8,550 words, short booklet; plus, additional front and back matterOriginally in the 1970s, holistic health and healing was strongly tied into the new "do it yourself" ethic. In healthcare, many--not all--patients evolved from being primarily passive recipients to learning and doing much more for themselves. If you are someone who can't go backwards, can't stay where you are, and must go forwards now, here is a way to go forward into greater self-awareness, mindfulness and self-heal...

3rd edition 2023 ~ One of the wonderful experiences of my Waldorf teacher training was reading Rudolf Steiner's Fifth Gospel transcripts, with a group of friends, aloud, round-robin style, in a comfy living room. We read a chapter each night over the 12 Days of Christmas. If you've done this, you may also have felt the pull to draw closer to this material. I certainly did.Dr. Steiner's aim was to update the biography of Jesus of Nazareth in light of the expanded intellectual unders...

Puppies have five senses. Humans are more than puppies. How did human beings get limited to only the five senses a puppy has?While modern Western culture trains us to triangulate outer things precisely--it trains us to triangulate inner experiences almost not at all.Each of our sensory channels can be conceived as its own "intelligence." Can Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences be a bridge for students to grasp the possibility of 12 senses?Companion volume to Bef...

I believe in about 60 years, a simplified version of Metabolic Typing will be taught in all middle and high school biology courses. This booklet arose from thinking about how to make MetType accessible so younger minds can take hold of it; then, employ it for life-long wellness.While in 2024 the Germ Theory of Pathology dominates mainstream healthcare, what's coming in about 20 years is a comprehensive, top to bottom, re-visioning of healthcare. It will bridge back to honoring not f...

A map is not the territory; yet, the better the map, the easier to navigate the territory. Compose your own vision of the whole-person. This is source code for the human psyche, the nature of human nature.The Three Selves is a simpler, accessible, elegant; yet, comprehensive, model of the whole person. In visual art and Gestalt psychology, we have foreground and background. In our psyche, conscious self is foreground. In our psyche, the basic self and high self are analogous to bac...

The word "science" is an abstraction. What's real in science? Objectivity. Objectivity is not monolithic—neither is science. How so?THREE Orders of Objectivity exist:First Order Objectivity acknowledges the value, validity and benefits of subjective perception, evaluation and intelligence. Subjective objectivity is valid in the domain of single individuals, one person at a time; where, individual choosing is honored, "For me now, is X true, beneficial and valuable?" Or, for ...

YOU are the greatest mystery worth solving. Tracking, experiential and hands-on, is a Best Practice in self-connection, self-healing and self-befriending. Do you need a friend? This could be it.What do you need to do a tracking experiment? You need:- A question you have high interest in getting a second opinion on,- Curiosity about your habits, your own Habit Body. What am I doing? What is working forme? what is NOT workable for me? This facilitates self-heal...

Small booklet of 3000 words. Builds on the ideas of Richard Schwartz and other IFS therapists. Shows how the IFS model aligns with and clarifies earlier concepts of the inner child, child within, habits, habit patterns, Habit Body, gut-brain~head~brain. Presents additional metaphors which may be useful to IFS therapists and clients.Table of ContentsInternal Family System Model of Self~Multiplicity, Additional ContextThe Self is not a partWe all go back and for...

3000 word, long articleBefore puberty, our gut brain, Inner Child and Conception Vessel predominate in our psyche so they can develop. Conscious Waking Self is weaker before puberty. Prior to puberty our developmental task is build Self-esteem.Once our gut-brain has gained stability and matured, after puberty, in the majority of school-educated persons, our head-cerebral brain and Governing Vessel takes over as our locus of control in our waking psyche. Now our basic self, o...

Booklet of several short articles. 4,250 words of material not counting front and back matter.One key to self-mastery I'm working on is self-communication. We have another phrase for this: self-connection. My experience as I practice my method of self-connection, is it leads to self-communication; then, life's challenges go more smoothly for me.For anyone wanting more self-connection, a Skill Ladder of methods exists. If you know how to climb a ladder, you get the idea. Climb...

Short booklet 20,300 words.Many ideas can come together in the hologram metaphor. Michael Talbot's Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality (1984, re-issued 2011), suggests, 'Can we use a hologram metaphor as a basis for a modern Goethean view of the human being?' Perhaps only since about 2015 has it been possible to attempt this.Freud's iceberg: Conscious, Sub- and Unconscious, is a good place to start conceiving of an organic hologram which has a physical ...

Small booklet 11,000 words plus additional front and back matterOrganTalk can be thought of as inner child work used to talk with organs and resolve disturbances.Are your organs communicating optimally? How do you know? Did you know you can ASK them? Did you know you can MEASURE how much or how little they are cooperating and collaborating? The key is your ability to self-test.Talking with your organs overlaps with talking with your immune system. Your immune system...