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Key Principles for Psychological Work, Part 1/2 (#144)
Episode 144
What are the key principles for doing psychological work? How do we know we are doing this work properly? How do we know we are not deceiving ourselv…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Self-Observation Changes Everything
My claim: all our traits and ways we are have deep, fundamental reasons behind them, and through self-observation and careful self-directed work, we …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Mind is a Mosaic
We are as we are because of a complex mosaic of factors, and the ones we choose to emphasise over the others reveal our own psychology!
[Again, I apol…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Psychology = Why You Are As You Are
My definition of psychology is: the study of why you are as you are.
This is a simple but deceptive and very powerful definition, and in this snippet …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
What is Psychology? (#143)
Episode 143
What is psychology? Why are there so many views on how human psychology works? What are some key questions in psychological work?
This is both a found…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Spiritual Awareness is Ultimate
Absolute understanding of reality comes not through scientific theory but through direct spiritual awareness. Do not let science replace spiritual aw…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Problem With Scientific Slogans
Science often gets reduced down into popular slogans that spread quickly through the culture, e.g. "You're distracted because your brain craves dopam…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Science is an Ever-Improving Approximation of Reality
Though science is conceptual and therefore fundamentally limited, we can also see it as an approximation of truth that may or may not lead us to the …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
If Science Isn’t Ultimate, How Should We Use It? (#142)
Episode 142
After mercilessly deconstructing science this month, today we round off this series by looking at how to skillfully and pragmatically incorporate sci…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
What Science Misses About Experience
Science doesn't realise that what it's really trying to do is explain and describe our experience, which is primary. Here's what it misses by doing s…
3 months ago