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Basic Psychotherapy Guidelines for Beneficial Mental Health

Psychotherapy is getting practical. It’s how you work with your own or someone else’s neshama and ruach, consciousness, and mind. If you’re a parent, teacher, coach, guide, supervisor, manager, employer, or in any position where you have any responsibility for the well-being or influence of another human being, then you practice psychotherapy. (associated with Mind-Body […]

The Bible is the Fabulous Story of Humankind. What a Human is

The Bible refers to God, but the focus is on God’s Creation and the salvation of humans. Mind-Body Problem Solved explains what a human being is. Why write a book, Mind-Body Problem Solved, essentially around one Bible verse, Genesis 2:7? The Bible is, first and foremost, the story of humankind. And the paradox is that […]

Consciousness and Mind, the Way to the Image of God

This is the finale of Mind-Body Problem Solved. Now, you know the Biblical perspective of consciousness and mind. We’ve come a long way, but it’s only the beginning. Really, it’s not even that because, in 2023, nobody knows and shares this real breakthrough knowledge. We’ll come full circle and close the loop regarding consciousness and […]

Believe and Repent = Faith & Works = Dress & Keep Garden = 2 Commandments

God’s message to His Creation, humankind, has always been the same, believe and repent. Only the format changed at Christ’s Crucifixion. In this seventh Section about spiritual conversion of consciousness and mind, the focus has been on repentance, a change of mind resulting in a change of behavior; it includes the application of the Second […]

Christ is THE WAY. From Filthy Rags to Fulfilled Righteousness

The way to use consciousness and mind is a mystery. Even more so the destination. Here’s the way. The Explanation has opened up the Bible meaning of neshama and ruach, consciousness and mind, the two inseparable spiritual elements that constitute humans and the dust body. In Chapter 35, I gave the Biblical definition of psychology […]

Genuine Spirituality. From Childish to Mature Decision-Making

Genuine spirituality is considerably more than keeping a bunch of rules and traditions. Children can do that. Biblically, genuine spirituality is a transformation of the mind. The final section of the book Mind-Body Problem Solved addresses genuine spirituality. This is the biblical spiritual side of psychology. Both primarily treat the mind, one from a non-godly […]

Not in The World = Decisive Makeover of Our Neshama & Ruach

Spiritual conversion is our presence in the world but not being of the world. Total redirection of our consciousness and mind. Let’s recapitulate. Mind-Body Problem Solved reveals the mind is a spiritual entity, by definition, separate from the physical body-brain. The Bible reveals that the ruach-mind is inseparable from a second spiritual entity, the neshama, […]

Spiritual Calling, Definition, Revealing The Bible Meaning

Spiritual calling is the first event on the way to spiritual conversion. Exactly, what is it, and how does it work? How emotional is it? On one hand, people are leaving the classical Church in droves, and on the other, they’re searching for spirituality. A paradox, to say the least, because they’re not finding it […]

Spiritual Conversion. From Human Filth to Godly Purity

Spiritual Conversion is the transformation of human filth and fighting into Godly purity and peace. The seventh and final Section of Mind-Body Problem Solved is devoted to spiritual conversion. We have established that neshama-consciousness and ruach-mind are spiritual elements God breathed into each human. It gave them physical and mental life. We’ve seen that in […]

Everyday Psychology for Everybody. Healthy Mental Vision

Everyday psychology for all involves preserving a positive mental framework. Here’s the basis for better mental health. This is the final chapter in this sixth Section on the psychology of the neshama and ruach. We’ve solved the mind-body problem and established the full composition of a human being, a dust body with the neshama consciousness […]