“The soul knows who you are from the beginning”
What is art therapy souled?
At it’s core, it’s an approach to therapy which heals by transforming consciousness, specifically by promoting certain non ordinary states of consciousness, like the state of flow, the dream state or the psychedelic state. It is also an approach which believes in the reality of the soul, seeing it as a fundamental part of the individual which predates birth and which emerges in these certain non ordinary states. It is an approach to therapy then which uses these non ordinary states to work with the soul as opposed to traditional talk therapy which engages with the ego in ordinary modes of consciousness.
It is the soul or the ‘inner healing intelligence’ then, that does the therapeutic work. Specifically by highlighting psychic blockages which need to be released in order for us to heal. When these blockages are released, we lessen the hold the ego has over our being. As such this style of therapy can be thought of as an ego transcendent form of transpersonal psychotherapy.
When we transcend the ego, we move into higher or cosmic forms of consciousness. This shift is necessary, on a global scale if we are to have any hope of avoiding catastrophe.
Believing in a soul makes this a form of therapy which does not fit comfortably within the scientific dogma of materialism. This however, does not mean that it is an unscientific approach.
