The twelfth chapter of Еl Collie’s book Branded by the Spirit is titled “Pathologizing the Spirit” and traces the relationship between the symptoms of awakened kundalini and various mental illnesses. For me, this chapter is particularly valuable because it helps reveal the deeper spiritual causes of human suffering—a theme to which a large portion of […]
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07.10.2014
The Most Dangerous Lie Is What We Don’t Say
According to therapist Brad Blanton, author of the book Radical Honesty, the main cause of stress is not something else, but living a lie. According to him, “We all lie like the world. It saps our life force. It’s the root cause of the stress people experience. In short: lying sees us through the bill.”
This article is a continuation of the previous one called “The Two Rays of the “Just Sun”,” in which I introduced a particular species of “worms.” By this I mean those thoughts in the mind that gnaw away at our psychological well-being by telling us that we know what the truth is – the whole […]
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 […]
26.07.2013
The Story of Zenkai and Path of Redemption
This is a story from the book The Five Stages of the Soul by Harry Moody and David Carroll, told in the context of sin, guilt, and redemption. According to a Japanese legend, in the city of Wakamatsu there once lived a young samurai named Zenkai, who spent his days gambling and indulging in pleasure. […]
05.03.2013
Holding Both Halves
“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.” — Carl G. Jung, Aion: […]
According to systemic psychotherapy, very often a problem is nothing more than a repeating series of unsuccessful attempts to solve it. Most commonly, these are recurring relational patterns with other people that escalate into conflict each time and lead to a dead end. Systemic therapists call these patterns “endless games,” and they are among the […]
Which Comes First – the Chicken or the Egg? If you can answer this question, you will understand who is responsible for the way you feel and react when communication with another person becomes difficult. And if you do not know the correct answer, here is my proposal: you are responsible. If you understand this—not […]
28.01.2013
On the Two Levels of Communication
One of the most important things to understand about communication is that when we converse with another person, we are not only exchanging information – we are also exchanging emotional attitudes. In systemic psychotherapy, these two layers are called the “content aspect” and the “relationship aspect.” Of the two, what truly matters for successful communication […]
13.12.2012
Thomas Moore: Behind the Façade of Normality
Below is an excerpt from Thomas Moore’s book Care of the Soul, which I decided to share because it offers yet another perspective on the theme of normality through the prism of social consensus. This is yet another article that comments on this topic, following the articles on: First- and second-order reality (the tradition of […]
The systemic approach in psychotherapy views the behavior of the identified patient as an expression of failed attempts to adapt to a dysfunctional family system. It challenges the conventional criterion of “adapting to reality” as an indicator of mental health or illness. “We are talking about a seemingly self-evident assumption that there exists an actual, […]
“The ability to live with relative realities, with questions that have no answer, with the knowledge that you know nothing and with the paradoxical unconsciousnesses of existence—this is precisely the essence of human maturity and the resulting tolerance toward others.” — Paul Watzlawick I very much like this thought by Paul Watzlawick from his book […]
