Category: Growth & Development

A conversation with Claude AI on how we’ve always been questioning external authorities of what’s real and true even before AI came along, we just need to make it a daily aspect of our lives…

…which creates a fictitious identity and narrative. He continuously tells himself this narrative and he calls this narrative, “My life.” Not realizing that all that is not your life at all. It’s a story in…

So there are times when consciousness seems to evolve and then it regresses. Uh that is part of a universal pattern. Now, you may want to guess what period we live in right now. (laughter)…

Now in cognitive psychology they have a term for when we are living a life that does not match up to truth and it’s called cognitive dissonance. And it creates a very deep sense of…

Why vertical development is an experienced-based journey, not a knowledge-based one, which transforms your perception in the process.

A conversation with Claude AI on how “stuckness” is reinterpreted at the latter stage of vertical development.

How it makes you slow down, stop, and reflect, so as to move beyond thinking to feeling your way forward.

Creativity often begins with cognitive dissonance — the friction between competing truths. It doesn’t resolve the tension by choosing one side (e.g. this OR that). Instead, it uses the tension to transform both into a…

You can’t bypass the experience with an explanation.

Schopenhauer, in his splendid essay called “On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual,” points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to…