Being love as basic state The ocean at rest, immeasurably deep and vast, is a good metaphor for the “state” of being love. The word “state” I put in quotation marks because in this context this word is misleading. The basic homeostatic state of being love is not static »»
Except for the earliest childhood, man never lives in the state of being love for a longer period of time. In the course of his development, the love experience changes from being love and the primary excited love to purposeful love and the secondary excited love. I distinguish three phases. The »»
SIGMUND FREUD never questioned socialization. The development of human consciousness is inconceivable without preceding socialization, since man is always an individual and a social being. Only in the face of another man he/she can experience him/herself as different, as an individual.
Thesis: The primary self corresponds to the actual being – the "soul" – before it is alienated by the secondary self which is formed via socialization. In the history of development the decisive motor for this quantum leap is formed by cognitive-abstract (digital-sequential) thought processes »»
Western psychology is oriented toward the individual and therefore its concepts of self refer to the individual self. Eastern thought stretch the concept of self more broadly. The Upanishadic seers of India developed a philosophy of self as early as about 700 BCE. Their concept of self is »»
The original being love state of the infant is unconscious. In adults such a state can also be achieved in various ASC or trance states, in addition to the experiences described as regression. Under Zen reality I describe an experience completely new to humans living in ego »»
The concept of self is not uniformly defined, neither in the philosophical nor in psychological fields. The following is a brief discussion of some modern concepts of self, illustrating the diversity of the Western concept of self. Self psychology has developed in the context of narcissistic and »»
Portuguese lyricist FERNANDO PESSOA puts it plainly:“The world belongs to the one who does not feel.“ Something I am merely hinting at here is that in our society successful socialization is largely associated with the ability to ignore feelings. Later I will discuss in depth how »»
The healing effect of a loving physical contact is a basic human experience in all cultures. It is an experience that is – or at least should be – very familiar to us. And yet I had to make the astonishing observation – not only with myself but also in everyday therapeutic life – how strongly we »»
Essential qualities of love of being are: Openness, Uncriticism, Naive Wonder, Timelessness, Spacelessness and Permeability, Emptiness, Experience of Freedom and Independence, Eutonic Body State, Tenderness, Aperspectival Experiential World, Oceanic Feeling, Averbal Figurative Process, Contentment »»
