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Don Juan had described dreaming to me in various ways. The most obscure of them all now appears to me as being the one that defines it best. He said that dreaming is intrinsically the not-doing of sleep. And as such, dreaming affords practitioners the......
Philosophers are deeply interested in belief systems. Many philosophers, from Plato to William James, have noted the vital role our beliefs play – for better or worse – in getting us through the day. Hobbes observed that the human world is governed by opinion. Opinions......
Half past twelve. The time has quickly passed since nine o’clock when I first turned up the lamp and sat down here. I’ve been sitting without reading, without speaking. With whom should I speak, so utterly alone within this house? The apparition of my youthful......
The pursuit of Knowledge is constant. So, although Philosophy within the centuries has replied in even to the most integral human-concerned queries, and the act of travelling among the upper paths of meditation of the intelligentsia who lived before our times, is beyond the limit of excitement and atonement, nowadays the sciences of Biology and Psychology accompanied with their verified statistics, come to corroborate the theory according to which our behaviour depends even up to 50% on our genetic identity and up to 50% or more on the influences we receive from our surroundings. Moreover, the major influence is exerted during our infancy or childhood, which is filed in our subconscious and it is subsequently manifested in all of our behavioural reactions.
This kind of knowledge is considered as a tremendous asset in the hands of those who possess it, since it is remarkably helpful in identifying themselves (self-awareness), which is an indispensable prerequisite not only for the conduct of a sentient life, which is both meaningful and joyful, but also for the creation and maintenance of bonds with the significant people of their life.
