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 »»
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 »»
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 definition of feelings in the mirror of science Clearly, defining feelings and their triggers is a task that generations of scientists and philosophers have been gritting their teeth on. In contrast to the popular view which assumes sensory perception as the trigger of emotion, modern feedback »»
Primary Rage The primary aggressiveness serves to demarcate us from a life-threatening danger; we know it from the animal kingdom. In humans it is – as a helpful form of behavior – the physical expression of the state of psychic primary rage. Aggressiveness in order to distinguish oneself »»
Infants in the state of being love The phase of the primary self is of central importance for the psychic development of human beings in a double sense. On one hand the unprotected helplessness of the small being, which has no possibility of avoiding psychic painful experiences, opens the door to »»
The psychological pain of the DEPRIVATION of love From the disregard and repression of love (the being love as well as the primary excited love) – this elemental need of life – arise acts of the most brutal violence, especially when people are repeatedly denied this experience and especially when »»
In my view, the main reality corresponds to the reality functioning optimally in each case for a certain culture in a certain geographic-climatic environment for a certain time. In all tightly organized advanced cultures, an obvious advantage results from the programmed securing of regularly »»
