Dick Rauscher

Dick Rauscher has focused his professional career as a licensed mental health therapist on the development of Primitive Ego Psychology and the evolution of humanity's early childhood conditioning; the human journey from a narcissistic self-focus on "me" to that of a cooperative, compassionate, more enlightened, well-being community focus on "we".

His recent book "Waiting is Not an Option" reflects on the fragile, unsustainable social systems that humanity's unevolved primitive childhood thinking has unconsciously created for the future of human civilization. Unevolved childhood primitive ego thinking is not "a" problem; it is "the" primary problem threatening the future of human civilization and humanity.

Drawing on two decades of experience in self-reliant homesteading in the "back to the land movement" of the 1970s, Dick focuses his writing on the fragility of human civilization and the urgent need to begin creating self-reliant "we" based cooperative local communities and local economies.

A fundamental focus of Dick's writing is captured in this quote: "It isn't the things you know for certain that will cause you harm, it's what you know for certain that just ain't so." (Mark Twain)

We use our minds to create the lives we live. The more we know about how our minds work and how we think…… the more successful our lives will be.