Psychology in the West addresses itself to the identity, to the ‘formalised notion of who (or what) we are’. We can’t think what else it could possibly be about. It addresses itself to the purposeful ‘doer’ or ‘actor’ – the...
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If the negative psychologist pays attention to stillness, then positive psychology concerns itself exclusively with action, with noise, with measurable parameters, with ‘blank rules’ rather than unspecifiable nuances. Stillness doesn't figure, and it certainly isn't seen as the ‘cure’ for...
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Anything that comes out of a system based on logic is tautological, or hollow. Because logic is hollow, because logic is tautological, so too are we when we organise ourselves into systems, into logically coherent collectives. So too do our...
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‘Freedom is taken, never given’, says Gurdjieff. If there is one who controls us, rules us, regulates us, then no matter how long we wait, no matter how well we behave, no matter how compliant we are, we are never...
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There is a very big problem with all our attempts to create effective psychological therapies and this problem comes about because of the way in which we are entirely incapable of differentiating between ‘what our culture says is true’, and...
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The big question that we never think of asking is “What happens when we live our lives in a world which completely matches our expectations of it?” This would be an important question to ask because this is exactly our...
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