is therapy good? or is it god?
controversial take: I think therapy is culturally almost becoming a ...
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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 descri... See more
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
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?
Therapy is not bad. It is often good. But, I think, it is easy to find tools in this world to force our focus inward. It is encouraged that we constantly check ourselves and check in with ourselves and self-care ourselves. To live externally is to live more dangerously; it is to live a life that takes up public space, a life that is messy and confu... See more
P.E. Moskowitz • A Culture of Introspective Captivity
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 trans
... See moreOf course, therapy and its vernacular are not solely to blame for our era of isolation. Rather, therapy and other tools of introspection have become ways to justify our lack of access to external stimulation. Instead of using therapy to untangle our desires and fears so that we may effectively act on them, therapy becomes the goal in itself—to crea... See more