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A Brief Note About the End of "Human Suffering"
In Transformational NLP, we make a clear distinction between regular suffering and Suffering (with a big "S"). Flying coach for 18 hours is a clear example of pretty bad regular suffering. So is the experience of having an...
The Difficult Destiny of "Nobody's Girl"
We have all heard of "Mama's Boys" and "Daddy's Girls." The "Mama's Boy" label is usually derisive. No one wants to be a Mama's Boy. "Daddy's Girl" is held quite differently most of the time...
Re-solving the Contest Between Self Preservation and Spiritual Evolution
Human skulls house a brain which has distinctive parts, some dedicated to reptilian survival, and some (the pre-frontal cortex) apparently directed toward spiritual...
Structure of Hope
Why Hope is Good… Hope is simply the capacity to imagine a positive future. Constructive hope is the ability to predict a positive future as a probable outcome of past and present choices and events. Some may believe that really successful hope is the ability to so thoroughly presuppose...
About Survival and Devotion: What's Wrong With Us?
When I first began learning to do change-work (more than forty years ago now), as I was learning to work with behavioral and belief-related issues, I was struck by two ever-present, apparently contradictory realities: 1) that personal, conscious choice...
Believing in Free Will: Do We Really Have a Choice?
Most of us are inclined to assume that most of our actions and decisions are the result of some kind of free will process. Or, if we can no longer convince ourselves of this, we at least want to assume that it is our inner patterning for making meaning and...