Monthly Archives: July 2014

Passion 1. Any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate. 2. Strong amorous feeling or desire.   Pleasure 1. The state or feeling of being pleased or gratified. 2. A source of enjoyment or delight.   Nobody ever … Continue reading →

Pain 1. Highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury. 2. An unpleasant feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. 2. Mental suffering or distress.   Anxiety 1. A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with … Continue reading →

Emotion A subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states.   Feeling The perception of events within the body, closely related to emotion.   Why do we cry? And what prevents us from crying? All … Continue reading →

Denial An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings.   Truth A verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like.   In Dan Brown’s Inferno, the word denial is used in the context … Continue reading →

Population Apocalypse Equation PAE argues that the “sustainable population” of the world is only 4 billion and the world now faces imminent collapse of civilization.   Doomsday Clock A universally-recognized symbolic clock face, representing a countdown to possible political related … Continue reading →

Purgatory An intermediary state after physical death in which those destined for heaven “undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven”. Only those who die in the state of grace but have not … Continue reading →

Self-worth The sense of one’s own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.   Self-esteem A term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself … Continue reading →

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs 1. Biological and Physiological needs – air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep. 2. Safety needs – protection from elements, security, order, law, stability, freedom from fear. 3. Social Needs – belongingness, affection and love, – … Continue reading →

Agnosticism Pertains to someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities.   Spiritualism A dualist metaphysical belief that the world is made up of at least two fundamental substances, matter and spirit.   Enlightenment … Continue reading →

Parent-Adult-Child Paradigm The parent is our ingrained voice of authority, absorbed conditioning, learning and attitudes from when we were young. The adult is our ability to think and determine action for ourselves. The child is our internal reaction and feelings … Continue reading →