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I have been a practicing clinical psychologist and psychotherapist for more than forty years. During this time I have had more than 60,000 hours of in-depth conversations with people about their experiences. Each interview the story of a self, how it thinks, feels and reacts to the circumstances of a life it calls its own. At the heart of every story there is a sense of and a belief in a self as separate entity, both as the subjective “I” of action and the objective “me” to whom things occur. We maintain and perpetuate this way of knowing and embody its experience.
The story of the separate self reflects dilemmas of how to express into and at the same time be protected from the world that surrounds. Over time personal identity develops density. Practiced patterns of perception become characteristic ways of knowing. Personal identity and perception of other mutually arise.
What we hold as identity either fetters or liberates. We can examine patterns that structure knowing and thereby outgrow personal identity. It is the intent of this website to provide useful guidance so that we may find more space, ease and clarity in the lives we lead. We can experience new ways of being and discover an intrinsic freedom and aliveness in all experience.
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