Who is Alan Watts?
- Ancient drugs - History Channel
- Ram Das/ Love Serve Remember Foundation/ podcasts, videos about love
- Hallucinogenic Drugs and Plants in Psychotherapy and Shamanism by Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.*
- Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman (2009) [Full Documentary]
- Outer travels, inner journery's retreat
- TaylorMarie's Youtube channel (Ayahuasca & DMT diary)
- Where and what is Sachamama Jardin/Don Francisco Montes Shuna
- Ayurveda wisdom of life - A comprehensive Ayurveda portal
- Tridosha's Doshas in Ayurvedic Medicine
- Acacia plant
- What is TheVineCenter and Spirit Vine?
- Who is Moojiji?
Reiki
Polarity Therapy
- Polarity Therapy @ Health Services - "The energy flows through energy centers that are based on the Ayurvedic chakras and the Traditional Chinese Medicine principle of yin and yang.The Human Energy Field is affected by diet, touch, exercise, relationships and life experience. Polarity Therapists are trained to balance these effects through bodywork, yoga exercises, counseling and nutritional advice."
- The Benefits of Polarity Therapy and Energy Balancing @ About - "Polarity therapy is based on the idea that there are three types of energy fields in the body:long-line currents that run north to south in the body. transverse currents that run east-west in the body. Spiral currents that start at the navel and expand outward"
- @Medical Dictionary - "Polarity therapy is a holistic, energy-based system that includes bodywork, diet, exercise, and lifestyle counseling for the purpose of restoring and maintaining proper energy flows throughout the body. The underlying concept of polarity therapy is that all energy within the human body is based in electromagnetic force and that disease results from improperly dissipated energy."
crystal healing
Includes: Ontology
About/ info
Metapsychiatry
- Applied Metapsychology @ TIRA - ""Meta" means "beyond". The term metapsychology, coined by Freud, has been defined by Frank A. Gerbode, M.D. as follows "The science that unifies mental and physical experience. Its purpose is to discover the rules that apply to both. It is a study of the person, his/her abilities, and experience, as seen from his/her own point of view. It goes beyond the study of behavior to the study of that which behaves, the person him or herself, and the person's perceptual, conceptual, and creative activity.""
- Definitions @ Spiritualist Resources
- "Metapsychiatry is the name given to a spiritual teaching and form of psychotherapy developed by psychiatrist Thomas Hora, M.D. Thomas Hora (1914–1995) in the second half of the 20th century.At once eclectic and unique in its entirety, borrowing as it does from Judeo-Christian, Zen Buddhist, and Taoist religious traditions, along with theistic existentialist philosophy and phenomenology, it is characterized and perhaps distinguished by its unusually clear and precise definitions of psychological terms and conditions, and what it calls “spiritual reality.”Its iconoclastic style and world-view originate with its assertion that “the meaning and purpose of life are to come to know reality.” It defines Reality as the underlying benevolent intentionality of the universe; also as “God” or “Love-Intelligence” or “Infinite Mind.”" - Wikipedia
- "•Gratitude is the door to joy; seriousness is a killjoy.•Our thoughts, values and beliefs determine the quality of our life experiences.•Suffering comes from wanting and not wanting. •God is a principle of infinite Love-Intelligence, available to us at all times, whether we know it or not. •Love is non-personal, non-conditional benevolence (good will). •The presence of PAGL (Peace, Assurance, Gratitude, Love) is a criterion by which we can know, in advance, whether or not we are heading in the right direction when making choices and decisions." - PAGL (dot) org
- PAGL (Peace. Assurance. Gratitutde.Love) (dot) com - "PAGL is an acronym for peace, assurance, gratitude and love. The awareness of PAGL exists in a pure and perfect consciousness.The PAGL Principle, or Principle of Existential Validation, is as follows: if an idea, concept, principle or value is true, i.e., if it is in harmony with Reality, the fundamental order of existence, it will validate itself in two ways – there will be a sense of peace, assurance, gratitude and love (PAGL) in consciousness – it will bear “good fruit” and be the perfect solution to the situation or issue. It will liberate from confusion, heal problems, harmonize situations, uplift and inspire."
- In Quest of Wholeness by Thomas Hora M.D
- Who am I? What is the Purpose of My Life?: Metapsychiatry (dot) com
- Dr. Nancy Rosanoff hosting The Listening Place with Ruth Robins, a leading expert in Metapsychiatry.
- Thomas Hora (January 25, 1914 - October 30, 1995) is considered the founder of the discipline of metapsychiatry, an attempt to integrate principles from metaphysics, spirituality, and psychology." - Wikipedia
PRIMARY/SECONDARY QUALITY DISTINCTION
- @Wikipedia - “The primary/secondary quality distinction is a conceptual distinction in epistemology and metaphysics, concerning the nature of reality. It is most explicitly articulated by John Locke in his Essay concerning Human Understanding, but earlier thinkers such as Galileo and Descartes made similar distinctions.Primary qualities are thought to be properties of objects that are independent of any observer, such as solidity, extension, motion, number and figure. These characteristics convey facts. They exist in the thing itself, can be determined with certainty, and do not rely on subjective judgments. For example, if a ball is spherical, no one can reasonably argue that it is triangular.Secondary qualities are thought to be properties that produce sensations in observers, such as color, taste, smell, and sound. They can be described as the effect things have on certain people. Knowledge that comes from secondary qualities does not provide objective facts about things.Primary qualities are measurable aspects of physical reality. Secondary qualities are subjective.”
- SparkNotes: Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Book II, chapter viii: Primary and Secondary Qualities - “The best way to understand the distinction between primary and secondary qualities is in terms of explanation. Whenever you have the sensation of a square book the cause of that sensation is some sort of shape out in the world (though not necessarily squareness, since there may be some optical illusion, because distance, for instance, forcing you to perceive the shape incorrectly), so the explanation for sensation of shape is shape in the external world. Whenever you have a sensation of blue, on the other hand, the cause is not blueness out in the world. The cause is some specific arrangement of the insensible parts of matter. Explanations for secondary qualities refer only to primary qualities.”
- Primary-secondary quality distinction - “Primary qualities are measurable aspects of physical reality. Secondary qualities are subjective.”
- Locke's Primary/Secondary Quality distinction by Cara Johnson on Prezi
- Locke on Primary and Secondary Qualities
- John Locke on the resemblance theses and the primary -secondary quality distinction :: University of Southern California Dissertations and Theses
- John Locke's Primary and Secondary Qualities uploaded by Philosophy Vibe
- Primary and Secondary Qualities @ earlymodernproblems - “Some qualities of our sensory experience seem subject dependent, such as the color or size of an object's appearance. However, other qualities of our sensory experiences seem independent of our experiences, such as the fact that an object is spatial or shaped. This is the basic assumption of what many Early Modern Philosophers appealed to when trying to ground the real existence of the causes of our sensory experiences. “
Nominalism
- Nominalism - By Branch / Doctrine - The Basics of Philosophy - “Nominalism is the doctrine that abstract concepts, general terms or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names. Therefore, various objects labelled by the same term have nothing in common but their name. Put another way, only actual physical particulars are real, and universals exist only subsequent to particular things, being just verbal abstractions.”
- Nominalism @ New World Encyclopedia - “Nominalism is the philosophical view that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names. It also claims that various individual objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name. In this view, it is only actual physical particulars that can be said to be real, and universals exist only post res, that is, subsequent to particular things...Nominalism maintains that only individual things exist, arguing that the problem of universals can be handled only by properly thinking about individual things with respect to their natures and relations. Depending on how to think about individual things, there are various forms of nominalism ranging from extreme to almost-realist.”
- nominalism – We Love Philosophy
- @ RIT..EDU - “Nominalism solves the problem of many things being green by giving a name to certain objects that resemble one another. An object such as a table, which can be seen in more than one place, is given the name "table" to represent a group of objects. The main concept to remember when dealing with nominalism is that there are no universal concepts outside the mind, as is assumed to be true for realism.”
- Nominalism @ Britannica.com “Nominalism denied the real being of universals on the ground that the use of a general word (e.g., “humanity”) does not imply the existence of a general thing named by it. The nominalist position did not necessarily deny, however, that there must be some similarity between the particular things to which the general word is applied. “
- nominalism - definition and meaning @ Word Nik
- Nominalism in Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - “ In one sense, its most traditional sense deriving from the Middle Ages, it implies the rejection of universals. In another, more modern but equally entrenched sense, it implies the rejection of abstract objects. ...Thus Nominalism, in both senses, is a kind of anti-realism. For one kind of Nominalism denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of universals and the other denies the existence, and therefore the reality, of abstract objects. But what does Nominalism claim with respect to the entities alleged by some to be universals or abstract objects, e.g. properties, numbers, propositions, possible worlds? Here there are two general options: (a) to deny the existence of the alleged entities in question, and (b) to accept the existence of these entities but to argue that they are particular or concrete.”
- "Nominalism, in philosophy, position taken in the dispute over universals—words that can be applied to individual things having something in common—that flourished especially in late medieval times. Nominalism denied the real being of universals on the ground that the use of a general word (e.g., “humanity”) does not imply the existence of a general thing named by it. The nominalist position did not necessarily deny, however, that there must be some similarity between the particular things to which the general word is applied. Thoroughgoing nominalists would withhold this concession, as Roscelin, a medieval nominalist, is said to have done. But unless such similarity is granted, the application of general words to particulars is made to appear entirely arbitrary. Such stricter forms of nominalism as existed in the Middle Ages can perhaps be viewed as reactions against Platonic realism, on which some enthusiasts, such as Guillaume de Champeaux, based the opinion that universals had real being. The realist position invited a defensive alliance between empiricism and nominalism; the most notable medieval example of such a synthesis was the work of William of Ockham." - Nominalism @ Encyclopedia Brittanica
Determinism
- Determinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Determinism
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- Determinism | Determinism Definition by Merriam-Webster
- determinism | philosophy | Britannica.com
- Determinism
- Determinism | Define Determinism at Dictionary.com
- The Great Debate: Determinism and Free Will
- Determinism - By Branch / Doctrine - The Basics of Philosophy
FREE WILL IDEOLOGY
- Free Will: Sam Harris
- @ R.E.P
- How Physics and Neuroscience Dictate Your "Free" Will - Scientific American
- Scientists say free will probably doesn't exist, but urge: "Don't stop believing!" - Scientific American Blog Network
- "Free Will"
- Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will : Nature News
- Do We Have Free Will? - Philosophy Tube - YouTube
- The Good Will « Kant's philosophy
- Free Will | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Free Will (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of Will
- Will (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Predeterminism
- @Wikipedia - “Predeterminism is the idea that all events are determined in advance.[1][2] Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.”
- predeterminism @ Socratic Society - “Predeterminism is the idea that we can have no effect on the events occurring around us. It means, no matter what we try to do, the same predetermined events will happen....”
- Predeterminism @ Liberapedia - “Pre determinism also means that all events have to take a pre-set course and nothing is due to chance.”
- Pre-Determinism @ Information Philosopher - “Pre-determinism implies that all the information in the universe today was implicit in the earliest moments of the universe. It is information conserving. It is consistent with the theological idea of God's foreknowledge.”
Fatalism
- Determinism vs. Fatalism | Naturalism.org - “The fatalist position is that "if I do not have free will, then my life is totally determined by the outside world, therefore my beliefs and desires have no effect on the outside world, and therefore no matter what I do the same things will happen to me.’”
- Fatalism @ Information Philosopher - “Fatalism does not imply any necessary regularity according to law. Events can be quite arbitrary.”
- The Implications of Fatalism - “ Fatalism is a belief that events are determined by fate. Fatalism is a belief that we have to accept the outcome of events, and that we cannot do anything that will change the outcome, because events are determined by something over which we have no control.”
- meaning - Difference between ‘determinism’ and ‘fatalism’ - Philosophy Stack Exchange
- @Vocabulary - “You can see and hear the word "fate" in the word fatalism. It means "destiny" — the notion that all things are meant to be and that there is nothing you can do to change them.”
- Fatalism @ PhilPapers - “According to fatalists, our actions are not merely determined but fated. If our actions are determined, then it is in some sense already settled how we will decide to act; if our actions are fated, then what we will do is already settled regardless of how we will decide.”
- @Wikipedia - “The view that we are powerless to do anything other than what we actually do.[1] Included in this is that man has no power to influence the future, or indeed, his own actions.[2] This belief is very similar to predeterminism.An attitude of resignation in the face of some future event or events which are thought to be inevitable. Friedrich Nietzsche named this idea with "Turkish fatalism" in his book The Wanderer and His Shadow.That acceptance is appropriate, rather than resistance against inevitability. This belief is very similar to defeatism.
VOLITION
- "Volition or will is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action. It is defined as purposive striving and is one of the primary human psychological functions. Others include affection (affect or feeling), motivation (goals and expectations), and cognition (thinking). Volitional processes can be applied consciously or they can be automatized as habits over time." - Wikipedia
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Wundt (1897) Section 14 - "A volitional process is thus related to an emotion as a process of a higher stage, in the same way that an emotion is related to a feeling. Volitional act is the name of only one part of the process, that part which distinguishes a volition from an emotion. The way to the development of volitions out of emotions is prepared by those emotions in connection with which external pantomimetic movements (p. 173) appear. These movements appear chiefly at the end of the process and generally hasten its completion; this is especially true of anger, but to some extent also of joy, care, etc. Still, in these mere emotions, the changes in the train of ideas which are the immediate causes of the momentary completion of the emotion in volitions and also the characteristic feelings attending these changes, are all wanting."
- UZH - Psychology of Motivation, Volition, and Emotion - Motivation Psychology
- Going Beyond Motivation to the Power of Volition - "It’s a higher attainment than mere motivation. Motivation is the desire to do something; volition is the absolute commitment to achieving something. To activate their willpower, individuals must pass a mental barrier, a personal Rubicon."
- What is VOLITION? definition of VOLITION (Psychology Dictionary) - "he faculty by which a person decides on and dedicates their self to a specific path of action, specifically whenever this takes place in lieu of direct outside feedback. "
- Why Volition Is a Foundation Problem for Psychology - "Since the advent of behaviorism the question of volition or "will" has been largely neglected. We consider evidence indicating that two identical behaviors may be quite distinct with respect to volition: For instance, with practice the details of predictable actions become less and less voluntary, even if the behavior itself does not visibly change. Likewise, people can voluntarily imitate involuntary slips they have just made. Such examples suggest that the concept of volition applies not to visible behavior per se, but to the control system that guides behavior. Involuntary events include both automatisms (which do not violate one′s intentions) and counter voluntary actions such as slips (which do). An adequate theory of voluntary control must account for the entire set of such pairs of voluntary/involuntary contrasts"
- Volition definition | Psychology Glossary | alleydog.com - "Volition refers to a person taking action as a result of their own choice or desire. For instance, someone might state that they "made a choice" of their own volition."
- The Will in Modern Psychology - The Will Project - "the fixing of attention on relatively distant goals and relatively abstract standards and principles of conduct; the weighing of alternative courses of action and the taking of deliberate action that seems best calculated to serve specific goals and principles;the inhibition of impulses and habits that might distract attention from, or otherwise conflict with, a goal or principle;perseverance against obstacles and frustrations in pursuit of goals or adherence to principles."
- The psychology of volition - "Volition can be studied from two perspectives. From the third-person view, volitional behaviour is internally generated, rather than being determined by the immediate environmental context, and is therefore, to some extent, unpredictable. Such behaviour is not unique to humans, since it is seen in many other species including invertebrates."
Temporal parts
- Temporal Parts @ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - “The two most popular accounts of persistence are perdurance theory (perdurantism) and endurance theory (endurantism). Perdurantists believe that ordinary things like animals, boats and planets have temporal parts (things persist by ‘perduring’). Endurantists believe that ordinary things do not have temporal parts; instead, things are wholly present whenever they exist (things persist by ‘enduring’). “
- Temporal parts uploaded by WikiAudio
- @Wikipedia - “In contemporary metaphysics, temporal parts are the parts of an object that exist in time. A temporal part would be something like "the first year of a person's life", or "all of a table from between 10:00 a.m. on June 21, 1994 to 11:00 p.m. on July 23, 1996". The term is used in the debate over the persistence of material objects. Objects typically have parts that exist in space—a human body, for example, has spatial parts like hands, feet, and legs. Some metaphysicians believe objects have temporal parts as well.”
- Temporal Parts (Four-Dimensionalism) @ Parableman - “The temporal parts view is sometimes called four-dimensionalism, because it takes persisting objects to be spread out across time rather than being wholly present at a time. The three-dimensionalist view takes me to be fully present at every moment of my existence. It's not as if there are parts of me at past and future times, with just some small part of me here right now. I'm fully present at this moment. I was fully present at each past moment of my existence, and I will be fully present at each future moment of my existence. Three-dimensionalists call this kind of persistence through time endurance.Four-dimensionalism, on the other hand, takes us to be spread out across time, and at each moment it's only the part of me at that time that's present. “
Container space
Extension (metaphysics)
Simulated reality
- @Wikipedia - “Simulated reality is the hypothesis that reality could be simulated—for example by computer simulation—to a degree indistinguishable from "true" reality. It could contain conscious minds which may or may not be fully aware that they are living inside a simulation. This is quite different from the current, technologically achievable concept of virtual reality. Virtual reality is easily distinguished from the experience of actuality; participants are never in doubt about the nature of what they experience. Simulated reality, by contrast, would be hard or impossible to separate from "true" reality. There has been much debate over this topic, ranging from philosophical discourse to practical applications in computing.”
- Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? - The Nature of Reality — The Nature of Reality | PBS - “ The total number of “simulated minds” will be a multiple of the “real minds” of the humans that existed before they reached posthuman status. This multiple will be the average number of simulations run by the society (although this argument doesn’t rule out multiple human-like societies existing, if you’re a fan of the somewhat-similar Drake equation). So if you divide both the numerator and denominator by the number of “real minds” (even though we have no idea what that number is), you reach the following:Probability you are a simulated min = number of simulation / number of simulations +1”
- Are We Living in a Simulated Reality? | Wake Up World - “Actually, if we are living in a simulated reality, it explains many quantum quandaries about the universe and the nature of reality. For instance, many scientific experiments have concluded that reality only exists when it is observed, and, therefore, when there is no observer, there is no reality. There is also something called quantum entanglement where two entangled particles are separated but they still instantaneously communicate with one another, regardless of distance and even faster than the speed of light.However, when pointing out quantum quandaries, we cannot forget about atoms. Atoms are the building blocks of literally everything, yet they are 99.9% empty space, and in fact, there is so little matter in our reality that the entire world could be condensed into a golf ball with plenty of room leftover for another planet or two.
- Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? @ Scientific American - “And there are other reasons to think we might be virtual. For instance, the more we learn about the universe, the more it appears to be based on mathematical laws. Perhaps that is not a given, but a function of the nature of the universe we are living in. “If I were a character in a computer game, I would also discover eventually that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical,” said Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).’That just reflects the computer code in which it was written.’”
- @Rational Wiki - The simulated reality hypothesis holds that what we perceive to be reality is actually an artificial simulation, such as an extended hallucination or an elaborate computer program. Although the concept has a basis in philosophy, it is more often explored in science fiction, perhaps most famously in The Matrix.
Being
Becoming (philosophy)
- Becoming; The Concept Where Science and Philosophy Can Meet Josephina Burgos, PCC Forum uploaded by ArchetypalView
- @Wikipedia - ”In philosophy, the concept of becoming originated in eastern ancient Greece with the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who in the sixth century BC, said that nothing in this world is constant except change and becoming. His theory stands in direct contrast to Parmenides, a Greek philosopher from the italic Magna Grecia, who believed that the ontic changes or "becoming" we perceive with our senses is deceptive, and that there is a pure perfect and eternal being behind nature, which is the ultimate truth. In philosophy, the word "becoming" concerns a specific ontological concept which should not be confused with process philosophy as a whole or with the related study of process theology.”
- Being and Becoming @ Philosophy Now - “Husserl appeals to the higher foundation of transcendental reflection, Heidegger to the lower ground of an ontological analysis of being. So it is that the basic structures of Heidegger’s Being and Time take the form of an inversion of Husserl’s own analyses. The being-out-of-the-world of Husserl’s transcendental ego becomes the being-in-the-world of Heidegger’s Dasein; Husserl’s time of inner time consciousness becomes Heidegger’s existential time; transcendental aloneness becomes being-with.Right away, a new possibility springs to mind – that of linking and connecting the three levels in an ordered sequence. Starting from the bottom, with an ontological investigation of the nature of experience prior to self-reflection, we can proceed through the middle ground characterized by science and common sense, before concluding with the higher transcendental sphere capable of reflecting upon the conditions of the possibility of the two lower levels of consciousness. I call this a genetic investigation into phenomenology, because it involves analysing the processes that give birth to experience.”
- From Being to Becoming...... @ Psychology Today - “A more evolving consideration identifies core features and characteristics of our personality, yet sees them as a creative work, always adapting and evolving to new and higher levels. Our predominating worldview informs our sense of self---and others.The process of becoming is forgiving. In the flow of becoming we are no longer rooted in the hardship of fear, insecurity or the notions of mistakes. The fuller participation in our unfolding life assists us in the art of living well. Becoming is open and unlimited, being is structured and limiting.”
Causa sui
- @Wikipedia - “...meaning "cause of itself" in Latin) denotes something which is generated within itself.”
- @Urban Dictionary - “The (problematic) property possessed only by God, of being his own cause, i.e. independent of any other ground, yet containing within himself a sufficient explanation of his own being.”
- Dictionary of Philosophy @ DiText - “Since existence necessarily follows from the very essence of that which is cause of itself, causa sui is defined as that whose nature cannot be conceived as not existing (Spinoza). -- A.G.A.B.”
- Causa Sui @ Information Philosopher - “Causa sui is the Latin name for a self-caused cause, one that is not the result of prior events.”
Externalism
- Externalism @ The Basics of Philosophy - “Some Externalists holds that to count as knowing something, one must also be suitably related in some way to the thing or fact in question, for example, causally related.”
- Externalism and Self-Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - “Externalism in the philosophy of mind contends that the meaning or content of a thought is partly determined by the environment.”
- @Wikipedia - “Externalism is a group of positions in the philosophy of mind which argues that the conscious mind is not only the result of what is going on inside the nervous system (or the brain), but also what occurs or exists outside the subject. It is contrasted with internalism which holds that the mind emerges from neural activity alone. Externalism is a belief that the mind is not just the brain or functions of the brain.”
- Externalism About Mental Content @ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - “Many of our mental states such as beliefs and desires are intentional mental states, or mental states with content. Externalism with regard to mental content says that in order to have certain types of intentional mental states (e.g. beliefs), it is necessary to be related to the environment in the right way. Internalism (or individualism) denies this, and it affirms that having those intentional mental states depends solely on our intrinsic properties. “
Energeticism
- @Wikipedia - “Energeticism is the ontology, or philosophy of being, which holds that all things are ultimately composed of energy.”
- Energeticism @ Oxford Reference - “The physical view that energy is the fundamental element in all physical change.”
Existence & Dasein
- @Wikipedia - “Dasein (German pronunciation: [ˈdaːzaɪn]) is a German word that means "being there" or "presence" (German: da "there"; sein "being"), and is often translated into English with the word "existence". It is a fundamental concept in the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger, particularly in his magnum opus Being and Time. Heidegger uses the expression Dasein to refer to the experience of being that is peculiar to human beings. Thus it is a form of being that is aware of and must confront such issues as personhood, mortality and the dilemma or paradox of living in relationship with other humans while being ultimately alone with oneself.”
- Who and What is Dasein? @ Minds and Brains - “For Heidegger, Dasein is an entity with a special mode of being. A human being is this entity and it is human beings in general who enjoy this singular kind of being, which can be referred to as Existenz, or existence. It is a general motif for Heidegger that human existence is existential in contrast to existentiell. The latter connotes a third person perspective of objectivity (ontic) whereas the former is in terms of a first person perspective of lived experience (ontological).”
- Glossary of Terms in Heidegger's Being and Time
PERDURANTISM
- Perdurantism uploaded by Audiopedia
- Perdurantism dictionary definition @ perdurantism defined
- @Wikipedia - “Perdurantism or perdurance theory is a philosophical theory of persistence and identity.[1] The perdurantist view is that an individual has distinct temporal parts throughout its existence. Perdurantism is usually presented as the antipode to endurantism, the view that an individual is wholly present at every moment of its existence.”
Endurantism
- @Wikipedia - " According to the endurantist view material objects are persisting three-dimensional individuals wholly present at every moment of their existence. This conception of an individual as always present, is opposed to perdurantism or four dimensionalism which maintains that an object is a series of temporal parts or stages. The use of "endure" and "perdure" to distinguish two ways in which an object can be thought to persist can be traced to David Lewis."
Coleridge's theory of life
Haecceity
- Haecceity @Vocabulary - “The haecceity of something refers to the quality that makes it what it is: its essence. Haecceity is what makes a dog a dog or a fork a fork.”
- @Edge.org - “Haecceity also explains why you can gradually replace every atom in an object so that it not longer contains any of the original material and yet psychologically, we consider it to be the same object”
- @Wikipedia - “Whereas haecceity refers to aspects of a thing that make it a particular thing, quiddity refers to the universal qualities of a thing, its "whatness", or the aspects of a thing it may share with other things and by which it may form part of a genus of things”
- Haecceity @ alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary - “Meaning: 1. That essence of an individual that distinguishes it from all other similar individuals, the "here-and-nowness" of a thing. 2. One of the properties that makes up our haecceity.”
- Medieval Theories of Haecceity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
immaterialism & Subjective idealism
Subjective Idealism
- What is SUBJECTIVE IDEALISM? What does SUBJECTIVE IDEALISM mean? SUBJECTIVE IDEALISM meaning uploaded by Audiopedia
- George Berkeley: Subjective Idealism uploaded by The Rugged Pyrrhus
- Subjective Idealism @ Liquisearch - “Subjective idealism thus identifies its mental reality with the world of ordinary experience, rather than appealing to the unitary world-spirit of pantheism or absolute idealism.”
- Philosophical Thoughts: A very brief introduction to subjective idealism. - “The answer is that Berkeley held that when I see something I am participating in God's conception of the world. Our various perceptual experiences -- vision, sounds, smell, tastes, sense of touch --is a result of God directly conveying to us his conception. Our perceptual experiences of the external world are a direct communication with God.”
- @Wikipedia - “Subjective idealism, or empirical idealism, is the monistic metaphysical doctrine that only minds and mental contents exist. It entails and is generally identified or associated with immaterialism, the doctrine that material things do not exist. Subjective idealism rejects dualism, neutral monism, and materialism; indeed, it is the contrary of eliminative materialism, the doctrine that only material things, and no mental things, exist.”
- Idealism - By Branch / Doctrine - The Basics of Philosophy - “He argued that if he or another person saw a table, for example, then that table existed; however, if no one saw the table, then it could only continue to exist if it was in the mind of God.”
- Subjective idealism @ Psychology Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia - “[Paul Brunton] stated that an object such as a tree, is percieved by the brain, and is turned into a mental image that is separate of the brain's processes.”
- subjective idealism @ Britannica.com- “A person experiences material things, but their existence is not independent of the perceiving mind;material things are thus mere perceptions."
- Subjective idealism @ New World Encyclopedia - “Subjective idealism is a philosophical view based on the idea that nothing exists except through a perceiving mind. In this view, the natural world has no real existence as such. It only exists in the mind of those who perceive it and ultimately in the mind of God...”
- Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: Berkeley’s Idealism: A Critique @ Social Democracy - “George Berkeley’s (1685–1753) philosophy of subjective idealism (which he called “immaterialism”) has two bold and fundamental assertions about reality:Proposition (1): that the only things that exist are (i) minds and (ii) objects of perception (ideas), and Proposition (2): the objects of perception only exist at the same time when they are perceived by a mind (Stoneham 2009: 119).
- Immaterialism and the Meaning of Life by Erik Bodendorfer
- How immaterialism can save your soul @ Cairn.info - Interesting read.
- Philosophy 101: Berkeley's immaterialism uploaded by kungfucolin
- Berkeley's Theory of Immaterialism @ Novelguide - “In the writing of his three dialogues, Berkeley develops two characters: Hylas (the materialist) and Philonous (Berkeley himself). Philonous draws upon one central supposition of the materialist to formulate his argument of skepticism against him; this idea is that one can never perceive the real essence of anything. In short, the materialist feels that the information received through sense experience gives a representative picture of the outside world (the representative theory of perception), and one can not penetrate to the true essece of an object. “
- Berkeley's Argument for Immaterialism @ A.C. Grayling - “Two features of ideas are crucial for Berkeley: their inertness and their mind-dependence....Anticipating Hume, Berkeley argues that there are no necessary connections between ideas; they are individual entities "with no power or agency included in them. So that one idea or object of thought cannot produce or make an alteration in another" (P25). We verify this by introspecting, which reveals, says Berkeley, that "there is nothing in [ideas] but what we perceive," and we perceive no power or activity in them (ibid.). We have a "continual succession" of ideas, some arising and others disappearing; but because they are causally inert, they are not themselves responsible for these changes, so there must be some other cause of them (P26). The only candidate remaining for this role is spirit or mind. Since my mind is causally responsible for very few ideas and their changes, there must be "some other spirit that produces them" (P29).”
- Berkeley's Immaterialism @ Phiosophy Pages
- Berkeley's Argument for Immaterialism | A.C. Grayling - “Level 1 concerns the phenomenology of experience, consisting of the data of sensory awareness in the form of minima of colour, sound, and so for the other senses. Level 2 concerns the phenomena of experience – the tables, trees, and so forth, that we see and touch in the normal course of perception. The phenomenological level (call it level 1) is apparent to us only on a "strict and speculative" examination of experience.”
Noumenon
- @Vocabulary - “the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception.”
- @Wiipedia - “The noumenon (/ˈnɒuːmᵻnɒn/) is a posited object or event that exists without sense-perception. The term noumenon is generally used in contrast with or in relation to phenomenon, which refers to anything that can be apprehended by or is an object of the senses”
- noumenon @ Britannica.com - “Though the noumenal holds the contents of the intelligible world, Kant claimed that man’s speculative reason can only know phenomena and can never penetrate to the noumenon. Man, however, is not altogether excluded from the noumenal because practical reason—i.e., the capacity for acting as a moral agent—makes no sense unless a noumenal world is postulated in which freedom, God, and immortality abide.”
- noumenon @ Collins Dictionary
- @New World Encyclopedia - “In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, noumenon, thing in itself (German Ding an sich), and transcendental object are nearly synonymous expressions used to refer to the unknowable, indescribable reality that, in some way, lies "behind" the world of observed phenomena. For Kant, we can say nothing at all about things as they are in themselves, because we only know things as they appear to us though our sense perceptions. In time and space, the forms of our intuition are processed by the basic forms (categories) of our understanding. “
- What is “Noumenon”? — Noumenon Multiphysics - “A phenomenon is that which is observed. A noumenon is that which is.”
will to live
quiddity
- @Wikipedia - “Whereas haecceity refers to aspects of a thing that make it a particular thing, quiddity refers to the universal qualities of a thing, its "whatness", or the aspects of a thing it may share with other things and by which it may form part of a genus of things”
- Wikipedia - “In scholastic philosophy, quiddity (/ˈkwɪdɪti/; Latin: quidditas)[1] was another term for the essence of an object, literally its ‘whatness’ or ‘what it is’.”
- Q is for Quiddity @ 37days - “What is my whatness? What is my thingness? What is my underlying thing, that essence that doesn’t change? What makes me me? Like the foxes, what is my aliveness in my natural state: my wildness, my quiddity?”
- (4) What is quiddity in layman's terms? - Quora
Objective idealism
Chakras
Chakra oppression/oppression of things we do that are natural by WLI (updated march 2015)
- Layne Redmond - Chakra Meditation // Chanting the Chakras // Chakra Breathing Meditations // Official site
- Chakra Lover
- "It's like this: troubles with self esteem or personal power? Yellow Chakra.Having a hard time speaking your truth about something? Throat Chakra. Feeling chaotic? Like you don't belong? Balance your Root Chakra. Does compassion come easily to you? It's because of your Heart Chakra. Wish you were more creative or sensual? Fire up the Orange Chakra. Do you have great intuition? That's connected to the Brow Chakra. How's meditation going for you? Connection to source is Crown Chakra." - Chakra Lover
- Heal Thyself: The Best Healing Method For Each Chakra
- Full Chakra Healing ~ Spa Music w/ Binaural Beats + Isochronic Tones (ZEN, REIKI) uploaded by Eric Bartel
- The 7 Chakras for Beginners by mindbodygreen
- Chakras (dot) info
- THE CHAKRAS – THE COSMIC KEYS OF BALANCE @ Cosmic Intelligence Agency
- [Pic:] Main Chakra centers from friamin (dot) com
- Check out Kundalini2014's channel
- How Love Manifests Through Different Chakras
- Checkout Merkaba Mending
- The Snake, Kundalini (Sexual/Creative) Energy
- What is Kundalini - Mind Power
- Uma Mohan - Kundalini - The Awakening Of Chakras
- Reiki Colors: Body, Emotion,etc
- The 7 Chakras (Neon Light)
- Full Chakra Healing Meditation Binaural Beats + Isochronic Tones
- How to see and READ the AURA: Part 1
- How to Read Auras: What is the Meaning of Each Color?
- A bit about Chakras
- The 13 Chakras of the Physical / Etheric Body System
- Root Chakra
- Becoming one, people and planet!
Auras
- "Red = Enthusiastic and energetic, quick to anger but are generous. Yellow = analytical,logical and intelligent, loner. Pink = loving and giving,loved to be loved, very romantic and will stay faithful loving and lyal for life, natural healer, creative and strong imaginations.Green = creative and hard working, eye for beauty and work a little bit harder on their apperance, popular, admited and respected. Orange = gregarious, generous,social souls, don't mind attention, good-hearted,kind and honest. In tune to emotions of others and can sense and feel their pain and joy. Can be quick to lose their temper but are quick to forgive.Purple = possess a philosophical, enquiring and intuitive mind, connects werll with animals and nature, can sense emotions of animals and other people. Blue = master connunicators, good organizers, peacemakers. Gold = lovers of beauty and very artistic, love attention, the gold aura individuals are very attractive and love to attract attention, affection and admiration from lots of people. Because this the Gold Aura person will have many, many friends. But they are not just takers of time, affection and attention; the Gold Aura individual will give of their time, energy and love generously.White aura = sensitivity, intuitiveness, psychic ability and practicality.Brown = confusion of discouragement, lack of confidence, selfishness, fault finding and deception. Black = hatred, negativity, major illness or depression, cheap, miserly." - How to Read Auras – What is the Meaning of Each Color? @ In5D
- Reading Auras Interpreting The Energy Field Of Life @ Pagan's Path - "There are 4 facets to perceiving and interpreting the energy of the aura. Layers are determined by color variations. Within the color, the shape, consistency and clarity all determine the meaning of that layer.Is the yellow you perceive around the head bright like the sun or dingy and faded? Is the green just an oblong ball around the elbow or is it around the whole body? Does the red appear as a spike flashing across the torso or is it consistently present around the head?"
- How to see and READ the AURA: Part 1 - "Everyone has an Aura. But most people on Earth have VERY WEAK and dull Auras. This seems to be a direct consequence of their life long materialistic attitude negating and suppressing the development of consciousness, cultivating fear, envy, jealousy and other similar emotions. Such attitude suppresses their True Nature, and their Auras seem to become suppressed too."
- Sex and Aural Energy @ The Mind Unleashed - Cleansing your Aura - "Options for Cleansing…Bathing with Epsom Salts.Swimming.Sunlight.1. Aura Meditation. 2. Aura Healings.3. Aura Readings.4. Feeling your Emotions
Kundalini
- Kundalini Awakening 2.0: 17 Tools and Techniques For a Life With Shakti Kindle Edition by Jon Andre Lundal - "In Kundalini Awakening 2.0 you'll be given 17 tools and techniques that will empower and give you the confidence to awaken Kundalini. The techniques are easy to follow, but very powerful despite their ease."
Chakra aligning is to help us feel better. However, using chakra aligning meditations and exercises can be used to just "Be"
Use the Listen to yourself, not anyone else about what is best for you.
Respect yourself, give yourself compassion , sympathy and pity since you give it to everyone else. If you self harmed, or are having a bad day just remember it is okay to feel those feelings. Let yourself get mad and upset. F it, if you wanna feel shame and hide away that is okay. Just remember it is okay to not be perfect and feel things.
Feel compassion for yourself when you are upset or sad. If you ate too much, "too many calories", cried for hours on end, for some - self harmed,etc. Your intuition is telling you that is best for you at that moment. Do no feel guilty for something your mind and body felt was best for you in a moment. Desires can come in the form of sexual desire (and possibly food and for some pain - since sex ,food and pain are pretty close together - the one thing I dislike about reading about chakra aligning is the body shaming :()
Communicate to others what you feel is best for you whether that is to be left alone, or more food (:P). If what you did gave you pleasure in that moment look back and understand that you did what gave you comfort and a pleasurable feeling in that moment. Communicate to yourself what you want whether that is more love, or more food (:P) and that you have the choice to voice that need, or keep it to yourself. Speak your mind if someone is bothering you (but be nice ;)). If you are feeling sad and people are pressuring you to feel better communicate your desire to simply be left alone. These are great exercises to help when you feel as though you can't.
Realize that you have all the information about yourself that you need. Trying to force yourself to be happy because friends or family or concerned people tell you to is not going to work. You are you own encyclopedia. you have the knowledge about yourself not anyone else does. Perform these exercises to remember that.
Use the Listen to yourself, not anyone else about what is best for you.
Respect yourself, give yourself compassion , sympathy and pity since you give it to everyone else. If you self harmed, or are having a bad day just remember it is okay to feel those feelings. Let yourself get mad and upset. F it, if you wanna feel shame and hide away that is okay. Just remember it is okay to not be perfect and feel things.
Feel compassion for yourself when you are upset or sad. If you ate too much, "too many calories", cried for hours on end, for some - self harmed,etc. Your intuition is telling you that is best for you at that moment. Do no feel guilty for something your mind and body felt was best for you in a moment. Desires can come in the form of sexual desire (and possibly food and for some pain - since sex ,food and pain are pretty close together - the one thing I dislike about reading about chakra aligning is the body shaming :()
Communicate to others what you feel is best for you whether that is to be left alone, or more food (:P). If what you did gave you pleasure in that moment look back and understand that you did what gave you comfort and a pleasurable feeling in that moment. Communicate to yourself what you want whether that is more love, or more food (:P) and that you have the choice to voice that need, or keep it to yourself. Speak your mind if someone is bothering you (but be nice ;)). If you are feeling sad and people are pressuring you to feel better communicate your desire to simply be left alone. These are great exercises to help when you feel as though you can't.
Realize that you have all the information about yourself that you need. Trying to force yourself to be happy because friends or family or concerned people tell you to is not going to work. You are you own encyclopedia. you have the knowledge about yourself not anyone else does. Perform these exercises to remember that.
Sacral Chakra (Orange )
Solar Plexus Chakra - (Yellow)
Heart Chakra - (Green)
Throat Chakra - (Blue)
Third Eye Chakra - (Indigo)
Crown Chakra - (Violet)
Info/About
- "Although experts are in disagreement about a specific model for this therapeutic process, there are three key areas that it encompasses. These are:
- beyond ego (ego-transcended) psychology
- transformative psychology
- integrative/holistic psychology.
Some of the commonly used methods in transpersonal psychology include:
- body awareness and movement
- journal writing
- breathwork
- inner child healing
- guided visualisation
- meditation
- yoga therapy
- goal-setting
- dream work
- assertive training
- gestalt
- regression therapy
- development of the imagination and intuition
- symbolic art work. "
"Transpersonal psychology enhances the study of mind-body relations, spirituality, consciousness, and human transformation. Experts disagree as to the specific model and margins of this form of therapy, however the three key areas that are considered through transpersonal psychotherapy are:
- Combined/holistic and natural psychology
- Transformative psychology
- Ego-transcended psychology"
- "Meditationis one of the most common methods that transpersonal therapists use. This mind-body process involves sitting or resting in a quiet place, and freeing one’s mind. Meditation can help people relax their minds and bodies and get more in touch with their transpersonal selves.
- Guide visualizationsare also often used during transpersonal therapists. This technique involves clients following a clients voice as he guides them through imaginary and symbolic visualizations and scenarios. During guided visualizations, therapists can expose clients to positive images, and clients can explore their spiritual selves.
- Altered states of consciousness are also sometimes used by transpersonal therapists. One example of an altered state of consciousness is hypnosis, or hypnotherapy. During hypnotherapy, clients are lulled into extremely relaxed states, which makes them more receptive to subtle suggestions."
- Indigo Intentions(dot)com - Get readings, etc.
Inner Child Healing:
Info/About
- "In popular psychology and analytical psychology, inner child is our childlike aspect. It includes all that we learned and experienced as children, before puberty. The inner child denotes a semi-independent entity subordinate to the waking conscious mind.The inner child is the best known lower third of a comprehensive model of the human psyche called the Three Selves.The term has manifold therapeutic applications in counseling and holistic health settings primarily. " - Wikipedia
- 6 Steps to Help Heal Your Inner Child By Therese J. Borchard - 1. Trust 2.Validation 3. Shock & Anger 4. Sadness 5. Remorse 6. Loneliness
- Love Your Inner Child Releasing hurts of the past by Louise Hay - "There is a parent inside each of us, as well as a child. And most of the time, the parent scolds the child—almost nonstop! If we listen to our inner dialogue, we can hear the scolding. We can hear the parent tell the child what it is doing wrong or how it is not good enough. We need to allow our parent to become more nurturing to our child."
- Your Inner Child Can Heal Your Life By Michelle Wolfe-Emery - "Connecting with the inner child is a relatively easy exercise which you can do right in this moment. All you need is twenty minutes where you won't be disturbed and to be comfortable. Sitting in a cosy chair, or laying on a bed is fine. You may even choose to play some soft mellow music to help you relax. Also if it is possible and you think it will help you may wish to dig out an old photo of yourself as a child to look at before you begin the exercise.'So getting comfortable and undoing any tight clothing... take two deep breaths, breathing right down into your abdomen....'"
- Healing Your inner Child (dot) com - "We formed our core relationship with ourselves in early childhood and then built our relationship with ourselves on that foundation. We lived life reacting to the wounds that we suffered in early childhood - and the defenses our egos adapted because of those emotional wounds and the dysfunctional intellectual programming we were subjected to growing up in dysfunctional cultures with wounded codependents as our role models. Living life in reaction to old wounds and old tapes is dysfunctional - it does not work to help us find some happiness and fulfillment in life.".
- Healing the Child Within The cry we hear from deep in our hearts, says Thich Nhat Hanh, comes from the wounded child within. Healing this inner child’s pain will transform negative emotions. By Thich Nhat Hanh - listen, the energy of mindfulness,mind needs good circulation,Occupying the Living Room,Dismantling Barriers
- Inner Child Healing = a path to freedom, serenity, and empowerment - an index of web pages - "This page is now set up to hopefully explain as simply as possible the framework for healing and integration that I developed. It is the framework and perspectives of this approach that can help you to see your self more clearly and objectively so that you can learn to intervene in your own internal process to change dysfunctional mental programming and compassionately heal emotional wounds. You can learn to have some Loving control over your own inner process instead of trying to control your behavior and feelings with shame, judgment and fear. Codependency both feeds on, and creates magnified levels of, shame, judgment and fear - and the only way to break out of the vicious, self-perpetuating, self-destructive cycles of the disease is to start learning to be Loving to self."
- DrKatrina Channel-Inner Child Exercises uploaded by DrKatrinaWood - "Dr Katrina goes solo for part 2 of Inner Child exercises, a way to help restore and reconnect with emotions and creativity as well as ways to restore fun in your relationships. Sharing the child in the relationship , a critical healing place. Visit her blog @ DrKatrina.com for more information."
- Healing Your Inner Child: 3 Classic Mistakes uploaded by Dr John Pollard
- Self Parenting: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations by John K. Pollard - "SELF-PARENTING: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations is the classic and original how-to book defining the concept of "self-parenting." Many of us grew up within a parental environment that did not support our childhood needs for love, support, and nurturing. As adults, we mentally continue the same patterns as an "Inner Parent" that left us feeling alone and abandoned as a child. By beginning the daily practice of positive Self-Parenting, the negative outer parenting patterns taught as a child (and subsequently internalized as an adult) can be recognized and reversed. The foundation of the SELF-PARENTING is the daily practice of the Self-Parenting Exercises, a thirty-minute session of cognitive interaction between the Inner Parent and Inner Child. During these daily half-hour sessions Illustrated In the book, the reader learns how to love, support, and nurture his or her Inner Child as well as increase their awareness of the profound implications of their Inner Conversations in the "real world.""
- Self Parenting (dot)com - "The mission of this web site is to guide your Inner Parent in the practice of daily, half-hour sessions of Self-Parenting, as described in the “yellow book” SELF-PARENTING: The Complete Guide To Your Inner Conversations. The Self-Parenting Program provides a proven pathway for healing your Inner Child, defined as a deeper, more conscious awareness of the interaction between your Inner Parent and Inner Child."
- PTSD Recovery And Inner Child Exercises uploaded by HealthyPlace - "PTSD recovery can involve inner child exercises which access buried memories. Once exposed, you can process those memories and heal. Take a look."
- PTSD Recovery Using Inner Child Exercises uploaded by healthyplaceblogs - "Dan Hays, author of "Trauma! A PTSD Blog," has successfully used inner child exercises in his posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) recovery. Accessing the inner child can pinpoint buried memories, which facilitates grief process work."
inner Child Meditations
- Meditation - Healing The Inner Child & Connecting It To Higher Self uploaded by Ellaeenah JadeFire
- Meditation: Embracing Your Inner Child uploaded by Steven Summerstone
- Healing the Inner Child uploaded by TheTwinflames - "Often we carry with us old pains and hurts from our childhood without even noticing that these wounds are crying to be heard, to be healed and loved. Almost every serious dis-ease has unresolved forgiveness issues at the root. "
- inner child healing meditation uploaded by Bob Mangroo - "A simple and powerful meditation to help heal your inner child. Your overall well being, confidence and self esteem are all influenced by your inner child."
- Guided Meditation for Inner Child Healing (Relaxing Hypnosis Visualisation) uploaded by Blissfully Char
- Inner Child: Guided Meditation, Spoken word Meditation, Visualization, Healing Relaxation for peace
uploaded by Jason Stephenson - "Jason Stephenson leads his listener on a healing inner child meditation. Connect with your inner child and heal any aspects that may not have been resolved in the past." - Inner Child Enlightenment Visualization uploaded by Walking Terra Christa
- HEAL YOUR INNER CHILD meditation part 1 // part 2 // part 3 uploaded by Morganna Lefay - "This is Dedicated with Love to Joll Glad: Healing meditation to heal your child. Speak to your inner child, literally speak to it, tell it to let go all any pains wounds, allow it to be it's Natural Joyful self again, for he/she is you ! Please check out the natural custom made beauty products I make, I can say with sincerity that they really do work. https://www.etsy.com/people/TheMuseCo... Royalty free music by Kevin Macleod "Healing""
Affirmations
- Healing Wheel - Inner Child - Affirmation uploaded by Bert Jackson - "Reaffirm your connection to your inner child with this mini-meditation, our gift to you from Healing Wheel."
Root chakras for Inner Child
- Root Chakra Exercise to Comfort Your Inner Child uploaded by Amira Solmaia - "This exercise will help to increase empathy, understanding, and love for yourself despite some early trauma you may have experienced. By acknowledging that you're still a wonderful person after anything you've survived, you can accept the experiences that helped you grow into who you are and shed any shame, guilt, or blame you've been carrying around for all these years."
Soul Retrieval
- Soul Retrieval / Rescuing Your Inner Child Exercise uploaded by Yona Curtis - "So many have issues and need a tool that actually works for healing so your life can be more what you want and less what you fear. It's an amazing way to help stop the memories of abuse and to change your auto emotional response when they are triggered. We all need this tool. It has been one of the most significant ones that has worked for me, for abuse I survived."
- Soul Retrieval- Healing Emotional and Physical Pain’s Root Causes - ""What causes soul loss?: The reasons for soul loss vary widely. It's unlikely that we are able to list all the causes. The conditions under which a part of the soul will leave the body will differ from one person to another. Here are typical circumstances that are frequently the root cause of soul loss. Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse as a child.Death of a child, parent, or close friend.Loss of a husband, wife, or lover - through death, or involuntary divorce or separation.Sudden and unexpected loss of a meaningful job or career.A sudden accident resulting in severe physical trauma, or sudden onset of a debilitating disease.Exposure to shocking or extremely stressful physical or psychological conditions or events - for example, witnessing a murder, serving in a war, undergoing chemical or radiation therapy.Codependent relationships - where one has unconsicously given a part of one's soul to another - say, in a parent/child or intimate relationship" *I personally do not see co-dependent as such a bad thing, as long as you have an understanding partner that is not a narcissist or psychopath that will take advantage.*
- Soul Retrieval - Sacred Serpent - "Due to a trauma a part of your soul decides to leave and escapes into the Otherworld. The leaving part of your soul looks exactly like you at that time. It is an exact copy of you at that age and time. So if you lost a part of your soul at age 8 years, this part of you will still be an 8 year old, while you may now be in your forties! "
- Soul Loss @ SharedWisdom - "Soul loss can also be the result of an experience that is so personal at the perceptual level that no one else would know that a trauma had occurred. This is often the case with early childhood soul loss in which there has not been an overt trauma, and so nobody picks up that the child has been severely traumatized. In such a case, it can affect the patterns of the person's life from that time forward-creating inner distortions in which the person feels fragmented in their emotional and psychological realities."
- Soul Retrieval by Sandra Ingerman - "Imagine yourself sitting in a circle with members of your community. You have gathered together to support one community member who is suffering from a traumatic experience. You know that if one person is suffering and is ill it effects the entire community. So you have come to help hold the space for healing to happen.It is dark and the stars are shining bright in the night sky. The air is still. Everyone feels held in the loving arms of the universe and there is no doubt that healing will happen for all gathered here.The shaman begins to drum and dance calling the power of the universe to her as she puts her egoic self aside and becomes an empty vessel that fills with the help of the spirits. The client lies quietly in the center breathing deeply to be in a receptive state to receive back his lost soul; his lost vitality. The shaman sings her journey out loud as she tracks down where the soul has fled. And on finding it returns and blows it deeply into the heart of the client filling the entire body with the light of life. There is a great joy for all as one heals all are healed. The community is now whole again and can be in peace and harmony. he work is done. "
- Michael Harner Interview from Shamanism, the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Magazine - "Shamans talk with plants and animals, with all of nature. This is not just a metaphor. They do it in an altered state of consciousness. Our own students rapidly discover that by talking with plants, they can discover how to prepare those plants for remedies. Shamans have been doing this since ancient times. They typically know a great deal about plants, but it's not essential. For example, Eskimo shamans don't have access to a lot of plants, so they work with other things. But in the Amazon shamans know the various plants and the songs that go with the plants, which they commonly learn from the plants themselves."
- Soul Retrieval @Shaman Links - "Reasons For the Soul’s Departure:A person was in an abusive situation and the soul left to protect itself from the abuse.A child might have sent his or her soul to hide while his parents were fighting.The soul might jump out of the body just prior to an accident to avoid the force of the accident.Someone close died and the soul left until the person is ready to deal with his or her grief.Again, all of these are healthy mechanisms of protection."
- Soul Loss and Soul Retrieval - One River LLC
- Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self by Sandra Ingerman - "With warmth and compassion, Sandra Ingerman describes the dramatic results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts in this visionary work that revives the ancient shamanic tradition of soul retrieval for healing emotional and physical illness. This revised and updated edition includes a new afterword by the author."
Participatory theory
"Bringing the Shadow to Light”?
Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy
Subpersonality