Spiritual Delusions
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Spiritual Truth And Religious Delusions
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Author : William Edward Breen
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2006-02-08
Spiritual Truth And Religious Delusions written by William Edward Breen and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-08 with Religion categories.
Spiritual Truth and Religious Delusions is an examination of our human spiritual needs and what the various human religions must do to meet those needs. It is time to put human religions under the same scientific microscope we have placed all other human endeavors from aviation to zoology. What are our needs, what must our/my religion do to meet those needs? Isnt it time to place all religions which dont foster human unity and well-being into the wastebasket, as we strive for the larger, the more workable, and the more beautiful human living?
Is Faith Delusion
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Author : Andrew Sims
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-09
Is Faith Delusion written by Andrew Sims and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-09 with Religion categories.
Is faith delusion? Is religion bad for your health? How, in a scientifically and technologically advanced age, can people still believe in God/spirit/'other'? Clearly not all believers are primitive and ill-educated; an alternative explanation is that they must be mad, or at least severely neurotic (as suggested by Freud). This book starts by looking at, and giving reasons for, the connection and the division between Christian faith and psychiatry. It asks whether science challenges Christians involved with psychiatry, as patients or professionals, and whether the spiritual needs of patients are recognised. The author examines the scope and use of the neuro-sciences and considers cause and effect, natural selection and determinism. He explores the overlap (and the difference) between psychiatric symptoms and religious belief, the possible association between demon possession and mental illness, and the idea that some people are intrinsically religious and some are not. The variations of personality are examined, with their implications for belief. Posited as a statement, that faith is delusion is always hostile, but outcome studies (reviewed here) show that in general religious belief and practice convey good mental health. Religious faith and mental illness are different, and their concepts come from different world-views. A consideration of them in relation to each other is long overdue. The author is a former Professor of Psychiatry and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and has also been Chairman of their Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group, so is exceptionally well qualified to address the subject. Although the book is technically proficient, it is aimed at the general reader and is illustrated with stories, brief case histories and anecdotes.
Psychosis And Spirituality
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Author : Isabel Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2001
Psychosis And Spirituality written by Isabel Clarke and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Medical categories.
Spirituality and psychosis both inhabit the region where ordinary reason ceases to function and barriers break down. The connection between them is evident - what is remarkable is how conventional thinking obscures the connection. This book challenges conventional understandings with a radical new perspective. The interface between psychosis and spirituality is explored, drawing on key research and latest developments from a wide spread of disciplines: Gordon Claridge on schizotypy, Peter Fenwick on the neuropsychological perspective, Neil Douglas Klotz on a new understanding of spirituality, Peter Chadwick on the mystical side of psychosis, David Kingdon on CBT for psychosis and religious delusions, are just five of the 12 distinguished contributors to this book. This new perspective will be important for those professionally interested in both psychosis and spirituality (therapists, priests, etc.) people seeking a well grounded framework for their own direct expererience in this area and everyone interested in the latest thinking and research on this topic.
Spiritual Delights And Delusions
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Author : Steve Posner
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008-05-23
Spiritual Delights And Delusions written by Steve Posner and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-23 with Religion categories.
While spiritual delusions lure us into thinking that enlightenment brings the elimination of all suffering, spiritual realism helps us love the world as it is. Steve Posner links his personal experiences with spiritual wisdom from all over the world in order to reveal a reliable path toward a more realistic spirituality. Charting a course that can be followed by anyone of any faith—or even of no particular faith— this book is a guide for imperfect people who seek enlightenment in an imperfect world.
The Abraham Dilemma
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Author : George Graham
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-08-27
The Abraham Dilemma written by George Graham and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Medical categories.
What is a religious or spiritual delusion? What does religious delusion reveal about the difference between good and bad spirituality? What is the connection between religious delusion and moral failure? Or between religious delusion and religious terrorism? Or religious delusion and despair? The Abraham Dilemma: A Divine Delusion is the first book written by a philosopher on the topic of religious delusion - on the disorder's causes, contents, consequences, diagnosis and treatment. The book argues that we cannot understand a religious delusion without appreciating three facts. One is that religiosity or spirituality is a part of human nature, whether it takes theistic or non-theistic forms. Another is that religious delusion is something to which we are all vulnerable. The third is that the delusion is not best understood by reducing it to brain chemistry, or by insisting that it is empirically false. It is best understood by examining its harmful personal and moral consequences - consequences that nearly unfolded when the biblical patriarch Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac in response to a command, he thought, from God. The book presents a fascinating and profound exploration of a phenomenon as old as mankind itself.
On Delusion
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Author : Jennifer Radden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-09-13
On Delusion written by Jennifer Radden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-13 with Philosophy categories.
Delusions play a fundamental role in the history of psychology, philosophy and culture, dividing not only the mad from the sane but reason from unreason. Yet the very nature and extent of delusions are poorly understood. What are delusions? How do they differ from everyday errors or mistaken beliefs? Are they scientific categories? In this superb, panoramic investigation of delusion Jennifer Radden explores these questions and more, unravelling a fascinating story that ranges from Descartes’s demon to famous first-hand accounts of delusion, such as Daniel Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Radden places delusion in both a clinical and cultural context and explores a fascinating range of themes: delusions as both individually and collectively held, including the phenomenon of folies á deux; spiritual and religious delusions, in particular what distinguishes normal religious belief from delusions with religious themes; how we assess those suffering from delusion from a moral standpoint; and how we are to interpret violent actions when they are the result of delusional thinking. As well as more common delusions, such as those of grandeur, she also discusses some of the most interesting and perplexing forms of clinical delusion, such as Cotard and Capgras.
The Spiritual Delusion
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Author : Dyer Daniel Lum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
The Spiritual Delusion written by Dyer Daniel Lum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Spiritualism categories.
The Spiritual Delusion
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Author : Dyer D. Lum
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-10-04
The Spiritual Delusion written by Dyer D. Lum and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-04 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
God Talk
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Author : James Copenhaver
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-04
God Talk written by James Copenhaver and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Fiction categories.
Since we, as human beings, are a part of the natural biota of the earth, and the earth is a part of the natural universe, the only thing we can really know about is the natural universe. Therefore Nature is the only thing we can think or talk about. To think or talk about things that are not about Nature is to think or talk about things about which we know nothing. Extra natural (or as some would say, supernatural) things are things about which we know nothing. Therefore, we cannot escape the conclusion that those theologians, priests, pastors and ministers who speak of extra natural (supernatural) things do not know what they are talking about. If we pay any attention at all to people who don't know what they are talking about, what does that say about us?
Religious And Spiritual Delusions And Hallucinations In Mental Illness
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Author : Matthew S. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Religious And Spiritual Delusions And Hallucinations In Mental Illness written by Matthew S. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.