Certainty of God - Ep 5 - Therapeutic Theology Series

There's a lot of certainty in scientific circles about how science and religion can't go together. In fact, consensus that empirical science has made God unnecessary, and that religion, with its strange elements of faith and ritual, is irrational and harmful.

If you've been listening to our series, you'll realize we don't walk down that road. While we certainly agree that superstition and fanaticism have reared their heads in religious life, we could just as easily also ascribe those unhealthy aspects to many human institutions and schools of thought.

Many of the pioneers of scientific investigation, like Galileo and Kepler and Newton, were deeply religious men after all, who embarked on a study of the natural laws under the conviction it would lead to evidence of a Divine Creator of all the phenomena in nature and the universe.

Faith, for them, then, was not blind, but reasoned analysis looking to understand God's Creation rather than challenge theological understanding.

On faith and the Certainty of God, in our episode today.

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Under the Influence of Evil - Ep 4 - Therapeutic Theology Series

We've been looking at the deep spiritual questions that rise in the human breast in our series. And we've been doing that through the lens of theology, which has been so dismissed, even despised, in our modern science.

To our great detriment.

As we'll hear in this episode, Dr. Keppe accepted his clients' questions and admissions in his practice right from the beginning, thus liberating them to talk -- and be heard. We're talking experiences with angels and demons, brushes with good and evil illustrating real influences in human lives. This openness contributed formidably to Keppe's expansive psychoanalytical vision, producing practical tools for dealing with those existential questions that come to all of us at varying moments in our lives.

With Keppe's science, we manage to understand ourselves and the world we live in, which has become problematic precisely because we have not re-integrated the theological reality into our science, which is subsequently operating from a reduced, materialistic perspective because of this.

This can all be liberating for all of use, then, as it was and still is for formal clients in Keppean analysis.

Under the Influence of Evil, our episode this time on our Therapeutic Theology Series on the STOP Radio Network.

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Spiritual Denial - Ep 3 - Therapeutic Theology Series

Our intention in this podcast series is to bring some consciousness about something that only a few desire knowing about: there are evil spirits organizing and guiding our lives.

Already I can hear the howls of protest. I have a young teenage student from Europe who gets very agitated if anything metaphysical gets put forward as the cause of anything. Only the scientific explanations work for him, and by scientific, he of course means what he can validate through the 5 senses.

 

However, anyone who works deeply with human beings will know that there are deeper currents running in the inner life that go beyond what we can see or touch or measure. Human beings long for a more complete explanation of man’s behavior than just genetics or upbringing. In fact, the continued presence of war and persecution and cruelty demands a more complete investigation.

 

We had a movement in a different direction at the end of the nineteenth century with the work of Sigmund Freud, who demonstrated that most of what we are lies outside our awareness and that we needed a special process to reach that part. He called this process psychoanalysis.

 

Norberto Keppe follows in those footsteps. But he goes much further. He embraces the metaphysical in his work, thus reintroducing philosophy and spirituality back into science. A more complete science, then. One that goes beyond the merely physical to consider the deepest questions resonating in the human soul: who are we, where do we come from, and where are we going? If we exclude the spiritual influence in human society from our quest, we become puppets of a malignant spiritual world we refuse to see. It is extremely important to perceive the level of direct influence that the human being receives in his mind from the spiritual world. This can lead him to goodness or evil; which path he takes depends on his choice. 

 

And after all, is either God and His angels who act in the human mind, or the evil spirits who do. This series is an attempt to approach these subjects.

 

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True Freedom - Ep 2 - Therapeutic Theology Series

The idea of Creation. The new atheists rail against that. "It's not rational," they insist. The product of a weak mind.

Yes, I've heard all that before. In fact, I'm quick to admit that may have been my mind some years ago. 

I say "may" because I'm not sure what I thought about the origins of all this we see around us in the natural world. I think I didn't give it so much thought actually. I remember looking on theological discourse as something out of date somehow. Like hardly pertinent in a modern world with more sophisticated concerns.

And now I can sheepishly acknowledge that I knew nothing about something I thought I knew everything about.

Well, a little humility goes a long way after all. And in Episode 2 of our Therapeutic Theology series, we delve into the nature of a Creation that comes and is sustained by an Intelligence. By a Being actually, Who has created us in His image.

Perfect knowledge for those who have the courage to admit they don't know it all yet.

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