By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World How the opioid epidemic is related to a “purpose deficient” culture. As you are no doubt aware, presently the United...
Category - Psychology
Ecocide: When a Psychological Disorder Becomes Normal
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Eco-psychopathy: Our culture’s psychopathic attitude to nature. For me, the most symbolic and significant political...
Happiness Is Colored Green
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Imagine you realize that you’re not as happy as you should be in your life, and decide you need to take some steps to...
Shadow Self: Embracing Your Inner Darkness
By Mateo Sol Guest writer for Wake Up World “It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and foibles, but of a...
Extreme Altruism – Would You Donate Your Kidney to a Stranger?
October 11th, 2018 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Do you see yourself as an altruistic person? Here’s a test to find out. Assuming you’re...
Kindness and Cooperation are More Natural to Human Beings Than Selfishness
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World An Alternative View of Human Nature For a long time, there has been a general assumption in our culture that “human nature” is...
Depression: It’s Not All in Your Head
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World No, it’s not “all in your head.” Depression and all of its relatives are manifestations of glitches in the immune system...
Here’s What Just a Few Days Without Electronic Devices Did for Children Reading Human Emotion
By Marco Torres Guest writer for Wake Up World Children’s social skills are declining as they have less time for face-to-face interaction due to their increased use of digital media...
Hypnagogia: The Trippy Mental State That is the Key to Deep Self-Discovery
By Mateo Sol Guest writer for Wake Up World What is Hypnagogia? We all know that there are two primary states of consciousness: wakefulness and sleep. But did you that there is also...
Memory Changes Every Time You Access It
By Adam Sinicki Guest writer for Wake Up World Memory isn’t like a file in our brain but more like a story that is edited every time we tell it. The fallibility of memory is...
How Does Your Consciousness Make Everything Real?
By Josh Richardson Guest writer for Wake Up World Does reality exist without us? Physicists have found it maddeningly difficult to write the observer out of quantum theory. Now some are...
Aging and the Perception of Time
January 21st, 2018 By Josh Richardson Guest writer for Wake Up World Time perception is a construction of the brain. How fast we perceive time to be passing — or “mind time” —...