An Online Seminar on Spiritual Psychotherapy

The subject of Spiritual Psychotherapy is one of the primary social and personal issues for our time. Such a topic should be of utmost interest to patients, therapists, physicians, teachers, ministers and many other avid seekers. Since ultimately everyone is their own therapist, that is, if you have consciously begun in depth your own journey toward self-knowledge, you may be interested in such a seminar.

The price of this seminar is honesty, allowing for the fact that all of us to some degree are unaware and self-deceptive. And so the price for admission to this online seminar is the willingness to consider what the positive spiritual meaning of your symptoms might be.

Our entire society is reaching the limits of what we can expect to accomplish in the area of psychotherapy, unless we take the next leap into the spiritual domain. This domain concerns the realm of divine and human imagination. I do not mean to say that we cannot proliferate further discoveries and information in the area of human potential, but while we have made significant advances in our understanding of human nature, we have come to an impasse in our ability to diagnose and treat human problems unless we make some decisive and deliberate ventures into our spirituality.

Spiritual psychotherapy has to pioneer the way into the clouded area of human suffering and symptoms because unless our leaders understand the parameters of this next level of consciousness evolution, they will continue to re-create the same problems and smarter bugs. Spiritual Psychotherapy must become the concern of everyone in our society, and not just a few limited special interest groups. People everywhere are frustrated with the limitations about the way we address human problems. It is my observation that we have mis-diagnosed and mis-treated most of our human problems. Correct diagnosis and treatment cannot be made without spiritual awareness because we are spiritual beings. Whether we like it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not, we are spiritual beings. We are not merely human beings, intellectual beings, emotional beings, social beings, physical beings. Spirituality (imagination) undergirds, interfuses, and energizes all areas of human functioning, either for our advantate or disadvantage. Spirituality has remained vague, hidden and unconscious, partly because we have lacked the insight and language to address our own inner world. Language has been used mainly to designate the outer world. Arguments about who is right about spirituality have not helped much either.

To break through repression and exclusivism we have to develop a more universal language and vision of what spirituality is. Such conversations will require our best minds and most intuitive geniuses for the next 100 years. However, some tools to research human potentiality have already been given to us. Can we afford to avoid this subject any longer just because it is controversial and threatening to many of the vested interests of religious establishments and psychotherapeutic territorialism? Spiritual psychotherapy does not belong to any particular religion, science, or therapeutic school. Therapy belongs to humanity and continued territorialism does not help. In spite of all of our military and professional police forces, it took an ordinary truck driver to spot the Washington sniper. Various movements like AA have probably made just as significant a contribution to the topic of spirituality as any of the more scientific, religious or professional groups. God speaks to those who listen and do their homework on themselves. In this online seminar we would discuss the two doors that lead into self-knowledge: the Door of Revelation and the Door of Symptoms. Both are necessary and pertinent to this critical topic for out times.

Who is qualified to benefit most from this website and from the forum? This website and this forum is for those who want to learn how to know the inner truth about themselves; for pretenders who want to get real with themselves; for victims who want to wake up to their self-deception; for manipulators who haven't felt successful and fulfilled with such tactics; for prisoners who want to escape their self-made traps; for the ill who want healing from sick thinking; for the broken hearted who want to get over their inmost grief; for the secretive who are victimized by their secrets; for those stuck in non-forgiveness of themselves; for those who are tired of the outward rat-race because they have lost track of what it is really about; for those who are bored with their worn out scripts; for those burned out with outward religion and consumerism; for those tired of playing the losing game of oneupmanship; for people who suffer with the pain of betrayal and want to know more precisely where that pain is coming from; for those have reached the limits of the blame/shame game; for those whose jobs have become meaningless because they don't realize their real mission; for those stuck in self-induced frustrating relationships; for those would-be rescuers who are constantly feeling ineffective; for those who are struggling with other types of intractible symptoms; and for those who are ready for the next big step in consciousness. If you can't honestly say to yourself that you have at least three of these qualifications, why bother with a Spiritual Psychotherapy Seminar or Forum?

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Carroll J. Wright, Ph.D.

Licensed Professional Counselor