HeyJaredIra Israel, Psychotherapist
I write about psychology, philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, film, art, music and literature.
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What Is Spiritual Jazz? (opens the original)
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I recently stumbled across “Spiritual Jazz Essentials” on Apple Music and it took me back to the ten years I taught spiritual psychology workshops at the Esalen Institute. During yoga I would play Alice Coltrane’s “Journey in Satchidananda” because Alice Coltrane espoused Vedanta, a major school of Hindu philosophy that is the origin of the yoga we practice today. What a surprise to discover that an entire musical genre has spawned from John and Alice Coltrane’s devotion!This lineage emerged fro
"The Role of the Artist in Contemporary Society" (opens the original)
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The Superpower of the Best Psychotherapists is Mudita (opens the original)
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“Tony”: Film Review (opens the original)
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Many of us go to the cinema to witness sympathetic characters overcome external and internal obstacles and become better humans (or tragically die trying). There are archetypal heroes’ journeys… and there are fresh archetypal heroines’ journeys emerging too. These narratives inspire us to be more authentic, to the be heroes and heroines of our own lives.A Bildungsroman is a novel of formation that tracks a young protagonist through the shedding of childish illusions as they individuate and gain
Joyless Decadence (opens the original)
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“Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~ Teddy RooseveltThe second time I met Esther Perel I told her that she was a tremendous poet. The musicality of her ingenious ditties such as “How can you desire what you already have?” render them immediately iconoclastic and deliciously memorable. Similar is the case for Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson’s concept expressed recently in The Guardian defining our current malaise - the simmering low-level dysthymia of our epoch - wi
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