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Eco-AURELIS
AURELIS is about inner growth. Therefore, it is a ‘green project.’ Healing oneself and healing the planet is the same. As a project, AURELIS is about being aware of this. This is about how green is your mind. This is about sustainability from the inside out. This is about how AURELIS can help or may Read the full article…
Rewards or Value?
Are people driven more by direct rewards or broader value? Should A.I. be driven rather by one or the other? What about end values? Zero-sum values These are nothing but the sum of individual rewards. For instance, one earns tokens on several timesteps. The eventual zero-sum value is the sum of all tokens earned ― Read the full article…
AURELIS in Everything?
There are AURELIS books, blog-essays, and mental exercises about many domains. Can AURELIS-specific expertise be genuinely relevant in all of these? AURELIS-specific expertise This is about a specific layer in the human mind. It’s a pretty big and important layer ― if not, pragmatically seen, the most important one. At the same time, it’s the Read the full article…
Why Open Religion is Global
OK ― Not yet global in its present reach. The global aspect lies in its openness to everyone: believers and non-believers, anywhere in the world. Please read: What is Open Religion? How can non-believers adhere to Open Religion? You don’t have to believe in any conceptual construct ― no god, saint, angel, heaven, or hell. Read the full article…
Goodness, Badness, and Ugliness of Ego
A good appreciation of ego is indispensable for attaining a better world in which ego plays its proper part ― no less, no more. One may think that one has gotten rid of one’s ego. Yet, in that very sentence, look who’s talking and thinking ― ego itself? Indeed, ego is a master in disguise. Read the full article…
No Lasting Change from the Surface
In contrast to depth, the surface is the ‘superficial’ level of the human mind. Something may temporarily change at the surface like quicksand. It’s not the right level for lasting change. Read about ubiquitous depth. In therapy/coaching, attaining lasting change is a challenge. Theory goes toward a genetically determined stable state whereto any change (from 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…
Love is the Falling
Yes, as between a man and a woman, for instance. On the other hand, Love is also a universal quality. In this text, I write Love with a capital because of the involvement of subconceptual mental processing, for the same reason as my capitalization of ‘Compassion.’ Difference between Love and Compassion Please read Compassion, Basically. Read the full article…
Are You Significant?
No, you’re not. Please keep reading. Sorry for giving you this starter’s kick. The meaning of being significant The term comes from the Latin: signum + facere = making a sign or mark. The wish for significance is about putting one’s mark on something, thus being important, influential, meaningful. The meaning of being significant is Read the full article…
AURELIS Levels in a Pyramid
This is what AURELIS (+ Lisa) is about. From abstract to concrete, a lot has been worked out or may soon be ready for deployment. All levels are profoundly consistent. Please also take a look at: Introducing AURELIS (Animated Video). Or you may prefer AURELIS in a nutshell (Animated Video). You find here a written Read the full article…
Lisa’s Coaching
Lisa (see category ‘Lisa’) uses no instruments toward users. Lisa’s sole ‘instrument’ is related to Compassion. Within this simple concept lies a universe of possibilities. See: Compassion, Basically No instruments, no therapy ‘Therapy’ is the use of something to cure something in someone. In this sense, Lisa stands far from being a therapist. Instead, Lisa Read the full article…
Who We Deeply Are and Why it’s Crucial to Know
I don’t want to be a scaremonger. But I’m scared, and I intend to monger until the direction is of utmost clarity. From Afghanistan to the world Yesterday I saw Mahbouba Seraj talking on a program about the situation in Afghanistan. She’s a famous women’s rights activist, and she was talking about this. But I Read the full article…
The ‘Auto’ in Autosuggestion
Four letters ― a world of difference within them. Suggestion So friendly and so close and overlapping that there is a spontaneous reaction before you consciously know it. This is the aim of AURELIS autosuggestion. There is no coercion involved at all. [see: “Autosuggestion versus Hypnosis”] Please, will you do this for me ― which Read the full article…
Talking with Non-Conscious Patterns
This is not straightforward since non-conscious patterns are, by definition, not simply available for a conscious chat. It seems like crossing a border in communication. How can one get to do what one wants to do? Or: how can one become motivated when there is no motivation? Since motivation is needed for any human endeavor, Read the full article…
Revenge = Dissociation
The feeling of revenge needs to be taken seriously in order to transcend it. What has been lost should be restored ― in a different way. Revenge results from the feeling of having lost something. Something has been taken at the meaning level. Revenge is not about the thing itself but the meaning. What one Read the full article…
People in Need of Diagnosis
Mainly to be taken seriously. Why do they need a diagnosis to be taken seriously? Is there no other way? It is essential to listen to the physical heart. Meaning: what can be conceptualized, should be done so. Also, what can best be looked at from the somatic viewpoint, should be looked at this way. Read the full article…
Radical Deradicalization
A radicalized standpoint generally does not care so much for rationality. In many cases, there is also little Compassion involved. More Compassion is needed and, from there, rationality. Radicalization People get radicalized into mental mono-culture. There is a lack of attention for other directions. This lack pushes a person searching for ‘salvation’ to believe that Read the full article…