(Full Notes)Tuesday, May 19, 2020It isa choice or is it automatic?  When is ita choice and when is it not?Tuesday,May 26, 2020RememberJordan Peterson's two true perspectives? The one is like a right-wing point of view.  And the second is like a left-wing point ofview.  Surely this is the same as theobjective vs subjective I kept seeing as an undergraduate philosophystudent.  Thursday,May 28, 2020I’mthinking of the two sacrament meeting talks I heard in New York that one day -both on finding peace. One person said how the only way to find real peace wasthrough Jesus Christ. The other person said how you might need to go on a walk, etc. - whatever you need to do foryou to find peace. And I believe both speakers were right. Butyou can see, can’t you, how one perspective seems a little opposed to theother. How do you heal mental illness? Or address it, at least?  Oneperson might say pray and read the scriptures - in other words, strengthenyourself spiritually. This is the perspective that mental illness is aspiritual thing and needs to be addressed spiritually. Someone else might sayto take medication and exercise and sleep and eat right. This is theperspective that mental illness is a physical thing. You know what I’m going tosay next, right?  That it’s both?  It’s ok, then, to say it’s one or the other,as long as you don’t exclude the other, and say that it’s just one. Surely thisis the case. Butwhy not better to just say right off the bat that it’s both?  (Have I said that it’s just spiritual?  Maybe. I’ll correct it.) Friday,May 29, 2020Andthis is how philosophy can help psychology. How many people are out there saying it's one of the other, and notboth!  WhenGod gave us the account of the Earth being created, why didn't he give ussomething that matches more what we see? It is not because it’s the spiritual account, from the spiritualperspective?  Doesn’t preclude thenatural, it’s just the spiritual?  This Idon’t know - have to think about it. Sunday,May 31, 2020Thispattern is all throughout philosophy - seeming paradoxes, that aren't reallyparadoxes of course because there's no such thing as a real paradox, onlyseeming paradoxes.  All throughout life.  Meant to be that way.  It's a pattern where two ways of looking atthings seem incompatible, and people will fight wars over it, but really bothsides have their valid points, and you don't have to make the other sideridiculous in order to maintain your side as true.  Forpsychology at least one of these patterns is "whether" anxiety anddepression are spiritual or natural. Chosen or caused.  Psychologicalor physical.  The spirit or thebrain.  I havemade the differentiation between spirit and matter, that is, spiritual matterand physical matter (because that's what they are…)  But I wonder if I shouldn't be talking aboutintelligence in the place of spirit, at least sometimes.  Our spirit body is directed by ourintelligence, or the germ in us that knows and that is conscious, and that actsupon everything else, including our bodies. Should I admit that there are three types of things - intelligence,spirit, and physical matter?  The lattertwo are matter, the first, I don't know exactly how to describe it except how Ihave.  It is our intelligence - thatwhich knows and is conscious and acts. It has existed from all eternity, and will for all eternity, onlybecause of God it takes on a spirit body and then a physical body as itprogresses to become more like God, the literal Father of our spirits.  Maybe I should be talking about ourintelligence more, not just our spirit. More specific.