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Buddhist Practice : Experiences Buddhism and My Psychiatric Practice By Charles Byrne, Ireland It has been said that the suffering caused by mental illness is worse than that caused by physical illness. People suffering... More »
Hi all, Having turned to you, the I-I online communities, basically for instruction in how to bring this particular cutting edge of recent development , the frameworks and practices of Integral theory, to bare on... More »
Excerpted from yet to be published - I Believe. Help Me in My Unbelief : A Skeptic's Search for Meaning - An Unusual Journey Through a Troubled World copyrighted and reprinted with permission by... More »
This would have applicability beyond the therapeutic setting. -adastra Integral Practice for Psychotherapists: Therapeutic Presencing Awakening the Heart of Compassion by Willow Pearson Therapeutic presence, the embodiment of integral awareness, is at the core of... More »
A great collection of articles on Happiness & Wellbeing from Counterpoint . So much to explore, learn, grow, improve… We would love to know which one/s resonated or made a difference for and/or in you!... More »
Thursday, December 14, 2006, 10:00 a.m. 14/12/2006 The award winning band Prairie Oyster are back stronger than ever after a nearly eight year recording break. Joan Besen and Russell deCarle of the band will join... More »
Monday, October 9, 2006 Greens outraged at Pennsylvania court decision upholding 'rigged' election after Green running for U.S. Senate is removed from the ballot. Democrats succeeded in removing Carl Romanelli because they were armed with... More »
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Greens win ballot access fights in Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska, New York Greens achieve ballot access in 31 states -- up from 17 states in January 'Grossly unfair' ballot access rules hinder... More »
IDEALISTS: "NF" Arts & Entertainment/Sports/Journalism/Literature Jane Fonda( Counselor ) Shirley MacLaine Pearl S. Buck Charlotte Bronte( Champion ) Emily Bronte( Healer ) Emily Dickenson( Counselor ) Herman Hesse Albert Camus James Joyce Leo Tolstoy( Champion... More »
Russ, for all who do not know your Integral leadership Review, here the link to the actual issue: http://www.leadcoach.com/archives/e-journal/2006/2006_08.html I see various Dynamics of leadership, as Beck/Cowan outline in their book "Spiral Dynamics. I can... More »
Anges
The holidays!!! I know it sounds awful but I was unhappy in school from the moment I started. Sometimes, a kind teacher made things a little more bearable but most of the time, it was... More »
WhiteWolf
Maybe it is just getting old, or a touch of nostalgia, or just becoming senile. Who knows, but I found myself trying to look up old friends on the Internet. Let me tell you, that... More »
Siona
Hm. Perhaps that should say "Monday Five," given that I'm getting to these a bit late... but better late than never, I suppose. 1) Who is the last person to whom you said "I love... More »
Albert
There is a good pragmatic and multi-layered article of Brian Van der Horst in New issue of Integral Leadership Review. Its about demythologizing and debunking some clichees about leadership and consciousness. He gives a reminder how it... More »
moonlit
To me positive psychology is much more than simply thinking positively or looking on the bright side. By this term I'm not talking about psychology that blindly tells you every thing's going to be OK... More »
I-P
I think competition is a social and psychological pathology involving a relative failure of individuation, extrinsic and relatively ego-based motivations and insecurites and many other relatively unhealthy tendencies and I can't remember ever not feeling this... More »
Shameslaya
In the embrace of my therapist....and within the eyes of my son and partner Tam...and in a few folk I have known, notably Tam and Ruari (Goatfish here on site)..... and in the moments of... More »
Morten Tolboll
Ego-worship has become a common accepted ideology. A whole time-tendency within school, folk high school and continuing education, focus on so-called "personal development". Inspired by fx Sartre and postmodernism you are being encouraged to an... More »
Morten Tolboll
We live in a postmodern society, where the distinction between reality and appearance/superficies is about to disappear. Reality is often the images, we receive through the stream of information. And it becomes more and... More »
Rob
A few Self Calibrations of books that were lying around (subject to error as I'm just starting to get the hang of the technique): Robcore: 965 - Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, by David R.... More »
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn . . . and change.
. . . though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
It is necessary for me to stay close to the earthiness of real experience. I cannot live my life in abstractions. So real relationships with persons, hands dirtied in the soil, observing the budding of a flower, or viewing the sunset, are necessary to my life. At least one foot must be in the soil of reality.
. ...A finely tuned understanding by another individual gives the recipient a sense of personhood, of identity. In the ordinary interactions of life congruence is probably the most important element. Congruence, or genuineness, involves letting the other person know "who you are" emotionally. It may involve confrontation and the straightforward expression of personally owned feelings - both negative and positive.
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