Psycho-Spiritual Evolution - An Interview with Dr. Neal Goldsmith

Is there such a thing as mental psychosis or neurosis? What impact do entheogens have on human maturation? What are the 10 lessons of psychedelic psychotherapy? What impact can psychedelics have on clinical practice? What is it like when the doctor asks to become the patient at Burning Man?

Today's guest is Dr. Neal Goldsmith.

Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist specializing in psychospiritual development and resistance to change. Seeing neurosis as the natural unfolding of human maturation, he views psychology as the science of personal emergence and spiritual maturity. With the exception of biologically-based diseases, such as schizophrenia, psychology is not about mental illness and so Dr. Goldsmith treats neurosis as spiritual immaturity, not pathology. In fact, he believes the sick label itself tightens and distorts, actually slowing healthy realignment.

Dr. Goldsmith applies innovative techniques drawn from many schools of thought and traditional practices, such as Psychosynthesis, Imago Relationship Therapy, regressive psychotherapies, Rogerian client-centered counseling, yoga psychology, and other humanistic, transpersonal and eastern traditions. He facilitates deep life review, awakening to personal history, and life planning, with a special focus on existential and midlife crisis and with young adults suffering from lack of direction or substance abuse. Dr. Goldsmith is particularly helpful with couples many feeling in-love again after years of vicious cycles.

Dr. Goldsmith has a masters degree in counseling from New York University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Claremont Graduate University, with an orientation toward action science in the tradition of Kurt Lewin. Dr. Goldsmith conducted his dissertation research, on the factors that facilitate or inhibit the successful utilization of mental health policy research, as a federally-funded doctoral research assistant at Princeton University. He was also deputy principal investigator of this four-year, nation-wide study of mental health policy research utilization.

Author of dozens of popular and scholarly articles, Dr. Goldsmith is a frequent speaker on spiritual emergence, resistance to change, transpersonal psychology, drug policy reform and the post-modern future of society. He has worked to improve the innovation process and facilitate the management of change, for companies such as American Express, AT&T and Gartner.

http://www.nealgoldsmith.com

Hear the full interview at: http://www.gnosticmedia.com/032-psycho-spiritual-evolution-an-interview-with-...

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[imyoda69]

this is great, thank you.

[winstono75]

Why would he make an exception for schizophrenia? There is no more reason to think that the diverse experiences labeled as schizophrenia are caused by biology. Only the pharmaceutical industry has anything to gain from that viewpoint.

[winstono75]

@hilbertdepilbert The only people who are capable of distinguishing between more "pathological" experiences and growth experiences are people who have had some spiritual experiences themselves. Transpersonal psychologists have a pretty good understanding, but unfortunately there aren't too many of them.

[winstono75]

@hilbertdepilbert I was not able to play it from your channel, it was blocked by the BBC, but I think I found the same Terrence McKenna video. I agree with everything he says. How society reacts to and defines these unusual experiences can have a potentially enormous effect on the direction the process will take.

I do not believe that there is any such thing as a defect in dopamine levels, it is all correlation.

[hilbertdepilbert]

@winstono75

You should take a look at my channel.I have a video,schizophrenic or shamanic.I would like to see a comment from you on that video.

No not all schizophrenics are spiritually influenced,the big question in this is how to find out who is in a maturation process and who has just a defect in the dopaminelevels.MY personal experience(i'm schizophrenic)Is that if anti-psychotic drugs don't work,it's a good thing to seek guidance in other area's then the psychiatry.

[winstono75]

@hilbertdepilbert There is correlation with DMT, but I don't suppose you mean that DMT is the original cause of itself.

I wouldn't say that schizophrenia flatly is a spiritual maturation process, although in some cases it certainly is.

[hilbertdepilbert]

@winstono75

I agree 100% with you.I even think schizophrenia the most difficult spiritual maturation process a person can experience in the western world.There is a biological aspect to it.The amount of DMT released in schizophrenics is far greater then in avergae persons.But the chemical DMT is in every culture associated with the spiritual realms.A schizophrenic is influenced by this mystical chemical constantly.

[sk8nboomer900]

more time of neal talking lol