Change of perspective is the key in God Psychology. It is all that needs to be done. Change of perspective on who we are, change of perspective on reality.
It is a theme that follows me around these days, I keep encountering the same subject seen from opposite perspectives, the same issue seen in completely different [...]
The more I think about it, the more reality opens…
The thought just hit me. It does seem very obvious and trivial, yet it FEELS like something important, impactful and insightful. To me, at least.
I was really scared today. While taking my customary evening walk I got ambushed and attacked but all sorts of “what ifs” and “then whats”. My life was going to crumble and turn to dust, I was going to crumble and turn to dust with it and, as a result, die lonely and forgotten under [...]
I had an interesting experience once. It was during my Zen years, one night at the end of a long retreat. I sat in meditation, rather tired and sleepy if I remember correctly, waiting for the end so that I could untangle what was left of my legs and go to sleep, when all kinds [...]
Brooks says that the original purpose of psychology was to describe human’s relationship to God. During last few hundred years this purpose shifted somewhat, and we ended up with psychology that strives to understand, describe and correct human behavior so that it fits inside of society’s norms and ideas of what is “normal”, “right”, “moral”, [...]