The article “Did Freud Miss the Discovery of Our Spiritual Core?” describes how Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is a bridge to the long-sought discovery of a science-based explanation of spiritual experience as elaborated by the Framework of Spirituality. This framework has been clinically used to intentionally promote spiritual awakening and developed as CBT-STE (for Self-Transcendent Experience). Implications from this clinical application profoundly affect our worldview of being human providing a universal moral direction and values, explanation of the “How” and “Why” of therapy effectiveness and a method for ongoing personal transformation with a neuroscience basis. The characteristics of this spiritual core suggest that it is a “Master Controller” for overall human well-being. A realistic possibility of achieving human well-being with cooperation, harmony, and peace is proposed. 

CBT-STE, Freud, Transcendent, Holotropic, Neuroscience, Spiritual core, Ethics