Welcome to Ousia Analysis

(formerly Aion Psychodynamic Coaching)

Recursive dialectical inquiry, education, spiritual practice, and mentorship with William Apple. 

Ousia Analysis is a nonclinical, educational, philosophical, social, and spiritual practice of recursive dialectical inquiry. William Apple works within this practice as an educator, mentor, and guide; he is not a licensed psychologist, therapist, counselor, or mental-health provider, and Ousia Analysis is not psychotherapy, counseling, diagnostic assessment, psychological treatment, crisis intervention, or mental-health care.

 

Now…why are you here?

 

I do not know.

 

Perhaps you do.

 

And, perhaps, different aspects of you would answer differently, in equal proportion to their number.
 

Or, perhaps you have arrived with little more than the recognition that something here has asked you to stop for a moment and consider the question.

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Why are you here? 

 

Jung observed that human beings will do “almost anything to avoid facing their own souls, gradually turning the soul into a kind of Nazareth, from which nothing good is expected to come”.

This observation sits near the center of this Work and Ousia Analysis, because of the very real fact that we are all born into worlds that repeatedly teach us that the authoritative answer to who we are must come from somewhere outside of us.

 

And so we read, study, pray, meditate, analyze, organize, optimize, adopt disciplines, enter traditions, and seek teachers. And, any of these options may in fact develop into an honest relationship with the soul; and, likewise, any of them may also become another means through which we remain outside it.

The difference between these outcomes cannot be determined by the name or style of the practice, or by the authority of the teacher or tradition, and instead only becomes visible through the relationship we have formed with it.

 

To which, perhaps the more difficult question is this:

How much of what you believe yourself to be did you consciously discover?
 

And, how much was already waiting for you through family, culture, religion, psychology, politics, economics, education, gender, race, history, and the institutions that taught you what a Human Being is supposed to become?

 

The Work

 

Ousia Analysis places the substance and material of the “I”, which has been formed through all of the above unconsciously, inside the question; examining the memories, bodies, relationships, symbols, desires, fears, ancestors, institutions, ideologies, spiritual images, and structures of power through which the individual “I” has learned to know itself.
 

And, as such, it asks the same questions of the collective “I” of a family, religion, political organization, race, nation, institution, culture, or methodology.

 

What has formed this “I”; what has it included or exiled; what does it imagine itself to be separate from; and which partial experience has it mistaken for the Whole?

The distinguishing commitment of Ousia Analysis is that everything participating within the inquiry must remain available to the inquiry, including the person asking the question, the person responding, the method being used, the relationship forming between them, and Ousia Analysis itself.

 

Its mission is to offer a relational practice through which a person may examine what has been made conscious, what has remained unconscious, and what else may become possible when inherited definitions of the Human Being are no longer treated as the unquestionable boundary of Beingness.
 

We do not know the total possibility of the Human Being; biology, embodiment, mortality, history, relationship, and material circumstance establish real conditions, and within those conditions lives a potentially infinite range of psychological, relational, erotic, social, intellectual, and spiritual possibility whose total boundary we have not discovered.

 

A Non-Supremacist Practice

 

Supremacy is an inevitable ontological possibility within life itself; emerging wherever a partial expression of existence organizes Reality through the superior and inferior of the Ego, and then mistakes its own position for the Whole. To which, supremacy cannot be permanently eradicated through opposition, moral purity, ideological correctness, or the fantasy that one has finally escaped it.

 

Ousia Analysis names itself non-supremacist as an orientation, without claiming immunity from the possibility it examines.
 

This means that the Work refuses to organize itself through supremacy as its governing principle while remaining attentive to the ways supremacy may emerge within the individual, the collective, the teacher, the tradition, the critique, the relationship, and the method itself.

 

And, therefore, nothing participating within the Work receives exemption from examination.

Soul With Soul

Ousia Analysis emerged through more than thirty years of study, practice, analysis, scholarship, spiritual discipline, and sustained relationship with psychological, philosophical, political, mystical, occult, and esoteric traditions.

 

Its deepest spiritual and psychological roots lie in Meher Baba and C. G. Jung, while Yeshua ben Yosef, pre-Socratic and Socratic inquiry, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Taoism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and many other traditions remain part of its continuing dialectic.

 

When I sit with another person, I am not attempting to stand above them as the final authority on who they are; I bring my education, experience, questions, interpretations, limitations, and ways of seeing, while they all, together and individually, bring a life I cannot know in advance.
 

We meet as a Human Being with another Human Being, or, as Jung described the encounter, “as one soul with another soul”, and from within that relationship we begin examining what is present.

 

The questioning will be direct and, at times, difficult; its gentleness does not mean that every word will feel gentle, but that we will attempt not to abandon the relationship when something difficult becomes visible.

 

The door is open, and you are not required to arrive with the correct language, politics, spirituality, education, or explanation of why you are here; you will, however, be asked to permit what you bring with you, including what you cherish, fear, defend, or believe yourself to know, to become available for honest examination.

 

The same will be asked of me.

 

One-on-one Work is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis. Those interested in beginning may complete an application and schedule a complimentary Discovery Call.