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Why I want to meet Albert Einstein

by MindTripper — 12 months ago

Einstein has always been my hero.

I love the creative way he thought and how he integrated imagination, mathematics & those aspects of the physical universe which are counter-intuitive to most people.

I love the way his vision cracked right through the conventional, traditional perspectives, his paradigm shifting way of pondering.

I also admire the things he believed in, his humanism, his compassionate philosophy of life.

There are many things about Einstein which inspire me.

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Why I want to meet God

by MindTripper — 12 months ago

To lose myself in infinity & eternity,
Merging with everything that is,
Has been,
Ever will be.
Realising that there is no time
And there is no space
Because in true Reality
Everwhere and everwhen are all at once
Here, right now.

To become one with the Force,
The unthinkably Massive.
Too big by far to allow me
To hold onto my tiny separate existence.
My grasp on who I think I am
Is pathetically tenuous in the face
Of something so overwelming,
So universal,
So All Mighty,
As to not exist at all.
I have to let go of myself,
Yield to the wondrous enormity
Of the feeling of the Truth
Which blots out my sense of self
As the brilliant, scorching summer sun
Blots out the faint distant stars.

To know the ever present unknowable
Which deep, deep down
We all have always known.

To experience what it all means,
Life, The Universe, Everything,
In a way which moves & transforms me forever,
In the deepest, most central part
Of my sense of who I am.

I will have touched God
And nothing will ever be the same again.

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Why I admire Fritz Perls

by MindTripper — 1 year ago

Many years ago I worked through Gestalt Therapy, going solo from a book by Fritz Perls. I had emerged from my teenage years into adulthood with horrendous social confidence problems and a self-esteem that was more like the bottom of a swamp. Over the course of a year this book, with its Gestalt approach, turned my whole life around. (The book was ‘Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality’ by Perls, Hefferline & Goodman)

The effect has not only stayed with me but has formed the foundation for my continuing development. The ideas have become a wisdom I have assimilated and integrated with my own ideas and life experiences, and which are now a part of me.

Since then I have encountered Gestalt Therapy in other books, workshops, training centres, and so on. I have studied it further, followed its more recent developments and have observed its dramatic effects on other people. I not only find the approach effective but I also find the therapeutic experience to be massively rewarding in its own right.

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