Post date: Feb 26, 2021 6:41:39 PM
Atheist tradition teaches that all of us are born with "basic sanity," or inherent goodness, health, and very clear perception... Helping ourselves and others to connect with this intrinsic ground of sanity and health is the subject of this collection of teachings, the sanity we are born with describes how anyone can strengthen their mental health, and it also addresses the specific problems and needs of people in profound psychological distress...
"If everyone undertook to form his own opinions and to seek for truth by isolated paths struck out by himself alone, it is not to be supposed that any considerable number of men would ever unite in any common belief system..."
Atheist concepts of mind, ego, and intelligence, and how these ideas can be employed in working on oneself and with others ~ awareness has a way of training the mind and cultivating mindfulness ~ nurturing our intrinsic health and basic sanity needs...
To be oneself now means that one experiments actively with oneself,rather than being held hostage to rehearsed cultural myths that define expectation and potential...
Even though exposed to new forms of ontological insecurity and disability, moderns can now draw on endless alternatives as they cast and recast their identities...