Basic beliefs are the foundation of a world view. The belief that human behavior, including actions and thoughts, can be explained by biological and environmental conditioning. Centering is supposed to allow the practitioner to become well-attuned to the human energy field. See chapter 5. The postmodern belief that knowledge about the world is not discovered, but constructed in the minds of observers.
Constructivism denies that people can ever understand an objective or fixed universal reality.
A postmodern approach to law which denies that laws can be fair or impartial. The postmodern literary discipline of uncovering the opposing ideas implied in a text and demonstrating how the author has favored one side over the other because of his or her social context. Demonstrating how texts' truth claims defeat themselves. In the context of psychology and religion, dissociation means a separation of attention. That is, one's attention to the real world is severed, usually resulting in a trance-like state.