Care of the Soul
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 end and to serving as a midwife … Read More
McGilchrist’s The Master and his Emissary
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 the left and right brain hemispheres attend … Read More
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
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 family systems therapist. He gradually saw that … Read More
Philosophy as a way of life
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 practice. Since the eighteenth century, beginning with … Read More