The Five Love Languages Summary…What Exactly Is Language? When you hear the word “language” what comes to mind? A tool for communication? Signs and symbols with assigned cultural meaning? Semiotics and Ferdinand de Saussure? Perhaps you’ve never thought of it at all. Nonetheless, in philosophy, the concept of language is what Pi is to math … Read More
Awareness By Anthony De Mello…how is this book different from others? The seeker came to the guru and asked, “Master, please would you take my notebook and write down the secret by which I can end my suffering? The master smiled and obliged him. But when the seeker was handed back the pad all that … Read More
AA BIG BOOK…The Birth of The Recovery Movement Is the Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book” the Magna Carta of Recovery Literature? Is it the template from which all recovery fellowships have sprung? This the impression we get. It is said that the 12-Steps have been hammered out on the anvils of experience and that its principles … Read More
Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions…a collection of essays? If the Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book” is as complete and powerful as their members claim then why write another book 10+ years later? Ah-ha! A necessary addition was demanded in the early fellowship – something a primitive organization had the privilege to ignore (when your starving you’ll … Read More
What Is Refuge Recovery?…Buddhism & Addiction Refuge Recovery, the Buddhist-inspired approach to treating addiction, offers a plan to end the suffering of addiction. Traditionally, Buddhists commit to the path of awakening by taking refuge in three things: awakening (Buddha), truth (Dharma), and community (Sangha) The Four Noble Truths In my humble opinion, the center and circumference … Read More
Who Is C.G. Jung? “Carl Jung, in full Carl Gustav Jung, (born July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland—died June 6, 1961, Küsnacht), Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in … Read More