Placebo Based Medicine
Alternative medicines – whether or not called ‘complementary’ – are not to be dismissed just for being alternative but to the degree that they are based on placebo-as-a-lie. Placebo >< empathy I see a huge difference between both at a conceptual level, transcending terminology. [see: “Empathy: What it Was, Is and… Will Be?”] This text Read the full article…
Listening to Silence
Silence: absence of clutter in the mind. Listening to Silence within you OK. This is meditation, whether on a cushion or in the midst of a busy street… or while coaching someone or while just having an everyday conversation or while enjoying art Listening to Silence doesn’t mean that you don’t hear anything else. It’s 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…
From Symbolism to Psychosis?
I see a continuum between both. That should not be a reason to avoid symbols. Quite the contrary. Mainly: no blame to anyone! A continuum Working with symbols may in unfortunate circumstances lead to a darker progression. This needs to be managed. Actually, any symbolic experience [see: ‘Symbolism lost. Symbolism regained.’] can be seen as Read the full article…
Why Bother about Symbols?
Symbols bring another dimension to life. I would even say: they bring life to life. Without symbols, one way or another, we do not live a full life. [see also: “A Symbol Is Always YOU”] ‘Not fully living’: as if that would be possible. Of course, truth is: we need symbols. Without them, we are Read the full article…
Euthanasia Is Not an Execution
so don’t treat it as one. [see: “The Final Transition”] At the day of this writing, a friend of mine ‘committed’ euthanasia. His decision was understandable. He wasn’t a very close friend, yet it was/is somewhat traumatic. The days and hours before, it felt quite like execution was going to take place. Nobody mentioned the 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…
Truly Gentle
Being truly gentle includes being gentle to truth in a most humane way. Thus, striving to be gentle is of the highest importance. As in gentle-man, again [see: “A Lady’s Beauty is a Gentleman’s Delight”] Of course, this is not to acquit the ladies from any responsibility or other personal involvement. I’m talking from a Read the full article…
Beyond Sadness
‘Sadness’ is not fixed, impersonal and ‘real’ as is the computer on which I am typing this text. Instead, it is personal, social and ‘real’ in a much more interesting way. As any other emotion: surprise, fear, disgust… We live with emotions. We talk about emotions. We see emotions in other people. We feel them 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…
Spontaneity: How-To
The main thing: not putting visible stuff in the way. Letting all ‘stuff in the way’ be invisible, transparent. Then, of course, it is the other way. [Please read first: “Spontaneity”] It doesn’t satisfy ‘one who wants.’ If this is you, then please try to make your wanting transparent. This is precisely the way to Read the full article…
Spontaneity
is the most important characteristic of life. It is very deeply falling within, then coming all the way out again and ‘meeting the world.’ Religion, Eastern enlightenment… Big words, emphasizing that, seemingly, very important stuff is going on. That is correct. It’s important stuff with huge consequences. Think of the misery that has been brought Read the full article…
Other Consequences
One throws a heavy ball into the air and says: “Look, I made the ball lighter!” Then it falls on one’s head or worse: on someone else’s. This way, one knows there are other consequences. What’s in your mind? Serial processing: one thing after another, like one long and structured sentence. This is not real. 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…
A.I. Explainability versus ‘the Heart’
Researchers are moving towards bringing ‘heart’ into A.I. Thus, new ethical questions are popping up. One of them concerns explainability. The heart cannot explain itself. “On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” [Antoine de Saint-Exupéry] “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential Read the full article…
Human Brain: Giant Pattern Recognizer
The human brain does not process information in purely linear ways, like a serial digital computer. Instead of this, many things in the brain happen in parallel and coordinated ways simultaneously at many levels. No serial look-up Leaving any soul-stuff aside, people use(d) to think of the human brain as a kind of giant serial Read the full article…
A.I. Is in the Patterns
And so is ‘intelligence’ in general. At least what we humanly call ‘intelligence’, mainly because we ourselves are so good at pattern-processing… But, why not? A.I. is not (exclusively) in the serial look-up Neither does our human brain function this way [see: “Human Brain: Giant Pattern Recognizer”]. A machine that performs look-ups and nothing but Read the full article…