Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

It's July, and we're still in the middle of the pandemic. Actually, we've been in the middle of this for what, 4 months now? You...

It's week 8 of the quarantine here in Brazil. Restaurants and shops are still closed, they're taking temperatures before they let me...

There must have been a "Eureka!" moment back in the late 1800s when, investigating an infection in the French wine industry, Louis...

One of the challenges in our modern philosophy lies in the difficulty of acknowledging right and wrong, good and bad. We've blurred the ...

One of the things that's happened to me over the 18 plus years I've been in Brazil working with the science of Analytical Trilogy e...

As we head into Christmas, we often take time to reflect on friends and family, on hopes and dreams, on plans and logistics. After all, we...

Back when I was a kid playing street hockey in my hometown, a couple of Dutch immigrant kids came out hoping to join us. They were carrying...

In Norberto Keppe 's extraordinary book, Liberation of the People , he writes, "Humankind reckons among its numbers a few individua...

We're just out of the Easter period and some reflections. It was a tough week for the faithful. The burning of Notre Dame striking hard...

Temptation. Like most religious words, that one's been banalized and reduced from its original meaning. It means literally a trial or a ...

"The idea of being a victim of evil is quite a comfortable one," writes Norberto Keppe in his book, Psychotherapy and Exorcism . ...

All of us, if we've lived a little, have had to contend with the lure of temptation. From the mundane, "Just one more piece of choc...

A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain these tenets s...

The nature of good and evil. That’s a nice light topic for your next Sunday afternoon bbq! If I had a dollar for every time a friend wanted ...

We are assailed in our modern world with all sorts of problems. There are money worries, health of ageing parents, stress and depression, cr...

In Shakespeare's The Tempest , Ferdinand, in desperation at the terrible plight of ship and crew, cries out, "Hell is empty and all...

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. A couple of thousand years ago, a consideration of virtue wa...

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. In the philosophy of religion, evil has always been a thorn...

I was walking down the streets of Vancouver a number of years ago after I'd been living away from the west coast for some time, and I bu...

A few hundred years ago, the notions of heaven and hell, of God and Lucifer, were respected themes for composers, poets, and painters. Milto...