2026-05-14

#psychotherapy
conrad baars: emotional deprivation disorder

his antidote: affirmation therapy
sent to concentration camp
catholic
affirmation is a state of being.
we cannot discipline people for their emotions. discipline actions, not emotions.
how to reconcile this with the words of the saints? who constantly berate themselves?
calvin: grace covers up a dunghill. catholic understanding: grace sanctifies us from the inside out.

"I will remove their hearts of stone and give them hearts of flesh. Thus they will be my people, and I will be there God." (Ezekiel 11:19-20)

The basis of the spiritual life is feeling the presence of Gods goodness, which then leads to joy.

With out the faith that things are actually good, with the faith that God is real, I cannot open myself up.

"all good" is actually epic slang. very deep

When I meditate on “love your neighbor as yourself”, it creates an inclusive feeling that I think is the true goal of Sadhgurus love meditation, also on inclusiveness
But here, the first commandment follows the second: love the lord god with all your heart, soul, and mind. The inclusive attitude comes simply from meditating on gods word.

If we love one another, Jesus will lay down his life for us.

John 15:15 validates the church and the apostolic tradition: “for all I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.” No secret knowledge.

professor jiang believes in the gospel of Thomas.

Catholic answers cites the last verse to debunk it:

https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/Gospel%20of%20Thomas%20Lambdin.pdf

“Simon Peter said to them, ‘Make Mary leave us, for females don’t deserve life.’ Jesus said, ‘Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven’” (Thomas 114).

it seems no apostle would say this. And the early church fathers noted and spoke against false gospels.

A possible related saying, quoted by 2 Clement, is

For the Lord Himself, being asked by a certain person when his
kingdom would come, said, When the two shall be one, and the
outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male
or female.

But this is very, very, different than what’s in the gospel of Thomas. “Females don’t deserve life…”

also comically frustrating that new agers who have never looked at the gospel of Thomas keep referencing it as if it’s some progressive new age gospel and it ends on this verse.