Dick Rauscher
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Authentic Spiritual Growth/Conscious Evolution Expert
Dick Rauscher Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Spiritual Growth, Conscious Evolution,
- Career Focus
- Pastoral Psychotherapy, writer
- Affiliation
- Fellow American Association of Pastoral Counselors, Elder United Methodist Church
Dick is retired from 25 years in private practice as a pastoral psychotherapist, a certified Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, a New York State licensed Mental Health Counselor, a writer and publisher of the Stonyhill Spiritual Growth Newsletter, and the author of many other articles published on the Stonyhill.com and stonyhill-nuggets.com on the subjects of authentic spiritual growth, The Primitive Ego Theory of Human Development, and the intentional evolution of human consciousness.
CLINICAL TRAINING includes the Albert Einstein School of Medicine's Cape Cod Institute's Agosin Group Seminar on the Integration of Spirituality and Psychotherapy, the Foundation for Community Enhancement Community Building Workshop and Community Building Skills Seminar & Training Workshop, 2 years with the New York Consortium for Advanced Training in Analytic Psychotherapy, 1 Yr of Post Graduate Clinical Residency in Object Relations Family Therapy, 2 Yrs. of Post graduate Clinical Residency in Analytic Psychotherapy, and 2 Yrs. of Post Graduate PTP Training at the OPCC Hoople Institute.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION includes 15 years with the Upstate NY Family Counseling Center of the Finger Lakes, Individual and Group Supervision w/ the Upstate NY Onondaga Pastoral Counseling Center, the Rochester NY Samaritan Center, and Syracuse University.
WORK EXPERIENCE includes founder and workshop facilitator of the Creative Relationships Institute, 13 Yrs. on the NCNY UMC Conference's Board of Ordained Ministry, 24 Yrs.as Founder and Director/Therapist of the Naples/Canandaigua, NY Family Counseling Center, 4 Yrs. as Chaplain/Therapist at Upstate NY's Keuka College, Chaplain of the Southern Tier Hospice
ACADEMIC EDUCATION includes Masters in Divinity from Colgate Rochester Seminary and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University.
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Bringing Happiness And Meaning Into Our Lives
We achieve happiness and bring meaning and purpose into our lives only as we learn to embrace a higher purpose for our existence; when we learn to expand our worldview beyond our own wants and needs. Meditation teachers, yoga instructors, personal growth coaches, and virtually all mental health counselors echo this same message. The world of an unhappy, depressed, or mentally ill person is very small and restricted; very self-focused.
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You Are A Conscious Co-Creator But Are You Self-Aware?
We call the Consciousness that created our universe "the Creator" because all form is first preceded by consciousness. Most of us have no trouble accepting this concept, but rarely do we move to the next logical step and think about the deeper implications of this simple reality. Over the last 14.7 billion years the universe has slowly evolved from extremely hot hydrogen gas of the Big Bang into stars and galaxies, solid matter, the emergence of life, and eventually human consciousness.
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We must learn how the unconscious judgments of the primitive ego bring the seeds of conflict, and a sense of "othe
ess" into the world. If our personal goal is to do no harm to others or the world, then our thinking must consciously evolve and become more conscious or self-aware.
We will become what we think about and authentic spiritual growth is achieved only when we grow in self-awareness.
The Stonyhill Newsletter explores the insights and spiritual practices required to achieve the authentic spiritual growth that comes from deep self-awareness, understanding the primitive ego that resides in each of us, and the intentional evolution of our species consciousness.
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Stonyhill is dedicated to the exploration and integration of subjects such as authentic spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, intentional growth in self-awareness, the development of a middlepath evolutionary spirituality, and teaching the skills and spiritual practices required to build a compassionate global world.
Stonyhill Nuggets are brief insights on the subjects of Primitive Ego Psychology, developing an authentic spirituality, learning to walk the middlepath toward happiness and enlightenment, developing the skills of emptiness and not knowing, growth in self-awareness, maturing our unconscious primitive ego, and the intentional evolution of human consciousness.
Stonyhill Nuggets are published every Tuesday and Thursday. The Stonyhill Newsletter is published about once a month. Archives of past Stonyhill Nuggets, Stonyhill Newsletters, and in-depth articles on the above subjects, are always posted on the Stonyhill Web site, the Stonyhill Nugget blog site, and the Stonyhill Newsletter blog site.