DWQA Questions › Tag: Man’s Search for MeaningFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesToday’s questions for Creator are taken from or inspired by Dr. Viktor Frankl’s comprehensive book The Doctor and the Soul. Dr. Frankl was already a world renowned psychiatrist when he and his family were captured and sent to the German concentration camps. He was the only member of his family to survive the ordeal. When Dr. Frankl first entered the camp, he had with him an unpublished manuscript of The Doctor and the Soul. He was horrified as the Nazi guards took the only remaining copy of his life’s work, and quickly destroyed it, utterly ignoring his desperate protests. In a very real sense, Frankl himself became the crucible of the destroyed manuscript’s contents, forced by circumstances to become the principal test subject of his own insights and theories through his own horrific experiences. How much of this was due to karmic factors, versus a backlash from the interlopers for his successful career and contributions to the mental health field?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics257 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “… even a man who finds himself in the greatest distress in which neither activity nor creativity can bring values to life, nor experience give meaning to it, even such a man can still give his life a meaning by the way he faces his fate, his distress. By taking his unavoidable suffering upon himself he may yet realize values. Thus life has meaning to the last breath … The right kind of suffering—facing your fate without flinching—is the highest achievement granted to man.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics266 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “It goes without saying that the realization of attitudinal values, the achievement of meaning through suffering, can take place only when the suffering is unavoidable.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics248 views0 answers0 votesFrankl quoted the great psychiatrist Dubois: “Of course one can manage without all that (dealing with a patient’s existential spiritual crisis) and still be a doctor, but in that case one should realize that the only thing that makes us different from the veterinarian is the clientele.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics245 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Freud once said, ‘Try and subject a number of strongly differentiated human beings to the same amount of starvation. With the increase of the imperative need for food, all individual differences will be blotted out, and, in their place, we shall see the uniform expression of the one unsatisfied instinct.'” But Frankl by dint of direct experience, not supposition, knew better: “But in the concentration camps, we witnessed the contrary; we saw while faced with the identical situation, one man degenerated while another attained virtual saintliness.” Freud’s is the atheist’s “untested” perspective, and one we assume is shared by the interlopers. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics259 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics244 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Previously the only obvious philosophical tenet that entered into the doctor’s work was the tacit affirmation of the value of health. Now we need to worry about WHY he (the patient) needs the health.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics251 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “A doctor should not prescribe a tranquilizer care for the despair of a man who is grappling with spiritual problems.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics239 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “It is philosophical dilettantism (or amateurism) to rule out, for example, the existence of a divine being on the ground that the idea of God arose out of primitive man’s fear of powerful natural forces. It is equally false to judge the worth of a work of art by the fact that the artist created it in, say, a psychotic phase of his life.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics239 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “Man should not ask what he may expect from life, but should rather understand that life expects something from him.” Can Creator share with us what Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol require from the human individual? In other words, what remains within the domain of the individual to work out? Is it true that prayer and the LHP can make choices and leaps of faith easier, but cannot MAKE those choices? Are the choices themselves, the leaps of faith, left to the individual to accomplish as in the saying, you can lead a horse to water, but cannot make it drink? What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics243 views0 answers0 votesToday’s questions for Creator were taken from Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s transcendent account of his time in a Nazi concentration camp, his book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl was already a successful psychiatrist when he entered the camps as a captured Jew. He was to later learn that his entire family died in the camps and he emerged the sole survivor. He endured great suffering. But while it’s safe to assume that he was resolving personal karma through this incredible trial and travail, he also approached the experience as an opportunity, a “divine mission” to put it plainly. To study evil up close and personal, to learn all he could, and to try and find a means by which it might be conquered. What is Creator’s perspective and what was the mix of karma and mission life that Frankl navigated?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics383 views0 answers0 votesFrankl, in recounting his experience of being reduced to a possession-less slave in the concentration camp wrote: “A thought transfixed me: For the first time in my life I saw the truth … The truth that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved … For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, ‘The angels are lost in the perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.'” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics265 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “My mind still clung to the image of my wife. A thought crossed my mind: I didn’t even know if she was still alive. I knew only one thing – which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance … ‘Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.'” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics266 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics255 views0 answers0 votesFrankl wrote: “In the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not the result of camp influences alone.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Metaphysics233 views0 answers0 votes
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