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Should Be Known
by Clayton Pixton
We get to the root of human problems like anxiety and depression and relationship issues by unpacking the idea of self-deception, an integral mechanism of life. There is a light of truth to which we have constant access, which when we act against we necessarily blind ourselves to the truth and suffer the consequences, even when we're not aware of what we're doing and are uncondemned by God. That's the idea. I believe it has great potential to unlock our ability to recover from powerful human problems and direct our efforts in this way. Join me on this journey!
Episodes
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49: More Dogs, Children, and Adam & Eve
Going further on what we learn from young children, dogs, and Adam and Eve when they were in the garden. Much to learn about psychology!
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48: Dogs, Children, and Adam & Eve
Rather than take all the known principles of psychology and try to organize them from there, let's start from zero, as best we can, and build up from there. A child, like Adam and Eve before they partook of the forbidden fruit, is both innocent (doesn't sin, doesn't know good and evil), and is…
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47: Principles of Psychology
This is my most comprehensive discussion about principles of psychology - what they are, how self-deception is just one of them, and how different psychological principles interact and counteract each other to produce the actual outcome of human behavior, just as they do in the physical world.…
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46: Self-Deception is a Great Tool
In this episode I talk about a few things: 1. Clarified from previous video that psychology is in the dark theoretically, though many in the field do good/helpful things (and also some bad things). 2. Talked about the price we pay for self-deception. Self-deception works great for supposedly...
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45: Re-overview of Self-Deception
This episode is a kind of overview of the podcast, as it's been a couple of years since I was posting regularly. In the podcast we discuss self-deception, a huge psychological principle that has immense implications, yet is basically unknown to mainstream psychology. Self-deception happens…
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44: The Light of Christ and the Holy Ghost
In this episode I discuss the difference between the Light of Christ/Spirit of Christ (/Spirit of God/Spirit of the Lord - yes, all synonymous) and the Holy Ghost, having recently read a little book called The Spirit of Christ by one Daniel K. Judd. Basically the Holy Ghost is a member of the...
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43: Why Do You Care?
It is apparent that one property of self-deception is a need to have others validate your wrong-ness (as right-ness). You can't be settled or peaceful about your untruthfulness, to use a term I like to use. You must constantly seek justification from others, or attempted justification, we might...
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42: Temptation, Willpower, and Legs
I discuss the mechanics of willpower and choice in the face of temptation. Basically, #1, in the face of temptation, should you have gotten yourself out of the situation or otherwise avoided it in the first place, or can you now? When Joseph in Egypt found himself in a bad situation with…
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41: Dogs and Stress
Abstract: Dogs, who are not accountable before God and do not have the capability to make choices regarding good and evil, nevertheless get angry/aggressive, can have anxiety, low self-esteem, fear, etc., like a human can. This to me tells us that emotional stuff we deal with such as depression…
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40: Anger, Depression, and Choice
Well the text below isn't super close to the words I actually uttered forth in my podcast, but here they are anyway. Enjoy and thanks for listening/reading! Monday, May 20, 2022 Offense a Conscious Choice? More on the idea that it’s not totally accurate to say that getting offended or getting…
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39: Self-Deception is Not Necessarily Sin
SBK039 Self-Deception is Not Necessarily Sin Transcript by Microsoft Office 365 dictate/transcribe – not super great, had to do tons of editing just to turn many many separated fragments on separate lines into sentences and paragraphs, not to mention the wrong words and everything, but here you…
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38: Filling In the Gaps and Faith
Monday, February 21, 2022 There’s still a huge gap. I understand depression involves a lie, and anxiety. I understand a little about self-deception. But as it turns out all ways we err involve self-deception, not just depression and anxiety. I don’t understand how people get depressed and…
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37: The Source of Principles of Psychology
Where do we look for the true principles of psychology? Why not the scriptures? The concepts there are actually true, while those from the philosophies of men may or may not be. I use the term "philosophies of men" to mean the ideas of the great thinkers of our time and times past. They may be...
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36: What Do We Do?
Sunday, January 17, 2021 So if the instant you cross the line you have to justify yourself, or in the instant you cross the line you are justifying yourself, then it's just like a property of being on the wrong side of the line. And it's a trap, because you are deceived as to the fact that you…
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35: Leave It Alone
Full Notes: You know this thing where you can’t tell the violation from its justification—do we just say that certain things go together - depression and failure to forgive oneself, sin and it’s attendant self-justification, uh, what else? Basically everything where you’d say you do the bad thing...
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34: Taking a Crack At It
(Full Notes) Why would a person believe a lie, I ask again? Cognitive might recognize that the thoughts are unhelpful and negative or whatever (it doesn't even know they're false), but it doesn't know why. It doesn't know why a person would continue believing something ridiculous. It doesn't know...
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33: Pride and Maladaptive Behavior
(Full Notes) Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Sometime talk about Freud's subconscious and self-deception. Saturday, November 21, 2020 Without looking up what Freud said about the subconscious (it's been a long time), one thing I think that plunges certain things at least into our subconscious is...
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32: Fine Line or Day and Night?
(Full Notes) Tuesday, November 4, 2020 To the question, is there a different quality of anxiety that is bad and one that is good or whatever, I say, the anxiety itself is indifferent. It’s not a quantity either that is bad or good. It’s that the bad contains a lie. It’s the lie that’s bad, not…
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31: Which Comes First – the Act or Its Excuse?
You know how with that question the answer is something like "neither" or "both" - in any case it's not necessarily one before the other? (Kind of like the chicken and the egg question I suppose.) Well what if depression is like that? There's the abuse of the self as the act, you might say, and…
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30: If Not for the Light of Christ
(Full Notes) Friday, October 2, 2020 Depression is hard. Anxiety is hard. Schizophrenia I'm sure is hard, and the list goes on. Again, the thing is, self-deception results from our choices but it also results from not our choices. And how do you tell the difference? Who knows the choices a person...
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29: It All Begins With A Lie
(Full Notes) Saturday, August 29, 2020 I said that it is a delusion that you're worthless. It's correct that it's untrue. But it's only untrue because God loves us with a perfect love, right? If not for that, we'd be in real trouble, yes? I think about all this stuff, if not for the atonement of...
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28: A Continuum
(Full Notes) Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Just read in Bill Bryson’s book how chemistry got on a firm footing with the invention of the periodic table. Psychology needs one of those. Seriously. Can the principles of self-deception do this? What are some indubitable examples of self-deception? My...
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27: More Scientific
(Full Notes) Saturday, July 4, 2020 The thing with the learned behaviors mentioned in the last podcast is that it can be explained in terms of self-deception. Again about animals being used for experimentation for psychology. I don't know. I know I don't like it, and I'd far prefer to see how far...
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26: Neither Condemning Nor Excusing
(Full Notes) Saturday, June 13, 2020 I really think there’s something to learning attitudes and behaviors from parents in more subtle ways than we sometimes imagine. I would like to understand the mechanics of this. Why not try to describe this? Surely someone has already. Tuesday, June 16, 2020?...
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25: Paradoxes Aren’t Real
(Full Notes) Tuesday, May 19, 2020 It is a choice or is it automatic? When is it a choice and when is it not? Tuesday, May 26, 2020 Remember Jordan Peterson's two true perspectives? The one is like a right-wing point of view. And the second is like a left-wing point of view. Surely this is the…
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24: Depression is Natural and Spiritual
(Full Notes) Sunday, May 3, 2020 Well it looks like as it went I just couldn't feel good about saying that anxiety is sin, and that depression is sin. Couldn't feel good about it. I guess that tells me I need to get off that track, don't be thinking that, or saying that. So I won't. And I want...
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23: It’s All The Same Stuff
(Full Notes) Thursday, April 23, 2020 So apparently we can sin ignorantly (see the angel’s words to King Benjamin and President Benson and who knows who else.). And the atonement of Christ covers for it (“his blood atoneth for [their] sins”). What does that mean? It means for one thing that a…
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22: The Status on Anxiety
Full Notes: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 What I’m talking about, self-deception, is not a contributing factor to mental illness. If it were a contributing factor you could take it away and still have mental illness. No, it is common to all cases. It’s common to us all. Again, it’s like internal...
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21: Fun More Seriously
Monday, Mar 23, 2020 They were talking about the brain today, on my psychology podcast. People. More research is needed, he said. More research is always needed. When are we going to understand the brain, I ask you? Does the brain really cause our behaviors like you’re thinking? Or doesn’t it...
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20: Killin Me
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 YouTube. Some will say since every case of depression is different it's no use to try to help people in any broad way with their own depression. It has to be only individual, only by a professional. And professionals are great, when you can afford one and have time for one...
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19: Stop Blaming the Brain
Just including all my notes here... Wednesday, February 19, 2020 I was listening to the car parts episode. That was a good one. I think we need to take more seriously the duty or whatever to be able to explain how something works, like depression and anxiety. We take time, and I’m thinking of a...
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18: The Essence of Depression
Major breakthrough. For me, at least. Depression is not forgiving yourself, just as you get spiritually sick (and maybe physically) if you fail to forgive another. That's the big insight. Terry Warner already did the work of explaining how when we don't forgive another we get spiritually sick....
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17: Spirit
There are two kinds of things in the world: physical matter, and spiritual matter. Science deals with the first. Not the second. Psychology is largely a spiritual thing, sorry science. For life to exist, you need the spirit to be present. It's the breath of life. "Artificial intelligence", as…
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16: People These Days
In this episode we consider the "hardness" or what we're saying about depression and anxiety, namely that the individual bears some responsibility for their depression and anxiety, and is a participant in it, even if, before God, one is not condemned. But I think it's hard to hear, and I wonder…
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15: Things I Don’t Know
There are many things I don't know. Most things I don't know. Here are some. But in defining my questions and wrestling some of them, I think we make some progress (in understanding anxiety and depression).
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14: They Are All Wrong
I'd like to say that one definition of a philosophical question is a question that has no answer, because the question is wrong. I believe we should ask this about all questions in philosophy and psychology - is the question wrong in the first place? We talk about some of the implications of that...
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13: Wendy Treynor on Depression
I came across this theory of depression and it's very similar to what I'm putting forward and similar to what Alice Miller said. So I like it and I think it makes for a good jumping off point, at least. See what you think. Depression is conceived of as a result of self-rejection, and the solution...
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12: Car Parts
Allow me to draw an analogy. Car mechanics as psychology. Not everybody understands what makes a car go, but some people do, and the experts definitely should. They should be able to explain all the main parts and principles, including small details (engine, transmission, wheels, fuel, gas pedal,...
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11: Psychology’s Disconnect
Uh, does anybody else notice that the theories of psychology say one thing and the practice of psychology says another? Seriously. The theories supposedly espoused by the establishment seem to be all about brain chemicals, while the practice of therapy seems to be about faulty thoughts. If...
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10: Anxiety
Anxiety is considered the most common psychological disorder in the US, effecting almost 1 in 5. In this episode we try to crack it. I wouldn't say it's cracked, but we make some headway. Is not anxiety founded on a basic lie (designed to make us miserable)--that the world is going to end because...
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9: Seek, Knock, Ask
Despite what so-called "science" may tell you, you can ask whatever question you want. Science is not the only way to get answers, it's one way. Another way is through divine revelation. I testify that the Holy Ghost reveals today as well as in times of old. In this episode we talk a little about…
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8: Alice Miller on Depression
Alice Miller was a Swiss thinker and psychoanalyst. Her book The Drama of the Gifted Child describes depression as the result of a person's suppression/repression of their emotions due, according to her, to a parent in childhood making that necessary. I think there's something to her theory…
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7: What Depression Really Is
Theories are postulations of what we can't see meant to explain what we can see. There are several theories of depression out there, some of which I think are given more credence than they deserve. Here's a theory of depression to consider. See what you think.
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6: What Psychology Today Needs
The field of psychology today is, in some ways, frankly, groping in darkness. While there are many practical principles I believe that have been found and are being employed successfully in therapy and such, any real guidance as to the theory of things is just kind of absent. It that too harsh to...
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5: Examples of Self-Deception
It's high time we discussed some examples of self-deception (besides what we discussed in episodes 2 and 3). And why not just jump to a couple of the most important and universal - depression and anxiety?
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4: The Light of Christ and Self-Deception
I would like to propose that one great source of light we violate when we self-deceive is the light of Christ. Also known in scripture as the spirit of Christ, this light proceeds from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space, gives us our knowledge of right from wrong, is the very…
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3: Terry Warner and Self-Deception
C. Terry Warner, a philosophy professor at Brigham Young University until his retirement, has made unprecedented strides in the area of self-deception, especially as it relates to social interactions. I have seen no one else treat his subject better. Studying self-deception without talking about...
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2: Religious Self-Justification and Self-Deception
If there is a God and if His kingdom is on the earth, then it follows that if we act against His word or His anointed, we must of necessity justify our behavior, according to my theory (that we justify ourselves through self-deception whenever we go against the truth). The word becomes less valid...
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1: Intro
This is going to be quite the podcast. As I write this I have 9 episodes recorded. They contain the clearest and most correct treatment of self-deception that I know of, and to me self-deception is a great missing key to psychology. I'm excited to share it with you and trust we will receive more...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We get to the root of human problems like anxiety and depression and relationship issues by unpacking the idea of self-deception, an integral mechanism of life. There is a light of truth to which we have constant access, which when we act against we necessarily blind ourselves to the truth and suffer the consequences, even when we're not aware of what we're doing and are uncondemned by God. That's the idea. I believe it has great potential to unlock our ability to recover from powerful human problems and direct our efforts in this way. Join me on this journey!
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