Tag: psychology
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On the Undisputed Reality of Ghosts
This appeared in a pagan newspaper in either late 2021 or early 2022. The newspaper changed hands and the online articles were removed. No answer was given by the current owner regarding the status of the pieces that I and other authors had submitted. So, I offer it here for your enjoyment. It is late…
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Psychology Against Evil
I saw an article today that caused me to question everything. A man filmed himself raping the corpse of a five-year-old girl that he had murdered. There are no words to describe how I feel. But there’s a trick I do when I read things like this, a trick that seems uncommon to many but…
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Fun Fact About Me
Memory is strange. It’s a tricky thing. There are important events, people’s names, etc. that I just can’t recall unless I first think of something else. Often, I have to audibly say something aloud in order to access the otherwise inaccessible memory. It’s odd because I can almost never remember the name of the first…
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On the Death of Robert Bly
Time’s iron claws graspto tear back what was not ours;leaves us breathless, bewildered,orphaned children of titans, twice-birthed, twice-traumatized, the newest inhabitants in a fractured-skull-landscape that we call our home
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The “World of Warcraft Community Council” Won’t Work. There’s a Better Way to Gather Useful Customer Feedback.
Recently, the developers of World of Warcraft announced the creation of a “Community Council”–a means of gathering feedback from players and allowing select players to interact with the development team. This is a bad move on Blizzard’s part and I should know; I have first-hand experience being on a community council for a large, rabid,…
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Religion: A Tool for Constructing Meaning, but not for Discovering Truth
“Don’t confuse meaning with truth.” — Thucydides I have a religion. Hell, I have a few of them. Honestly, if there was something akin to a “Jam of the Month Club” for religions, I’d join; $120 a year and every month I’d get a new religion to sample—I’d be all over that shit. Yummy yummy,…
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Things for Which I Am Grateful
I am grateful for my friends who do not judge me. It took me the better part of a lifetime to realize that true friends don’t judge and don’t offer advice. I had to cut a lot of people loose and kick many to the curb, but I am finally free to pursue genuine, honest…
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Find Your Center, Be Your Balance
You don’t need a Mindfulness retreat that lasts days. You don’t need a guru. You don’t need a class at the local yoga center (unless you just want to bump it up to the next level or become a facilitator or something). All you need is one minute every few hours to focus on yourself…
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The Unconscious versus Scientism
You can spot someone engaged in scientism easily by bringing up the concept of the unconscious mind. Such people, providing they have never explored psychology to any great length, will usually respond with a phrase such as, “I don’t believe in the unconscious.” For these people, who have transformed science from a process into a…
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A Psychoanalytic Examination of Repetition Compulsion
In my last blog post, I made mention of a concept with which some might not be familiar: repetition compulsion. This isn’t a new phenomenon at all and was first observed by Sigmund Freud over a century ago. What it is can be understood easily, but how it works is another story altogether. So, I’m…