Psychology

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This is the Law - moths always fly into the Fire

10 Apr 2020 8 minute read 0 comments Aerials

"How do I get other people to pay attention to me?" Every person and situation is different. Our needs for acceptance and recognition vary to a great degree. Some people could care less while others need lots of "love". It's perfectly normal and we a...

Sins of the Father, Part One

5 Apr 2020 4 minute read 4 comments The BlackWolf

Why do we hold people at bay? Why is it that no matter the type of relationship we have with an individual, they never know who we are? Even in intimate relationships we hide. Our struggle with who we are keeps us from allowing even those closest to...

Appreciative intelligence: the ability to connect with what is valuable

1 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Karl Peyton

Appreciative intelligence defines a competence very similar to what Viktor Frankl taught us in his book The Man in Search of Meaning. It is the ability to identify the opportunity in the midst of adversity. It is being able to see the value of onesel...

Why do people change?

31 Mar 2020 3 minute read 2 comments Karl Peyton

Why do people change? William James said that the character of the human being is like the plaster, it is never altered. However, as we well know, this is not entirely true. Often, figures that are very close to us surprise us with unexpected reactio...

Why do I have trouble speaking with security and resolution?

30 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Karl Peyton

Excitation of the autonomic nervous system When it is difficult for us to communicate with solvency to one or several people, the cause is usually in insecurity itself and also in stress and anguish. We fear doing it wrong or showing ourselves incomp...

Fear, The Living Cloak

29 Mar 2020 2 minute read 11 comments The BlackWolf

We are wrapped, clothed in fear. We are consumed by it. Our fear tells us that life itself is a predator. So, we do what fear does – we wear masks, and the very ones that fear wears. When fear puts on the mask of aggression, we become violent to hide...

Toki Pona: A Philosophical Constructed Micro-Language for Simplifying Thought

24 Mar 2020 11 minute read 2 comments rhyzom

Constructed languages are an interesting field. Most of us have heard of Esperanto. But there are plenty others, each designed for specific purposes and goals. Lojban, for example, has been designed with the purpose of eliminating irregularities or a...

The Concealing Spectacle

22 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments The BlackWolf

Whenever one is forced to alter his outward behavior for the benefit of others, one finds himself submitted to the persona as though it suddenly became his master; and as a demonstration of this relationship between the persona and the person, our pe...

The Terrible Man

15 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments The BlackWolf

What usually happens when someone is given negative titles? Well, there are usually two differing directions between which an individual will find himself deciding. On one hand he might embrace it, on the other he might protest it; either way he ends...

Triptych for Thanatos (A Poem A Day #12)

15 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon

I. All our assumptions were based on a lie. That was the first cause of our problems. But the situation was so inconsistent what could we ever have gained? So if you seek the meaning of life, blinkered toad, flickering dragonfly, you’ll barely live. ...