OPEN, when it is closed, becomes ‘the definite picture’. The definite picture is what we deal in, it is what we know, it is what we do business with – anything that is not part of the definite picture we...| The Negative Psychologist
The Equilibrium World is the world that comes into being when everything that happens has to happen in a way that agrees with the guidelines, agrees with the standards, agrees with the ideal values that have been specified by that system. In the Equilibrium World equals , which means…| The Negative Psychologist
The thing about living in a one-sided way is that we can have no awareness of the absurdity of the so-called ‘life’ that we are leading as a result. We have zero awareness regarding the absurd nature of our existence - on the contrary, we take our absurd existence very…| The Negative Psychologist
We all have this sure and certain idea regarding ‘who we are’, and ‘what life is all about’, and this notion that we have - no matter how ridiculously unsupported it might be - is so sure and certain that we never give it another thought. We never ‘revisit the…| The Negative Psychologist
It's not so much a matter of 'being versus non-being' (although it is that as well) but ‘being versus pseudo-being’, which is infinitely more nuanced, infinitely more subtle. Pseudo-being is all we know! 'Margarine is all we know', Russian mystic and philosopher Pyotr Demyanovich Uspensky tells us. Because pseudo-being has…| The Negative Psychologist
Linearity is simply a trick or gimmick, nothing more - it's a trivial affair, not a profound one. Having said this, we still have to acknowledge that it seems pretty nontrivial to us as we actually experience it - it's not like a wet paper bag that that we can…| The Negative Psychologist
