CONSCIOUSNESS, VISION AND DIRECTION
CONSCIOUSNESS, VISION AND DIRECTION
For the past 400 years Western civilization has repressed the aspects of body, soul and spirit by an unreasonable mechanistic view of science, philosophy and power-based relationships. To this end we have all contributed, and all of us politicians, doctors, scientists and other citizens need to reflect on this; because if we do not do so urgently life on this planet will continue to run out and die at times, and future generations will pay even more for our irresponsibility.
THE LIFE WE'RE MISSING
When we say "body" we are referring to feelings, sensations, emotions. By "soul" we mean all that underlies all this as root and source. Regarding the "spirit" we are not yet in a position to advance in a clear way, although we refer to what is underlying the reflections, the concepts, the value judgments, the possible deductions of the correct use of common sense. The spirit also understands the logic and phenomena that bring us closer to the intuition of those profound meanings referring to "what we are, what we do here, where we go back to or will go next" - whether or not we will follow or not or whether it is true what religions so surely proclaim about a higher intelligence that created and continues to create our world without us being fully aware of it.
The spirit is also related to what ethics should guide science in its research, or what should be the role of human beings with planet Earth, with its ecosystems and all the biodiversity that we are killing; as well as if there is any principle by which to govern our conduct every day, or if it is right that the planet is powerfully divided, in continuous wars, and we accept it that way.
The spirit is behind our ability to accept love as the basis of relationships, or else it is still business, adulation, idealization, fear, etc. When we act according to our principles we are sustaining our spirit. When we inquire into which role is right for art, science, humanities, history and their understanding as well. When we inquire about religion, respectful medicine, respectful politics etc. When someone shows us his deep personal conditions we say of him that he has this or that, because we are alluding to the centre of this which we call spirit and which is to the individual what the brain is to the organism.
Only those who are experiencing others through mechanisms, only those who advise others on how to live based on the results of programs whose harmonizations are far from being able to verify, only those who value others, their organism, body, soul and spirit in a habitual way, can be convinced that the authority in their field are machines, robots and not what their consciousness dictates to them.
The laws that operate to sustain and make possible this world and all that exists in it are part of what our spirit can grasp. When we say that our spirit is healing our world or not, we mean that according to its vision - your vision we call spirit - so art, science, relationships etc. will be directed towards improving this world or not: then we are annihilating everything or vivifying everything. Just as a thought predisposes to some possibilities and not others, our spirit pulls our bodies and feelings towards what is good or closes us to a life disconnected from ourselves, the environment and nature to bet on the death of everything.
CONSCIOUSNESS, VISION AND DIRECTION IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
The work that psychoanalysis is carrying out with respect to psychology and psychiatry, as well as in the field of therapeutics in general, is not sufficiently valued either by society or by the different levels of official health. Although it seems certain that its beginnings were influenced by the conditioning of a certain era, it is no less certain that its discoveries have marked and oriented our culture towards possibilities of self-knowledge that would otherwise be unthinkable. The norms and principles with which every act or psychoanalytic work is governed help the subject to go beyond himself and to gain access to bonds that not only transform his life but also help and favour the fruitful relations between those around him: then, it is a real path for inner and outer peace. Every psychoanalyst needs to be careful to continue advancing in his own inquiry into his body, soul and spirit to get rid of postulant scientific axioms that we already know the material reality or that we know things about the universe that we cannot demonstrate.
To think that we already know enough of the human soul, that we have already achieved the highest quota of technique and actions in consultation, that it is untouchable or irreplaceable this and another way of attending to the subject letting him escape, idealize the greats of psychoanalysis or project in society the responsibility of the psychoanalyst being seen or having fame of this or that, to sustain old forms of three or four dimensions when society or the present generations live daily in higher dimensions, to transfer to society the own discomfort for using obsolete aspects that distance those who need the couch the most... all this, to God thank you, it is being changed and we are assisting new professionals who have dared to feel deeply what they are carrying in their body, soul and spirit, and propose new precisions that are leading every day more citizens to know and experience within them that knowledge is only true when it is not known, that feeling is only correct when it is beyond the psychosomatic structure resulting from child defense to isolate us from an emotional pain that we believe outside and is inside, that the act of living is only possible if one dares, that birth and death are every instant.
Since the twentieth century Western civilization begins to investigate the conditions that their psyche, their soul and their mental faculties show regarding their movements and their essence. As a result of this, psychology and psychiatry begin, opening new paths for their understanding supported by scientific experiments. When it comes to such subtle realities that are only possible to know, intuit, imagine and move forward from one's own experience, the dead end is explained in which the mechanistic, reductionist and isolationist scientific system of the living is cornering the researchers of the psyche and of the link in the relational.
Psychoanalysis, in spite of itself, is also being dragged in that direction, only very subtly - and deeply - by considering the subject as lacking in the dimension of its spirit, by emphasizing concepts, rules, by influencing processes that are "already known" -according to its founder, and insufficiently activate the connection with the reality of the sensations and feelings of the body as well as the emphasis - contagion of scientific pride lacking in rigor - that we already know the steps that each subject needs to take, where he has to arrive and what he has to say or understand to receive the pass, or discharge as a patient.
THE DETERMINATION TO DO SO
In the same way that physics went from considering material reality as a compact whole and in a few years - from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth - everything collapsed, the psychoanalyst is attentive because it could be that compact psychic complexes or apparently solid fields, of the "I" could hide "atoms or quarks" that understood would increase the efficiency and depth of their excellent work and would open the human soul and spirit to unsuspected experiential regions where what we were basing ourselves on is transformed by dawning another embracing reality, close, respectful, dignified, whose limits open up to other horizons in which it is only possible to access from risk, daring, trust and the determination to do so.
Psychoanalysis and psychotherapies are celebrating because the human soul and spirit are biting with tenacity at the doors of their whole being to achieve the experience of living beyond what had never been done before.