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The Christian faith first appeared in the Middle East (in today’s Israel) and was originally embraced by a small group of Jews inspired by the preaching of Jesus of Nazareth, who came to be known as the Christ (the Anointed), and who revealed himself as the son of God.
The path of avoidance consists of bad thinking and bad behavior such as postponing, procrastinating, looking away, pretending, obfuscating, and generally running away from confronting the issue and making a decision.
Often, throughout the course of our lives, we start out as Good, then get Worse, and struggle to get Better Again. There are seven basic emotions in adulthood that can be identified as being at the root of the negative progression from good to worse. They all have an antidote, to get better again.
We’re living in the Age of Digital Social Contagions. It’s a time where certain illnesses aren’t spread by biological transmission, but by a digital infection that attacks the psychological immune system. Using algorithms that find and exploit our psychological vulnerabilities, we get sicker as Big Tech gets stronger.
Small islands rose from the seas atop extinct volcanoes and now sit, strong and elevated above the waves, impervious to the battering of a storm-tossed sea. These islands are isolated, naturally removed from the fray, and maintain their own ecosystem even as the oceans and mainland churn and convulse
The wish for power may be second only to the need for love, and the two often go together. In some cases, the need for power is primary. In its benevolent form, power affords us leadership, protection, and security. In its malevolent form it brings domination or abuse.
The quest for personal safety drives every human being to protecting the self and loved ones from physical harm, such as violence, abuse, health threats; from emotional harm, such as verbal abuse, loss and grief, and other emotional disturbances…
One of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century, Erik Erikson developed the theory that each stage of life is associated with a specific psychological struggle, a struggle that contributes to a major aspect of personality.
Rejection may be first experienced, then practiced. An insecure or fearful attachment to the family of origin because of poor care, neglect, or abuse may be the cause for the child’s first experience of rejection and the feeling of being unimportant, unwanted, unloved, “wrong” for the place, the situation, the family.
Pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies, private for-profit companies are helping market high potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as ‘medical marijuana’ or as a harmless recreational food supplement.
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