This page contains links to articles on Deconstruction.
The Leaving-Religion Resource Guide – How to deconstruct religion, find existential health, be happy in life, and make the perfect cup of coffee by Jim Palmer – Includes “Top Three” book lists related to deconstructing.
deconstructionology with Jim Palmer – What is breaking down is not just belief or psychology. It is your capacity to stay in contact with reality, to think and choose without handing over authority, and to build a life that holds without relying on borrowed certainty. This work begins there. This is what I call existential health. What is breaking down is not just belief or psychology. It is your capacity to stay in contact with reality, to think and choose without handing over authority, and to build a life that holds without relying on borrowed certainty. This work begins there. This is what I call existential health. These capacities can be described simply.
- The first is reality contact, the ability to stay in direct contact with your experience without immediately reshaping it to fit a framework.
- The second is self-authorship, the capacity to think, choose, and orient your life without handing over authority.
- The third is meaning formation, the ability to actively form meaning in contact with your life rather than inheriting or dismissing it.
- The fourth is existential resilience, the capacity to remain oriented inside uncertainty without collapsing into control, avoidance, or borrowed certainty. Without this, the pressure of not knowing becomes intolerable, and something else rushes in to take its place.
