Logos Therapy (2) – Why does life have a meaning?

Why does life have a meaning? Victor Frankl's "logotherapy" sought to help people discover meaning and purpose in their lives as way of helping them to re-discover their mental and emotional health. As Elizabeth Lukas wrote: The idea of Logos Therapy, however, goes further, and seeks the spiritual purpose behind life in Christian spirituality. Created …

A Psychological / Spiritual Reflection – Logos Therapy (1)

First, Logotherapy "Logotherapy" is an approach to psychology developed by Victor Frankl. Frankl was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and his short book Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most profound books I know - both as an account of living in a death camp and for his theory of Logotherapy …

Spiritual Reflection: The Different Knowings of the Soul Beyond Logic

 I have been liberated in the last few years.  Liberated from the limitations of reducing knowledge to logic. I think I started on “logic obsession” as a means of seeking to get some control over life.  If life can be reduced to logical structures, then it might seem safer. But only “seem”. We know through …

Forces Within

What forces Within . Our psychology Sexuality . Our Spirituality . Tugging us To and from . The way Which like a moonlit path . Over the turbulent ocean Lay. . Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

The Sunlight of Spirituality

Something like psychology And something not . Each person’s Spirituality . Moves us Deeper . Towards Or away . An infinite Destination . Journeying Through time . Through trial And consternation . And moment To moment . We find The way of progress . Or the rocks Of hindrance . Or the sunlight Of divine …

Spiritual Reflection: What is Spirituality?

  There is ethics, there is philosophy, there is psychology, there is religion...and then there is spirituality! What is spirituality, then? To start with, I wouldn’t want to be too specific about spirituality.  I think that would be a mistake. Perhaps one way of thinking about spirituality is as a series of overlapping circles, but …