The unseen character of human nature, from the perspective of 30 years of being a psychotherapist and a patient (a learner) and a novelist.
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We are almost completely unaware of the evolution of psychic function. We believe that the people of ancient times were exactly like us, as if human nature, psychically, was born, like Paul Bunyan, in its present form, without any need for psychic leaps of understanding, perhaps most of which haven’t yet happened.
The human psyche is our spirit. It doesn’t belong to God. It’s ours, who we are, a transcendental entity. It gifts us with the vision of a god, joining that god at the hip to a flighty, unpredictable and vulnerable heart, making a maddening marriage.
We alone, abandoned by wisdom, must bring peace to these usually warring disparate parts of our nature.
The term “spirit” refers to the psychic whole of a single human with all of its parts, thinking, feeling, intuition, imagination, etc. Spirit is that intangible, abstracted ethereal core of human nature that we know almost nothing about, which deeply intimidates us, and which we avoid owning as our true center.
Its intangibility is the rub. Instead of occupying our spirituality, we cling fearfully to our physical nature to explain all things human, most specifically our psychic dysfunction, we say our problem is genetically biochemical. We study the “brain” as if doing so meant to study the human psyche. What’s more, we’d rather physically possess the mechanical power of a techno-hu-machine, the he-man of current Hollywood movies, than occupy our incorporeal, still largely undeveloped psychic identity, in spite of the fact that, at least potentially, it’s much more powerful.
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