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Fulfilling Our Highest Possibility

How to create the emotional life we seek.

Intelligence
Life Within Our Consciousness

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on March 29, 2024

Have we become the "wise’ Homo sapiens we like to call ourselves? Beneath the radar of the world news, perhaps there may be interesting glimpses of what it means to be fully human.

Have we become the "wise’ Homo sapiens we like to call ourselves? Beneath the radar of the world news, perhaps there may be interesting glimpses of what it means to be fully human.

Environment
The Living Order of the Self

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on February 8, 2024

How does the natural order of our self affect our psychological power? The emotional suffering caused by a disordered self touches everything we are and become.

How does the natural order of our self affect our psychological power? The emotional suffering caused by a disordered self touches everything we are and become.

Emotions
The Search for Intense Self-Experience

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on November 30, 2023

All over the world, human beings are experimenting with living self-experiences. Wellness became a trillion-dollar industry, but so did cocaine.

All over the world, human beings are experimenting with living self-experiences. Wellness became a trillion-dollar industry, but so did cocaine.

Consciousness
When the Inner Skill Enriches Self-Experience

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on October 27, 2023

According to predictive processing theory, our normal self-experience is a controlled hallucination. Are we subordinate to our habitual polarizations? Or can we be empowered?

According to predictive processing theory, our normal self-experience is a controlled hallucination. Are we subordinate to our habitual polarizations? Or can we be empowered?

Personality Change
What Makes You Feel "You"

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on September 27, 2023

Is the growing you broken by a thousand cultural voices about what is allowed and what is not? How we feel depends on the quality of many other minds.

Is the growing you broken by a thousand cultural voices about what is allowed and what is not? How we feel depends on the quality of many other minds.

Emotion Regulation
Lost Inside My Emotions

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on May 25, 2023

When we lose the clarity and joie de vivre of an open and expanded mind, life becomes less fulfilling. We get lost in the contractions and constrictions of our emotions.

When we lose the clarity and joie de vivre of an open and expanded mind, life becomes less fulfilling. We get lost in the contractions and constrictions of our emotions.

Emotion Regulation
An Emotional Storm Rises

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on February 9, 2023

Doomsday Clock scientists warn of a time of unprecedented danger: It will be the ultimate challenge to our emotional regulation abilities.

Doomsday Clock scientists warn of a time of unprecedented danger: It will be the ultimate challenge to our emotional regulation abilities.

Psychology
Feelings Reveal Whether Life Is Worth Living

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on December 7, 2022

The answer to the question of whether our life is worth living— meaningful, valuable, fulfilling—is not given by concepts but by our embodied subjective experience of it.

The answer to the question of whether our life is worth living— meaningful, valuable, fulfilling—is not given by concepts but by our embodied subjective experience of it.

Psychology
On the Origin of Consciousness

Patrick De Vleeschauwer Drs. on September 30, 2022

What do we know about the source of our subjective experience? Can quality training in self-observation revolutionize psychology from within?

What do we know about the source of our subjective experience? Can quality training in self-observation revolutionize psychology from within?