It seems as though you are making an argument for psychoanalysis. Not perhaps the setting in which it is done nor the theory on which it is derived, but rather for the intents and attitude toward the analysand. Certainly analysis frequently struggles to establish and maintain such a working task. I cannot consider this an invalidation as it is also often successful. If better can be done elsewhere, I do not know it. But it is no coincidence to me how frequently psychoanalytic exploration arrives at an analogous location as many Eastern religions if only one strips away the language used to describe it.
And I do not agree with the conclusions you have drawn at this point. I have speculations on the reasons for those differences, but since I have engaged in such a work as you suggest, I think I'll merely continue it and see if we arrive at the same location again.
Can you tell me what you mean by arriving at the same location again?
I believe there is one truth that covers us all, an alteration in cognitive perspective, words I have just formulated as such here, but which has been experienced from the dawn on language by different people and described by them in myriad ways, a seeing into the nature of reality that I am, of the millions of other ways it has or can be described, randomly describing as a state that confers its own sense of certainty or finality that one has arrived. Further, there are an infinite number of them also, I think the words, the collapse of duality, might apply, a state of timelessness that appears at the ending of thought, an entering into the awareness of the present, of trust in life and love.
What I do, have tried to do, am saying to you as a person who is searching via the tools of modern psychoanalysis is that I have listened deeply and carefully, long ago, to someone who made that breakthrough on that path, or so I believe. I have told you that he arrived there as a result of observation of his patients and the applications of the insights he found in them to himself. He discovered that as a very successful and developed person that he actually felt like he was the worst person in the world. I have also tasted of that feeling.
He said many many times that we do not know this, do not want to know it and do not know we do not want to know, that we would rather die than know it, and yet he found a way to do it, and the way he did was by allowing himself to feel what he really felt, to dive within.
He said dig the tunnel from both ends. He talked about a person who was the world's leading authority on ferns who could not on any logical level possibly be the worst person in the world, to do some things personally that has to logically defeat that possibility. It is probably a fulcrum point on which to brace against the reality of how we feel compared to what must actually be real. He said that when you feel what you feel fully it will take you back to a living experience a reliving of the first event or on sought of that feeling giving you both conscious awareness that you have had that feeling hidden within you from that time and the data to know that you were made to feel a lie.
Now my experience with therapy of various kinds, limited though it is, tells me that what is done in therapy normally is analysis, talk about stuff abstractly without allowing entry into the actual feeling state work for the insights without much of the real data. Or it is about pills or behavior change. But I believe the core truth of our being lies not in actions or medicated induced state, but in how we feel and what we do not to remember what that is.
Now the man of God may simply step over that pit, the Yoga transcend by the mindful ending of thought, the fakir through the presence of body on a bed of nails. Some may rocket there via LSD if the rocketing isn't off a building. Some may hear voices or see a burning bush or awaken at the sound of a temple bell or on the battle field.
But you have found your way to the door of modern psychological medicine and I just wanted to share a bit of what I imagine I know
about that, fully aware there is no possible way you can trust it. When I first read a book about Zen that provided me with the data upon which I made my small jump, I threw it across the room in rage. Hehe, Moonbeam still has that temper.
My recommendation then is to focus on feeling what you feel. My teacher said he had the greatest of news, 'that what we feel about ourselves isn't true'. It's just true that's what we feel. Sadly, our truth operationally comes from what we feel which causes chaos not knowing what that is.