Tag: Religion and Spirituality

Ep. 17 – True Religion

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to Episode 17 – our final episode – of the Modern Relevance of God Podcast Series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones.  You know, as I think about it, 17 is kind of an odd number for the final
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Ep. 16 – Humanity’s Deep Need for God

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World We’ve been attempting here to make the scientific case for the relevance of a more theological consciousness in our everyday lives. I’ve been impressed with the idea Dr. Joseph Ghougassian elaborated in the preface he wrote to Keppe’s, Glorification that if we have religions in the
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Ep. 15 – Resonance with Mother Mary

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World I’ve been impressed in my personal journey of discovery with the rational arguments for the existence of God throughout history, by Augustine and Anselm, and more recently, as I mentioned back in episode 11, by the logical argument for Jesus elaborated by Oxford’s C.S.
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The Censorship of Natural

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
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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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.
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A Study of Temptation

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
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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Seduction by Evil

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
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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Human Resonance with Evil

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
The nature of good and evil. That’s a nice light topic for your next Sunday afternoon bbq! If I had a dollar for every time a friend wanted to discuss the nature of good and evil with me over the years, I’d have a cool … $3.00 in my bank account. Not a topic that
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Our Entangled Spiritual Reality

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
We are assailed in our modern world with all sorts of problems. There are money worries, health of ageing parents, stress and depression, crime and taxes. Coping with all of that can make us forget the beautiful things around us every day. But there’s another influence no one talks about in our modern, number-crunching world,
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