Metaphenomenological, Metaexistential Descent In Mysticism And Psychotherapy: Steps to a Philosophy and Psychology of Awakening: An Outline of . and Philosophy, and Psychology of Awakening)

Capriles, Elías

ISBN 10: 9807123240 / ISBN 13: 9789807123242

Published by La Castalia Publishing Center, 2013

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• Title: Metaphenomenological, Metaexistential Descent In Mysticism And Psychotherapy: Steps to a Philosophy and Psychology of Awakening: An Outline of . and Philosophy, and Psychology of Awakening)
• Publisher: La Castalia Publishing Center
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9807123240
• ISBN 13: 9789807123242
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book expounds what the author calls a Philosophy and Psychology of Awakening (formerly called Metatranspersonal Philosophy and Psychology) based both on his practice of the Dzogchen Upadeshavarga (which he practiced in retreat in the higher Himalayas in the second half of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s and which he continues to practice in everyday life as well as in occasional retreats), and on his practice as a facilitator for spiritual emergencies in the early and mid 1970s. The way to true mental health is both Metaphenomenologically and Metaexistentially descending, rather than being regressively descending. Metaphenomenologically descending means that one has to See through all that is samskrita (created, fabricated, produced, induced, intentional, contrived, conditioned or compounded) into the true condition of oneself and the whole of reality, which is asamskrita (uncreated, unfabricated, unproduced, not induced, unintentional, uncontrived, unconditioned and uncompounded). Metaexistentially descending means that, like in the Divine Comedy, one must face the suffering that ordinarily one compulsively flees, and go through it to the condition of Total Plenitude and Perfection (Dzogchen) that is utterly beyond suffering. In this way, true mental health is achieved and one develops an effective capacity to help others move into this true mental health. Spiritual emergencies and many so-called "psychoses" are spontaneous, endogenous processes (as a rule unleashed by microsocial interaction, very likely in relation to genetic propensities) that naturally go in the same direction as the Path of Awakening, and which if allowed to develop could significantly reduce our alienation and delusion, but which on their own cannot lead to the absolute sanity of Awakening. The origin of the Jungian shadow is reassessed, explaining it to be what Susan Isaacs called an "unconscious phantasy", and in general many concepts and views of Western psychology and philosophy are criticized, assimilated and explained in a new light.