If we were to pick just one element of Gnostic cosmology to try to apply to psychology a good one to start off with might be the idea that the...
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Thought can never do anything other than bring us into one stale equilibrium state or other and yet investing in thought, and the structures that thought has created, is all...
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According to Carl Jung, all mental illness is the result of all of ‘the avoidance of our own true suffering'. What Jung said or didn't say actually carries very little...
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There are two types (two radically different types) of therapy and yet we only ever hear of the one type and this in itself ought to be enough to arouse...
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Nothing is more denying of the individuality than the generic self. This is of course a very obvious statement to be making; it's an obvious statement to be making but...
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One way of talking about mental health is to say that the ‘key' (which we never see!) is not to interfere with what's going on. It's not sufficient to merely...
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Life is an ongoing movement into the unknown and no matter how many times this might occur to us, it's never going to seem commonplace. No matter how many times...
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Thought is a game, and a highly engrossing one at that. It's a game, but it's also a losing game. Thought is a losing game and can't ever be anything...
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We don't love the truth, we love ‘fitting in' and that is a totally different proposition. It's not just that the truth' and fitting in' are different propositions, the one...
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Whenever we think or feel that things shouldn’t be the way that they are then we create the self. Whenever we resist something we create the self. This isn't to...
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Patience is a great thing, but we can't be expecting patience from a machine! Machines always exemplify the exact opposite principle – machines always ‘want' the next thing that is...
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The everyday self is a task that we continually have to work on. We don't usually think of it as a task, but it is – it's like a heavily-laden...
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