What motivates you? What motivates your friends, your companions? (Remember from a previous past that “socio” means “companions.”). What motivates a society? A nation? Or a collection of nations, that makes of a human world? What is “motive?”
Motivations are energies that animate the psyche, which animates the bio, the body. Psyche motivations also animate the [...]
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Psychedelic!
You’d think the word psychedelic was entirely modern; but, “delic” comes from Greek (delein) and means “to make manifest.” So, psychedelic is about making the psyche manifest…well, at least aspects of Psyche which had hitherto been unmanifest. Psychedelic experience is referred to as mind altering.
Mind altering substances are part of just about every culture going [...]
Socio Logos
There are a lot of words that end in “logy” as in sociology, biology, geology, neurology, etc., etc…The suffix “logy” is generally interpreted to mean “the study of or the science of.” However, as has been posted, that word “logy” is Logos which is defined as “ the word by which the inward thought is [...]
Homo Sapiens Are…
…sexual beings. We are homo sapien sexual. The word “homo” translates from Latin as “man.” Man is a word derived from a very old language and refers to Mind. The word “sapien” is Latin and means “wise.” The term “homo sapiens” refers to the modern species of humans – the word homo, in this context, [...]
Ideological Depletion
There is a lot of violence in the world; has been for a very very long time. Whether it is in the psyche, in the mind, as self belittling internal dialogue, in the home as domestic violence, in the country as fights, shootings, rape and murder, or in the world as war….it is a symptom [...]
See The Light…And The Shadow
Photography is all about light. Photo, as a word, is Greek in origin and translates to “light.” The graphing of light, however, is incomplete without shadows. Shadows give distinction and character, dimension and shape. Without shadows, a photograph wouldn’t be much to look at.
Psychologically speaking, the same is true about the mind, or the psyche. [...]
“The Mind Is Its Own Place…”
Another of my favorite quotes is by the English poet John Milton, from his classic Paradise Lost:
“The mind is its own place and, in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
The mind uses language, words, internal dialogue and mental pictures to form its “reality.” Psychotherapy, especially talk therapy, relies very heavily [...]