Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

There must have been a "Eureka!" moment back in the late 1800s when, investigating an infection in the French wine industry, Louis Pasteur happened upon the discovery of micro-organisms. He must have... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

One of the challenges in our modern philosophy lies in the difficulty of acknowledging right and wrong, good and bad. We've blurred the lines so much it's almost impossible to clarify this in any... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. As we head into Christmas, we often take time to reflect on friends and family, on hopes and dreams, on plans and logistics.... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

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In Norberto Keppe's extraordinary book, Liberation of the People, he writes, "Humankind reckons among its numbers a few individuals who are completely sick. This includes those who have succeeded in... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. We're just out of the Easter period and some reflections. It was a tough week for the faithful. The burning of Notre Dame... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Temptation. Like most religious words, that one's been banalized and reduced from its original meaning. It means literally a... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. "The idea of being a victim of evil is quite a comfortable one," writes Norberto Keppe in his book, Psychotherapy and... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. All of us, if we've lived a little, have had to contend with the lure of temptation. From the mundane, "Just one more piece... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

The nature of good and evil. That’s a nice light topic for your next Sunday afternoon bbq! If I had a dollar for every time a friend wanted to discuss the nature of good and evil with me over the... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

We are assailed in our modern world with all sorts of problems. There are money worries, health of ageing parents, stress and depression, crime and taxes. Coping with all of that can make us forget... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ferdinand, in desperation at the terrible plight of ship and crew, cries out, "Hell is empty... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Dogma. A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. Meaning incapable of being questioned or doubted. In the 15 and 1600s, there was the beginning of a... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

A few hundred years ago, the notions of heaven and hell, of God and Lucifer, were respected themes for composers, poets, and painters. Milton's Paradise Lost contains the idea of Lucifer endeavoring... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I was walking down the streets of Vancouver a number of years ago after I'd been living away from the west coast for some... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. In the philosophy of religion, evil has always been a thorny issue. Is evil something inherent in the essence of man and... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. A couple of thousand years ago, a consideration of virtue was part of everyday, common discourse. The Greeks gave considerable... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. A quick word of warning right at the beginning of our program today … this is a delicate subject. In a world where speech is... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and welcome to another episode of Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Read the literature about complex problem solving and you're in for a challenging read. System structure... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. In light of the Paris attacks in November of 2015, it's difficult to know the best thing to do. The French government,... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I moved to Brazil from New York in 2001, 2 1/2 months before 9/11. Talk about timing. But if it was timing, it was not... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Well, you don't have to look far these days, do you, to find signs of sickness. A young girl is stoned in Brazil by evangelical... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Carl Gustav Jung proposed that everything that irritates us about others can lead us to understand ourselves. For him, others were a giant mirror into... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Our thinking, our philosophies of life, these are things we take for granted most of the time. "That's just the way it is," we say, and we step out confidently upon that premise. But what extensive... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

The truth will set you free, it is written. OK, good. But knowing what the truth is, recognizing it when it pulls up alongside, ah, that’s a little more difficult. Especially as our materialistic... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

We are clearly living in a time of veneration of the individual in western society. In North America, it's part of our mythology. The strong, independent, self-sufficient person is admired, and you... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

We've seen a lot of good ones go way too early because of drugs, haven't we? Seemed like a new one a week back in the '60s and '70s. Janis and Jimmy. Then Elvis. Now Whitney and Amy. In Brazil, too,... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is TWSEH. Oil and water. Black cats and white sweaters. Neckties and bowls of soup. Some things just aren’t made to go together. Like being given plastic cutlery at... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Ever since Dorothy pulled back the curtain to reveal a perfectly ordinary Wizard of Oz manipulating switches to make him seem more powerful, the image has served to portray a reality. Somewhere, in... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.  With so much tension and confusion in  modern day life, it seems appropriate to do our show,  which deals so... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Like so many words, romance has been banalized in western culture. Coming to a head in what we now know as medieval chivalry, it's become associated with more mundane items today, like chocolate and... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

A reading of modern scientific and philosophical thought can be unnverving. Human beings, goes this materialistic scientific view, are the product of causes that are accidental and purposeless. All... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Ask them about what's important to them and they'll counter your enthusiasm with a shrug and a mumbled, "I don't know."... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. It was part of the psychic apparatus defined in Freud's Structural Model of the Psyche. Its role was to mediate between the... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. From the time we're young, we're taught to protect ourselves from nature. Sprays to keep off the bugs, oils to block the... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I've been catching up on some reading lately. That's one of the things that seems to slip through the cracks if I don't take... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

We are supposedly deep in the middle of a change in consciousness on our planet. The Aquarian Age, the new millennium, the Third Wave ... whatever you call it, many advocate a new era on earth. I... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

My father is fond of saying that the problem with human society is that we were born without an operating manual. Clever I thought. Once. But thinking more carefully, I realize it’s actually not... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

I published this wonderful radio program last December, but felt it deserved another airing. Hope you enjoy another reminder of the need to honour the Christmas spirit. Another Christmas period, and... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

The Urban Dictionary offers a comprehensive definition of what is a magnetic personality. It's a person with a sense of calm self-confidence and authenticity, they say, who others are drawn to... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

We've all had the experience. You go to sleep concerned about something or other. A thorny problem at work, a creative block, a difficult communication you have to make, and you wake in the morning... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Eight or nine years ago, a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, wrote a book called The Truth About the Drug Companies. It was an often searing critique of their... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

If we open a discussion about civilization, we open ourselves to the possibility of particularly dull and wooden exclamations about the renunciation of instinct or the enshrinement of... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Never trust a person over 30. All you need is love. Hell no, we won't go. These were the slogans of the last great manifestation against the system. That great flower power movement of the '60s,... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Line up all the economists in the world, it is said, and they'll all point in different directions. And while it's true that economists do view society through the particular lens of their political... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

It would be difficult to ignore the problems all around us. In fact, I was watching a disturbing video on the weekend about the serious consequences of Geo-Engineering - this manipulation of the jet... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

Check out a modern photography exhibition and you'll often find disturbing pictures of conflict and misery, along with the usual justifications of "Hey man, that's the reality!" We all remember... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.

There is a common misconception in many parts of the world that society is improving. "Hey, we don't draw and quarter people in the public square anymore," goes that common wisdom. "We've got central... Podcast from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Important psychological and social science discussions are found here.