Outline for achieving psychosynthesis during COVID-19 Part 1
Personal bias: I am a 71 year old person who has been doing psychotherapy for 40 years and astrological analysis and counseling for the same amount of time. I have been dis-identifying from my former occupational identity (semi-retired), not counting on my strength from my physical body, and facing losses of relatives and friends through natural deaths. So when I explain mental health solutions, it is from the standpoint of a partial withdrawal from outer world engagements that enables me to eventually strive for spiritual goals. I realize for younger persons, they may not see my solutions the same way. For them psychosynthesis of basic needs is the order of the day. One of the advantages I have, is that I can see the illusions so clearly of the ego-attachments that prevent those from finding the light. A. Development of psychic maturity 1. Mental health problems are caused, in part, [...]
Explained: Dreams of trans-personal illumination from superconsciousness
Dear reader: I want to give you some background on Donald J. Trump and my feelings toward this President to give you a context for the following dream. It is a fact that he is a business man and has made some good business ideas like promoting that the US Postal Service (USPS) charge Amazon.com more for shipping to help with USPS deficit problem. He has also , it can be said , put the US on a financial footing in regards to one thing: our Nation's self-interest in our manufacturing base (although some would argue this point) through protectionist policies especially against China. But as an executive who is qualified to deal with global issues of health care, environmental global warming, and international negotiations he is abysmally a failure in my view. I believe that no matter what the Trump administration does to quell the nation through manipulative business [...]
Practical Steps in Dream Analysis
Introduction: Dreams are triggered by days events in the previous days of the dream or coming days in your current life. But the implications are that dream dramas innervate psychic energies that are constellated around psychological complexes in the Personal Unconscious. Complexes contain polar opposites of feeling values. Few examples: Submissive vs. Dominant; Expressive vs. Suppressed; Superior vs. Inferior; Courageous vs. Fearful; Protective vs. Risk taking. One of these sets of opposites triggers the affect/emotion of the dream. On awakening write in a daily log/journal the dream as it was presented with images, the course of the dreams and conclusion with date the dream. Write your feelings associated with the dream. Give the dream a name and save it for later in order to expand on its meaning. Usually when you have time to make associations with days events, feelings, and details that come to the surface from the dream. [...]
The Heart of the Huber Method: the central core
"The true essence of the human being is directed by the circle in the middle of the horoscope. This is where we look for the potential of man." (Huber,Bruno and Louise, p. 21. The Astrological Houses). When an individual is born according to this theory, this circle begins to beam energies radiating in all directions which first meet the aspect lines of the overall aspect picture and then forms angular aspects to the planets that connect with the core. See below my chart which has red lines running to the core or center. The aspect patterns formed by this pattern forms the circuit plan for vital energies in the individual. Psychologically, the aspect patterns form the beginning of self awareness which defines the direction life is to take, the interests, the essential concerns of life, and what one wants to make of his life. ( Hubers, The Astrological Houses, p. 22). Talents [...]
Psychotherapy and Addiction
In this age of psychotherapeutic accountability, we therapists are forever obsessed with therapeutic outcomes. And for addiction problems, the life or death outcomes become especially poignant because if efforts fail to stop a patient’s harmful use of substances- lives could be on the line. And it is in this effort that I address resistance, transference and countertransference issues even though many in my field see these as useless anachronisms of a bygone psychoanalytic era no longer germane. But it is to this literature and interventions that I return to again and again because they so often emphasize how difficult it is to develop therapeutic rapport with drug/alcohol addicts or abusers. These encounters with patients are especially painful because they can engender feelings of failure in the psychotherapist when you cannot stop the self-abusive behavior; or control your angry feelings toward the patient when one has been lied to again and [...]
The correlation between dreams and Age Point Progression at critical life moments
Age Point Progression Astrological psychology identifies timing of predictable psychological crises in life. These events correspond with an ‘Age Point’ as it travels through the 12 houses of the horoscope (Age Point Progression) at the rate of 6 years per house. It takes 72 years for the Age Point to go full cycle. Figure 1 Life Clock There are times, determined by the placement of the Age Point, when it may be appropriate to charge ahead and times when it may be better to look inward. When the Age Point travels through the cusp of a house, it is a time of reaction to outside stimulation and one gains fulfillment through the environment. When the Age Point reaches the cusp of a house, there is more likely potential for accelerated activity. On the other hand, the low point of a house is a point of weakened expression into the environment [...]
The waning of ego-centered models of consciousness; the waxing of the reflective, introspective models of mental health
For centuries Western societies have framed the cultural definition of mental health. The universal acceptance of English as the language of science has created the psychological norms as to what constitutes healthy individual adaptation. Further, the ability of United States and Western Europe to dominate, with English spoken as the key to business institutions, has enabled us westerners to dominate the economic zeitgeist or ‘spirit of the times’. This has amounted to a monopoly on universities' curriculum, on collective banking and global markets 1 with a western bias. But now that is breaking down, as the recent dominance of Western societies is being challenged the world over. We shall now evaluate on individual and collective levels what have been the prevailing sociological trends that have captivated both psychological man and his economics since the Enlightenment. And we shall point out how they are breaking down in the face of the [...]
Astrological Psychology Consultations
maslowFigure 1.2 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Clients may or may not be motivated to face up to their basic needs both in therapy and in astrological consultation, instead of gratification of their fantasies, wants or desires. To accomplish this, their ego needs must be recognized and supported by the therapist or consultant as they present them. First, there is the physical need for safety and security, which is achieved by building trust in the first encounter. The consultant expresses that this is a private and confidential session and returns requests for service promptly. There is a correlation between Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and astrological psychology’s development of ego planets. On the first two bars of Maslow’s pyramid are Physiological needs and Safety (See Figure 1.2). These refer to nourishment and growth in the first four years of life, where 70% of development is physical. A parallel situation for the client [...]