The price of our innate tendency to resist change is that we will never feel cohesion with nature. We will always be strangers there. Sadly enough, we will carry the arrogance of a teenager within us forever. Our own mental world will…
I have great respect for Alan Watts (1915-73), who is widely known for his books and speeches on Oriental philosophy. He speaks simply and clearly always with the goal of getting the listener to understand the essence of his message. And I think he…
Sometimes, very rarely though, it happens that unexpectedly our mind behaves strangely and, for a while, we experience something that is called a mystical experience. However, our consciousness does not expand or rise to a higher level even though it may seem so.…
Certain peculiarities in our personal growth and development offer an interesting opportunity for the interpretation of consciousness. It is worth noting that unlike psychedelic experiences, the spontaneous changes in the state of consciousness provide us with the key to the causes of…
The figure above ("Les Voyageurs" by Bruno Catalano) confirmed my idea that there is some mechanism in our human psyche that must limit and modify our sensory perceptions so that they can be handled with very simple and idiot-proof tools. These idiot-proof…
Pareidolia is the tendency to recognise faces all around us. But what causes it? And where does the phenomenon come from? Science considers facial recognition to be a cognitive bias. It means we therefore tend to emphasise our observations, interpretations, and information…
The evolution of modern man is studied in paleoanthropology. Bone fossils tell of structural changes in species, but not of mental development. The mind is not retained in the soil sediments. There is still a road to the ancient mental landscape. From…
For every teen there will finally come a desire to cut loose from their parents. That is the beginning of the change from childhood to adulthood. However, the imaginings of a young adult can in no way match up to what’s coming.…