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Feeling Seen: A Pathway to Transformation
Get PDFChronic exposure to racial indignities can engender a subjective sense of invisibility, in which an individual feels that the dominant culture fails to recognize one’s worth, abilities, and talents. The sense of feeling unseen can permeate myriad aspects of the lived experience and negatively impact well-being. Using the case of an African American male in therapy with an African American female psychotherapist, this article presents how implicit and explicit acts of recognition of the patient and acknowledgment of race, integrated into a change-oriented and experiential psychotherapeutic process can facilitate transformational experiences. This case study seeks to highlight the importance of therapeutic alliance and patient perception of therapist empathy, which may contribute to enhanced well-being of African American men seeking psychotherapy
Considerations and Caveats for the Use of Placebo Responses in Clinical Care: Minding the Matter of Mechanisms–and Morality– in Medical Treatment
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Book Review: The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology, by Edward Bruce Bynum
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Eugene Taylor: An Appreciation
Get PDFBy sharing Professor Taylor’s impact on me with you in this way, I hope to offer a glimpse of the depth he pointed us to. Rather than just tell you his stories and his theories, I am sharing layers of my own experience both in similar synchronicities from my own personal mythology and also the meaning I make for myself as I go deeper in understanding what he was really teaching. If you can see that I am sharing something beyond the words themselves, then you know what he meant by soteriological writing. The words are used to help you create even more meaning in this moment
Beyond Perennialist and Participatory Spiritualities: Transformation and Culture
Get PDFA comparison of perennialism, participatory spirituality, and Gebser’s structures of consciousness demonstrates how deeper inquiry is required to understand how perennialism and participatory spirituality would address the relationship between individuals and culture with regard to how transformation happens. By reviewing how each of these philosophies approach context, the interpersonal, transformation, cultural relativity, pluralism, and multiplicity, the article identifies ambiguities that offer perennialism and participatory spirituality scholars the opportunity to explore their suppositions about spirituality more deeply
Integral In-Dwelling: A Prepositional Theology of Religions
Get PDFThe concept of generalized co-presence is a central one in the gram- mar of Bhaskar’s metaRealist metaphysics. As a term denoting the radical relationality and mutual indwelling of beings in the cosmos, generalized co- presence finds analogues in the holographic principle of Morin’s Complex Thought, Wilber’s nondual inflection of holarchy, as well as multiple religious archetypes of divine interindependence. In this paper, I will explore the potential of this concept for framing a “deep participatory,” Complex Integral Realist model of interreligious relationship that can amplify the integrative potential of the metaRealist, Integral, and participatory approaches to this topic that have been articulated to date. To facilitate this inquiry, and to situate it in a context that I believe will be most fruitful, I will first broadly outline the contours of two related metaphysical projects which I believe are highly relevant for integral metatheoriz- ing: prepositional philosophy and theology
ISIS AND PHILAE
Get PDFAncient Philae, temple site of black Isis (Ese) in Nubia, encompasses a rich and fascinating archaeomythological study. Although the temple fell into alien hands, goddess Isis’ power not only continued for over three millennia in Egypt, but also “her worship grew during the Hellenistic period (when she was conflated with the Great Mother of the Greeks, Demeter), then continued into the Roman Era, and finally was adapted to Christian needs.” (HLW: 13.) Reginald Eldred Witt notes that the “veneration (hyperdulia) of the Blessed Virgin Mary was certainly introduced at about the same time as Theodosius ordered the destruction of Pagan temples, … but [Isis] survived in some very remarkable ways.” Over the centuries, “[h]er violent end proved her dreaded power.” (IG: 273-4.) Witt adds that due to the ancient Isiac stronghold she subsequently took prominence in major Greek centers including Delos, Delphi and Eleusis where she was well revered
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Spring 2016 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1006/thumbnail.jp