This is my keynote address at the first European Conference for Energy Psychology in July 2001. It offers an integrated world view for science and spirituality. I was surprised how much of my current thoughts about Logosynthesis are reflected in this presentation.

1. is
a
Welcome
to the
First
Energy Psychology
Conference
Europe!
July 5-8, 2001
© 2001 – 1

2. is
a
The pursuit of truth and beauty
is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted
to remain children all our lives
– Albert Einstein
© 2001 – 2

3. Quick Fixes
&
Creative Intelligence
Professional Dilemmas on the Energy Odyssey

4. is
a
Energy Psychology
 Energy Psychology
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is fast
is efficient
it doesn’t hurt
It resolves many psychological
and somatic symptoms
It can even be fun!
 Many EP practioners don’t
feel comfortable in academic
psychology and medicine
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5. EP and Classical Treatment
 The EP frame of reference generates resistance
 We need to build bridges to traditional treatment and
research
 If we stay in contact, we have:
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Tested methods and equipment
Protection against isolation
Common developmental paths
 We need to respect the thoughts
and opinions of others
 We need to make our experience
known to the world, in a language
understood by clients and colleagues

6. Miracles don’t happen in
contradiction of nature,
but in contradiction with
what we know about nature...
– Augustinus

7. Medicine
& Psychology
 Western civilization has
taken the Divine out of
healing
 Neurobiology focuses on
the study of the brain,
the wet mind
 Psychology focuses on
biography and behavior
 These three B’s
determine treatment

8. is
a
Energy Psychology
 We perceive humans as energy beings
 We need two main extensions
to the frame of reference
of academic psychology and medicine
 Their frames of reference
can still be true,
but they are incomplete
as a description of reality
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9. Extension # 1
 The concept of an energy body,
which contains the physical body
 Disturbances of the flow of energy show as
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destructive or blocking beliefs
physical or emotional complaints

10. Extension # 2
 A spiritual framework,
with a creative intelligence,
a formative cause,
beyond thoughts,
emotions and feelings
 This formative cause can
generate every phenomenon
in reality through intention

11. Extension # 1: Hypotheses
 We have an energy body
 The body as a living system cannot be reduced
to atoms and molecules
 It’s defined by organizing patterns for atoms and
molecules
 Sensitive persons throughout history have described
the energy body and its layers
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etheric, emotional and mental
 Within the energy body, a life energy, Qi, flows
 This flow can be disturbed

12. Extension # 1
 We can demonstrate that such an extended
energy system exists, with the instruments of
classical science
 Beyond measureable forms of electromagnetic
energy, there are manifestations of subtle energy
 These cannot be measured with current
equipment
 In energy psychology, this is the area of the
founding schools

13. Extension # 1: Treatment
 At this level, problems are treated in reaction
to immediate suffering of the client
 If symptoms are not rooted in systems of
complex experience, they easily disappear
 Treatment starts from the idea
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that suffering can be relieved
that we have the means for that
 Existential causes of the
suffering are not explored

14. Extension # 2: Hypotheses
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We have a causal body
It is characterized by creative intelligence
The causal body creates, manifests
the mental, the emotional, the etheric
and the physical bodies
 This is what we really ARE
 In consciousness development, there is a
transition from being created to creating

15. Pathology
 From extension # 1:
Pathology is an
imbalance in the energy
system of the individual
 From extension # 2:
Pathology is rooted in
the mind,
in the disconnection
from the One Source

16. Fragmentation
 As a result of traumatic events,
we’re fragmented, dissociated,
caught in polarities
 Our consciousness loses its focus
 We’re disconnected from the
creative potential of the causal body
 Fragmentation makes us sick, lonely,
aggressive, bitter and unproductive

17. is
a
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18. Our Goal
 Healing the deep fragmentation, dissociation,
polarization
 Reconnecting our thoughts, emotions and
behaviors to our Self
 Being healthy and loving, able to develop, to
grow, to create
 To focus our energy
 Thus our causal body can focus our intention

19. A Paradoxical Task
 Our language must be understood
 The essence of our work is beyond
description
 Deep work will only manifest through
indirect results

20. If We Use Our Skills...
 …in the service of quick fixes:
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We will get quick fixes
We might be seen as great magicians
 …in the service of creative intelligence:
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We will get the reconnection with the One Mind
That’s the real magic
You can choose

21. The Way
Empty your mind of all thoughts.
Let your heart be at peace...
Each separate being in the universe
returns to the common source.
Returning to the source is serenity...
When you realize where you come from,
you naturally become tolerant,
disinterested, amused,
kindhearted as a grandmother,
dignified as a king...
you can deal with whatever life brings you,
and when death comes, you are ready
– Lao-tzu