IS "ALTERNATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY"... REALLY AN ALTERNATIVE?
The basic and essential reality with a typically trained mental health professional is that he/she has difficulty confining him/herself to the complete denial of two-thirds of who and what we actually are. That is, although B.F. Skinner, who was so intensely fearful of his own MIND realm that he [unknowingly] projected the Defense Mechanism of his own MIND realm as "behaviorism"... his own "alternative" to the Psychology of the ancient Greeks... not every mental health professional is quite as fearful as was Skinner. Therefore, the many "alternatives" offered by professionals over the last century have been subtle efforts to push beyond the limits placed upon "psychology" by Skinner, and his adherents.
Almost all of these have had one peculiar defining attribute in common however, and that is that all of them sprang from the Left-Hemisphere of the brain.... just where Skinner came from. The "desire" to move beyond the limitation of thinking and talking is in these efforts, but they just can't seem to make a successful leap into where Skinner, ET AL, unknowingly fear to go. The reason for this is a mind-bender and will be discussed momentarily.
The American Psychological Association is a huge fortress against the very "alternatives" put forth over the last century. Scotoma [Fritz Perls referred to it as "blind spot"] is most prevalent in those at the top of the association ladder. That is, the APA is peculiar in that those who do best climbing its ladder are those most fully insulated from the Esoteric realms within themselves, and thus in Man. This Esoteric is the "unknown" within us.
Fear of the unknown within Man is a condition that is naturally active in every single person [and fully non-conscious as well] save in those who have undergone an extensive program of psychotherapy designed to eliminate the deeply repressed misperceived traumata hidden deep within their MIND realms via personal psychotherapy by a fully competent psychotherapist.
Now, what percentage of the professionals in mental health does this apply to? Would you believe the figure for those having this absolutely necessary preparation might be as high as two per cent? The number of those who have talked about what the MIND MIGHT BE is quite high of course.... perhaps as high as 80 or 90%. So, absent an actual experiential Knowledge of what the MIND is, how it operates.... and what might be done to make subtle adjustments to it... what do 98% of mental health professionals do for those they "treat"?
They talk, and they "think" that by calling their particular approach to talking by a different name, that it is different. Do you know what this is? This is Delusional Thinking, and this is a Defense Mechanism of the MIND that is dedicated to preventing one from discovering ones MIND realm by "focusing ones attention upon people, places, and things OUTSIDE of oneself.... just as Skinner did in the early 1900's.
The reason 90%+ of mental health professionals do not realize that they are in fear of the "unknown Esoteric" within themselves is due to Scotoma. The reason they do not "see" this fear of the "unknown Esoteric" within their client/patient is Scotoma [not the client/patients Scotoma] but their own. The reason the licensing process has escalated to such an extent [making it just about impossible for anyone actually capable of providing competent psychotherapy to meet the purely Left-brain criteria] is fear of the "unknown Esoteric" within mental health from top downwards. Having no idea what "competent mental health treatment is or should be] those in "charge" have "compensated" for their fear of being "found out" by raising the hurdles of licensing higher and higher, engaging more and more people in the process... in order to spread the "RESPONSIBILITY" around as widely as possible. Again Delusional Thinking which is provided freely by the MINDs of all involved in the notion that by inconveniencing and burdening those seeking licensure they can hopefully discourage the incompetent from applying. The "joke" is that what they are doing is simply encouraging those whose own fear of the "unknown Esoteric" within themselves thrives on minutia and endless detail for their brains to "think" about. Those least likely to allow any natural psychic ability to sneak into their work.
If any of those "in charge" could be brave enough to face their own fear of the unknown [but first they would have to discover they have this fear] they would allow a competent psychotherapist to evaluate someone seeking licensure by observing the applicant in an actual session. In a session I can ascertain whether someone is competent or not. I think licensure for "counseling" is what all in mental health today should be licensed for. And "counseling" absolutely does not mean "psychotherapy" [and anyone licensed as a "counselor" who puts him/herself out as a psychotherapist would be tried and if found guilty, placed in prison for a minimum of ten years]. Does this seem harsh?
Would it seem harsh if you took your child to one of these inadequately prepared people for help, and the unknown fear within this person vibrationally broadcast his/her fear to the MIND of your child, thus exacerbating the fear within your child's MIND even more intensely?
And since this person is "seen" as an authority, the additional negative reinforcement makes helping your child even more difficult... even if a competent therapist could be found.
If licensure was competency based, then the licensing process for a psychotherapist would be relatively simple. It would be based on competency... period. But to do this, every college and university currently turning out "behaviorally" trained individuals [completely ignorant of the Esoteric realms within themselves] would have to change.... and change dramatically. Is this likely? Not really. Too much fear. But such a change would be a true "alternative".
Esochology is an alternative approach to dealing with the whole human being, which means all three vibrational realms which make up the whole of Man. To study the Esoteric realms within oneself one must do so from "within" these Esoteric realms themselves. How come? Because the brain is physical and your MIND is not. Your brain cannot perceive your MIND. And since the vast majority in "psychology" use the two terms interchangeably, their MINDs are doing what MINDs do, and that is to keep them from discovering there is a difference between the brain and the MIND.
What allows you to discover and experience your MIND realm is what I refer to as the Apapsyche ["apas" from Sanskrit, which refers to work/working, and "psyche" from Greek, which refers to self, soul, and mind [the Esoteric within Man]. Your Apapsyche has two aspects by which it operates. One is the Attn Aspect, and the other is the Awar Aspect. The Attn Aspect can instantly enter any of the three realms which make up the whole of Man by simply adopting the vibrational energy of the realm it is entering. The Awar Aspect is the experiencing faculty and it always follows that of the Attn Aspect.
So, to prevent a mental health professionals, or anyone else for that matter, from discovering the MIND, all the MIND has to do is to keep the Attn Aspect fixed in the Left-Hemisphere of the brain [which is physical, and thus the Awar Aspect cannot be aware of any emotional energy [the energy of the MIND]. While one is "thinking" one is effectively prevented from becoming aware of any emotional energy [e.g., ones MIND realm]. So, what do we know of those who think all the time? And, what do we know about all "talking" therapies? And what do we know about the basic tenets of "behavioral psychology"... that the whole point is to avoid the Esoteric within us is the answer.