Like all of our institutions growing out of the ordinary or dominant (Paradigm-B) worldview, psychology is infused with illusion and untruths. “Thus, Freudian analysts focus on sexual issues, Adlerian analysts emphasize material related to inferiority feelings and the pursuit of power, and so on. By contrast, the work with non-ordinary states of consciousness bypasses the problems of the theoretical differences between various schools and the therapist’s role as interpreter of psychological material. As you will recall, in non-ordinary states, the material with the strongest emotional charge is automatically selected and brought into consciousness. These non-ordinary states also provide necessary insights and mobilize our own inner healing forces with all their inherent wisdom and power. Try as we might to duplicate these natural healing processes, no school of psychology has even come close.”[i]
Which is why it is imperative that we focus on the creation of a more heightened awareness of Truth. “When your Conscious-awareness watches your own body and mind and all the people and things in the world around you from a deep, calm place inside, you will find that there intuitively wells up within you everything you need to understand. You will have insights that yield exactly what you need to do to flow with the river of life around you.”[ii]
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Supplemental Reading: Peak Experience, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 2
#80 Non-Ordinary States
[i] Grof, Stanislov. The Holotropic Mind. New York: Harper, 1993, p. 210.
[ii] Keyes, Ken. Handbook to Higher Consciousness. Berkley, California: Living Love Center, 1975, p. 26.
