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…
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…