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Worldwide Perspectives

Letter from Brisbane

By Kirsten Fogg Bris­bane, Aus­tralia. Cap­i­tal of Queens­land, the Sun­shine State. A city where flip flops are de rigueur year round. It’s a volup­tuous place that clings to the river and spreads to the Pacific. Per­haps you imag­ine me sit­ting by the beach, salt wind leav­ing a touch of inspi­ra­tion as it brushes my pages. Or maybe you pic­ture me under a canopy of jacaranda and frangi­pani trees, laugh­ing with the kook­abur­ras as I scrib­ble my fra­grant thoughts. I imag­ined that too. At least I did before I immi­grated. When I sat down to write … Con­tinue read­ing →

Noimetics News

Noimet­ics is a new phi­los­o­phy. By pre­sent­ing a phi­los­o­phy that can stand along­side philoso­phies like exis­ten­tial­ism, ratio­nal­ism, and human­ism and that pro­vides a rad­i­cally new—and truer—explanation of what “mean­ing means” to human beings, I hope to pro­vide a com­plete pic­ture of what “mak­ing mean­ing” entails—and why that may deeply inter­est you. To learn more about noimet­ics, please join me for my class with the Acad­emy for Opti­mal Liv­ing called Noimet­ics: Bring Mean­ing to Life! The class begins in Novem­ber and can be joined at any time. Enroll­ment is now open.

Rethinking Depression

Rethink­ing Depres­sion, my lat­est book with New World Library, will appear Feb­ru­ary, 2012. In it I ques­tion whether “the men­tal dis­or­der of depres­sion” exists or whether in con­tem­po­rary times human sad­ness has been mon­e­tized and lan­guaged into a “men­tal dis­or­der.” I fol­low that dis­cus­sion with a plan for min­i­miz­ing sad­ness and liv­ing life with pur­pose. Here are some early com­ments on Rethink­ing Depres­sion. ** Allan Hor­witz, author of Cre­at­ing Men­tal Ill­ness: “Eric Maisel’s Rethink­ing Depres­sion raises fun­da­men­tal ques­tions about the dif­fer­ences between depres­sive men­tal dis­or­der and nor­mal sad­ness. Any­one who is won­der­ing if they really … Con­tinue read­ing →