Instagram story viewer> @johnbthomas> Post
John B. Thomas(johnbthomas)'s profile avatar

John B. Thomas

@johnbthomas

a month ago
Download
0
Posted On: October 3rd 2026, 11:23 pm
Just a whistlin’ away 💨 #otisredding #sittinonthedockofthebay

More posts

#jailer2❤️‍🔥😎 #bindaassongjailer2 #priyankanalkari #dancer #frocklover
Blue or BUST! Vote vote vote. 💙💙💙
PERIOOOOOOD @alexconsani
Make it with Dreamina. Get paid for the views. 💸 The Dreamina Spotlight Program turns the organic reach of your Dreamina videos into real cash on social media! Rewards start at $100 for 50,000 views and go up to $20,000 + 100,000 Dreamina Credits for a video at 10M views. Cash caps at $50,000 a month, across up to 10 posts. Any style works: AI stories, tutorials, wild visual experiments. It's time to show what kind of creative work you can make with Dreamina, and share it on social media for everyone to experience together! How to join: post a 30-second or longer video with @dreamina_ai #dreamina #dreaminacreators, then submit your link through the program form. Full tiers and rules in the guide below 👇 Runs through December 31, 2026.
@yung_dsa aur @lovegillkalakaar ke beech badhte jhagde ki wajah kahin woh khud toh nahi? Dekhiye #BiggBoss20 ka naya episode, har roz raat 9 baje #JioHotstar par aur 10:30 baje #Colors par. #BiggBoss20 #BiggBossOnJioHotstar
this week on the main feed of back from the borderline, we’re investigating our cultural obsession with understanding ourselves, and why all that psychological insight doesn’t always seem to make us any better at living. i’ve been reading The Cloud of Unknowing, a fourteenth-century mystical contemplative text, and got completely sidetracked by the introduction written in 1957 by psychologist Ira Progoff. nearly seventy years ago, he was questioning whether psychology’s pursuit of scientific legitimacy had caused it to dismiss centuries of contemplative knowledge about human consciousness. which sent me down a rabbit hole. we’re getting into the history of psychology, the rise of therapeutic culture, the commercial industry built around perpetual self-improvement, and the curious expectation that every uncomfortable emotion deserves an explanation. we’ll also explore why uncertainty feels so threatening, how self-analysis can turn into compulsive reassurance-seeking, and why knowing exactly where your emotional reactions came from doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve developed the ability to respond to them any better. somewhere along the way, we ended up with an entire culture of people who can explain their attachment styles, identify their childhood wounds, and diagnose everyone they’ve ever dated, yet still struggle to tolerate a text message that sounds slightly colder than usual. and i say this as someone who could happily spend the rest of her life reading psychology and medieval mystical texts. the episode also explores what contemplative traditions understood about the limits of intellectual knowledge, including the possibility that some of our most meaningful development takes place when we stop insisting on an explanation for everything we experience. new episode: the more you know about yourself, the less you understand drops this week on the main feed. follow back from the borderline on your favorite podcast player so you don’t miss it.
back to up