is therapy good? or is it god?
In addressing the meaning crisis — the vacuum left by the failures of religion, modernism, postmodernism, and today’s online alternatives — it takes a return to what bona fide religion really captures. The communitas. The ecstasy. The ritual.
Alexander Beiner • Is Religion Coming Back?
“Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.”
Dean Karnazes
Steve Mueller • 60 Inspiring and Motivating Running Quotes | Planet of Success
Religions are psychotherapeutic systems in the truest sense of the word, and on the grandest scale. They express the whole range of the psychic problem in mighty images; they are the avowal and recognition of the soul, and at the same time the revelation of the soul's nature. From this universal foundation no human soul is cut off.
David Tacey • The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
Jules Evans defined a religion as a system that binds us in religio: a kind of sacredness, obligation, faith and “cosmic certainty” towards a particular set of precepts. Those outside the religio are framed as “existential threats”, with a strong in-out dynamic bound by a common transcendent ideal.
Alexander Beiner • Is Religion Coming Back?
Religion is the best illustration of the elephant in the brain. We do not worship because we believe. We worship because it helps us as social creatures.
Robin Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The goal of religion should be to face death in the realist way possible. The common and shallow practice of religion today is about offloading the worry. What if you simulated it, faced it, confronted it? Instead, we abstract it into language and make it soft so we never get swallowed in it. Religion is real when it’s terrifying and hard and
... See moreBut we should also remember that so much of what we call ‘madness’ or ‘mental illness’ is actually just behaviour that does not lend itself well to the capitalist economic system. Politicising mental health means questioning why we call certain things madness or mental illness, and allowing people to make their own minds up about their experiences... See more
Dazed • This New Book Asks Whether Capitalism Really Is Driving Us All Crazy
No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly... See more
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly... See more
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