Introduction:
It occurs, and this ever more frequently, that people no longer feel themselves being addressed and perceived in their daily surroundings. Rather, an inner disquiet, sometimes diffused, urges one toward departure and a new start. One has the presentiment of an inner force that demands shape and realization. Or something suddenly occurs to animate aspects of one's personal history, to make one's limits more perceptible, and thereby fundamentally question one's previously prevailing awareness.
As long as the origins of the occurrence are not ascribed to externals, and the experience not perceived and defined as being "relative", the event retains the possibility of vehemently and effectively sparking in the person's core. Core-Experience (Kernerfahrung) is "divinedisturbance".That which in this disturbance is illuminated for the first time out of the depths of the unconscious is not a new implication of an old and familiar order, but rather a totally new dimension of consciousness, the power of which has persistently been made relative by the person's hitherto prevailing World-Ego. The initiatory experience creates a new polarity in which the consciousness-qualities of fundamentally different orders confront one another: the Personal and the Trans-Personal, World-Ego and Self, the differentiating conceptuality of Ego-Consciousness and the complexity of Core-Experience.
The newly-loosed Core-Force requires of the person a new setting and a new comprehension. With the aim of re-establishing one's wholeness and developing a new and expanded sense of things, the process of individuation begins. The process is a transformational event in which the two poles, contrary at the outset, bring forth, in the context of skillful guidance through new and renewed confrontation, via nearness and distance, and through perpetual dying and becoming, a third pole. The Self is capable of becoming the root for the World-Ego, the World-Ego for becoming the trunk for the Self, through which trunk the Self can affirm and bear witness to itself as crown in the world.
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"It is to differentiate, then, between Event and Change, between the Initiatory Experience and the Initiatory Way, which Way takes up that which has been experienced in a commitment to Transformation."
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
Initiatory Therapy always means initiation and individuation, experience and transformation.
It is work on one's Core. It takes place by means of the analytic-psychological explanation of images and signatures (as they appear in one's personal history, one's dreams and creative doings), by means of active and passive meditation, and by practice of the most varied activities and disciplines. The Therapy is oriented on the Analytical-Psychology of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann and incorporates the insights and practices of Zen-Buddhism, occidental Mysticism, Gestalt-Psychology and its precursors. The aim of the Therapy is the realization of Being in authority and full power of the personal act.
The Therapy takes place primarily in private sessions.
Meditation and Initiatory Experience:
As a practice along the inner Way, Meditation - Sitting in Stillness - fulfills its nature as an exercise toward transformation. So understood, Meditation is the vouchsafed permeability of the person toward Being - so that Being can, in and through the Meditation, sound and resound in the world. The development of the Individual into an Individuated Person intends a form permeable to godly being - a shaped permeability of the whole person, expressing itself as the bearing-witness to the person's godly origin in the framework of his finite being.
Initiation and Individuation: The Way to the Individuated Person: a methodologically inducible process of experiencing and forming the psychic dynamics of the Unconscious.
Something begins to stir, begins to take on form, and conveys itself as a possibility for the process of Core-Development (Kernung). By virtue of conscious and patient Practice, the complex Unconscious advances its development and capacity for personal differentiation. Attainment to Form begins in and of itself.
The methods for concretising the various stales of development are numerous and provide one at every stage in the total process with a correspondingly appropriate representation (image, bearing, word, sound, movement etc.) which serves as orientation for the further development toward which one is working.
"The events which, with plutonic Core-Force (Kernkraft), are capable of overwhelming Man in this Age require of each individual a thoroughly penetrative structuring extending to the precipitous depths and the indefinite heights."
Maria Hippius-Gräfin Dürckheim
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