APA Member Interview: Victor Carrington

Victor Carrington has practiced as a philosophical and pastoral counsellor for ten years with experience in life-stage transitions, life crises, and relationships. He has 25 years of graduate examine in social sciences, together with historical past, legislation, and psychology. His analysis contains numerous subjects corresponding to administrative approaches to the First Modification, human trafficking, up to date views of Groundhog Day (Imbolc), and parasociality in political contexts. Victor at the moment research philosophy at Worldwide Dominican College, in Toulouse, France.

What’s your private philosophy?

My private philosophy facilities round self-development, positivity, aware meaning-making, and the pursuit of marvel by arts, nature, and new experiences. Grounded in humanism, existentialism, phenomenology, Zoroastrian morality, and rational responses to up to date social points, I consider that I’ve management over my decisions and the way I reply to the world. Consequently, I select to encompass myself with enriching facets of life, usually immersing myself in nature, arts, and tradition.

I acknowledge the twin nature of tradition, akin to fireplace, as each a harmful servant and a fearful grasp. In shaping my social perspective, I draw insights from a various vary of writings, together with these of Shakespeare, Camus, Whitehead, Martin Buber, Levy Brulés, Ernest Becker, and Bruno Latour. These diversified sources contribute to my understanding of the complexities of existence, the human situation, and the necessity for considerate engagement with the world round me. By embracing this philosophy, I attempt to navigate life with intention, curiosity, and a dedication to non-public development and societal well-being.

What are three issues in your bucket listing that you just’ve not but achieved?

I want to achieve certification as an airship pilot (blimps). There are lower than 100 twenty 5 pilots, and they’re chosen amongst aeronauts (balloonists) and helicopter pilots. I’m within the early levels of planning scorching air balloon coaching.

I’ve a rising apiary with 100 beehives. I want to relocate to farmland that may accommodate each an orchard and apiary. Siting a farm entails soil high quality, water availability, infrastructure, and agriculture-friendly authorities. Maybe, as soon as I’ve narrowed down my choice to a area of the Gulf Coast, I could have a clearer web site choice.

I want to kind a nonprofit counseling follow for the social re-entry of prisoners. I’ve an experience in associated areas: persona concept, determination sciences, existential loss, regret, or remorse. I additionally suppose, categorically talking, this group would profit most to find themselves and their objective in life.

What are you most happy with in your skilled life?

I’m proud to be a interdisciplinary thinker. I’m a life-long learner with levels in artwork, historical past, legislation, psychology, ministry, {and professional} certifications in astrology, philosophy, and beekeeping. I worth the benefit this broad information lends to drawback fixing, holistic pondering, adaptability, recognition of stakeholders, and techniques management.

There’s a saying, “jack-of-all-trades, grasp of none,” which means that generalists could lack in-depth experience in comparison with specialists. Some individuals could view generalists as having a superficial understanding of a number of topics fairly than being deeply educated in a single particular space. This notion results in skepticism about my degree of experience or within the high quality of my work. I usually discover that gatekeepers exit of their technique to overlook my worth. In flip, I’ve had an extended journey in self-starting my profession.

What recommendation do you want somebody had given to you?

Astrology. Up to date tradition accepts nature versus nurture in idea if not all functions. Western society is sluggish to comprehend that “figuring out oneself” essentially contains figuring out one’s place and objective in a cosmic order. Society will not be a microcosm, however a single dysfunctional system. Astrology is the one persona concept that integrates parts of expertise aptitude, psychohistory, objective, success, and harmonious relationships.

Astrology is a instrument to establish alternatives and direct restricted assets to the perfect objective for the given time horizon. I’d have by no means thought to check at Harvard if I had not first seen an auspicious line operating by Boston on my private chart. Astrology can also be a instrument to explain obstacles and interpersonal conflicts, earlier than they totally manifest, and empowers aware and inventive decisions for higher outcomes.

What are you engaged on proper now?

I’m engaged on publicizing my counseling follow by web site improvement and digital advertising methods. This one undertaking has been delayed for six years as a result of free time required to self-study WordPress and produce web site content material. For that reason, I welcome the AI revolution.

I’m gaining certifications in Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy methodology of meaning-making, logic-based counseling, and in pastoral counseling. These certifications are indicators that assist shoppers differentiate my providers from licensed medical practices with insurance coverage schemes.

I’m learning for grasp’s levels in philosophy, cultural astronomy, finance, and agricultural legal guidelines. My causes for every discipline is diversified, however all of them perform as indicators of discipline experience.

I’ve been becoming a member of skilled organizations in hopes of networking and visibility within the discipline. I would like to be a doer, not a author. I’ve been writing without cost my complete life; no marvel I dislike writing. Organizational affiliation promotes alternatives in management and undertaking boards.

What’s your favourite quote?

I do not need a single favourite. In philosophy, ministry, and counseling, I usually quote Theosophist Jiddu Krishnamurti: “It’s no measure of well being to be properly adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” And it pairs properly with British poet, W. H. Auden, in “The Three Wisemen”: “To find how you can be human now / Is the explanation we comply with this star.”

Krishnamurti is consistent with many philosophers throughout eras when he challenges the concept societal expectations robotically result in a wholesome and fulfilling life. As an alternative, he means that true well-being requires a deeper understanding of oneself, an examination of societal norms, and a willingness to problem and transcend them, if needed.

Auden reframes our quest as not a single or sequence of objectives but additionally to discover ways to be actually human within the current second. The star, on this context, serves as an emblem of steering and enlightenment on the trail towards understanding humanity. Auden’s poetry usually delves into existential and philosophical themes, exploring the complexities of human existence and the seek for which means.

These two quotes complement each other as a result of it’s not sufficient to know the place we don’t discover solutions or authority. We should relaxation our guiding ideas for self-actualization in one thing transcendental, whether or not a private cosmology, moral system, or God.