The Great Updraft

Why are you here? How does personal meaning work? What questions can we ask to get to the core of our personal meaning structure?This is a snippet from my episode "What Is The Meaning Of Life?" from 25th Feb.

What is the meaning of life? When we get down to it, why are we here as individuals? Why does life itself exist? What is all this for?I round off this month's theme of deep questions with the mother of all existential questions.

When we deconstruct paradigms like self and other, it's tempting to dismiss it outright. But self-other consciousness serves a clear function, and without it you would be lost. We want not to lose it, but to see through it.This is a snippet from last Wednesday's episode on Do Other People Exist?

You have not always had a sense of self and other: you had to develop it during childhood. It is not a given, but a construct.This also means you can see beyond it and realise it is not the whole story.This is an extract from my episode on Wednesday 18th, "Do Other People Exist?"

We tend to assume that other people are separate from us and have their own, independent experiences.Except these are highly questionable assumptions that we will begin to see through in this snippet from my last full episode "Do Other People Exist?

We tend to assume other people are separate and independent from us. But what if this was simply a useful assumption or paradigm, not the be all end all?Do other people exist? My conclusion: well... kind of.Resonate with my work? Fortnightly updates & free 20-min coaching taster: https://deep-psychology.com

We tend to assume other people are separate and independent from us. But what if this was simply a useful assumption or paradigm, not the be all end all?Do other people exist? My conclusion: well... kind of.Resonate with my work? Fortnightly updates & free 20-min coaching taster: https://deep-psychology.com

I propose that the materialistic paradigm is deeply flawed. While it is extremely useful and explanatory, it is underpinned by some highly questionable assumptions. In this snippet from last week's episode Is The World Physical?, we address those assumptions.

There are very good reasons why materialism is the standard philosophical paradigm in the modern world, and here I outline them in a practical way.

There are three simple, essential critiques of materialism that seriously jeopardise its legitimacy.This is a snippet from yesterday's episode, Is The World Physical?