Dr. Maurie Pressman

To my knowledge very little has been written or studied about that most important function of Consciousness – Will.

Sri Aurobindo, a recent Master and one of our greatest teachers. had this to say.

From Sri Aurobindo: Life Divine, page 14…
“…Will is only consciousness applying itself to a work and a result.

What is that work and result, if not a self-involution of Consciousness in form and a self-evolution out of form so as to actualize some mighty possibility in the universe which it has created”?
MY COMMENT:

What does it mean that “Will is … Continue Reading

I don’t know how much meditation is known in its very real and core essential. I do know that I used to understand it only superficially, but I have learned. Meditation is the gateway to a new world, a greater mind, a capacity we have that is infinite and divine in its essential.

Years ago I had the privilege of having private darshan (audience) with Muktananda. I was very Westernized at the time, to say the least. In his presence, however, I felt an enormous surge o love in my heart and a huge … Continue Reading

Like most people, I longed to be immortal, but was trained to believe that I was NOT. I could not be; I was a body and that was that.

I saw too much of death and of the end of things when I was in medical school: working on a cadaver and subsequently in the hospitals watching the last breaths of life. I witnessed the last peaceful expirations of my own mother.

All of this seemed to me like the end of things. It was attended by fear, great fear. More than that, hopelessness, helplessness, … Continue Reading

Finding your true spiritual partner is your soul’s destiny. It is determined by the Great Creator. It is pre-planned. It is inevitable. It is only the hindrances of personality that get in the way, – and these I would like to address.

First of all it is determined:

Thirty years ago, Patricia Joudry received a spiritual vision which transformed her from a successful, and material, playwright-author to a spiritual chela (apprentice). Since that time she has trod the path of personal and spiritual development in response to high intuitions and dedication to improving her … Continue Reading

For years I struggled

- with myself as a patient,
- with my understanding of patients,
- trying hard to know what it is that gives the sense of reality, — the impact, the conviction the something is true.

I could not find it.

Admittedly, I was (am) given to “Intellectualization”, using words instead of contacting the feeling/meaning. I had a hard time in my personal training-analysis. When my analyst said, “Intellectualization is your chief defense”, I didn’t know what to do with it.

Then Muktananda arrived on the scene.

Muktananda was an Indian sage, sent from … Continue Reading

I believe that the development of the personality toward beneficence (becoming “Gooder”) is development toward reaching higher spiritual realms.

As a clinician I have observed when I called an actual goodness within-natural buoyancy of the soul. I have seen this repeatedly in group therapy. After a short period of time, the group unites and develops a family feeling. Each member can hardly wait to be helpful to the other. It is a natural rising of the goodness within.

We owe a great debt to Freud and the study of psychoanalysis, for he has laid … Continue Reading

Some years ago I read about the consciousness of the atom in the Alice Bailey books. I was both surprised and then satisfied. Of course there is a consciousness there; not the self-reflective mind that we humans carry, but a consciousness nevertheless, — an intelligence. It is an intelligence that pervades everything.

Isn’t it clever of the electrons and protons to know exactly where to go in order to create the hydrogen atom? And isn’t it intelligent for two hydrogen atoms to find an oxygen atom with which to unite, and to form water. … Continue Reading

Real Relationships

Speaking of the beauties and the imperatives of long-term psychotherapy, allows me to speak meaningfully of human relationships, deep human relationships. In this case, I am speaking of the Spirit in relationships, the capacity for relationships, the gift for growth in relationships – growth of self, other and society as well. This is urgent today in view of the fact that we live in a fast food culture, where speed and the worship of technology diminish both humanity and human interchange. We are in despair; we are in ill health; we are … Continue Reading

The Hindu literature states that God created in three waves of force:

- The first wave, Will-Force-Intention
- The second wave, Love-Wisdom
- The third wave, Active-Intelligence

Will-Force-Intention is the masculine component, cosmoslogicaly speaking, Love-Wisdom is the feminine–the creative bed, the nurturer. When the two meet, Will-Force-Intention inseminates Love-Wisdom and produces the child, Active-Intelligence or materialization.. This trinity-formula is an archetype-stencil for all creation. Masculine meets feminine creating child. Positive meets negative bringing forth a new product. Activity provokes the Void and creates creation.

Attention is the great vivifying force. Wherever it lands, something lives. Attention is at the … Continue Reading

Intuition is innate.  It is a latent channel to the cosmic mind.  How do we get there?  Let me tell you my experience.

I was taught, as most everyone is, to honor the “objective.”  The subjective feelings were things which distorted true knowledge, was the social edict.  I began one day to respect my intuition when I was observing Joe Sandler (celebrated British psychoanalyst) in a discussion with Leo Madow (Chairman, Psychoanalyst at Women’s College of Pennsylvania).  After the presentation, I told Joe, who was staying with me as a friend, that “I thought that Leo was competitive with you.”  Joe … Continue Reading