Category: Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head

Another Christmas period, and all that that brings. The packed parking lots, the festive yuletide happy hours, cooking - and eating - the fatted calf. And maybe, in a quiet, reflective moment, a spark of will catch flame inside you and for a few seconds or moments or, if you're lucky, hours, you'll feel a

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Nowadays, a conversation about spirits is looked upon in most of our western world with a high degree of suspicion. Five hundred years or so of materialistic, positivistic science has pretty much kicked the stuffing out of the philosophy that included spirituality in its precepts. But some formidable

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Any who've listened to this program for any length of time will know that I'm not much for relativity. As in, relative truth. Although that's a new stance for me, picked up over my 11 years of work at Norberto Keppe's International Society

Freedom. It's a word that hits deep in the human soul. Let Freedom Ring! Thank God Almighty, I am free at last! Give me liberty or give me death! These powerful declarations echo through time, but always seem current. Can there be anything more relevant than freedom? Stacked up against the social justice implied by

In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky writes, "You have needs, satisfy them. Don't hesitate. Expand your needs and demand more." He calls this "the worldly doctrine of today." But true to the depth of the great writer, he acknowledges the trap we fall into when we pursue a life of singular materialism. "The result," Dostoevsky writes,

Think of the greatest among us and a pattern will emerge. For those who've done something truly valuable in life, one characteristic that stands out. Somehow, in some way, they've been interested in doing something for others. I'm not talking about the preening and PR initiatives that drive some accomplishment, of course - the self-promotion

When analyzing the crises in society, it is customary to lay blame on a wide array of doorsteps. There's corporate malfeasance, of course, and political ineptitude and general apathy, to name a few. And back of them all is the corrupting influence of money and greed. And that's about as far as we normally get.

This week on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head ... most of us are pretty clueless about the occult history of humankind. To our detriment. Occult agendas have been behind many of the momentous occurrences in history, from Columbus' journeys to find the New World, to Hitler's drive for a Third Reich. Both saints and psychotics

We who spend our lives in so-called First World countries have little idea how we got that way. We grow up in the lap of relative luxury and are not stimulated to question the luck of the birth lottery that had us being born where we were. And as we grow up in that protected