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<p>“…more people look for salvation through relationship than in houses of worship. One may even suggest that romantic love has replaced institutional religion as the greatest motive power and influence in our lives…the search for love has replaced the search for God.” James Hollis, The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other Half of […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/11/why-do-most-relationships-fail-the-myth-of-the-magical-other/">Why do Most Relationships Fail? – The Myth of the Magical Other</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia [in the 20th century]: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1983 Templeton Address Is secularization a sign […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/11/do-we-need-god-the-loss-of-god-and-the-decay-of-society/">Do we Need God? – The Loss of God and the Decay of Society</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Evil is not committed by people who feel uncertain about their righteousness, who question their own motives, who worry about betraying themselves. The evil in this world is committed by the spiritual fat cats, by the Pharisees of our own day, the self-righteous who think they are without sin because they are unwilling to suffer […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/10/the-psychology-of-malignant-narcissists-people-of-the-lie/">The Psychology of Malignant Narcissists – People of the Lie</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. . .If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The great 19th century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that to flourish […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/08/why-nonconformity-cures-a-sick-self-and-a-sick-society/">Why Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.