Fascinating. This is something worth exploring and developing further. Certain schools of Buddhism and even Christianity have unique insights to contribute to psychotherapy; a Thelemic approach to the subject is conspicuous in its absence and definitely needed! Have you looked into Perceptual Control Theory as a potential tool to investigate the self and identify therapeutic interventions? I briefly touch on some its promising insights here: https://open.substack.com/pub/brendanengen/p/the-self-as-tension-a-philosophical?r=1me5v5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
These are certainly some preliminary thoughts, nothing too formal, of course. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for some time now, but only have worked through it seriously, off and on, for the last six or seven years. I don’t know that it’s necessary, but it felt like a natural progression for me. It may come to nothing, of course, and it’s just a nice thought experiment. If so, that’s fine too, even if it merely helps flesh out how Thelema explores the concepts of the Self, our raison d'etre, offers some ideas for tools toward exploration of the psyche, etc.
Thank you for the link. It’s interesting. I need some more time with it, certainly. Thelema postulates a level of acceptance of circumstances without expectations of outcomes rather than a struggle with their environment. The concern I have, from a therapeutic stance, is the level of spiritual/psychological bypassing that could result from those who misunderstand the difference between causal acceptance and fatalistic passivity.
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Fascinating. This is something worth exploring and developing further. Certain schools of Buddhism and even Christianity have unique insights to contribute to psychotherapy; a Thelemic approach to the subject is conspicuous in its absence and definitely needed! Have you looked into Perceptual Control Theory as a potential tool to investigate the self and identify therapeutic interventions? I briefly touch on some its promising insights here: https://open.substack.com/pub/brendanengen/p/the-self-as-tension-a-philosophical?r=1me5v5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
These are certainly some preliminary thoughts, nothing too formal, of course. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for some time now, but only have worked through it seriously, off and on, for the last six or seven years. I don’t know that it’s necessary, but it felt like a natural progression for me. It may come to nothing, of course, and it’s just a nice thought experiment. If so, that’s fine too, even if it merely helps flesh out how Thelema explores the concepts of the Self, our raison d'etre, offers some ideas for tools toward exploration of the psyche, etc.
Thank you for the link. It’s interesting. I need some more time with it, certainly. Thelema postulates a level of acceptance of circumstances without expectations of outcomes rather than a struggle with their environment. The concern I have, from a therapeutic stance, is the level of spiritual/psychological bypassing that could result from those who misunderstand the difference between causal acceptance and fatalistic passivity.