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25Jan

Vaccines, Energy and Freedom

If you were watching a TV series about the pandemic lockdown we are currently suffering through, you might look at it as a phantasmagorical kind of thing. "Oh, that could never happen," you might think. "It's too much." And, of course, they do magnify and dramatize events for dramatic purposes in those series. Real-life dystopia

04Jan

Behind the Great Reset

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

As we turn the page on what was surely one of the most unprecedented years in modern history, we look forward to better times in 2021. It’s natural to do that – greet the new with optimism. Hope, after all, springs eternal in the human breast as Alexander Pope noted almost 300 years ago. But

22Sep

The Science of Freedom

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

It’s as old as philosophy itself. Freedom. Free will. Free choice. We’ve taken it for granted in our western world. “Of course we’re free,” we gloat when comparing ourselves to those in the world we consider unfree. Until we’re not free. To get together in groups, or sit tight to another table at a restaurant,

21Jul

A True Spiritual Reset

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It's July, and we're still in the middle of the pandemic. Actually, we've been in the middle of this for what, 4 months now? You ever seen anything like this? Of course not. Unless you're a Highlander who lived through the Plague. This crisis feels different, doesn't it, from all the other global crises we've

12May

The Inner Game of Virus Defense

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It’s week 8 of the quarantine here in Brazil. Restaurants and shops are still closed, they’re taking temperatures before they let me in to the supermarket across the street, and no end in sight to the general Big Pharma orientation to lock down everyone, high risk or no. It’s an entirely materialistic response to a

19Mar

Calming Epidemic Hysteria

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There must have been a "Eureka!" moment back in the late 1800s when, investigating an infection in the French wine industry, Louis Pasteur happened upon the discovery of micro-organisms. He must have felt the jolt of a thrill of realizing that he'd stumbled upon something really monumental. He was perfectly aware of the concurrent research being conducted

13Feb

The Censorship of Natural

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One of the challenges in our modern philosophy lies in the difficulty of acknowledging right and wrong, good and bad. We've blurred the lines so much it's almost impossible to clarify this in any absolute way. An artist puts a glass of water on a shelf and calls it an oak tree, and defends that

18Jan

The Chaos of Evil

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

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.

11Dec

Looking After Our Eternal Assets

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I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. As we head into Christmas, we often take time to reflect on friends and family, on hopes and dreams, on plans and logistics. After all, we’ve got the trips to hometowns, the Christmas gift buying, the parking lot congestion to navigate. It’s a

22Nov

Even Psychopaths Feel Guilt

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody's Else's Head. Back when I was a kid playing street hockey in my hometown, a couple of Dutch immigrant kids came out hoping to join us. They were carrying hockey sticks their father had made by nailing a piece of wood to long broom handles.