Narcissism & Envy

by Karl on July 10, 2010

These classes help you discover the mythologies of  self-objectification and the object relationships that perpetuate your suffering and self loathing. You then have an opportunity to just stop the suffering and connect with your innate nature, which is conscious, happy, free and unlimited.  Pathological envy – the second deadly sin – is a compounded emotion. It is brought on by the realization of some lack, deficiency, or inadequacy in oneself. It is the result of unfavorably comparing oneself to others: to their success, their reputation, their possessions, their luck, their qualities. It is misery and humiliation and impotent rage and a tortuous, slippery path to nowhere. The effort to break the padded walls of this self-visited purgatory often leads to attacks on the perceived source of frustration.

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Introduction to Dream Analysis

by on July 10, 2010

According to the 3rd century Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu, who one night:  “I Dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, content with my lot. SuddenlyI awoke and I was Chuang-Tzu again. Who am I in reality? A butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang-Tzu, or Chuang-Tzu imagining he was a butterfly?”

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What is the Super-Ego?

by Karl on July 10, 2010

What was your first experience after looking at the Tarot card to the left? When
I first looked at the card, the Devil, I was horrified by what I perceived as something
negative and evil. I said “get that thing away from me.” It was three years before
I understood what I saw in the card were shadow aspects of my personality, my
disowned self, mirrored back from the card. The disowned-self represents those
parts that for one reason or another are not acceptable to the super-ego and our
waking consciousness. Hence, they become compartmentalized, repressed and ever
more negatively charged.

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The Greatest Fear

by Karl on July 10, 2010

You can only continue a round of self-betraying behavior, if you think you’re going to get something different from that next cycle. All addictions are self-betrayal. Defining
yourself as an object is self-betrayal.

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The Roots of Megalomania

by Karl on July 10, 2010

Megalomania n : is defined as a delusional mental disorder that is marked by
infantile feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur.

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Experts Are Slow Learners

by Karl on July 10, 2010

Change requires the willingness to let go of lower levels of relative completion, or
seeming perfection, to attain higher ones. In the evolution of consciousness nothing
ever stays permanently set. It is important to consciously express a willingness to
transcend whatever may seem complete or perfect to us at present. This keeps us open
to receive higher levels of truth than that which may now seem adequate to us. It is
essential that we accept the possibility of higher interpretations of experience than we
may now be able to perceive. That is why the inline skating, slack line and movement
classes work. They present an experience beyond language, beyond what is held as
true and known by the rational mind.

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Narcissism & Acute Anger

by Karl on July 10, 2010

Anger is a compounded phenomenon. Most personality disordered people are prone to anger. Their anger is always sudden, raging, frightening and without an apparent provocation by an outside agent. It would seem that people suffering from personality disorders are in a constant state of anger, which is effectively suppressed most of the time. It manifests itself only when the person’s defenses are down, incapacitated, or adversely affected by circumstances, inner or external.

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Narcissism & Being Special

by on July 10, 2010

We all fear the loss of our identity and uniqueness. We seem to be acutely aware of this
fear in a crowd of people. This wish to be distinct, “special” in the most primitive sense,
is universal. It crosses cultural barriers and spans different periods in human history.
We use hair styles, clothing, behavior, lifestyles and products of our creative mind to
differentiate ourselves.

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Guilt & Punishment

by on July 10, 2010

When you feel guilt, an important characteristic of this feeling is that you should be
punished. You should be punished because of the things you have done, or the wrong
person you believe you are. Once you believe guilt is real, then you believe that you
will soon be punished for the guilt, or the act you believe you are guilty of. Guilt
always demands punishment, and since you fear punishment, this is the origin of fear.

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Narcissism & Aggression

by Karl on July 10, 2010

These classes, the movement and the Video Holo-Therapy help you discover the
mythologies, the self-objectification and the object relationships that perpetuate your
suffering and self loathing. You have an opportunity to just stop the suffering and
connect with your innate nature, which is conscious, happy, free and unlimited.

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We Do Not See Things as They Are

July 10, 2010

Tweet On a fall afternoon—I was five or six–I walked along one of the tree covered lanes on our farm. On the left along the dirt path, large, curled, dried, brown leaves of the May apples, on the right the moss covered bed of a trickling stream. The fresh smell of the earth. The crispness [...]

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What Makes a Narcissist Tick?

June 10, 2010

Tweet Traditional therapy, in most cases, has little success with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), it can only mitigate and ameliorate the condition by modifying some of the narcissist’s behaviors. Only narcissists, who go through a severe life crisis, tend to consider the possibility of therapy at all.  When they attend the therapeutic sessions, they, [...]

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We All Have a Story of Our Life

June 10, 2010

Tweet We all have a story of our life. We invent, adopt, are led by and measure ourselves against our personal narratives. These are, normally, commensurate with our personal histories, our predilections, our abilities, limitations, and our skills. We are not likely to invent a narrative which is wildly out of sync with ourselves. We [...]

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The Compensatory Personality

June 10, 2010

Tweet Seeks to create an illusion of superiority and to build up an image of high self-worth. Strives for recognition and prestige to compensate for the lack of a feeling of self-worth. May “acquire a deprecatory attitude in which the achievements of others are ridiculed and degraded”. Has persistent aspirations for glory and status. Has [...]

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The Narcissist

June 10, 2010

Tweet We all love ourselves. That seems to be such an instinctively true statement that we do not bother to examine it more thoroughly. In our daily lives – in love, in business, in other areas of life – we act on this premise. Yet, upon closer inspection, it looks shakier. Some people explicitly state [...]

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Male-Female Polarities of the Human Body

June 10, 2010

Tweet This information is meant to further illustrate the energy fields of the human body. The renderings and colored chart represent the general shapes and placement of individual Chakras. In the real world the shape and placement of the Chakras and fields vary from person to person and is a reflection of individual spiritual development. [...]

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What is Secularism and Humanism?

June 10, 2010

Tweet People often ask how the process I share differs from a secular psychological view of the world. It is spiritually based rather than based in an ego-identified rational, godless view of the world. The following material makes a distinction between the secular ego-based rational world-view and a spiritually based life. During the last thirty [...]

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The Therapeutic Model

June 10, 2010

Tweet The therapeutic model I utilize is a non-rational process based on a direct one-on-one energy transference. My life is a link in the ancient oral tradition of the Hermetic Sciences, a direct transmission from genuine adapts. For most the experience is perceived as an expanded-altered state, a non-ordinary state of consciousness. For me it [...]

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Strategies of the Superego

June 10, 2010

Tweet The superego tries to amass power in an all-out survival strategy. To that end it has two primary strategies that perpetuate pain and suffering. It tries to avoid painful situations or it grasps for things in the future. All of these strategies actually get the opposite result from that which is intended. You end [...]

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Self-realization, Self Inquiry & In-line Skating as Movement Therapy

June 10, 2010

Tweet This groundbreaking transformational tool is a refinement of many forms of movement therapy, the outcome of over 30 years of working with individuals and groups. There is nothing like this diagnostic and therapeutic tool anywhere. This approach to personal transformation is radical and innovative, the breakthrough many search for a lifetime. It quickly cuts [...]

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Reverse Wiring Indicators

June 10, 2010

Tweet These seminars give you a new way of looking at pain and discomfort. It’s human nature to avoid any life situation that causes pain. However, avoidance and denial leads to a limited life. We tend to keep ourselves in a zone where we’re comfortable and unchallenged. Then you aren’t having your life, life has [...]

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Psychological Projection

June 10, 2010

Tweet “Projecting our problems onto other people” Psychological projection is the phenomenon whereby one projects one’s own thoughts, motivations, desires, feelings, and so on onto someone else (usually another person, but psychological projection onto animals, parents, children, neighbors, other drivers, political figures, racial groups, states and countries, also occurs). According to the theories of Sigmund [...]

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Prerequisites for Growth and Authenticity

June 10, 2010

Tweet 1.  Among many native traditions, it is said life is simple if you: *Show up. *Pay attention. *Tell the truth without blame or judgment. *Are open to outcome, rather than attached to outcome. 2. To begin the process of personal growth, engage your self-observer and: *Delete the need to understand. *Make no comparisons. *Release [...]

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As We Think, So We Become

June 10, 2010

Tweet It is our responsibility to manage our intellect and ego. Choice can bring healthy, useful, benevolent and wholesome thoughts to the intellect. No one is a victim. You choose your thoughts. Thoughts become feelings and lead to actions, which through repetition over time become character. Ultimately thoughts mange the energy field of which we [...]

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Intelligence and Intellect

June 10, 2010

Tweet It is important to note that our much-vaunted intellect, though important, is only a small part of our whole being. The intellect is only one function of the greater whole. The intellect is not intelligence. Intellect is of the mind; it depends on memory, it functions through borrowed knowledge. All educational systems in the [...]

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Initiation of the Highest Order – Shaktipat

June 10, 2010

Tweet “Karl is a gifted spiritual teacher on the order of the awakened masters of India. His path parallels a yogic tradition and yet he is of the western tradition—an award winning electronics engineer, scientist and a former Fortune Five Executive. He is a modern day Shaman.” There are no terms in the English language [...]

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The Power of Disassociation

June 10, 2010

Tweet The superego will do anything it can to protect you, including kill you. When I give feedback that is perceived as a threat to the superego’s distorted perception of reality, the narcissistic quest for perfection, and the need to avoid losing at all cost, the narcissist often manifests self-destructive behavior. It can be in [...]

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The Mind is a Tool

June 10, 2010

Tweet The mind is a powerful tool. Like any tool, you can set aside, it is not the only tool. A phenomena of our culture is that most are addicted to negative thinking. They get a “perverse” pleasure from this. Negative thinking is like doing drugs. We become addicted to adrenaline, our own body chemistry. [...]

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Dream Interview and Analysis Aid

June 7, 2010

Tweet The following are questions you can ask yourself, a client or a friend to help explore the meaning of a dream. You may find the dreamer better able to answer your question if you first ask him to pretend that you come from another planet. This way, when you ask him, “Who is Bob [...]

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Dream Incubation

June 7, 2010

Tweet Dream Incubation involves submitting a question to the dream world with the sense that you will receive a relevant answer. It is best to work with this on a night when you are not over-tired, and when you do not have to get up to an alarm and hurry off in the morning.

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Dream Analysis Terms

June 7, 2010

Tweet Consciousness researchers, psychotherapists, and neuroscientists have used several major vehicles to explore the vast reaches of the human mind—meditation, hypnosis, drugs, biofeedback, free association, and even brain imaging devices. But in many ways, dreams have been the most useful. Despite their bizarre narratives and puzzling imagery, dream reports are fairly easy to obtain from [...]

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Analysis of Client’s Dreams

June 7, 2010

Tweet The following is a dream I received from Paul. The analysis technique I used was Dream Interviewing. You can find this technique discussed in more detail on the Dream Resource Pages on this site. In this technique I interviewed the dreamer (Paul in this case) asking what each symbol and image means to him. [...]

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Dream Analysis Introduction

June 7, 2010

Tweet There are cultural, ethnic, institutional, and personal myths, among others. Rather than judged as “true” or “false” myths can be evaluated as functional or dysfunctional in regard to growth, development and the attaining of goals set by a group or an individual.

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Vipassana Meditation

June 6, 2010

Tweet The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation The following is a discussion of Vipassana Meditation. Amplified in this are concepts that I have been teaching. It always helps to hear things presented in a different way. The Observer State is presented in a very clear manner and this may help bring more clarity for you.

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Faith & Reason

June 6, 2010

Tweet Throughout my life I have always had a preference for living with tools that bring practical results rather than an abstract philosophy. There are two kinds of information, knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is held in the head. Wisdom is an intuitive inner knowing. Knowledge is held in our mind and is what we talk [...]

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