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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. |
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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. |