By taking back control I mean take control over your own psychological growth and development and complete your journey to authentic happiness and fulfilment in this life while you actually live and breathe.
For those young people who want help in not becoming evil and want that help to come from me and my writings—all of my writings, published and not published but available as content on the web. For those I offer this final interim newsletter on the topic of becoming self-responsible (one who says this mantra and means it all the way to their core: “I take responsibility for everything I thing and say and do”) that completes the First Cycle for using all my stuff to help you not succumb to evil, but rather to rIse up to the good, the grand, the great, the noble, the best you, that you can be.
Formal Humanistic Psychology notwithstanding, we—qua human beings with an immutable human nature—must be concerned with both good and evil.
Since an entire modern philosophy—Objectivism—has already been created and exists to help you understand the meaning of the good—that which is for rational life—and the evil—that which is against rational life—you have no excuse for not knowing the same as both relate to you and your life as you travel through it responding to it—your life, not my life, not somebody else’s life, but your life—with the same, identical human nature that we all have as human beings.
Everybody, qua individual, has this in common: we respond to our own personal, individual life with the same, identical, immutable human nature that we all possess as human beings.
You have the same immutable human nature that I have. And I have the same immutable human nature that you have. (Our individual responses to it, is our individual personality, Chapter 17.)
So, Yes, you must understand this immutable nature of y/ours in order to grow and develop into the best you that you can be.
It’s true, not everybody wants this for themselves but many of us did and do so want and if you too want it, you can use our experiences to help you help yourself.
So let me repeat.
For those young people who want help in not becoming evil and want that help to come from me and my writings—all of my writings, published and not published but available as content on the web. For those I offer this final interim newsletter on the topic of becoming self-responsible (one who says this mantra and means it all the way to their core: “I take responsibility for everything I thing and say and do”) that completes the First Cycle for using all my stuff to help you not succumb to evil, but rather to rIse up to the good, the grand, the great, the noble, the best you, that you can be.
Just because becoming evil for normal people is an extremely difficult thing to do—unless you freely choose to abandon your most fundamental asset—your mind—and its fundamental choice—to think or not to think—it doesn’t mean becoming evil is impossible.
This isn’t my last last newsletter, but rather, my last bit of information for you to avail yourself of all my material—even if—as revealed herein—it isn’t perfect in the sense it does have broken links that I can’t repair but which aren’t so bad that you still can’t use them.
That is, use them to help you integrate all your growing knowledge about the two most binary of binaries—good and evil—into a total non-contradictory whole that has rational selfishness at the top of your hierarchy of values and self∙less∙ness at the bottom of it and on its way out of your psyche forever.
That is, if you want to help you help yourself on your journey to authentic happiness and fulfillment in this—your one and only—life while you actually live and breathe, you need this last piece of information from me.
Whether or not you avail yourself of it is of course up to you.
It definitely is good enough—if you follow it—to keep yourself from becoming the next generation of Squeaky Frommes looking for a Charles Manson to lead them—to tell them what to do, what to think because they have—by their own initiating choices—abandoned their own minds and as a consequence—causes with effects are real—of this choice, they metaphysically can’t know what to do and metaphysically can’t know what to think let alone how to think. Or, to keep yourself from becoming one of religion’s lost souls, moving to Jonestown or going to Waco Texas looking for true salvation from those who will gladly tell you that you can turn your mind over to t.h.e.m—that with t.h.e.m you can find salvation.
You can’t of course.
Self∙less∙ness is the “salvation” they all were looking for and as history has demonstrated t.h.e.y found it in a life of murder and mayhem—that is, they went over that proverbial slippery slope edge into true evil.
Notice, this is no small subject matter: if you succumb to evil—cross the line, go over the slippery slope—you can’t turn yourself back.
That is, evil cannot redeem itself.
That is, true evil—let’s call it Nazism evil—can’t.
This is why we humans spend so much time being good—good is good.
Only the good can make the right volitional choices to pursue the good and damn the evil.
Both are required in order to succeed in life and be happy and fulfilled.
It is a self-responsibility issue. And. It is your responsibility to not be evil.
It is not my intention to scare you, but to warn you.
On the plus side, the more upbeat side, the side of the good, there is one and only one god that you need to worship for starters as you grow and develop and add in more positives to sustain you.
That one god is:
Contradictions do not exist, this we know, because reality/nature tells us so, by not having any.
So, what follows is the total Content of my final link that you need in order to link all my stuff on the web to help you help yourself:
Wait.
Stop.
It’s too long to put here in its entirety, plus there are many people out there—both young and old—who are already good—and some, exceptionally good, and others, perfectly good—and don’t need such guidance, so I encourage you to be your own judge.
Judge yourself and be prepared to be judged by yourself—in a leap frog manner (between you your Self and you yor BFF ego) as you grow and develop to full adulthood. Which includes operating as an autonomous, independent, volitional self-regulating person on track to maintaining-sustaining your authentically happy and fulfilled and growing more-and-more-in-same life.
Though, from time-to-time you might have to take time out from your ever growing bliss to help your lcd culture stay on track to making sure we remain a country—if need be, thee only country—that protects and serves free minds and free markets (kws: free mind).
We need both free minds and free markets. Where you have one you can have the other but where we don’t have one you can’t have the other and both are needed to be truly free.
As promised and inline with the foregoing, here is the link for the interested parties in using all my stuff for there very own, selfishness self improvement:
How to use the internet as your own personal Psychhotherapist.
Cultural Wars 3.0
Continuing from near the end of the foregoing link.
Higher and higher in the Biocentric Psychology sense of towards perfection: perfect integration of reason and emotion for perfect health—literal physical health as well as self-esteem health (authentic self-esteem) and happiness health (authentic happiness).
Onward and upward.
For example, there is an aspect of Biocentric Psychology (which is PsycHHology Engineering with me taken out of it) that I haven’t fully explored yet but want to. It’s called the Mutnick or Visibility Principle and if you can find other people—especially a competent psychotherapist—to use as your sounding board to change and improve yourself then more power to you.
But you have to be aware of a PsycHHology Engineering addendum to the principle:
When interacting with others as a psychological mirror you have to be aware of the possibility of interacting with a fun-house mirror and not knowing it, so you have to be able to adjust the “image” of you--that is, of “yu” that “they” reflect. (See respectively, Selfish’ism Glossary and Chapter 1 for more.)
After I got all I could out of Dr. Nathaniel Branden’s “Self Esteem and the Art of Being” intensives (search/see: My Full Review) and some other group therapy follow up work, I found it easier to just use the internet as my mirror in the way I did and continue to use it.
You could say I used the internet as my own Personal (sounding-board) Psychhotherapist and saved millions of dollars in-the-process as I succeeded in rePrograming myself to be an authentically happy, fulfilled person INSPITE of being raised by Jesuit Priests steeped in Kantian Philosophy atop their super-duper engrained Christian Philosophy of a metaphysics that sees reality as a haunted house, epistemology as faith-is-the-best as in only loosers need evidence and all of it with an ethics that says you should nail yourself to the cross.
STS.
So To Speak: that is, that last is a bit of an exaggeration but not entirely.
Plus, the exaggeration could be categorized under what—in MY ancient times—I named “psycho-hermenutics.”
And.
Stop.
This--“psycho-hermeneutics”--is just another NEW thing I have to flesh out to be a formal thing rather than at this point just an informal thing. See Yes Chapter 17 for more.
So.
For you to observe firsthand how I used the internet as my own personal psychhotherapist is merely an exercise in you clicking through my links as you encounter them and/or as you desire to follow them as a trail or path for you to be on.
And when you are on such a path to test and improve your own introspective abilities and to achieve your goal of becoming a better version of you be AWARE OF—catch and hold--YOUR INNER SELF-THOUGHTS as you so proceed.
Introspection is a learned skill and practice does make perfect – that is, for a perfect life.
Your two choices in life are:
1. gbb: good – better – best – repeat, for higher and higher spiraling upwards to your own personal heaven on earth or,
2. bwe: bad – worse - evil – repeat, a downward spiral towards your own personal hell on earth.
Some people try stagnation as a 3rd choice, but it does not work – it’s “better” than allowing yourself to become evil but actively pursuing the good is a better way to go and ultimately will lead to the best you you can make.
With good and evil of course as defined by Ayn Rand’s Objectivism.
Sincerely yours,
Gary Dean Deering
PsycHHology Engineer in the brand-new field of self-study by the same name: PsycHHology Engineering:
Know Thyself. You can’t actualize the unknown.
* Pebble #1: One of my first beneficial benefits from my psychotherapy (re)training (from Branden in one of the many Intensives (search: My Full Review) of his that I attended in my earlier days) was the value of being aware of my thoughts to such a high degree that I could easily capture them as they were “streaming” within me and could choose to say the first thing that came to mind rather than the second or third or whatever came down the pike (as was my M.O. at the time) thereafter to be that which I thought others wanted to hear not what I really thought was the case as was most often in my first thought—albeit not exclusively, but predominantly.
That is, this FTF (First Thoughts First) along with innumerable other such psych(h)otherapy learning-events contributed to my growth in self-knowledge. (Including being aware of feeling more authentic and less phony in-the-FTF-process: ‘oh! this is what I really think’ and ‘in this current context I CHOOSE to say it or NOT to say it’ and say something else instead or say nothing.)
Continuing your reDevelopment/reProgramming efforts be sure to DO SOMETHING in action every day to continue taking back control over your own psychological growth and development to authentic happiness and fulfillment in the here and now.
More free-stuff reading for the interested reader here, here and here.
For ideas on themed action aimed at solving your psychological problems explore this.
Know Thyself to be morally ambitious. All ambition—especially moral ambition—is good.
© September 14, 2023, Gary Dean Deering
Minnesota, USA