Blogs and Articles

Kiritsis to Present at the 2019 ATP International Transpersonal Conference

Monday, February 11, 2019

Paul Kiritsis

The Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP, a division of the Transpersonal Institute) will be celebrating the Golden (50th) Anniversary of the transpersonal field on April 12-14, 2019, with an International Transpersonal Conference at Asilomar Conference Grounds near San Francisco, California. Many of the previous transpersonal conferences were historically held there. ..

Integrative Medicine: Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?

Monday, April 23, 2018

Paul Kiritsis

For me studying the history of esotericism has revealed some creamy pearls of wisdom–that every epoch has constructivist paradigms for medicine and disease, and that prognostic impressions, orthodox treatment strategies, and protocols are informed by internalized and largely unconscious assumptions about the way the “external” world is. Thanks to seventeenth century Cart ..

Empathy: Innate or Learned?

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Paul Kiritsis

Putting oneself in the shoes of another comes easily to most of us. We cry at projected images on electronic media of rustic peoples who have just lost their homes to natural disasters; feel anger and resentment towards minorities being discriminated against because of their race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or gender; and orchestrate rallies holding aloft powerful political slog ..

The Dreaming Self: How much do we really know about dreams?

Friday, March 30, 2018

Paul Kiritsis

Time has revealed dream phenomena as paradoxical realms that are highly resistant to empirical investigation. Despite attempts to probe, encroach upon, uncover, and map territory traditionally exalted under philosophical inquiry, they remain enigmatic and ineffable. Dreams fascinate, mesmerize us, and pique our curiosity, namely because they appear so diametrically opposed to ..

Photos from the Book Launch for Confessions of a Split Mind

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Paul Kiritsis

Here are some photos from the Confessions of a Split Mind book launch on Saturday 17th February at 12.00pm at the Sofia University Library in Palo Alto. ..

Official Book Launch Announced

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Paul Kiritsis

Towards an Integrated Theory of Personality and Personal Growth

Friday, December 08, 2017

Paul Kiritsis

Remembering the Self: Personal insignia depicting my integrated theory of personal development. What we term the “self” cannot be completely divested from personality and personal growth, and the two are not mutually exclusive terms. What we recognize as an integrated and unremitting sense of self is in fact the product of an ephemeral interaction between tha ..

Confessions of a Split Mind: Pacific Book Review

Thursday, December 07, 2017

Paul Kiritsis

“In Confessions of a Split Mind, Paul Kiritsis has created something quite unique in the realm of modern publishing. His journal teaches basic aspects of the functioning of the mind along with giving the reader a basic understanding of some of the big philosophical questions as they relate to the brain. Through the creative and often lively argument between The Unknown Pilot, Solim, ..

Confessions of a Split Mind: Review by US Review of Books

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Paul Kiritsis

SOLIM: I struggle to understand how random activations in functionally specialized regions of an input-deprived cortex could somehow translate into a meaningful, complex, and symbolically rich experience on the phenomenological level." In the question of God versus the natural world, there are many ways to align yourself. Some strictly adhere to scientific thinking or religious ..

Confessions of a Split Mind: Press Release

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Paul Kiritsis

Underlying processes of a split mind revealed Narration that Demonstrates the Universal Plight for Meaning and Purpose The book begins with a quote by Antonin Artaud: “Nobody has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except to literally get out of hell.” Confessions of a Split Mind is a compendium of ..

Dorothea Dix Award

Paul Kiritsis is pleased to announce the inaugural Dorothea Dix Award for all those who have overcome or battled mental or physical illness, disability, or injury. Click here for more details.

Paracelsus Award

To Paul Kiritsis in recognition of your outstanding website and and in honour of your personal philosophy of alchemy and applied alchemical methods on mind-matter interaction, transpersonal psychology, consciousness studies, mythology, and history.