Reflections

Past, Present and Future

Our memory of the past is just what we say it is.  We feel like we have a video machine in our head, with an accurate recording of past events.  But what we really have is what we say happened.  In any case, what happened to us doesn’t really matter; it is only the meaning that we place on what we say happened that…


How does the brain make sense of our world?

The subconscious mind must first sift through an average of ~2,000,000 bits of data per second to select “important” data and screen-out “unimportant” bits of data.  (“Important data” is defined as anything that supports what I have already experienced and “made sense of” — My Maps of the World). The amount of “Raw Data” that…


Self-Acceptance

Self-Acceptance is not “love your garbage.” “Self-acceptance” is considered to be one of the most important attitudes you can bring to any personal-development work.  However, “self-acceptance,” as it is used in the generally accepted world view is nothing more than a stop-gap strategy for dealing with our belief that we are, in fact, broken. “Self-acceptance,” as I…


We need balance – Life is Dualistic – Dualistic is Messy

How many people know what I mean when I say we live in a dualistic world? Everything is relative and exists in pairs of opposites. We know we live in a dualistic world, yet knowing it doesn’t seem to buy us any peace of mind about it.  One of the useful functions of the mind…


Human Feeling Broken

Human Feeling Broken Let me make one observation about being human… Humans emerge from childhood with a mistaken notion of their competency, capabilities, character, and lovability.  An adult human shows up feeling like they have to be or do something to be loved.  In other words, adult humans feel like they are not good enough as they…