Monthly Archives: June 2011

mindfulness and the backpack

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When the mind receives inputs from the senses it categorizes them in various ways to organize what is happening around it. This ranges from the fairly low level, such as edge detection for site (figure out the location of the … Continue reading →

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ego and depth

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This weekend I watched Mythos, a special from the mythological scholar Joseph Campbell. Campbell mentioned the difference in the ego (in a Jungian sense) between Eastern and Western sensibilities. Put bluntly, Westerners have a much more solid ego than people … Continue reading →

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