Traditions

The intellectual and spiritual lineages that feed into the Relational Frontier’s project.

Clinical & Therapeutic

Philosophical

  • Phenomenology — The philosophical study of lived experience from the inside
  • Existentialism — The philosophical tradition of the concrete, finite, anxious, free human being
  • Neoplatonism — The ancient metaphysical tradition of participation, procession, and return; the philosophical backbone of the imaginal tradition

Visionary & Aesthetic

  • The Imaginal Tradition — The lineage of thinkers who took imagination seriously as an organ of perception
  • Romanticism — The literary and artistic movement defending the imagination against Enlightenment reduction; first response to the meaning crisis
  • Mysticism — The contemplative traditions that pursue direct, non-discursive knowledge of the divine or ultimate reality