Posts Tagged ‘language’


How Human Beings Work: and How We Cause Our Own Suffering

- July 15th, 2008

We Are More Alike Than We Are Different Human beings are far more alike than we are different.  The differences between us are actually very minor. Human beings all over the world are overwhelmingly similar. We all share the same anatomy and physiology. Our brains operate the same way. We have the same triune brain, with a brain-stem that controls fundamental life processes like breathing ,a mid-brain which controls and regulates emotion and a cortex, the outer brain, which controls thinking and reasoning and is the seat of language. We Make Up Stories to Explain Our Pain Our one compelling drive is to survive and to reproduce.

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Creating Peace in Language

- June 27th, 2008

 Watching Our Thoughts In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the Thought Police was an external agency that patrolled the inner sanctum of the inhabitants of Oceania. Today, we have to be our own thought police, watching for errant thoughts that wreak havoc on our lives and create chaos and violence in the world. Furthermore, by watching what we think, we will then watch what we say and thereby create. Words hold the thought-form. The thought is energy, and the words give form to that energy. Why is such diligence necessary?

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What’s Wrong with Making People Wrong?

- March 20th, 2006

From the time we were little children we have been told that we were bad: bad girl! bad boy! You’re wrong! Or worse: you’re stupid! Or worse: you’re fat! Or worse: you can’t tell your a____ from a hole in the ground, etc.

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