ABSTRACT
Spiritual knowing borrows from many sources including extraordinary, uncanny knowing and enhanced permeability of self-states, the latter put forth by the relational psychoanalytic model. These avenues of spiritual knowing came together psychodynamically to play an intricate role in both the analyst’s transformation and the creation of the transcendent Third in the analytic relationship. Both the analyst and analysand became able to loosen rigidities of dissociated self “truths,” to have the faith to know previously unknown aspects of themselves, and better sit with uncertainty. Both were freed from old mindsets and better able together to experience a far-reaching inclusiveness and greater sense of equanimity.
