Transcendence in psychotherapy

Die Wirklichkeit und Wirkkraft des formlosen Numinosen

Abstract

Experienced psychotherapists are familiar with inspirational “insights” and transrational healing moments that elude therapeutic intentions, techniques and strategies. We approach an understanding of these phenomena, which are fed by a “not-me”, in a phenomenological study, and fathom the relevance for being and becoming whole in our existence. Participation in the unnameable numinous proves to be a “natural” immaterial source of integral existence and a necessary condition for fulfilled self-realization, held and sustained by a different participation in consciousness, a consciousness outside the human brain. Healing cannot be divided, the distinction between therapist and client is relative, and a dimension of stillness and being touched eludes a verbal-semantic grasp.