The Medium of Aliveness
I’d say there is an inner world, an outer world and a world between. My interest is in this world between, in Latin called the medium. It’s an old idea,…
Life-Changing Embodied Intelligence
There is a fundamental difference between rational intelligence as measured by the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test and the eMbodied intelligence Quotient (MQ) for which there is as yet no test.…
Going out of your mind with me?
A strange invitation, isn’t it? Why would you willingly go out of your mind? If I’d give you a better intelligence to access than your mind, you might. Let me…
On being in love
What happens when you fall in love? Your world becomes electric and focuses on a single face. I can’t get enough of looking at pictures of her. I see new…
The Chilling Truth About Psychopaths
“What is it that makes psychopaths so compelling?” I asked Dr. Aaron Kipnis – psychotherapist, professor, and author of four books – during a recent conversation. I last spoke to…
Love and Work: Is happiness bad for creativity?
Green mountains of Laos ripple before me. It’s a hot and humid winter day. We’re in the ancient royal city of Luang Prabang. This morning at 6 am I witnessed…
The Mystery of Individuality
In the car in Sydney traffic just after December solstice, the longest day of the year. Carrie Fisher has just passed. Princess Leia now only lives as picture on a…
On Gift and Life Purpose
It is inconceivable that we humans could be in this world for no reason. There is no way we and our purpose can be ignorant of, or completely alienated from each other like twins…
The Story of Your Life
‘Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ ends Mary Oliver in her poem The Summer Day. This line is often quoted…
A Matter of Money
It occurred to me after speaking to Dr Aaron Kipnis that he is to money what Masters & Johnson were to sex in the 60s and 70s. Core faculty member…