A nuanced look into the human psyche Author: Benedict Newton The ego is often seen as an obstacle on a spiritual path. But the problem is rather its disharmonious development, not the ego itself. Benedict Newton shows this by using Sigmund Freud’s structural model of the psyche and Indian yoga teachings. What is the ego …
Investigations in the “inner foreign country”
The Freudian Concept of the Unconscious Author: Dr. Wolfgang Hegener Sigmund Freud shaped our understanding of the unconscious like no other psychoanalyst. At this non-place within each human being he localized the instinctive, the repressed and the suppressing. As well as the various ego instances beyond the conscious ego. Almost 120 years ago, Sigmund Freud …
How to find your right meditation
Author: Shai Tubali It is not easy to choose a meditation. The chakra meditation “market” offers an overwhelmingly vast array of techniques, all shining brightly and full of great promises for profound experiences and long-term transformations. Yet surely, many of them are not necessarily suitable for us – though who could tell what “suitable” exactly means? …