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We had not heard of Jonathan Edwards’s book The Religious Affections (1746). Edwards, America’s first philosopher, based his teaching on St. Augustine’s trinitarian view of man derived from the New Testament. Edwards’s paradigm, Dixon said, was far more useful for clinical psychology than Charles Darwin’s 1872 book The Expressions of the Emotions i
... See moreVishal Mangalwadi • The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
In the succinctly elegant words of Carl Jung, “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”2
M. Scott Peck • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Two Aspects of the Observer Self: Truth and Love The practice of honest self-observation will teach us about truth and love: we learn total honesty with the self combined with total acceptance of the self.
Eva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
Ego States Theory and Therapy
Don Kerson • Getting Unstuck; Unravelling the Knot of Depression Attention and Trauma
One of the most widely respected non-dual teachers today is Adyashanti, who originally studied Zen formally but began to teach more direct path style after his awakening. Adyashanti recommends trying out the inquiry “what am I?”, which I found to land better than Ramana’s “who am I?”. The word “who” can tend to evoke dimensions of identity, which c
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