human paradox The Human Condition can be understood as a state of Confusion. As living under the paradoxical need to fulfill two mutually supporting and mutually opposing evolutionary psychological imperatives. There are two foundational imperatives that are hard-wired into our psyche. Only two. They are both born of the primary need to survive. All of our motivations, ambitions, and drives can be traced back to the ultimate need to survive, but survival requires fulfilling

Causality: A Key to Peace The key to making sense of anything is understanding causality. Any condition or behavior you experience is a product of the circumstances that shaped it. Rational, logical and blameless. This applies to anything in the universe. Just a fact. It applies to the body, the behavior and psyche. It applies to our unconscious bias, our affections and our intolerances. It applies to more complex organisms such as whole societies, cultures and sub-cultures,

I just had a question from someone asking me about a communication issue she was having with a superior at work. This woman was her teacher as she is in a long-term training program. In this particular training program communication is a focus. How to communicate “correctly” “kindly” so as not to step on or interfere with another person’s creation of their space. The question was, this superior, this teacher seemed to be repeatedly performing a gesture: rolling her shoulders