ABSTRACT
In gestalt therapy awareness is the spontaneous sensing of what arises within us in response to our situation. Awareness is a form of experience. It is the process of being in vigilant contact with the most important event in the individual/environment field with full sensorimotor, emotional, cognitive, and energetic support. The author believes that awareness and spiritual sensitivity are cousins. One cannot be spiritually sensitive without being aware, but awareness alone does not make one spiritually sensitive. The intentionality in spiritual sensitivity is of the process of being in contact with God, of the developing knowledge and experience of God’s presence. Spiritual sensitivity that is of the psychological attitude does not focus on the sacred. It is mundane, and the sensitivity with respect to the pneumenal field is of aesthetic value alone, an end in itself, a turning down into the earth, the natural, or the empirical.
