Lionel Corbett – SPIRITUALITY BEYOND RELIGION
The Psyche: Your Bridge to Direct Spiritual Experience
Would you consider yourself a religious person? Or a spiritual one? The religions of the world are filled with stories of mystics and saints who experienced visions, dreams, and even wondrous face-to-face encounters with the Divine. Yet, for most of us today, teaches depth psychologist Lionel Corbett, these traditions are no longer able to satisfy the deep spiritual hunger for such direct experiences in our own lives. How do we fulfill this instinctual human yearning for the sacred? When the concepts and beliefs of the past no longer work, how do we contact the realm of Spirit ourselves? This is the territory that you are invited to explore with Spirituality beyond Religion.
The Numinous Experience
A prophet receives a vision from God. A woman with cancer has a wondrous dream that resolves her fears of death. A farmer standing in his barren field is suddenly filled with a profound sense of strength and hope. In the 1930s, Carl Jung began investigating such “numinous experiences”—moments of unexpected mystery and awe where we come into the unshakable presence of what has been called Spirit, God, or the benevolent Other. Today, within the field of depth psychology, Jung’s explorations have unfolded to reveal a profound discovery: that the psyche—the inner life of our dreams, visions, and personal symbols—is the secret link that connects the ordinary world with the realms of the numinous.
On Spirituality beyond Religion, you will learn how such common occurrences as your dreams, emotional states—even everyday “coincidences”—can help you discover a vital spirituality founded not on the revelations of others, but on the structures of your own psyche. Made relevant and practical with many true case studies, lucid explanations, and Corbett’s own original insights, Spirituality beyond Religion brings you an engaging and thought-provoking introduction to the field of depth psychology—and an ideal way to embark on your own inner quest for the direct experience of the Sacred.
- Psyche—an exploration of the field of human consciousness that connects all of us
- Beyond dogma and tradition—creating a personal spirituality based on direct experience
- “The numinous experience”—the visitation of the Divine at crucial moments in our lives
- How archetypal forces affect the physical body
- Self, ego, and transpersonal fields—how depth psychology views the nature of identity
- Emotional difficulties: what they reveal about the central archetypal energies in our lives
- The Story of Job—a depth psychology perspective on suffering and the dark side of the Self
- How crises can open the door-way to numinous experience
- The healing potential of transcendent experiences
- Nature—a wellspring for spiritual development
- Synchronicity—how coincidences in ordinary life can reveal the workings of Spirit
- The “method of amplification”—using universal symbol systems to decode our personal myths and archetypes
- How consciousness influences both the inner and outer world
- The role of psychoactive substances in the search for the numinous experience
- Emotions as “infusions of the divine” crucial to the experience of the sacred
- Solitude and communion in the spiritual life
- “Soul”, “spirit” and “redemption”—a psyche centered understanding of the Sacred
- More than eight hours of guidance for cultivating a living, breathing, and personal spirituality unique to who you are
What is Hypnosis & NLP ?
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States, in the 1970s. NLP’s creators claim there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life. Bandler and Grinder also claim that NLP methodology can “model” the skills of exceptional people, allowing anyone to acquire those skills. They claim as well that, often in a single session, NLP can treat problems such as phobias, depression, tic disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, near-sightedness, allergy, the common cold, and learning disorders. NLP has been adopted by some hypnotherapists and also by companies that run seminars marketed as leadership training to businesses and government agencies.
There is no scientific evidence supporting the claims made by NLP advocates, and it has been discredited as a pseudoscience. Scientific reviews state that NLP is based on outdated metaphors of how the brain works that are inconsistent with current neurological theory and contain numerous factual errors. Reviews also found that all[dubious ] of the supportive research on NLP contained significant methodological flaws and that there were three times as many studies of a much higher quality that failed to reproduce the “extraordinary claims” made by Bandler, Grinder, and other NLP practitioners.
Lionel Corbett – SPIRITUALITY BEYOND RELIGION
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