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      • via reflection on the world
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          • the One, the Whole
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                  • the Collective Psyche
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                          • on Good & Evil
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              • Individuals
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                  • Psychological Qualities of People
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                          • as towards Strangers
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              • via Sensing
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                          • Sense of Meaning, Purpose
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              • via Feeling, Emotion
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                  • the Overall Sensorium = Feeling
                  • Preferences, Tastes
                  • the Feeling/Emotion Cycle
              • via Imagining
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              • via Numinous Experiences
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          • Consciousness
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              • Levels of Consciousness
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              • Attention
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                  • Focus/Focal Point
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      • via reflection on one's immediate experience
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          • feeling stuck
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              • I'm unclear
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                  • losing control
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              • time is an issue
              • I'm separated from others
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                  • I'm worse
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                      • I'm nothing, no one
                  • I'm misunderstood
              • I'm divided within
          • feelings of failing, of dying
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                  • suffering, agony
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                  • fear, terror, anxiety
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                  • shame & guilt
                  • PTSD
              • illness—health
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                  • stillness
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                  • dreams, visions
              • a different way of thinking
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              • good people
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          • waking up—feeling reborn
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              • to the indescribable
              • to the unity of all things
              • into a time before creation
              • to my original nature
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                  • innocent & pure
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              • into a Brotherhood of Man
          • focusing on the self
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              • narcissistic focusing on the self
              • searching for—finding the self
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                  • similarities & uniqueness
              • learning about the self
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                  • self-examination
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                      • introspecting
                      • how others see me
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                      • my value
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                          • my function
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                      • my decisions
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                      • try/not try to fit in
                      • to change for the better
              • working on the self
              • transformation
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                  • individuation
          • confronting the unconscious
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              • what is the unconscious?
              • defense mechanisms
              • surrendering to the unconscious
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                  • falling in love
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              • am I crazy?
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                  • I'm all charged up
                  • I'm right!
                  • I see the answer to how to live
                  • I'm remarkable
                  • I've got to have ...
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                      • something outside
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                  • guess I'm on a dangerous path
          • the whole person
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              • point of view
              • perspective
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                  • the perspective of the age
              • towards balance
              • evaluating, deciding
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                  • rational—irrational—non-rational
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                  • care, being careful
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          • living in multiple worlds
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              • what's right in front of me
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                  • is it something or nothing?
                  • is it familiar? unfamiliar?
                  • is it in focus?
                  • here? over there?
                  • real? a fantasy?
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                      • my worst fears
                  • is it changing?
                  • is it 1?, 2?, 3?, more?
                  • mind? body? psyche?
                  • dark or light?
                  • arousing? calming?
                  • trivial? important?
                  • what it is
                  • what it means (for the future)
              • our environment
              • the world of other people
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                  • my positions/roles
                  • the mask—the real me
                  • mine, yours, ours, theirs, everyone's, no one's
              • inner & outer
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                  • the center
                  • what's innermost
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                      • the soul
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                  • the inner drama
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                      • my story, my myth
                  • the inner-outer cycle
              • other worlds
          • learning about the world
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              • stages of learning
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                  • confusion
                  • superstition
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                      • delusions
                  • doubt
                  • reflecting
                  • seeking the truth
                  • skill development
                  • knowledge
                  • mastery
                  • understanding
                  • wisdom
          • feelings of success, of the good life
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              • feelings while rising
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                  • of well-being
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                  • of love
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                      • of being at home
                  • of pride
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              • healthy
              • honorable, honored
              • honest
              • respected
              • friendly
              • loved
              • understood, understanding
  • Psychological Laws
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      • Law of Limited Attention
      • Law of Adaptation
      • Law of Limited Knowledge
      • Law of Perspectives
      • Law of Metaphors
      • Law of Condensation
      • Law of Experience
      • Law of Compensation
  • To Troubled Readers
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      • Dear Reader: Can Psychotherapy Help?
      • Can Psychotherapy Help?
      • Dear Reader with Anxiety
      • Dear Reader with Schizophrenia
      • Dear Reader with Ambivalence
      • Dear Reader with Impulses to Batter
  • For Professionals
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      • Clinical
      • History of Psychology
      • Theoretical
      • Paradoxes & Puzzles
  • Exercises
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