Episode 295: God Threw My Journal into a River: A Conversation on Love and Freedom from the Streets of Zakopane, Poland

You can become who you are. Which means you can also become who you're not.

Recorded on location in Poland during a pilgrimage through the life of John Paul II, Dr. Greg Bottaro and Dr. Gerard McNicholas trace JP2's line "let yourself be molded by love" — and what happens in the subconscious that blocks our freedom to choose it.

Key Topics:

• Why "become who you are" carries a hidden warning — you can also be molded into who you're not
• Why virtue never becomes automatic, no matter how many years you practice it
• How the one freedom no one can take from you is the freedom St. Maximilian Kolbe used to step forward and say "take my place"
• Why the buried things in your subconscious actually want to be known — and why John Paul II called surfacing them a task of morality
• How art slips in the back door of the subconscious and unlocks what analysis alone can't reach

Learn More:

• Person and Act and Related Essays by Karol Wojtyła (John Paul II) — his account of conscience and the subconscious
• Our God's Brother — the Wojtyła play that gives us "let yourself be molded by love"
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk 
• John Paul II's Letter to Artists
• The Personalist Cure — Dr. Greg's upcoming book, launching this October at the Summit
• Join us at the Summit of Integration this October in Dallas — launching the Year of St. John Paul II
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