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I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.

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IFS lands on Mars

Posted by Don Paine

This past weekend "Curiosity" the flying space station landed on Mars.

I was intrigued and interested in the name "Curiosity".  Curiosity is a neutral sense of adventuresome exploring,  Internal Family System's (Richard Schwartz) is a therapy modality, a way of being in the world, and a way of servicing resolving conflict in the world.  While compassion, calmness, courage and creativity are the four fundamentals of the system, curiosity plays a decisive role.  Curiosity is an non-judgmental, non-efficacy, non-critical, and non agenda oriented way of being with one's parts and with parts of others in the world.

Curiosity as a quality does not question but explores.  It expands knowing through opening the mind, the heart, and the spirit, opening body soul,

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