“From our perspective, the superego is the inner coercive agency that stands against the expansion of awareness and inner development…. It is a substitute, and a cruel one, for direct perception and knowledge. Inner development requires that, in time, there be no internal coercive agencies. There will be, instead, inner regulation based on objective perception, understanding, and love.”
-A.H. Almaas
Are you aware of your own inner-critic as a coercive agency?
What are the early childhood conditions that gave rise to the formation of this inner agency? Your family of origin? Your culture? Your religion?
How do these inner criticisms and judgments prevent you from just being yourself?
This exploration on the inner critic will be shared by Ben Centanni and Dale Sides, teachers of Diamond Approach New Orleans. This topic will be further explored in an introduction to a newly forming group in New Orleans on December 12 and 13.
About the event:
Please join Ben Centanni and Dale Sides on Saturday for an all-day teaching on how to become more conscious of the superego, our inner critic, as an important step to freeing ourselves from its unconscious and oppressive hold on us. To support your process with this teaching a small group led by Dale or Ben will follow on Sunday. This format offers an opportunity to practice Inquiry, the primary practice of the Diamond Approach. The event is part of introductory series for a newly-forming group in New Orleans and will be on Zoom due to COVID19. For more information or to register, please visit our event page.