Spiritual Quests, Self Discovery, and Other Early Morning Ramblings

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I love old school psychotherapy - Freud, Jung, the couch, dream interpretation - but it seems this has all been abandoned in favor of those behavior modificationist like B.F. Skinner. It seems with workplace funded mental health, everythings been reduced to the quick fixes of treating depression, family counciling, and the dispensing of drugs.

But that's really not what I want to talk about, you see I tend to be an existentialist, meaning I'm all about free will, taking responsibility for choices made or avoided. I loved I heart Huckabees and wish I too could be an existential detective. All this makes me wonder about where people go to fullfill their "spiritual" needs of self discovery?

I see each life as a work of art that we craft everyday with the decissions we make. I think these decissions have issues of aesthetics as much as they do ethics - but that's my world view.

Religion is typically the resource for spiritual needs, but the institution seems so conformist, presenting answers instead of posing interesting questions. I wonder if this is why so many spiritual alternatives seem to have become popular, such as wicca. But even these seem more heavy on providing answers and less and exploring interesting questions about developing one's self and soul. But maybe I'm wrong about this.

But getting back to my first paragraph, it seems the psychologists of the early 20th Century were on to something as being sort of spiritual guides, mentors, gurus, whatever - that where there for people's personal quests of enlightment, or living the good life. So where does one find a guru these days?