There are other ways to develop a soul (individual or collective) besides to leave home and go off on an adventure. I believe that the time is now to engage these other modes of development. For example, it will not be truly developmental for us to push on to Mars, to conquer new frontiers, to find new enemies over which to triumph.
The concerning parts of therapy normalization to me is how many people have abandoned:
1. Developing deeper relationships where they could comfortably talk through their problems with peers / elders.
2. Developing a spiritual practice to help manage negative emotions / thought patterns in... See more
emotionally, there's a real pathway where via "focus on the good stuff about your life that's already working, and somatically experiencing the authentic joy of it"
sometimes the 'bad stuff you don't want' simply falls off for free, in response to the increased resource
I helped design this study! I think it's one of the best of its kind so far. unfortunately, the results were disappointing (basically the same as random chance across all participants) but not really surprising to me
what do we make of these results?