Limits to Therapy

Donald, yes, the central concept of Wheatley, and of Quantum Physics from which she draws her basic insight, is "self-organization." The universe is a place that runs on "self-organization," and if we intervene with this we do harm to ourselves and others. This is hard for us to accept for we have grown up in a "therapeutic" society - see Ivan Illich on this theme - in which an intervention, therapy, technique, tool (industrial thinking here) exists to fix anything and everybody. Maybe people need to "fix themselves" more. As Buddhism teaches, we cannot really "untie knots" in other people. They must untie their own. Think alcholics and addictions here. We are moving beyond the Industrial Age mindset slowly, surely.