psychology
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Can meditation be dangerous? Somebody asked me whether meditation was dangerous. We can initially laugh at that question, but I must admit that even I had the same doubts before. It does not take a long time to decipher in the question a profound lesson to be learned. Behind this question, we find superstitious thinking,…
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What yoga is not: There’s this tendency in the West to approach yoga and other spiritual practices within the framework of materialistic thinking. By this I mean that there’s a tendency to see yoga as a tool to achieve external results. The West has lost its Christianity, and this event has permitted people to explore…
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Oh, those memories! In the photo above, I was on a trip to NY on a cold winter day, c. 2015. Here, I was dealing with the excruciating pains of merely existing. In reality, this is how I was feeling: My story: how I got there. After enduring some of the darkest times of my…
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I’m of the idea that all forms of therapy, or even meditation, lead, eventually and quite naturally, to resolving the conflicts experienced in early childhood and inherent in the relation of children to their parents. This type of relationship is not only the first, most important, and most necessary of human relations, but also the…
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This 18-page essay contains my current notions about the human psyche, or the mind. It is based on my independent studies of Western depth-psychology (the psychology of the unconscious), Western philosophy (mainly metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, and ethics!), as well as Eastern philosophies, especially Samkhya-Yoga philosophy. … This body of knowledge, together with my metaphysical understanding…
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The following dreams belong to a woman that, in real life, is a devout church-goer, but that has been dealing with problems in keeping a relationship and conceiving a child. Here are the dreams: Dream 1: I am in a well where a sewer of dirty water comes, and the water looks brown and dirty,…
Oscar G Najarro 