This is how narcissists work - some of them of course are more skilled than others, some are more educated than others, but basically they all follow very basic and generic scheme. Their life purpose is to gratify their ego: they need to constantly feed the idea that they're superior, omnipotent, entitled, flawless, more immune than others and they will go any means to feed this idea. Keep this illusion alive is their life purpose. They will surround themselves with people th

It's amazing sometimes how little we can be conscious of our actions and the way they affect the world. People often go on and watch violence on TV, or use negative and heavy language in their daily lives, believing this has no effect whatsoever on their general life stye. This couldn't be further from the truth. I think many of you - at least those of you who have read some new age philosophy, or have listened to some Buddhist talk, or perhaps have some knowledge of psycholo

Science often treats concepts and practices from spirituality and alternative medicine with great skepticism, often referring to them as 'quackery' or 'pseudo-science'. Modern science treats the human body essentially as a Newtonian machine, with localised causal-effect dynamics that can be separated in different components and analysed individually. Modern medicine often fails to explore the holistic functioning of the body and mind as a whole, and in particular the effect o

There is both a light side why we love children and animals so much, as well as a shadow side. Let me illustrate the light side first. When children come into this world they are completely pure and blank slates, devoid of all the socialization constraints and conditional programming that we as adult have. They have no fears, limiting beliefs, repressed emotions, because they have not been taught them yet. They are therefore purely themselves, completely aligned being, follow

Sociologists and psychologists are increasingly worried about the narcissistic epidemic spreading in our world, and for very good reasons (http://www.narcissismepidemic.com/). The issue is not that we see more self-centered teenagers, taking lots of selfies and spending time in the gym, as the popular belief would be. The reality of this problem is far more serious and has severe than one would think. Let's start, firstly, by defining briefly this disorder and its implication

Having participated in many spiritual practices and groups at this point, there isn't been a spiritual circle where I haven't witnessed spiritual bypassing, in at least one of two main forms: fanaticism and positive over-focus. In the first approach, spirituality becomes the practice of idealising a spiritual person, idea or thing and taking it as absolute truth over rationality, intuition and knowledge. An example of this is the way many religious groups sanctify a certain b

If you have walked the busy and chaotic streets of Taipei, weather you were in the city center or in one of the outer areas, you have seen them: little moving metal stands equipped with pots, friers, ovens, blenders and any other tools necessary to make fast and filling local foods. Dumplings, crepes, soups, noodles and rice dishes are the most typical, but there are plenty others. Some of these places are a little bit more sophisticated and contain a space with sitting area,

As a species humans have the tendency to wait until things break to start trying to fix them, instead of preventing them from breaking on the first place. This couldn't be seen more clearly the parenting and education situation, i.e. the way we bring up our kids. Our current parenting and education system is ineffective, incredibly demanding for parents, unsafe for kids and stems greatly from ignorance. We are currently witnessing the rise of global psychological epidemics, s