Don Salmon
1 min readMay 4, 2023

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Very nice to meet you as well. Do you work professionally in any field related to this?

I was a professional musician (pianist/composer) for 20 years before switching to psychology. I had NO interest (actually, less than no interest) in being a psychologist, but I felt the call from within to go into psychology so I could present these things to the world with a Ph.D after my name (short for "Piled High and Deep"):>))

So people would take what I say a bit more seriously but honestly I can tell you, I personally find more profound psychology in any one chapter of the Bhagavad Gita than in all the volumes I had to study as a psychologist (I would say that's even more true regarding the current craze in neuroscience - and I've had several years of neuropsychological training, and have talked to many meditators with doctorates in experimental psychology who feel pretty much the same way but can't say it out loud for fear of jeopardizing tenure.

It's quite simple. Open to boundless spacious awareness, then go into the deepest Heart, and open to the Divine. Let Her do the rest. There's more detail, but in a few words, that covers what I've learned in 50+ years at this:>))

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Don Salmon
Don Salmon

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