Compassion is Not Easy
Compassion, not in the sense of pity or plain empathy, but what in the striving eventually points to Eastern Enlightenment. Especially important for understanding this text is knowing what I exactly mean by Compassion. Please make sure to read Compassion, Basically before going further. The mind in healthcare Compassion is crucial for psychotherapy because of Read the full article…
Every Open Leader’s Final Goal is Global
At any level, the Open goal is the global goal ― yes, the world, at least. There is no contradiction in this, but a mindset and a challenge – for the Open leader – to bring goals together in mutually strengthening ways. The final goal may be so far away that it looks like it Read the full article…
Qualia
What is it like to be a human being who sees redness (or anything)? The difficulty in describing this lies at the core of ‘the problem of qualia.’ Since the Middle Ages, many philosophers, theologians (looking for the soul), and scientists (looking for the brain) have quarreled about ‘qualia.’ To this day, they haven’t agreed Read the full article…
How to Get Rid of CAM
CAM = Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Getting rid of CAM is getting rid of placebo-based medicine. Why should we? How could we? See placebo-based medicine. People feel that it works. No, it doesn’t. Not the ‘dummy pill’ (or whatever acts as such) works. You work, although not necessarily in conscious awareness of how. So, if 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…
Lisa, Alternative to Alternatives
Non-scientific fundamentalist CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) must depart from this planet as soon as possible ― but no sooner. Lisa may help. ‘Non-scientific’ Science represents the best common sense we can presently bring to gaining truthful knowledge. Upon this, we build technological applications, services, etc. Science is common sense ― not a new kind 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…
How to Dis-Illusion
How can one get people out of a clear and certain state of illusion? For instance, flat-earthers. My earth is not flat. If yours is, then my task – including with this text – is to invite-guide-bring you toward a different opinion. How should I do that? Not by telling you to look to the Read the full article…
How can Medical A.I. Enhance the Human Touch?
This is about ‘plain’ medical A.I. as any physician can use in his consultation room. The aim is a win for patients, physicians, society, and everybody. Please also read Medical A.I. for Humans. The danger of the reverse The use of computers in medicine has notoriously not enhanced the human touch. Arguably, it has provoked Read the full article…
Sleepwalking from World Crisis to World Crisis
The global crises that we are experiencing one after another – or even simultaneously – do not happen by coincidence. In-depth, their common cause is a fundamentally wrong view of the deep-mental side of the human being. Ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science have been trying to wake up humanity ― until now, in vain. Even Read the full article…
Can Compassion Be the Certain Future?
‘Certain’ as in what can be ascertained. Can we make the future certainly Compassionate? Please read: Compassion, Basically Versus a (non-)Compassionate future Can one presuppose that Compassion is a good goal for everyone? Many may not personally agree. So, would it be OKAY to base the whole – practically endless – future on this endeavor? Read the full article…
Far-Away Matters, in Time and Place
Compassion is concerned with all sentient beings ― not only those of the immediate environment but also on the other side of the world, the universe, and the future: any sentience that can be causally influenced. Effective altruism This is a philosophy, a movement, and also a concrete organization. To be optimally effective, altruism should Read the full article…
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…