ALBISETTIAN PSICOSPIRITUAL ANALYSIS

CONVERSION
In Albisettian Psychospiritual Analysis the process of conversion isn’t only a matter of the will, the reason, but also of the psyche, the unconscious. Consent and contrition are still of fundamental importance, but, for me, the processes of self-analysis and self-criticism must be added to those. That doesn’t mean that Christian conversion can be reduced to a psychoanalytical technique, since we’re told that the origin and the goal of all change must always be the Lord God – to return to Him from whom we came. Albisettian-type self-analysis presumes clear-eyed and realistic self-knowledge and a move toward self-improvement, as best one can. Thus defined, the capacity to really look at oneself, beyond one’s appearance and posturing, must become a way of life. With that end in mind, founder Albisetti advises learning silence, listening, solitude, meditation, contemplation, and nonverbal prayer. To be converted in the Albisettian view means plunging deeply into one’s own inner being and uncovering there one’s perverse, narcissistic, and passive-aggressive inclinations – focusing on them, conquering them, and transforming them. Albisettian conversion passes through the biblical desert – a place where one can be re-born or die. And once converted, one must live according to God’s word, as far as possible, and thus move forward acting according to God’s will. Without constant application, there can be no friendship or intimacy with God – the relationship will remain superficial. Once converted it’s necessary to let the fruit of conversion blossom and grow to maturity – not remain a seedling. May God continue to bless all our efforts in this regard.

WAYS TO GO DEEPER via Albisettian Psychospiritual Analysis

Turn back to God
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(Joel 2:13) “Tear your hearts and not your clothes, and come back to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, rich in faithful love, and he relents about inflicting disaster.”

Repentance and conversion are connected.
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(Acts 3:19-21) “Now you must repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, and so that the Lord may send the time of comfort. Then he will send you the Christ he has predestined, that is Jesus, whom heaven must keep till the universal restoration comes which God proclaimed, speaking through his holy prophets.”

Honest self-analysis
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(James 1:22-25) “But you must do what the Word tells you and not just listen to it and deceive yourselves. Anyone who listens to the Word and takes no action is like someone who looks at his own features in a mirror and, once he has seen what he looks like, goes off and immediately forgets it. But anyone who looks steadily at the perfect law of freedom and keeps to it – not listening and forgetting, but putting it into practice – will be blessed in every undertaking.”

The word of God helps one descend to the deepest part of one’s being.
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(Hebrews 4:12, 13) “The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts more incisively than any two-edged sword: it can seek out the place where soul is divided from spirit, or joints from marrow; it can pass judgment on secret emotions and thoughts. No created thing is hidden from him; everything is uncovered and stretched fully open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.”

Conversion leads to faith and to a real living of it, resulting in a renewal of one’s whole personality.
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(James 2:14-17) “How does it help, my brothers, when someone who has never done a single good act claims to have faith? Will that faith bring salvation? (…….) In the same way faith: if good deeds do not go with it, it is quite dead.”
(Ephesians 4: 23, 24) “Your mind was to be renewed in spirit so that you could put on the New Man that has been created on God’s principles, in the uprightness and holiness of truth.”

Strong faith makes us upright – friends and intimates of God’s.
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(Proverbs 3:32) “…for the willful wrong-doer is abhorrent to God, who confides only in the honest.”

The blessing of God enriches us.
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(Proverbs 10:22) “The blessing of God is what brings riches, to this, hard toil has nothing to add.”