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This post is from the website www.psychology-spot.com and can be found here. Originally entitled: “We do not free ourselves from conventions by despising them, but avoiding being deceived by them, according to Alan Watts”, the article was written by Jennifer Delgado> “To be free from social convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. It is to be able to use it as an instrument instead of being used by it”, wrote the philosopher Alan Watts. We tend to think that the best way to fight against a convention, belief or idea that we do…

This article originally appeared in theMay 2003issue of Yoga International. Author: Georg Feuerstein So long as we are not enlightened, we experience ourselves as limited identities—islands of embodied consciousness. We think we are a particular body-mind and relate all our experiences to this inner center we call the ego. If we do this in an exaggerated fashion, others regard us as egomaniacs. If we attribute the workings of the larger world to ourselves, we are delusional. Psychologically speaking, the ego is an essential and necessary aspect of human development. From a spiritual perspective, however, the ego is a mechanism by…

In one word: Energy. Every being on Earth either produces or consumes it or both. Every system on Earth creates or distributes it. The Earth itself emanates it from its very core.So, is it really such a stretch to answer some of life’s biggest questions, “What are we?” and “What are we doing here?” with something related to energy? Not from where I stand. From this vantage point, we are energy beings and it follows that we are here to either make energy or consume it.In essence, we are all the same. If we could all cover our eyes with…

A lot of times when people think of leveling up in life, they think of acquiring more wealth or fame but there are so many more things to live for that are pretty cool too. Like leveling up on your own by making peace with your surroundings. If we let our mind see the world only from the perspective that some things are good and others are bad, then most surroundings on Earth become not that great. Provided your basic needs are met, then if you take a minute to stop to look and listen to what surrounds you, you…

When we think of leveling up on life, the common tendency is to associate that with accumulating more materials things. We start thinking of ways to make more money, buy more clothes, go on better vacations and so forth. But, there is one way to level up which does not require anything from anyone else and which you can start practicing right now. This is the world of lucid dreaming. It is the art of being productive while you sleep. A few simple steps might do the trick for you, but, I won’t deny it, like anything else worth having…