The poem below by Dielle Ciesco (https://dielleciesco.com/) anticipates some of the moral and ethical questions that hopefully will arise during the NCC seminar I will present on Monday May 10, 2021. As she suggests, these are questions which ‘Now is a good time to ask’! Ernesto Vasquez, MD Who would you be? A lot [...]
In the short piece below, Professor Sinead Murphy brilliantly ex-presses, in part, why I fret so much about the so-called covid measures. - Ernesto Vasquez, MD THE CAPTURE OF GOODNESS Goodness’ is not the word I wanted to use in this article. But ‘ethics’ sounded too abstract, ‘morality’ too rule-bound, ‘virtue’ too archaic, and [...]
Are you feeling anxious? Have you been stirred up by current events and uncertainties? Are you feeling unrest in your soul? “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled.” These are the words that Jesus left with his disciples the night before his crucifixion. That’s right. He was preparing for his death, actually his murder. Yet [...]
Pennies are so devalued in our country that most people won't even pick them up if they see one lying on the ground. They get dirty and are often overlooked. The same is often true of the homeless. They are all around us on street corners and under bridges, but most people pass them [...]
SELF RELIANCE VS. DEPENDENCE ON GOD A very dear friend of mine said to me the other day, “God won't give me more than I can handle.” And because I love her and we have that kind of relationship where we can reprove one another, I challenged her on the thinking behind that statement. [...]
A CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE This year has been tough, filled with pain and suffering. Our sense of well-being and security has been shaken as we faced events that in our lifetime we have never faced: global pandemic, financial uncertainty, the loss of loved ones and extended isolation from our normal support systems. It is [...]
Larry Chappel, LMHC DESCRIPTION Overcoming Five Roadblocks to Christian Manhood It has been said that the difference between a man and a boy is that a man will deny himself to meet the needs of others. A boy meets his needs first. When men put their needs before others in relationship, problems are soon [...]
Understanding Why the Covid-19 Narrative is Psychologically Traumatizing Ernesto Vasquez, MD November 11, 2020 In my NCC seminar a couple of days ago, I offered an analysis of the covid-19 narrative as having imposed a severely stressful and psychologically traumatizing form of global captivity for humankind. I am writing this post to provide some [...]
Ernesto Vasquez, MD DESCRIPTION 1. Recent psychological studies provide two radically different understandings of psychological responses to contagious malady and its management. 2. These studies are grounded by radically different and incompatible ways of psychological theorizing and reach equally different and incompatible conclusions and recommendations. 3. This seminar will offer ways of analyzing these [...]
“I HAVE A HEART FOR...” Ernesto Vasquez, MD September 15, 2020 NCC’s academic year was inaugurated on September 14 with a symposium on the similarities and differences of some of the helping professions and on the centrality of networking among all of us. It was for me a WATERSHED EVENT. I proposed perhaps the [...]
