God Stories

FromThe Stories We Live By

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God Stories

FromThe Stories We Live By

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45 minutes

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Aug 31, 2009

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Of all the stories humanity has created none is as powerful, life enhancing and ultimately as destructive as our collective god stories. A discussion of the psychological and sociological nature of god stories.

Released:

Aug 31, 2009

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Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Retelling our own life stories that are creative and hopeful rather living as victims and in despair.

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Human Beings and Other Things: The difference between being a human being and an object by The Stories We Live By
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Stories told, lessons learned.: Why the narratives we live by matter. by The Stories We Live By
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Stories about sex: How our stories about power, love and moral goodness affect our sex lives. by The Stories We Live By
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Political Stories and Human Relationships: Between Gods, Devils, Objects and Human Beings by The Stories We Live By
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A Story about the Drugging of America's Children: A discussion about the catastrophic moral, political, economic, psychological and medical consequences of the mental health industry's war on children. by The Stories We Live By
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Where Have all the dissenting Stories Gone?: A discussion on some possible reasons why dissent, outrage, and rebellion have all but disappeared from our stories by The Stories We Live By
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Some stories about our emotions.: "You made me angry!" "You made me feel guilty!" I don't think so. by The Stories We Live By
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Stories About Maturity: Based on an article by David Brooks: A discussion about the changing definition of maturity and how it has affected politics. by The Stories We Live By
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The Stories Politicians Tell: Why we should always fear all governments by The Stories We Live By
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War Stories: The psychology of war and the meaning war gives to life. by The Stories We Live By
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A Story About Addiction: You can drink on Tuesday but choose not to on Wednesday by The Stories We Live By
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An Interview with Grace Jackson, M.D.: Dr. Jackson is one of the foremost experts on the deleterious effects of psychiaric drugs and is the author of "Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Inform by The Stories We Live By
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Anxiety Is Your Friend: Making anxiety work for you by The Stories We Live By
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The Mind - Body Connection: Changing our mind - body stories for better, healthier, more creative living by The Stories We Live By
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A STORY ABOUT "MENTAL HEALTH": How to be happy and creative by The Stories We Live By
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Stories about Love: Can you love another if you don't love yourself? Can you love yourself if you have never been loved? Can you love yourself if you don't love others? by The Stories We Live By
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Thomas Szasz: Filling in the Details: A discussion of some of psychiatrist Thomas Szasz' ideas in detail. How to ask intelligent questions of your shrink. by The Stories We Live By
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Stories of Renewal, Part 2: The Experience of Renewal at any age: We either renew or die, grow or shrink, look forward or backward, create or destroy. A discussion of the experience of positive and negative transformation and by The Stories We Live By
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Psychiatry Revises It's Story: More Bad Names, More Bad Science, More Bad Medicine,More Nonsense!: A discussion concerning the revision of the DSM, (the diagnostic statistical manual of mental illnesses). by The Stories We Live By
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Crazy Stories and the Stories that Make Us Crazy: A discussion of the types of ideas that make us go really nuts if we start to believe that they are true. (For example, your mother really doesn't love you.) by The Stories We Live By
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Psychological Stories about Racism, Sexism and all the other "Isms" so Precious to us!: The important, often invisible psychological role that prejudice and the dehumanization of others plays in all of our lives. by The Stories We Live By
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"I want my Marijauna!:" A story about drugs, freedom and maturity: A discussion about how we have given up our freedom to ingest anything we wish and as a consequence have given up our ability to mature and become responsible a by The Stories We Live By
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The Mental Health System Is Killing our Children or How to learn to hate yourself while still a baby: How the constant "diagnosis," "observation" and "treatment" of our children is damaging them and our democracy. by The Stories We Live By
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Detoxifying the relationship with yourself: Removing damaging language from your vocabulary and replacing it with insight and creativity. by The Stories We Live By
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A Conversation with Doctor Thomas Szasz, M.D.: A discussion with the world famous psychiatric critic and author of "The Myth of Mental Illness" as well as dozens of other important books on psychiatry. We wi by The Stories We Live By
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