Re:No-thing-ness in psychotherapy

Greetings,

I like your topic very much and I too have found Ken Wilber quite fascinating... but he is fundamentally a philosopher and not a therapist. My view is that the self is nothing more or less than a concept, an idea we have about ourselves in relationship to our world and others. This idea is often exhilirating and often related to suffering, and is perhaps an idea which we could therefore do without. This is I think where no-thing-ness comes into play in therapy: to what extent is our client's suffering attached to this concept of the self.

In terms of books, Alan Watts The Way of Zen is very good on this point as is all the writings of J. Krishnamurti (especially his Commentaries on living. Eptein's Thoughts Without a Thinker is also very good

Bill Wahl

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