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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 25, 20233 min read
Family Secrets
“The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.” – C.G. Jung Family secrets are...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 24, 20233 min read
The Human Ego
Enlightenment influenced modernity deifies the mob. While the despot, the dictator, and the king identify themselves with the state,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 17, 20231 min read
Grief
Grief waves not in sets, crosscurrents, rip tides, slapping, gasping not a lake shore gentle lapping, nor the predictable surfable sets,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 15, 20231 min read
Needs and Wants
A radical gulf lies between what the ego is convinced it needs and what the soul truly needs. The ego is convinced it needs to be loved....
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 12, 20235 min read
Healing the Child Within
Being Reparented by Abba We all have a wounded little child within. We are not wounded beyond repair, but we are wounded nonetheless....
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 7, 20233 min read
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) was previously called multiple personality disorder. It was portrayed in the 1973 book and film,...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 7, 20234 min read
God, Where Are You?
Those Long Seasons of Divine Absence Lawrence R. Taylor Long ago, a psalmist wrote that weeping or mourning may linger for a night, “but...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 7, 20232 min read
You May Not Be Religious, but I'll Bet You're Spiritual
When incoming patients register at hospitals, they are asked to identify a religious preference. The majority self-identify as either...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 4, 20235 min read
What are personality disorders?
Personality disorders are ways of describing dysfunctional personalities. They are persistent, life-long ways of behaving that are...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 3, 20235 min read
That Guy's Nuts!
What does it mean to be psychotic? Psychosis describes a loss of contact with reality. Thoughts and perceptions are disturbed to the...
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Lawrence Taylor
Jan 1, 20233 min read
Bipolar Disorder
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, about 4.4% of Americans are affected with bipolar disorder sometime during their...
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Lawrence Taylor
Dec 26, 20222 min read
Depression
Depression can make your body so heavy it’s nearly impossible to get out of bed. It can rob you of interests, ambitions, the motivation...
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Lawrence Taylor
Dec 16, 202212 min read
What is the Enneagram?
What is the Enneagram? · Part of the occult? · New Age hogwash? · Pagan? · Tied to an Eastern religion? · ...
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Lawrence Taylor
Dec 15, 20222 min read
Does the universe have a purpose?
I do not pray to the universe. The universe is impersonal. The universe is neither benevolent nor malevolent, neither compassionate nor...
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Lawrence Taylor
Dec 13, 20224 min read
This is About Sex
When we speak of sexual energy, we naturally think of having sex. But sexual energy is larger than that. Perhaps libidinal energy or...
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Lawrence Taylor
Dec 2, 20223 min read
False Self – Shadow Self – True Self
The false self isn’t false. Nor is it bad; nor something to be rid of. It is the collection of personas we develop as we grow up. It’s...
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Lawrence Taylor
Dec 2, 20223 min read
Advent is About Waiting
Because we are created, designed, and therefore evolved as rational, thinking beings, we humans often display an innate curiosity, a...
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Lawrence Taylor
Nov 30, 20222 min read
What is God's opinion of you?
The trinity of parables in Luke 15 – lost coin, lost sheep, lost sons. The first doesn’t seem to get as much attention as the other two....
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Lawrence Taylor
Nov 27, 20221 min read
The Blessing of Vulnerability
While protecting themselves from The pain of another broken heart, Silhouettes ran away, leaving Murky soul waters – Opaque, clouded with...
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Lawrence Taylor
Oct 22, 20222 min read
Some Thoughts Ascending
from C.S. Lewis’ letter to Walter Hopper on November 30, 1954 The goal of deeply knowing oneself is to forget oneself. Forgetting oneself...
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