Category Archives: psychology

The Soft Emptiness of a Liminal Place -Alethea Kehas

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Image by Adrian Campfield from Pixabay I am already missing her and she is not wholly gone. When I search for her presence, I find the soft emptiness of the liminal place. Holding. Waiting. I don’t want to think about … Continue reading →

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The Belief Tree ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Sue Vincent

It might be thought that, in our technology-driven age, the concept of belief has become less important. If we go back fifty years, belief was still central to most people’s lives; so what has happened to change that? (1000 words, … Continue reading →

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‘Black Stench’…

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* What is the nature of this selfness which we must turn from? * All the exponents of the prevailing view affirm that humankind is a triad comprising body, psyche, and spirit. * Continue reading at France & Vincent

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Selflessness…

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* For purveyors of the Prevailing View, to be a self is the primal vice and to die to self, in feeling, will, and intellect is the final virtue. * It can only be the memory of such formulations that … Continue reading →

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Et in Arcadia Ego…

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* In English, Latin loan-words carry overtones of intellectual, moral and aesthetic superiority that are not borne by their Anglo-Saxon equivalents: ‘maternal’ for ‘motherly’ for example or ‘intoxicated’ for ‘drunk’ etc. * Unfortunately, our word for ego, ‘personality’, is derived … Continue reading →

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World Beyond Words…

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* Human languages have been developed in order to describe and discuss a common-sense universe. * If we wish to think of the world as a continuum we find that our traditional syntax and vocabulary are inadequate. * Continue reading … Continue reading →

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Prodigals…

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* The human body is affected by the good or bad states of the human mind. The existence of divine serenity or goodwill may be regarded as one of the reasons why the world’s disease is not terminal. * The … Continue reading →

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Fishing…

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* We can understand something of what lies beyond our experience by examining analogous cases that lie within it. * The relationship between the world, divinity, and the divine source, Continue reading at France & Vincent

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Philosophy… #midnighthaiku

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Sue Vincent

Wisdom or folly Feeding those who pick our bones Offering ourselves When you visit the table You seek no more than a meal *  

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Understanding…

Posted on February 4, 2021 by Sue Vincent

* Direct awareness of that consciousness both eternal and complete which is the source and ground of the manifest world is a possibility that can be realised by human beings at any stage of their personal development from infant to … Continue reading →

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