I am a clinical psychologist, wanting in a simple manner to share my experiences and views of man, to the common public. My aim is to remind ourselves what an almost inconceivably advanced organism we humans are.
Author of Psychological Universe, still quite worried about the current status of the world and humanity.
Despite our enormous brain capacity, and inborn social friendliness, our gradually evolving psychology, and its coping strategies, unfortunately, adapt themselves to an already unfriendly world.
This makes us consciously or unconsciously copying the strategies of the dominant, competitive, vindictive, and fiendish role models that apparently rule the world with their power.
That approach is so to speak a survival instinct of man, in a warlike scene. This scene is our family, our schoolyard, at work or in business or politics, not to mention international affairs.
Research tells us, however, that our present and dominant mode of survival can be changed. This change is possible, – only if we gradually realize that the “fight and conquer approach”, does not necessarily convey our true self as human beings.
Instead, it might be said to convey a rather skewed adaption to a somewhat skewed world. A world mostly defined by powerful people, with both money, and means to get their view of man out through all kinds of media. If that view of man is not mediated by words, it is perfectly mediated by a recognizable pattern of actions.
Ever since philosopher Hobbes’s famous quote, “everybody’s war with everybody”, and Thomas H. Huxley’s misediting of the last edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species”, this obsolete view of man has been ruling the world.
Therefore we must change this negative view of man according to new research on the human brain and on infants and children.
We know that both children and grown-ups, identify with important people in their surroundings. This impact from role models also models their own way of thinking, feeling, and acting towards others and the world. It also models their sense of self and their self-confidence.
What is the alternative: If the present obsolete and negative view of man is left there unchallenged, it will be difficult to cope with climate change, uncurbed capitalism, and meaningless warfare.
It will also make it very difficult to reconcile different religions, and continue building stable societies
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Please accept that you need not be an active contributor to the current situation in the world. Neither do you need to be a passive bystander to all this!
You have probably the most advanced brain and nervous system in our part of the Universe. Use it for all that it’s worth. That’s my challenge to you and me. That’s my reason for this website.
Check “CONTENT” on the horizontal menu, to find posts and pages with examples, and argumentation for this new turn in the perception of you and me, as human beings.
