GOING SANE: YOUR MEANINGFUL LIFE TASK & THE LOGOS IN LIFE COACHING

Dr. Viktor Frankl (Man's Search For Meaning), the Jewish survivor of a Nazi Concentration Camp, and later psychotherapist and founder of LogoTherapy (think "Logos") focused his counselees on discovering The Meaningful Life Task. (As a Christian Life Coach, I utilize this concept and also teach the person to center on its synonymous parallel, the Call of God--think "Jonah.")

Truth (as Harry Blamires wrote) is a rock--not a consensus. Every thoughtful person desiring to live the reflective life (the all-too-rare-it-seems-nowadays) reader, thinker, and truth-seeker will hopefully come to grips with the profound meaning of The Logos, encapsulated in The Anointed One--the Christ. Man needs the Rock upon which (Whom) to cast his anchor.

In my too-short-two-year study of First Century Greek, I began to uncover, in the Gospel of John, the Word--the Logos of God ("In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."). The Logos, Who holds the universe together by His power, the Logos, the central, organizing force--Who also cerebrally leads the sincerely-seeking thinker into His clear thinking--His Logic--into His boundaried arena of 'reasoning together' walling out toxic irrationality (thought disorders), red herrings, rabbit trails, virulent anxiety, mood swings, impulsivity, tribal customs, illusionality--even delusionality.

There is a super-rationality in The Call of God and its consequent Meaningful Life Task which is (albeit a 'going sane' spiritually) may appear 'crazy and foolish' to the uninitiated--to the pagan or spiritual philistine onlooker living outside the system of the Christian's purpose, raison d'etre, and Call. For a follower of Jesus, this is not the disorder of integrity and disease of responsibility of the schizophrenic or schizotypal--but the sensible, ordered thought process of "Christ in you the hope of Glory."

Studying the history of scientific researchers, inventors, writers, artists, composers--some may not have discovered the Logos--but I find the key to their creative sanity to have a common denominator--their centering on a meaningful life task--the wisdom of an organizing focus (",..this one thing I do..." --think the Apostle Paul).

Jesus called His disciples to meaningfulness Pneumatologically (think the Holy Spirit and the Book of Acts) because God created the human personality to be a Pneumatic instrument--dynamically Wind-powered--Holy Spirit driven. The human personality is not to be driven by ideas, ideologies, or templated concepts (think Marx--or perhaps even Warren..?) but by the mind of Christ and the "life and peace" of the "mind of the Spirit." In Dementia, we see a breakdown of Executive function--planning, organizing, prioritizing. Executive functions (cognitively) lie within the domain of the Holy Spirit's work in the human mind.

"In Him e live and move and have our being." --the Apostle Paul

All one's necessary wisdom and knowledge rests in Christ, our Lord and Savior. But without the mind of Christ the psyche remains deceived, irrational, anchorless. Powerless without the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, the human being cannot discover his meaningful life task, his reason to be--cannot achieve the escape velocity to defeat the gravitational pull of sin and evil.

One cannot 'go sane' cognitively and spiritually and find his meaningful life task--without the mind of Christ.

(excerpt: unpublished work-in-progress):
GOING SANE:
Your Meaningful Life Task
& The Logos in Life Coaching
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