The Ontological War

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Entries from July 2007

359° of Psych

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Psychiatry is unrelenting in its search for the causes of mental illness.
For instance, in its section on schizophrenia Science Daily has articles on “brain synapses,” “neuron activity,” a “damaged gene,” “white-matter defects,” “dopamine abnormalities,” “cannabis,” “abnormalities of the mouth,” “gene mutations governing a key brain enzyme,” “changes in brain density,” and “abnormal proteins,” along with [...]

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Tags: DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Mental Illness · Ontological Fear · Ontologically Lost · Rewriting Reality

Life Inside the Donut

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

I previously posted this to a discussion group I was on; several changes have been made here.
We need to keep in mind that there is a difference between intellectually learning something and the knowledge that comes with becoming more who one truly is. Two examples of the latter are seen in the college freshman who [...]

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Tags: Alienation by Attrition · Bad Alienation · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Mental Illness · Ontological Fear · Ontologically Lost · The Transition

Realself Ontology: Mostly a Young Adults’ Subject?

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

In the past, I may have been looking in the wrong place to find people who would be interested in realself ontology and in increasing their degrees of realself.
I started my ontological quest when I was a young adult, and I think probably everyone else does as well. But for many young men and women, [...]

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Tags: Alienation by Attrition · Bad Alienation · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Ego-boundaried Beliefs · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Fear · Ontologically Lost · Ontology Trumps Everything · Rewriting Reality · Socialself Life · The Transition

Not Even a Single Millimeter Forward

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Several times since I wrote the last entry here, Ontological Abilities, I’ve wonder if I wasn’t being too harsh in it.
In the past, other than in Being and Life, I’ve almost always tried to limit my writings to the positive side of increasing one’s degree of being. During the few times I have talked about [...]

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Tags: Bad Alienation · DECREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Defending Alienated Life · Hating One's Inner Self · INCREASING DEGREES OF BEING · Ontological Fear · The Transition