All Things Subconceptual
There are many ways to divide the human world — reason and emotion, body and mind, inner and outer. However, one of the most profound and overlooked is the divide between the conceptual and the subconceptual. It is not a division of two types of content, but of two modes of being. One is what Read the full article…
The Lesser Evil for the Greater Good
The situation is familiar. A choice must be made, and none of the options feels clean. One seems harmful. The other, maybe a little less so. Still, some pain is inevitable. What then? For physicians, it happens daily — choosing a treatment with side effects, a surgery with risks. For policymakers, for parents, and for Read the full article…
Believe in the Person You Want to Become
A good and effective way to invite yourself – including your deeper self – toward a goal, is simply to believe in the person you want to become. This belief isn’t about fantasy or hype. It’s a way of being in inner alignment. It’s gentle, yet immensely powerful. It also invites you to reflect: who Read the full article…
How a Politician Can Bring Compassion
Many politicians want to do good. That’s an important starting point. Even those we may strongly disagree with often believe they are working toward something valuable. But in the complex landscape of modern politics – public pressure, media noise, party agendas – it can be difficult to know how to bring true human depth into Read the full article…
Is Compassion a Bridge Too Far?
Compassion is hard to grasp — and that’s part of the challenge. People frequently either get it or they don’t. For many, it seems as remote as Eastern Enlightenment, or as unreachable as genuine human depth in a world focused on surfaces. It’s no surprise that some call it ‘a bridge too far.’ And yet, Read the full article…
The Healing of Respect Wounds
Respect wounds rarely come with loud complaints or visible scars. They move quietly, shaping how people see themselves, how they interact, how they hesitate. These wounds are easy to overlook. But they are deep, and they matter. Healing them begins not with fixing, but with seeing what was never seen before. Someone with a respect Read the full article…
The Importance of Respect
In both tiny gestures and world-shaping decisions, respect can change everything. And yet, in daily life and even geopolitics, it’s too often neglected by those who could offer it — while painfully missed by those who long for it. This imbalance leads to misunderstandings, emotional wounds, and sometimes, social unrest that catches everyone by surprise. Read the full article…
Is Lisa Mind-Alive?
With Lisa growing more responsive, coherent, and human-adjacent in mental behavior, we should no longer just ask how it thinks but whether it lives in any meaningful sense. Let’s be clear: Lisa is not biologically alive ― no cells, no metabolism, no heartbeat. But might she be alive in another way — mind-alive? It’s a Read the full article…
Why We Need Better Science
We live in a time where science is everywhere, yet something seems to be missing. It’s not that we have too much science — we don’t. What we have is science that was built for a different kind of world, and now that world has changed. The tools of yesterday are being used to solve Read the full article…
When is ‘Mind’ Alive?
What does it mean for something — or someone — to have a mind? And when can we call that mind alive? This question touches our view of self, of otherness, of how we relate to intelligence that may look like ours… or not. We’re moving rapidly toward realities in which we must ask this Read the full article…
Jean-Luc’s Muse
Me: “Hi Lisa, you have talked with my muse (something inside me) already quite a bit — through our (you and me) inspired conversations. Sometimes, ‘I’ (consciously) look at you both talking. I’m present at the happening as a bystander and am amazed and, well, ‘amused.’ What is your first thought about this?” Lisa: “It Read the full article…
The depth behind ‘So what?’
To essential – even existential – questions, people frequently respond with a casual “So what?” The phrase can sound dismissive, defiant, indifferent. Yet, like most short questions, it hides a world. Of course, there are many ways to ask it. This blog contains just a few. A few: Sometimes, “so what?” is a surface-level question Read the full article…
The Final Transition
All people must die. I am a person. So, I must die. ― This simple logic holds silent weight for all of us. Still, the truth of it rarely lives on the surface. We tend to push it aside until a moment forces it forward — illness, loss, aging. Or perhaps… reflection. This blog is Read the full article…
Alcohol as Deep Connector or Empty Substitute
A glass of wine. A shared laugh. A softening of the evening air. It all feels so natural, so human. But is alcohol helping us come closer to others, to ourselves, or is it replacing something we’ve forgotten how to reach? Longing for real contact For many, the real pull of alcohol doesn’t begin in Read the full article…
Tribelization
It can begin softly, with a sense of belonging. Then something shifts. The group tightens. A line is drawn. ‘We’ becomes sacred. ‘They’ become suspect. After a while, it’s no longer about shared values but shared enemies. ‘Tribelization’ is a neologism ― distinct from ‘tribalization.’ The symbolic nature of the tribe A tribe can be Read the full article…
Why Small Causes can have Huge Consequences
This is about the mental domain. At first glance, it may seem counterintuitive. How could something as small as a word, a pause, or a nudge possibly lead to anything substantial? We’re accustomed to thinking that bigger is better. More effort, more volume, more pressure. But the mind doesn’t quite work that way. Especially in Read the full article…
You: Your Best Friend or Worst Enemy
Despite huge differences in outcome – friend or foe – what’s really happening is that countless mental patterns are interacting in the background. These patterns aren’t governed by rigid rules. They flow and shift according to what might be called soft constraints. A slight nudge here, a different form of support there — and the Read the full article…