An Ancient Recommendation
Know Thyself! — Socrates Subjective experience is a strange subject. Studying your own experience is a different kind of challenge than is researching subjects such as chemistry or physics. When …
A Strange Case of Reification
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 …
Editing Your Fictions
Most people walk through the world in a trance of disempowerment. Our work is to transform that into a trance of empowerment — Milton Erickson The Personal Research Tool identifies …
Suggestion Can Enhance Will
From our birth to our death we are all slaves of suggestions — Emile Coue Hypnotic Suggestion is a direct and powerful method to intentionally influence your subjective reality. The …
Reification & De-Reification
Umpire #1 — I call’s ’em as I sees ’em Umpire #2 — I calls ’em as they are Umpire #3 — They ain’t nothin’ until I calls ’em The brain receives a …
The Phenomenal Truth
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” — Marcus Aurelius The understanding that thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are mental …
The Soul Illusion
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit. — Irvin …
The Study of Experience. . . From the Inside
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 …
Popular Thinking Errors
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau You make the same mistake again and again because it does not seem like a …
The Space Between Stimulus and Response
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. — Viktor E. …