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<description><![CDATA[I've been a psychotherapist for 30 years, written 8 novels, science fiction, fable, political satire, romantic thrillers, 3 nonfiction books that turn psychology into a political philosophy; married, 3 children, 5 grandchildren.  I'm dedicated to facilitating a true direct-vote world democracy without representation, dissolving nations and corporations, as they currently exist, and the economic aristocracy as ruling authorities, by eliminating the possibility of wealth, thus completely democratizing power.]]></description>
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<title>Discipline is the God Part of Us</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Discipline means to do something daily, like for instance diet, exercise, meditation, writing, practicing the playing of an instrument, musical or otherwise, painting (art), etc. It doesn't mean to think about it or talk about it, though these can be useful activities; it means to work it. As a famous artist once said, "waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; I just get busy". ]]></description>
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<title>What Frightens Us the Most - Having a Mind of Our Own</title>
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<description><![CDATA[We all pretend we have a mind of our own. But actually few walk the path. It means literally to form our own perspective, feelings and opinion about every moment of life. But we don't do that.]]></description>
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<title>We Teach Our Children to Be Afraid of Fear - And That's No Way to Handle It</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How do we teach our children to fear... fear? By rescuing them from the slightest sign that they're frightened - interrupting the fear experience as if it is something that can't be tolerated. So they grow up being fundamentally afraid of fear.]]></description>
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<title>At Best Psychotherapy is a Dialogue With the Self, Not a Discussion of Relationships</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The vast majority of psychotherapy is a discussion of the client-person's relationships. There are most likely also references to the client's inter-psychic history. But these memories of emotional experience in their families of origin are expressed as a background and precedence for what's taking place in their current adult relationships.]]></description>
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<title>Eventually Psychology Will Change the Way We Perceive Everything</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By "psychology" is meant not the academic or clinical manifestations of it that abound; but what will one day become a new concept of human nature that we will all share, which will change the meaning of everything. 	 After over 100 years of presence in the scientific community, we still treat psychology as a part of medicine, keeping it confined to what deals most fundamentally with "mental illness" - rather than what is human nature, and what do hallucination and dissociation have to do with normal psychology. ]]></description>
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<title>Negative Emotion Contains Our Dearest Treasure</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:14:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We have so many ways to fix negative feelings, to minimize their impact, that we have the strong impression we no longer need to feel them. There's taking a pill, drug or other mind-altering substance; calling a friend; seeing a movie; having sex; and so forth and so on. We seldom if ever notice our great loss in employing these strategies to stunt or stupefy negative emotional experience. What's lost is learning new unexpected things about ourself - and thus about life. Negative emotional experience just happens to be the only place we'll find new information trying to access our life, offering us the chance to see some part of ourselves differently, thus capable of changing us.]]></description>
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<title>Being Independent is NOT Being in Control</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:53:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The concept of being in control came to us originally from morality. But science has given it a huge shot in the arm by providing us with the understanding and means - technology - that allows us to reproduce reality in our own image, translating body-motion into machine and computer-driven. This marvelous new power has imbued us with the belief that science can eventually control nature.]]></description>
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<title>Is Reality So Real &amp; Is Fiction So Unreal?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As more than one character in a movie or TV sitcom have said, "I don't waste my time reading fiction". Instead we crave reality. In our search for it we poke into every nook and cranny of human experience - a real family, true crime, prison life, real combat clips, surgical operations, people having sex, true-life stores of crime and misfortune, etc. ]]></description>
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<title>January 15, 2009, East River, NYC - Pilot - &quot;I've Always Expected a Lot of Myself&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:48:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most often this remarkable event is called "a miracle", once more defining the very best of human performance as something inspired extra-terrestrially. When what it really represents is a moment of supreme transcendence above the usual ordinariness, and often mediocrity of human life.]]></description>
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<title>The Human Heart is Double Edged</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:50:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The human heart cuts both ways. These are the traditions our habits have built into our life as we grew up, forming our particular perceptions, attitudes and beliefs.]]></description>
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<title>Is Anxiety a Form of Fear?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:58:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Though many of us realize the two forms of emotional experience are quite different, pragmatically we manage them as if they were twins. Fear is assumed to be a part of anxiety, and visa versa - both assertions of which contain some truth.]]></description>
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<title>What Will Psychology Become in the 21st Century</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:41:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Psychology has been around as a formal science for over 100 years. But it hasn't escaped its original focus. Born in the laboratories of medicine, it has always been defined as the science of psychopathology, meaning what's wrong with us. Perceived in this way, psychology has never been a major contributor to a general definition of human nature; we think about ourselves psychologically only when something's gone amiss.]]></description>
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<title>Good &amp; Evil Are Next Door Neighbors - Pretending to Live a Million Miles Apart</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:31:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are finally beginning to realize that human acts are as capable of producing destructive, as they are constructive outcomes. What's more we don't know ahead of time which alternative will dominate. Most acts are undertaken with the intent, even great passion to produce benefit - and yet in retrospect often do the opposite. ]]></description>
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<title>Emotion is Memory</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:59:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In addition to all the other things emotion is - such as vivid response to the present moment - it is also, and always memory. Indeed memory is coded emotionally, not intellectually or factually, as we like to think. As we experience when we can't remember something we want to know again very much; but it eludes us. The missing connective bridge to the memory will only appear when the feeling or feelings that originally filed it spontaneously appear. This happens because the psyche tries, whenever possible, to help our conscious desires - and usually will succeed if our consciousness will only get out of the way.]]></description>
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<title>The Dumbest Part of Conventional Wisdom</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:39:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Individuality is Not the rival disrupter of society. Our belief that it is so represents the dumbest part of our common perspective. In modern social discourse once again individuality has become the "selfish" cause of social disruption. Though democracy is fundamentally in support of individual human life, when we become afraid, uncertain and up against a myriad of problems - as we are now in these decades of transition between unmitigated war and whatever follows it - we usually dump individuality.]]></description>
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<title>We're Put on Earth to Give Our Neighbors Cause to Laugh - They in Turn to Give Us Entertainment</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:18:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Great knowledge is granted in abundance to anyone who can legitimately claim to be a scientist. Science has usurped the authority that God used to possess. Even the speculations of a scientist - which they do far more than they, or we acknowledge - are assumed to be full of truth.]]></description>
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<title>War Requires Terror - Normalized Participants</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:37:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We all honor and appreciate the soldiers who fight on our behalf. But can we also acknowledge the cost to them and to all of us? Can we look at both sides of the coin of what it means to be capable of waging war?]]></description>
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<title>We've Always Been Big Pretenders</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:55:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When Aristotle discovered repetition, he knew he'd found something big - science, though it would be hundreds of years before anyone would call it that. Repetition is the origin of order, the absence of chaos and the discovery of something certain - that it will happen again... and again. Until then everything was up to the fickle and unpredictable gods; life was about anticipating their intent, incurring heavenly, and in turn kingly favor. We were the play-thing of Big People, though at the time we thought of it as gods taking care of us.]]></description>
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<title>Morality is the Wrong Answer</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:30:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For simple frightened minds, incapable of grasping too much complexity - what we were for most of human history - morality cuts everything down to size, making choice possible for creatures nearly overwhelmed with far too much to handle. For thousands of years we held civilization on the brink of that imminent collapse, as we slashed about killing and pillaging each other, long before we understood very much at all.]]></description>
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<title>Distancing As We Get Close - Twitter &amp; Facebook</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:16:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Self-promotion, particularly in the youngest generation, has become legitimized, not just among close friends, but also in the world at large over the Internet. Entrepreneurship therefore, instead of being a concept owned mostly by business seeking profit, becomes a much larger endeavor of an individual seeking life-fulfillment of much more than financial gain.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Ever Scrooge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The best ever Scrooge by 10 times is the one made in 1951 starring Alistair Sims. This is the only one ever made that feels like real life - specifically that a man could be so convincingly changed that he would wake up Christmas morning a different person, transformed by the night's apparitions. All other Scrooges feel like a fairy tale that symbolizes the possibility of such change - but not the real thing.]]></description>
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<title>Fear - The Most Misused Emotion</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:30:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fear is by far the most misunderstood emotion. In our conventional wisdom it is regarded far less as an emotion, and far more as a sure sign of danger that justifies instant escape, dissolving our awareness of the fear by discharging its energy in action, one form of dissociation. Another is to regard a feeling as a fact that is equivalent to reality.]]></description>
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<title>The Problem With Democracy's Freedoms</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:15:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like love, democracy remains a yearned-for, glorious exuberant - yet undefined phenomenon, about which far more is assumed than is ever clearly defined. It's best known as a condition of freedom, another icon that remains unclear as to its meaning. What we do know about freedom is that it means to be liberated from the dominance of one person over another - of which there are many forms. They include slavery and various forms of servitude to kings, priests and royalty, employers - in fact any kind of unwanted control.]]></description>
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<title>We Shun Unfamiliar Change</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As long as change has very small aspects of unfamiliarity, we welcome it, though often with reluctance. Like new computer soft or hardware. This is change built upon a familiar model, with all of its already known assumptions and practices remaining largely intact after the change. But if the change aspect to our experience of the familiar turns up the volume of what's unknown, we instantly cast stones upon it until it's dead, like the messenger who brings bad news to the village - i.e. women's feet will no longer be bound... nor will they remain docile. We deny the newness out of hand because it makes us feel so fundamentally uncomfortable.]]></description>
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<title>Emotions Are For Feeling - Not For Fixing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[That includes all negative emotions. We mostly treat them as if they are for fixing. Negative feelings almost always include discomfort - what we try to fix - in order to tell us something that may need fixing in our self-system. But the negative emotion is designed for listening, not for doing anything just yet, so that we might learn some idea of what might need fixing that we've never noticed before.]]></description>
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<title>Depression Isn't Emotion - It's Oppression</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:29:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Depression is the absence of emotion. It's a suppression of whatever feelings might be there, that may desperately want expression, but are oppressively shut down. Depression sees to it that the depressed person is deprived of the cathartic healing potential of consciously feeling things. Indeed they are emotionally immovable.]]></description>
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<title>Heresy - The Root Source of All New Wisdom</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:44:26 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Heresy - whatever seriously defies conventional wisdom, religious or secular - is always shunned as change-avoidant creatures shy away from the anathema of unfamiliarity... naturally. Who wants to live in uncertainty and unsettlement for a while, sending comfort scurrying for safer ground - until the truth is established once more.]]></description>
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<title>What We Once Entrusted to God - We Now Demand From Politics</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:57:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Politics is a repository where we dump everything ominous and uncomfortable that we don't want to know about, don't want to be responsible for, and don't know what to do with. We elevate certain persons to power far greater than we give to ourselves, expecting in return for them to handle what frightens and confuses us. As such politicians are small derivatives of what God once was worldwide. For most of human history what happened was God's will and doing.]]></description>
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<title>Aging Forgetfulness Isn't Senility - It's Wisdom</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:42:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Except for the almost total memory collapse of Alzheimer's, aging forgetfulness is both appropriate and adaptive to the needs of an aging person.  Unlike young inexperienced-in-life people who often don't know where to put emphasis and effort, one who has lived several decades has honed their life to its essentials.  They have discovered that very little in life deserves their disciplined and focused attention.]]></description>
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<title>The Advantages of Being Older</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:16:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to understanding what's happening and what's possible, we've turned the world over to the younger generation. We've enthusiastically told them they're the cat's meow, that their shit doesn't really stink, and promised them that the world is their oyster - that they can do and be anything they want, bar none. We're understandably proud of this legacy we've willed our children, and regularly celebrate it on one TV show after another, giving each other another 'five' to mark the occasion.]]></description>
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<title>Money - The Amoral Arbiter of Virtue</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:47:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It has come to pass that everything is about making money.  Everyone's doing it as aggressively as possible, pushing the limits as far as they can.  All over the world making money is the one thing in which everyone seems to believe.  There's an implied sense that if we all do it, war might be replaced by doing business instead of killing each other.]]></description>
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<title>Divorce - Who Needs It and What Dies by It?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:13:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is a great deal to be said for making marriage something to get into and out of far easier than tradition would have it. Soon life will last 100 years. To make any one piece of life so stuck in the mud of the same old, same old, particularly something as dominant as who we live with, is to make life unchangeable except by acts of nature.]]></description>
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<title>Thinking Outside the Tightest Box</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:09:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As information changes more rapidly, there's more talk about thinking outside the box. We generally mean by this to think about ordinary things in new ways. Like for instance, is marriage as sacred as we've always been taught it is, or would love work better if it were defined in a more flexible manner?]]></description>
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<title>To Secularize Humanizes</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:05:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To secularize is to humanize, to render unto people what has always belonged to God, superstition, magic, and all the ologies that have always laid claim to the spiritual realm of human nature.  When that remarkable aspect of human reality-the spiritual-belongs entirely and exclusively to us, though we've never done much with it, nor wanted to have much responsibility for it.]]></description>
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<title>The Science of Faith</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:11:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Faith and Science are constantly being represented as opposites in the arena of how we arrange to believe something.  The usual view is that faith takes it as given without examination, while science insists upon proving it.  Faith appears absolute, to be utterly relied upon; the other is always relative to the evidence, but once established scientifically it's assumed it can always be relied upon.  Thus, in their different ways, faith and science always achieve the same outcome-apparent certainty.]]></description>
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<title>Parent Vs Person</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:20:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To be a parent is to be, not only a person, but also an icon.  To be an icon means to become a public person, meaning who we are belongs not just to us, but to others as well-particularly our children.  Our iconographic identity is created, not just by us, but also by our offspring.  We may want to be known as great parents, but only our children can verify that.]]></description>
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<title>Attraction &amp; Connectivity</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:19:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They say when we answer a question it poses two more. That when old mysteries are exposed, revealing new and powerful information, this process eventually uncovers even more awesome unanswered questions. Such is the case with what we've discovered in the name of science, best exemplified by the patterns of attraction and connectivity between very tiny, atom, as well as very large, planet, objects, which mathematics helps us explain so well that we are constantly inventing new technological gadgets based upon this new information.]]></description>
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<title>The Ambiguities of Love</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:26:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For believers in God, love is immortality, the perfect happiness of heaven, or the perpetual renewal of life in reincarnation.  Thus for the vast majority of human history, love has been perceived to be an attribute of God. Thus it could be said that in traditional religion we worship idealized intimacy; while in humanism we try and implement it.]]></description>
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<title>Ambivalence - The Supernova of Psychic Evolution</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:34:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We humans are uniquely fortunate that ambivalence pervades everything we experience, think, feel and intuit, or we wouldn't have gotten as far as we have.  Though you wouldn't know it from the way we feel about ambivalence.  We hate and mistrust it.  For centuries we've been trying to do away with it by denying, and as much as possible, obliterating its presence from our consciousness.  We've worked very hard to achieve an alternative, that for thousands of years we've considered to be nothing less than heavenly: i.e. single-mindedness without complication or contradiction.]]></description>
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<title>Secrets Undermine Freedom</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:46:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is one aspect of government, whether a living god, king or our democracy, which has never changed through the centuries of human experience. That the most important, disturbing events, intentions, secret ops etc. are treated as top security. Where justification for this concealment is needed, the usual excuse is for "national security".]]></description>
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<title>Is Objectivity All it Claims to Be?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:49:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Though we are aware of all the changes that have taken place in the last hundred years - computer-driven technology expanding our understanding of nature and the universe - we still think about these innovations in the old ways. We thus have very new experiences, but lack creative metaphors to describe them. We pay some people a lot of money to come up with new ones, but the ones they come up with are all based upon old assumptions of meaning.]]></description>
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<title>The Love Predator</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:01:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every living thing predates, which simply means life eats to stay alive, both materially and, for humans, emotionally.  Though some say all life feels.]]></description>
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<title>Speaking As a Psychotherapist 2 - Secular Spirituality</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:45:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a psychotherapist for 35 years I've come to regard my work as not only emotionally stimulating and evocative, but also very deeply spiritual.  This is a secular spirituality that doesn't partake of any magic, otherworldly power or traditional religions.  It derives instead from the mystical potential of being human.]]></description>
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<title>Psychotherapist - A New Kind of Person</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:27:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When something new happens, it must instantly begin to grapple with what used to be.  The new only very gradually replaces the old, and with a lot of struggling.  So it is with being a psychotherapist, liberally confused with a number of social roles, including parent, friend, lover and doctor-all of which contribute pieces to a psychotherapist's identity, but cannot by themselves, represent it.  As with all new things, we must discover what and who it is.]]></description>
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<title>Speaking As a Psychotherapist</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:20:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Speaking as a psychotherapist, it isn't our grownup loved ones who sometimes drive us crazy - as we like to pretend.  Grownup lovers never hurt each other very deeply, meaning the kind of hurt that won't go away, that haunts and torments us, that makes us alcoholics, or motivates our sexual affairs to have what we can't get at home, to which we feel entitled. And yet we blame adult loving for all of these painful emotional experiences.]]></description>
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<title>Being Old - Or Pretending</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:14:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When we get to 70 years, we're old. In our 80's the majority of us die. When we get to 90 we're cheating the odds. When we get as ancient as 100 we've successfully given the finger to fate ... at least for as long as life continues to last. Our only regret is that our grandchildren may live to be 120. It didn't happen in time for us ... our usual lament is when we watch young people having it better.]]></description>
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<title>Is There No Psychic Evolution?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:20:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We are almost completely unaware of the evolution of psychic function. We believe that people of ancient times were exactly like us, as if conscious human nature was born, like Paul Bunyan, in it's present form, without any need for psychic leaps of understanding-perhaps most of which haven't happened yet. Whether as archeologists, historians, sociologists, or anyone studying ancient times, we draw conclusions about motive and state of mind based upon present-time human consciousness, assuming that psychically we always have been like we are today, and always will be exactly the same.]]></description>
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<title>Thinking &amp; Feeling - Squabbling Siblings</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:28:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Human nature is comprised of a large brain that wants the Big Picture always to be visible, while a feeling animal wants the now to be safe and significant ... no matter what the Big Picture says or does.  This still unresolved dilemma, in which feeling and thinking compete for dominance far more than they cooperate, is why the human species remains unstable in some basic ways.]]></description>
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<title>How We Think Matters Very Much</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:43:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ideas are a dime a dozen.  To be useful for more than speculation, they need lots of company to form a matrix of sense that has power.  In science we call it mathematics, pattern.]]></description>
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<title>How Well Do We Really Understand Children?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:58:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Though we are deeply reluctant, and very afraid to acknowledge it, the human family-in its present form-is gradually losing its hegemony as the quintessential form of human society, worthy of our deepest affection and support.  The villain in this change of perspective is psychotherapy, which has discovered that family produces as many problems as it solves and cares for.  And we still haven't gotten to the bottom of the barrel of the perfidy that families commit and conceal-not out of villainy, instead out of ignorance and old habits.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;To Thine Own Self Be True&quot; - Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:05:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Polonius' speech in Shakespeare's Hamlet will always encourage and inspire us.  But it has taken on special meaning in this second century of psychotherapy-which, at its best, is the study of, and the facilitation of individuality.  Revealing what a huge piece of the educational pie, discovering the psychology of the learning person, will eventually become the core aspect of all levels of education beginning with birth.]]></description>
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<title>Do We Serve Ourselves Best by Helping Others?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:33:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A resounding no!  Serving our own destiny first by being the most and best that we can be will render us far more valuable to the welfare of others.]]></description>
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<title>Grief, Loss &amp; Change</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:45:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To suggest that the death of a loved one and change have anything in common seems surprising, and perhaps even outrageous.  We dread the one, and at least sometimes want the other, so they must be opposite.  And yet they are one-and-the-same thing, part-and parcel as all emotional opposites are such as love and hate.]]></description>
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<title>The Advantages of Not Knowing How to Think</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:14:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For as long as we've known how to read, and invented fiction, we've been fascinated by mystery, particularly crime mysteries. One of the most basic features about reading or watching them is that we don't know how to think about what's going on. Indeed that's the point of a mystery, whether it's about crime or simply the unresolved features of any story.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;Mental Illness&quot; is a Fraud</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 08:53:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[				  	"Mental Illness" is a false concept designed to conceal from most of us that we all have aspects, more of less, of psychic dysfunction. It stands to reason. Our species is still evolving, and we are very imperfectly formed, still in large ways maladapted to each other, and to our environment.]]></description>
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<title>Nature Vs Ownership</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:27:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Environmentalism is dragging us into a headlong collision with the human passion for ownership.  What was necessary at one time, as an act of acquisition for security and safety reasons, is fast becoming a license to destroy planet-essential habitats like the Amazon rainforest.]]></description>
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<title>The Rich Create Depressions</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 11:11:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Excessive wealth inevitably produces periodic Depression. When adversity strikes the economy, the essential resources that are needed to overcome it, are secreted away in safe foreign places, forcing the poor to overcome the abandonment of the rich.]]></description>
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<title>Shared Responsibility Vs Victim-Villain</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:24:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In any human event, every participant is responsible for the outcome. Responsibility varies from one person to another at any given moment-sometimes to a large degree. But overall, in the course of that event and its aftermath, responsibility exists in much more balanced proportions than we care to acknowledge.]]></description>
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<title>Guilt, Violence &amp; Money</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:23:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Guilt is the glue that holds society together. It's how we hold each other accountable, by prohibitions, laws, inhibitions, judgments, and punishments. It's all very familiar and historical.]]></description>
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<title>Truth is Fiction</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:37:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Until approximately 500 years ago religion possessed almost sole proprietorship of truth making.  Now science has that power.  Though the two authorities still duke it out claiming priority.]]></description>
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<title>Music &amp; Memory</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:37:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Like particular odors certain music triggers memory, marking special moments and their moods, conjuring vivid familiarity, making the past instantly present, reassuring us that this unique memory would always be there, something permanent to rely upon as long as we are alive. Like the first time I heard a professionally recorded version of the second song that I ever wrote at age 65, never imagining before that I could do this, certain that the second song would sound as bad as the first one. It wasn't.]]></description>
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<title>Fear Created God</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:09:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fear is a daunting, intimidating emotional experience. It grabs us, it seems, with a will of its own, utterly mesmerizing us in a negative way, filling us with its alarm and dire warnings. Fear is most often perceived as an ominous, externally-sourced presence, that suddenly takes over everything else that might be happening, making us completely lose track of our own thoughts, feelings and willfulness, propelling us with its own purpose. It's an experience of possession by forces much greater than our selves-the ultimate emotional model of domination.]]></description>
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<title>Libraries Were My Inspiration</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:02:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Of libraries I'm a devoted fan. Ever since I was seven years old libraries have been the tits upon which my mind has suckled voraciously for information. Libraries were the original Internet where you could find almost anything, offering liberation from the conventional attitudes and ideas of your own time and place.]]></description>
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<title>What's Science Fiction?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:24:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Science fiction defies categorization as it contains a huge gathering of disparate forms of fiction including horror, futuristic, magic, fantasy and a profusion of more demonic monsters than the Middle Ages ever imagined in its preoccupation with hellfire and damnation.      Interest in the future is always partly fear-based-the unknown, the mysterious and 'what's-to-come'.]]></description>
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<title>The Menace</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:25:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[She smelled menace in the air. It wasn't so much an odor, but a sixth sense that something evil lurked ahead.]]></description>
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<title>What's War?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:51:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[War is a romanticized version of adversity, where, no matter what's happening, or who is affected, we get our own way entirely.  Adversity is functional, not personal.]]></description>
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<title>Diary of a Nomad</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:28:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It was the year 2507. Humanity had become relatively civilized. Life was easy, except the more intangible parts of it.]]></description>
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<title>Is Hallucination Normal?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:09:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Is hallucination a normal part of human evolution?  Did we all once hallucinate?  The brain is built to do so.  ]]></description>
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