Reclaiming the Soul of Psychology: Recentering the Study of Consciousness in Psychotherapy

Reclaiming the Soul of Psychology: Recentering the Study of Consciousness in Psychotherapy

Psychology, as a field, stands at a critical juncture. Over the past few decades, the focus has shifted away from the fundamental nature of human consciousness and towards a more mechanistic, symptom-focused approach to mental health. Manualized therapies, diagnostic...
Gnosticism as a Metaphor for Consciousness: Meaning, Evolution, and Healing

Gnosticism as a Metaphor for Consciousness: Meaning, Evolution, and Healing

Gnosticism as a Metaphor for Consciousness: Meaning, Evolution, and Healing Gnosticism is an ancient spiritual and philosophical worldview that offers a profound metaphor for the nature and dilemmas of human consciousness. While Gnosticism should not be taken as a...
Illuminating the Mind: Lessons Psychology Can Learn from Anthropology and Philosophy

Illuminating the Mind: Lessons Psychology Can Learn from Anthropology and Philosophy

Why Does Psychology Ignore Philosophy and Anthropology? Time moves in one direction, memory in another.<br> We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. – William Gibson, “Dead Man...
Biosemiotics: Bridging Biology, Consciousness, and the Anthropology of Self

Biosemiotics: Bridging Biology, Consciousness, and the Anthropology of Self

What is Biosemiotics? Biosemiotics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that explores how living systems create, interpret, and communicate meaning. It offers a unique lens through which to understand the intricate relationships between biology, consciousness, and...