Crowd behaviour, as a social phenomenon, is rooted in psychological factors arising from instincts, impulses, and unconscious mental processes. The Psychology of the Masses is about how and why people are so groupish. Nearly all of us seem to believe that our ideas and habits are freely chosen, not the result of the accidents of […]
The Committed is a 2021 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is his second novel and the sequel to his debut novel The Sympathizer, which sold over one million copies and was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Committed was published by Grove Press on March 2, 2021. Wikipedia Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen […]
LA School District Uses Psychologically Manipulative (Cartoon – no) Animated Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QND31bJ78qI This young hypnotist does a pretty good job of first demonstrating and then de-constructing the psychological manipulation. It is soooo outrageous when it’s a school board aimed at children. – – – – – – – – – – – – – The […]
See also Video, 2021-06-22 Four False Beliefs that Society is Built On – Bruce Lipton The Biology of Belief, Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles Quotes, with thanks to GoodReads: “Quantum physicists discovered that physical atoms are made up of vortices of energy that are constantly spinning and vibrating; each atom is […]
(Related to Mass Psychosis https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=25442) I wondered about this that you sent: That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate……Jung I found this: Carl Jung: Thirteen Quotations on the Shadow The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without […]
With thanks to Dan: Time is one of the most difficult properties of the universe to understand. . . . I often contemplate how my life has unfolded and some of the events and people that came my way at seemingly exactly the right time. I know I’m not smart enough to have put […]
Mysticism, and reactions of readers, to the mysticism QUOTE: P. 63 – 65 “I had experiences there that changed my life. In time these strange things that began to happen to me when I was out on the prairie, not only in that particular field, but in others as well, began to come together […]
– – – Good grief! Good thing it doesn’t take me five years to get all postings from “draft” to “published”! NANCY WRITES: Sadly, evidence is not sufficient if people cannot hear it. That is why I appreciate Randy Olson’s Connection: Hollywood Storytelling Meets Critical Thinking. “If we want to communicate with people who […]
Radio on. Happened to catch this reply to a question: Max Greenfield, CBC programme “Q”, at the 16:52 minute mark: Who is to say? . . . Life, in general, is more fun if (chuckling) you kind of get out of the way and just sort of let it happen and be […]
April 10, 2017 TO: CBC Radio, The Current, Host Anna Maria Tremonti RE: (April 10) Why we think we know everything, a cognitive scientist explains Note: in this interview, Tremonti and the interviewee, Steven Sloman, agreed with each other that vaccines is a sacrosanct topic, not open to discussion. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-10-2017-1.4061220/why-we-think-we-know-everything-a-cognitive-scientist-explains-1.4061245 I mailed my reaction. […]