What is Basic Sanity? Existential and Buddhist Perspectives Workshop with Ken Bradford

Workshop Details  Psychology has detailed knowledge about insanities, having compiled a compendium of 'mental disorders' displayed in the DSM and ICD. But what does Psychology know about sanities in general and basic, unconditioned sanity in particular? This workshop will explore 2 kinds of sanity. One is the usual, everyday sort which is conditional to the society one dwells within. A person may be considered crazy or insane if they do not accord to the range of normality of consensus reality. Adapting to a social reality opens the way for one to survive and thrive. But they may also mean one is adapting to a sick society. Thus, one can only be relatively sanity given those conditions. There is another kind of sanity. One more basic, far-reaching and unconditioned by either social constructions or personality proclivities. Psychology does not well understand this more open-ended, unconditional intelligence. This workshop includes a presentation sketching out these differences, open discussion to clarify things, and a guided inquiry/meditation to better attune to unconditional presence, spoken of in Buddhism as bodhi, the wakefulness of basic sanity. Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Distinguish the difference between conditioned and unconditioned awareness.
• Describe basic sanity as understood in Buddhist Psychology
• Describe conditional sanity as relative to consensus reality

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Therapists, meditators and students of psychology and Buddhism

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• It will inform Existential and experience-near practices of psychological and energy healing