Psychology29 March 2026
The Parliament of Selves
We contain multitudes — how our mind systems mirror different forms of governments.
I have been sitting with two books recently — read in parallel, which turned out to be less accidental than it seemed. One was Culadasa's The Mind Illuminated, the other was Richard Schwartz's No Bad Parts. They come from entirely different intellectual traditions, and yet reading them together produced an odd experience of recognition — the sense that two very different maps were describing the same territory.
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