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December | 2016 | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. Some Thought about Feelings, and some Feelings about Thought (11/29/10). December 31, 2016. December 31, 2016. Although our feelings about this and that are probably not as resistant to changes and significant alterations as our established tastes are, they are probably a good deal less mutable than many of us are prone to believe. And where they are subject to significant change they are likely to be superficial and not rooted very deeply in us. Because they ...

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Some Observations on Ambivalence (3/11/09) | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. Some Observations on Ambivalence (3/11/09). January 2, 2017. Why is ambivalence so popularly disparaged, or worse, passionately combated by many of us? Is it because ambivalence is automatically associated with weakness of character? Character an unswerving character, right? What if our souls are, by their fundamentally polaristic nature, ambivalent? Soul, like a ship heading into the wind, moves forward in a zig-zag course by. As a rule, then, we find a kind ...

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Culture as Bridge (8/30/15) | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. Culture as Bridge (8/30/15). November 11, 2016. Connection or an unbroken (if hidden) path between seen and unseen, outer and inner, manifest and un-manifest. Bestowed freely and mysteriously from beyond. There would appear, nonetheless, to be a kind of symmetrical or mutual reflection between the two ends of the ladder. Through the process of purgation (or. Psychological Observations and Reflections. The Children’s Hour (3/8/14). November 12, 2016 at 4:11 am.

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June | 2016 | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. On Morality and Psychology (12/15). June 29, 2016. A subject of abiding interest is that of the fluidic, spectral nature of. One of the most. Implications of the fluidic, spectral nature of psyche is that all dogmatic or unequivocal. Assumed by the ego) are unavoidably biased, relative, partial, and therefore. Of our firm stance can ‘take place’ outside or inside of us. The confrontation may be. Here, incidentally, is where. Position are exemplary from the con...

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Feelings: Orthodox and Heterodox (11/19/10) | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. Feelings: Orthodox and Heterodox (11/19/10). January 12, 2017. When we claim that feelings as such tend to be conservative, we are implying that. Most of the time. Feeling follows the well-worn pathways of. Habit, convention,. Reality of these reactions. Nor do I mean to dispute the legitimacy or authenticity of such feelings and affects, simply because far from being unique or individualized they possess a strong, if not decisive, odor of the. Possess a myste...

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September | 2016 | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. September 30, 2016. Tightening the bowstring of my soul’: what do I mean by this? What, actually, is entailed? How do I go about it? Is one end of the ‘string’ firmly and securely tied down so that my task is to elevate or extend the other end as far and as tightly as I can? Does the string retain a set length or does it vary in length from time to time? I intuit a link between tightening the bowstring and philosophical dialectics. Suppose we ‘plant’ (or.

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January | 2017 | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. Some Thoughts about Thought (3/12/11). January 30, 2017. My conception of philosophical thinking is essentially a dramatic or dialectical one as far removed from a static, uniform, self-consistent. Questions, rather than have them. Pen would resemble a polarized energy field in its dynamic form or structure. Why is this? I am trying, then, to kick start thinking for its own sake open-ended thinking. This campaign (modestly. Or aim, in our present-day culture&#...

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Sinking over Thinking (5/29/12) | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. Sinking over Thinking (5/29/12). November 26, 2016. Instead of imagining myself emerging from the. Each morning and having to burn away the blackness in a daily renewed. I hit upon an even better analogy yesterday. In this new version of what occurs in the cycle of sleep and waking, I am hurled by the daimon into some usually remote region (of the periphery of my psyche) during my sleeping hours. When I wake up, my task is to. Of the beauty, the unruffled sere...

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August | 2016 | Paul's Bench

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Ruminations on philosophy, psychology, life. The Bark of Freedom (2/11/11). August 30, 2016. August 30, 2016. Any dignity I may lay claim toany real pleasure I can. Savor: these depend upon the degree of freedom that I can justly claim for myself. Isn’t that true? And my conception rather, my. Of freedom has undergone many significant transformations over the years, has it not? By merging with that wave. I now see it as the tiny, handmade boat I employ either to stay. It may be true that the genuinely fr...