The Girl and the Moth, paper collage, 2020 People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.C. G. Jung Despite the lengthy title, I don’t think this post needs to be long. And I don’t think it requires much in the way of supporting evidence or intellectual argument. [...]
Tag: faith
The Search for God
Whenever I examine Maslow’s hierarchy of needs or, really, any stage theory of personality, I am amazed by how neat it all appears. How tidy. How such models, no matter how helpful they are for understanding the overall process of personality development, can also, if we’re not careful, give us the false impression that our [...]
Beyond Suffering
I felt compelled to write this post because of a conversation I had yesterday with fellow blogger, Gabriela. In responding to issues I raised in a recent post on religion and personality, she asked me how I felt about the notion that “life is suffering,” especially as it relates to the central meaning I ascribe [...]
