Sense of Self and the Traffic in Kathmandu
If I am an individual whose rights and autonomy are sacred, then someone else’s path crossing mine can feel like an infringement, even a cause of anger. But what if I feel like a part of a collective whole?
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life Articles in February, 2018
Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in February, 2018.
The Mass Killing Meme: What Can We Do?
My sense is that the cases of young terrorists and young school shooters have strong similarities in terms of underlying anger, hurt, and other feelings, coupled with an inability to communicate those feelings and be heard.
Stop Suppressing Your Potential
How can we best tweak and optimise our mental machinery for peak performance? Drugs and some forms of meditation are offered as means to the goal. But what if ‘savant’ skills were actually in some sense our mind’s default, before we all got so educated, and so distracted?
Creative Automatic Writing: Getting Past the Censor and Generating Energy
Our internal dialogues plan, worry, criticise, and take up a lot of mental energy. If we are finding life stressful, writing can be an ideal place to stage an intervention and regain our energy, our creativity, our mental space.