From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching: If you don’t trust the people, you make them untrustworthy. This speaks to the paradox of how our expectations of others bring out that quality in them. It is an offense to our ego! But this truth— when wielded properly— can be used to shape outcomes with others.
Author: Dan Pouliot
A New Hampshire native, Dan received his BFA in Oil Painting from UNH; his digital works are in multiple permanent collections. Dan’s been a positive psychology student/practitioner, a blogger, an amateur Remote Viewer, and now a novelist. His dual passions for anomalous cognition and positive thinking set the stage for his debut young adult novel, Super Human, published by PortalStar Publishing. Dan describes Super Human as The Karate Kid meets Escape to Witch Mountain.
It Sounds Like You're Angry
In Suppressing Anger is Not a Spiritual Value I touched on my own personal history with anger. As children, we make up our minds about certain things, we internalize our assessments and carry them in to adulthood. You wouldn’t take advice from a 5 year old about much, but that is essentially what we do. In our… Continue reading It Sounds Like You're Angry
Because We've Always Done it This Way
There was a great story on the radio: A woman had been taught by her mom that the best way to cook a pot roast is to cut the end off before putting it in the pot. She was curious as to why, so she asked her mom. Her mom didn’t really know the answer,… Continue reading Because We've Always Done it This Way
The Law of Reciprocal Postures
The tone of any communication will eventually be met with a reciprocal tone. It is difficult to provide anything other than a reciprocal posture. Often people reciprocate immediately. Sometimes they reciprocate after a prolonged, persistent tone. When you go on the offense with someone, it makes it difficult for them to respond any other way… Continue reading The Law of Reciprocal Postures
Remote Viewing: The Intersection of Physics and Metaphysics
I’ll start this story in 1930, when Albert Einstein contributed his preface to Upton Sinclair’s Mental Radio— Upton’s published experiments in to telepathy: The results of the telepathic experiments carefully and plainly set forth in this book stand surely far beyond those which a nature investigator holds to be thinkable…. In no case should the psychologically interested circles pass… Continue reading Remote Viewing: The Intersection of Physics and Metaphysics
Quit on a High Point
From Stanford Research Institute – International, p. 173: Traditionally, learning of a new skill concentrates on rote repetition, reiterating the skill a large number of times until it is consistently performed correctly. But recent developments in learning theory, which have been applied with particular success in sports-training methodology, indicate that the rote repetition concept tends… Continue reading Quit on a High Point