As my readers will have noticed, I have decided to rename the blog “Becoming Human”. This is the fruit of a long process, and it is already a long time that most of my writing has moved beyond at least the obvious sense of the original theme of “Sex and Spirituality”, even if I still view the world in much the same way as I did when I began writing in 2008. I have done an extensive rewrite of the home page of the blog, so if you want to check out how I now see what I am trying to write about, check it out.
When I chose the new title, which was quite some time ago, I was unaware that Carl Rogers, one of the great pioneers of humanistic psychology, had entitled a collection of his essays, back in 1961, On Becoming a Person. Sadly, psychological science has not advanced nearly as quickly as it might or should have done since Rogers formulated some of his seminal insights. This disappointingly slow progress should not, however, discourage us, for it is still true, as Rogers wrote, that “it is not upon the physical sciences that the future will depend; it is upon us who are trying to understand and deal with the interactions between human beings” (p.57 of the London 2004 edition)