Human Interiority: Beyond the Psychological Paradigm

Many of our common modern ways of knowing are based on assumptions that are either fictions of the Academy or simply wrong.

Over the past few months, I’ve experienced some profound insights orbiting the foundations of awareness, identity and the language and models we are scripted to employ to ‘understand’ them. In point of fact, however, this ‘understanding’ is backwards, and, most generally, is a kind of confused ‘overstanding’, where a model or idea comes to dominate the entire field of study, exploration and explanation.

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Allopathic medicine, the mechanized aspect that imagines hospitals are the best bet for healing, is at once functional and gravely misconceived. A hospital is, in nearly all cases, the opposite of a environment that is oriented toward aiding human healing. They strongly resemble prisons and torture chambers…

In physics, ‘string theory’ has dominated the establishment for decades, failing miserably to produce any useful results or a ‘unification’ theory.

We live in a world dominated my foundational misconceptions about nearly everything, but perhaps the most devastating of these are models of our…