This time, James Bugental’s, The Art of the Psychotherapist,
he has a great chapter on resistance in psychotherapy.
Also, starting The Ketamine Papers, just published by MAPS.
Resistance is very interesting. We go to a psychotherapist for help, yet we
resist this therapy…
And it can take years for us to realize why we are
resisting.
The answer is simple,
the path is not…
We resist, because we have to die to our old self…
We resist, because we will cease to exist…
Well, that is what our Ego feels…
And painfully so…
Sometimes like being ripped apart…
Often, just depressing…
As, I’ve written, only 3 emotions…
We are attracted to things that make us happy…
We push away things that are painful, distressful…
And the third is confusion and ignorance…
A large part of psychotherapy is uncovering this
confusion…
This is often at the core of our distress…
We don’t have any idea why we are in distress…
Why we are depressed…
And we develop addictive behaviors to sooth our
distress…
We love that serotonin/dopamine rush of positive
reinforcement…
Even if it is so simple as seeing that people liked our
Face-Book posting…
They don’t call it Crack-Book for nothing…
We drink alcohol too much, take drugs too much, eat too
much, shop too much, look at our phones instead of connecting with the people
at the same table…
Resistance to Non-Existence…
Makes perfect sense…
We don't want to die…
Our Ego doesn’t want to die…
And that is the whole point to psychotherapy and
meditation…
Sitting still, accessing our inner thoughts, our desires, aversions,
and confusions…
Bugental talks about the mismatch between the world as it
really is, and the world we think it should be…
“Shoulding” ourselves again…
We have to dismantle this Personal World Construct…
And rebuild one that better matches reality…
That is where we get back to Ketamine…
A dissociative anesthetic…
How does it relieve depression and anxiety, or help with
addictions?
I think it does so in a similar manner to the psychedelics.
There is some level of a near death experience, a partial
dissolution of Ego…
Low dose Ketamine is very safe.
LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, ayahuasca, all very safe…
In the right SET and SETTING!
They can give blissful states…
They can send you to the deepest darkest hells…
That is why you need a good guide!
Before you take this trip, during the ride, and after this
ride is over…
So you don’t start chasing the Bliss…
So you begin to know what is the meaning behind the hell you
just experienced…
Psychedelics help us through our resistance by allowing us
to die...
Before we actually die…
Allowing our Ego to die…
Like the Phoenix, we can arise from those ashes,
as a new self…
perhaps,
slightly more aligned,
with what is
True and Real…
(And can someone tell me why Resist turns into Resistance,
with an “a,” and Exist turns into Existence, with an “e?”)
Wishing you all the Happiest of New Years!
Namaste
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