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Science and Spirituality | Body and Mind: Let the Tide Come In

Most of us were only ever taught to manage things. To perform okay. To say “I’m fine” on autopilot until we actually believed it, or at least stopped questioning it. But the body keeps an honest record of everything our mouths agreed to leave behind…

The psychological and the spiritual aren’t competing systems. Together they create a full circuit, either feeding or starving us. The longest-process things on the list of human emotions aren’t longer because they’re more powerful. They’re longer because someone kept interrupting the process.

Eventually, we have to allow the tide to come in.

The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds

It’s been quite a while since I’ve shared a psychology-related write-up. Recently, I saw a clip of liberal commentary that prompted a realization: even many otherwise balanced, reasonable people don’t fully understand what’s happening in the psyches of those on the radical ends of the political spectrum. And this phenomenon is not confined to oneContinueContinue reading “The Psychology of Political Conviction: Why Facts Often Fail to Change Minds”

The Retardation of Reason

For months, I’ve been struggling with diagnostic fatigue when it comes to this blog. I realized long ago that I speak from upstream of a culture that has deliberately moved downstream and dammed itself there. Only recently did it fully land that this does not render the work pointless. It simply means the audience wasContinueContinue reading “The Retardation of Reason”

Understanding Cognition: How the Mind Processes Reality

In our last post, we explored The Purpose of CTMU: Bridging Cognition and the Universe, discussing how this framework unites thought and existence into a single interconnected system. With this foundation in mind, we can now take a closer look at cognition itself—the mechanism through which the mind interprets and interacts with the universe. IfContinueContinue reading “Understanding Cognition: How the Mind Processes Reality”