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Enough with the Brain Bashing

Your brain is at all times doing it’s best on your behalf! It is a system percolating in the background making decisions on your behalf, always. You cannot control it. You have this little thing called a ‘self’ folks but your brain cares little for your conception of your self. This is the good news. It is good news because essentially there is no ‘self’. There is merely a conception of self. Permit me to take a little license here folks, you will find this ultimately liberating and empowering to the self…go figure. Our little ‘ego-self’ will come up with notions of what ‘we’ (there’s that self again) want. Our brain has far more awareness of our environment, our needs, and our wherewithal than we...

Quantum Aspect of Mind Dictates ‘Therapeutic’ Approach

The science is here folks; Mindfulness and exercise of Free Won’t provides the platform for growth. Call it therapy if you like. I don’t call it ‘therapy’ myself. Like Freud, I see our ways of being as simply the end result of a trajectory. We’ve been building our world view and ’templates for action’ for the whole of our lives as best as we could under all manner of circumstances. Henry Stapp, theoretical physicist at Berkeley Mathematics Institute has coined the phrase ‘templates for action‘ to refer to patterns held at the ready to ‘kick in’ and help us navigate our lives. Our phenomenal minds are possessed of many such templates, thankfully. Buddhist Pause I use the term Buddhist Pause to...

The Quantum ‘Aspect’ of Mind

Thoughts firing, neurons firing, chemicals released…all are of the material world; hence classical physics applies. Which thoughts occur, which neurons fire, which chemicals are released…is ‘determined in the ‘quantum domain’. Huh? Never fear; no doubt you already allude to the quantum domain in the course of everyday life. Have you ever said; “what are the odds?” Have you ever said, “I am predisposed to…?” That is it folks. The point at which something is more or less likely to occur. You can imagine the odds looking rather like the cherries rolling before your eyes on a slot machine. There’s a cherry, there’s another one, they’re slowing down, there’s the third…ahh! Two...