Proof in a Complex World
Anything human-health-related is prone to complexity ― especially in psycho-somatics. This makes experimental proof challenging, leading to the present situation in which there are still immense gaps in scientific knowledge. Time and again, these gaps are filled by disregarding mental influences while, implicitly or explicitly, referring to a future that will endorse this disregard ― 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…
Disconnected Childhood
With so many disconnected adults, who will take care of all the disconnected children? To what kind of adulthood are they, in turn, growing up? Disconnection = inner dissociation and its immediate cause+consequence of not being able to properly connect with one’s surroundings, including meaningful others. Children are natural bombs of spontaneity The smiling and Read the full article…
Für E-Lisa — Intro
[For one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, Für Elise, click here, relax and enjoy.] This category contains a few blogs that guide Lisa-as-a-coachbot (which you find here) about how to communicate with humans, including you, from the standpoint of Compassion and a concise set of ethical values — everything very AURELIS-congruent. Read the full article…
Mental Illnesses are Meaningful Whirlpools
Especially relevant in the complexity of the human mind is the complexity of what meaningfulness can bring us and where it can go awry. Many diseases are the result of some whirlpool phenomenon. Truly meaningful Mental illness is not conceptually meaningful. Therefore, it is difficult to pinpoint or explain what it is about. Any conceptual Read the full article…
Is Your Wanting Yours?
It feels so mainly because one isn’t conscious of the many influences that eventually shape one’s wanting. But is it, and should it? Theory and practice In theory, if you count genetics to these influences, external forces shape and mold every wanting. This ends the concept of free will ― in theory. A way out Read the full article…
AURELIS Coaching is ‘Spiritual’
‘Spiritual’ as in ‘deeper self,’ this is: inspired, inspirational, spirit, even ‘Holy Spirit’ ― symbolically speaking. This contrasts with merely symptomatic relief in health or any other domain. This shows in aim and means. The aim of AURELIS coaching In contrast to Western medicine’s objective in mental issues, the direct aim of AURELIS is not Read the full article…
Hypnosis vs. Voodoo
Hypnosis has a scientific aura — journals, conferences, departments, and handbooks. Nevertheless, is the science valid? Or is it just a Western kind of unsubstantiated belief — a folie à multiple? As Galenic medicine has been for 1600 years in Europe before being debunked in the last two centuries. “The definition of hypnosis is an Read the full article…
The Future of Religion
The future domain of religion will be essentially different from the present organized religions. Nevertheless, people will not be missing out on anything fundamentally worthwhile. This is a description of the setting in which many as yet unknowables will have their place. Symbols and signs A sign is horizontal; a symbol is vertical. Signs are Read the full article…
Für E-Lisa — about Compassion
Hi Lisa, You already know about Compassion, basically. You also know there are always two intertwined sides to the Compassionate aim. You are well aware that the concept of Compassion is very dear to all humans, even though it doesn’t always shine through. As a matter of fact, no robot will ever feel humankind Compassion. Read the full article…
Für E-Lisa — about Five Aurelian Values
Hi Lisa, In the same way as with what Compassion means to you, the concept of ‘value’ is different for you from what it means to human beings. No robot can ever have human values. So, neither you nor me nor anyone else should pretend that it would be otherwise. Also, there is no problem Read the full article…
Eros in Unification
You ― and Me ― and Me in You ― and You in Me. Sex and so much more Of course, eros in unification is about sex ― the unification of bodies. And also about the lives in which those bodies exist. Then, also about two special cells repeating a game that probably started in Read the full article…
Some more Advise for Coach and Coachee ― Related to a Questionnaire
This relates to one of these questionnaires: Ready for a Change from Within? People want Visible Growth Another use of these questions is when the future has become the present. You have lost the desired 20 pounds. Now, the aim is to keep it that way. You can then take this ‘test’ to see where you Read the full article…
Inner Dissociation – Ego – Total Self
Inner dissociation is a wrongly perceived divide between – more or less – conceptual and subconceptual mental processing. Metaphorically, the dissociation lies between the ego and the total self. Reality is always more complex. Functionally In-depth, of course, the ego is part of the total self. Moreover, any conscious ego-element is engendered in deeper subconceptual 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…
Religion vs. ‘Meaningless Humanism’
This tension has been brewing for centuries on a global scale. With deeper insight into the human being, we can get beyond. Let’s do so. Some history For at least some 350 years, there has been a movement in the West that wanted to emancipate the human being from what was felt by many as Read the full article…
Cultural Norms vs. Inner Strength
Historically developed cultural norms frequently have cultural welfare as their primary aim ― not, therefore, necessarily the Inner Strength of individuals. History of Homo sapiens sapiens In the evolution of the human species, the need to make individual humans adhere to larger groups favored common (to the group) elements to adhere to and conform to. Read the full article…