Ego types include survival, daring, caring, self-controlling, possessive, grandiose, wounded, victim and spiritual.

Philosophy criticizes science while it has been unsuccessful in epistemology, metaphysics and ethics.

Information as the basic nature of reality avoids the pitfalls of materialism, idealism and dualism.

Unique characteristics of the human brain let us experience suffering as extending to the past and the future, and to others.

The idea that we deserve the best, as well as craving happiness and virtue, are traps of the ego.

A writer’s Way of the Warrior has intellectual honesty, self-reliance, humility, courage, restrain and personal power.

Since there is no consciousness after death, we experience nothing, so there is nothing to fear.

Denial of free will is based on religious or mystical ideas and can have dire consequences by making it ethical to control the mind.

Pain is a sensation that is not always unpleasant, while suffering is a state of being based on emotions, values and meaning.

The ego appears when shame and pride take over our consciousness and fill it with cravings.

This has been my quest for self-knowledge, self-transformation and meaning I started developing my philosophy of life when I left...