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Crystal Ball:
Fearing radical change to their exclusive position in society psychiatrists cling on to their nervous system; but unless psychiatry remodels itself as an unequivocally compassionate profession and refrains from treating human beings as nothing more than bio-chemical entities, it will I assert, in the fullness of time, become redundant.
I foresee psychiatry being superseded by the Spiritual Emergence Movement and detect evidence of this in our time.
Chemistry does not equal Anima, Anima equals Soul. Psyche means soul, love, life. So, to care for the soul with love, one must first accept the reality of the soul and the importance of love in life.
I envisage spiritually orientated environments being established; shelters that provide true sanctuary and protect individuals experiencing unusual states. Places people are drawn to for refuge and restoration, rather than disturbed and disturbing institutions that control, manipulate and impose pseudo-scientific doctrines and methods upon those they claim to help, in the name of authority, under the guise of care. I predict these non-threatening sanctuaries flourishing as their value comes to be recognised.
The promise of a beckoning new age invites us all to re-evaluate, re-affirm and re-awaken our humanity, with awareness of, and restored emphasis on, our intrinsic spirituality.
The young shoots of this spiritual emergence are already visible; permeating all walks of life and arising in areas as diverse as the green movement, quantum physics, cosmology, parapsychology, holistic healing, the arts, popular culture, contemporary esotericism, even commercial advertising… the future is bright.
As this approaching epoch is ushered in there will be much to shed. If psychiatry does not rid itself of its inhumanity, humanity will I trust, rid itself of psychiatry.
Fearing radical change to their exclusive position in society psychiatrists cling on to their nervous system; but unless psychiatry remodels itself as an unequivocally compassionate profession and refrains from treating human beings as nothing more than bio-chemical entities, it will I assert, in the fullness of time, become redundant.
I foresee psychiatry being superseded by the Spiritual Emergence Movement and detect evidence of this in our time.
Chemistry does not equal Anima, Anima equals Soul. Psyche means soul, love, life. So, to care for the soul with love, one must first accept the reality of the soul and the importance of love in life.
I envisage spiritually orientated environments being established; shelters that provide true sanctuary and protect individuals experiencing unusual states. Places people are drawn to for refuge and restoration, rather than disturbed and disturbing institutions that control, manipulate and impose pseudo-scientific doctrines and methods upon those they claim to help, in the name of authority, under the guise of care. I predict these non-threatening sanctuaries flourishing as their value comes to be recognised.
The promise of a beckoning new age invites us all to re-evaluate, re-affirm and re-awaken our humanity, with awareness of, and restored emphasis on, our intrinsic spirituality.
The young shoots of this spiritual emergence are already visible; permeating all walks of life and arising in areas as diverse as the green movement, quantum physics, cosmology, parapsychology, holistic healing, the arts, popular culture, contemporary esotericism, even commercial advertising… the future is bright.
As this approaching epoch is ushered in there will be much to shed. If psychiatry does not rid itself of its inhumanity, humanity will I trust, rid itself of psychiatry.