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Deep Psychology
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- Deep Psychology
Defining Features of Postconventional Consciousness
Some of the defining features of what it means to be postconventional, a metalevel of development that only 15-20% of humans ever reach. This is a snippet from…
- Deep Psychology
The Tricky Conventional-Postconventional Transition
The move from Orange Rational to Green Postmodern is not just a stage change, but a meta-stage change - from Conventional to Postconventional. This transition…
- Deep Psychology
The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 1/3 (#154)
We continue our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Post-Conventional levels of consciousness, the leading edge of human development that…
- Deep Psychology
The Conformist Level of Consciousness
Here's a quick overview of Blue Conformist, the first Conventional level of consciousness. This is a snippet from my Tuesday 14/7 episode, The Conventional…
- Deep Psychology
The Conventional Levels of Consciousness (#153)
Today we’re continuing our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Conventional levels of consciousness, the home stages for most people across the…
- Deep Psychology
Your Level Defines The World You Experience
The existence of the levels suggest to me that there is no default world that we either perceive accurately or not. The way the world "is" is defined by your…
- Deep Psychology
The Deeper Question About Pre-Conventional Growth
The existence of Pre-Conventional levels of consciousness throws up a huge existential question regarding what the world actually is. Here we discuss it. This…
- Deep Psychology
Pre-Conventional Consciousness in a Nutshell
Do not underestimate the importance of pre-conventional development: we go from newborns in the "primordial matrix" to participants in conventional society…
- Deep Psychology
The Pre-Conventional Levels of Consciousness (#152)
Today we’re continuing our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Pre-conventional levels of consciousness, the first building blocks in the human…
- Deep Psychology
What the Levels of Consciousness Explain
If you asked me, "What do the levels of consciousness guide in our lives?", my short answer would be, "Everything". This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/7…
- Deep Psychology
Why Learn About The Levels of Consciousness?
If we're going to spend a whole month learning about the levels of consciousness, we should know why. Put simply, absorbing this knowledge can dramatically…
- Deep Psychology
What Are The Levels of Consciousness? (#151)
The levels of consciousness are a critical tool for understanding yourself, others and the human condition. Today and this month you’re going to understand…
- Deep Psychology
The Story Medicine Can't Tell
The medical system tries to reduce our problems down to simple, pragmatic descriptions and solutions. But does this always help? This is a snippet from my…
- Deep Psychology
Your State is More Fundamental Than Any Diagnosis
Diagnoses are always trying to describe a state, which is more real than any diagnosis applied to it, and is independent of it: your state is not the…
- Deep Psychology
A Diagnosis Is Just a Heuristic
We tend to think diagnoses are absolute, when really they are practical tools that professionals use to attempt to improve your health. This is a snippet from…
- Deep Psychology
The Diagnosis Obsession - Part 2/2 (#150)
How many people are walking around right now with diagnoses for ADHD, depression, anxiety or other similar conditions that are unnecessary and useless - with…
- Deep Psychology
Diagnosis Is Big Business
There's a lot of money in medicine and pharmaceuticals, and this puts a huge survival pressure on the industry. This is not a countercultural slur, just a…
- Deep Psychology
The Diagnosis Imperative
Healthcare professionals' priority is to diagnose you. That is what they are trying to do. But is it necessary? Is it functional? Is it right? And what's more…
- Deep Psychology
Diagnoses Are Trendy
How many people have you heard saying "I think I have autism/ADHD/anxiety/depression because of x, y or z"? I'm sure you've heard someone, because diagnoses of…
- Deep Psychology
The Diagnosis Obsession - Part 1/2 (#149)
How many people are walking around right now with diagnoses for ADHD, depression, anxiety or other similar conditions that are unnecessary and useless - with…
- Deep Psychology
4 Forms of Fake Inner Work
Four examples of fake inner work: talk therapy, meditation for emotional benefits, medication, diagnoses. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 10/6 episode…
- Deep Psychology
The Litmus Test for Inner Work
This is how you know whether you're doing proper inner work or not. Very simple, but very powerful. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 10/6 episode, Real vs…
- Deep Psychology
Real v Fake Inner Work (#148)
There are effective ways of doing inner work, and there are ineffective ways. You can uncover gold, but you can also fall into traps. Here you'll learn a clear…
- Deep Psychology
Your Psyche Constructs Your World
Your psyche is constructed to such a degree that, in fact, it constructs your world too. There is no such thing as accurate perception of life. This is a…
- Deep Psychology
Everything You Believe About Yourself Is a Story
Another major implication of psychological non-duality is that because our true nature is unbounded consciousness, our entire self-image is essentially a…
- Deep Psychology
Why Your Experience is Self-Sealing
A major implication of psychological non-duality is that you cannot step outside your experience, and your entire psyche was built inside it, meaning your…
- Deep Psychology
Key Principles for Psychological Work, Part 2/2 (#147)
What are the key principles for doing psychological work? How do we know we are doing this work properly? How do we know we are not deceiving ourselves? In…
- Deep Psychology
How to Understand People Inside Out
We're all living in our own world. To truly comprehend others, you need to feel into the world they inhabit as you interact with them. Look closely at their…
- Deep Psychology
We Only Know a Tiny Slither of Life
We only experience a miniscule piece of the entire world, and this little microcosm shapes us and is reflected in our character. Not only that, we interpret…
- Deep Psychology
Your Fundamental Assumption About Humans
We typically believe there is a single objective world that we may perceive differently but ultimately is common to us all. We also believe we're all the same…
- Deep Psychology
We All Live In Our Own World [Repost] (#146)
You only experience a finite part of objective reality, of all positive input you could receive, of all possible human experiences, AND your unique psychology…
- Deep Psychology
Mundane Acts Are a Microcosm
The impressions we have of the events in our life reflect our mind. Things are not inherently one way or another - we make them so. Even down to tiny everyday…
- Deep Psychology
The "World" is a Function of Your Psychology
Everything you experience is filtered through your psychology, and then you believe that it is as your psychology presents it. Everything you know and perceive…
- Deep Psychology
We Are Fundamentally Confused About Our Identity
One of the core human confusions is that of identity: we believe we are something we are not, we believe we are separate from the world around us, and we…
- Deep Psychology
Your Psychology = Your Life [Repost] (#145)
This video explains one of the fundamental truths of life: that your psychology = your life. Understand this, and your world will turn inside out. This is a…
- Deep Psychology
Why You Do Everything You Do
Every action of yours has one or two fundamental needs driving it (or a first cause, as I call it). Discovering them is critical for understanding yourself in…
- Deep Psychology
Who You Are Is Right Before You
The principle of truth is not abstract - it has you be honest about who you are, and that is always visible, right here, right now. This is a snippet from my…
- Deep Psychology
The Power of Truth in Psychological Work
If psychological work is discovering why you are as you are and changing it if need be, being truthful is a central pillar in that process. If you are truthful…
- Deep Psychology
Key Principles for Psychological Work, Part 1/2 (#144)
What are the key principles for doing psychological work? How do we know we are doing this work properly? How do we know we are not deceiving ourselves? In…
- Deep Psychology
Self-Observation Changes Everything
My claim: all our traits and ways we are have deep, fundamental reasons behind them, and through self-observation and careful self-directed work, we can change…
- Deep Psychology
Your Mind is a Mosaic
We are as we are because of a complex mosaic of factors, and the ones we choose to emphasise over the others reveal our own psychology! [Again, I apologise for…
- Deep Psychology
Psychology = Why You Are As You Are
My definition of psychology is: the study of why you are as you are. This is a simple but deceptive and very powerful definition, and in this snippet I explain…
- Deep Psychology
What is Psychology? (#143)
What is psychology? Why are there so many views on how human psychology works? What are some key questions in psychological work? This is both a foundational…
- Deep Psychology
Spiritual Awareness is Ultimate
Absolute understanding of reality comes not through scientific theory but through direct spiritual awareness. Do not let science replace spiritual awareness…
- Deep Psychology
The Problem With Scientific Slogans
Science often gets reduced down into popular slogans that spread quickly through the culture, e.g. "You're distracted because your brain craves dopamine." What…
- Deep Psychology
Science is an Ever-Improving Approximation of Reality
Though science is conceptual and therefore fundamentally limited, we can also see it as an approximation of truth that may or may not lead us to the…
- Deep Psychology
If Science Isn’t Ultimate, How Should We Use It? (#142)
After mercilessly deconstructing science this month, today we round off this series by looking at how to skillfully and pragmatically incorporate science into…
- Deep Psychology
What Science Misses About Experience
Science doesn't realise that what it's really trying to do is explain and describe our experience, which is primary. Here's what it misses by doing so. This is…
- Deep Psychology
Guided Exercise for Recognising Non-duality
There is nothing outside your current experience. Sounds obvious, but this is the key to spiritual awakening, and this guided exercise in non-duality will aid…
- Deep Psychology
What is Experience?
If we are to understand why experience is fundamental, we ought to know what the word experience means in this context! This is a snippet from my Wednesday…
- Deep Psychology
What If Experience Is Fundamental? (#141)
Your life is simply your current experience. That is it. This is the key point science overlooks. This episode explores the primacy of experience and how…
- Deep Psychology
Why Models Obscure Understanding
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 15/4 episode, Science is Addicted to Explanations. (#140) Philosophy category…
- Deep Psychology
Does Science Actually Describe Reality?
Science is very hesitant to assign reality to things; it tends to assign reality to parts rather than wholes For example, science will say a human is really…
- Deep Psychology
What Models Actually Are & Their Fundamental Flaw
A model is about a phenomenon. It is not the phenomenon. By definition. Therefore, models do not actually describe phenomena, because fundamentally they cannot…
- Deep Psychology
Science is Addicted to Explanations (#140)
What if models were not the only way to understand reality? What if they created deep blind spots, biases and paradigm lock? We continue our April series on…
- Deep Psychology
The Brain Is In Experience
We tend to think that our experience arises inside the brain, but in fact the opposite is true. All we know of our brain is our experience is it, and our brain…
- Deep Psychology
Your Brain Does Not Think
Our thought patterns: “my brain thinks”, “my brain goes round in loops”. These are cliches. Have you ever thought about this? No, your brain does not think…
- Deep Psychology
Your Brain Is Not the Source of Fear
Our usual thinking is to pin the cause of the fear on the brain. So we say “we feel fear because x area of the brain activates. If it didn’t activate, we…
- Deep Psychology
The Limits of Brain Science: Why Correlation Isn’t Explanation (#139)
This episode examines the relationship between the brain and experience, and challenges the common view that the brain explains our experience. We explore the…
- Deep Psychology
Science’s Hidden Black Hole
Science does not truly question the idea of self. Even though neuroscience itself would say that the self is simply a result of brain activity and isn’t…