Integrating Spirituality and Psychotherapy, with Dr. Ron Mann

Wise Talkers

This third full episode of Wise Talkers features an interview with psychotherapist Dr. Ron Mann that I conducted in 1981. Dr. Mann’s life and career was greatly influenced by a workshop he took in Hawaii in 1976 with Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. The immediately preceding episode of Wise Talkers featured my 1981 interview with Kübler-Ross – and this 1981 interview with Ron Mann is a natural sequel.In our interview, Ron relates some extraordinary mystical experiences he had during his 1976 ...

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1. Integrating Spirituality and Psychotherapy, with Dr. Ron Mann (00:00:00)

2. Segue from Kübler-Ross episode (00:00:06)

3. Dr. Ron Mann will talk about mystical experiences in 1976 Kübler-Ross workshop and since (00:01:25)

4. 1981 interview with Ron Mann begins; working with people who “happen to be dying”… And others (00:03:47)

5. Scuba diving experience shows Ron that consciousness exists beyond the body (00:04:56)

6. Ron’s mystical experiences in Kübler-Ross workshop – first frightening, then merging with a ball of light (00:07:51)

7. “I live to some degree in a mystical reality” – waking and sleeping interpenetrating. Death, dreaming and the super-conscious state. (00:14:31)

8. A van full of people hear a choir of spirits on trip to Haleakala (00:20:55)

9. No need to convince anybody; scientific as well as esoteric explanations (00:22:06)

10. Esoteric teachings: physical, astral, and causal planes. Our journey back to pure consciousness. (00:24:46)

11. Ron describes PhD education and early career as psychotherapist in Beverly Hills (00:26:15)

12. After Hawaii workshop, mystical experiences with clients became common; seeing light bodies and rivers of energy; using intuition to understand the messages (00:29:47)

13. Merging with patient’s experience to understand, then moving back out. (00:34:39)

14. Helping people learn about love by being in a loving state. (00:36:36)

15. The soul is real; the drop of soul in the ocean of spirt. The soul is perfection, exquisite beauty. (00:38:32)

16. The essential personality feels the flow of the Tao in the body; psychotherapy helps clear the blockages. Life’s difficulties are the pathway. (00:40:38)

17. Mystical experiences misunderstood; Ron guides a scared 11 y.o. boy lost in a mental ocean to a wizard who guides him to safety. (00:43:54)