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Care of the Soul
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For Socrates, taking care of our most precious possession, our soul, was the fundamental goal in life and the only way to achieve eudaimonia or happiness. He dedicated his own life to this... Read More

McGilchrist’s The Master and his Emissary
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Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist, philosopher and literary scholar, has written a fascinating analysis of western culture based on brain hemispheric balance and imbalance. His book, The Master and his Emissary (2009), delves into how... Read More

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is an exciting, and relatively new, psychotherapy that resonates perfectly with an axial 2.0 approach to self-transformation. It was developed by Richard Schwartz (1995) while working as a... Read More

Philosophy as a way of life
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There is a huge gulf between philosophy today and philosophy during the Axial Age, and in fact ancient philosophy as a whole. Today, philosophy is generally seen as theoretical discourse alone, divorced from... Read More