RELI 376 Lecture 2: Lecture2 The Divided Self
8 Sep 2015
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There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other pg 125. Some persons are born with inner constitution which is harmonious and well balanced from the outset pg 126. This amount of inconsistency will only count as amiable weakness, but a stronger degree of heterogeneity may make havoc of the subject"s life pg 127. But to find religion is only one out of many ways of reaching unity, and the process of remedying inner incompleteness and reducing inner discord is a general psychological process pg 132. In all these instances we have precisely the same psychological form of event, -- a firmness, stability, and equilibrium succeeding a period of storm and stress and inconsistency. In these non-religious cases the new man may also be born either gradually or suddenly pg 132.
