Of the Psyche

Of the Psyche: adventures in the mind…

Mind and matter

The working of the mind impacts on all we do, say and have. It is the central core of our psyche and the powerhouse of our actions and thoughts. What we think about and ponder in our minds is of crucial importance for our behaviour. Without the restraining help of God and the daily strengthening…

June 3, 2022
Watch yourself

I don’t know about you, but I have to watch myself like a hawk! My heart and mind wanders so easily and my soul will atrophy from goodness if I am not guarding my whole self again myself, this fallen world and the devil. The Christian life is not easy, but we are promised the…

May 27, 2022
Mindless

The media will dull your mind and keep you in craven fear like nothing else. It is insidious. The constant drip of the negativity will undermine your psyche like nothing else. We should be more careful what we let into our minds and allow ourselves to be subject to. It is easy to become a…

May 24, 2022
Labyrinth

The mind is a huge labyrinth of neurons that link up in all sorts of incredible and unique ways. There are 80,000,000,000 eighty billion of them! Our thoughts, ideas, emotions, memories, etc, are bound up in them. We can extend our minds into many different worlds and places. We construct enormous fractils of reality based…

May 21, 2022
The wrecking of reality

If reality is real, there certainly is a God, one eternal God, maker and ruler of all. The undermining of reality is happening all around us. We are encouraged to believe in myths and fairy tales, and to choose for ourselves creatures that inhabit imagination. Unicorns, mermaids and all kinds of unreal creations, made from…

May 19, 2022
Soul state

Can we analyse ourself and ascertain the health of our soul? If so, how can we tell we are healthy and strong as soul-alive people? It is not about our feelings or what we think about what we are doing, but about the standards laid out for us in the word of God. It is…

May 15, 2022
Mad and Bad

Being a Christian, changes everything… THE CYNIC: Mind illness sufferers suffer because it is their fault. We do not understand their illness or the circumstances of their lives, or how their mind works, but it is definitely their fault. As friends and neighbours we have no responsibility for their suffering, it is nothing to do…

May 14, 2022
Coping with trouble and how it get out of it…

There is a deep need to recognise our weaknesses and difficulties, but not to give ourselves an easy time. There is a place for deep self-examination and thinking about our behaviour realistically. It is easy to be over-negative or over-positive and not to see the situation. There are many points of view, and so we…

May 12, 2022
A mind less…

It’s the disability thing.. if you are disabled, you cannot join the intellectual discussions or the theological debate in society. Especially so, if you have a mind illness of some sort. You are definitely not suitable to debate issues or pass comment on spiritual questions, so tends to be the prevailing attitude… Disability is a…

May 10, 2022
Path of power

Psalm 34 This Psalm was penned by David, in response to his attempt to fool Abimelech that he was suffering mind illness. Abimelech realised David was fake and drove David out of his region. David was familiar with mind illness because He himself was a sufferer. In this Psalm he rejoiced in the deliverance of…

May 9, 2022