The Institutes Of Psychosynthesis In London and Dubling the best of intentions the ......... of outcomes, the saddest sight I could not avoid
System Administrator - 2023-11-18 15:54 - (0 Reads)The Institute of Psychosynthesis in Dublin was founded by a Catholic priest who trained at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, during summer near the end of his life he spent his personal development effort upon practising Zen with a Zen Monk in a leafy subburb in Dublin. The rift that occured between the Dublin Institute and the London Institute was deep and meaningful for those of us who wanted to know more about Psychosynthesis at the time.
In parrallel there was a rift between the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London and the other major Psychosynthesis teaching facility in London, a rift which was steeped in a prurient haze of rumours of a love triangle which involved the founders of the two facilities.
The point here is that the loving synthesis that was portrayed as the nature of the Psychosynthesis movement in the British Isles during the 1990's and the early 2000's was masking active internicine contempt among the a community of some of the nicest and most willingly caring people it was possible to make.
The method of recruiment that was used included the therapy room and the therapist to identify and encourage new students to sign up for courses at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London and some of the most successful therapists were profitably employed by the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London.
We may wisely choose to believe that the majority of Psychosynthesis therapists sincely believed they were doing no harm and although at least some of them would have known how selling insurance as a tied agent of a particular insurance company while claiming to give independent advice had be outlawed in the late 1970's. The unequal nature of the relationship between therapist and client/patient is accepted and forms part of the reaononing behind the prohibition of personal relationships between therapist and client/patient.
If you ever had wondered around the year 2000 if there was a place where some of the best people in the world with the kindest hearts and sharpest minds would congregate and come upon the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London you would have imagined you had found it and then the limitations of the hoi polloi grounded problem solving model caused the system to crash and burn in 2004 when the book Revisioning Transpersonal Theory by j was momentarily popped on to the curiculum as if it was going to endorse and enhance the work of the institute, if ever an insitution found the limits of its levels of willing inclusion overtly denying the emergent truth it was the staleworths of the faculity. Confronted with a thesis that dismembered the soul journey self imputed at the institute at the heart of their teaching with the ease that a sixteents century philosopher might burn the legs off a spider one leg at a time in the flame of the candle because he could, the false ceiling that gave the teaching sufficient gravitas to be included in a commercially viable Middlesex University post graduate course/s was revealed to have been clinging to sky hooks made from radom contradictions made consistent when masked by the imagination of a dominent group of truly lovely people.