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✦ BEYONDISM BQ#12 ✦ Therapeutic Theories · Robust Research ✦ Amorous Assimilations ✦ African Renaissance ✦ Cosmic Consciousness ✦ Meliorating Meditation ✦ Self-Actualization ✦ UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦ ✦ BEYONDISM BQ#12 ✦ Therapeutic Theories · Robust Research ✦ Amorous Assimilations ✦ African Renaissance ✦ Cosmic Consciousness ✦ Meliorating Meditation ✦ Self-Actualization ✦ UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
✦ BEYONDISM BACKUP #12 · SACRED REFERENCE ✦

THERAPEUTIC THEORIES
Robust Research on Human Nature

The Compulsive Catalyst of Self-Actualization
"We ONLY use this BQ#12 as a Reference Point to shed more light on Human Nature — its glories and its shadows — so that through understanding, we may transcend."
— BEYONDISM · African Renaissance · Meliorating Meditation
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✦ Your Sacred Ritual Guide — N · O · W ✦
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Navigate the Seven Theories
Seven golden theory cards await you below — each a gate into one Amorous Assimilation of human psychology. Click any card to open its sacred chamber. Read slowly; each theory is a mirror into the workings of your own PSYCHE.
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Own Each UPGRADE Insight
Within every opened gate, seven acrostic points spell U-P-G-R-A-D-E. Hover each point slowly and feel it resonate. Do not merely read — absorb each truth into your consciousness. Your score and progress illuminate as you engage.
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Witness the Timely Therapy
Each theory closes with a golden Timely Therapy gem — a single aphorism of healing. Breathe in time with the teal orb below. The golden progress track marks your sacred crossing of all seven gates. Complete them all and claim cosmic awareness.
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✦ Seven Gates of Amorous Assimilation ✦
Open the first gate to begin your sacred psychological journey.
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✦ Seven Amorous Assimilations ✦ Click each golden gate · Read · UPGRADE your awareness
"'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually — memory yields."
— Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher
Police cross-questioning of witnesses can implant false memories. Hypnotic techniques are particularly susceptible. Imagined Memory is not as detailed and sensory as real memory.
Distinguished Developers: Pierre Marie Félix Janet (1859–1947), French psychologist & psychotherapist, and Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), founder of psychoanalysis.
✦ Seven Ways to UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
  • UUNDER normal circumstances, sound-minded human beings are very good at reconstructing memory.
  • PPURELY, we often tell the difference between what is a real memory and what is an imagined memory.
  • GGENERALLY, REAL memories include more sensory data — colours, how things felt or smelt.
  • RRELEVANT detail includes irrelevant stuff; for instance, what a stranger at the bus stop really looked like.
  • AASSOCIATION is very critical — memories logically link to other memories and events in a coherent chain.
  • DDISTINCT logic is an indispensable part of REAL memory; imagined memories can appear impossible.
  • EESSENTIALLY, we can get confused and turn an imagined memory into what we sincerely believe is real.
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Timely Therapy
The most beautiful things are not associated with money — they are memories and moments. Guard your inner archive with wisdom.
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." — Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
"Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad." — Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
In a famous 1988 case, Paul Ingram was accused by his daughters of having committed sexual abuse and satanic rituals — events they suddenly remembered after many years. Even he eventually became convinced he must have committed these crimes through repressed memory. Many believe he is innocent, a victim of False Memory Syndrome — having vivid imagery of past but false experiences.
Distinguished Developer: Elizabeth F. Loftus (b. 1944), American psychologist.
✦ Seven Ways to UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
  • UUSUALLY, we can have memories which are actually false but which we absolutely believe to be true.
  • PPOLICE questioning or psychotherapists, for instance, may cause this quite vivid — but false — memory.
  • GGUIDED well, and when we are sufficiently motivated, we can actually change what we REMEMBER.
  • RREALLY, we are better at creating false memories when asked to imagine the supposed event in detail.
  • AA SIMILARITY — being at an event when it was actually another who looked alike — may create a false memory.
  • DDUE false memory can appear when we want something to have happened because it is pleasant to recall.
  • EESSENTIALLY, false memory is basically caused by what is sometimes called 'imagination inflation'.
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Timely Therapy
The best way for you to be happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past — and to verify what you remember with wisdom and compassion.
"A moral judgment made about one situation commits us, on pain of logical inconsistency, to making the same judgment about any precisely similar situation." — R. M. Hare (1919–2002)
If asked whether the population of Ukraine was greater or less than 30 million, you might give one or other answer. If then asked what you thought the actual population was, you would very likely guess somewhere around 30 million — because you have been anchored by the previous answer. Anchoring Bias entails relying on initial information to base subsequent judgments.
Distinguished Developers: Amos Tversky (1937–1996) and Daniel Kahneman (b. 1934), Israeli cognitive psychologists.
✦ Seven Ways to UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
  • UUNDERLYING the anchoring bias is the tendency to rely on initial facts to base subsequent judgments.
  • PPROFUSELY, it causes us to rely too heavily on the first piece of information we are given about a topic.
  • GGAINFUL setting of plans or making of estimates often depends on how we interpret newer information.
  • RREGRESSIVELY, when we interpret from our anchor's reference point, we fail to see reality objectively.
  • AACTUALLY, this skews our judgment and prevents us from updating our plans or predictions as required.
  • DDISTORTED is our perception as we end up filtering all new facts through the initial mental framework.
  • EEVEN if the situation calls for it, this makes us really reluctant to make significant changes to our plans.
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Timely Therapy
Let yourself become that sacred space which welcomes any experience without prior judgment. The cosmos holds no anchors — only infinite possibility.
"Everyone must know the tantalizing effect of the blank rhythm of some forgotten verse, restlessly dancing in one's mind, striving to be filled out with words." — William James (1842–1910)
Plane crashes make people afraid of flying. However, the likelihood of dying in a car accident is far higher than dying as a passenger on an airplane. This is Availability Heuristic — making decisions upon what comes to mind most readily rather than statistical reality.
Distinguished Developers: Amos Tversky (1937–1996) and Daniel Kahneman (b. 1934).
✦ Seven Ways to UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
  • UUNDERLYING availability heuristic is recalling immediate examples from the mind about something.
  • PPRECISELY, this is the tendency to use information that comes to mind quickly when making decisions.
  • GGENERAL example: when asked "What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of…?" — we reply instantly.
  • RRATHER than thinking further, you mention events based on what comes to your mind first — often wrongly.
  • AALL this can lead to poor decision-making because memories that are easily recalled are insufficient.
  • DDECISIVELY, they cannot enable us to figure out how likely things are to happen again in the future.
  • EEVENTUALLY, this leaves a person with low-quality information to form the basis of a good decision.
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Timely Therapy
When trying to make a decision or judgment about the world around you — do not be hasty. Pause, breathe, and seek the deeper current beneath the surface impression.
"Far away now in the mountains… a photograph guards the memory of a man. The photograph is all alone out there. The snow is falling eighteen years after his death. It covers up the door." — Richard Brautigan (1935–1984)
Solomon Asch (1946) found that describing a person as "envious, stubborn, critical, impulsive, industrious, intelligent" produced a more negative rating than the identical list in reverse order starting with "intelligent." The Primacy Effect shows that what we encounter first shapes everything that follows.
Distinguished Developer: Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909), German psychologist.
✦ Seven Ways to UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
  • UUNDERSTANDING the primacy effect ensures that we make better judgments in our day-to-day LIFE.
  • PPRIMACY EFFECT aids one in recalling information seen first, better than the one presented later on.
  • GGIVEN a long list of words, one often remembers words listed at the beginning instead of the middle.
  • RREADILY, the way we receive raw data has proven to be a critical factor in the decision-making process.
  • AAN INDIVIDUAL'S opinion can easily be manipulated or skewed based on their first impression of an object.
  • DDO NOT make rash purchasing decisions based on first impressions — always weigh options based on fact.
  • EENSURE that you do not fall prey to advertising and marketing gimmicks — make an informed, considered choice.
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Timely Therapy
Beware — so long as you live — of judging human beings or things by their outward appearance. The first impression is only the threshold, not the room.
"Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. My words echo thus, in your mind." — T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
Bargh and Pietromonaco showed some people neutral words while others were shown hostile words — very briefly flashed on a screen. Both groups then read about a character with ambiguous behaviour. Those primed with hostile words interpreted the behaviour as more hostile. The Priming Effect shows how some ideas prompt other ideas later — unintentionally, invisibly.
Distinguished Developers: David E. Meyer (b. 1943) and Roger W. Schvaneveldt (b. 1941), American psychologists.
✦ Seven Ways to UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
  • UUNAWARE of the connection, certain stimuli influence people's response to a subsequent stimulus.
  • PPURELY, these stimuli are often related to words or images you encounter in your day-to-day LIFE.
  • GGIVEN you are presented with the word 'doctor', and a moment later, with the words 'nurse' and 'cat' —
  • RRECOGNISING the word 'nurse' far faster than 'cat' is what you are more disposed to — the medics are associated.
  • AALL of this occurs minus your conscious awareness; the two medics are closely associated in your mind.
  • DDILIGENTLY primed, we can behave in certain ways based on things we have read, watched, and heard.
  • EEFFECTIVELY through a 'behavioural pump', companies dramatically influence consumer decision-making.
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Timely Therapy
Captivity in the prison of woeful unawareness — in a no-man's-land of ignorance — is deathly. Guard the gates of your PSYCHE with ceaseless vigilance.
"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December." — J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), Rectorial Address, St Andrews University
Miller and Campbell (1959) recorded trial proceedings with sequences of arguments for and against a plaintiff. When there was no delay between first and second message but a week's gap before judgment, a primacy effect occurred. When there was a delay between messages but no gap before judgment, a recency effect occurred. What you hear last — in the right conditions — is what shapes the verdict.
Distinguished Developer: Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909), German psychologist.
✦ Seven Ways to UPGRADE Your Awareness ✦
  • UUNINFLUENCED, what determines the ability to accurately recall items on a list is their location within it.
  • PPOSITIONED at the end of the list — items learned most recently — are recalled best: the recency effect.
  • GGRANTED, the first few items are also recalled better than those found in the middle: the primacy effect.
  • RRECENCY effect is dependent upon short-term memory — also known as active or primary memory.
  • AABILITY to hold a relatively small amount of memory for a brief period of time is what this entails.
  • DDECISIVELY, short-term memory only lasts between 15 and 30 seconds without active maintenance.
  • EESSENTIALLY, if you do not rehearse that information, it will quickly be lost and fade from memory forever.
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Timely Therapy
Never try to memorize what you do not understand — that is an insult to your PSYCHE. Let understanding precede memory, and memory will serve you faithfully.
Breathe · Absorb · Ascend
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"We are not the mind, nor the thoughts that pass through it.
The mind is a tool — sacred, powerful — but you, the real you,
are the one who wields it with wisdom and light.
This is BEYONDISM: the compulsive catalyst
of the African Renaissance."
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