Tweet   Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious Article by Tam Hunt  This month, the cover of New Scientist ran the headline, “Is the Universe Conscious?” Mathematician and physicist Johannes Kleiner, at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Germany, told author Michael Brooks that a mathematically precise definition of consciousness could mean that the cosmos is suffused with subjective experience. “This could be the beginning of a scientific revolution,” Kleiner said, referring to research he and others have been conducting.  Kle ..read more

Tweet "A restless wanderer who creates unrest and stirs up strife, now here, now there, and works magic...  we always rediscover our unconscious psychic contents in other people." Carl Jung War, conflict, mass protests, and cults recruit and channel the traumatic residue in the shadowlands of the psyche, externalizing the unhealed, inner conflict. When the unbearable aspects of any experience are projected outward, the individual begins to embody their unique shadow, finding a new, short-term validation of long-term inner outrages. For a moment, the unbearable becomes bearable - and soc ..read more

  Tweet Share   An extract from the book: Nondual Passion - a Quality of Consciousness in Nondual Therapy, by Georgi Y. Johnson What happens when the collective moves with denial, cruelty, violence, and rage, sweeping away individual freedom and demanding another kind of unity? What is going on when the collective demands conformity toward a unified agenda, and tyrants and despots whip up what appears as the passion of the collective? What do we do in a groundswell of lynching, hate or war? Don’t these collective evils show us just why we should avoid passion, lest it become collecti ..read more

  Share Tweet Where we conflict with peace, deny, ignore, barter and trade it, we brutalize our own natural pathways of being. We become auto-immune, attacking in all directions, protesting, dictating, and proliferating the very suffering with which we decided we have no peace. By Georgi Y. Johnson, author of Nondual Therapy: the Psychology of Awakening Peace is not a military event. It's not an outcome, nor is it a strategy. It's a resonance of how it feels to be alive, behind all movements of experience. This resonance is what allows life itself to "be". We depend on it. The peace of th ..read more

About a decade ago, two psychiatrists and a team of student psychiatrists asked me if I hear voices in my head. “Why, don’t you?” I answered. They looked grandiosely disapproving and all simultaneously ticked something in their notepads. Oh dear. OK, with three babies under the age of two, living in a strange country, alienated from a foreign culture, investigating non-conventional terrorism and what (in 1998) I feared was an international threat from Al Qaeda, I had become out of balance and was having panic attacks. Three babies, a conventionally ‘damaged’ childhood, the outgrown hippy lifes ..read more

  Tweet Share By Georgi Y. Johnson The experience of shock is inseparable from trauma, but it also follows the same pathway as conscious awakening. Shock resets the system. When used against us, it can dictate our behavior. When mastered, it can become an entry-point to unconditional freedom in form. We are going through our regular day, with our normal thoughts, and our regular perceptions. Even if we’re not particularly happy, everything feels familiar and known to us. There is a kind of habituated naturalness and our core consciousness is latent as the system functions in a manner ..read more

  By Georgi Y. Johnson Is trauma a delusional state, a sabotaging hell loop where we are caught in repeating patterns of panic and dread? Or is it a calling back toward a core experience where consciousness awakened in its unfiltered nakedness as the world fell apart? Share Tweet Jullie was in Guam with her husband and six-year-old child for an assignment for his work. Somehow, she was getting thinner and thinner. She was hardly eating, and was constantly in anxiety. “We’re sitting on the beach, and she is, like, checking around her all the time as if someone or something is about to atta ..read more

  Tweet Share Sensual Lockdown is often just one thought away. It happens when we name an experience, and immediately invalidate it, deciding that it can't "be"  and therefore that it can never be "felt". Examples of these tricky factualizations where the felt-sense is locked down include the felt sense of  senselessness, isolation, impossibility, and overwhelm. What, is senselessness a sensation? Yes! How else could we experience it? Often, with the tyrannical verdict of these words, the system moves into a state of trauma - as the mind is now dissociating from direct experienc ..read more

  "Pain extends beyond tissue damage and hurt feelings, and includes the distress and existential angst we feel when we're uncertain or have just experienced something surreal. Regardless of the kind of pain, taking Tylenol seems to inhibit the brain signal that says something is wrong." Tweet Share Lead researcher Daniel Randles and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, is discussing new findings suggest that the pain medication Tylenol may have more profound psychological effects than previously thought. It's power, the researchers suggest in a paper published in Psycho ..read more

  Tweet Share   By Georgi Y. Johnson “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” Albert Einstein Seven-year-old Khalil is sent to fetch his father back from the field because it’s time to eat. He doesn’t really want to go, because he fears his father’s punishment for having broken his bike. But he goes anyway because his mother needs him to. He searches for his father in the usual places in the field but can’t find him. There is some sense of relief, because Khalil is still anticipating punishment, and his father had been quite the enemy of late. Kha ..read more