What does it mean to be happy? This podcast includes a reading of ‘Beyond the Body,’ from Reflections on A Course in Miracles: Volume Two, which addresses this question with reference to Freud’s theory of ‘the narcissism of small differences’ — his recipe for happiness, or rather, the avoidance of ‘neurotic unhappiness.’
We explore Freud’s friendship with Romain Rolland, author of several biographies on Eastern mystics, and how this challenged his ideas about the human potential for happiness, eventually spurring him to write Civilisation and Its Discontents.
Contrasting Freud’s view, we look at what A Course in Miracles says about our potential for happiness, and how we might experience it.
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Reflections on A Course in Miracles 