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How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? This accessible and illuminating book provides a reliable guide to these questions. The book: · Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personal desires that flow from them · Shows the role of the emotions in personal life · Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence of 'individuals' and 'personal experience' · Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas of life to shape our moods, attitudes and feelings. Shrewd and compelling, the book will be of interest to anyone studying Social Psychology and Sociology.
Inner Power and the Higher Self
Inner Power and the Higher Self
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- The links between the self-help and personal development literature and notions of inner power and spiritual growth.
- The mistaken assumption that all control is negative, ‘bad’ or exploitative, countered by the view that benign control is a positive and ubiquitous force in social life.
- Social interaction facilitates ethical behaviour, but also provides opportunities for deception and manipulation.
- The close links between the ‘higher’ or spiritual self and the everyday self.
This chapter centres on the notion of the ‘higher self’ and I want to reinforce my claim that it is an important component of the self (although it may remain a latent and unused capacity). However, much of the literature on spiritual growth and personal transformation that ...
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