Seeking Enlightenment

by Morrison, Catherine H.

• ISBN13: 9781935097914
• ISBN10: 1935097911
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-07
• Publisher: Two Harbors Pr

Summary

This book is a "Jacob's ladder" of emotional evolution from its beginning in the severe pathologies, through the normal neurotic stages of development and on to the spiritual endpoint called "sanctity" in the West and "enlightenment" in the East. Written in laymen's language, it describes each stage with real-life stories told by the people who lived them. It reads like a novel, while teaching like a casebook. People interested in the process of psychological growth, in an increased understanding of themselves or of others will find it of special interest, and it will be vital to readers interested in spirituality, lost by the West sometime in the middle ages. For them, this book is a "must read." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. IX
Note	p. XIX
Clarification	p. XX
Acknowledgments	p. XXI
Some Notes On the Exposure and Testing of This Theory	p. XXII
Epigraph	p. XXIII
Glimpsing My Ignorance
Beginning	p. 1
Viennese Psychoanalytic Psychiatry	p. 22
Portrait of a Sociopath: Up Close and Explosive	p. 59
Helping Others Helps Me
Beginning Again	p. 75
Piagetian Developmental Chart	p. 84
Piaget's Science of Psychology	p. 85
Case Examples of the Stages on the First Plateau	p. 92
Second-Plateau Case Examples Juxtaposed with First	p. 102
Through the Portal of Self-Knowledge
Seeking Knowledge	p. 129
"When the Student Is Ready, the Teacher Appears"	p. 154
Various Therapists' Developmental Timetables	p. 175
Western Mystics and Eastern Wise Men: Stages of Spiritual Growth	p. 176
An End to Beginningless Ignorance	p. 214
Postscript: This Therapist Looks at Ultimate Mental Health	p. 220
End Notes	p. 223
Sources	p. 226
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