Hidden Motives

A look at the hidden factors that really drive our social interactions

by Ken Eisold, Ph.D.

Achieving Interfaith Understanding

By Ken Eisold, Ph.D. on November 27, 2009 in Hidden Motives

The Lesson of the "Interfaith Amigos"

On Monday, The New York Times carried a story about three clergymen who have formed a kind of traveling road-show to promote interfaith understanding. The approach worked out by Rabbi Ted Falcon, the Presbyterian minister Don Mackenzie and Sheik Jamal Rahman is counter-intuitive - but highly instructive. (See, "Three Clergymen, Three Faiths, One Friendship."

Most of us, fearful of hurt feelings and conflict, tend to approach our religious and cultural differences by emphasizing similarities.... But the three "Interfaith Amigos," as they have come to call themselves, work the other way. Read More

Fear of Further Anti-Muslim Backlash

Submitted by anonymous on December 30, 2009 - 10:50am.

Nice article. And with the recent incident, what is your advice for American Muslims who have already experienced a high degree of anti-Muslim sentiments, due to hidden biases (that you are aware of, although many are not):

http://www.tolerance.org/activity/test-yourself-hidden-bias

These are partly due to the media's fear-mongering tactics as researched by Dr. Jack Shaheen:

http://www.wolfmanproductions.com/shaheen.html

and is further illuminated in a book written by Dr. Louise Cainkar:

http://www.amazon.com/Homeland-Insecurity-American-Muslim-Experience/dp/...

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Ken Eisold is a psychoanalyst and organizational consultant whose book about the unconscious, What You Don't Know You Know, came out in January.

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