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What is the point of self-inquiry?
Over time, I have come to think of it as the key to human growth.
11. Fundamental Experience #5: The Ideal Model
Once our will to explore our inner worlds is activated, it is helpful to set a direction for how to go about it. To this end, Assagioli developed his ideal model. It is a method which takes help from the imagination and intuition to set our transpersonal development...
5. Inner and outer reality – what’s the difference?
A teacher once told me: "We attract what we most need to learn." If we are attentive, our surrounding world serves us chances to grow our capabilities, experiences and judgment. And yesterday I listened to a person I follow who added another layer. "Face what makes...
4. Truth or Perspective?
This is a view from my new office. From this window I can glance down along the narrow alleys of Gamla Stan, where people stroll and stumble over the uneven cobblestones much as they must have done five centuries ago. And if I go down into the street below, I am...
3. Going Deeper
To inquire into the Self is to slow down the step, to look in the opposite direction of what life typically asks of us. The Gestalt practitioners call this the phenomenological attitude. As opposed to the natural attitude, where we engage with the objectives and tasks...
2. Trust the Process
I took this picture on my birthday this year. I was working in Istanbul, surrounded by symbols of centuries past, the breeze of the entrancing Bosphorous, and the sounds of the modern city. And as we started the day’s work, with a group of 25 people, I realized I had...
1. Know thyself
Above the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where you could seek divinations from the Oracle already 600BC, visitors received a word of caution: "Gnothi seauton". Know thyself. Self-inquiry is not a new phenomenon. So how come we need reminding? What makes...
Summa Pax - trust the process
My striving is deep inner peace. I believe this attitude can change the world. And to get there, we must engage in getting to know ourselves. In this space I explore three questions:
- What is the point of self-inquiry?
- What is it?
- How do we do it?
Time will tell what will come of it. I trust the process. /Anna Thurdin Hedblad