Psychology and Spirituality

Dr. Anahy Fonseca, Jussara Korngold, Anne Sinclair and Marcia Trajano meet to discuss the process of individuation and how it leads to becoming perfect. They explore these concepts that are beautifully depicted in the 1993 movie The Groundhog Day. For your reference, in the US and Canada, there is a tradition that goes back to the late 1800s that the groundhog comes out burrows about 6 weeks befor...

Marcia Trajano meets with Peter Hays, president of Spiritist Group Love and Light in Newark, New Jersey, to discuss Good and Evil. Historically, these concepts have been found since the beginning of civilization. How do the notions of Good and Evil impact our emotional and psychological well-being? Do they matter to psychology in general? If this is the first time you are watching this podcast lik...

Dr. Anahy Fonseca, Jussara Korngold, Anne Sinclair and Marcia Trajano meet to discuss the shadow within. Most specifically, they talk about the positive and negative implications of the shadow. Joanna de Angelis' mentions that the shadow, meaning the dark side of the personality, can be analyzed as a legacy of the events we would prefer to forget or deny they ever existed. Unfortunately, these...

Suzana Simões and Marcia Trajano meet to discuss the concepts of Life and Death found in the books by Joanna de Angelis. The spiritual author, in collaboration with Divaldo Pereira Franco, highlights to us that in a deep psychological analysis, we fear death because we fear life. Hence, unconsciously, we transfer the fear of our physical existence to the fear of its destruction. Suzana discusses o...

Jussara Korngold and Marcia Trajano meet to discuss, if we are immortal souls, why do we forget our past. They concur with Joanna de Angelis' references in the book Wake Up and Be Happy, when she writes about the blessing that it is to forget the past and our previous reincarnations. Otherwise, we would have to confront the difficulties that otherwise come from our deep unconscious, in the for...

Dr. Anahy Fonseca and Marcia Trajano continue the two-part conversation about the ego. Joanna de Angelis discusses how the predominance of the ego in human relationships accounts for frustrations and other imbalances that mark the human experience. In this conversation, dr. Anahy Fonseca will discuss the importance and influence of the ego in our lives. The Psychology and Spirituality program is s...

Dr. Anahy Fonseca and Marcia Trajano join in a two-part conversation about the ego. Joanna de Angelis discusses how the ego, according to Freud, is the most superficial part of the id. It is subject to the direct influence from the outside world. It is not permanent by nature. It is in the ego that the imposition of the instincts reflecting pleasure and desire are found. In this conversation, dr....

Dr. Anahy Fonseca, Jussara Korngold, Anne Sinclair and Marcia Trajano continue their discussion on emotions and sensations. Reflecting upon Joanna de Angelis's words about feelings, we conclude they are gradual achievements of humans. We are able to develop feelings according to (1) our ancestral tendencies, (2) our genetic inheritance, and (3) our environment. In this conversation, we want to...

Dr. Anahy Fonseca, Jussara Korngold, Anne Sinclair and Marcia Trajano begin this 2-part discussion on emotions and sensations. Joanna de Angelis tells us that love results from an emotion and can be defined as an intense and brief organic reaction to an unexpected event, and followed by an affective state of pain or pleasure reaction. What are emotions? What are sensations? Let's make sense of...

Jussara Korngold and Marcia Trajano get together to discuss happiness and how it is intricately related to our physiology. In this episode they focus on this aspect of happiness and remind us that happiness is reached when our physical and mental states are in harmony, providing emotional and transpersonal pleasure.   The Psychology and Spirituality program is sponsored by: AME Brasil - www.amebra...

During today's discussion, Jussara Korngold and Marcia Trajano discuss the concept of self condemnation. Inherent in this topic is the need for a thorough understanding about guilt, self pity, and self discovery.   The Psychology and Spirituality program is sponsored by: AME Brasil - www.amebrasil.org.br Mansão de Caminho - www.mansaodocaminho.com.br International Spiritist Council - www.cei-s...

Marcia Trajano and Jussara Korngold continue their conversation about what it takes to find one's own sense of peace.  They counter the idea of finding peace amid a life of suffering, struggles, and free will and achieving the "harvest of blessings" the Joanna de Angelis references in the book Wake Up and Be Happy.

Marcia Trajano and Jussara Korngold discuss what it takes to find one's own sense of peace.  They begin by visiting Joanna de Angelis's alert about our current society and how there has never been so much loneliness at the same time that the population on the planet is reaching an extreme rate, filling all the available space.   Program is sponsored by: AME Brasil - www.amebrasil.org.br Ma...

Jussara Korngold and Marcia Trajano get together during this episode to talk about happiness. Relative happiness is attainable to all of us so long we accept events and tasks as they unfold. We often mis-construct our idea of happiness with seeking and finding pleasure. Happiness is established when our physical and mental levels reach balance and provide emotional and transpersonal pleasure. The...

Leonardo Vieira and Marcia Trajano continue their conversation about business and the business world and how to bring spirituality into this context. For the most part, business thinking is linear, direct, calculating, devoid of feelings of love, mercy, compassion. While this is clear, they touch upon certain parallels between spiritual and business thinking. What they find is that there are teach...

Leonardo Vieira and Marcia Trajano begin a conversation about business and the business world and how to bring spirituality into this context. For the most part, business thinking is linear, direct, calculating, devoid of feelings of love, mercy, compassion. While this is clear, they touch upon certain parallels between spiritual and business thinking. What they find is that there are teachings we...

Dr. Anahy Fonseca, Jussara Korngold, and Marcia Trajano get together to continue their discussion on mental habits and they support our life. - What are habits? - How do they become second nature? Let's learn together how our behaviors reflect our affinities to a given activity.   The Psychology and Spirituality program is sponsored by : AME Brasil - www.amebrasil.org.br Mansão de Caminho - ww...

Dr. Anahy Fonseca, Jussara Korngold, and Marcia Trajano get together to discuss mental habits. What are habits? How do they become second nature? Let's learn together how our behaviors reflect our affinities to a given activity. The Psychology and Spirituality program is sponsored by: AME Brasil - www.amebrasil.org.br Mansão de Caminho - www.mansaodocaminho.com.br International Spiritist Counc...

Jussara Korngold and Marcia Trajano continue their discussion on how to achieve balance for a healthy life. They begin this discussion with a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people."

Jussara Korngold, and Marcia Trajano get together to talk about achieving balance for a healthy life. They begin this discussion focusing on mental health and the power of words. What you say matters for your health.  The Psychology and Spirituality program is sponsored by: AME Brasil - www.amebrasil.org.br Mansão de Caminho - www.mansaodocaminho.com.br International Spiritist Council - www.cei-sp...

Anne Sinclair and Marcia Trajano discuss what is required to reach the state of Inner Silence. According to Joanna de Angelis, Inner Silence is made of peace and fulfillment, when we are able to understand the meaning of our lives and the impact of our behaviors in relation to everyone else. We look forward to this conversation which focused on how Inner Silence directly impacts mental and emotion...

Jussara Korngold and Marcia Trajano get together to talk about the concept of reconciliation and redemption. Church figures like St. Augustine, St. Francis, or the apostle Paul are great examples of individuals that came to a turning point and took their road to redemption. Using the parable of the “Prodigal Son,” Jussara and Marcia discuss the path to spiritual evolution. The parable sheds light...

Dr. Anahy Fonseca, along with  Anne Sinclair, Jussara Korngold, and Marcia Trajano, continue their conversation about the concept of the Conscious Being based on Joanna de Angelis's statement that the most important moment in a human beings’ evolutionary process happened when they acquired consciousness to discern good from evil, truth from imposture, right from wrong, continuing on the upward...

During today's discussion, Dr. Anahy Fonseca explores, along with Anne Sinclair, Jussara Korngold, and Marcia Trajano, the concept of the Conscious Being based on Joanna de Angelis' statement that the most important moment in a human beings’ evolutionary process happened when they acquired consciousness to discern good from evil, truth from imposture, right from wrong, continuing on the up...

As we celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th, Marcia Trajano hosts a special episode about male chauvinism and modern-day feminism and, along with guest speaker Kirsten DeMelo, they discuss the psychological concepts found in the Finding Health and Peace by Joanna de Angelis. During today's episode, Kirsten leads an engaging conversation about current societal conflictive behavio...