An integrative and holistic site exploring the depths of psychology and existence, community and the environment.
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I’ll be posting articles and audio-visual recordings up here regularly on whatever I feel inspired to write about and present on. I’ll also present the work of others that I find interesting and constructive. I hope it helps you in some way. If you have anything you would like to add, or any questions you’d [...]
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Love is a great mystery and often misunderstood. It is the essence of growth and healing. It is a common dilemma that most people struggle with: how much do I look after myself (to ‘look after number one’) and how much do I look after others?
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2012: Currents of change – a brief synopsis on the times that are already here
Posted on 18. Jan, 2012 by Ben.
2012 is set to be a year of extreme change – but not necessarily what you’d expect. Often what happens on the outside is a symbolic representation of what is happening on the inside. A transformation of human consciousness is represented and facilitated by change and conflict in our systems of economics and geo-politics.
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Don’t ask the Government. Many people become overwhelmed and feel paralyzed and oppressed when they consider doing something new and different. We are often reduced to inaction and rendered powerless, such that our God-given ideas and inventions never manifest when our creativity is met with a sense of threat and danger and even ridicule. What [...]
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Co-Creation: How God exists and why. Ben Bruce 1/12/11 What is God and what has He/ She / It got to do with me? This obscure concept and relationship has vexed many of us for millennia. I am led to the remarkable conclusion that God is a summary collective of all of the units of consciousness, sentience, intention, [...]
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The weather with you: the truth behind climate change and carbon tax
Posted on 11. Nov, 2011 by Ben.
The following essay was written by P. Histed who is a chemical engineer and biologist from Canada. She currently works as a high school teacher teaching physics, chemistry and maths. As I know her personally I asked her to write about the truth behind climate change, CO2, and carbon tax. I am astounded that [...]
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There is a lot of deep wisdom in this excerpt from Sheldon Kopp about the meaning of life: the purpose is You and how to be you… better. Kopp was a psychotherapist who wrote this work after a long and nourishing career being lovingly and authentically avant’ garde. He wrote this work whilst dying from [...]
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Integral Psychology: defining the eco-bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach and why we need it in psychology
Posted on 15. Aug, 2011 by Ben.
The Integral model is extremely useful in making sense of the world: ourselves, others, the environment, in fact any topic we focus on. In this article I explore its utility in psychology and psychotherapy.
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Sick City: social disorder and why young people are rioting without apparent cause
Posted on 13. Aug, 2011 by Ben.
How do we explain the recent riots in England? Why are the young people organizing themselves and looting and destroying their own communities? What happened to personal responsibility and community-based care, ethics and morality? In this article I draw upon understanding from developmental psychology and consciousness / world-view stuckness as opposed to integration and progress [...]
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How should we respond to a loved one, such as a parent on their death bed, asking us to promise to do something for them when they go? A parent may ask you to ‘look after your brother’ or your mother, your sister… someone in particular. And whilst this might be well intentioned and loving, [...]
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by Ben Bruce Overcome barriers to wellness. Become your true potential. This article covers an extension of CBT – how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy in a deeper and more enriched way.
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Twisted thinking: using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to change your mind
Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 by Ben.
by Ben Bruce We are not passive recipients of events, the universe is interactive so let’s be careful about what we bring to the table.
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by Ben Bruce February, 2011 I’ve been working for over 8 years now as a psychologist. In university it was hammered into us that we needed to use only empirical methods (sensory measurement evidence-based) – largely, this was restricted to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I have found that the scientific method is useful and also brutal [...]
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by Ben Bruce Working with people who have depression on a daily basis I have learned a great deal about it’s gross and subtle nuances; its origins, its aetiological development, apparent and non-apparent/ masking symptomatology; there is a whole raft of underlying contributing factors. Depression is not what it always seems to be and its causes [...]
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The new Revolution: social networking and the downfall of the State
Posted on 14. Feb, 2011 by Ben.
by Ben Bruce We are experiencing unprecedented social uprisings and revolutions all over the world at this time. Social networking: Facebook, Twitter and others are paving the way for under-nourished, exploited and down trodden peoples of the earth to up-rise. We have seen it in Tunisia, then Egypt. We have seen similar uprisings start in [...]
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by Travis Vandermeer Travis is a school teacher in Australia and has a naturally integral way of thinking; not only is he able to see the wood for the trees he can also utilize complex systems theory to give fresh insight and perspective on what’s happening. Just like his favourite rock band: TOOL, he thinks [...]
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