Your Internal Voices
You can call the talking in your head, which is probably going on right now, your internal voice. With more than one standpoint, these are your internal voices. The mumbling of your mental-neuronal patterns The brain works this way: A continual neuronal activity – synaptical and otherwise – forms an aspect of your brain cells’ Read the full article…
Anxiety in Meditation
It happens that people get anxious in meditation or even get a panic attack with a deadly outcome (suicide). I know of two cases in my immediate environment. It’s a serious matter. Prime cause: sensing a loss of control In meditation, this is most frequently related to depersonalization, the ‘loss of self,’ the feeling of Read the full article…
What about Self-Control?
To some, a panacea; to others, a rather dirty word. Self-control is weird when one asks who controls whom in this. This weirdness leads to deeper insight. Crucial in many situations Criminal recidivists, sex offenders, psychopathic leaders, people with addictive thoughts and behavior… all these may be seen as in need of self-controlling their negative Read the full article…
Am I a Conscious Being?
It depends on the meaning of the term ‘conscious.’ Surely, I feel conscious, but that eventually proves nothing. See Qualia Philosophically “I am conscious; therefore, I am.” Not necessarily. There is a ‘me-being-conscious’ as a feeling, an experience. Thus, better said, there is a ‘me-feeling-conscious.’ Can one, from within this me-feeling-conscious, speak of a me Read the full article…
Suffering as Path to Enlightenment
This is no reason to seek out suffering for its own sake. Nevertheless, if suffering is present, it can be seen as an excellent occasion to continue one’s most valuable path. Any suffering, physically or emotionally What turns physical pain into mental suffering can mainly be regarded as profoundly emotional. In this wholeness of pain Read the full article…
Inside versus Outside the Poem
In challenging circumstances, not making a difference in either way can be catastrophic. We need the combination of rationality and depth to avoid this. The poem I consider ‘the poem’ as an analogy of anything poetic in art and even life. Anything mind-related can be seen from inside or outside this poem. Since the human Read the full article…
Can Compassion Draw Us out of Decadence?
Worldwide, people have been struggling, are struggling, and will do so even more regarding a sense of decadence. That is a bad omen for things to come, but there is a way out. Etymologically ‘Decadence’ comes from the Medieval Latin decadentia = decay. This comes from the Latin decadere = de (down) + cadere (to Read the full article…
Religion of Anxiety versus Religion of Compassion
It seems to me that anxiety and Compassion are the two main – and mutually opposed – deep drivers of religiosity. All secondary drivers build on these. This goes beyond a God-fearing stance and any concretely conceptual belief. FYI, I am not an adherent to any denomination on the planet nor the universe. Nevertheless, I Read the full article…
Modern Copernicus
We need a new Copernican revolution in which each person acts as a modern Copernicus within his own inner mind-universe. The historical Copernicus (1473-1543) placed the sun at the center of the physical universe instead of the Earth. Likewise, modern Copernicus places the deeper self – rather than the ego – at the center of 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…
Patterns of Everything
Perception is finding patterns. So is thinking. The patterns are in what is perceived or thought and in the perceiving and thinking themselves. This text may seem difficult, but it becomes much easier if you take your time. [‘Patternist’ = related to patterns] Patterns are regularities in associations This way, anything we can see or 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…
How to Unite People from Different Cultures
Depending on how well they know themselves, people from different cultures may be more similar as well as more different from each other than they imagine. This poses challenges and immense opportunities. Please read first: Constructionism – Constructor – Construct A culture emerges and endures through its constructed reality. This is the case especially now Read the full article…
Yin – Yang – YinYang
YinYang is my term to describe the in-depth synthesis of Yin and Yang. (Sub)conceptual While many things can be seen as Yin or Yang, there is a family resemblance within both. In one interpretation, Yin may be more fluid, Yang more solid. I see in Yin the more subconceptual side of thinking, while Yang is Read the full article…
Never Surrender
Keep following your ideals. This presupposes a continual search for what your ideals are. This again presupposes a constant search for who you are. What’s in quitting? This doesn’t mean that you cannot or should not change your mind. What it does aim at is being proud of following your ideals also if they bring Read the full article…
A Religious Question
When doing away with all conceptual things from your religious denomination, what would remain that you find crucial to yourself? For the atheist reader: Give me a break, and let me talk about God in this text in a manner as poetic as you unknowingly talk about many things. If you fall over this, you Read the full article…
Neurophilosophy
Increasingly, there is no place for philosophy apart from knowledge about the mind/brain. Individual philosophers have always been most concerned with understanding their own minds, albeit with meager means. Meaning of life, origin of knowledge, definition of time, standard of morality, etc. Philosophy has been going on for a few millennia in East and West Read the full article…