The current expansion of logotherapy proves that the alliance between science and religion is coming soon, a fact foreshadowed by Allan Kardec, who wrote, 146 years ago, about the day when science would no longer be exclusively materialistic and would also consider the spiritual and religion elements, taking into consideration its organic and immutable laws, as two forces that are relying on each other and marching combined, shall help each other.
Logotherapy is a psycological theory-practical system created by the Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, which became famous worldwide because of the book “In Search of Meaning “(A Psychologist in the concentration camp), in which Frankl explained about his experiences in the Nazi prisons and launched his line of thought. According to Allport, "it is the most important psychological movement of our times."
Although developed when Frankl was imprisoned in a concentration camp, it was only released in 1949. Ignored by the majority of Brazilian psychologists, it is nevertheless one of the three schools of psychotherapy which is scientifically recognized and it is characterized by printing more humanistic ideas to psychology, ideas that combine, for the first time in psychology, spirituality, religion and Psychotherapy.
According to some scholars, logotherapy, unlike the Freudian school, it is not based on the unconscious of an individual, but in the possibility of their spiritual transcendence and finding a meaning for life.
The need of finding a meaning for life is the basis of the philosophy and therapeutic methodology proposed by Viktor Frankl. And it has proven effective in curing collective neuroses, such as loneliness, aggression and depression.
Frankl's ideas are similar to the spiritist teachings, since the spiritist doctrine clearly defines what is the purpose of our presence on Earth - or, if you like, the meaning of life, topic discussed in the question 132 of the Spirit’s Book, as follows.
- What is the aim of the incarnation of spirits?
"It is a necessity imposed on them by God, as the means of attaining perfection. For some of them it is an expiation; for others, a mission. In order to attain perfection, it is necessary for them to undergo all the vicissitudes of corporeal existence. It is the experience acquired by expiation that constitutes its usefulness. Incarnation has also another aim, namely, that of fitting the spirit to perform his share in the work of creation; for which purpose he is made to assume a corporeal apparatus in harmony with the material state of each world into which he is sent, and by means of which he is enabled to accomplish the special work, in connection with that world which has been appointed to him by the divine ordering. He is thus made to contribute his quota towards the general weal, while achieving his own advancement."
Commenting on the teaching, Kardec explains that human action is needed to march in the universe. But God in his wisdom, has willed that in doing the same action we find a way of progressing and approaching him. So that, by an admirable law of Providence, everything is linked together, everything is supportive in nature and nobody can claim that their presence and their role in the world do not matter, according to the views of the Creator.
