{"id":3709,"date":"2020-10-07T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2025-08-12T04:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:27:40","slug":"about-human-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/cognitive-insights\/about-human-depth","title":{"rendered":"About Human Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everybody knows it, and nobody knows it. It is nowhere and everywhere<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a youth,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I used to read a lot of \u2018elite literature\u2019 that costs almost nothing for what it\u2019s worth, has nothing to do with how-to-earn-money, and everything with depth. The writers are frequently found in history books of literature. What they wrote and write has an immense degree of human depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To me, it was heavenly to read about those places, characters, situations. Then there were also paintings and music, the arts. The main thread through all this was depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I loved it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps with exaggeration. There was depth, sports, and then the necessary stuff. In the latter also \u2013 at school \u2013 much was revolving around depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the schoolyard, we talked in-depth or in disinterest. Most of the time, there was no third option. It was a boys-only school, but this might not have made a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to become a psychiatrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I grew up with depth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At medical school, bye-bye depth. How could it be so devoid of it? I passed each year without a problem, but I spent most of the year in sports and in depth: books, talks, arts \u2014 a lot of depth psychology. I knew this was eventually more important to medicine than medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t become a psychiatrist. I became myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is depth psychology?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For me as a student, it was the sign above the bookshelf where many of my books could be found: Jung, Freud, Maslow, Laing, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

is what you consider to be of utmost importance after spending your time as a youth in a universe of depth. It is a way of being, which enables you to see what it is, unmistakably. What you learn to see this way is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everybody craves depth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yet there is much distraction and \u2018so little time\u2019 that many people rarely encounter it. With everything full of urgent importance, there is little room for anything essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

COVID is as much a mind-issue as it is a virus-issue. Relevant within the mind is depth. A superficial way of life brings about a lot of stress<\/em>, sometimes within the same people, sometimes within others. This concept of stress is, of course, much more complex than what one finds in any introductory text. For my in-depth view on stress, see my book: Stressional Intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In several ways, a lack of depth has brought us to a situation in which the tiniest organism on earth teaches us this crazy lesson. If we don\u2019t learn it this time, we get another reading, probably more in-depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what is depth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

All my preferred authors were trying to convey the same message: Depth has no form, yet it is about meaning. [see: \u2018Depth is Formless Meaning<\/a>\u2019] Also, it is energetic, therefore dangerous. [see: \u201cThree Dangers of Careless Depth<\/a>\u201d] It is intangible, thus not easily conveyed. [see: \u201cDepth Makes the Teacher<\/a>\u201d] It is real, yet not within most people\u2019s daily reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is parallel. [see: \u201cWhat is \u2018Parallel\u2019?<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is where we find motivation and purpose in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a universe inside, made up of billions of mental\/neuronal patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a strength and possible weakness, also in times of corona. [see: \u201cOur Mind Is Our Way Out (or Into) COVID<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where is it in medicine as a domain of investigation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is what AURELIS is about<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

while keeping as rational as possible. [see \u201cAURELIS USP: \u2018100% Rationality, 100% Depth\u2019<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

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