ABSTRACT
Within the past few years there has been a growing interest in spirituality among therapists, counselors, and others who work with people. Many of the therapists with whom I have had discussions about spirituality say that they experience something deeply spiritual in the processes of therapy in general, and in Gestalt therapy in particular, even though most have difficulty defining just what they mean by “spiritual.” I myself believe that the processes of Gestalt therapy are spiritual at their very core, and that a therapist cannot do therapy without employing her own spirituality. The aims of this essay are, first, to clarify the meaning of human spirituality and “the spiritual;” second, to expand our understanding of spiritual phenomena by pointing to numerous spiritual events which occur in everyday experience; and, finally, to show not only that Gestalt theory and its methods imply the employment of spirituality in the processes of therapy, but also in the ways in which our clients go about giving meaning to their lives.
