Philosophy for Life

Time 2020-10-22 01:03:58

Web Name: Philosophy for Life

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I’m a practical philosopher - I do academic research on ideas from different eras and cultures, then try them out in my life, and interview others to see how ideas have helped or harmed them. From Stoicism to CBT, from Aristotle to ayahuasca, I search for the best wisdom to help people suffer less and flourish more,‘He reminds us philosophy is not just about analysis. It’s also about the good life.’ Matthew SyedNEW BOOK: Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency - ‘Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the connection between spiritual awakening and psychological crisis’ - Phil Borges, CrazyWise I’ve noticed the overlap between New Age spirituality and conspiracy theories during the COVID19 crisis and wondered why it existed and what we can do about it. We’re in an entirely new level of interconnection, and we’re freaking out. Breathe. Michael Murphy co-founded Esalen, a cross between an adult education college, a research institute, and an ashram, in 1962. It’s had a huge influence on contemporary spirituality, and was the incubator for everything from ecstatic dance to Authentic Relating to holotropic breathwork. Here, Murphy tells me how he was inspired by his friends, Alan Watts, Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley, and how Esalen managed to keep going for 53 years, when so many spiritual experiments went very wrong very quickly. In The Art of Losing Control, I wrote about spirituality as being like jazz improvisation. You inherit a set of standards from your culture, and from other cultures. And it helps if you really familiarize yourself with one particular tradition. But from there, you can improvise, you can bring different elements into contact with each other, you can find your song, your unique expression of Universal Consciousness. Christians could learn an openness to the messy mystery of spiritual experience and the surprising people who can be chosen by God, while psychonauts could learn how to ground ecstatic experience in community and charitable service. In 1992 - almost 30 years ago - James Hillman laid down a stinging critique of therapy culture, arguing it was turning us inwards while the ecology was falling apart. He called for a more revolutionary psychology that challenges our model of the self and re-connects us to the soul of things. For Brexit architect Dominic Cummings, the real prize of Brexit is to position the UK as a leader in a global genetics arms race. There’s a revolutionary shift taking place in UK mental healthcare, from a biomedical to a trauma-informed approach. But every new model has its potential limits and flaws. Newsletter Sign up for my weekly column plus the best things I’ve read, heard or watched

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