Category: Human Energy

To reconstruct what actually the Buddha taught is quite a feat. I have read many related books, practised meditation and lived the same spirit and experience of investigation the Buddha did. I have been able to remove layer after layer of misleading and useless clutter and reach the core. The result is shocking. If you…

We live in a failed society

May 27, 2019

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The most important task a society should perform is to help people to grow. When we are allowed to psychologically grow, we become happy and happy people don’t kill, don’t steal and don’t become politicians. Happy people would be motivated. They would help each other to solve problems. Modern society fails so badly at helping…

A. S. Neill

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He founded the famous Summerhill school. It’s a school that teaches way more than reading, writing and doing maths. It teaches peace, happiness, responsibility, democracy, self-confidence, trust and cooperation. No other school in the world teaches these things although they are important, aren’t they? Summerhill is also a psychological experiment that disconfirms assumptions about human…

Carl Rogers

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He invented modern Western psychology. Thanks to him we now know that, to help distressed people, we are not supposed to fix them or to meddle with chemicals in their brains. We have to accept them unconditionally instead. He promoted freedom in the classroom and told us about the importance of becoming who we are.…

Alfie Kohn

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What is this mystery called motivation? How can we motivate children, students and employees? What works? What doesn’t? Alfie Kohn is the right person to ask. I read: Punished by Rewards, The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes Unconditional Parenting

Dorothy Rowe

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Dorothy Rowe is one of the best worldwide experts in depression. She is one of the few psychologists who believe that you deserve the truth. I studied her: Beyond Fear Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison What Should I Believe?

Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm has been called the Love’s Prophet. He offers precious insights into: widespread psychological defects education human nature sanity and insanity in society I have studied many of his books: To Have or to Be? The Fear of Freedom The Sane Society The Art of Loving The Dogma of Christ On Disobedience

Obedient or stupid?

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Is obedience a good thing, a virtue, a value? Parents rejoice when their children do what they are told. Teachers think they are successful if their students repeat like parrots what they are supposed to learn. Employers are happy when employees follow directions. Priests have as a mission to tell you what you must do,…

Children, fear and parenting

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