Closure, wholeness, healing, recovery, meaningfulness, authenticity, transformation, life purpose...
All common language in the endless menu of options within the "healing" and "self-development" movements. The incessant quest within modernity to feel optimized, complete, better, happier, healthier, spiritually connected, successful, purposeful, etc., and the subsequent development of experts eager to guide the quest is undeniably part of mainstream culture. And it appears that the gulf between the quest and the thing sought becomes greater as the menu of options for a path toward these goals present themselves.
Might it be that what creates the gulf is the psycho-logical form of the quest itself? Might it be that what we, as a culture and as individuals, are hoping to find is irrevocably lost to us as modern human, and that what is needed is a new psycho-logical perspective, not another simulated version of a historically bygone form of being-in-the-world?
All common language in the endless menu of options within the "healing" and "self-development" movements. The incessant quest within modernity to feel optimized, complete, better, happier, healthier, spiritually connected, successful, purposeful, etc., and the subsequent development of experts eager to guide the quest is undeniably part of mainstream culture. And it appears that the gulf between the quest and the thing sought becomes greater as the menu of options for a path toward these goals present themselves.
Might it be that what creates the gulf is the psycho-logical form of the quest itself? Might it be that what we, as a culture and as individuals, are hoping to find is irrevocably lost to us as modern human, and that what is needed is a new psycho-logical perspective, not another simulated version of a historically bygone form of being-in-the-world?
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