Our modern world, often driven more by reason and logic than by faith and revelation, has few answers for the mysteries that more spiritual leanings point to as evidence of God. Where the scientific materialists advocate for blind, pitiless indifference to explain the development process of life and the universe, other scientists are seeing unmistakeable
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We’ve been looking at the deep spiritual questions that rise in the human breast in our series. And we’ve been doing that through the lens of theology, which has been so dismissed, even despised, in our modern science. To our great detriment. As we’ll hear in this episode, Dr. Keppe accepted his clients’ questions and
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The Dark Night of the Soul. In the theological canon, this signifies a spiritual crisis in a journey towards union with God. In more secular language, that would be the transformational journey that takes place when you’re suffering. A journey of transformation. A conversion, even. A deep repentance for a path ill chosen. And at
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So far in our series, we’ve been looking at the nature of life and God, and how that knowledge has been pushed aside from our daily considerations and from scientific inquiry, obviously. The concretization of the scientific method was an attempt to free the human being from superstition, squalor and medieval cruelty. The cherished ascendance
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.One of the things that's happened to me over the 18 plus years I've been in Brazil working with the science of Analytical Trilogy elaborated by Brazilian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Norberto Keppe, has been a gradual opening of the door to my spirituality.
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In Norberto Keppe's extraordinary book, Liberation of the People, he writes, "Humankind reckons among its numbers a few individuals who are completely sick. This includes those who have succeeded in attaining positions of social power." That's why the subtitle of his book is the Pathology of Power. He wrote that in 1984 - a good year for books
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Temptation. Like most religious words, that one's been banalized and reduced from its original meaning. It means literally a trial or a test. A moment in your life when you have a choice to be faithful or not. Today, that's like faithful to
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. "The idea of being a victim of evil is quite a comfortable one," writes Norberto Keppe in his book, Psychotherapy and Exorcism. "But what's really going on," he continues, "is that the human being actually selects the type of evil he wants in his
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. All of us, if we've lived a little, have had to contend with the lure of temptation. From the mundane, "Just one more piece of chocolate cake," to the come on of a cold beer when you've got a drinking problem, to the
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