Metapsychiatry is the name given to a spiritual teaching and form of psychotherapy developed by psychiatrist Thomas Hora, M.D. (1914–1995) in the second half of the 20th century. It asserts that “the meaning and purpose of life are to come to know reality.” It defines Reality as the underlying benevolent intentionality of the universe; also as “God” or “Love-Intelligence” or “Infinite Mind.”
Metapsychiatry offers what it labels “the two intelligent questions” as the principal tools by which truth can be sought and realized:
1. What is the meaning of what seems to be? Or What is the meaning of my experience? (known in philosophy as the phenomenological question)2. What is what really is? (known in philosophy as the ontological question)
The qualities of peace,
assurance, gratitude and love
(creating the acronym PAGL) are cited as indicating when
that state of blissful equanimity has been attained, and are used as criteria
by which to evaluate the viability of possible courses of action.
“Nothing comes into experience uninvited.”
“Existentially invalid thoughts” are the sole source of all problems in life
Dr. Hora said, “All problems are psychological”, meaning they are thoughts that are manifesting themselves in a certain form, and that, “All solutions are spiritual,” he means that the only way to solve the problem is not on the level of the problem, its on the level of the spiritual. http://www.metapsychiatry.org/Transcripts.htmlIdeas expressed:
- Gratitude is the door to joy; seriousness is a killjoy.
- Our thoughts, values and beliefs determine the quality of our life experiences.
- Suffering comes from wanting and not wanting.
- God is a principle of infinite Love-Intelligence, available to us at all times, whether we know it or not.
- Love is paying attention in order to understand.
- The presence of PAGL (Peace, Assurance, Gratitude, Love) is a criterion by which we can know, in advance, whether or not we are heading in the right direction when making choices and decisions.
Meditation on Psalm 23
Similar to Christian Science, Transcendentalism and New Thought teachings
“… We have built a new road which is neither religious, nor materially scientific, nor political. We have come to understand it as an epistemological method of truth realization. Metapsychiatry came into the world to put soul into psychiatry and to breathe the life of Spirit into the ‘valley of dry bones.’” Thomas Hora http://www.pagl.org/main-landing/the-works/
“You are not to want anything. Everything
everywhere is already all right” The Power of
PAGL by Ruth Robins
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