Healing the Mind: The Philosophy of Spinoza Adapted for a New AgeSusquehanna University Press, 2003 - 253 pagina's Spinoza's philosophy constitutes a system of spiritual psychotherapy which is as elegant as it is profound. From metaphysical first principles, Spinoza derives a practical therapy which is surprisingly consonant with modern psychotherapies. Yet, until now, his wisdom has been largely inaccessible, partly because most professional philosophers are not sympathetic to spirituality, and hence they fail to understand the depth of Spinoza's teachings, and partly because those who would be interested in spiritual psychotherapy cannot penetrate the cumbersome seventeenth-century philosophical jargon. Healing the Mind is largely free from technical jargon, and, for the first time, makes Spinoza's unique philosophy accessible to anyone interested in spirituality and psychotherapy; a series of "exercises, " embedded in the text, invites the reader to apply Spinoza's philosophy to his or her personal life. |
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Introduction | 13 |
Metaphysics | 19 |
The Mind | 63 |
Desire and Emotion | 97 |
The Definition of Emotions | 123 |
SelfKnowledge and the Emotions | 136 |
Freedom from Bondage | 155 |
Transcendence | 212 |
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Healing the Mind: The Philosophy of Spinoza Adapted for a New Age Neal Grossman Fragmentweergave - 2003 |
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ability All-There-Is amnesia anthropocentric atoms Attribute of Extension Attribute of Thought become behavior believe big bang black hole brain causal cause cells conceived concept conditioned conscious consider constitute created culture depends Descartes desire Divine earth electromagnetic radiation electromagnetic spectrum elementary particles emotional responses ence endeavor Ethics example exercise exist external body external events fact fear feelings follows forces guilt hatred hence holistic homunculus human body human mind idea or mind images imaginative portion individual inner dialogue insofar intellectual interac interaction involves knowledge larger mind lives mental metaphysical molecules movie nature object ourselves patterns persevere person pertains philosophers Plato possible power of action present produced programmed psychological psychophysical parallelism reader reason resistance retina rience second-order awareness sense experience sense perception sexual sorrow soul specific Spinoza calls striving structure temporal order thinking three-dimensional space tion tree true understand whole mind