TL/DR (Too Long, Didn't Read): What the Heck is Actually on the Whiteboard?

How we got to this whole “Whiteboard thing” can be found here.

A summary for now, this is what is actually on the white board (with some minor alterations for clarity). Since writing these things down there several years ago, very few additions or changes have been made. Most items are shorthand for me and my clients. It will possibly make some of the ideas immediately useful but a couple totally confounding, requiring fleshing out because of being a summary. These are all most effective and intended for use with a therapist/mental health pro, but also useful as a resource. They are intended as tools, also as reminders, as a blueprint for how to get started in therapy. Each has a short explanation attached:

1. Husserl: “All perception is gamble.”

Short explanation: This is a quote associated with the German philosopher, Edmund Husserl. We don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. Every time we accept the examination of our senses (or lack of one), we are effectively placing a bet. Since the Allegory of the Cave (Plato) and before (Buddha, Lao Tzu), the acceptance of what emerges in our consciousness without examination has been refuted and this is a problem that philosophers call “naive realism”.

2. Gandhi: “The fact that we have everyone claiming a right to conscience without going through any discipline whatsoever, is the reason we have so much trouble in our world.”

Short explanation: A quote from Mahatma Gandhi. Even though we don’t see the world as it is, we impose the template of our beliefs or experience of it without an epistemology - regardless of seeing it clearly and “correct” about our interpretations of it or not. Ghandi went far as to say this is the reason there’s so much trouble in our world. This might have to be the next missive.

3. Jung: “All neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering.”

Short explanation: This one is from a letter Jung wrote. I adressed it here in more detail. We are going to talk a lot about methods of doing this that will hopefully put folk of my stripe out of business.