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The Spiritual Therapy                       by Richard Stammler       © Rich Stammler, 2008             We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.             We are spiritual beings having a human experience.                          ~ Philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin      In a foreword to a book on collected works about transpersonal psychology, Paths Beyond Ego, John Mack, Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School believed transpersonal therapy goes far beyond healing of psychological issues. “Transpersonal psychology certainly has therapeutic applications. But its greater focus is upon healing, transformation, personal growth, and spiritual opening.”1      Transpersonal psychology, simply put, says that there is more than the ego self; that is, there is a transpersonal aspect to each one of us. Furthermore, it is that transpersonal element that automatically guides us to health, insight, and our spiritual path. You can trust it and transpersonal therapists rely on the transpersonal to heal whether they fully understand the patient’s/client’s dynamics or not.2 There are many types of transpersonal therapies, and regression to other lives (however you define that) is one of the most prominent in this class of therapies. Clinical hypnotherapists, most popularly called past-life hypnotherapists, will tell you that of all the therapies, clinical hypnotherapy is the true spiritual therapy. What does that mean?      The essence of the mid-life crisis is the intimate realization that physical life is finite and with that realization comes the underlying question, “Is what I am doing now the right thing for me? Am I doing what I am supposed to? Is this (what I am doing now, what I am living now) all there is?” Sometimes we don’t need a mid-life crisis to ask these questions; they are, indeed, perennial.      Many of us move through life with the nagging feeling that there is something we are supposed to do, that there is a destiny, a mission for us and we haven’t yet found it. Many transpersonal therapists believe that we choose our purpose for this life prior to life’s beginning and once we do, it lies in our unconscious, that transpersonal part of us that is non-local. Every once in a while our unconscious reminds us of what we have set ourselves to do and that reminder comes in many forms and guises.       When we are on track and aligned with our purpose, then in the words of the great comparative mythologist, Joseph Campbell, “we have found our bliss.”                     Follow your bliss                     and doors will open                     where there were                     no doors before. ~ Campbell      J. Krishnamurti, the Indian sage, and Ken Wilber, Integral philosopher, say that there are many seekers of truth and spiritual purpose. They will tell those seekers, those that go from guru to guru trying to find their truth, that this practice is the ultimate avoidance of finding it.3      The real is near, you do not have to search for it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it.      In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. ~ J. Krishnamurti      It is the perfect way to ensure that you will not find it. The reason is simple: that particular truth lies within you and it cannot be handed to you by some formula. Looking outside yourself simply puts your focus away from the real locus of your truth, yourself. This well known Sioux legend speaks to this.                                     A Sioux Story      The Creator gathered all of Creation and said: "I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality."      The Eagle said: "Give it to me, I will take it to the moon."      The Creator said: "No. One day they will go there and find it."      The Salmon said: "I will bury it on the bottom of the ocean."      The Creator said: "No. They will go there too."      The Buffalo said: "I will bury it on the Great Plains."      The Creator said: "They will cut into the skin of the Earth and find it even there."      Grandmother Mole, who lives in the breast of Mother Earth and who has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes, said: "Put it inside of them."      And the Creator said: "It is done." 4      The truth, your truth, and your spiritual purpose lie in your unconscious. That does not mean it is not accessible to you; it is very accessible and clinical hypnotherapy is one of the premier ways of unlocking that door. When you find it, really find it, nothing from that point on remains the same.      Most of the therapeutic methods that utilize nonordinary states of consciousness to access deeper realms of consciousness have in common an emphasis on the healing power of forces that are already present within the individual, a kind of inherent wisdom of the body/mind or soul. The therapist, healer, or spiritual healer in this context acts as a facilitator, a holder of the therapeutic ground, bringing forth what is already there but inaccessible to consciousness as the result of barriers erected by wounds or traumas from the past, or the restrictions of consciousness that are inherent in, or imposed by, Western society.5      Clinical hypnotherapy is one use of a nonordinary state to promote healing and spiritual awakening.       If you want to work on this some more – call me. ___________________ 1 Mack, J. E. Foreword. In Walsh, R. N., Vaughan, F. E., (Eds.) (1993). Paths beyond ego: The transpersonal vision. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher. 2 Grof, S. (Speaker). (1997). The Healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. NMT-21. Berkeley, CA: New Medicine Tapes. 3 Krishnamurti, J. 1984 Meditation mastery: a dialogue. New Dimensions Media, Program: #1782, MP3 download from http://www.newdimensions.org March 15, 2008 and Wilber, K. (2006). Evolving spirituality. New Dimensions Media, Program #3198. MP3 download from http://www.newdimensions.org March 15, 2008. 4 http://www.cosmiclighthouse.com/mar08/lighterside/sioux_story. 5 Mack, J. op. cit.