. It was multifaceted, to say the least, and came in several waves from ‘moderate’ to ‘radical’… to even ‘totalitarian’ (à la Robespierre). Read the full article…
AURELIS and Self-Development
“I don’t have any problem. Why should I use AURELIS?” AURELIS may seem problem-oriented but it’s not. It’s growth-oriented. In AURELIS-philosophy, a ‘problem’ (such as a psychosomatic symptom) is an entry, to be given attention to as a way of communication. The goal of AURELIS is self-development or ‘growth’. This may start from a problem. Read the full article…
What You Can ‘Learn’ from Your Symptom
People ask me this because it regularly appears in AURELIS. Actually, it’s already present within the last two letters, standing for Inner Strength. Symptom as communication ‘from deep inside’ To the degree that your symptom is psycho-somatic – as most chronic symptoms are – it’s present because deep inside yourself, something deserves attention. Something is Read the full article…
AURELIS: the Straight Line
Straight to the goal: a synthesis of warm rationality and serious depth. Prospects: all sentient beings. At the same time: a long and winding road. The ‘straight line’ is meant to be as straight as possible. Then, life comes along with any number of constraints and (im)possibilities. One can do one’s best. That is not Read the full article…
AURELIS and ‘Esotericism’
If it’s your intention to be open all the way, then you have to be open to all sides and not closed to some specific one. Unless it would be the of being-closed itself. This certainly is important when it’s not easy, when people tend to misunderstand, when people interpret their attachment to certain ideas Read the full article…
AURELIS, Spoon-Fed?
No, this is not about AURELIS for babies. The question is: would it be interesting to bring AURELIS in the most palatable way? I’m thinking of something like a “now do this, then that and then again do that and hooray!” – way: No more headaches thanks to this step-by-step plan. Easily lose 8 kilograms Read the full article…
AURELIS and Flower-Power, Zen, Mysticism
Flower-power The 60’s. 1967, San Francisco. ‘Summer of love’. The highlight, but at the same time, in lack of enough depth, already its downfall. Even before June 1967 it became clear to those initially involved that the ideals were not being ‘realized’ and that they were already as good as gone. It was only the Read the full article…
Daydreaming: Time Well Spent!
We – almost – all daydream at least once a day, shifting our attention from the external world to internal mentation. This wouldn’t be so if not very important. Why? Using brain scans such as fMRI, scientist discovered the neural basis of daydreaming, being a set of brain structures which turn on in between cognitive Read the full article…
AURELIS Vision and Mission
“Optimally validating the deeper layers of human psyche of all people and in all domains of life through practical tools, science and philosophy, with deep respect for every total human being and with as final aims: durable health and well-being, striving for truth and complete non-aggression.” AURELIS Vision AURELIS stands for the mining and development Read the full article…
Don’t Think Too Fast: “I Do Know It”
AURELIS, or more generally the deeper self, is not easy to grasp. That is clear. Less obvious perhaps is that it is VASTLY not easy to grasp. According to me, the greatest difficulty is an ego that is standing in the way. Is it really necessary to thoroughly ‘grasp’ it? According to me, the greatest Read the full article…
A Symbol for the Deeper Self
Religions often find the use of symbols very important, not only in stories but also physically: using statues of wood or stone, special ‘sacred spaces’ with an altar, incense, and the like. There is also a community of people, who come together at certain times: these gatherings are ‘symbols’ too if they are meaningful for Read the full article…
A Synthesis of a Synthesis
Below are some of the things that, together, straightforwardly show the importance of AURELIS. They are put in a super direct way and so they lack some nuance. This is a synthesis of a synthesis: The placebo-effect is a proof of the huge power of the deeper self. Lots of cases of being-ill result from Read the full article…
The Real Power of a World Model
A world model is not only a model of the world. It is also a model that comes from the world (the world in a certain model) and that can act upon an individual in a very powerful way. First of all, dear reader, it can act upon you too. Allow me to be very Read the full article…
The ‘AURELIS Choice’
In short: this is about a conscious choice for the ‘total person’, in which ego at least has a very interesting place but is not standing in the way of the ‘deeper self’. It is a choice of ego itself to occasionally take a step aside. Team-play. AURELIS is an attempt to realize this in Read the full article…
AURELIS USP: ‘100% Rationality, 100% Depth’
USP: ‘Unique Selling Proposition’. A term from the hard business world. That is, of course, also this world. A USP induces someone to echo, in just a few words, the basis of what a product/project is about. It is a message, a ‘promise’. The AURELIS take goes to something that indicates: ‘100% rationality, 100% depth’. Read the full article…
Autosuggestion Changes Your Brain
Something that may hold someone back from really being able to put faith in the influence of autosuggestion on the body, is the idea: psyche is abstract – how can this have an impact on the physical, concrete body? This is a question that’s on many people’s minds since long and probably many people will Read the full article…
Is AURELIS a Sect?
… in that case I would be a guru, with all its negative connotations… No, thank you, I would rather not. Originally ‘guru’ simply means ‘teacher’. Then I think: a good ‘teacher’ strives to educate his ‘students’ so that they become better than himself. In that case, there might be an element of truth in Read the full article…
Each TOTAL Person is Infinitely Important!
There are many ways to articulate the ‘core’ of AURELIS. This (the title of this text) is a way that touches me personally. Everyone is very important, even ‘infinitely’ important. At the same time, this makes us all equally valuable. No discrimination. No distinction in deeper value. A child is a child, whether it is Read the full article…
Acceptance?
Within AURELIS, ‘acceptance’ is about your total self including a lot of nonconscious processing. There is no breaking down, nor ignoring, nor avoiding. AURELIS is precisely not about avoidance. This deserves to be emphasized because ‘acceptance’ frequently gets such connotation. In AURELIS, there is no avoidance . So, if you have an annoying issue or Read the full article…
Object-Science Versus Subject-Science
Science about objects: physics, chemistry… Science about subjects: psychology, history… Both sciences are different and important. Alpha, beta, positive etc. Let’s skip that and simply talk about object- versus subject-science. This is related to, respectively, closed-world versus open-world phenomena. Explanatory analogy: A cloud (‘open world’ with lots of possible influences in all directions) doesn’t fit Read the full article…
Importance of Science to AURELIS
Science is an attempt to strengthen common sense in such a way that it can be used to transcend ‘common sense’. For example: the world is flat. Undeniably.. Anyone with a little common sense can see that clearly. Someone with a bit more common sense however will continue to think about it. Why do ships Read the full article…
Aurelian Spontaneity Might Make ‘Anything’ Seem THE Solution
‘Anything’ can of course be something valuable, or contain something valuable. That is not what this is about. It is however about: always keeping your eyes open. ALSO and even PARTICULARLY if it would be easier to close them. Does occur: Someone uses AURELIS, which supports him or her from within. In the meantime that Read the full article…
The Goal: Freedom
… of the total person. This may assume a serious commitment, a firm attitude, discipline. It judders and clashes with all sorts of … and yet. A good starting point may be: “nothing changes me.” So also: “nothing stops me,” because if one is changing from within, then that change itself is the situation and Read the full article…
Possible Meaning of AURELIS in the World
AURELIS is a way of standing in the world, a way of ‘being’, or at least: an attempt to this end. Nobody is perfect, thank God. You could consider AURELIS as a form of ‘therapy’. Then it becomes a part of health care. People have problems/needs and they are trying to find a solution. On Read the full article…
Cause of All Suffering: Dissociation
From the time that people began to suffer (this is of course: since they exist), they are intrigued by possible causes and solutions for this suffering. As more organization came in social life and thinking, it was of course obvious that one also began to think about suffering in a more ‘organized’ way . Buddhism Read the full article…
Five Aurelian Values
Since AURELIS is about rational depth, ethics is important. This comes in the guise of 5 ‘aurelian values’: openness, depth, respect, freedom, trustworthiness. Starting from the total human being as measure of morality, there is of course nothing sacred in these five. It’s a very subjective choice. In principle, it could have been five others, Read the full article…
Symbolism and Placebo
These two domains have lots in common. Rationality cuts through both, but in essentially different ways. Power to the people As a matter of fact, the ‘power’ of a symbol doesn’t lie in the physical symbol itself, just as the ‘power’ of a placebo doesn’t lie in the placebo itself. It lies in the person Read the full article…
How Can Guided Meditation Sessions Help You?
Making connection with deeper layers of yourself in an ethically sound way, you can invite yourself… and ‘grow’ – in mind and body. The AURELIS project contains lots of guided meditation sessions in a number of domains, including many psychosomatic ones. Most symptoms are indeed psycho-somatic: mind and body are together relevant for health and Read the full article…
Three Waves of Attention
Where there is life, there is attention. Where there is attention, there is life. AURELIS integrates rationality and poetry in a specific view of human being. It brings together body and mind, East and West, past, present and future. Most of all, it unifies conscious thinking and the subconscious mind as understood in modern cognitive Read the full article…
Psychosomatics in $$
This text contains crude approximations. Nevertheless, the information may altogether give some idea that, according to me, is realistic. (numbers are taken from Health System Tracker, a trustworthy source if ever there is one) Fact: the projected healthcare costs in the US accrue to $17000 per capita in 2027. There are +/- 330 million citizens Read the full article…
The Books Project
Two standard books by Dr. Jean-Luc Mommaerts are being delivered to a growing number of highly important people ― mostly relevant profs or CEOs. Lisa results from ideas that are elaborated upon in both books and, of course, these blogs and more. The intention of this project is to strive for top-down awareness. These are Read the full article…