Some time ago, when I began looking for a job as a psychologist, people told me that I would need to know the right people. That without knowing the right people, nothing could happen. And yet, I did find a job as a psychologist. Without knowing the right people. Fifteen years later, I left that […]
Burnout is a form of occupational stress expressed through extreme exhaustion and alienation from work and from people. If at the beginning a person was inspired and burned brightly in their work, now we observe the exact opposite — the flame has gone out, and in place of inspiration there is fatigue, apathy, pessimism, and […]
“Care of the Soul” is the title of a book by Thomas Moore in which he presents his vision of a new kind of psychotherapy—one in which psychology and spirituality are reunited into a living whole. The core idea of the book is that there is a difference between(1) healing the soul and (2) caring […]
Once, a man was walking near a cliff and fell. As he was falling, he managed to grab onto the branch of a small tree growing out of a crack in the rock. Hanging from the branch, shaken by the cold wind, the man realized the full hopelessness of his situation: below him were river […]
This is something by Osho that is closely related to the previous article on the dark night of the soul. Question to Osho: I feel that I do not allow my heart to open. When I was very young, I rejected my parents. I felt good being a little bad boy. Now I realize that […]
What is diagnosed in clinical psychology as endogenous depression (major depressive disorder) is known in the spiritual tradition as the “dark night of the soul.” This is especially important for people who suffer from deep depressive states without any apparent external cause. In fact, this knowledge itself is the best support for coping with this […]
Recently, I heard myself telling a client that I am “like this” because I have been touched by death. And I realized that this expression describes, better than anything else, what matters most to me. When I was seventeen, my mother died. But even before that happened, I lived constantly with the fear of death, […]
on good, evil, and the divine role of not-knowing This is a quotation from Pamela Kribbe’s book The Jeshua Channelings, which is very important to me. Below, I explain why. “In order to bring about change, to create the possibility for movement and expansion, God had to introduce into His creation an Element that differed […]
Below, Pamela Kribbe explains what the Two Paths are – the Forward Path and the Return Path – thus taking the understanding of this distinction to a deeper level. In the language of her work, the “forward path” is immersion into the world of duality in matter and playing by its rules, while the “return […]
This is an important detail on the map of our life paths. It concerns inner soul processes and can only be understood from the perspective of the theory of reincarnation and the successive embodiments of the human soul. For some people, precisely this kind of mapping of soul paths helps them better understand the processes […]
I highly recommend this book by Robin Norwood, subtitled “A Spiritual Guide in the Labyrinth of Questions about Human Existence” . To give you a better sense of the author and her writing style, I’ll begin with a quote: *”Imagine someone standing before you and saying: ‘In the next few years, you will go through […]
One of the great paradoxes is that even while we seem to be doing all the “wrong” things and moving in the “wrong” direction, we are in fact getting closer to the very solution we seek. The most striking example of this is the teaching of accepting things exactly as they are. I agree that […]
