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Intro Series XIII: Personal Metabolisation II: Soul Metabolisation
The post-tragic mode of being that can only come through metabolising the soul and discovering one’s unique gifts to give into the socio-ecosphere
 • Nick Laurence
Intro Series XII: Personal Metabolisation I
Transforming both our sources of personal suffering and self-deception in one; expanding our capacity to be with and process bigger-than-self distress
 • Nick Laurence
Intro Series XI: Metabolisation of Bigger-than-Self Distress: The Vital Need and Crucial Opportunity
The Transjective, Psycho-Cultural Nature of Bigger-than-Self Distress, and the Meta-Opportunity and Meta-Solutions inherent in Meta-Crisis
 • Nick Laurence
Intro Series X: The NEWDS Approach Part Three: The Full-Spectrum Collaborative Model of Sensemaking (Sensemaking II)
A Seven-Part Model of Collaborative Sensemaking in the Context of Meta-Crisis and Bigger-than-Self Distress
 • Nick Laurence and Matthew Painton
Intro Series IX: The NEWDS Approach Part Two: Sensemaking I
This is the ninth post in an Intro Series where I introduce the key concepts and lay out the intellectual grounding of the Bigger-than perspective I’m…
 • Nick Laurence
Intro Series VIII: The NEWDS Approach Part One - Wisdom
What is Wisdom? Why is it central to responding to bigger-than-self distress, reality distress, and meta-crisis? Perspectives from cognitive science and…
 • Nick Laurence
Intro Series VII: Autopoietic Healing and Harmonising (AHH) Systems
Cutting-edge contemporary embodied psychological approaches to healing seem to make use of self-organising healing and harmonising systems within human…
 • Nick Laurence
Bigger-than
Bigger-than
metabolising and sensemaking bigger-than-self distress, meta-crisis, reality
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