12 Spirituality Studies 9-1 Spring 2023 Realms of Consciousness and the Real In our post-Enlightenment world, reality has been reduced to only that which can be known through the faculty of reason, or empirically verified by the five senses; all higher levels of knowing have virtually been banished. Current approaches to psychotherapy have failed to discern that, without a proper understanding of the mind in all its dimensions, any discussion about effective mental health is not even possible. This paper seeks to demonstrate that certain pernicious limitations in modern Western psychology today have served to distort our understanding of consciousness. This, in turn, has undermined our ability to deliver efficacious mental health treatment, where every dimension of a human being is taken into account. Samuel Bendeck Sotillos Received February 28, 2023 Revised March 14, 2023 Accepted March 15, 2023 Key words Consciousness, perennial psychology, mind, epistemology
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