Recent content by Barliman

My take on intuition is it is the feeling we get when we are emotionally "clear". I have recently completed treatment for Adult ADHD, and have gone from being really unsettled and turbulent, and incredibly impulsive to being very calm. I had thought of myself as very left brained- logic based-...

Sadly this happens less frequently than we might wish. I can name a few older people who are sorely in need of an insight upgrade! Jungs concept of the persona and shadow is very illuminating. The more we project ourselves as one thing or another- the more we deny the rest of our personality...

Its nice to see it happening. I think the talk of a "2012 consciousness shift" is true- because it is already happening. Kind of interesting in a weird way that it ties in with that prophetic stuff- but we appear to be living in a world now where people are understanding that the big media...

I seriously doubt that Iran will do anything more than rattle sabres and talk big. The outcome of any nuclear strike would be removal of Iran from the map with a massive nuclear counterstrike, everyone knows that. The real issue is that our leaders are giving the Iranian leaders the outside...

Very specifically- I believe that for the Military Industrial Complex to flourish, war is necessary. Our economy is being propped up by the Military Industrial Complex, and has been ever since WWII pulled us out of the Great Depression. The other factor that needs to be considered is the...

It is not so much a question of turning away from God, as it is a question of turning away from other peoples definitions of God. I never could relate to the God presented by "Bible believing Christians, and it has come as a bit of a shock to me to realize that other people think I am...

The bigger question is "do we hide parts of ourselves from ourselves, and how can we possibly be aware enough of all the parts of ourselves not to do so?"

Tao Te Ching I often read from it. Little phrases have great impact. It is more a book to open and reflect on from time to time. The paradoxical statements gradually undercut your belief in the world of the ten thousand things.

I often reference THe Matrix, and Groundhog Day as exemplifying deep truths. The whole world as we see it is just a projection constructed from the set of our sense data overlaid by the years of experience we have used to construct our views of the world. Even if there is an objective reality-...

Hiding myself In many ways I am very open. I was diagnosed with ADHD 2 years ago and I found that being very open about the diagnosis actually got people looking out for times when I was backsliding into inattentive or diaorganised behaviour. The catch is though that human personality is very...