As I have written before, the book I am reading now is the Metaskills. The author is a designer, and looks at life through a designer’s glasses. The article “You live in a world of your own design” is one … Continue reading “How to find your real self… instead of honoring your false self as yourself”
Today I am tired. I am in and out of bed, I need my rest. Why am I so tired? I lead a session of the From Upset To Communication course/workshop, an experimental course with no curriculum, except my commitment … Continue reading “Silencing your mind-chatter. The counter-intuitive path. Teaching pigs to fly”
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan posed that question. I invite you to put it at the top of your list of hot topics to … Continue reading “How a collage is a diagnostic tool”
In 1975, somewhere early spring, I was hugging my soon to be ex boy friend as hard as I could. He packed his car and was moving back to his parents. I was sobbing. I told him I loved him. … Continue reading “When you have to move on…”
What do your passwords say about you? I get to see your password, at least when you sign up. Otherwise they are encrypted, so I can’t read them. Most of you could be “diagnosed” from your password on my site. … Continue reading “Your password… how it tells me a lot about you”
Why? Because the majority is always wrong. In most cases majority/minority is an extreme proportional inequality: 98-99% to 1~2% The other extreme is: 90% to 10%, meaning: the “good, productive, true” is never higher than 10%. There was an Italian … Continue reading
It’s Tuesday, and my Rob Brezsny horoscope arrived this morning. It addressed something I wanted to address, because it is important: treating yourself well by providing yourself with what you need to be well, to do well, to feel well. … Continue reading
Feedback is a 13th floor phenomenon… If someone mocks you, laugh with them. It is obvious that humans, on the current level of evolution, live in comparison. I am better, smarter, richer, etc. than you/others. So they mock you, judge … Continue reading
If you want to enslave a man, the best and fastest way to go about it is to rob the man of his common sense, his guidance system.
Train him to not trust his feelings. In anything. Train him that he can’t trust his feelings. Train him that all decisions should be made by men smarter than him. Train him that he can’t be trusted to made decisions about the education, the health about his children.
Train him by printing on plastic bags that they should not be put in the cradle… because a child may suffocate playing with it… Do this so the man will stop thinking for himself and start relying entirely on thing being given to him chewed and digested.
Give him the religion of positive thinking.
I have been saying in every article now that the 13th floor is a dynamic system. Why dynamic? Because the feelings have direction, content, opinion… and they interact, pull, push, stop you… Moving, changing, pulsing, etc. Humans are not simple … Continue reading