Dr. Keppe has said many times over the more than 2 decades I’ve been here in Brazil studying and working with him that no one is good alone. That means we act from influencers in our lives — and I don’t mean to social media kind. Friends and family, lovers and mentors, teachers and priests
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Tag: spiritual warfare
Growing up in a modern developed, secular society means limited access to theological understanding. There is some spirituality mixed into the stew of science and legislation and jurisprudence, but it’s of a modern kind — meaning a blend of concepts and ideas pulled from Eastern philosophy, New Age imaginings and Quantum physics. And as such,
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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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This is episode 12 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. I think one of the greatest difficulties I’ve had in coming closer to spirituality has been a pretty common one: mixing up God with religion. If God was all the mess stirred
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I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Episode 4 of our Modern Relevance of God special podcast series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. In our last episode, we looked at some of the consequences of materializing science, the reverberations of which we are obviously still feeling today. From elevating the bean counters to the
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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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