the varieties of addictive experience
I’m stealing this title from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James. And yes, the comparison between ‘religious’ and ‘addictive’ is purposeful. Suffice it to say that it is not incidental that liquor stores advertise “wine and spirits,” and that both religion and addictive (intoxicating) behaviors are ‘places’ people go to for comfort,… Read More…
thou shalt feel inadequate
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. —Marshall McLuhan One primary engine of the modern world is the selling of things, services and ideas. Enormous problems arise for us when we fail to recognize the insidiousness of the advertisements/messages that are… Read More…
your own cognitive revolution
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” —Albert Einstein The cognitive revolution is a multi-dimensional development in intellectual history that grew out of inter-disciplinary conversations during the 1950s and 1960s between psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer science and anthropology. One major outgrowth… Read More…
experience is the teacher
“The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it.” —Herman Hesse, Siddhartha Ordinary daily experience needs to be a school where we study and a teacher from whom we learn. Is this how you approach your life? If not, you’re short-changing yourself. The Roman philosopher Seneca is quoted as saying: “As long as you… Read More…
do you create your reality?
Each day you wake up and you are faced with reality. Did you create that reality? Well…yes and no. reality is always co-created It is overly simplistic to say that “you create your reality.” Yes, you obviously play an integral part in creating your reality, but it is not a solo project. Human beings participate… Read More…