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COMMENT On Modern Life No.1 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
STARTSI The 'elders' of the Inner Tradition 
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THE ELDERS The Hermit's Message The Western Version Christian Fourth Way Lost Christianity Saints are made
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Inner Christianity Glimpse of Truth Different knowledge Darkness of the psyche
Inner states
Consciousness retold Speaking of God Seeking Self Inner Identity Civilising Knowledge
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12. Abstract of: Psychotherapy for the West Christian psychology of the First Millennium The early church possessed a sophisticated psychological science that was very different from most medical psychology, although it came closer to modern developmental psychology. In fact the aim of modern psychology is often very different from the Christian therapeutic method, whose primary aim could be regarded technically - in modern terms - as developmental. But in fact, it is developmental and therapeutic, in the sense that only more complete development restores human beings to their fundamentally good nature. When we speak about therapy as developmental, we speak about particular kinds of therapy, and in this case about a psycho-spiritual process almost forgotten in the West: at first it is psychological, but it can lead not only to solving certain of life’s problems, but also to a spiritual awakening. The claim would be that only this kind of developmental psychology brings someone back to what they should be, what many of the early fathers called our ‘natural’ condition or state. To approach it first from the psychological viewpoint, we need to overcome certain difficulties. The first of these is the difficulty people today have in understanding that a full spiritual life is prevented by the unfinished state of our psyche. In order to develop spiritually we first need to understand our own psychology and its natural impulses toward spirituality. Both modern religion and modern psychology have tended to ignore the fact that many individuals are naturally drawn to understand these inner processes and express these normally suppressed components of their nature |
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* CONTENTS * ABSTRACTS A New Vision The Ark A Different Christianity Philosophers of God St. Gregory Palamas Cross-fertilisation Abstraction & attention Lost Doctrines Lost Christian truths The Royal Road Inner language History of Christianity Christian Therapy The First Millennium Christian Psychology Different kind of mind One thing needful Emotional Education Magnetisation to God Eastern Church spirituality God's drill Threshold of prayer Ora et Labora Research Report Mystical History Cultural Evolution Esoteric Christianity The Barbarian Within Spiritual crisis of the West
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