Sublime

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

In other words, there is a network in the brain devoted to inner experience, and a network devoted to exterior experience, and usually activation in one is associated with reduced activation in the other. Typically, being lost in your interiority means being less attuned to exterior experience, and vice versa. But during non-dual experience, when y

La vie n’est que ce que nous en pensons, et nos vies sont les créations de nos esprits. Mais ces idées sont inutiles si elles ne sont pas accompagnées d’une théorie du moi divisé (comme celle du cornac et de l’éléphant) et d’une compréhension du biais de négativité et du style affectif. Une fois que vous savez pourquoi le changement est si difficil

Hillman, J. (1995). A Psyche the Size of Earth. In T. Roszak, M. Gomes, A. Kanner (eds.), Ecopsychology:

Such microfocus is the work of mainly the left hemisphere of the brain, responsible for linear, reductive thinking (vis-à-vis the right, which is responsible for intuitive, creative and holistic thinking). Social systems that encourage left-brain thinking therefore develop a culture of reductive, narrow-focused specialisation. According to psychiat

Among the most important stories we know are stories about ourselves, and these “life narratives” are McAdams’s third level of personality. McAdams’s greatest contribution to psychology has been his insistence that psychologists connect their quantitative data (about the two lower levels, which we assess with questionnaires and reaction-time measur

he’s a phenomenologist,