Intellectual Consultant
Intellectual Consultant
Dr. Mehnaz M. Afridi
What is an Intellectual Consultant?
One who mentors and directs people with care to attain a higher personal meaning. This is not a counseling service but a consultancy that provides concrete results to those who are invested in living their lives with meaning and fulfillment. Whatever adventure of thinking you’d like to embark upon is available through this service. There are three important realms: knowledge, existential, and cultural, click onto the boxes that interests you most and begin to discover the most precious gift of your human worth: the intellect. If your mind is clear, your imagination vivid, and your spirit free you can enjoy the layers of life and meaning.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
___Sigmund Freud
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. __Albert Einstein
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. __William Faulkner
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ___Indira Gandhi
Knowledge
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.___Plato
Knowledge is an aspect of the intellect that can only lead you to question and bring you to deeper places of thinking. Knowledge is limited but it opens up the sphere of imagination and profound insight.
1. Have you wondered about your own religious, cultural, and racial background?
2. Are you tired by ignorance?
3. Exhausted by glaring stereotype, myths and falsehoods?
4. You know that Knowledge is empowerment so why wait for others to empower you, empower yourself!
Living in a global world, interconnected by technology, information, trade, languages and consumerism we are still unaware of so much about the world and especially the world we live in. The power of technology is only useful if utilized for higher meaning and knowledge. Information is only credible if you can put it to test. Facts are only concrete if you can connect them to a personal meaning.
To seek knowledge ask Dr. Afridi for a free consultation about your questions on any aspect that interests you.
Existential
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. __Albert Camus
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home. ___Jalaludin Rumi
Despair, death, desire, angst, and fear are part of what we humans feel ordinarily. A human being necessitates these fears as part of being mortal. We all will die and whether we are believers of salvation or eternal life our ordinary visions are a matter of illusion. Perhaps that is why desire is eternal, despair part of the sphere of living, and fears a creation of resistance.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.___Sigmund Freud
- Do you know what your fears are?
- Do you despair every day?
- Are you approaching the end of your life, and find no meaning?
- How can you shed the angst that engulfs all of us?
- What is the meaning of mortality?
- What do different schools of thought believe about existential realities such as; death, life, desire?
- Do you feel a lack of meaning as you surround yourself with everything material and everything you love?
Cultural
I don’t think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they’re moving toward more diversity. __Clifford Geertz
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing .___Arundhati Roy
Living in a global village can be challenging. Myriads of cultures, languages, races, religions creating a world anew. We may find ourselves alienated by the majority in our dwelling and we may want to understand how to close the gap between us and them. Find a better way to manage your cultural ignorance, conflicts, and identity.
1. Do you find yourself conflicted with the culture around you?
2. Do you want to assimilate with the culture at large but still retain your values?
3. Are you living in cultural conflict?
4. How can your identity live side by side with others with separate values and ethics?
5. Are you a woman who is oppressed by cultural values?
6. Are you a man/woman who sees him/herself as alienated by racial and cultural values?
HOW DO I GET STARTED?
Email: Dr. Mehnaz M. Afridi for a free consultation. Pick or choose the timing and types of services you’d like.
Virtual or in person meeting in a public space. I can come to your area in Southern California.
4 sessions for an hour: Monthly $200.00
1 session for an hour: $100.00
Annual: 48 hours: $1200.00
We can set up sessions as you like with a discounted rate of $75.00 an hour.
Student discounts available, please advise during your free consultation.