Review of 'The Courage To Be Transformed' by Dr. Robert Moore - Part 3

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This lecture has to be approached in a Tillichian way. It is existential, meaning you have to ask the question about how it applies to you and your life. How does it apply to my struggle to connect with being.

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Ask yourself: "Where is the non-being coming at you?", "What kind of anxiety seems most present consciously?", "What kind of courage do you need more of?".

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What are the elements of transformative process? And this would be true for individuals as well as organisations, cities, cultures, Earth.

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The first element is Diagnosis or Diagnostics. Some people call it assessment. What is the situation here? It takes enormous effort. Never under-estimate how much further you have to go. There is a kind of deep knowing that is beyond the shallow understanding of any of the theories, and we are wired for this.

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It is not pleasant to see more clearly. That is why we retreat into denial. It takes courage to be able to face what is happening.

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If you don't know where the front is, you can't send any resources there. We need to crank up the magician (represents transformation, wisdom and the ability to manifest dreams into reality through hidden knowledge and insight). This has got a lot to do with strategy and healing.

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If you really feel like this close to drowning, you're not going to be able to figure out where you want to go. You won't be able to have a vision of where you want to go. At this point, don't try to create a vision yet.

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The elements of transformation are Diagnosis, Vision (for where you need to go), Courage (to take action to get there) and the Energy to feel the courage. We cannot neglect any of these four elements.

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You have got to locate where you are, what is happening. Even if you're really struggling, the best place to move is into increasing the awareness of where am I.

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There is a shape of psychopathology. It is patterned. If you put some energy into studying it, you can figure out what is going wrong with you and why. What is the weak link in my inner chains.

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If we are going to help ourselves or we are going to help other people, we need to have maps. We have to map the way things go wrong.

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It is not enough to know what is wrong with you.

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Contemporary psychiatry is making the mistake of privileging the destiny pole (it is all chemistry and hereditary). They emphasize giving pills.

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If you don't have energy to have have courage, you will not face the challenge of thinking of what's possible for you. The vision of optimisation for you

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You are never going to completely actualise your essential self-hood in history.

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A realistic goal is something that takes into account the destiny pole without giving it all the power to shut you down.

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A big obstacle to transformation is not being plugged into the energy. A close second behind it is being plugged into the energy so much it is like drinking from a fire hose.

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Another area of obstacle is not having an adequate assessment of where I am fragmenting, onthologically or psychologically. Another obstacle is not putting enough energy into my visioning process.

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It doesn't matter where you wanna go or what you know about what is wrong with you, if you do not have the courage to take a stand, day to day, everyday.

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It's not enough to get up in the morning and affirm your courage, you have to affirm it at 9:32am and then again at 10:13am and just like that. It is constant.

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And when you go to sleep (which is very easy to do), you just go passive in the face of the things that are trying to kill you. It is not a good strategy for healing/transformation.

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In society, there are so many forces that are out to destroy the human, and they are not personal. These are agents of chaos. They are rapidly making it more and more difficult for human existence to thrive.

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Tillich criticised technology, especially the industrialisation process. He understood the forces, and he called them forces of "Thingification". This involves treating human beings like commodities. These forces make people operate quietly and compliantly as cogs in the machine. These forces make you think of yourself as less than a human being and to think of yourself only as a consumer, only as somebody that doesn't rock the boat. The forces are not personal. They aim to make people less conscious.

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Practice of Psychology is under attack today. There are economic forces that are trying to do away with psychotherapy and turn it all into neuropsychological medication.

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There are things in your personal unconscious that are trying to decenter your self-hood. The more unconscious you are about these forces, the more these forces are present in your personality system. These forces within the personal can be called archetypes. These archetypes are not that friendly and if not careful, they can destroy you. When you are not aware of which archetypes are most imperialistic in your personality, you mistake an archetypal invasion for an expression of yourself. If you start to live in an archetype, you lose you human life. You go into your own head.

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If you act out sadistactically against family members and are cruel to them. These are being invaded by the Warrior archetype. And they justify their actions saying "Well you made me do it".

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The ego is always going to rationalise. When you are invaded by these archetypal structures, the ego will always try to rationalise why it is doing that. The ego really believes these "reasons".

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The task of a human being is to become more human, not an archetype.

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You need to understand where you are being invaded. How much of it is due to past traumas, or due to the group you grew up in. And how much of these experiences did to you to open you up to an archetypal invasion. This means looking at the personal side but also at the impersonal side that is causing you to fragment.

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We need to be aware of the outer cultural and historical contexts that are trying to kill people. We need to acknowledge this without privileging the destiny pole too much. We need to ask the question of where is your wiggle room? Where is your freedom of action? Where are you free in ways you don't know you are?

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No matter what the inner or outer forces are, you need awareness, which requires courage. You also need a vision for where you can go, but if you do not have courage, you won't put any energy into that.

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The reason you don't have courage is that you don't have connection to useable energy.

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Whether you have your psychological hat on or you have your spiritual hat on, we are all talking about the same thing when it comes to energy. It is either following you are around or it is not.

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When you've got somebody that's really depressed. they are not accessing the energy in any useable way. It could be that they have a lot of energy but their ego defences are dampening them, so it does not blow them up.

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Why is celebrity such a big deal? It is because we have become so stupid with how to connect to energy in more constructive ways. Therefore people treat celebrities like energy sources.

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There is no shortage of energy. The question is what is spirituality? Spirituality is finding the connection with the energy and it is whatever you do to keep the energy from destroying you and everybody else around you.

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This is the dynamics of idealisation. If you're not connected enough to your own wonderfulness, you will experience it in other people, in idealising projections.

3:01:18

Unless you're claiming your gold, unless you're claiming your piece of divinity, unless you are working with that and trying to make peace with that in a dynamic and creative way, you will unload that somewhere. If you have an inferiority complex, you're doing it. That is bad. That is demonic soul loss.

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If you don't face your individuation task, you are making the world a lot more evil place.

3:05:09

Psychotherapy comes from discouragement. If you're messing up, it is because you are discouraged. Instead of facing your real life task of love, work, friendship and a viable philosophy of life to live by, you don't have the courage for these tasks and so you go into side shows, and you put all your energy into things that seem important but they're not the real issue for you.

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Being encouraged is as a result of being blessed by someone that you deem important. Blessing is always concrete. It's very specific and it sees the person in their individuality.

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A manager who isn't good at seeing the employees for their uniqueness is really harming the company. If an employee does not get affirmation from their manager about their potential or uniqueness, then the employee is not living up to the possible potential. The employee is not being as productive as they could. Motivation is hard to do. You can't bring them a cheerleader or motivational speaker to cheer them up because it is too impersonal. Effective leadership is always very personal. Effective leadership is always very personal in some ways.

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If you do not have connection with the energy, you will not have the courage. You can have the energy without the courage because courage requires you to know what all that energy is for and you've got to make a decision to take a stand. Some creative people are loaded with energy but they don't really have courage. So many creative people are self-destructive.

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Creative people are self-destructive because creative people are awash in energy. They manage to channel some of that energy to get things done but they are very good at rocking and rolling but real bad at regulating. The ones that can't regulate don't last very long.Creative people are self-destructive because creative people are awash in energy. They manage to channel some of that energy to get things done but they are very good at rocking and rolling but real bad at regulating. The ones that can't regulate don't last very long.Creative people are self-destructive because creative people are awash in energy. They manage to channel some of that energy to get things done but they are very good at rocking and rolling but real bad at regulating. The ones that can't regulate don't last very long.Creative people are self-destructive because creative people are awash in energy. They manage to channel some of that energy to get things done but they are very good at rocking and rolling but real bad at regulating. The ones that can't regulate don't last very long.