Dr. Stephen Larsen, award-winning columnist and Psychology Professor Emeritus from SUNY Ulster, New York, will be the Guest Speaker at The Engaging the World Forum on Sunday, October 26, at 3:00 p.m., in the Carriage House at Jay Gould Memorial Reformed Church, Main Street, Roxbury, New York. His affair is “Why Do We Get Stuck in Our Religious Thinking?” He will focus on some of the account put alternating in his latest book The Fundamentalist Mind: How Polarized Thinking Imperils Us All.
“The animal apperception has an abiding addiction to abridge the admirable aggravation and ambiguity of active acquaintance to a few set and accustomed formulas,” writes Dr. Larsen. “The ‘fundamentalist tendency’ of cerebration is not belted to Evangelical Christianity or abolitionist Islam. It is begin appropriately in the halls of science, in materialism and skepticism itself, and wherever humans are aflutter of the unknown.”
In his presentation, Dr. Larsen will accommodate a glimpse into the psychology, neurology and belief of fundamentalism and its common and annihilative patterns of thought. His investigations achieve that if animal beings admit these patterns in themselves, they can chargeless themselves for a new beginning. Larsen asserts that humans of acceptable will everywhere can acquisition themselves at home in nature, and can admit basal similarities in the animal psyche, even those begin in acutely alien cultural forms.
When Dr. Larsen was on the adroitness at Ulster, 1968-1996, he directed a affairs in alertness studies and biofeedback that gave acceptance a hands-on befalling to alternation themselves additional analysis the bloom allowances of biofeedback. In 1990 he opened Stone Mountain Counseling, PC, for psychotherapy, biofeedback and training area he continues to serve as its director.
In accession to The Fundamentalist Mind, Dr. Larsen wrote The Shaman’s Doorway, the Mythic Imagination. With his wife Robin he co-authored, A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell. Larsen was a Joseph Campbell acquaintance and protégé. In 2006 The Healing Power of Neurofeedback: The Revolutionary LENS Method for Restoring Optimal Brain Function was published.
The Forum is accessible to the public. Following the presentation there will be an befalling for administration thoughts and ideas. For added information, amuse buzz Amie Brockway at (858) 586-1689 or Rev. Richard Dykstra at 607-326-7101. The e-mail acquaintance is gouldchurch at catskill.net.
Media contact: Amie Brockway (858)586-1689 or WJ Carrel (760)218-3838
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