Psychology

There’s a well-known joke about a tourist in Ireland who asks one of the locals for directions to Dublin. The Irishman replies: ‘Well sir, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here’. 

It is always amusing to me how we start to pursue for meaning in life and in one way or another enter the world of psych and psychology. In my journey of understanding life and with every shift in my search I remember the Irish wisdom in the joke above. Am I even at the right start point?

I think my first sense of mystery about human psyche and functions started when I was a young adult by finding one of many personality tests. Later in my role as university professor I found some of them very helpful, such as:

After reading countless number of self-help books over the years I shifted my focus on more specific research based subjects such as:

I continued this path by delving into brain studies, neuroscience and related subjects such as:

Later I read about different schools of psychology and particularly became interested in Jungian analysis. I educated myself with resources such as:

As time progressed, I grew into a deeper perspective on human psychology by the works of scholars who have worked on spirituality as the ignored, missing part of the field. So I got familiar with:

I feel by understanding more and deeper about human psyche, there is a better possibility to have discernment for problem solving and adapting to the fast pace changes in lives both as an individual and as a society.