Category: philosophical counseling
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Life Is A Burden Vs. Dream Vs. Gift
There are three basic views of life. The first is, if you scratch the surface, what most people think and feel. And it turns out to be incorrect. The second is a thorn to remove the erroneous first view. To view life as a dream “unhooks” the stakes implied by the alleged burden character of existence. One…
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Can Love Scale?
45 Years ‘After Virtue’ Philosophy As If It Were Literature When asked whether he ever read any novels, the English philosopher Gilbert Ryle wryly quipped, “Yes, all six, every year.” His allusion was to the oeuvre of Jane Austen, which consists of six completed novels. (Sanditon, her seventh, remained unfinished at the time of Austen’s…
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A Positive Thought Is Closer To Truth Than A Negative Thought
Listen very carefully to your thoughts and emotions. A negative thought or negative emotion, provided that you believe it to be true, is an energy sieve. From the point of view of energy, you should be able to confirm that such a thought or emotion is, in some metaphysical sense, false. Why so? A positive…
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Does This View Spring From Low Energy?
One way of assessing a particular view of life is to ask, “Does this spring from low energy, or on the contrary is it an expression of highly refined energy?” The view, for example, of a tormented soul or a Debbie Downer comes from a low energy state, one typified by darkness, gloom, resentment, and,…
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Telling Apart
Paul Deussen understands very well that the first teaching of Advaita Vedanta is viveka–discrimination, separation, or telling apart. What is to be told apart from what? Deussen writes, “This aim [in essence, moksha] the Vedanta reaches by separating from the soul (the Self, atman) everything that is not soul, not Self, and is only transferred…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 