So, my worldview comes nearly full circle back to consider Maslow and "self-actualization"... and launches off from there. I think "launches" is the appropriate word... =)

( Purpose of Life is To Live, in detail and applied? )

I often leave obvious things undone so that I don't have to face not knowing what to do if I were to have finished those things demanding my attention.

(I'm surely not the only one.)

~Odyssey

Following some inexplicable intuition and chance, I looked more into Albert Schweitzer tonight ( Read more... )

My first totally stable and vivid, extended, lucid dream from normal nighttime sleeping was this morning ( Read more... )

By Nathaniel Branden, the author of the book by that name.
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/articles_essays/what_self_esteem.html

In “The Six Pillars of Self Esteem,” I examine the six practices that I have found to be essential for ( Read more... )

I finished reading The Kundalini Experience by Sannella, an older Kundalini book recommended to me by my Qigong teacher. It's extremely helpful as an introduction from a somewhat more objective and descriptive point of view from a rogue physician. It seems like this book was a/the groundbreaking book on the topic in a Western scientific attempt ( Read more... )

Wrapping life around a compelling mission statement

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Quality of life improvement x2-3

What patterns do I see in my life story more clearly now?

In many ways my self-improvement life's the same as it's been over several years, in all its ugly imperfection and "two steps forward, one step back" pattern. But the quality and enjoyment of ( Read more... )

This past week I've been waking with long, vivid, story-like dreams multiple times a day. With other things to do, I haven't had the interest to record them, for better or for worse. There's no one person or identifiable symbol that's been obvious.

A dominant dream emotion, however, is wanting to figure out what's going on and asking many ( Read more... )

I'm in a slight state of shock. Below accomplishes a sweeping process overview of my emotional evolution in the past year or so.

In a comment to Lucretia here, I just remembered this dream that I didn't know what to do with at the time ( Read more... )

And Onto Figuring Out Society ( Read more... )