Tag: Claudia Pacheco

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World 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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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. We're just out of the Easter period and some reflections. It was a tough week for the faithful. The burning of Notre Dame striking hard in that major center of Christian faith for 800 something years. And then the bombs exploding in Christian
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