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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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Hidden Repugnance Toward God - Ep 12 - Therapeutic...

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2025/12/22

The N.Y. Time, Dec. 21, 2025 edition, has an opinion piece entitled "Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith."That might stop you in your tracks even if you're not a practicing Christian.Dangerous faith? Really? During Christmas week?My initial thought on seeing the headline was, "Is that really necessary?"The article goes on to make the usual rather pedantic points about fanaticism and religious intolerance.Which are, of course, legitimate concerns. But what causes pause, I think, is the driving force

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Stop Eliminating Christianity from History - Ep 11 -...

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2025/12/12

It's been impressive to see the various attempts to re-write history so it fits into a politically correct vision of reality. The New York Times 1619 Project comes to mind, the removal of statues and monuments to take out those associated with slavery or colonialism, the re-evaluation of historic personalities based on a modern view - these are all in full vigor.And criticizable -- although not politically correctness makes them closed to much critique.We must be careful with all of these. Our fears

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Inverted Pleasure in Evil - Ep. 10 - Therapeutic...

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2025/11/27

Working with clients in psychoanalysis, one of the hardest tasks is helping them to see the negative things they do without realizing it. Self-destructive habits, procrastination of important activities, reckless or careless behaviors -- these all have causes from deep inside that we can't get to without help.Freud mistakenly linked these to what he called Thanatos -- a death drive -- proposing that we had a drive of destruction directed against life. Freud saw it as a complement to the life drive

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Demonic Mind Control - Ep 9 - Therapeutic Theology...

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2025/10/30

Back in the 1950s, the CIA and Kremlin got it into their collective heads that figuring out how to brainwash and modify human behavior was a good idea.Totally illegally, of course. And damaging to any who were submitted to their personality control experiments.Out of this abusive and paranoid climate came such films as The Manchurian Candidate and Wormwood and even Jason Bourne.Some have linked various high profile murderers to mind control experiments, but it's difficult to get any final

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Silencing the Accuser - Ep 8 - Therapeutic Theology...

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2025/10/15

Dr. Keppe has said many times over the more than 2 decades I've been here in Brazil studying and working with him that no one is good alone. That means we act from influencers in our lives -- and I don't mean to social media kind. Friends and family, lovers and mentors, teachers and priests and padres -- all have had their positive effect on us.And then, since we're dealing with theology in this series, we have to consider the influence of spiritual forces, too. Those transcendental bodies, like

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Pride and Demons - Ep 7 - Therapeutic Theology Series

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2025/10/09

Growing up in a modern developed, secular society means limited access to theological understanding. There is some spirituality mixed into the stew of science and legislation and jurisprudence, but it's of a modern kind -- meaning a blend of concepts and ideas pulled from Eastern philosophy, New Age imaginings and Quantum physics. And as such, there's lots of talk about influences from numbers and planets and collective consciousness, and even some room for mind over matter miracles.But there's

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Choosing Evil - Ep 6 - Therapeutic Theology Series

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2025/09/29

Our modern world, often driven more by reason and logic than by faith and revelation, has few answers for the mysteries that more spiritual leanings point to as evidence of God. Where the scientific materialists advocate for blind, pitiless indifference to explain the development process of life and the universe, other scientists are seeing unmistakeable evidence of design.Design means a Designer, right? And things like digital codes in the DNA that provide instructions for building the large

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Certainty of God - Ep 5 - Therapeutic Theology Series

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2025/09/22

There's a lot of certainty in scientific circles about how science and religion can't go together. In fact, consensus that empirical science has made God unnecessary, and that religion, with its strange elements of faith and ritual, is irrational and harmful.If you've been listening to our series, you'll realize we don't walk down that road. While we certainly agree that superstition and fanaticism have reared their heads in religious life, we could just as easily also ascribe those unhealthy

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Under the Influence of Evil - Ep 4 - Therapeutic...

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2025/09/16

We've been looking at the deep spiritual questions that rise in the human breast in our series. And we've been doing that through the lens of theology, which has been so dismissed, even despised, in our modern science. To our great detriment. As we'll hear in this episode, Dr. Keppe accepted his clients' questions and admissions in his practice right from the beginning, thus liberating

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Spiritual Denial - Ep 3 - Therapeutic Theology Series

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2025/09/09

Our intention in this podcast series is to bring some consciousness about something that only a few desire knowing about: there are evil spirits organizing and guiding our lives.Already I can hear the howls of protest. I have a young teenage student from Europe who gets very agitated if anything metaphysical gets put forward as the cause of anything. Only the scientific explanations work for him, and by scientific, he of course means what he can validate through the 5 senses.However, anyone who

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True Freedom - Ep 2 - Therapeutic Theology Series

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2025/09/02

The idea of Creation. The new atheists rail against that. "It's not rational," they insist. The product of a weak mind.Yes, I've heard all that before. In fact, I'm quick to admit that may have been my mind some years ago.I say "may" because I'm not sure what I thought about the origins of all this we see around us in the natural world. I think I didn't give it so much thought actually. I remember looking on theological discourse as something out of date somehow. Like hardly pertinent in a modern

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Theology and Science - Ep 1 - Therapeutic Theology...

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2025/08/27

What we're trying to do in our new series here is offer a scientific analysis of spiritual phenomena, especially looking at mental illness and demonic possession. But not the demonic possession we see in the movies. Rather, we delve into the negative diabolical influence that’s a factor for all of us everywhere in our modern society. And this is totally a new approach, because the official exorcists and exorcism protocols have not included this transdisciplinary science that Dr. Keppe has developed

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Self-Improvement Requires Sacrifice

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2025/08/13

Anyone who's been even peripherally involved in the self-help movement will be familiar with the literature promising solutions. The three steps to this, the pathways to that, the enumerated habits that lead to accomplishment or resolution or bliss.FinallyThe great Brazilian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Dr. Norberto Keppe, is not of that persuasion. His work is deeply psychological and spiritual and works with each individual, treating specifically the problems of each one. Because while

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Performance and the Free Will

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2025/07/09

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. The debate between talent and hard work is a dynamic one. Is it raw talent that carries the day or practice and dedication that reigns? I remember deciding when I was 11 or so, on hearing my recorded singing voice played back on my cousin's new cassette recorder, that I couldn't sing.How that marked my life, because I thought, wrongly, that you were born with singing talent or not.Wish I could redo that decision.Later in life,

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Paradise as Reality, Not Imagination

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2025/07/09

Memories of paradise. That's not just a great dream sequence or catchy movie title. That's something that resonates through almost every culture on Earth.The Roman poet, Tacitus, wrote in the first century A.D. about how humans lived following the prompting of their own nature, which led to righteous actions.In India, the story has been passed on of how all humans were saintly.The Chinese sage, Chuang Tzu, wrote about an age of perfect virtue.And of course, the Biblical story speaks about Eden, a

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The Perils of Living Unconsciously

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2025/04/24

Freud believed we were often influenced by memories, traumas and instincts we had repressed, but they influenced our behaviors anyway. He got there by studying hypnosis, analyzing dreams and paying attention to those slips of the tongue that reveal what we try to keep hidden."No mortal can keep a secret," Freud maintained. "If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."Poetic language that. And the idea has weaved its way into our modern psyche

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Love, Consciousness and the Troubled World

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2025/04/01

There's an old Chinese phrase that goes, "It's better to be a dog in peaceful times than a man in a time of chaos."Wishful thinking, some may call that, for it's difficult to see peaceful times at any moment in human history. Most of us with a bit of life experience hearken back to when times were easier, and end up moralizing to any who will listen that our times back then were superior. And while that may be superficially true, it's not all that helpful. And complaining doesn't make the young fold

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Inversion in Everyday Life

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2025/03/15

I've been in Brazil going on 24 years, using Norberto Keppe's psychotherapeutic methodology in education and communications, and also as a psychoanalyst at Keppe's school. The positive results available to anyone who studies with us and accepts the consciousness that comes through our classes and therapy sessions are noteworthy. From overcoming learning blocks to resolving long-standing or acute personal or professional conflicts to curing from medical conditions, Keppe's on to something.Where Freud

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Why Do I Do the Things I Don't Want?

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2025/03/01

Sometimes, when I have something important to do, I must confess I feel a little resistance. It's an interesting phenomenon because it's like a general lethargy. Like the energy has drained away and there's nothing left for the job at hand. In those moments, all sorts of other activities suddenly appear infinitely more appealing.YouTube's a quick click away, and the algorithms have numerous suggestions that seem interesting and even, if I'm honest, urgent.And there's research to be done, too. New

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The Science of Inversion

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2025/02/18

Being upside down. Every kid loves that. Being hoisted up by the ankles and hanging there in your father's sure hands with your head where your feet should be.It's great as a game, but none of us could imagine going through life that way.But Norberto Keppe's discovery that humankind is inverted shows us how we are actually living life upside down. Not physically, but philosophically, emotionally and even spiritually.We wage wars to find peace. Science considers apes to be our relatives. We consume

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