Psychotherapy and Nonduality: A Relational Gestalt Perspective
By Tim Carrette
From the void cometh all things, into the void do all things return.
The quintessential Nondual Psychotherapy
Gestalt Psychotherapy is the quintessential Nondualistic Psychotherapy. We are both lost and found in both suffering and emotional pain. We are form and formless. Self and not self. In the words of Martin Buber “Every particular Thou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou.”
Martin Buber was a Jewish theologian-mystic. He was one of many Spiritual influences on Gestalt Psychotherapy. His most famous work was “ I-Thou”, a kind of poetic verse on Duality, Nonduality and the inherent relationship between all dualities.
He called these two dualities I-It and I-Thou.
I-It in Buber’s language is form, self, ego, character pattern. The always observable now of our situational senses, the phenomenology of our individual beingness.
I –Thou is the formless meeting and nondualistic interconnectedness of all things. The essence of our being, the …
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