Tsultrim has authored a book that offers an interesting mixture of ancient Eastern wisdom combined with the complexities of modern Western psychotherapy. Tsultrim’s teachings are the epitome of Carl Jung’s concepts relating to the psyche striving to balance opposing tensions to create balance and harmony. Read More
Helen Palmer’s ‘Inner Knowing’ is a compilation of essays by an impressive cohort of writers who offer a wealth of collective knowledge in the field of human consciousness, evolution and the search for meaning. The overall message this book conveys is that our ability to self-examine our life will determine its quality. The many essays in this book offer both Eastern and Western philosophies to encourage a more conscious existence and enhance our ability to create a meaningful life. Read More
Andrew Cohen’s Evolutionary Enlightenment is a poetic and beautifully written dedication to the spiritual and evolutionary potential contained within our often-troubled human race. Cohen reflects upon our creation and the fourteen billion years of evolution that has resulted in life, as we know it today. Cohen takes time to deeply consider how our evolution has been molded and perhaps impeded by our cultural, religious and psycho-spiritual tendencies. Read More
Millions of years ago, mankind’s consciousness was pre-verbal and his survival was dependent on an ability to connect to nature and an internal landscape that Cohen postulates was comprised of 52 senses and feelings. Over time, modern man’s brain evolved and formed the neo cortex, comprising of just 13% of our total brain matter, generating language and reason. This small part of the brain dominates our remaining 87% of consciousness and creates a language-based discourse that threatens to disconnect us from our natural instincts and has reduced us to just 5 of our 52 senses. Read More
Bernstein believes the emergence of the borderland personality is evolutionary and a collective unconscious attempt to reconnect our ego to its forgotten psychic roots. Borderland people are sensitive to their environment, intuitive, kinesthetic and tuned into the energies around them. They inevitably suffer a split and psychic tension between ego and nature as they attempt to rationalize and integrate their transrational experiences into consciousness. Bernstein says these people are often incorrectly diagnosed as borderline personality types or schizophrenic, causing them further alienation and psychological damage to their already sensitive psyches. Read More
Recent Comments