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Why sadness is good for you

There are examples from studies in this detailed article.

Amplify’d from www.ft.com

In a society where the quest for happiness has never been more intense, there are powerful questions to contemplate. None of us wants to be sad, but as science becomes more adept at manipulating the chemistry of our mind, we need to ask ourselves, do we want to eliminate normal sadness from our lives? Or can we somehow embrace it as an integral, and potentially useful, part of our selves?

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Removing the Mask of Religious Identity: A Psychological Assessment

Excellent analysis, read at the source, this is what we need!

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        In this age of globalization on an ever shrinking planet, can humanity expect to survive as a species by holding on to our notions of religious identity? Will it come down to your God versus my God, your sacred scripture versus my sacred scripture, your sacred places and worship practices versus mine? Can these conflicts and tensions really be resolved by interfaith and ecumenical dialogue and collaboration resulting in a plausible appreciation, if not a celebration, of our diversity as a species or do our hopes for a common humanity require a complete deconstruction of our religio-cultural myths and a removal of our masks of religious identity, while our civil and human rights continue to be guaranteed by a more “just” secular order?
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The Making of The Red Book

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Carl Jung’s The Red Book is considered to be the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology.
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The Holy Grail of the Unconscious

Amazing article.  Felt like reading Dan Brown.

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This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn’t know the book’s vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome.

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The unconscious underpinnings of evil behavior

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Preaching, teaching, prayer, confession and other traditional methods of dealing with the personal shadow are only partially successful because they focus exclusively on conscious attitudes.
In the last one hundred years, depth psychology has discovered that there are powerful unconscious motivations for evil behavior. This discovery is important, because it is easier to deal with evil that we understand than with behavior that seems incomprehensible. The more clearly we understand what is driving evil behavior, the better able we will be to help people deal with it, and the less likely we will be simply to tell people not to do it.
One of the insights of depth psychology is that the same behavior carried out by different people may have quite different unconscious sources. We cannot understand behavior without a grasp of these underpinnings.
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without trying to understand its origins. Universal prescriptions for good behavior may be of little value in the individual case; it is not always helpful to tell people that they must grapple with their impulses and improve the flaws in their character; good advice alone may not be enough to deal with powerful complexes. We cannot get rid of the unconscious simply by making rules, so there is not much point in merely defining the “seven deadly sins” and declaring them forbidden. (Our legal system also recognizes that there are powerful emotional forces within the personality that may diminish the possibility of self-control.)

Take care of the problems now!

There’s a fascinating conversation behind the clipped paragraph, at the source.

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Karma is a notion I’ve always liked. Not so much literally. Not necessarily because I believe that I used to be Cleopatra’s bartender - but more metaphorically. The karmic philosophy appeals to me on a metaphorical level because even in one’s lifetime its obvious how often we must repeat our same mistakes, banging our heads against the same old addictions and compulsions, generating the same old miserable and often catastrophic consequences, until we can finally stop and fix it. This is the supreme lesson of karma (and also of Western psychology, by the way) - take care of the problems now, or else you’ll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that’s hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understanding - there’s where you’ll find heaven.
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