HeyJaredMolly’s Musings
My Substack Musings on the Great Unraveling and the Great Turning through the lens of the Work That Reconnects, psychosynthesis, and ecopsychology. Image by Vicki Evens.
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Everything's Shaped by Everything Else (opens the original)
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Everything’s Shaped by Everything ElseMutual Causality is a fundamental concept in the Buddhist Dharma and in the Work That Reconnects. It appears in the title of Joanna Macy’s seminal book, Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory—The Dharma of Natural Systems (SUNY Press, 1991). I have worked to deeply understand what it means for all these years, a process that entails unlearning habits of thought from my upbringing in Western culture, notably one-way linear causality.Recently
The Psychology of Extreme Wealth - Part 2 (opens the original)
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In Part 1 of this inquiry into the psychology (and psychopathology) of extreme wealth, I suggested that billionaires may have come to equate wealth—and the power that wealth can buy—with self-esteem and mastery, having never had those psychological needs met simply and directly as a child or adolescent. Acquiring more and more money became a substitute for the unconditional love they never received or the sense of mastery they rarely experienced.A friend recently asked me if most people would be
The Psychology of Extreme Wealth (opens the original)
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My background in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, and especially psychosynthesis, prompts me to try to understand what motivates people whom I see acting in ways that are harmful to others and to the health of the ecosystems on which we all depend. I look at the billionaires who currently have so much political power in the USA and Europe with curiosity and concern. What motivates someone to want to acquire ever greater amounts of money, when they already have far more than enough to sat
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