The Synergetics of Change: Phase Transitions and Neural Resonance in the Activation of the Spiritual Self

The psychotherapeutic landscape of late modernity is marked by a fundamental paradox: despite a wealth of effective interventions, a unified theoretical framework is lacking to explain the mechanisms of profound, transdiagnostic change (Hofmann & Svitak, 2024). The Resonance-Inference Model (RIM) overcomes this fragmentation. It is a meta-model that creates a coherent language for the phenomena of suffering and healing by uniting insights from neuroscience, systems theory, and psychology in a process-based framework. The RIM conceptualizes suffering not as an illness, but as a state of chronic existential dissonance experienced as high free energy. It posits that sustainable healing requires not a local repair, but a global reorganization of the self-pattern, which is made possible by a "sacred prediction error" and the activation of a hierarchically highest spiritual prior. This master prior serves as an anchor that enables the organism to tolerate the chaotic phase of transition because it makes an overarching prediction about the meaningfulness and coherence of life. Viktor Frankl's logotherapy serves as a case study to demonstrate the power and mechanism of this master prior repair.