SAPSE Metholodgy
 
 
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The methodology we propose is to assist a person to get more in touch with what is already within by becoming more authentic and less false, more loving and less negative, and more accepting and less resistant to the roadblocks which are part and parcel of the lessons of life in the everyday world.
The function of psychospiritual education, mentoring, and coaching is:

1) to assist in removing obstacles (i.e. those thought-feeling-behavior imprints which are carried into adult life) in the form of inappropriate or immature beliefs, attitudes, strategies, and so forth;

2) to provide a vision of possibilities, and...

3) to act as a neutral mirror for the client's own process, i.e., as a catalyst which precipitates a reaction without becoming involved in the reaction itself. (It is not the function of psychospiritual mentors or coaches to impose themselves or their views in any way.)

4) to differentiate between resolving psychological dysfunction (i.e. mental illness (which is the province of licensed professionals) and psycho-spiritual growth (the domain of the ministry of SAPSE), and to show that emotional growth involves the integration of three areas -- shadow or the unconscious, conscious awareness/behavior, and transcendence or the ongoing refinement of awareness of supramental reality.

5) to represent a "new" (although ancient) methodology. It's first step is dialectical - seeing how all positions are expressions of the principle that knowledge is structured in consciousness and that knowledge, hence "reality" (appearance) is different in different states of consciousness. We recognize that there are no absolute criteria in the relative, changing sphere. We differentiate the rational, irrational (nonsensical) and the non-rational (or extra-rational). The non-rational is the principal arena of intuition, insight, inspiration and real growth. This area is the subject of centering, etc. Existence, bliss, love, and similar non-rational states of being are the most self-evident when noticed but also the most missing and misunderstood in present day society.