Chris Knight wrote:Yes, Soteria as in Salvation Hebrews 2:10.
Andrew
Yes but the word SOTERIA is Greek right. It's transliteration is "Deliverance" or "Salvation" in Hebrew.
In another sense of this word, the
Soteria project can be characterized as the 24 hour a day application of interpersonal phenomenologic interventions by a nonprofessional staff, usually without neuroleptic drug treatment, in the context of a small, homelike, quiet, supportive, protective, and tolerant social environment.
The core practice of interpersonal phenomenology focuses on the development of a nonintrusive, noncontrolling but actively empathetic relationship with the psychotic (but genius level) person without having to do anything explicitly therapeutic or controlling.
In shorthand, it can be characterized as "being with," "standing by attentively," "trying to put your feet into the other person's shoes," or "being an LSD trip guide".
The aim is to develop, over time, a shared experience of the meaningfulness of the benefator's individual social context-current and historical.
Note, there are no therapeutic "sessions" at Soteria today.
However, in another dimension of reality a great deal of "therapy" took place there as staff worked gently to build bridges, over time, between individuals' emotionally disorganized states to the life events that seemed to have nearly precipitated their psychological disintegration. Participants were eventually cured by the conclusion of project technical research objectives.
The context within the house was one of positive expectations that reorganization and reintegration would occur as a result of these seemingly minimalist interventions.
It is rumoured that the original Soteria project house opened in 1971 in Haight-Ashbury district. Around the same time the CIA was getting interested in refreshing new DATA generated by genius level participants in the research goals.
A replication facility ("Emanon") opened in 1974 in another suburban San Francisco Bay Area city.
This was done because clinically we soon saw that the Soteria method "worked." Many now think the ideas were spreading so fast, they were changing society in unpredictable avenues.
The project first published systematic I-year outcome data in 1974 and 1975 (Mosher and Menn, 1974; Mosher et al., 1975). the last Soteria Project ended in 1983.
In some ways this may be the next "public" Soteria project perhaps? It is left to be seen how many controlling unknows are participating.
And now, maybe, -I just suppose the name soterial has a much deeper meaning to some of us who just think we are kooky "Doc. Emmett Brown" personnality with stringy Einstein hairdos and have a personality that makes outrageous public statements.
Never ask a man in black anything I suppose, because he might tell you the answer and you will be sorry you asked.
Trickfox