And the paradox of divergence among their followers In psychotherapy, there exists an intriguing phenomenon. It refers to the observation that the founders of the great therapeutic schools — Freud, Jung, Rogers, Perls, Frankl, and others — despite having created theories that clearly distinguish them from one another, share at their core remarkably similar views […]
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03.12.2024
The relationship between the conscious and the unconscious is both open conflict and cooperation
“But if we understand anything of the unconscious, we know that it cannot be swallowed. We also know that it is dangerous to suppress it, because the unconscious is life and this life turns against us if suppressed, as happens in neurosis. Conscious and unconscious do not make a whole when one of them is […]
“But I only achieve the feeling of limitlessness when I am extremely limited. Man’s greatest limitation is that ‘self’ which manifests itself in the experience of ‘I am only this’. Only consciousness of our narrow confinement in the self forms the link to the limitlessness of the unconscious. In such awareness we experience ourselves concurrently […]
19.11.2024
Fritz Perls: You are you and I am I
In Gestalt therapy there is a well-known text, often referred to as a “prayer,” written by its founder, Fritz Perls. It reads: “I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. […]
13.03.2023
Keep the inner flame burning
“It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” Marie-Louise von Franz In three short sentences, Marie Franz brilliantly articulates what the union of the opposites of idealism and cynicism looks like. And this, unlike naive […]
What follows from the fact that the compulsion toward self-sacrifice arises from the awakening of the immortal part of the soul, which in Jungian analysis is called the awakened individuational impulse (see The Path of Individuation and the Care of the Soul)? What does the incarnated god (the archetype of the whole personality) receive in […]
“Only by sacrificing what we have can we know what we have. Real sacrifice is made with the same definiteness and lack of bargaining that is involved in throwing something away We can do this only if we are forced by a greater power in us – a power stronger than the ego – that […]
Love, with its passion and pain, becomes an urge toward individuation.That is why there is no genuine process of individuation without the experience of love —for love both torments and purifies the soul.”— Marie-Louise von Franz Below is an excerpt from Marie-Louise von Franz’s book The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine […]
I like Scott Kiloby very much. He is one of the few people who evoke genuine trust and affection in me when they speak about spiritual practices and enlightenment. And he has attained enlightenment. He has had the experience that he and the rest of life are One. He has lived through the dissolution of […]
If you feel the need for change—if you long for something new in your relationship—do not change your partner; change something within yourself. One of the main challenges in long-term relationships is how partners deal with the inevitable crises that arise from the relationship’s development and the need for change. In such moments, the inner […]
24.11.2014
“Enough” Is a Feeling, not a Thing
According to Pamela Kribbe, if we wish to embody Christ consciousness in our lives (love), we need to make a transition from a life dominated by the energy of the third chakra (will) to a life guided by the gentler, non-violent energies of the fourth chakra (the heart). This transition encompasses all areas of our […]
03.08.2013
The Two Rays of the “Just Sun”
“Every psychological truth is only a half-truth, and this too is only a half-truth.”C. G. Jung In a previous article, I shared how, as a child, I used to daydream that I would become a doctor who healed people by pulling white worms out of their heads. I remembered this fantasy many years later, after […]
