The Real Heroes

The Real Heroes

Perhaps a new and better definition of human beings should be: “Beings that fool themselves and give great, pompous support to their erroneous beliefs. Their objective is to avoid knowing what they’re really all about. They are therefore eminently self-destructive.” One of their best vehicles for attaining and maintaining self-trickery is the use of words. For example, I’ve noticed that the words ‘hero or heroine’ are defined as persons who are distinguished for exceptional courage, fortitude, or bold enterprise etc. Nowadays that could include political leaders as well as those who oppose them, sports figures who break records, “saintly” self-sacrificing religious devotees, soldiers who die in battle, militant advocates of “important causes,” or authorities in science, the arts, entertainment and finances. Curiously, when we observe these kinds of “heroes” under the “psychological microscope” we...

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Greed and Envy

Greed and Envy

It’s frighteningly interesting, that apocalyptic global warming is announcing the end of the earth and of all her living creatures. It has also been cited over and over again that the doings of human beings are the cause of it all. This information has been available to us for the past fifty years or so. Nowadays, tangible signs of such eventualities are all around us in ever increasing leaps and bounds. These cataclysmic circumstances are strangely enough presented as sort of a sidelight on the news, along with opposing opinions that try to cast doubt on the effects of global warming even though we are incessantly experiencing them. To add to this ambivalent mess, these arguments against the realities of global warming are presented at the same time that we are living with wild,...

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Fraudulent Life And Its Consequences...

Fraudulent Life And Its Consequences

Dr. Edmund Bergler called it “Counterfeit Sex.” Since my latest book is titled, We´re Having Sex Right Now!, I feel comfortable widening the concept calling it “Fraudulent Life.” Call it what you like, it’s all fake. REAL IS UNREAL—PERVERSE IS WORTHWHILE If we take into account our so called civilized society I suppose we would agree that some defensive (fake) conduct is necessary for social interaction. However, for some centuries now, the fundamental essence of integrated human energy (sexual energy) has been denied in favor of the likes of wholesale manipulation of behavior, massive dependence on mechanical contraptions with their instructions and maintenance requirements, intellectualizing life without experiencing it, and getting money any way you can (just for the sake of getting it). All of these are accomplished with the background music of deceit,...

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HOW CAN IT BE…That People In This World Do Harm To Children?...

HOW CAN IT BE…That People In This World Do Harm To Children?

Click Here to listen to the song! Recently twenty-eight people were murdered in Newtown, Connecticut. More than three months have passed and the only reaction seems to be governmental gestures toward arms control and promises to “some day” implement suggestions from anyone who offers them. Some few of us here in Costa Rica are disturbed for two reasons: One: Repressive measures (like a prohibition arms control) traditionally inflame the evil they pretend to eliminate and… Two: While it seems like no other approach to doing away with humans mutilating and killing other humans has as yet been published; we have a well-researched innovative, never before explored strategy that has not been heard as yet, and indications are that it will be avoided in Newtown. Why? Possibly because we have lived so long with no...

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Have Your Cake and Eat It?… Impossible!...

Have Your Cake and Eat It?… Impossible!

Note: The above is an old saying which means, if you eat the cake you no longer have it. Almost every patient that looks for help from a psychotherapist seeks something at the outset that they can never get: They want relief from the consequences of their self-destructive behavior but they don’t want to change their behavior. At this time Costa Rica can be likened to a neurotic individual who is driving itself more and more crazy every day. Like those who suffer from self-administered conflicts, Costa Rica is on a collision course toward self-destruction. The other day I heard a television commentator (all dressed in white to commemorate The International Day of Peace) say something like: “Thank God we live in this island of peace. God bless Costa Rica for that. Too bad...

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The Real Cause Of Obesity

The Real Cause Of Obesity

For years now we have been exposed to a plethora of books, articles, “medicines,” exercise systems and machines, surgeries, spas, superficial professional psychological gossip, supplements, potions, substitutes, stratagem, subterfuge and on and on and on regarding the “plague” of OBESITY. In case you haven’t noticed the flood of fat in our lives has registered a steady increase keeping pace with or exceeding the flood of remedies that struggle do dam up this deluge. Recently a newspaper here in Costa Rica dedicated a week long focus involving several pages each day, outlining, enumerating, reporting on what for them, is every available study, ritual, political involvement, exaggerated cases of cures for, expert advice, on and on and on in response to the apparent overwhelming interest in the theme. For me, their response to this suffocating, life-threatening...

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