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			===Carl Rogers Terms===

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	In his chapter "'''Living the Process of Dying'''" he talks about evidence for the survival of individual consciousness after the death of the [[Physical Unit]]. "All these experiences, so briefly suggested rather than described, have made me much more open to the possibility of the continuation of the individual human spirit, something I had never before believed possible."		In his chapter "'''Living the Process of Dying'''" he talks about evidence for the survival of individual consciousness after the death of the [[Physical Unit]]. "All these experiences, so briefly suggested rather than described, have made me much more open to the possibility of the continuation of the individual human spirit, something I had never before believed possible."

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Michael at 04:09, 17 March 2026

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	His chapter '''"Experiences in Communication'''" is a transcript of a lecture he gave in 1964 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In it he basically talks about what makes him and others happy and healthy, and what does not. The entire chapter is basically support for the idea that health and happiness come with you meet people's various [[Seven Essential Needs]] for love (psychological needs), safety (environmental needs), [[alignment]], [[connection]], and so on. He opens by speaking to students about the importance of communicating "at a feeling level," basically saying that he wants to connect with the students there. He then goes on and talks about how meeting various needs creates improves all relationships, therapeutic, professions, familiar, etc., and helps create happy and healthy people.		His chapter '''"Experiences in Communication'''" is a transcript of a lecture he gave in 1964 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In it he basically talks about what makes him and others happy and healthy, and what does not. The entire chapter is basically support for the idea that health and happiness come with you meet people's various [[Seven Essential Needs]] for love (psychological needs), safety (environmental needs), [[alignment]], [[connection]], and so on. He opens by speaking to students about the importance of communicating "at a feeling level," basically saying that he wants to connect with the students there. He then goes on and talks about how meeting various needs creates improves all relationships, therapeutic, professions, familiar, etc., and helps create happy and healthy people.

	First, he relates the importance of meeting the need for [[Outer Connection]], "The first simple feeling I want to share with you is my enjoyment when I can really ''hear'' someone."<ref>Italics in original</ref> He also says "I like to be ''heard...without judging...diagnosing...appraising...evaluating me."'' (trans: I like it when I am connected to others in an open and non-judgmental way). he feels "shut into" himself when he tries to express and others cannot understand. He thought this blocked connection was very serious, suggesting this disconnection from another's reality "makes some individuals psychotic. It causes them to give up hoping that anyone can understand them. Once they have lost that hope, then their own inner world, which becomes more and more bizarre, is the only place where they can live. They can no longer live in any shared human experience."		First, he relates the importance of meeting the need for [[Outer Connection]], "The first simple feeling I want to share with you is my enjoyment when I can really ''hear'' someone."<ref>Italics in original</ref> He also says "I like to be ''heard...without judging... diagnosing... appraising... evaluating me."'' (trans: I like it when I am connected to others in an open and non-judgmental way). He feels "shut into" himself when he tries to express and others cannot understand. He thought this blocked connection was very serious, suggesting this disconnection from another's reality "makes some individuals psychotic. It causes them to give up hoping that anyone can understand them. Once they have lost that hope, then their own inner world, which becomes more and more bizarre, is the only place where they can live. They can no longer live in any shared human experience."

	Then he relates the importance of [[Inner Connection]]. "I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. "		He talks about communications with a friend was "grateful that someone had ''heard'' him."<ref>Rogers, Carl. ''A Way of Being''. Houghton Mifflin, 1980. </ref> This is another example of the importance of connection.<blockquote>I find, both in therapeutic interviews and in the intensive group experiences which have meant a great deal to me, that hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. There is first of all a grateful look. He feels released. He wants to tell me more about his world. He surges forth in a new sense of freedom. He becomes more open to the process of change.

			I have often noticed that the more deeply I hear the meanings of this person, the more there is that happens. Almost always, when a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, “Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it’s like to be me.” In such moments I have had the fantasy of a prisoner in a dungeon, tapping out day after day a Morse code message, “Does anybody hear me? Is anybody there?” And finally one day he hears some faint tappings which spell out “Yes.” By that one simple response he is released from his loneliness; he has become a human being again. There are many, many people living in private dungeons today, people who give no evidence of it whatsoever on the outside, where you have to listen very sharply to hear the faint messages from the dungeon.
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			Then he relates the importance of [[Inner Connection]]. "I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. <ref>Rogers, Carl. ''A Way of Being''. Houghton Mifflin, 1980.</ref>

	There are also intimations of meeting [[Alignment]] needs, which he calls [[Congruence]].		There are also intimations of meeting [[Alignment]] needs, which he calls [[Congruence]].
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	In his chapter "'''Two Struggles'''" he talks about his struggles with psychiatry and behaviouristic psychology, the former about psychiatry's efforts to suppress psychology, and the latter a political discussion about his distaste for behaviourism which he characterizes as a psychology built for management and control by the elites whereas his humanistic psychology is one built for healing and health. <blockquote>		In his chapter "'''Two Struggles'''" he talks about his struggles with psychiatry and behaviouristic psychology, the former about psychiatry's efforts to suppress psychology, and the latter a political discussion about his distaste for behaviourism which he characterizes as a psychology built for management and control by the elites whereas his humanistic psychology is one built for healing and health. <blockquote>
	In all candor I must say that I believe that the humanistic view will, in the long run, take precedence. I believe that Americans are, as a people, beginning to refuse to allow technology to dominate our lives. Our culture, increasingly based on the conquest of nature and the control of man, is in decline. Emerging through the ruins is the new person, highly aware, selfdirecting, an explorer of inner, perhaps more than outer, space, scornful of the conformity of institutions and the dogma of authority. He does not believe in being behaviorally shaped, or in shaping the behavior of others. He is most assuredly humanistic rather than technological. In my judgment he has a high probability of survival.		In all candor I must say that I believe that the humanistic view will, in the long run, take precedence. I believe that Americans are, as a people, beginning to refuse to allow technology to dominate our lives. Our culture, increasingly based on the conquest of nature and the control of man, is in decline. Emerging through the ruins is the new person, highly aware, selfdirecting, an explorer of inner, perhaps more than outer, space, scornful of the conformity of institutions and the dogma of authority. He does not believe in being behaviorally shaped, or in shaping the behavior of others. He is most assuredly humanistic rather than technological. In my judgment he has a high probability of survival.
	Yet, this belief of mine is open to one exception. If we were to permit one-man control, or a military take-over of our government—and it is obvious we have been (and are) perilously close to that—then another scenario would take place. A governmental-military-police-industrial complex would be more than happy to use scientific technology for military and industrial conquest and psychological technology for the control of human behavior. I am not being dramatic when I say that humanistic psychologists, emphasizing the essential freedom and dignity of the unique human person, and his capacity for self-determination, would be among the		Yet, this belief of mine is open to one exception. If we were to permit one-man control, or a military take-over of our government—and it is obvious we have been (and are) perilously close to that—then another scenario would take place. A governmental-military-police-industrial complex would be more than happy to use scientific technology for military and industrial conquest and psychological technology for the control of human behavior. I am not being dramatic when I say that humanistic psychologists, emphasizing the essential freedom and dignity of the unique human person, and his capacity for self-determination, would be among the first to be incarcerated by such a government.</blockquote>

	first to be incarcerated by such a government. </blockquote>
	There is an interesting anecdote in that chapter on a cowardly act by B.F. Skinner when he refused to allow a nine-hour debates between Rogers and himself to be released, possibly because it revealed Skinner's "philosophical choice" to develop a psychology of control rather than a psychology of freedom, possibly in willing service to a managerial elite.		There is an interesting anecdote in that chapter on a cowardly act by B.F. Skinner when he refused to allow a nine-hour debates between Rogers and himself to be released, possibly because it revealed Skinner's "philosophical choice" to develop a psychology of control rather than a psychology of freedom, possibly in willing service to a managerial elite.

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	In his chapter "'''Living the Process of Dying'''" he talks about evidence for the survival of individual consciousness after the death of the [[Physical Unit]]. "All these experiences, so briefly suggested rather than described, have made me much more open to the possibility of the continuation of the individual human spirit, something I had never before believed possible."		In his chapter "'''Living the Process of Dying'''" he talks about evidence for the survival of individual consciousness after the death of the [[Physical Unit]]. "All these experiences, so briefly suggested rather than described, have made me much more open to the possibility of the continuation of the individual human spirit, something I had never before believed possible."


	===Carl Rogers Terms===		===Carl Rogers Terms===

Michael at 05:29, 6 March 2026

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	In his chapter "'''Living the Process of Dying'''" he talks about evidence for the survival of individual consciousness after the death of the [[Physical Unit]]. "All these experiences, so briefly suggested rather than described, have made me much more open to the possibility of the continuation of the individual human spirit, something I had never before believed possible."		In his chapter "'''Living the Process of Dying'''" he talks about evidence for the survival of individual consciousness after the death of the [[Physical Unit]]. "All these experiences, so briefly suggested rather than described, have made me much more open to the possibility of the continuation of the individual human spirit, something I had never before believed possible."


			===Carl Rogers Terms===

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Michael at 04:40, 31 January 2026

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	'''Social Revolution:''' Like other Humanistic psychologists of the day, Rogers felt he was participating in a social revolution "Every social revolution is preceded by, or brings with it, a change in the perception of the world or a change in the perception of the possible or both. Just as inevitably, these altered perceptions are first seen as ridiculous nonsense or worse by the collective common sense of the time" and "A quiet revolution is under way in almost every field. It holds promise of moving us forward to a more human, more person-centered world." <ref>Rogers, Carl. ''Rogers on Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact''. Delacorte, 1977.</ref>		'''Social Revolution:''' Like other Humanistic psychologists of the day, Rogers felt he was participating in a social revolution "Every social revolution is preceded by, or brings with it, a change in the perception of the world or a change in the perception of the possible or both. Just as inevitably, these altered perceptions are first seen as ridiculous nonsense or worse by the collective common sense of the time" and "A quiet revolution is under way in almost every field. It holds promise of moving us forward to a more human, more person-centered world." <ref>Rogers, Carl. ''Rogers on Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact''. Delacorte, 1977.</ref>


			<ref>Rogers, Carl R., and David Ryback. “One Alternative to Nuclear Planetary Suicide.” ''Peabody Journal of Education'' 61, no. 3 (1984): 91–110. JSTOR.</ref>

	'''Education''': Rogers had some things to say about how to organize education. <blockquote>Teachers must be in control of their students.		'''Education''': Rogers had some things to say about how to organize education. <blockquote>Teachers must be in control of their students.

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	'''Education''': Rogers had some things to say about how to organize education. <blockquote>Teachers must be in control of their students.		'''Education''': Rogers had some things to say about how to organize education. <blockquote>Teachers must be in control of their students.
	—But—		—But—
	It has been established that where teachers share their power, and trust their
	students, self-directed learning takes place at a greater rate than in teacher controlled classrooms.		It has been established that where teachers share their power, and trust their students, self-directed learning takes place at a greater rate than in teacher controlled classrooms.

	Teachers must be firm, discipline strict, evaluation tough, if learning is to take place.		Teachers must be firm, discipline strict, evaluation tough, if learning is to take place.
	~~—But—It~~ has been proven that the teacher who empathically understands ~~themeaning~~ of school to the student, who respects the student as a person, whois genuine in relationships, fosters a learning climate definitely superior ~~inits~~ effects to the “commonsense”’ teacher.
			—But—

			It has been proven that the teacher who empathically understands the meaning of school to the student, who respects the student as a person, whois genuine in relationships, fosters a learning climate definitely superior in its effects to the “commonsense”’ teacher.

	Teachers must teach what students ought to know.		Teachers must teach what students ought to know.

	—But—		—But—

	Significant learning is greater when students choose, from a wide variety of options and resources, what they need and want to know. <ref>Rogers, Carl. ''Rogers on Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact''. Delacorte, 1977.</ref></blockquote>		Significant learning is greater when students choose, from a wide variety of options and resources, what they need and want to know. <ref>Rogers, Carl. ''Rogers on Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact''. Delacorte, 1977.</ref></blockquote>

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
			'''Social Revolution:''' Like other Humanistic psychologists of the day, Rogers felt he was participating in a social revolution "Every social revolution is preceded by, or brings with it, a change in the perception of the world or a change in the perception of the possible or both. Just as inevitably, these altered perceptions are first seen as ridiculous nonsense or worse by the collective common sense of the time" and "A quiet revolution is under way in almost every field. It holds promise of moving us forward to a more human, more person-centered world." <ref>Rogers, Carl. ''Rogers on Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact''. Delacorte, 1977.</ref>

			'''Education''': Rogers had some things to say about how to organize education. <blockquote>Teachers must be in control of their students.
			—But—
			It has been established that where teachers share their power, and trust their
			students, self-directed learning takes place at a greater rate than in teacher controlled classrooms.
			Teachers must be firm, discipline strict, evaluation tough, if learning is to take place.
			—But—It has been proven that the teacher who empathically understands themeaning of school to the student, who respects the student as a person, whois genuine in relationships, fosters a learning climate definitely superior inits effects to the “commonsense”’ teacher.
			Teachers must teach what students ought to know.
			—But—
			Significant learning is greater when students choose, from a wide variety of options and resources, what they need and want to know. <ref>Rogers, Carl. ''Rogers on Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact''. Delacorte, 1977.</ref></blockquote>

	=== A Way of Being ===		=== A Way of Being ===

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	In his book "A Way of Being," he speaks about the foundations of a healing and healing.		In his book "A Way of Being," he speaks about the foundations of a healing and healing.

	His chapter '''"Experiences in Communication'''" is a transcript of a lecture he gave in 1964 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In it he basically talks about what him and others happy and healthy, and what does not. The entire chapter is basically support for the idea that health and happiness come with you meet people's various [[Seven Essential Needs]] for love (psychological needs), safety (environmental needs), [[alignment]], [[connection]], and so on. He opens by speaking to students about the importance of communicating "at a feeling level," basically saying that he wants to connect with the students there. He then goes on and talks about how meeting various needs creates improves all relationships, therapeutic, professions, familiar, etc., and helps create happy and healthy people.		His chapter '''"Experiences in Communication'''" is a transcript of a lecture he gave in 1964 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. In it he basically talks about what makes him and others happy and healthy, and what does not. The entire chapter is basically support for the idea that health and happiness come with you meet people's various [[Seven Essential Needs]] for love (psychological needs), safety (environmental needs), [[alignment]], [[connection]], and so on. He opens by speaking to students about the importance of communicating "at a feeling level," basically saying that he wants to connect with the students there. He then goes on and talks about how meeting various needs creates improves all relationships, therapeutic, professions, familiar, etc., and helps create happy and healthy people.

	First, he relates the importance of [[Outer Connection]], "The first simple feeling I want to share with you is my enjoyment when I can really ''hear'' someone."<ref>Italics in original</ref> He also says "I like to be ''heard...without judging...diagnosing...appraising...evaluating me."'' (trans: I like it when I am connected to others in an open and non-judgmental way). he feels "shut into" himself when he tries to express and others cannot understand. He thought this blocked connection was very serious, suggesting this disconnection from another's reality "makes some individuals psychotic. It causes them to give up hoping that anyone can understand them. Once they have lost that hope, then their own inner world, which becomes more and more bizarre, is the only place where they can live. They can no longer live in any shared human experience."		First, he relates the importance of meeting the need for [[Outer Connection]], "The first simple feeling I want to share with you is my enjoyment when I can really ''hear'' someone."<ref>Italics in original</ref> He also says "I like to be ''heard...without judging...diagnosing...appraising...evaluating me."'' (trans: I like it when I am connected to others in an open and non-judgmental way). he feels "shut into" himself when he tries to express and others cannot understand. He thought this blocked connection was very serious, suggesting this disconnection from another's reality "makes some individuals psychotic. It causes them to give up hoping that anyone can understand them. Once they have lost that hope, then their own inner world, which becomes more and more bizarre, is the only place where they can live. They can no longer live in any shared human experience."

	Then he relates the importance of [[Inner Connection]]. "I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. "		Then he relates the importance of [[Inner Connection]]. "I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. "

	There are also intimations of [[Alignment]], which he calls [[Congruence]].		There are also intimations of meeting [[Alignment]] needs, which he calls [[Congruence]].

	"In place of the term “realness” I have sometimes used the word “congruence.” By this I mean that when my experiencing of this moment is present in my awareness and when what is present in my awareness is present in my communication, then each of these three levels matches or is congruent. At such moments I am integrated or whole, I am completely in one piece. Most of the time, of course, I, like everyone else, exhibit some degree of incongruence. I have learned, however, that realness, or genuineness, or congruence—whatever term you wish to give it—is a fundamental basis for the best of communication."		"In place of the term “realness” I have sometimes used the word “congruence.” By this I mean that when my experiencing of this moment is present in my awareness and when what is present in my awareness is present in my communication, then each of these three levels matches or is congruent. At such moments I am integrated or whole, I am completely in one piece. Most of the time, of course, I, like everyone else, exhibit some degree of incongruence. I have learned, however, that realness, or genuineness, or congruence—whatever term you wish to give it—is a fundamental basis for the best of communication."

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			=== A Way of Being ===
	In his book "A Way of Being," he speaks about the foundations of a healing and healing.		In his book "A Way of Being," he speaks about the foundations of a healing and healing.

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	''Only in a safe environment can mutual trust emerge''. Trust is of course the foundation of connection. If you can't trust somebody, you will not open yourself to them. It is as simple as that.		''Only in a safe environment can mutual trust emerge''. Trust is of course the foundation of connection. If you can't trust somebody, you will not open yourself to them. It is as simple as that.

			In his chapter "'''Two Struggles'''" he talks about his struggles with psychiatry and behaviouristic psychology, the former about psychiatry's efforts to suppress psychology, and the latter a political discussion about his distaste for behaviourism which he characterizes as a psychology built for management and control by the elites whereas his humanistic psychology is one built for healing and health. <blockquote>
			In all candor I must say that I believe that the humanistic view will, in the long run, take precedence. I believe that Americans are, as a people, beginning to refuse to allow technology to dominate our lives. Our culture, increasingly based on the conquest of nature and the control of man, is in decline. Emerging through the ruins is the new person, highly aware, selfdirecting, an explorer of inner, perhaps more than outer, space, scornful of the conformity of institutions and the dogma of authority. He does not believe in being behaviorally shaped, or in shaping the behavior of others. He is most assuredly humanistic rather than technological. In my judgment he has a high probability of survival.
			Yet, this belief of mine is open to one exception. If we were to permit one-man control, or a military take-over of our government—and it is obvious we have been (and are) perilously close to that—then another scenario would take place. A governmental-military-police-industrial complex would be more than happy to use scientific technology for military and industrial conquest and psychological technology for the control of human behavior. I am not being dramatic when I say that humanistic psychologists, emphasizing the essential freedom and dignity of the unique human person, and his capacity for self-determination, would be among the

			first to be incarcerated by such a government. </blockquote>
			There is an interesting anecdote in that chapter on a cowardly act by B.F. Skinner when he refused to allow a nine-hour debates between Rogers and himself to be released, possibly because it revealed Skinner's "philosophical choice" to develop a psychology of control rather than a psychology of freedom, possibly in willing service to a managerial elite.

			In his chapter "'''Living the Process of Dying'''" he talks about evidence for the survival of individual consciousness after the death of the [[Physical Unit]]. "All these experiences, so briefly suggested rather than described, have made me much more open to the possibility of the continuation of the individual human spirit, something I had never before believed possible."

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