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A Guide to ‘Raise The Cross’ and Mahon’s work

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Welcome to Raise the Cross on Substack. Let me walk you through what you’ll find here.

About me

• From Radical Atheist to Catholic (my story)

• In-depth testimony with Breaking Bread Catholic

• My Story with John and Danielle on Reclaim the Faith

Essays and Podcasts on Post-secular Christianity

• One Year as a Catholic

• Dr Zachary Porcu: How to De-secularise your mind

• Robert Nugent: Signs of Renewal in the Irish Church

• Mark Walsh: Trauma Psychologist Returns to the Church

• J.P Marceau: The Holy and Unholy Spirits of Modernity

• Paula Kelleher: From Feminism to Faith

• Fr Gavan Jennings: Why did the Irish Lose their Faith?

• Fr Columba Jordan: From Boredom to Belief

• David Quinn: Why are Gen Z returning to Faith?

• Robert Freese: From Buddhism to the Catholic Church

• Martin McManus: Why This Irish Psychologist Returned to the Church

• Jordan Hall: Is Christianity the key to the Meta-crisis?

• Fr Benedict McGlinchey: Why Young People are Returning to Faith

• Essay: Why Young People are Returning to Faith

• Fr Conor McDonagh: From Decline to Revival

• DC Schindler: Plato’s Republic and Christianity

Mahon’s Essays on the Meaning Crisis

• The Complete Guide to Meaning in Life

• Dimensions of Meaning in Life: Depth

• Dimensions of Meaning in Life: Significance

• Dimensions of Meaning in Life: Purpose

• Dimensions of Meaning in Life: Coherence

• Philosophical Guide to Self-Development (Part 12)

• Develop Meta-cognition and Moral Grounding (Part 11)

• Peterson’s Solution to the Meaning Crisis (Part 10)

• Nihilism and the Postmodern Predictament (Part 9)

• Carl Jung, Pinocchio and Self-Realisation (Part 8)

• Plotinus, Neo-Platonism and Narcissism (Part 7)

• Stoicism, Discipline & Inner Peace (part 6)

• Aristotle, Rationality and Living up to Your Potential (part 5)

• Socrates, Plato and Self-Transformation (part 4)

• The Meaning Crisis and Narrative Part 3

• Virtue Ethics (part 2)

• Attention (Part 1)

The Meaning Crisis Dialogues

• Exploring Platonic Morphospace with DC Schindler and Michael Levin

• Brendan Graham Dempsey: Healing from the Meaning Crisis

• Addressing the Meaning Crisis with Floreology

• J.P Marceau: How Christianity solves the Meaning Crisis

• Mathew Segall: The Metaphysical Revolution in science

• D.C Schindler and the Dramatic Structure of Truth

• John Verveake on Attention and AI Alignment

• Colin DeYoung and Adam Safron: Sam Harris is Wrong

• Adam Safron on the Cognitive Science of Free Will

• Rick Repetti: Robert Sapolski is Wrong

• Mathew Segall: Kant, Reality and Free-will

• Chris Mastropietro: Meaning and Mythology

• Rafe Kelley: Meaning and Martial Arts

• Dr Igor Grossman: The Science of Wisdom

• Brendan Graham Dempsey: An Emerging Meaningful worldview

• Gregg Henriques: The Problem of Psychology

• Brett Andersen: Jordan Peterson’s Hero Meta-Mythology

• Dr Anna Lembke: Addiction and Recovery

Dialogues Against the Machine

• Paul Kingsnorth: How Humanity Beats the Machine

• Dr Iain McGilchrist: Why AI Won’t Save us

• DC Schindler: Escaping Plato’s Cave

• Alicia Jurraro: We are Not Machines

• R.B Griggs: A Universal Ethics for Technology

• Mark Miller and Ben White: How Social Media warps your Cognition

• John Verveake & Sam Tideman: Why Machines are Not Intelligent

• Sam Tideman: Why AGI is Not Possible

• Jelle Bruineberg: How Social Media Manipulates your Mind

• Sebastian Watzl: The Problems of Attention and Social Media

• Dr Zak Stein: Social Media and the Future of Education

Mahon’s Public Lectures

• The Catholic Solution to the Meaning Crisis

• The Ethical Issues of Social Media Companies’ Attention Business Model

• What is the Attention Economy? And why is it such a problem?

• Is Social Media Bad for Mental Health?

The Plato’s Republic Lecture Series

• Introduction to Plato and the Republic

• Essay: How Plato Solves the Meaning Crisis

• Book One: What is Justice

• Essay: Understanding the Nature of Justice

• Book Justice vs Injustice Two

• Essay: Is Justice Better than Injustice?

• Book Three: Education

• Essay: Education and the Nobel Lie

• Book Four: The Tripartite Psyche

• Book Five: Philosophy Kings Five

• Book Six: Understanding the Good

• Book Seven: The Cave

• Book Eight: How Democracy Becomes Tyranny

• Book Nine: Making a Tyrant

• Book Ten: The Myth of Er

Some Random Essays

• The intelligibility argument for God

• Why Ireland’s Hate Speech Bill Misses the Point

• Why are we obsessed with evil?

• Why Mind-Reading Leads to Hell

• Sacrificing the Drink for Something Better

• Hercules, Dopamine and Mental Health

• Why Conscience is a Super Power

• How Thoughts Create Emotions

• How I Overcame My Quarter-Life Crisis

• Why is the Modern World so Lonely?

• How to Save Young Men

Mahon’s Books

• The Man with a Mirror Face: A Collection of 12 Short Stories

• Waiting For The Offo (a Stageplay)

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