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050 Can Deconstruction Cure a Disembodied Faith? (with Dr. Sean Davidson)

Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation

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Is There a Pattern in Our Culture? Is It Born of Instinct?

Many of the things that you withdraw from are part of the answer for you make to make your way forward. What can feel like a sanctuary inside of ourselves can quickly turn into a prison. I think just generally in order to actually do what we need to do with confidence we need to first withdraw in ourselves and engage kind of within a thought world then move out once we've gotten confidence. And so interesting you had mentioned schizophrenia before that character notes from notes from the underground this short story by Dostoevsky has some obvious schizophrenic tendencies. People hoping for all invulnerability might be moving inwards, but then getting stuck there rather than being able to move out.

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