I did wish to become an art therapist or a psychotherapist. However, there are very few jobs in this field. I think I do not see paid work as the real...
I am not sure about your idea that being part of a group is central to being a person, or to what extent. Perhaps I am a little bit on the autistic sp...
Yes, that is interesting. What schools of psychology do you consider to be the most accurate or helpful ones? I did A level psychology but only did mo...
Perhaps rather than ask others to try and find a label to categorize you it would more helpful for you to work out what you believe exactly. Labels ar...
Of course, you can take the option of focusing upon the aspects of life just involving practical issues, according to practical knowledge, as evidence...
While generally I do think that you make some very good arguments, I think that you do have to ask what you consider to be the 'self'. Also, you have ...
I just looked at your link. Actually, Athena recommended, 'Thinking Fast and Slow,' by Daniel Kahneman, for me to read a few weeks ago in discussion o...
I have to admit that even though I try to hold onto the objectivity of science the poetry of mysticism is my real language. I love the writings of Wil...
I think that what you are saying is right, but has often being ignored. I found that to be especially true when I was being brought up as a Catholic. ...
I am not sure that we should be trying to equate self worth according to ratios at all. I think the mentions in comments are better taken for their ow...
I am extremely interested in the whole transpersonal school of psychology, including Ken Wilber. I have read 'The Pocket Ken Wilber' recently. In his ...
Both science and truth are such wide open areas. I think it is worth narrowing the matter down to the more specific. It might be worth you spelling ou...
You seem to be a bit bogged down with the whole idea of proof, regarding truth. Two ideas which might be useful for you to think about are the two con...
I most certainly don't find maths would help my thinking. What I find helps most is lying on my bed for a couple of hours, and listening to a couple o...
I have not travelled very much but I do not mind too much because I feel that I have interacted with so many people from different backgrounds. This w...
I just looked at your links now and liked the idea by Rolf Satler, that, 'Buddhist logic is liberating because it transcends not only the restrictive ...
So you find it difficult to read books which are opposing views to your own. To some extent, I think that we gravitate to those which reinforce ours b...
Thanks for the references. Actually, a few minutes ago I just bought a book in a charity shop by Christopher Hitchens, (2011), 'Arguably,' after readi...
I got told that I was too much of a thinker and that I viewed everything from the perspective of my 'head', but of course this was one person's opinio...
Yes, I will heed the advice to try to avoid falling into the well. Actually, I fell into the trout pond when I was messing around with friends on a sc...
I think that there are deep meanings to emotions, including humour. I think we should analyse it but not too much in case we are in danger of overthin...
I hope my mum keeps her sense of humour too, because last time when I visited, she got so cross with me writing on this site that she tried to grab my...
Yes, I was just thinking of what you were saying as I finally got home. Just because I appear to laugh at certain situations I don't mean that I haven...
I think that we can all experience some incongruous emotions, laughing in some supposedly unfunny situations and vice versa. I think that the problem ...
Yes, it is difficult, especially if you are a really serious person. I think that the whole situation is to find the right people to connect with, who...
Well, I am glad that you replied really, because it was during a reply to you about the idea of Biblical idea of the unpardonable sin that I caused th...
I just think it is so easy to jump into discussions on the forum, for worse or better. I am guilty of jumping into conversations because it is has nev...
I definitely think that you make some very important points. I will try to look up your links and keep in touch, but I will do it gradually because ap...
Yes, I am definitely interested in listening to others, with critical but not an attacking stance. In that respect, I wait and see what happens next i...
Wishing to give stimulus for further reflection upon belief in the midst of the cultural, relativistic debate, and the whole question of science and r...
I am glad that you think that mistakes are an important pathway. When I write, I am aware that probably a lot of what I say will contain ideas that I ...
Yes, I think that this whole area of discussion has so many aspects and that is why I am becoming rather overwhelmed. There are so many facets of disc...
There has been so much debate in this thread that I hardly know where to step in, if at all, but I would like to take it back to the essential issues....
You have opened up a wider area of discussion than mine. I am inclined to think that people, especially in philosophy have a great amount of attachmen...
I don't think that you have to go to church to have significant experiences because people can have peak experiences in all kinds of places. But, of c...
I just noticed that you made an addition to the post which you wrote, about Nietzsche's idea of the eternal recurrence. You say that it is important t...
Yes, you are quite right about Helen Keller. She was a very interesting example of someone with rare gifts and the person who sprang to my mind when I...
It's interesting really because I think that Jung's ideas are very ambiguous allowing for differing interpretations. My own taking has been influenced...
When you speak of rare traits that should not be 'choked' by the need to conform to stereotypes are you pointing to the need to embrace difference? Wh...
I was just thinking about what you were saying about the collective unconscious , and I agree that it can be regarded as mythic rather than like some ...
Yes, it is hard to get carried away on this philosophy forum. I probably say more about my personal life than many others, and after all, it is about ...
So, you have literal snakes in your life? I only have symbolic ones, and I live in an overcrowded area of South London. It is so busy in Tooting that ...
No, I was not thinking of one specific idea when I dreamt up this thread. I was just feeling daunted by the prospect of needing to be informed by the ...
I believe that what you are saying on the idea of the unconscious on a collective basis is consistent with Jung's own thinking on the matter. In speak...
I think that the main point you thought that it was worth me reflecting upon was the idea that, 'Every truth, in so far as it is true, is an absolute ...
I have to admit that I am struggling a bit in coming up with a response to your comment because I can see the validity of what you are saying. I can s...
Every act in life involves some degree of risk. To say that preventing people from harm by not allowing them to exist is overloaded use of the word 'h...
Yes, I think that you make a very important point. The whole set of criteria: 'original, comprehensible, popular or accurate' are competitive ones and...
The articles you linked me into about Joseph Campbell are interesting, and I am sure he has his limits but I think it is going too far to say that he ...
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