Emotional Traps: How a Little Logic Can Change Your Life! Book

Emotional Traps,using the disciplines of Philosophy, Psychology and Theology, examines the role of logic in both our secular and spiritual lives. It explains the appropriate interplay of the intellect and emotions and how emotions have been overemphasized in our society to the detriment of that society. It further illustrates how three professions have contributed to that abuse: Attorneys, Psychologists (his own)and Educators. The next section of the book looks to the physical world and explains how we can obtain better control of the balance between our intellect and emotions so as to help us avoid personal pitfalls ("Traps", if you will), e.g. depression, anxiety, anger, pride, prejudice etc. It tells us what we can do to maintain a healthy lifestyle, even in a society that abuses psychologically healthy living. The author then makes the claim that just as logic is important in the physical world, it is also important in the spiritual world. He thus examines some concepts of the spiritual world, arguing that without logic, the spiritual world leads to superstition rather than true spirituality. To help in this endeavor he then analyzes the theological construct of "sin" using the discipines of philosophy, psychology and theology. Finally the author gives real world examples of how his theory applies in the real world to everyday people.Read More