Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

The Origin of Ourselves

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I've talked before on this podcast about my personal journey to treading a more Judeo-Christian theology path in my life -- inspired by my almost 25 y...

Hidden Repugnance Toward God - Ep 12 - Therapeutic Theology Series

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The N.Y. Time, Dec. 21, 2025 edition, has an opinion piece entitled "Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith."That might stop you in your tracks even if you...

Stop Eliminating Christianity from History - Ep 11 - Therapeutic Theology Series

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been impressive to see the various attempts to re-write history so it fits into a politically correct vision of reality. The New York Times 1619 ...

Inverted Pleasure in Evil - Ep. 10 - Therapeutic Theology Series

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Working with clients in psychoanalysis, one of the hardest tasks is helping them to see the negative things they do without realizing it. Self-destruc...

Demonic Mind Control - Ep 9 - Therapeutic Theology Series

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the 1950s, the CIA and Kremlin got it into their collective heads that figuring out how to brainwash and modify human behavior was a good idea...

Silencing the Accuser - Ep 8 - Therapeutic Theology Series

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Keppe has said many times over the more than 2 decades I've been here in Brazil studying and working with him that no one is good alone. That mean...

Pride and Demons - Ep 7 - Therapeutic Theology Series

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up in a modern developed, secular society means limited access to theological understanding. There is some spirituality mixed into the stew of...

Choosing Evil - Ep 6 - Therapeutic Theology Series

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our modern world, often driven more by reason and logic than by faith and revelation, has few answers for the mysteries that more spiritual leanings p...

Certainty of God - Ep 5 - Therapeutic Theology Series

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's a lot of certainty in scientific circles about how science and religion can't go together. In fact, consensus that empirical science has made ...

Under the Influence of Evil - Ep 4 - Therapeutic Theology Series

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've been looking at the deep spiritual questions that rise in the human breast in our series. And we've been doing that through the lens of theology...

Spiritual Denial - Ep 3 - Therapeutic Theology Series

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our intention in this podcast series is to bring some consciousness about something that only a few desire knowing about: there are evil spirits organ...

True Freedom - Ep 2 - Therapeutic Theology Series

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The idea of Creation. The new atheists rail against that. "It's not rational," they insist. The product of a weak mind.Yes, I've heard all that before...

Theology and Science - Ep 1 - Therapeutic Theology Series

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

 What we're trying to do in our new series here is offer a scientific analysis of spiritual phenomena, especially looking at mental illness and d...

Self-Improvement Requires Sacrifice

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anyone who's been even peripherally involved in the self-help movement will be familiar with the literature promising solutions. The three steps to th...

Performance and the Free Will

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. The debate between talent and hard work is a dynamic one. Is it raw talent th...

Paradise as Reality, Not Imagination

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Memories of paradise. That's not just a great dream sequence or catchy movie title. That's something that resonates through almost every culture on Ea...

The Perils of Living Unconsciously

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Freud believed we were often influenced by memories, traumas and instincts we had repressed, but they influenced our behaviors anyway. He got there by...

Love, Consciousness and the Troubled World

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's an old Chinese phrase that goes, "It's better to be a dog in peaceful times than a man in a time of chaos." Wishful thinking, some may ca...

Inversion in Everyday Life

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I've been in Brazil going on 24 years, using Norberto Keppe's psychotherapeutic methodology in education and communications, and also as a psychoanaly...

Why Do I Do the Things I Don't Want?

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes, when I have something important to do, I must confess I feel a little resistance. It's an interesting phenomenon because it's like a genera...

The Science of Inversion

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Being upside down. Every kid loves that. Being hoisted up by the ankles and hanging there in your father's sure hands with your head where your feet s...

Metaphysics and the Empty Promise of AI

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Maybe, like me when I first moved to Brazil, you have the idea that metaphysics is a kind of woo-woo field of study. That part of the bookstore with ...

Living in A Spiritual World - Therapy Online Series: Ep 8

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today, a conversation with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco about living in the spiritual world. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones.It was the Police back in the ea...

Suicide Watch - Therapy Online Series - Ep. 7

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Norberto Keppe, the developer of the psychoanalytical science used by Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco on this podcast, has written extensively about soc...

The Heart of the Matter - Therapy Online Series: Ep. 5

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We are always, in our programs, trying to get to the psychological and spiritual causes behind our physical and emotional problems. It's a journey tha...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Therapy Online Series: Ep. 4

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our latest podcast initiative is an attempt to create a forum for people to call or write with critical recent or long-standing issues they've never b...

Agoraphobia - Therapy Online Series: Ep 3

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are there any of us completely free of what happened in our upbringing? I was joking with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco after the therapy session you'...

Rebellious Kids - Therapy Online Series - Ep. 2

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adolescents and their parents. Who doesn't have a story about that? I sometimes wonder how any of us survive our adolescence.And I would extend that a...

Marriage Trauma - Therapy Online Series: Ep. 1

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A number of years ago, I initiated a series of call-in shows to deal with real life problems - from new work initiatives to relationship challenges, e...

Therapy for the World Series: Ep 2 - The Terrible Trap of Inversion

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Inversion. It's a recent 20th century discovery by the brilliant Brazilian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Dr. Norberto Keppe. 1977 to be precise....

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 14 - Death and Comfort

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the, I suspect, final episode in our Healing Through Consciousness series. It'll be the final curtain for this series. Unless I discover mo...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 13 - Coping with Death

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our continuing Healing Through Consciousness podcast series. Just when you thought it was over. Fitting we'll be addressing death today in ...

Therapy for the World Series: Ep. 1 - The Power of Communication

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Beginning a new series today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head - Therapy for the World. In fact, this is the slogan of our Keppe & Pacheco Tri...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 12: Materialism's Terrible Influence on Health

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve been focusing on more specific health situations in our series lately, and we’ll continue that today with an expansive look at eating disord...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 11: The Spirituality of Health

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the early part of the 20th century, a non-medical educator was hired by the Carnegie Foundation to report on the state of medical education in Nort...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 10: Healing Without Drugs

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I’m a product of the ‘60s and ‘70s. I saw guys trying to homestead in the woods of Vancouver Island as I was walking to a favorite swimming hole...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 9: Youth and Addiction

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is an addictive personality? You’ll see all sorts of definitions if you Google that! From addiction being a learning disorder, to a passion for...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 8: Understanding Suicide

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Well, this is a relevant – and disturbing – topic for any who’ve experienced its devastating effects. The thought of someone taking his or her o...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 7: The Roots of Depression

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is Episode 7 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. This time, a clinical look at a modern mental h...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 6: The Mind and the Immune System

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today on Episode 6 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, we’ll look at the effect our minds have on o...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 5: Energetic Infection

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today on Episode 5 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, we’ll tackle an alternative view of disease ...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep 4: Paranoia and Disease

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is episode 4 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. From the time w...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 3: Healing the Soul

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the psychosomatic department of the Keppe & Pacheco Colleges, this is episode 3 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with ...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 2: True Medicine

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the psychosomatic department of the Keppe & Pacheco Colleges, this is episode 2 of the Healing Through Consciousness series on Thinking with ...

Healing Through Consciousness Series: Ep. 1: The Psychology of Health

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our new series on the Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head podcast. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones.We’re calling this series Healing Through C...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep 17: True Religion

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Episode 17 – our final episode – of the Modern Relevance of God Podcast Series on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 16: Humanity's Deep Need for God

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We've been attempting in this series to make the scientific case for the relevance of a more theological consciousness in our everyday lives. Along th...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep.15: Resonance with Mother Mary

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I've been impressed in my personal journey of discovery with the rational arguments for the existence of God throughout history, by Augustine and Anse...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 14: Resonance with Jesus

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Episode 14 of the Modern Relevance of God podcast series here on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones.My dad used to...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 13: How We Miss Paradise

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 13 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones.As I’ve been d...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep.12: The Ceaseless Attack on Christian Values

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is episode 12 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I'm Richard Lloyd Jones.I think one of the ...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 11: Are We Victims of God?

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How many times have you heard this phrase: "I don't believe in God anymore because how could a loving God allow all this misery on Earth?" Usually it'...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 10: The Problem with Atheism

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can God and science exist together? I think that’s a fundamental question. I've heard some of the more vocal scientists proclaiming that a belief in...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 9: The Psychotic Separation from God

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Dark Night of the Soul. In the theological canon, this signifies a spiritual crisis in a journey towards union with God. In more secular language,...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 8: The Origin of Evil

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So far in our series, we've been looking at the nature of life and God, and how that knowledge has been pushed aside from our daily considerations and...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 7: The Fall of Man Updated

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Episode 7 of our Modern Relevance of God podcast series here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. I...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 6: Trouble from the Start

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Episode 6 of our Modern Relevance of God podcast series here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. You m...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 5: Who Is this God We're Talking about Anyway?

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Episode five of our Modern Relevance of God podcast series here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. In...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 4: Some Scientific Anti-Christs

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

 I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Episode 4 of our Modern Relevance of God special podcast series on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.In ou...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep 3: Science Turns its Back on God

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and welcome back to our continuing series. This is Episode 3 of our special podcast series, The Modern Relevance of God.This ...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God - Ep. 2: The Fatal Flaw of Inversion

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and welcome to Episode 2 of our special podcast series, The Modern Relevance of God. One of the fundamental problems in ...

Special Podcast Series: The Modern Relevance of God, Ep. 1: Why Even Do This?

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

 I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. Welcome to something new on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. A podcast series on what I consider one of the most imp...

Vaccines, Energy and Freedom

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

 If you were watching a TV series about the pandemic lockdown we are currently suffering through, you might look at it as a phantasmagorical kind...

What's Behind the Great Reset

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

 As we turn the page on what was surely one of the most unprecedented years in modern history, we look forward to better times in 2021. It's natu...

The Science of Freedom

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's as old as philosophy itself. Freedom. Free will. Free choice. We've taken it for granted in our western world. "Of course we're free," we gl...

The True Spiritual Reset

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's July, and we're still in the middle of the pandemic. Actually, we've been in the middle of this for what, 4 months now? You ever seen anything li...

The Inner Game of Virus Defense

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's week 8 of the quarantine here in Brazil. Restaurants and shops are still closed, they're taking temperatures before they let me in to the superma...

Calming Pandemic Hysteria

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There must have been a "Eureka!" moment back in the late 1800s when, investigating an infection in the French wine industry, Louis Pasteur happened up...

The Censorship of Natural

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One of the challenges in our modern philosophy lies in the difficulty of acknowledging right and wrong, good and bad. We've blurred the lines so much ...

The Chaos of Evil

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One of the things that's happened to me over the 18 plus years I've been in Brazil working with the science of Analytical Trilogy elaborated by Brazi...

Looking After Our Eternal Assets

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As we head into Christmas, we often take time to reflect on friends and family, on hopes and dreams, on plans and logistics. After all, we've got the ...

Even Psychopaths Feel Guilt

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Back when I was a kid playing street hockey in my hometown, a couple of Dutch immigrant kids came out hoping to join us. They were carrying hockey st...

Power and Demonic Envy

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Norberto Keppe's extraordinary book, Liberation of the People, he writes, "Humankind reckons among its numbers a few individuals who are completely...

Dark Spirituality and Victimization

24 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're just out of the Easter period and some reflections. It was a tough week for the faithful. The burning of Notre Dame striking hard in that major ...

A Study of Temptation

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Temptation. Like most religious words, that one's been banalized and reduced from its original meaning. It means literally a trial or a test. A moment...

Seduction by Evil

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"The idea of being a victim of evil is quite a comfortable one," writes Norberto Keppe in his book, Psychotherapy and Exorcism. "But what's really goi...

Man's Greatest Enemy

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

All of us, if we've lived a little, have had to contend with the lure of temptation. From the mundane, "Just one more piece of chocolate cake," to the...

Certainty of the Divine

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain these tenets suffer fr...

Human Resonance with Evil

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The nature of good and evil. That’s a nice light topic for your next Sunday afternoon bbq! If I had a dollar for every time a friend wanted to discu...

Our Entangled Spiritual Reality

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We are assailed in our modern world with all sorts of problems. There are money worries, health of ageing parents, stress and depression, crime and ta...

Under Control of Evil

26 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ferdinand, in desperation at the terrible plight of ship and crew, cries out, "Hell is empty and all the devils are here...

Energy of Virtue

07 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, I'm Richard Lloyd Jones. A couple of thousand years ago, a consideration of virtue was part of everyday...

Evil in the Modern World

15 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.In the philosophy of religion, evil has always been a thorny issue. Is evil so...

True Co-Creation

02 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I was walking down the streets of Vancouver a number of years ago after I'd been living away from the west coast for some time, and I bumped into an o...

Women and the Dark Side

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A few hundred years ago, the notions of heaven and hell, of God and Lucifer, were respected themes for composers, poets, and painters. Milton's Paradi...

Big Sister is Watching

02 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. A quick word of warning right at the beginning of our program today … t...

The Science of Real Problem Solving

15 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and welcome to another episode of Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Read the literature about complex problem solving and yo...

Towards a Universal Mentality

26 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. In light of the Paris attacks in November of 2015, it's difficult to know th...

Healing Terrorism

20 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. I moved to Brazil from New York in 2001, 2 1/2 months before 9/11. Talk about...

Roots of Racism - Updated

19 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Well, you don't have to look far these days, do you, to find signs of sickness...

Going Beyond the Dogmas of Science

09 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Dogma. A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. Meaning incapable of being questioned or doubted. In the 1...

The Sanity of Interiorizing our Lives

06 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Carl Gustav Jung proposed that everything that irritates us about others can lead us to understand ours...

Fathers of our Inverted Science, part 2

15 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Our thinking, our philosophies of life, these are things we take for granted most of the time. "That's just the way it is," we say, and we step out co...

Fathers of our Inverted Science

02 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The truth will set you free, it is written. OK, good. But knowing what the truth is, recognizing it when it pulls up alongside, ah, that’s a lit...

The Limitations of Selfishness

05 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

We are clearly living in a time of veneration of the individual in western society. In North America, it's part of our mythology. The strong, independ...

The Scandal of Drugs

29 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

We've seen a lot of good ones go way too early because of drugs, haven't we? Seemed like a new one a week back in the '60s and '70s. Janis and Jimmy. ...

Bringing Theology and Philosophy Together with Science

21 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is TWSEH. Oil and water. Black cats and white sweaters. Neckties and bowls of soup. Some things just aren’t made...

Peeking Behind the Curtains of Power

10 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Ever since Dorothy pulled back the curtain to reveal a perfectly ordinary Wizard of Oz manipulating switches to make him seem more powerful, the image...

Recovering True Humanity

12 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.  With so much tension and confusion in  modern day life, it seems ...

Recapturing the Flavor of Romance

27 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Like so many words, romance has been banalized in western culture. Coming to a head in what we now know as medieval chivalry, it's become associated w...