"Liberation is only possible at all because the individual starts off in an autonomous state: [...] capable of awareness, spontaneity and intimacy."

Eric Berne

There are various ways to realise our full potential (script-free autonomous interdependence).

All truly effective approaches meet all the human needs, reclaim the Shadow and mediate the optimal functioning of the autonomic nervous system.

This opens the door to Maslow’s 2% and, with some good fortune and a degree of perseverance, even the +3σ subset.

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"Ideally, the wild brain helps us to receive the most powerful asset nature has given us: intuition [...], particularly if prepared with accurate and relevant information."

Gavin de Becker

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