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Amy Jones 3/5/12 Amy Jones 3/5/12

concerns on the medicalization of bereavement by harvard psychiatrist, anthropologist and widower Arthur Kleinman in thelancet

“My grief, like that of millions of others, signalled the loss of something truly vital in my life. This pain was p…
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Amy Jones 12/26/11 Amy Jones 12/26/11

the connection between religious belief, health and willpower and how to imitate the results in scientific american
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Amy Jones 12/23/11 Amy Jones 12/23/11

the atlantic reports on how to have a merry christmas
“The most important finding was that those who spent lots of time being with family, practicing their religion, and thinking about limiting consumption of electricity and auto use reported …
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Amy Jones 10/2/11 Amy Jones 10/2/11

marc ian barasch on the mind/body connection, illness,  new-age calvinism, and spirituality:

                                                                                                                                           

“This is…
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Amy Jones 9/25/11 Amy Jones 9/25/11

Twyla Tharp on Mozart, creativity, and the myth of unpracticed genius:
Leopold taught the young Wolfgang everything about music, including counterpoint and harmony. He saw to it that the boy was exposed to everyone in Europe who was writing good mus…
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Amy Jones 7/1/11 Amy Jones 7/1/11

identity management: the new york times magazine explores the dilemma of a therapist when a client’s sexual identity and religious beliefs conflict
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Amy Jones 4/18/11 Amy Jones 4/18/11

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

-Neuroscientist David Eagleman cites Voltaire while contemplating God in New Scientist
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Amy Jones 4/3/11 Amy Jones 4/3/11

Paul Bloom talks to Seed about why we get pleasure from food, sex, art and religion
“…my argument is that pleasure is deep. For instance, sexual desire isn’t just triggered by looking at certain symmetries in the face, or waist-to…
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Amy Jones 3/24/11 Amy Jones 3/24/11

what were they thinking? : theory of mind, the red balloon, and god in Slate
Banksy.
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Amy Jones 3/21/11 Amy Jones 3/21/11

Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas.
The heart has its reasons that reason can not know.
Yes; but you must wager. It is not optional. You are embarked. Which will you choose then? Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which in…
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Amy Jones 3/20/11 Amy Jones 3/20/11

God is a holy machine that loves us so fiercely, so perfectly he devours us, all of us. It is what we’re here for, to be loved and eaten.
Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
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