| This the story of a healing process experienced by the author, including enough autobiographical material to put the story into a comprehensible frame of reference. It is an account of a non-traditional process, which resulted in dramatic and lasting change, facilitated by someone who was not a trained therapist.;The second half of the paper presents the process in a scholarly context. Although it was in many ways an extremely non-traditional process, nevertheless it was also a person-centered, humanistic, psycho-spiritual process. The literature review covers humanistic psychotherapy, using person-centered, gestalt and existential therapies as representatives of this model. It also reviews literature from spiritual traditions: Sufism, Buddhism and contemplative Christianity.;The author discusses the process as a person-centered, humanistic, psychospiritual event, showing how it fulfilled the requirements of these orientations. The author also considers the facilitator's perspective, and the role of love in the healing process. The spiritual nature of three humanistic traditions---person-centered, gestalt and existential---is demonstrated, as well as the nearly identical aims and often, techniques, of spiritual paths and humanistic psychotherapy. |
