Washburn’s work on both the psychological and spiritual aspects of human development are succinctly portrayed here in this interview with Paul Bernstein.

Here are some lines from that interview:

The ego is called upon to let go, to expand, and that requires, in Tillich’s expression “the courage to BE”. The ego is now ready to face a wider range of realities and resources and potentialities and relationships — if only it has the courage to do so. Yet it doesn’t always find that courage.

That does seem to me to be a very important point: that we are most healthy and most whole when we realize that our physical life and our spiritual life go hand in hand. When our spiritual life is awakened, not just in a posture of faith, but when it is awakened as an enlivening and guiding force within our very bodies, palpably so.