23 December: "you have to move towards the 5th dimension..."

So, work sent me to this counsellor type guy (he calls it 'corporate coaching'). He is freaking me out. His "thing" is like a mixture of a whole pot pourri of ideas that take in Jungian psychology, Buddhist meditation, weird New Age stuff, transpersonal psychology, and Shamanism.

But at the same time as being influenced by Jung, he's telling me that what happened in the past is completely irrelevant to what happens now (thereby skewering the sacred cow of psychoanalytic theory). He also, at one point, seemed to advocate the use of LSD and MDMA in therapeutic settings.

He also has this thing about dimensions. He spent a long time explaining to me that most people only thought in 3 dimensions, or sometimes even less, but that we needed to get into the 4th (dreams) and then the 5th (collective unconsciousness, I think) dimensions. And that it was his goal to guide me into the 5th dimension, and that then I'd be able to guide [people I deal with in my work] in the same way.

Weird thing is, at one point he was talking like these dimensions were the actual dimensions we experience (height, width etc) and at another point, as though people could exist in less than 3 dimensions. So I can't work out if they were metaphors or what.

Oh, he also had some suggestions about how by focusing my energies on one person (his idea, not mine) I was shutting myself off to other people and not letting them into my inner thoughts (which I aren't, basically). I think he thinks I'm going to have a heart attack, as well, because my heart is in turmoil (or so he says).

Ugh. I just looked at his business card. He's got several teaching degrees, a BA, and BA (Hons) in Psychology. In other words, he's got the same qualification as I have. And I'm being sent to this guy as some kind of counsellor! Does that seem stupid to anyone? 
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