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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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September 29th, 2008
I want to thank all those who came up to the plate to explain to me how they would explain my questions about The Secret. It turns out they were almost unanimous. The way to understand ‘The Secret’ or ‘The Law of Attraction’ is that it says - with a new twist on the Hermetic [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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September 25th, 2008
I’ve been trying to keep up with spiritual blogs for the past year or so. They were hard to find in the first place. But when I did find them, many of them seemed concerned with things that don’t seem spiritual to me at all.
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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September 24th, 2008
What’s now known as ‘the secret’ or ‘the law of attraction’ is a way of dealing with life that I’ve been familiar with for years now. That’s because we get all sorts of spiritual people within the Theosophical Society and among some of them this ’secret’ has been practice for decades at least.
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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September 10th, 2008
I’ve written about ‘The Secret‘ online. I’ve hosted a discussion on ‘The Secret’. I’ve inwardly cringed at the many commercial versions of the message I’ve seen online. Today I want to apply the basic psychological insights that are at the heart of the ‘The Secret’ to a group of young people that feels trapped. Let’s [...]
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Katinka Hesselink - All Considering
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August 24th, 2008
In college I was told that to have a magical world view was childish. What they mean by that is that people who believe in magic take too much personal responsibility: I thought about her dying, so I must have caused it somehow.
Belief in magic does imply that we believe human beings are more responsible [...]
