ABSTRACT
Happiness is the original true nature of all being. The nature of happiness, in other words, is the happiness of Nature. Psychotherapy is the discipline most concerned with individual happiness and its lack. A dialogue would seem to be coming into focus between the basic forms of spirituality, the new findings of neuroscience and the experience of psychotherapy, based on new understandings of what it means to be human, taking into consideration the view from within and without, both the first and the third person perspectives. Moreover, there is a cogent argument that much of psychotherapy, with its over-emphasis on the individual and the inner, on the private perspective of the isolated individual, has often exacerbated the very alienation that brought many into therapy in the first place. Rather than reconciling the individual to the world and to society, such psychotherapy has focused only on individuality and uniqueness and the right to happiness.
