7,780 words (≈ 31 minutes)
Who are we? What is our 'self'? What do we mean when we talk about 'ego'? Are 'ego' and 'self' the same thing? Exactly what is human nature? Do we have a spiritual dimension to our nature? Do we have a soul? Or are we just material, physical bodies? The answers that we give to these questions affect our assumptions and understanding in practical disciplines of social science such as psychology and psychiatry as well as affecting our approach to spirituality. In this… (more)
Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-01-16
Word count: 7,780 words (≈ 31 minutes)
License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (cc by-nc-nd)
Tags: human nature, social science, Self, body, mind, Spirit, Spirituality, philosophy, psychology, religion, ego, mysticism, God, personality, Detachment, Materialism, Existence, Identification, Misidentification, Ident
Pilgrim Simon has spent forty years exploring spirituality. He gained a degree in psychology and post graduate qualifications in counselling and was for a time a member of the British Psychological Society, contributing to their Transpersonal Psychology Journal. He has had a number of mystical experiences and has also been diagnosed as Bi-Polar or Manic-Depressive. It is this set of circumstances that contribute to the themes of his studies, and enable him to look at his subjects with personal insight. His studies draw not only from personal experience but also from many religious and spiritual traditions as well as from psychology, psychiatry and Transpersonal psychology including thinkers such as Shankara, Ibn Al-Arabi, Meister Eckhart, David Waite, George Kelly, Ken Wilber, Arthur Deikman and Karen Armstrong. Some studies are purely Christian in content, whilst others draw on a wider spiritual perspective
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