I’ve talked before on this podcast about my personal journey to treading a more Judeo-Christian theology path in my life — inspired by my almost 25 years in Brazil working with Norberto Keppe’s science of Analytical Trilogy. That was a surprise. I full expected a deep psychological dive into my own psyche and a continuous
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The N.Y. Time, Dec. 21, 2025 edition, has an opinion piece entitled “Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith.” That might stop you in your tracks even if you’re not a practicing Christian. Dangerous faith? Really? During Christmas week? My initial thought on seeing the headline was, “Is that really necessary?” The article goes on to make
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Working with clients in psychoanalysis, one of the hardest tasks is helping them to see the negative things they do without realizing it. Self-destructive habits, procrastination of important activities, reckless or careless behaviors — these all have causes from deep inside that we can’t get to without help. Freud mistakenly linked these to what he
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Back in the 1950s, the CIA and Kremlin got it into their collective heads that figuring out how to brainwash and modify human behavior was a good idea. Totally illegally, of course. And damaging to any who were submitted to their personality control experiments. Out of this abusive and paranoid climate came such films as
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The nature of good and evil. That’s a nice light topic for your next Sunday afternoon bbq! If I had a dollar for every time a friend wanted to discuss the nature of good and evil with me over the years, I’d have a cool … $3.00 in my bank account. Not a topic that
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We are assailed in our modern world with all sorts of problems. There are money worries, health of ageing parents, stress and depression, crime and taxes. Coping with all of that can make us forget the beautiful things around us every day. But there’s another influence no one talks about in our modern, number-crunching world,
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Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. A couple of thousand years ago, a consideration of virtue was part of everyday, common discourse. The Greeks gave considerable attention to virtue, culminating in Aristotle’s influential writings on moral and intellectual virtues. Before him, Confucius proposed personal virtue as the way to a good life. The Bible
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. In the philosophy of religion, evil has always been a thorny issue. Is evil something inherent in the essence of man and nature? Or is it a willful act of ill-intentioned human beings? And then there's the whole confusion of natural disasters -
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I was walking down the streets of Vancouver a number of years ago after I'd been living away from the west coast for some time, and I bumped into an old acquaintance of mine in Kitsilano, the old hippy neighbourhood in the '70s.
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and welcome to another episode of Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Read the literature about complex problem solving and you're in for a challenging read. System structure and dynamics, facets of intelligence, positive and negative dependencies. It's mind-numbing stuff that seeks to concretize often abstract what if scenarios so popular in
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