Psycho-Spirituality

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.Throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Explore.Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

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A man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. Mahatma Gandhi

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Siddartha Guatama Buddha

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In our times there seem to be a growing curiosity and interest in spirituality among people. It seems to be stirred by two underlying circumstances of our times: the rapid pace of living and a haunting sense of emptiness in spite of possessing more than we ever dreamed of having for ourselves.

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Spirituality as a cure for alcoholism


Jung recommended spirituality as a cure for alcoholism and he is considered to have had an indirect role in establishing Alcoholics Anonymous.[40] Jung's influence can sometimes be found in more unexpected quarters. For example, Jung once treated an American patient (Rowland Hazard III), suffering from chronic alcoholism. After working with the patient for some time and achieving no significant progress, Jung told the man that his alcoholic condition was near to hopeless, save only the possibility of a spiritual experience. Jung noted that occasionally such experiences had been known to reform alcoholics where all else had failed.
Rowland took Jung's advice seriously and set about seeking a personal spiritual experience. He returned home to the United States and joined a Christian evangelical Re-Armament movement known as the Oxford Group. He also told other alcoholics what Jung had told him about the importance of a spiritual experience. One of the alcoholics he told was Ebby Thacher, a long-time friend and drinking buddy of Bill Wilson, later co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Thacher told Wilson about Jung's ideas. Wilson, who was finding it impossible to maintain sobriety, was impressed and sought out his own spiritual experience. The influence of Jung thus indirectly found its way into the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the original twelve-step program, and from there into the whole twelve-step recovery movement, although AA as a whole is not Jungian and Jung had no role in the formation of that approach or the twelve steps.
The above claims are documented in the letters of Carl Jung and Bill W., excerpts of which can be found in Pass It On, published by Alcoholics Anonymous.[41] Although the detail of this story is disputed by some historians, Jung himself made reference to its substance — including the Oxford Group participation of the individual in question — in a talk that was issued privately in 1954 as a transcript from shorthand taken by an attender (Jung reportedly approved the transcript), later recorded in Volume 18 of his Collected Works, The Symbolic Life ("For instance, when a member of the Oxford Group comes to me in order to get treatment, I say, 'You are in the Oxford Group; so long as you are there, you settle your affair with the Oxford Group. I can't do it better than Jesus.'" Jung goes on to state that he has seen similar cures among Catholics.[42])

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Psycho-Spirituality is the fourth dimension in Psychology!