Objectivism is a philosophy founded by novelist, Ayn Rand. It is both widely praised and criticized, vastly bend and twisted. Its basic concepts, however, remain just and clear in terms of existence, reason, love, religion, and politics. Existence Objectivism is based on conscious reality. “I exist, therefore I am,” is a line of horse manure. [...]
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Objectivism
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Nearing the End of Work on the Newest Book, “We Meet in Dreams”: A Mystic’s Journal
Image: Windgarth House. Sunday, October 16 Windgarth House Diana and I have come to beautiful Windgarth for some days, to work on the book undisturbed. She has already formatted over a hundred pages of the manuscript, which I have printed up and neatly placed in a large notebook. The binder is now on the downstairs [...]
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Be Selfish, Be Happy: How Selfishness Leads to Happiness
Never in my life has it felt this good to be selfish. Actually, before I learned what youre about to learn, I only ever felt guilt and shame when I acted selfish. Today, selfish is the new me. Granted, I was never the type to always put other people above my own needs. I know [...]
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Finishing the Newest Book, “We Meet in Dreams”: A Mystic’s Journal
Sunday, September 11 My graphics illustrator, Diana Souza e-mailed me today. She will be here in Ithaca for five weeks, starting in early October, to format the text and create a cover for We Meet in Dreams. Meanwhile, I have received a few new dreams from people and am including them in the manuscript, and [...]
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Understanding the Difference Between Knowledge and Belief
There is a whole lot of information available on the Internet. Hence it is not uncommon for us to go and Google something that intrigues us. I am guessing you did the same before you landed on this page. Now, based on the kind of experiences and associations we have with the whole concept of [...]
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Psycho-Spiritual Development: The Fifth Stage
Life Lessons: The Call to Experience and Meaning In the work of healing, personal growth and empowerment, we start by practicing awareness – seeing things as they are, witnessing, becoming conscious of identity, open, curious, suspending judgment. Awareness leads to acceptance – releasing us from judgment, permeating the ground of identity, flowing out of awareness [...]
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Why You Should Not Submit to Authority
As Americans we believe in freedom and liberty. It’s hard for people in other cultures to understand this because they’ve never experienced true freedom. And there is a famous quote that goes something like this; “if you believe you are free you are and if you are not fee then you aren’t.” There is a [...]
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A Four Step Guide to Feeling Positive
Im amazed at how quickly Ive been able to master this. Just as quick as I, youll be able to master it, too. The trend lately has been to think positive, practice the Law of Attraction, and then, good things will come, as if by magic. However, for many of you, you find it is [...]
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Could You Be Psychologically Contaminated?
People nowadays are very preoccupied by their physical health, taking every measure which their pocket allows in order to drive away any kind of biological or chemical contamination. The problem is that people are not well aware of another serious type of contamination which affects their mind, their judgment and their actions in various domains [...]
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The Philosophy of Universal Integrity: The Three Foundations Used to Make All Ethical Decisions
Ethics is one of the most controversial subjects in philosophy. Before we go on to the main subject, let us look at some historical arguments: 1. Physics: Particle or Wave? It has been concluded that light is both a particle and a wave. 2. Neuroscience: Electrical or Chemical? It was once believed that the activity [...]
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