But in the practical order, I'd bet on psychotherapy involving "talk therapy" and spiritual direction as the most practical contexts in which I-thou experiences might occur.
Next, I should explain that I understand I-thou experiences as involving what Anthony Stevens refers to as archetypal healing, which is what archetypal wounding requires, according to Stevens. Archetypal wounding is the source of what Bradshaw refers to as toxic shame. As the Malones indicate, I-thou experiences are win-win experiences for the two participants, because we have all had manifold experiences of archetypal wounding and are therefore in much need of archetypal healing.
In a series of five books, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette have outlined our manifold archetypal wounding, which produces what they refer to as "shadow" forms of the archetypes of maturity in the archetypal level of the human psyche. The "shadow" forms are the result of archetypal wounding, so archetypal healing is needed to correct the archetypal wounding. Archetypal healing occurs in I-thou experiences.
In different parts of my book WALTER ONG'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL STUDIES: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE WORD AND I-THOU COMMUNICATION (2000; rev. ed. 2010), I have discussed the work of Bradshaw, Moore and Gillette, Stevens, the Malones, and Buber.
In any event, Bradshaw's RECLAIMING VIRTUE deserves to be a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
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