bernie
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Optimal well-being is the stimulus, the core!... ...we may use ourselves in our most perceptive moments, in our peak-experiences, when, for the moment, we are self-actualizing, to give us a report of the nature of reality that is truer than we can ordinarily manage...such aftereffects of esthetic experience, creative experience, love experience, mystic experience, insight experience, and other peak-experiences are peconsciously taken for granted and commonly expected by artists et al, and of people experiencing great insights in psychotherapy, or in other growth experiences... "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Ay! and what then?" - (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) ...integration is one of the main goals of all therapy...he (therapist) must identify with the patient in order to understand him, he must put aside all criticisms and evaluations, he must experience the patient's Weltanchuaang, he must fuse with him in an I-thou encounter, he must in a broad Agapean sense, love him, etc. because he is trying to improve him, to make him better than he is, which means something other than he is right now... "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." - (P.B. Shelley) ...Probably the authentic person is himself complete or final in some sense; he certainly experiences subjective finality, completion or perfection at times; and he certainly perceives it in the world. It may turn out that only peakers can achieve full identity; that non-peakers must always remain incomplete, deficient, striving, lacking something, living among means rather than of ends; or if the correlation turns out not to be perfect, I am certain at least that it is positive, between authenticity and peak-experiencing. - Abrahm H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being You must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing....but it is the force above which opens the door below....They look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms forever in the Light above... ...It is an adventure into the unknown, Sri Aurobindo used to say; we are like the primate before the new creation. We cannot then do more than indicate a few general lines of development, or of difficulty rather, without being sure that this is truly the process. The experience is in the making. When it has succeeded once, just once, in a single human being, the very conditions of the transformation will change because the road will have been hewn, marked out, the primary difficulties cleared away. The day Plato conceived Phaedrus he raised all mankind to the possibility of Phaedrus; the day a single human being conquers the difficulties of transformation, he will raise the whole of humanity to the possibility of a luminous, true, immortal life. - Satprem, Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness ...the final leap to a New World, a New Man - the supramental transformation and creation!...
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