Posted in Questions on Mar 25th, 2008 No Comments »
My friend Gordon, co-author of Your Soul’s Compass, was attending a workshop with Hameed Ali (A.H. Almaas) recently. According to Gordon, people were using the the words “fantasy” and “imagination” interchangeably.
I commented that in fact these were opposite concepts. “Fantasy” is a mental construct–a substitute for reality. Imagination, on the other hand, is [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Is your ego functioning? What are ego’s functions? Do they serve you or entrap you?
The granddaddy of psychology, Sigmund Freud, said the ego functioned to manage the instincts and defenses against them.
According to Carl Jung, the four ways of interpreting reality are the four ego-functions - Sensation, Thinking, Feeling, and Intuition. These consist of [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Are you being abused and violated by an Inner Terrorist?
Terrorism is a hot topic these days. I am constantly reminded as I walk through this world how many people live in fear. It is fairly common, or so it seems, that many people don’t know their neighbors – and don’t want to.
Many people seem afraid [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Survival Instincts and Survival of the Fittest cannot excuse character and personality distortions. Greed and competitiveness are not survival instincts. The survival instinct, as I understand it, arises out of the brain stem, the reptilian brain.
Modern Humans Retain Caveman’s Survival Instincts - Like hunter-gatherers in the jungle, modern humans are still experts at spotting predators [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Identity – Ego Identitiy – True Identity
What’s the deal with identity anyway. I remember my parents challenging me with – who do you think you are? At the time I was just a kid – I didn’t have a clue who I was and they didn’t seem to be helping me found out much either.
What [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
Googling – Inner Journey – I see in the search results many people offering inner journey newsletters and inner journey workshops, but in the descriptions, I see very little that may define what the inner journey is.
I guess we assume that everyone knows what the inner journey is.
For the (inner) journey is essentially a journey [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Narcissistic injury is one of those loaded psychological terms. In fact, all things narcissistic seem to be. I think that is because the word narcissism or narcissistic is generally used to describe pathology and not the over-arching reality that everyone with an ego (everyone) is a narcissist.
Narcissistic defenses are present to some degree in all [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
What is universal love? Is it the same as unconditional love or is unconditional love a subcategory of universal love?
It is my, and many others, observation that love is something experienced by most of humanity and yet it remains mostly misunderstood. It’s interesting. Everyone knows what it is, but few really know it or understand [...]
Posted in Questions on Mar 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
What does the term *EgoDeath* exactly mean, in brief?
Ego death, as I think it should be defined, is a set of insights about, and a powerful experience of, the impotence and logical invalidity of the accustomed apparent control-agent who seems to reside in the mind. Ego death is associated closely with the loss of [...]
Posted in Questions on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s all the rage! Rage seems in vogue these days. The current explosion of narcissistic rage in the culture seems like an organic evolution of the “me generation.” Every new movie, song, or speech seems to set someone off – and don’t even mention the road rage phenomenon.
Is narcissism at the root of it all?
A [...]
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