[zoogeny]

You may have mistook my post as advocating Christianity or even Alchemy.

In the same way that we realized that the plants people used to treat pain contained chemicals that are actually effective at treating pain, and in the same way that modern science seems to agree that fasting (a once religious practice) is effective for health, we can gain some insight on personality by looking at how it was addressed in historical contexts.

There was a video posted recently about a Sufi thinker whose ideas are quite close to modern CBT practices [1].

I think it is a good thing when we recognize ideas from the past as being related to modern ideas. I think we can do so without diminishing the modern and also without diminishing the past.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d26hltikcyk