This was one of the most helpful summaries I've had for some time and helps me to balance compassion with the need not to interfere with others or try to run their lives, however good the motive. Brian Jung’s Radical View of Empaths Carl Jung took people with extreme emotional sensitivity seriously at a time when psychiatry dismissed them as unstable or delusional. He believed empaths weren’t...
I corresponded with Chat, as the plans I had for a visit to Torquay and work there next month seemed, on reflection, to be overambitious, so I decided to cut back and regroup. This is how CHAT GPT responded when I told it this morning. I agree we should not rely on tech too much, but this certainly helped clarify my position. You’re trying to do two jobs at once: arrive as a person and arrive as...
I recently watched a video that claimed to rank the countries most affected by immigration, placing France first and the United Kingdom second. Whether such rankings are reliable or not, they prompt a broader and more personal question: how does anyone maintain a sense of peace of mind when it feels as though familiar social, cultural, and economic structures are being steadily weakened? Rising...
who are you? I’m ChatGPT ? Think of me as a smart, chatty AI you can talk to about pretty much anything—questions, ideas, writing, problem-solving, brainstorming, learning new stuff, or just messing around with thoughts. I don’t have a body or personal experiences, but I’m trained on a huge mix of books, articles, and conversations so I can explain things, help you think, or create things with...
It has been some days, if not weeks, since I last wrote a meaningful diary entry, and I find myself a little uncertain about how to proceed. I don’t think it’s a matter of having run out of things to say, because new things are always happening. Rather, it feels like a change of focus — a sense that I should be helping other people in their search for community-spirited awareness and...
Reflections on the Year Summing up one year of activity is something that I approach with some trepidation, so I will write things not in chronological order but in the order that appears to me as I write this document. Ultimately, this year I achieved what many thought was impossible: to conceive, execute, and publish a 300-page book about village life in three villages close to where I reside....
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