Advancing Psychological Education for All
Many of the problems being faced in America can be linked to a tendency to avoid confrontation of chronic social problems. This avoiding tendency often comes as a surprise to people from other nations, who tend to think of Americans as pragmatic and down-to-earth. In many social situations, a particular main involvement will be seen … Continue reading
A knowledge worth understanding is not less important than a teacher worth seeking. Subordinate involvements—side and main—express, by definition, at least a surface respect for what is agreed should be the controlling business at hand, however demanding they may be in fact. It is implied that such subordinate involvements ought to catch only the individual’s … Continue reading
Great spirits now on Earth are sojourning; he of the cloud, the cataract, the lake, who on Helvellyn’s summit, wide awake, catches his freshness from Archangel’s wing: he of the rose, the violet, the spring, the social smile, the chain for Freedom’s sake: And lo!—whose steadfastness would never take a meaner sound than Raphael’s whispering. … Continue reading
Keen, fitful gust are whisp’ring here and there among the bushes half leafless, and dry; the stars look very cold about the sky, and I have many miles on foot to fare. Yet feel I little of the cool bleak air, or of the dead leaves rustling drearily, or of those silver lamps that burn … Continue reading
There are as many ways to the union with the Overself as there are human beings. The orthodox, the conventional, and the traditional ways can claim exclusiveness or monopoly only by imperiling truth. Involvement refers to the capacity of an individual to give, or withhold from giving, one’s concerted attention to some activity at hand—a … Continue reading
Through various windows we could see the palm trees accenting the drive, or the pines at the end of the pond, or the fields out back with new-cut grass. That part was pretty nice. The Winchester Mansion rambled on and on, it was a never-ending story. It was a nice estate, with the fence alone … Continue reading
We must recognize what is not always recognized, that the growth of mind and character takes time, just as the growth of trunk and limbs takes time. A man does not begin to mature and become what he is likely to be until he is past thirty. Since involvement is not directly visible but can … Continue reading
When a child smells something he likes, his natural impulse is to taste it. This also applies to human adults, repressions notwithstanding. It is simply repression of one kind or another that keeps an adult from following up his desire to tastes an object which smells pleasant. Most repression are those which are taught, some … Continue reading
The heart that leaps at the thought that life has some higher meaning, some better worth has learned the art of living. There is only one way under high Heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other … Continue reading
Occultists draw on the past. Everything they do has some historical, sometimes religious, bond. Rumours, myths and superstitions surround almost every aspect of the secret societies of men and women who gather suspiciously—because of the secrecy—and perform their dark and dramatic rituals, formulated from old grimoires handed down and rewritten through the ages. Personalities, too, … Continue reading
A mental disorder has been taking place, reflecting not only individual psychological strain but also the broader social and environmental forces that shape mental health.…
People often assume that sharing a physical environment means sharing a psychological or social reality. Yet this is one of the great illusions of modern…
Surely it could not be alive in there. And yet something stirred — not with the vulgar animation of breath, but with the slow, drifting…
“When the spirit resigns itself to sorrow, it is not the world that conquers us, but we who abandon the field.” What we are describing…
Randolph Harris II International Institute 