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<p>“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell, 1984 George Orwell’s writings have experienced a spike in popularity over the past several decades and for a good reason – modern societies are becoming ever more like the dystopia Orwell depicted in his […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/02/1984-vs-brave-new-world-how-freedom-dies/">1984 vs Brave New World – How Freedom Dies</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” Hippocrates Modern medicine has achieved remarkable results. Its ability to save people from ailments which a mere generation ago would have led to an untimely death, borders on the miraculous. But when it comes to chronic illness modern medicine has its limits. Sometimes the […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/02/spontaneous-recovery-the-bodys-power-to-heal-from-cancer-and-chronic-disease/">Spontaneous Recovery – The Body’s Power to Heal from Cancer and Chronic Disease</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/01/why-an-unhealthy-mind-creates-an-unhealthy-body/">Why an Unhealthy Mind creates an Unhealthy Body</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“. . .you must look at who you are and make an effort to know yourself, which is the most difficult knowledge one can imagine. When you know yourself, you will not puff yourself up like the frog who wanted to be the equal of the ox. . .” Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2024/01/why-lying-to-yourself-is-ruining-your-life/">Why Lying to Yourself is Ruining Your Life</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<p>“Since ultimately people heal themselves with or without the tool of psychotherapy, why is it that so few do and so many do not? Since the path of spiritual growth, albeit difficult, is open to all, why do so few choose to travel it? It was to this question that Christ was addressing himself when […]</p> The post <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2023/12/how-to-escape-mediocrity-and-mental-illness-the-road-less-traveled/">How to Escape Mediocrity and Mental Illness – The Road Less Traveled</a> first appeared on <a href="https://academyofideas.com">Academy of Ideas</a>.

<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>.