This is a review of Jordan Peterson’s Self Authoring Suite, which includes the Past, Present and Future Authoring programs. This Self Authoring review will cover what the program is, my experience with it and some of the insights I gained, as well as some suggestions if you want to do it too. What is Self Authoring? The Self Authoring Suite is a set of writing programs … [Read more...] about Self Authoring Review – Jordan Peterson’s Self Authoring Suite
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How Love Might Feel
It’s funny, I was writing a post by the same name, wondering how you might know if it’s love. How can you be sure, I thought, when you don’t know your subjectivity is the same as someone else’s? How do we know we’re all talking about the same thing? And so on and so forth, philosophizing. Then I fell in love for the first time. On the first day it was just an inkling - the … [Read more...] about How Love Might Feel
Focusing (Introspection Technique)
Hey, you haven’t heard from me in a while. Today I wanted to share something interesting I learned recently - it’s a technique for introspection called Focusing. Focusing was created by a psychotherapist named Eugene Gendlin who, in the 1950s and 60s, did research analyzing thousands of recorded therapy sessions in an attempt to find what separated those that were successful … [Read more...] about Focusing (Introspection Technique)
Your Top 20 Modafinil Questions Answered
This is an FAQ for modafinil, meant to answer the most common questions I get personally as well as those aggregated from online search queries. It's a mix of personal experience, information gleaned from anecdotal evidence online, and objective science. All the objective claims are cited with relevant links to studies in the footnotes. There are also links sprinkled throughout … [Read more...] about Your Top 20 Modafinil Questions Answered
Explaining Psychedelic Creativity with Sliding Scales of Perception
The more psychedelics I take the more I have the desire to “bring something back” - a little for myself but mostly in order to be better able to convince more people to take psychedelics. The more one can parse out the details of the experience, I think, the more able one is to explain the potential benefits to others. This is especially true when engaging with rationally … [Read more...] about Explaining Psychedelic Creativity with Sliding Scales of Perception