What is Sacred Attention Therapy?

Sacred Attention Therapy is an approach to liberation. First, liberation from the conditioned self. Second, liberation from the fulfillment of our true nature and, third, liberation into the life of spiritual discipline.

This threefold process is known as the Three Stages of Awakening.

The first stage involves discovering the origins of personality and defensive character and revitalizing those parts of our psycho-physical organism which have become frozen, contracted, or deadened by the overwhelming experience of emotion, mental dilemma, or physical threat. Through a gentle, thorough process of healing reflection, sharing, and release, we attain the condition of acceptance of the whole self without reserve and through forgiveness assume the self-responsibility which augurs the rising out of self-consciousness into the realms of heart and authenticity.

The second stage involves the discovery of compassion, the significance of the impersonal nature of love itself, as we modulate through layers of perception to the relative truth that love is, in spite of ourselves and our seeming separation from others and events. We increasingly relinquish our tight hold on identity, separation, and division and deepen in the heart of simplicity, authenticity, and relative enlightenment, as we free ourselves from the bondage of the delusion of ultimate ego-embodied satisfaction.

The third stage is living the life of spiritual truth per se. Through layers of revelation and insight which span the borderline between the second and third stages of awakening, we prepare ourselves for the life beyond searching. Spiritual practice becomes central in our lives and in the purest experience we live in the world in surrender and love, and the transcendent state of unity.

So... Sacred Attention Therapy is the practice of a metapsychology that embraces the psycho-spiritual nature of the human being in its fullness and completeness.

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