In 1992, at an old chateau a few kilometres outside Paris, a small group gathered to form yet another organization trying to stop our destruction of the world. There was only one difference: this group wanted to highlight the root cause of the problems. That Association is still going strong, and its core purpose has
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Month: June 2007
It was Jung who stated that everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Herman Hesse suggested that in disliking another, we dislike something in him that we have, too. This is an aspect of human psychological life that's still kind of murky. We're going to clarify it significantly
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Normally, when we look at social or individual problems, we see the source of them outside. Too much stress, too much work, it's my genes or my upbringing. We're not so inclined to take a good look inside us for answers. This is a big mistake, which I'd like to take some steps towards correcting
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Is it a product of your genes? Or your environment? Is it chemical, or something taught? Is yours just a point on a perfect bell curve determined by standardized testing? Or is there much more - and new - yet to be said about it? I vote for the latter. Today on Thinking with Somebody
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It hits you out of nowhere. For no apparent reason. Its effects are paralyzing. Fear. Of elevators. Of leaving the home. Of fear itself. In the middle of it, you feel like you'll never climb out. In those moments, it's exactly as Goethe so eloquently put it ... "even in the greatest of evils the
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