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Advanced Meditation Guide
No matter your experience with meditation, this guide has something for you. We're going to be exploring basic to advanced methods of breath-focused meditation in order to reach extremely heightened states of awareness. If you've ever wanted to experience bliss without sex or substance, this is it :)
Ten Day Vipassana Course: An Intensive Confrontation With Myself
My whole life has been a more or less successful quest for wisdom and happiness. By what would later turn out to be a stroke of luck, this quest brought me to a 10-day Vipassana retreat in Northampton. Before the retreat, however, I doubted the decision: what if I had […]
Choose Happiness: 5 Ways To Get Out Of a Funk
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. -John Milton This is a story about how fickle happiness can be, and how to get it back. It’s going to be the most open I’ve ever been online, because I recently realized how […]
Got Eudaimonia?
Daniel Kahneman found out that most researchers fucked up happiness research because people respond to the 'Are you happy?' question in two different ways. The question could either mean 'Are you happy right now in this moment?' or 'Are you happy about your life?' In other words, which self answers […]
A New Paradigm of Happiness
From the rise of Buddhism, the positive psychology movement and critical thinking of the extreme ways humans look for pleasure nowadays comes new ways of thinking about happiness. If you want to find out what the latest scientific findings have in common with old wisdom regarding happiness, don’t look any […]
Altru-Hedonism: A New Perspective on Pleasure & Helping Others
Altru-Hedonism is a mash-up of the terms altruism (selfless concern for the welfare of others) and hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure). Normally these terms are considered antonyms, which would make my made-up word a complete oxymoron. I aim to convince you of just the opposite. Note: For you smartasses out […]
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