Category: philosophical counseling
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Why Do We Keep Logjamming Ourselves?
There’s a really weird thing that I’m sure you’ve noticed in others, not the least because you’ve probably said it more than a few times yourself. I have. It’s this: “Oh, I’d really love to do X, but it’s so difficult.” I’d love to find a life companion, but it’s so difficult. I’d love to…
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If Peace Is What I Am, Then Why Does It Seem To Come And Go?
It’s commonly said, in the nondual teaching, that peace is what I am. Then why does it seem as if it comes and goes? In the question is contained your stand or central presumption: namely, that I am a finite mind for which peace comes and goes. From your stand as the finite mind, you…
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A Return To Religio
In Denying and Disclosing God, the late Catholic theologian Michael Buckley argues that it wasn’t “the new science” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that led to denying God’s existence and thus to the emergence of what, in his earlier book At the Origins of Modern Atheism, he terms “modern atheism.” Instead, it was the…
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What Is Beyond Negative Emotions?
You find that you’re all caught up in agitation, anxiety, or restlessness. Yet something is already afoot, isn’t it? After all, you find that you’ve been caught up in some emotion or another. To find that this is the case is to be aware of being anxious or restless. You find, in other words, that…
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The Fallacy Of The All-in-One Romantic Relationship
Why are there so many dating apps today? And why has finding a romantic partnership become so “high stakes” in recent times? In this video, I speak of just some of the historical conditions that have given rise to what I’m terming the “all-in-one romantic relationship.” Near the end, I touch upon the deep existential…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 