Psychosynthesis Spiritual Mentoring
A spiritual path is rarely easy, and then usually only for temporary moments before we are faced with the next challenge. Sometimes it all seems too much, and we are tempted to
forgo our spirituality in favour of an illusionary 'easy' life. Sometimes we make the connections then find it difficult to bring our understanding into daily life. Sometimes we may even feel we haven't found our spiritual path.
Most of us can benefit by being both supported and challenged to be true to ourselves, to our innermost sense of truth,
to increase our ability to show ourselves more fully, and to find a way to move forward.
Spiritual mentoring (or companionship) may include a very wide range of possibilities, so exactly how the work proceeds will depend
upon defining what you really need and helping you achieve this. The Psychosynthesis Avalon approach to spiritual mentoring is not psychosynthesis or psychotherapy but it draws on these traditions as well as other paths that are appropriate and useful in exploring spirituality.
The aim is to support you in maintaining a spiritual connection that underpins your visions and values and to mindfully explore
the questioning which is the quest.
Contact Will Parfitt to discuss spiritual mentoring.
Further on Spiritual Mentoring
Most of the time we are continuously involved in life events, usually involuntarily as we become caught up in the vagaries of existence. Sometimes this is due to external matters, whether family life, work, or in other ways where we can feel victims to circumstances. This may leave us feeling on edge, not sure of our position in the world (or even our right to be in the world.) Meanwhile we are beset about internally with fantasies and the dialogues we have with ourselves about our life concerns. Then there are the unconscious events that bind and limit us - unrecognised complexes and patterns of behaviour that depend for their being on past events, often long forgotten or, at best (or worst) dimly remembered and feared.
The personal self, our individual 'I' who experiences all our different states of thought, emotion and sensation, is a reflection or spark of the spiritual or transpersonal Self. Although they are essentially one, there is a large difference between the personal self and transpersonal Self (which you will notice, in Psychosynthesis, is usually written with a capital 'S' to distinguish it from the personal self.). To become centred upon the Self is a sign of spiritual attainment, but awareness of the personal self, from where we can effectively direct the personality, is the primary goal of Psychosynthesis. This then inevitably leads to a clearer contact with, and understanding of the Self. A useful psychosynthesis analogy for this is of an orchestra (the subpersonalities) who need a conductor ('I') to direct their 'music' into a harmonious composition. The conductor also ensures that all the members of the orchestra get a chance to have their needs met (their turn at having their 'instruments' heard). The conductor also has a direct line to the composer (the Self).
The experience of self-identification, of having an 'I', distinguishes our consciousness from that of the majority of other sentient beings on our planet. Through deliberate disidentification from the personality and identification with the personal self, we gain the power to choose either attachment to or disattachment from any aspect of our personality, according to what is most appropriate for any given situation. We also have to remember at the same time, as psychosynthesis writer Ferrucci reminds us, that the 'Personal and Transpersonal Self are in fact the same reality experienced at different levels; our true essence is beyond all masks and conditionings.'
The aim of spiritual mentoring, from a psychosynthesis perspective, is to master and utilise our whole personality in an inclusive and harmonious synthesis. To this end, the mentor (companion or guide) becomes an 'external unifying center' for the client, sometimes reminding them of their own unique centre, sometimes even temporarily taking the role of 'the conductor' of the client's 'orchestra', but always with the aim of returning the centre, the sense of self directing their life, to the client.
Contact Will Parfitt to discuss spiritual mentoring.
