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Carroll J. Wright, Ph.D. is a professional counselor, spiritual psychotherapist, alternative healer, and author/researcher in the field of transpersonal psychology. He has been in practice in Michigan, California and Virginia since 1958.

Dr. Wright is a fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He was one of the founding members of AAPC in New York in 1964, and has practiced pastoral psychotherapy for 45 years.

Ever since I began my counseling career at age 30, I have been wrestling with the question of what causes human suffering. When I studied sociology and worked in the inner city with racial and poverty issues, I wondered about the political and social components, as well as the effects of culture and environment upon the human psyche . When I studied theology and worked in traditional church and church agency institutions, I looked into the role of sick and healthy religion in human experience. When I studied psychology and worked in various general hospitals, mental hospitals, jails and prisons, I investigated the role of abuse and neglect in abnormal and criminal behavior. When I studied physics and the sciences, and pursued my interests in alternative medicine, I observed some of the effects of diet, substance abuse, medication, and toxic materials on human health and wholeness. When I studied history and noticed the same recurring mistakes in human judgment, I was at times pessimistic. When I studied metaphysics, I began to ascertain the common elements in human perception which made a holistic theory of everything possible. Such an infinity theory would have to address human suffering from a multi-dimensional perspective which is hard to come by in an age of ultra-specialization, but less than that would not answer the question in enough depth to make transformation possible. And so Infinity Theory was born and the cause and meaning of symptoms became the subject of this website.

I co-authored Image Therapy in 1967 with Paul D. Fairweather, Ph.D., and privately published a volume of prose and poetry in 1973 entitled The Invisible Mountain.

Currently I have eight manuscripts in process of writing/publishing: (1) Radical Consciousness: The Cure for Spiritual Amnesia , already completed, written for the educated sophisticated reader; (2) Spiritual Empowerment, already completed, written for the serious reader; (3) Frog Medicine: The Transpersonal Meaning of Addiction, in process, written for people interested in addiction, needs art work; 4) Love Cannot Be Tamed, in process, commentary on a classical poem on love power, written for a popular audience, to coincide with the current paradigm shift in consciousness; (5) Thirty Pieces of Silver: Trust, Betrayal and Transformation, completed, on the relevance of the Judas/Jesus story for the Christhood/divinity of every person;  (6) Archetypal Symbology, a book of archetypal symbols useful for right-brain transformation of subconscious programming; (7) Spiritual Psychotherapy: Disillusionment and Discovery, in process, an exploration of transpersonal psychotherapy for the professional audience. This manuscript has been superceded by # 8.

(8) Spiritual Psychotherapy: The Infinite Meaning of Symptoms,  a sophisticated book for  educated laymen, serious practitioners and researchers in the field of spiritual psychotherapy, written from the perspective of Christian metaphysics and transpersonal psychology.

I did my undergraduate work at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, and my graduate work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and my post-graduate internship at Merrill-Palmer Institute in Detroit in marriage counseling and psychotherapy. I was the director of two pastoral counseling centers in California from 1958-1980, and the director of family counseling services in Virginia since 1980. I maintain a full-time spiritual psychotherapy practice in Harrisonburg and New Market, Virginia, where I do my research and writing. My lifelong interest has been in the causes and correction of human suffering.

My primary emphasis is that our symptoms are signals of repressed or forgotten spiritual potential

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