Self-Realization: And the Journey Beyond Ego

by Hubert Benoît, Graham Rooth (Translator)

Not enough religion in science, not enough science in religion: where and when will a world view emerge which incorporates and transcends these two determining aspects of our civilization?

Hubert Benoit was someone who incorporated these conflicting perspectives creatively into his work as a psychotherapist. This book was completed towards the end of his life and contains a distillation of his thoughts and experience.

82 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 22, 2015

About the author

Hubert Benoit (1904–1992) was a 20th-century French psychotherapist whose work foreshadowed subsequent developments in integral psychology and integral spirituality.[1][2] His special interest and contribution lay in developing a pioneering form of psychotherapy which integrated a psychoanalytic perspective with insights derived from Eastern spiritual disciplines, in particular from Ch'an and Zen Buddhism.[3] He stressed the part played by the spiritual ignorance of Western culture in the emergence and persistence of much underlying distress. He used concepts derived from psychoanalysis to explain the defences against this fundamental unease, and emphasised the importance of an analytic, preparatory phase, while warning against what he regarded as the psychoanalytic overemphasis on specific causal precursors of symptomatology.[4] He demonstrated parallels between aspects of Zen training and the experience of psychoanalysis. He constructed an account in contemporary psychological terms of the crucial Zen concept of satori and its emergence in the individual

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I first started reading this book, I thought, "Oh no, Hubert's gone soft on me and is back to the idea of God and conventional metaphysics," but as I read on I was happy to see that this is a very useful and in some ways more accessible elaboration on the ideas of The Supreme Doctrine. His arguments on behalf of humility as the key to Realization are inspiring, and this short book is well worth reading if you're interested in Zen and/or Benoit.