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I am rather new to Ken and there is a ton to read, so please forgive my lack of “integral language.” Also, the thoughts here are my own and insufficient as I could write an essay on the topic. But just to give it a start, I'll start with the obvious…..
Although it is likely true that many, if not most folks do not seek psychotherapy as a avenue to healing, it would seem to me that in the absence of “psychotherapists” life itself will provide a plethora of good teachers for those who are ready for the transformation. That said, I think in this vein “readiness” is the pivotal concept in that without the readiness to endure the hardship of transformation and subsequent healing, the attempts made to ease the pain are superficial and often become the sources of continued despair.
Of course, we all know that change, transformation, evolution, and all of that, happens developmentally and as best we can conceive in some process of stage acquisition whether it occurs within an individual, a family, a neighborhood, an organization, a country or the world. But can transformation in all of the collective manifestations and extensions of an individual heart occur as reflective of the individual heart, if the individual heart is not changed? History has shown us the outcomes of efforts made by individuals, political dogmatists, to impose their visions upon the world. Clearly, these efforts result in suppression of the vision of “the other” and produce bondage, an unintended outcome to even the best intended. In contrast, great spiritual teachers, those who have moved the spirit rather than the institution, work with the individual heart and not the collective soul to facilitate a river of change.
This is my job as I see it. To work with a heart or two. To facilitate change in the world by aiding one person as he aspires to his own personal, spiritual evolution. Will the world ever be ready? I don't know as there are new hearts born every day. And too, just as an individual has to face his own crises in order to be “born again” perhaps the world, so reflective of our personal, individual transformations must do the same.
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