I’m a little late to the manifesting party here- I know it probably sounds bad to say, but positive thinking and I have a difficult relationship. I grew up around the Enneagram types 2/7/9 faux-spiritual ego trope of defensive positivity and as an adult, it grates on my nerves- the mental habit of pushing actually-felt […]
Manifesting vs Being Present: a Basis for Practicing Both Read More »
For Christmas, my boyfriend bought me a workbook called Thinking at the Edge because he knows I want to write a book and I’m having trouble figuring out where to start or how to even articulate the core concept. The workbook is based off the work of Dr. Gendlin, an American philosopher who, in the
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There is a study that I think about a lot- it’s a study on the Maharishi Effect where a certain number of people get trained in transcendental meditation in a given city, and once the number of participants reaches a certain mathematical threshold — like a certain percentage of the population — their meditation sessions
Where Politics and Psychology Meet Read More »
I received a really interesting workbook from my boyfriend this Christmas. He reads really old books sometimes, like Aristotle and John Milton, but he’ll also read obscure scientific works from the 1960’s, for example, that have since been overshadowed by more famous synthesizers of information in their field. One such book was by Dr. Gene
Getting a Felt Sense of What You’re Trying to Birth Read More »
A big disagreement that my boyfriend and I had this year was about Unconscious Bias Tests that show you your unconscious reaction to a minority population. Last year, I took an online test that seeks to demonstrate our deeply-buried unconscious reaction to black people that we can’t see in the conscious realm. You have to
Dec. 23, 2023- Regretting Knowledge Read More »