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Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head

Richard Lloyd Jones

Podcast about Norberto Keppe’s Analytical Trilogy

society & culture philosophy

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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God -...

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2021/11/30

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and welcome to Episode 2 of our special podcast series, The Modern Relevance of God.One of the fundamental problems in doing a series on God is the branding that happens of anyone broaching the subject. "Modern? God? Oh my, how 13th century of you!"Well, religious nutters we are not. The Theology Department of the Keppe & Pacheco Trilogical College is a serious educational institution that discusses science and theology with the same weight, and while it may seem

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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God,...

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2021/11/23

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. Welcome to something new on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. A podcast series on what I consider one of the most important subjects in our world today.Spirituality. Finding meaning in this crazy, inverted world today. We could all use some of that, couldn't we?So I've dug back through past Thinking with Somebody Else's Head podcasts and culled the best stuff I could find and put it into a 17-episode series called The Modern Relevance of God. Some deep conversations and

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Vaccines, Energy and Freedom

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2021/01/25

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 proceeds more glacially.But we're seeing the elements - neighbours peering through curtains, dissenting views being cancelled, and, most chillingly, dutiful acquiescence of

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What's Behind the Great Reset

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2021/01/04

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 this New Year, there is trepidation present in the mix, and maybe even despair in some.Fear not, however, the genius Board of Directors at the World Economic Forum are on the case.That's supposed to allay the

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The Science of Freedom

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2020/09/21

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, or even go to a basketball game.Which should cause us to howl in protest. Except it doesn't because we're scared or mandated.And then there are the definitions of what it is to be free anyway

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The True Spiritual Reset

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2020/07/21

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 faced. The real ones I mean ... not the big screen inventions. Different because it's highlighting the dire situation we're experiencing in all areas of human life. Environmental, economic,

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The Inner Game of Virus Defense

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2020/05/12

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 health condition that is not only physically solved, showing the clearly limited science that we are following worldwide.Which point to the desperate need for a more comprehensive science

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Calming Pandemic Hysteria

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2020/03/17

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 by rival French scientists, including the extraordinary Antoine Bechamp and even his good friend, Claude Bernard. The separator of the waters

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The Censorship of Natural

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2020/02/13

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 it's an oak tree because he says it is. And there's no argument to be used against his declaration because that would be intolerant, politically incorrect. Hate speech even in extreme cases. The pendulum has

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The Chaos of Evil

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2020/01/24

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. I still consider myself pretty "feet on the floor", which I guess is a nice way of saying materialistic, but there is a flicker of the flame of spiritual awareness that I can feel at times. And that crack in the opening door has

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Looking After Our Eternal Assets

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/12/11

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 time to reflect on what's happened, and how fast it's all gone by. And in those times, we need the wisdom and dedication to commit our efforts to doing what's necessary, what we were put on this earth to do in this short time we've been granted on this

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Even Psychopaths Feel Guilt

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/11/22

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. These makeshift sticks were far from the sleek, black taped, store bought babies the rest of us were sporting, and my friends were lavish in the derision they heaped on the poor guys who retreated, humiliated, back to their rented house. It was the shattered look on their

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Power and Demonic Envy

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/06/18

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 like that as Orwell prophesized. But surprisingly, no one has really picked up the torch and continued that analysis. No, most explorations or powerful

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Dark Spirituality and Victimization

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/04/24

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 churches and popular hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, apparently in retaliation for those terrible attacks on mosques in New Zealand back in March. Does this hit you at all? Maybe it all seems so far away, right? After all, there are bills to pay and

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A Study of Temptation

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/04/09

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 a diet or a spouse, to a virtue or an ideal. But the original sense was to be tested in your faith to God. Something Job-ian - no matter what life throws at you, you stay the course. But temptation is secondarily related to allurement or seduction to sin. And

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Seduction by Evil

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/02/28

"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 life." Well, that's sobering. I hope this happens unconsciously because the conscious choice for evil seems rather terrifying. Keppe's view that we summon evil contradicts the common idea that we are victimised by it. Even the exorcists, those most graphic

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Man's Greatest Enemy

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/02/08

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 more serious attractions to violence and crime, we all know the experience of that voice in our ear. Our modern scientific perspective prefers evidence-based interventions as solutions, leading us to explain away vice and bad habits as weakness, upbringing, chemical imbalance, even

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Certainty of the Divine

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/01/31

A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain these tenets suffer from a lack of evidence. “Faith is a great evil,” they say, “That leads gullible human beings to open their minds so much their brains fall out.” I respectfully disagree. Faith has been shown in studies to mitigate symptoms of depression, spiritual beliefs can help us deal with loss, disease and death, and even aid recovery. We also know that it helps

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Human Resonance with Evil

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/01/17

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 comes up that often. We’ve been considered victims of good and evil for much of our history. From the Biblical Job to history’s billions of casualties of some malfeasance or other, to the Vatican exorcists trying to free the soul of one

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Our Entangled Spiritual Reality

Thinking With Somebody Else"s Head ·

2019/01/10

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, and that’s the very real influence from the spiritual world. That’s not the topic of dinner conversations these days. Well, actually, we don’t even have conversations anymore,

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