PROTOTRUTH
In this Blog we will be talking about a “new” paradigm of Integrative Energy Psychotherapy. When we talk about new things and new concepts, the general tendency is to defend earlier knowledge, or what we may consider to be the truth of the old paradigm, as if they were absolute truths. To avoid this, I want to establish and would appreciate if you adopt, the knowledge that we will be offering here “as if” they were proto-truths.
First of all, we will be working with an old concept which in certain way may sound as new to those who have studied traditional Psychology. We will be working with the concept of the soul, energy, psyche and the spirit. Traditionally many of these concepts are associated to religions and as such are considered religious concepts. We want to study them outside a religious context, which might not be as easy a task as we would like it to be. To facilitate what I want to achieve, I have adopted what Edward de Bono has called proto-truths in his book The Happiness Purpose (1990).
De Bono establishes that a proto-truth is a functional, useful and believable truth, only as long as one is open to enrich or even change it for a better and more functional one at any time.
Hence in cases like this, truth depends on both persons agreeing on a statement one of them has expressed. In fact, I think that to be able to establish what is “true”, a social interaction, identified as a relationship, is needed and both in that relationship must agree and “believe” that which will be established as “true”. If there might be any disagreement on what is to be considered “true”, then from a social perspective there is no truth or truth does not exist. There might be individual truths, but there would be no social or group truth. In other words, for there to be a social truth, all member of the group must agree and believe on that which will be considered “true”.
My dear reader, for the effect of this new paradigm, I ask you to agree with me and to act “as if” what we are establishing in the Integrative Energy Psychotherapy is “true”, as long as it is functional, and to work with me striving to understand the human soul. You will always be able to enrich and even change it if you find another truth which would more functional than ours. I ask you that, if and when that might happen, please share it with me because I want my “truth” to be each time “truer” and nearer the knowledge we are searching. That is the real objective of science, finding new “truths” that can get us every time nearer to the absolute truth.
In this Blog we will be talking about a “new” paradigm of Integrative Energy Psychotherapy. When we talk about new things and new concepts, the general tendency is to defend earlier knowledge, or what we may consider to be the truth of the old paradigm, as if they were absolute truths. To avoid this, I want to establish and would appreciate if you adopt, the knowledge that we will be offering here “as if” they were proto-truths.
First of all, we will be working with an old concept which in certain way may sound as new to those who have studied traditional Psychology. We will be working with the concept of the soul, energy, psyche and the spirit. Traditionally many of these concepts are associated to religions and as such are considered religious concepts. We want to study them outside a religious context, which might not be as easy a task as we would like it to be. To facilitate what I want to achieve, I have adopted what Edward de Bono has called proto-truths in his book The Happiness Purpose (1990).
De Bono establishes that a proto-truth is a functional, useful and believable truth, only as long as one is open to enrich or even change it for a better and more functional one at any time.
Hence in cases like this, truth depends on both persons agreeing on a statement one of them has expressed. In fact, I think that to be able to establish what is “true”, a social interaction, identified as a relationship, is needed and both in that relationship must agree and “believe” that which will be established as “true”. If there might be any disagreement on what is to be considered “true”, then from a social perspective there is no truth or truth does not exist. There might be individual truths, but there would be no social or group truth. In other words, for there to be a social truth, all member of the group must agree and believe on that which will be considered “true”.
My dear reader, for the effect of this new paradigm, I ask you to agree with me and to act “as if” what we are establishing in the Integrative Energy Psychotherapy is “true”, as long as it is functional, and to work with me striving to understand the human soul. You will always be able to enrich and even change it if you find another truth which would more functional than ours. I ask you that, if and when that might happen, please share it with me because I want my “truth” to be each time “truer” and nearer the knowledge we are searching. That is the real objective of science, finding new “truths” that can get us every time nearer to the absolute truth.
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