Man has tied himself to a way of life, which leads to war, and yet he wants peace

In philosophy as an art of life an investigation of dualism will be an investigation of, whether there exists a way of life without any division between living and dying, conscious and subconscious, business and social life, individual life and family life.

The divisions between nations, religions, classes, etc., originate from the contradiction-filled limitations in yourself.

The question of the Philosophical Globetrotter is therefore, why human beings live in this way?

The inner conflicts grow confusion, division and war; they develop actual insecurity, inwards as well as outwards. We see this division in so many ways – in God and Devil, in good and evil, in what you are and what you ought to be.

Why has Man always created a conflict in himself, and in the relationship with others, and consequently violence, and the hope about achieving something through violence?

Man has tied himself to a way of life, which leads to war, and yet he at the same time wants peace and freedom; but it is peace and freedom exclusively as an idea, an ideology.

And at the same time Man is historical limited by everything he does.

Truth is to be completely free from all prejudices and historical limitary influences

As a Philosophical Globetrotter you must put into question whether you, in order to get rid of anxiety, continual must analyse the content of anxiety in order to discover the endless many causes in your own individual life.

It is namely so, that if you - when you begin to analyse the content of anxiety - have to discover something true, then you must be completely and altogether free from all prejudices and historical limitary influences.

Otherwise, if your conception in any way is being distorted, then this distortion increases as you continue your analysis.

So, in art of life it is not the problem´s content that is interesting. What is interesting is the one who is seeking to solve the problem.

It is the separation of the analyst and the analysed, which is the cause of the problems, when we speak about human problems.

The brain can´t formulate or understand that which is the total, the whole, the complete

The brain is the centre for all the senses; the more the senses are awake and sensitive, the sharper is the brain.

The brain is a storehouse of experience, knowledge and tradition.

Therefore, it is historical limited, conditional.

Its activities are planned, thought out, but it functions in historical limitation, in time and space.

Therefore, it can´t formulate or understand that which is the total, the whole, the complete.

Passive listening presence is the only way to deal with dreams

Passive listening presence is the only way to deal with dreams.

You must be yourself present all day through, be aware of the relationship with the surrounding world, your reactions and thoughts, and see the dreams connectedly with this.

If you isolate the dreams from this coherence, and place yourself outside them and interpret them from your historical limited background and your images of life, without having yourself included in your understanding, yes, then you will never get insight in what dreams are.

Is there at all anything, which is unavoidably – except death, perhaps?

The vast majority think, that it is unavoidably that you become historical limited.

Against this you can put the question about, whether there at all is anything, which is unavoidably – except death, perhaps; whether the inevitable process not is a thought-process.

In philosophical counseling there is neither answered yes or no.

On the contrary, the guest is being encouraged to be this inevitable process present in passive listening. And this presence is not mechanical.

But if the mind on the contrary is the thought-process absent, either conscious distancing ifself from it, or unconscious being absent in it, yes, then it becomes mechanical.

The thinking, which is a result of the past, can´t understand the present

The absence, and the following conflicts, worries and problems, arises because we use the present as a passage to the future, instrumentally. 

Read for instance about the problem of time in Marcel Proust´s In Search of Lost Time, or in Thomas Mann´s Magic Mountain.

The Ego is a result of the past; without past there is no self-producing thought-activity. 

Without the historical background, without this limitation, there is no such thinking. 

But the thinking, which is a result of the past, can, as Kierkegaard said, not understand the present, since it only uses the present as a passage to the future.

The vast majority think, that it is unavoidably that you become historical limited

The vast majority think, that it is unavoidably that you become historical limited.

Against this you can put the question about, whether there at all are anything, which is unavoidably – except death, perhaps; whether the inevitable process not is a thought-process.

In philosophical counseling there is neither answered yes or no.

On the contrary, the guest is being encouraged to be this inevitable process present in passive listening. And this presence is not mechanical.

But if the mind on the contrary is the thought-process absent, either conscious distancing ifself from it, or unconscious being absent in it, yes, then it becomes mechanical.