ΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
The
therapy of the human soul - An exclusive assignment of our Orthodox
Church
Only
the Orthodox Church can cure the soul; She can cure the noetic
energy;
She can cure the human nous
and
She has the one and only therapeutic method that exists globally
today. It is the method of going through the stages of purification
(κάθαρσις), illumination (φωτισμός), and deification
(θέωσις). So, this unique therapeutic treatment of our soul is
only to be found in the Church, and we have to understand that the
therapy of our soul is an assignment executed exclusively by the
Church and by nobody else.
For
example, when somebody comes to us for confession (I say this for us,
the spiritual fathers), it is totally unacceptable to send this
person for psychological treatment (to a psychiatrist)! Nevertheless,
if this person needs a medical treatment, because of a problem with
his/her nerves, we will have to send them there, indeed, but, not for
the therapy of his soul..., because there's no so-called
psychotherapist who could ever cure their soul!
It
is possible, though, that this person, due to his/her sinful life,
has damaged their nervous system, too. You know, our soul has a
direct impact on our nervous system. If we do big mistakes, if we sin
heavily on our soul, we affect both our body and our central nervous
system. In this case, it is necessary to take on medicine. The
interference of a psychiatrist is crucial. However, what a
psychiatrist practices in this case is not psychiatry per se, but
neurology, he cures the nerves of the patient. Instead of this, he is
sort of not allowed to say he is a psychiatrist, but a neurologist, a
neuro-therapist. He cures the neurotransmitters, the neurons etc.
So,
apparently the term psychiatrist (therapist of the soul, of the
psyche)
is deceiving, without ignoring the good intentions of these people. I
know that most of them are trying to help their fellow beings and,
based on their scientific expertise, they operate on the nervous
system.
Only
Orthodoxy can truly and effectively cure the human soul, by the Holy
Grace, in the Church.
f. Savvas Agioreitis
To be continued...
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