The Crisis at Ages 40–50: What It Really Is and How to Get Through It Without Psychotherapy

Main subjects

AMAlexander MineevAVAlexander VolchekThe crisis at ages 40–50Spiritual development and the spiritual pathSpiritTime

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Two states people experience in a crisis
• 00:36What is a midlife crisis?
• 02:40How a crisis manifests from the perspective of spiritual science
• 04:50Why does a crisis arise?
• 07:13An example of waiting out your remaining years: how not to stay stuck for decades
• 11:18Getting out of a crisis: the first important step
• 17:28How should you approach a midlife crisis?
• 19:18How can you tell whether you are developing or stuck?
• 23:20Development based in the material world
• 24:15Development based in the spiritual world
• 31:10The main problem behind a midlife crisis

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• 02:32

  If you observe a great many people—their behavior patterns, their actions, the way they move through life—you will actually see a person of that age.

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• 08:51

  I did not know her at forty-nine, so it is hard for me to say how my grandmother felt at that age.

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• 12:45

  The crisis comes from failing to understand that this is the middle of life.

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• 16:05

  But actually, the experience of living alone is a good one for a person.

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• 17:31

  This is the foundation we need to keep studying and examining, the foundation for understanding what I, as a person, should do at thirty, forty, or fifty when I am in a crisis.

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• 21:25

  But her spiritual being said, “No way. We are going to keep moving for a while, because I need to live through something completely different.”

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• 26:07

  The most important thing to examine is what we are using as our measure.

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• 32:02

  The problem in your forties or fifties is when you start saying, “Look at my life. You all have happiness and so much else, while I have ended up in this situation.”

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• 33:37

  For some reason, people more or less accept the possibility of “infinitely worse.”

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• 34:29

  It is very important to notice when a person—some politician, a company owner, a boss, a husband or wife—imagines they have the right to control other people's lives.

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