The Ontological War

On first hearing about them, some ontologically insensitive people may think that the socialself is the same as the realself, only a little deeper. This is not true. The two selves are structured differently, and because of their different structures they perceive themselves and all of human life and existence in different ways. The socialself [...]

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Last night on tv a woman on the program CSI: NY said about the man who had raped her: “He stole my soul.” This statement by her shows that she was sensitive ontologically, but she wasn’t insightful ontologically, and she needed to understand two important facts about her sexual assault.
First of all, in all of [...]

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On one of the groups I’m on someone asked about Colin Wilson and his book The Outsider.
To understand Colin Wilson a person first has to understand the two kinds of alienation, which are worlds apart. In “World A” all of us normal, healthy, well-adjusted people look at those who are maladjusted, neurotic, and worse and [...]

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I post to various discussion groups, and I’m going to include a few of those posts here, with possibly minor changes to them. For copyright reasons, I will not include the full post of the other poster.
In this post I reply to a poster who had written that people who have schizophrenia do not have [...]

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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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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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I’ve been putting off writing this post for a long time because it is not especially friendly: It takes a hard look at most people ontologically. I decided, however, to write this post after surfing the Science Daily website and reading through the list of its 310 articles on schizophrenia. Fairly strong evidence exists to [...]

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The following excerpt from an autobiographical sketch by DH Lawrence is probably my favorite passage of any I have ever read. Lawrence was sometimes described as “maladjusted,” but what this passage actually shows, at least to the ontologically insightful, is that he was sensitive enough to know that human existence is unacceptably wrong and needs [...]

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Someone brought up the subject of depression on one of the lists I’m on, and this is my reply:
To me, there are two main reason for depression, both of which come from our misunderstanding of ourselves and our self.
We all like to believe that we are living life fully as ourselves in reality. But once [...]

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Someone asked me what “degrees of being” are, and the best way to describe them is to show them in action—to show them as a person actually experiences them.
(A short definition of “degrees of being” is in the Glossary above, and much more on degrees of being is in Being and Life . Also, in [...]

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