Interesting quote about Truth, in relation to the heuristic paradigm:

“the power of heuristic inquiry lies in its potential for disclosing truth; through exhaustive self-search, dilogue with others and creative depictions of experience, a comprehensive knowledge is generated, beginning a series of subjective musings and developing into systematic and definitive exposition” (Douglas and Moustakas, 1985: p.40)

Today I have been reading those books by Storti which i have read before, but this time i was more ‘detecting’for interesting quotes that i could possibly use for my presentations. I am working on the review panel presentation and am still not entirely sure how to structure it. I have already prepared a few slides but I need to make a decision on the style of my presentation. The time limit is quite a strain, ho much to say and include in just 15 minutes that does enough justice to the topic. … Read more »

A lot of the time in this project, i will be wrestling with the idea of synthesis (of self, identity, heuristic process etc). I read this quote below at Baba’s ‘thought for the day2 (15.6.07, website) and wish to record it for future use and reminder:

“When obstacles come in your way, face them with courage. They harden you and make you mentally tough. Suffering and misery are inescapable acts of the Cosmic drama. God does not decree these calamities, but man invites them by way of retribution for his evil deeds. This is the corrective punishment meted out by nature, which induces man to give up the wrong path. All this is part of the grand synthesis in which the negatives serve to glorify the positives. Thus, death glorifies immortality; ignorance glorifies wisdom; misery glorifies bliss; night glorifies dawn.”

Something that i need to be remembering and referencing when I am referring to the personhood and professionalism of the therapist/counsellor inmy writings is the following:

According to Meier & Davis (1997, the Elements of Counseling,Brooks Cole ) “in no other profession does the personality and behavior of the professional make such difference as it does in counselling”

A theme that appears to re-occur in my personal and research process is that of ‘liminality’and existing at ‘liminal spaces’. I thought that is worth exploring this concept. I have been reading the book by Murray Stein (2003b) In Midlife. Putnam, CT: Spring Publications. He is a Jungian and used Greek Myth, (the ancient Greek God, Hermes, in particular, as the Messenger and ‘Guide of Souls through Liminality’), He says in Chapter one that:

“the presence, and the role, of the archetypal unconscious within transitional periods is a central theme of this book, and Hermes is a figure who represents this presence” (my emphasis). … Read more »