Personal Research

Category: perspectivism

  • Is it Better to be Gullible or Skeptical?

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    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.  —  Bertrand Russell An ancient school of thought known as Skepticism taught that nothing can be known with certainty; they advised us to suspend judgment so as to remain free of…

  • A Strange Case of Reification

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    This case description is loosely based on real events. The telling is modeled on Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella: "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." However, in the current presentation the sinister serum that turns the rational Dr. Jekyll into the destructive Mr. Hyde is the reification of his pathogenic beliefs. De-Reifying…

  • The Study of Experience. . . From the Inside

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    Who looks outside, dreams Who looks inside, awakens — Carl Jung As remarkable and complex a structure as a neuron is, it does not possess consciousness. Consciousness requires a complex nervous system comprised of many neurons and sense organs. The nervous system you were born with is among the most complex structures in the universe,…

  • Studying Your Experience

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    Who looks outside, dreams Who looks inside, awakens — Carl Jung As remarkable and complex a structure as a neuron is, it does not possess consciousness. Consciousness requires a complex nervous system comprised of many neurons and sense organs. The nervous system you were born with is among the most complex structures in the universe,…

  • Loving the Truth

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      The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.  — George Santayana The poetic psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, asserted: “There is a lot of suffering in life. But the only suffering that can be avoided is the suffering that results from trying to avoid suffering.” We…

  • For the Delight of Heaven

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    You should have a message in each pocket, so that you can read one or the other, according to your needs. In the right pocket are the words: “I am but dust and ashes” in the left are words: “For my sake was the universe was created."  — 19th century Hasidic adage What is the truth…