Appearance and Attraction
One of the classic examples of illusion is found in attraction and appearnce. While many women spend a great deal of time on their appearance, many men do not. Women often assume they are judged …
Category: Psychology
Choice by Attention
“Each of us literally chooses by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” — William James in The Principles of Psychology
The Source of Confidence
Shilpan wrote a popular article about building self-confidence, using Forrest Gump as a model. In a discussion in comments, Jean Browman drew out a point I had not considered before. From whence arises confidence? She …
10 steps to Achieving
In Self Effort, I reviewed the value of correct effort in accomplishing our goals. There is an old saying, well begun is half done. This is the key to productive action and rich results. Stepping …
Social Fractals
Back in Socionomics, I touched on the idea that the public mood precedes market and political change, not the other way around. It is the awareness of the population and its group intention that precipitates …
Free free will
The Institute of Noetic Sciences publishes an annual “Shift” report. In The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future, they describe an experiment on how our beliefs about free will affect our moral …
Spoken Words
The Prophets Conference folks have been doing a series of conferences around the globe on the theme of “The Great Rethinking”. In my area, they had a ‘Bleep’ conference and the following year, a health …
Santa’s coming!
Santa’s Coming! OK now – be honest. What was your first response to that statement? Excitement? Surprise? Revulsion? This points to your story about Santa. What you do or don’t believe about that seasonal celebration. …
Belief and Identity
I’ve spoken about this here before but its worthwhile mentioning this from another voice. My mate is reading Gregg Braden’s book “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief“. She brought the book in again to share an …
In the wings
It rather startles me sometimes how throughly the ego prepares its dramatical scripts. Recently, quite separately, a couple of friends of mine have gone through very difficult emotional periods, breaking away from old dramas. After …
Growing the Group
In the recent post on Groups, I observed the key role of groups in the world. The group trumps the individual. Even without that awareness, we have laws to uphold a standard for example. To …
Socionomics
The socionomics folks have released a 1 hour documentary on the basic fractal pattern seen in social mood and how that affects fashions, music, movies, and the stock market. And the fractal pattern is the …