The Human Experience
Spirituality
In this article, we will explore what spirituality means and how it can help us reach a higher level of consciousness and wellbeing.
Self-Transcendence
Wellbeing and Transcendence
Wellbeing is a multidimensional concept that encompasses various aspects of human flourishing, such as happiness, meaning, satisfaction, and health. Self-transcendence is a psychological state that involves going beyond one’s personal boundaries and ego, and connecting with something greater than oneself, such as nature, humanity, spirituality, or a higher purpose.
Breathing for Life
A Guide to Meditation
Meditation is a practice that involves focusing one’s attention on a single object, thought, sensation, or activity. Meditation can be classified into two main types: concentrative and mindfulness. Concentrative meditation involves narrowing one’s awareness to a specific point of focus, such as a mantra, a breath, a sound, or a visual image. Mindfulness meditation involves expanding one’s awareness to the present moment, without judging or reacting to any thoughts, feelings, or sensations that arise.
What are Psychological Needs?
What are Psychological Needs?
Psychological needs are the inner “must-haves” of the mind and heart that help a person feel stable, motivated, and well.
Human Thinking
Ghosts as Externalised Projections
Jung’s use of the terms “unconscious projections” and “exteriorisations” aligned with his developing theory of autonomous complexes, he said that these were psychological contents that can manifest with apparent independence from conscious control.
Biography
Medard Boss
Click below to listen to this article: Medard Boss Medard Boss (1903-1990) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who developed a form of psychotherapy known as Daseinsanalysis, which united the psychoanalytic practice of Freud with the existential phenomenological philosophy of…
Messiah Complex
Messiah Complex
In this article, we will explore the causes, symptoms, and consequences of the messiah complex, as well as some possible treatments and coping strategies for those who suffer from it or are affected by it.
Spiritual Bypass
Spiritual bypass
In this article, we will explore the concept of spiritual bypass, its causes and manifestations, its potential harms, and how to avoid or overcome it.
Numinous experiences
Numinous experiences
In this article, we will explore what numinous experiences are, how they can be understood from different perspectives, and what benefits they can offer for personal and social wellbeing.
Positivity
A structure of self
This article introduces the spiritual structure of self for the author. It was 14 years in the finding and represents the completion of a journey of self discovery that culminated with the author becoming one with all aspects of self.