Core intellectual pursuits
This is my mind map for multiple interrelated ideas that i am interested in. The various topics that fascinate me include the study of the human condition, consciousness, existence and death. The study of Esotericism and how it relates to the study of consciousness.
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Fundamental book in my pursuit of deeper understanding of the human experience
The architecture of the mind
The examination of mental life through clinical psychology and psychiatric care.
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of the clinical research on mindfulness identified five major mechanisms underlying positive change: relaxation, acceptance, affect tolerance, behavior change, and meta-cognitive awareness/insight. A more recent wave of neuroscientific research correlates these psychological effects with specific brain changes (Lutz et al., 2007). Taken together, a
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the Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges. According to this theory, our autonomic nervous system is not a simple binary system of "fight or flight" and "rest and digest" but rather a complex hierarchy of response states mediated by different branches of the vagus nerve,
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Myths, fairy tales, and archetypal stories give us a sense of cohesion because we recognize the patterns, even unconsciously, as bone-deeply familiar. Stories serve to remind us that whatever difficulties we might be experiencing have been encountered many times before. We are not alone; we are connected to an ancestral storehouse of experience,
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