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An Unknown Destiny: Terror, Psychotherapy, and Modern Initiationreadings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, Steiner
Contributor(s): Gruber, Michael (Author), Sardello, Robert (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1584200642     ISBN-13: 9781584200642
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
Dewey: 193
LCCN: 2008037449
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.65 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Beginning with a consideration of Nietzsche's inflammatory and critical insight that the modern world is framed by the death of God, Michael Gruber confronts contemporary disenchantment and its necessary offspring, the "universalization of terror." By making truth relative, negating the value of beauty, and rendering questions about the good dubious if not obsolete, terror permeates all aspects of our psychosocial existence with the threat of dehumanization. In response to this terror, which is the fundamental mood of our time, Gruber advocates re-imagining our destiny as a path of initiation.

Describing an inner awakening to the spiritual world, whose earthly manifestation of its inherent divinity invites and necessitates our conscious participation, Gruber offers readings and practices that promote the incarnation of "noble souls." Referring to the work of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Steiner, An Unknown Destiny describes how psychotherapy can move beyond healing the ego to transcending the ego. Gruber shows how opening the soul to meditative or intuitive forms of thinking can contribute to the development of new soul faculties of perception and to the experience of moral freedom. Most important, he shows how the incomplete and continuously evolving Mystery of Golgotha can inspire the emergence and presence of modern human beings infused with Christ consciousness--reverence, wisdom, peace, and love.

CONTENTS:

Foreword by Robert Sardello, PhD
Introduction

1. "From Ornithology to a Love Supreme: Overcoming the Forces of Gravity, and the Teaching of Amor Fati"

2. "Zarathustra's Convalescence: Cognitive Expansions and Inner Wisdom"

3. "With Nietzsche on the Road from Revenge to Redemption"

4. "Traumatic Pain: Psychotherapeutic Conversation between Mediumship and Soul Wisdom"

5. "Psychotherapy as a Vocation: Giving Voice to Soul"

6. "Intuitive and Inceptual Thinking: The Meditative Paths of Steiner and Heidegger"

7. "While My Conscience Explodes" ...

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Contributor Bio(s): Gruber, Michael: - Michael Gruber is an existential analyst in private practice in New York City. His work focuses on the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship and cultivates attention to how language, dreaming, and not knowing create possibilities for transformations in consciousness. He is a longtime student of mystical philosophy and Anthroposophy.Sardello, Robert: - Robert Sardello, PhD, is cofounder (with Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, PhD, in 1992) of the School of Spiritual Psychology. At the University of Dallas, he served as chair of the Department of Psychology, head of the Institute of Philosophic Studies, and graduate dean. He is also cofounder and a faculty member of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, as well as author of more than 200 articles in scholarly journals and cultural publications, and is a former faculty member of the Chalice of Repose Project in Missoula, Montana. Having developed spiritual psychology based in archetypal psychology, phenomenology, and the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner from more than thirty-five years of research in this discipline, as well as holding positions in two universities, Dr. Sardello is now an independent teacher and scholar, teaching all over the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., as well as the Czech Republic, the Philippines, and Australia. He is a consultant to many educational and cultural institutions and a dissertation adviser at numerous academic institutions. He is author of several books, including Facing the World with Soul; Love and the World; Freeing the Soul from Fear; The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues. and Silence.