Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

Society constantly expends its efforts to correct effects instead of causes, which is one reason why the evolution of human consciousness proceeds so slowly.

All levels below 200 are destructive of life in both the individual and society at large; in contrast, all levels above 200 are constructive expressions of power.

By taking responsibility for the consequences of their own perceptions, observers can transcend the role of victim to an understanding that “nothing out there has power over you.” It is not life’s events, but how one reacts to them and the attitude that one has about them, which determine whether the events have a positive or negative effect on one

The key to Joy is unconditional kindness to all of life, including one’s own, which we refer to as compassion.1 Without compassion, little of any significance is ever accomplished in human endeavor. We may generalize to the greater social context from individual therapies, wherein patients cannot be truly cured or fundamentally healed until they in

There are no actual causes within the observable world. As we shall demonstrate, the observable world is a world of effects.