Welcome

Hello from the Pacific Northwest corner of the US (near Seattle). I’m an independent field researcher, theorist, and outdoor healing arts practitioner working in the interdisciplinary, relatively new field called Human Science (it is a very small field because it is unusual insofar as it is interdisciplinary, drawing from many fields at once during studies, but also because there is not an abundance of people who happen to have a comprehensive background in both science and art, who can do the kind of complexity-oriented research and application development for which human science was created. Field that studies human phenomena through a combination of philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, physiology, ecology, and a heavy dose of classic philosophy which is needed for good theory development to be possible (otherwise observations tend to remain on the superficial level of mere description, leading only to simplistic cause/effect theories lacking depth and of limited use for application development, which is currently a common problem in academic social sciences and medical laboratory sciences). Human science draws from any and every field that may be relevant in a single study on a complex phenomenon. For this reason, human science studies take a long time, which does not fit well into the modern idea of quickie studies that produce quick but not-very-useful results. Human science exists primarily for robust theory development above and beyond the common kind of description and hypothesis formulation studies that are essentially of little practical value and which currently clog up the academic pipelines of knowledge dissemination (and this fact does not bode well for academia itself).

The purpose of human science is to study and come to understand human nature, broadly conceived, using a naturalistic framework. Humans, like other living beings, have an inherent nature that reveals itself in a myriad of ways under all kinds of different contexts, situations, and living conditions. And like other living beings, the nature of the human is to heal, grow, and mature through life experience, especially difficult experience. It is not necessary to study bits and pieces of humans in medical laboratories to try and discover how to help the human organism in whole, to progress further in its inherent pursuit. The life force cannot be shut down after all; not without killing the organism. As long as the body breathes it tries to heal from damage, grow and learn from experience, and to reach into and bring forth innate and latent potential that has been left neglected or disallowed due to social and environmental conditions that tend to oppress and crush down the nature of the human being. The force of oppression that most people experience is civilization itself, which is inherently oppressive. This means that healing, growing and naturally becoming stronger, more mature, and more potent and powerful in life is a subversive act against civilization.

Just like our ancestors did across millennia, the practical realm of my work is conducted outdoors (after a period of time spent indoors, in a methodical process of insight-oriented discourse that concludes with a testable multivariate hypothesis built entirely from the raw data that emerges through a special kind of discussion that is at once scientific as well as therapeutic at the same time) because one must first become present, see, and grip whatever it is that is going to be released for the sake of growth through an integration process that manifests as a series of natural immersion rituals in safe and sufficiently private outdoor sites).

I am mainly a researcher, specializing in the study of decision-making under naturalistic conditions involving sudden or anticipated extreme stress, time constraints, and intermittent or constant personal danger. As a practitioner, my secondary occupation, I specialize in helping people of high potential to move through the haunting, harrowing, and painful yet entirely natural psychological aftermath that comes from enduring difficult life experiences involving a deep level of stress, fear or shock, and profound loss of any kind. My work is based on knowledge of how the nervous system works and how the human organism adapts and sometimes even thrives under horrendous conditions. I consider the nervous system, in its entirely, to be the core realm of the psyche. The nervous system is basically electricity, but it is incredibly mysterious and is not fully understood by scientists (knowing how to use or manipulate electricity in some practical ways is based on comprehension, but that is not equivalent to fundamental understanding, which is a deeper realm of knowledge and is not easy to achieve in the study of complex phenomena).

However, I do not use medical hypotheses and theories to comprehend human nature. Instead I tend toward the neutral sciences outside of the medical fields, especially sciences based on empirical and naturalistic frameworks (i.e. outside of the unnatural conditions of the laboratory). Human nature is revealed mainly under naturalistic conditions, not laboratory conditions, and for this reason my research is entirely field-based.

When the goal is to help people move through a very complex and deep psychological experience in order to restore and regain a heightened level of psychological maturity and well-being, the best place to start is where we evolved: outside. Our ancestors did healing rituals outside for millennia, so why should we sit indoors under artificial lighting, sitting in chairs and talk endlessly about our problems without ever taking action? That scene does not fit into what is known about how humans grow, heal, and mature into deeper, stronger, more powerful beings (which is what we’re all supposed to be doing over time, otherwise we’re wasting our lives). Gaining clarity through discourse is fine; it is necessary, but at some point we must get out of our chairs and go do something about the insight we gained through methodical, insight-oriented discourse.

I have various academic degrees and professional credentials relevant to my work; however, nearly everything I have learned that is truly useful has come directly from 15 years of being a complexity-oriented field researcher while simultaneously spending a decade as an experimental practitioner working both indoors and outdoors to methodically find ways that genuinely work for healing, integrating, and growing through any kind of extreme or tragic experience which has brought profound loss of any kind, There is always an aftermath of intense and difficult emotions and compensatory or adaptive responses to loss which vary between people and are partly determined by the depth of the loss incurred. Frequently the aftermath of extreme but unwanted experience includes feeling of being trapped, degraded, or crushed down because there are few or no adequate venues within industrial society for people to move through the aftermath of shocking especially experiences involving the emotion of terror, as that is something most people have no clue how to approach, to think about, and to move through in a healthy way the results in personal growth.

I have a special interest in studying the human capacity to adapt and sometimes to thrive — at least to some extent —under extremely stressful, possibly horrific conditions that produce a state of shock, resulting in a full or partial paralysis (this is the strict definition of trauma) both mentally and physically regardless of the source of trauma, there are always mental and physical consequences at once; meaning that all extreme experiences are objective and subjective at the same time. This holds true for any kind of experience; there is no such thing as a ‘just mental’ or ‘just physical’ regarding intense or shocking experience of any kind, even if trauma in the technical sense does not occur. Such experiences may last a mere short moment, a painfully long period of time, or they could occur intermittently, in complex cycles or at random, depending on various underlying factors (in any case, they are torturous, agonizing experiences yet so frequently the masses of average people with no higher faculties available to them, want those with personal knowledge of such experiences to vanish or at least be forced into silence through the act of stigmatizing natural responses; basically it is a form of oppression and degradation which adds insult to injury to those are forced to carry a heavy load of relentless and sometimes extreme stress that was leftover from some kind of extraordinarily difficult experience, situation, or ongoing condition into which they are forced to endure despite terrible and and disintegrative consequences).

The capacity to endure, if not find a way to thrive, under traumatic, terrifying, unfathomably stressful conditions is often left dormant unless it is intentionally engaged and cultivated. That is what my work is about… helping people to move through unfathomable amounts of stress, and if stuck against one’s will under horrendous conditions, to survive and to even thrive, whenever possible, within that which would destroy the average person who does no possess the latent capacities that extremely difficult experiences require to be cultivated in order to not merely survive, but to grow, mature, and re-integrate oneself on a permanently higher level of beingness. That is what people of high potential are meant to do whenever they go into battle by choice or by force. Because I understand how rare authentic self development is — compared to the typical situation of staying diminished but adjusted and essentially broken in some way after impossibly difficult life experience, which is the fate of the average or common person — I work mainly with people of high potential and super intelligence as they are the ultimate minority population. They are nearly entirely ignored by the average, mainstream field of medical psychology, and they also hardly appear in research and practice in the non-medical fields of psychology. The people with the most to offer civilization are almost never studied, and almost never helped by any of the mainstream fields of psychology, which, by definition, are based on studying only the most common, easy-to-access, and easy-to-study populations because that’s what makes the mainstream the mainstream (and whose theories and products are therefore not applicable not outlier populations). The concept of psychopathology definitely has its place in civilization and does apply to populations that are brain-damaged and physiologically holding pathology in the body, such as brain damage incurred by a disease-inducing lifestyle based on lack of adequate nutrition, constant ingestion of serious toxins and brain-damaging drugs, lack of education, lack of significant life experience, and a total lack of interest in pursuits of self-development. This type of person becomes pathological in its psychology over time but the psychological symptoms (including behavioral symptoms, which are technically a part of, not separate from, the psychological realm of the human) based on physical pathology that renders psychological symptoms. I don’t know the percentage of psychopathic people in civilization, but I do know they are increasing as an anthropological phenomenon and a byproduct of industrial civilization.

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I have been mysteriously “called”, as the old saying goes, to do this work in order to help people integrate, heal, grow, and become more mature, grounded, and clear-minded while moving through, integrating, and ultimately releasing the effects of catastrophe, terror, anxiety, traumatic loss, anger, grief, and tragic experience of any kind. There is currently a tremendous and ever-increasing need for non-clinical, non-pathological practitioners (i.e. the opposite of pathological practitioners) so I am here to help out society in that regard. The term ‘psychologist’ should be changed to ‘psychopathologist’ because that would be an entirely accurate term, as technically, the term ‘psychologist’ is quite broad and applies to any kind of researcher or practitioner who works in any branch of psychology. Pathology refers to the broad field of medicine, and psychopathology refers to the content, the subject-matter, the area of focus, within the broad field of pathological psychology, practiced in medical clinics, by psychiatrists and other types of psychopathologists who have academic degrees other than “medical doctor”. The term ‘psychology’ seems to have been chosen by virtue of a lack of readily available medical titles, so instead of creating new titles for the non-medical-doctor workers in the field of psychopathology, the medical industry absconded with the term ‘psychologist’ which originally came out of the field of philosphy, not medicine. But historically, medical doctors in Europe has extensive training in philosophy as they had a classic education with a focus on medicine. Today the education system is not based on teaching the classic fields alongside one’s chosen field of specialization, so the term ‘psychology’ is even more inappropriate for use within the field of medicine —- NO, WAIT, psychopathology is a mix between pathology and psychology… pathology is a generic term that defines all fields of medicine. Without pathology there is no medicine; the field of medicine exists for the purpose of addressing pathology, which always refers to the physical body unless one is being metaphysical rather than scientific, as the fast is that pathology cannot be located in the psyche; there is no evidence that the psyche can take on pathology as it is a energy system, made of the stuff of nerves…. which is mental and physical at once. BLOODY HELL THIS IS GETTING COMPLICATED; USE THIS TO WRITE AN ARTICLE IN TAXONOMY OF THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY IN A BROAD SENSE ….and psychiatrists are the original practitioners in that field, but the need for more psychiatry

The kind of psychotherapy I do is based on developmental psychology for adults. It is a field of psychology that does not rely on any medical concepts and diagnoses, and there is no need for control, correction, and management techniques of any kind in order to grow and mature through extraordinarily difficult experiences in life as long as the person is intelligent, high-functioning, and does not have a broken will. If so, then spontaneous healing and growth will occur anytime a person’s environmental or relational conditions are conducive, because that is what the human organism does naturally, it seizes any and all apparent opportunities to restore or continue movement toward fulfill of innate potential, as long as there is no impediment or blockade that holds the person under oppression, stagnation, or some other disintegrative force.

I work outside of the medical psychology industry; however, the theoretical framework I use could be applied as an auxiliary or alternative to the typical clinical treatment programs, especially in cases where little or no relevant progress is made after implementation of clinical techniques. My work is especially beneficial for clients of advanced capacities who are, or have been in the past, very high functioning. Sometimes clinical treatment just does not work, or only works to a small degree. People who do not respond well, or not at all, to medical /clinical concepts and treatment programs tend to benefit more from ecologically valid and naturalistic theories and applications. My work is a combination of art and science, grounded on a foundation of naturalistic research and complexity-oriented practical application development.

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