If you are grounded in your experience, you can forgive yourself and your fellow beings and love life. Founding president of the Gestalt Institute of Washington, D.C., Blanton trained in Gestalt therapy with Fritz Perls. He established the Stress Management Science Institute and the Center for Radical Honesty. He lives in Virginia with his wife, daughter and son. He spoke with Nexus publisher Ravi Dykema at our Boulder offices.
Radical honesty is about no longer being dominated by our minds.
It's not just a revolution within one cultural context. In the '60s, we were discovering that there wasn't any particular reason to trust authority. We realized that there was no reason why dead people, like traditional philosophers or thinkers, should have more votes about how we live. And there is no reason why even older people should know better about how we should live than we do. We all need to question authority and to recognize that you ultimately are the authority in your own life, period.