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Thinking With Somebody Else's Head
by Richard Lloyd Jones
Science, philosophy, psychology, quantum physics, religion. In all these areas, we see the world based on what comes from others. Which means we're actually thinking with somebody else's head - not necessarily our own. And how much of those philosophies, ideas and theories are true? Thanks to the work of Brazilian/Austrian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Dr. Norberto Keppe, separating the wheat from the chaff is a lot easier today. We'll explore this rich and provocative territory in this podcast. Email me about your thoughts at [email protected]
Episodes
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The Origin of Ourselves
I've talked before on this podcast about my personal journey to treading a more Judeo-Christian theology path in my life -- inspired by my almost 25 years in Brazil working with Norberto Keppe's science of Analytical Trilogy. That was a surprise. I full expected a deep psychological dive into my...
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Hidden Repugnance Toward God - Ep 12 - Therapeutic Theology Series
The N.Y. Time, Dec. 21, 2025 edition, has an opinion piece entitled "Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith." That might stop you in your tracks even if you're not a practicing Christian. Dangerous faith? Really? During Christmas week? My initial thought on seeing the headline was, "Is that really...
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Stop Eliminating Christianity from History - Ep 11 - Therapeutic Theology Series
It's been impressive to see the various attempts to re-write history so it fits into a politically correct vision of reality. The New York Times 1619 Project comes to mind, the removal of statues and monuments to take out those associated with slavery or colonialism, the re-evaluation of historic...
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Inverted Pleasure in Evil - Ep. 10 - Therapeutic Theology Series
Working with clients in psychoanalysis, one of the hardest tasks is helping them to see the negative things they do without realizing it. Self-destructive habits, procrastination of important activities, reckless or careless behaviors -- these all have causes from deep inside that we can't get to...
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Demonic Mind Control - Ep 9 - Therapeutic Theology Series
Back in the 1950s, the CIA and Kremlin got it into their collective heads that figuring out how to brainwash and modify human behavior was a good idea. Totally illegally, of course. And damaging to any who were submitted to their personality control experiments. Out of this abusive and paranoid...
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Silencing the Accuser - Ep 8 - Therapeutic Theology Series
Dr. Keppe has said many times over the more than 2 decades I've been here in Brazil studying and working with him that no one is good alone. That means we act from influencers in our lives -- and I don't mean the social media kind. Friends and family, lovers and mentors, teachers and priests and...
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Pride and Demons - Ep 7 - Therapeutic Theology Series
Growing up in a modern developed, secular society means limited access to theological understanding. There is some spirituality mixed into the stew of science and legislation and jurisprudence, but it's of a modern kind -- meaning a blend of concepts and ideas pulled from Eastern philosophy, New...
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Choosing Evil - Ep 6 - Therapeutic Theology Series
Our modern world, often driven more by reason and logic than by faith and revelation, has few answers for the mysteries that more spiritual leanings point to as evidence of God. Where the scientific materialists advocate for blind, pitiless indifference to explain the development process of life...
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Certainty of God - Ep 5 - Therapeutic Theology Series
There's a lot of certainty in scientific circles about how science and religion can't go together. In fact, consensus that empirical science has made God unnecessary, and that religion, with its strange elements of faith and ritual, is irrational and harmful. If you've been listening to our…
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Under the Influence of Evil - Ep 4 - Therapeutic Theology Series
We've been looking at the deep spiritual questions that rise in the human breast in our series. And we've been doing that through the lens of theology, which has been so dismissed, even despised, in our modern science. To our great detriment. As we'll hear in this episode, Dr. Keppe accepted his...
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Spiritual Denial - Ep 3 - Therapeutic Theology Series
Our intention in this podcast series is to bring some consciousness about something that only a few desire knowing about: there are evil spirits organizing and guiding our lives. Already I can hear the howls of protest. I have a young teenage student from Europe who gets very agitated if anything...
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True Freedom - Ep 2 - Therapeutic Theology Series
The idea of Creation. The new atheists rail against that. "It's not rational," they insist. The product of a weak mind. Yes, I've heard all that before. In fact, I'm quick to admit that may have been my mind some years ago. I say "may" because I'm not sure what I thought about the origins of all...
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Theology and Science - Ep 1 - Therapeutic Theology Series
What we're trying to do in our new series here is offer a scientific analysis of spiritual phenomena, especially looking at mental illness and demonic possession. But not the demonic possession we see in the movies. Rather, we delve into the negative diabolical influence that’s a factor for all…
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Self-Improvement Requires Sacrifice
Anyone who's been even peripherally involved in the self-help movement will be familiar with the literature promising solutions. The three steps to this, the pathways to that, the enumerated habits that lead to accomplishment or resolution or bliss. Finally The great Brazilian psychoanalyst and...
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Performance and the Free Will
I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. The debate between talent and hard work is a dynamic one. Is it raw talent that carries the day or practice and dedication that reigns? I remember deciding when I was 11 or so, on hearing my recorded singing voice played…
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Paradise as Reality, Not Imagination
Memories of paradise. That's not just a great dream sequence or catchy movie title. That's something that resonates through almost every culture on Earth. The Roman poet, Tacitus, wrote in the first century A.D. about how humans lived following the prompting of their own nature, which led to...
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The Perils of Living Unconsciously
Freud believed we were often influenced by memories, traumas and instincts we had repressed, but they influenced our behaviors anyway. He got there by studying hypnosis, analyzing dreams and paying attention to those slips of the tongue that reveal what we try to keep hidden. "No mortal can keep…
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Love, Consciousness and the Troubled World
There's an old Chinese phrase that goes, "It's better to be a dog in peaceful times than a man in a time of chaos." Wishful thinking, some may call that, for it's difficult to see peaceful times at any moment in human history. Most of us with a bit of life experience hearken back to when times…
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Inversion in Everyday Life
I've been in Brazil going on 24 years, using Norberto Keppe's psychotherapeutic methodology in education and communications, and also as a psychoanalyst at Keppe's school. The positive results available to anyone who studies with us and accepts the consciousness that comes through our classes and...
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Why Do I Do the Things I Don't Want?
Sometimes, when I have something important to do, I must confess I feel a little resistance. It's an interesting phenomenon because it's like a general lethargy. Like the energy has drained away and there's nothing left for the job at hand. In those moments, all sorts of other activities suddenly...
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The Science of Inversion
Being upside down. Every kid loves that. Being hoisted up by the ankles and hanging there in your father's sure hands with your head where your feet should be. It's great as a game, but none of us could imagine going through life that way. But Norberto Keppe's discovery that humankind is inverted...
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Metaphysics and the Empty Promise of AI
Maybe, like me when I first moved to Brazil, you have the idea that metaphysics is a kind of woo-woo field of study. That part of the bookstore with titles like Find Your Soulmate through Channelling, or Unlocking Your Invisible Power. True metaphysics, though, is a branch of philosophy that…
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Living in A Spiritual World - Therapy Online Series: Ep 8
Today, a conversation with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco about living in the spiritual world. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. It was the Police back in the early '80s that approached the subject of us being spirits in a material world. A typically spare and rhythm driven track that was catchy and...
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Suicide Watch - Therapy Online Series - Ep. 7
Dr. Norberto Keppe, the developer of the psychoanalytical science used by Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco on this podcast, has written extensively about sociopathology, which is the application of psychological conditions to society at large. Quite innovative really. So, as we might analyze an...
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The Heart of the Matter - Therapy Online Series: Ep. 5
We are always, in our programs, trying to get to the psychological and spiritual causes behind our physical and emotional problems. It's a journey that Norberto Keppe's Integral Psychoanalysis is well positioned to embark on Keppe has synthesized Freud's psychoanalytical methodology, Melanie...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Therapy Online Series: Ep. 4
Our latest podcast initiative is an attempt to create a forum for people to call or write with critical recent or long-standing issues they've never been able to adequately resolve and move on from. Those habits or patterns of response you've never fully understood. You know there's something...
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Agoraphobia - Therapy Online Series: Ep 3
Are there any of us completely free of what happened in our upbringing? I was joking with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco after the therapy session you're about to listen to about how I was relating to today's client. She's dealing with fear of judgment, and I can relate to that feeling of pressure...
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Rebellious Kids - Therapy Online Series - Ep. 2
Adolescents and their parents. Who doesn't have a story about that? I sometimes wonder how any of us survive our adolescence. And I would extend that as I've gotten older to wondering how our parents survived our adolescence. Premature grey hair is probably the least serious consequence. We are...
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Marriage Trauma - Therapy Online Series: Ep. 1
A number of years ago, I initiated a series of call-in shows to deal with real life problems - from new work initiatives to relationship challenges, even to drug abuse, death and suicide. Those everyday situations that hit all of us. Integral Psychoanalysis is the name of the therapy we do form…
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Therapy for the World Series: Ep 2 - The Terrible Trap of Inversion
Inversion. It's a recent 20th century discovery by the brilliant Brazilian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Dr. Norberto Keppe. 1977 to be precise. So, if you hear about our modern inversion of values, you can be sure that's come into today's lexicon because of years of effort from Keppe and…
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 14 - Death and Comfort
Welcome to the, I suspect, final episode in our Healing Through Consciousness series. It'll be the final curtain for this series. Unless I discover more pearls from past programs that are relevant, of course. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and I've been working through old episodes of my Thinking with...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 13 - Coping with Death
Welcome to our continuing Healing Through Consciousness podcast series. Just when you thought it was over. Fitting we'll be addressing death today in Episode 13. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. Death. Such a downer, isn't it? The final curtain. The choir invisible. Kicking the bucket. Except it's much...
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Therapy for the World Series: Ep. 1 - The Power of Communication
Beginning a new series today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head - Therapy for the World. In fact, this is the slogan of our Keppe & Pacheco Trilogical Colleges in Brazil, where we teach the science of Analytical Trilogy developed by Norberto Keppe and Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco. Today, an...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 12: Materialism's Terrible Influence on Health
We’ve been focusing on more specific health situations in our series lately, and we’ll continue that today with an expansive look at eating disorders. You may know someone dealing with this neurosis – it’s all too common today – and you’ll find an abundance of treatments for this – most of them...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 11: The Spirituality of Health
In the early part of the 20th century, a non-medical educator was hired by the Carnegie Foundation to report on the state of medical education in North America. Abraham Flexner wrote a book concluding that there were too many bad medical schools, too much non-scientific quackery and curricula…
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 10: Healing Without Drugs
I’m a product of the ‘60s and ‘70s. I saw guys trying to homestead in the woods of Vancouver Island as I was walking to a favorite swimming hole. I remember the distinctive smell of those funny cigarettes permeating the summer air. I thought they were struggling to find something. I also remember...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 9: Youth and Addiction
What is an addictive personality? You’ll see all sorts of definitions if you Google that! From addiction being a learning disorder, to a passion for something gone wrong, to the more serious diagnosis that it’s a character disorder, it’s difficult to get a final word on this all-too-common...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 8: Understanding Suicide
Well, this is a relevant – and disturbing – topic for any who’ve experienced its devastating effects. The thought of someone taking his or her own life can leave us bewildered and even horrified. How could someone do that?, we wonder. And why? And when we see it happening in teenagers and young...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 7: The Roots of Depression
This is Episode 7 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. This time, a clinical look at a modern mental health crisis. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. We’ve been laying a foundation for a more psychological and even spiritual approach to health and healing in…
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 6: The Mind and the Immune System
Today on Episode 6 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, we’ll look at the effect our minds have on our immune system. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. One of the consequences of Louis Pasteur’s Germ Theory was the inevitable fear that outside us lurk…
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 4: Paranoia and Disease
This is episode 4 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. From the time we're young, we're taught to protect our lives from nature. Sprays to keep off the bugs, oils to block the harmful rays, potent cleansers to ward off the...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 3: Healing the Soul
From the psychosomatic department of the Keppe & Pacheco Colleges, this is episode 3 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. It’s been very interesting to live through this pandemic time, hasn’t it? In the face of a real…
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 2: True Medicine
From the psychosomatic department of the Keppe & Pacheco Colleges, this is episode 2 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. Our first episode was spent laying out some credentials of our College’s psychosomatic vision and...
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Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 1: The Psychology of Health
Welcome to our new series on the Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head podcast. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. We’re calling this series Healing Through Consciousness. An abstract title, perhaps. In our western civilization, with its over-emphasis on the material solutions for disease of pills, surgery,...
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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep 17: True Religion
Welcome to Episode 17 – our final episode – of the Modern Relevance of God Podcast Series on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. You know, as I think about it, 17 is kind of an odd number for the final episode in a series about spirituality, isn't it? It's not…
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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 16: Humanity's Deep Need for God
We've been attempting in this series to make the scientific case for the relevance of a more theological consciousness in our everyday lives. Along the way, I've been impressed with what Dr. Joseph Ghougassian elaborated in the preface he wrote to Keppe's book, Glorification that if we have...
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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep.15: Resonance with Mother Mary
I've been impressed in my personal journey of discovery with the rational arguments for the existence of God throughout history, by Augustine and Anselm, and more recently, as I mentioned back in episode 11, by the logical argument for Jesus elaborated by Oxford's C.S. Lewis. They all make...
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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 14: Resonance with Jesus
Welcome to Episode 14 of the Modern Relevance of God podcast series here on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. My dad used to say the problem with the human being was we were born without an owner's manual. I used to nod in agreement, but now I'm pretty sure my father…
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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 13: How We Miss Paradise
Welcome to episode 13 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. As I’ve been developing this series, I have to admit I’ve been wondering about the acceptance of its premise in the English-speaking world. Living in Brazil for…
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Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep.12: The Ceaseless Attack on Christian Values
This is episode 12 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. I think one of the greatest difficulties I've had in coming closer to spirituality has been a pretty common one: mixing up God with religion. If God was all the mess...
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Science, philosophy, psychology, quantum physics, religion. In all these areas, we see the world based on what comes from others. Which means we're actually thinking with somebody else's head - not necessarily our own. And how much of those philosophies, ideas and theories are true? Thanks to the work of Brazilian/Austrian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Dr. Norberto Keppe, separating the wheat from the chaff is a lot easier today. We'll explore this rich and provocative territory in this podcast. Email me about your thoughts at [email protected]
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