by Helen Papadopoulos | Mar 16, 2020 | Healing Sexual Abuse, Real Philosophy, Self Help Skills, The Real New Age
Victim-blaming and shaming is rife in New Age circles. In this post, I will outline three of the most popular New Age mantras (robotically repeated statements) that do this to victims whilst simultaneously ignoring, or minimizing the actions of perpetrators....
by Helen Papadopoulos | Mar 16, 2020 | Healing Sexual Abuse, Real Philosophy
Anything worthwhile is going to cost you something – usually more than one thing (e.g. money, time, energy, emotional turmoil, and so on). When delving deep into something painful, the pain itself is the heftiest price that needs to be paid. The price is commensurate...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Feb 20, 2020 | Real Philosophy
Some people label me as too “preachy” when I firmly state my convictions. Others praise me by emphatically exclaiming, “Preach it!”, “Preach!”, or “Amen!” after I express myself in such a manner. Let’s take a closer look at the word “preachy”. Preachy...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 30, 2020 | Real Philosophy, The Real New Age
There are many different types of moral relativism (all of them absurd). I will focus my discussion on one type in this post – moral subjectivism – because this is rampant both inside and outside of New Ageism: the belief that morality is determined by...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 30, 2020 | Healing Sexual Abuse, Real Philosophy, Self Help Skills, The Real New Age
Karma is the Eastern term for the spiritual law that may also be referred to as Cosmic Justice, God’s Justice, or Natural Law. True Law is inextricably linked to Morality and neither have anything to do with (hu)man-made laws, or ‘morals’ that change with the...
by Helen Papadopoulos | Jan 13, 2020 | Real Philosophy, The Real Bible, The Real New Age
Apocalypse (Αποκάλυψη): Greek for “Revelation”. Revelation (noun) (Merriam-Webster 1828) 1a: an act of revealing or communicating divine truth b: something that is revealed by God to humans 2a: an act of revealing to view or making known b: something that...
