Should Be Known

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 it's called, is great, but it will never have consciousness, because you need the spirit for that.

Wendy Treynor is not afraid to admit to there being spirit, so to me she's closer than a lot of people in understanding depression and psychology in general. If you can't admit to the existence of spirit, (which physical science can't by itself), then how far will you ever get to understanding psychology?

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 how we should deal with that. I think we just have to be as kind as possible about it.

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).

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).

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 here.

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 here.

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 is therefore to stop rejecting yourself. Happens over time.