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I must say this is one of the most difficult columns I’ve ever written. Brian Wheeler died last week at 62, Way too soon. Not only a great broadcaster, but a great friend.

For 21 years he was the radio voice for the Trail Blazers and made more fans for the team than most of the players did. You all know his voice and style, but the guys at 620 Rip City Radio put together a clip with some of his great calls here. You’ve heard most of them many times but they never get old.

One of the most generous people I have ever known, he was always up for a concert, a comedy show or a pro wrestling match. And he was always ready and willing to share the experience with his friends. He was just a great guy who loved being Brian Wheeler.

The hard part of writing this post is that I’m afraid it has to be personal. You see, Brian was haunted by the same demon that I have fought for a good part of my life.

Food addiction.

We talked about it many times and supported each other in whatever way we could. But it’s a hard one. All addictions are so difficult, but with food, you cannot simply walk away and say you will never eat again. You just make choices, to eat or not to eat something harmful to you. And often, it’s sitting there in front of you.

Most people have the power to make good choices. A few of us do not. I have yo-yoed my weight for decades now. Up and down. And I am fully aware of the consequences of not winning my fight.

His friends — and his organization — did everything they could to help him and sometimes it worked for a while. He tried surgery but it didn’t last. In the end, it became a losing battle over a long period of time that cost him his health, his job and, inevitably, his life.

Brian died too soon — and his weight problem contributed to it. It hit me hard, not only for the loss of his friendship, but as a warning sign.

Like Brian did, I have a job that doesn’t come with a lot of physical activity. I’m basically

Does the Evolution of Latin Mental Words Indicate Intensifying Jaynesian Consciousness? A Pilot Study in Psychohistorical Linguistics

"Getting in touch with your feelings" sounds cliched, trite, and overused. But educating patients... more "Getting in touch with your feelings" sounds cliched, trite, and overused. But educating patients about the importance of accurately naming their sentiments goes a long way in clarifying what they actually feel, granting them a sense of control over themselves. It also teaches them to communicate more effectively with others as well as with their own selves. Thus, I typically provide them with a "feelings inventory"-a list of terms to help one characterize and describe one's actual sentiments-no matter their reason for seeing me. I instruct them to circle three to five words when particularly distressed or agitated. I recommend that they get in the habit of using it, not just during a heated argument with a spouse or a dispute with a supervisor, but also to describe pleasant and pleasurable incidents. It is not so much connecting with what one is really feeling; rather, it is about clearly and properly-to the degree that this can be done-labelling those feelings. I also highlight the difference between expressing ourselves through our emotions (acting agitated, even if slightly, raising our voice when angry, etc.) versus talking about our emotions. The former mode certainly has its uses (yelling for help when in danger), but the latter requires, especially in the heat of the moment, a stepping back and calm, nonjudgmental assessing of what one's actual emotions are, as if we are describing the emotions of another person. Emotions are never just physiological reactions; they carry meaning and rest upon layers of affective and cognitive states, some of which are unconscious, sedimented over the years. How can we conceptualize all this convolution? We can conceptualize mentat

American scholar of Asia

Brian J. McVeigh (born 1959) is an American scholar of Asia who specializes in Japanese pop art, education, politics, and history. He is also a theorist of cultural psychology and historical changes in human mentality. He received his doctorate in 1991 from Princeton University's Department of Anthropology. While a graduate student, he studied under Julian Jaynes whose influence is apparent in his research. He taught at the University of Arizona until 2013 and is a licensed mental health counselor. Currently he is researching how a Jaynesian psychology can be developed for therapeutic purposes, as seen in his The Self-healing Mind: Harnessing the Active Ingredients of Psychotherapy.

Research

McVeigh has developed Jaynes's ideas in The Psychology of Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing a Lost Mentality, The Psychology of the Bible: Explaining Divine Voices and Visions, How Religion Evolved: Explaining the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments, and The Psychology of Westworld: When Machines Go Mad. In this book McVeigh analyzed how the HBO series Westworld incorporated Jaynes's ideas of bicamerality. In The "Other" Psychology of Julian Jaynes: Ancient Languages, Sacred Visions, and Forgotten Mentalities he examined what he calls the super-religiosity of Bronze Age civilizations and proposed the "bicameral civilization inventory hypothesis" and the "embryonic psycholexicon hypothesis" of archaic societies. He called for a "stratigraphic psychology" that acknowledges radical changes in human psyche by incorporating evolutionary psychology findings while steering clear of simplistic cultural evolutionism. Jaynes's impact is also evident in McVeigh's first project which explored the role of spirit possession in a Japanese religious movement. His findings were published in Spirits, Selves, and Subjectivity in a Japanese New Religion: The Cultural Psychology of Belief i