Category: philosophical counseling
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On Being Post-secular
The secularization thesis held that organized religion would fade as modern science came to take hold in modern culture and so all of human life would be slowly and properly “disenchanted” or “de-spirited.” This hasn’t happened. Instead, a far stranger development, one charted by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age, has long been unfolding. More…
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How Does My Heart Stay Open?
What does it take for my heart to open? And what does it take for my heart to stay open? I must give up being right. I have to stop trying to be right. And I must drop my stance by which I maintain my rightness. Rightness (to be clear: not righteousness and not truthfulness)…
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Atmabhava: ‘Feeling The Pain Of Others As If It Were Your Own’
The sum and substance of spiritual life, the best teaching of Vedanta, is atmabhava, which means feeling the pain and distress of others as if it were your own, feeling the poverty, sickness and calamities of others as your own. –Swami Satyananda Saraswati, “Atmabhava” Since Satyananda alludes to Advaita Vedanta, one might be surprised to hear…
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The Meeting House: A Weekly Service
At A Glance Description Quite swiftly is religion becoming less and less salient to ordinary Americans. A recent Gallup report bears this claim out: The 17-point drop in the percentage of U.S. adults who say religion is an important part of their daily life–from 66% in 2015 to 49% today– ranks among the largest Gallup has recorded…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 