About ‘Intelligence’ (in A.I.)
At the brink of a new intelligence, it’s crucial to know what we’re heading towards. Seriously trying to clarify the concept may help. Many intelligences Whether knowledgeable or not, many people try to answer the question of what exactly is ‘intelligence.’ Needless to say, popping up are many different answers. This should not deter anyone Read the full article…
The Basic Denial
Not seeing through an obvious illusion is one thing. Not wanting to see despite immense mayhem for countless people is different. Basic cognitive illusion This is: not consciously reckoning with non-conscious, subconceptual mental-neuronal processing. [see: “The Basic Cognitive Illusion”] This illusion is debunked by a lot of scientific data. For instance, [see: “The Post-Postmodernist Brain”] Read the full article…
(Don’t) Be Serious
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) About a spec and a universe ― and a gentle smile. Seriously If you are serious, that’s OK because it means that something is meaningful to you. If it is deeply meaningful to you, it makes you deeply serious about it. And that’s fine! You care about people. You are Read the full article…
Taking Psycho-Somatics Seriously
2021, still the Middle Ages regarding psycho-somatics. Forty years ago, I would have thought it impossible. Starting with the term itself ‘Psychosomatics’ is an obsolete term, being replaced/obfuscated by ‘functional syndromes’ and ‘medically unexplained syndromes.’ I more or less consistently use the term ‘psycho-somatics’ to denote issues for which a psyche-oriented and a soma-oriented viewpoint Read the full article…
Being Critical is Not Being Closed
I’m rarely on it like this, but I think this piece is really of the utmost importance for an AURELIS coach. With this, it stands or falls. It is therefore advisable to read this text very carefully several times. It is not devoid of subtlety. Try your best not to misunderstand. Talk about it openly. Read the full article…
Meditation at the Center
This is, at the center of everything you do or don’t do ― including in a formal meditation on a cushion. Very few people know what is meant by it. Do they need to? The direction at least is a basic – center-of-everything – choice. When meditating, it’s a good stance to see everything else Read the full article…
Is Psychotherapy Dangerous?
This question needs to be taken seriously, the more since surprisingly few do so, and since the entire domain is in turmoil as to how – and if – positive effects are brought about by specific methods. [see: “Psychotherapy vs. Psychotherapies”] Doing good is not easy. It requires intention, perseverance, and insight. [see:”‘Doing Good’: Not Read the full article…
Proving Reiki or Reiki Proving
Nothing in reiki is scientifically proven, and any esoteric explanation of it is extremely implausible. Does this situation prove anything else? Rei – ki = spiritual – flow (of energy) Increasingly more people in the US and the UK go to reiki practitioners. Reiki, a healing style created in Japan, is also increasingly administered in Read the full article…
Explosion of the Heart
Nothing changes, and nothing is the same anymore after such individual experience. An open landscape may emerge for all to be one. Peak experience Maslow called it a peak experience, but, indeed, it is an explosion of the heart. It can happen in very diverse circumstances. We’ll see three examples. An explosion of the heart Read the full article…
Two Extinctions
A recurrent maladaptive behavior, thought, or feeling can gradually diminish in two ways. Either it entirely disappears, or it dissolves. There are differences in path and endpoint. About extinction A mental ‘problem’ is usually recurrent. That’s the reason why people search for help, including professional help. In one word: therapy (or mental coaching). ‘Extinction’ is Read the full article…
All You Need is Love
It’s easy. Yes, do you also remember the Beatles song, right in the sixties? It brings me way back to then. I loved it. If you don’t know, the Internet came along meanwhile. Do we need the Internet? The song is about possibilities, about doing. Don’t think you cannot. Believe you can ― if you Read the full article…
G.I.M.O.
Each formal human- or Lisa-coaching (or job interview) ends with a G.I.M.O.: Goals – Insights – Motivations – Obstructions. A G.I.M.O. is succinct and set up within the dialogue between the coach or Lisa and the user. It serves as a focus to work towards a take-home for the user (as homework) a pick-up at Read the full article…
Meaningful Reality
This is the reality I would prefer to live in. Even if there were no other, the meaningful one would be OK for me. It is also the only one I am sure of. In reality, of course, there are no separate realities. This is about perception and experience ― as is eventually everything. Something Read the full article…
