Deep Psychology
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Your State is More Fundamental Than Any Diagnosis
A Diagnosis Is Just a Heuristic
The Diagnosis Obsession - Part 2/2
Diagnosis Is Big Business
The Diagnosis Imperative
Diagnoses Are Trendy
The Diagnosis Obsession - Part 1 (#149)
4 Forms of Fake Inner Work
The Litmus Test for Inner Work
Real v Fake Inner Work (#148)
Your Psyche Constructs Your World
Everything You Believe About Yourself Is a Story
Why Your Experience is Self-Sealing
Key Principles for Psychological Work, Part 2/2 (#147)
How to Understand People Inside Out
We Only Know a Tiny Slither of Life
Your Fundamental Assumption About Humans
Mundane Acts Are a Microcosm
The "World" is a Function of Your Psychology
We Are Fundamentally Confused About Our Identity
Why You Do Everything You Do
Who You Are Is Right Before You
The Power of Truth in Psychological Work
Key Principles for Psychological Work, Part 1/2
Self-Observation Changes Everything
Your Mind is a Mosaic
Psychology = Why You Are As You Are
What is Psychology?
Spiritual Awareness is Ultimate
The Problem With Scientific Slogans
Science is an Ever-Improving Approximation of Reality
If Science Isn’t Ultimate, How Should We Use It?
What Science Misses About Experience
Guided Exercise for Recognising Non-duality
What is Experience?
What If Experience Is Fundamental?
Why Models Obscure Understanding
Does Science Actually Describe Reality?
What Models Actually Are & Their Fundamental Flaw
Science is Addicted to Explanations
The Brain Is In Experience
Your Brain Does Not Think
Your Brain Is Not the Source of Fear
The Limits of Brain Science: Why Correlation Isn’t Explanation
Science’s Hidden Black Hole
The Main Blind Spot in Science
Ep 201The Echo Chamber of Science
A key and mostly overlooked issue is that science is an echo chamber. Much of science operates through repetition, imitation, and inherited frameworks rather than original insight - and this underlies scientific training too.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/4 episode, The Hidden Dogma in Scientific Thinking.Episode category: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-catsNewsletter & books: https://deep-psychology.com/my-links
Ep 200The Hidden Dogma In Scientific Thinking
Scientific practice contains certain philosophical assumptions. These are treated as facts and then passed on. And they are unexamined. That is, they are dogma. In episode 1 of my April series on the philosophy of science, we uncover these hidden assumptions and help you free your mind from scientism.My philosophy episodes: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/41de4d4f-0232-4c5d-bb84-436add43f6f9Explore my 200-episode podcast library: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-catsNewsletter & books: https://deep-psychology.com/my-links
Ep 199Why You Cannot Learn Spirituality
To engage in spiritual learning, you must believe you don't know your true nature, and then go out and try to find it. Yet, nobody can truly tell you what it is. It is a discovery you must make.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 25/3 episode, What Spiritual Teaching Can't Do.Related episodes: all March episodes!Newsletter & books: https://deep-psychology.com/my-linksExplore my 200-episode archive by category: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-cats
Ep 198Why Do Spiritual Teachers Teach at All?
Spiritual teaching itself is built on an illusion. Furthermore, there are several hidden reasons why spiritual teachers teach - and they are not all pretty!This is a snippet from my Wednesday 25/3 episode, What Spiritual Teaching Can't Do.Related episodes: all March episodes!Newsletter & books: https://deep-psychology.com/my-linksExplore my 200-episode archive by category: https://deep-psychology.com/#pod-cats