Some Thoughts on Psychology Theory

Life is Not an Illness

The Indic experience with the English language contains quite a story … that brings a greater lesson to an understanding of the mind … than previously thought. From the 19^th to the 20^th century … Indic individuals were traveling to England for their tertiary education. On coming home they began a movement for the promotion of Western culture in the country. People like the Nobel prize winner … Rabindranath Tagore … are a prime example.

But the colonization experience of countries … produced many other outcomes. One of those outcomes … is the alien effect of the rule by a foreigner … unfamiliar with local cultures. In the ensuing experience … the people of the colonized countries … encounter a split in their sub-conscious ( sc ) condition. For the first time … they encounter a ' we ' and ' them ' … which affirms the separation of the conscious ( c ) and the unconscious ( uc) in the personality.

To continue this narrative … I ask for the reader's forbearance in allowing me to change the psychology terms … previously engaged to describe the conditions as stated. For the term conscious … I'd like to substitute the word ' rock ' … sub-conscious with the word ' physical ' … and the unconscious with the word ' solar ray.' It simplifies the terms … and avoids any professional umbrage on the issues … that allows me my insights … without it getting entangled in the procedural requirement of the scientific process.

Accordingly I begin my view of the human psyche as having commenced from a point early in time … when man viewed everything as one. The difficulties that … that raised with regards practical matters is probably well known to everyone. Hence it appears to me that man gravitated to an experience of the physical ( sc ) and created a subtle sense of separation of the rock (c ) and the solar ray ( uc ). However it wasn't until a later time … in intense experiences … such as colonization ... a Viking invasion … a civil war etc. … does the cracks in the psyche … reveal themselves as separate.

I therefore define the experience of the rock ( c ) as a state of being concussed from the separation. The effect this has on the solar ray ( uc ) is an inordinate emphasis on sight … that stresses the importance of what we see or have witnessed in our lives. Hence the physical ( sc ) experience we encounter is one of division … taking away our sense of the oneness of our relation to the world. This has then gone on to define our experience of reality.

Hence the human condition today is burdened by the issue of defining what is norm … where such definitions may only be undertaken by the physical ( sc ). It is pulled in opposite directions … with the rock ( c ) unable to respond to the diversity of issues … and the solar ray ( uc ) providing its own isolated version of events … founded largely on memories of what it has witnessed. The thinking process … is observed to be minimized … and we are driven on hopes from the desires … founded on memories.

The physical ( sc ) strives to create an understanding for itself … as the individual experience … as it has always done. However … the rock ( c ) tends to be stoic and stresses a relation to the environment … for approval. The solar ray ( uc ) seeks to escape from the muddle … and cultivates a world within … that represents its isolated and provincial view of itself … from which it would not budge.

The use of narcotics helps to alleviate the cramp in the rock ( c ) and provides a special moment of relief to individuals. Where the experience is channeled constructively to healing the rock ( c ) and bringing it into contact with the solar ray ( uc ) … it creates the possibility of solutions that may be engaged with a planned effort to heal and rediscover our individual nature.

In the natural outcome … accompanying psychology theory … the preponderance has been to view the human condition … as an illness … to be remedied. Behind the wall of scientific inquiry … medical procedures … professional and institutionalized pride … the layman is not provided with a transparency into the healing process … but is instead forming a relationship with the healer … founded on the trust … we have come to have in science.

There are new remedies emerging today that promise a better opportunity at understanding our condition. The study of dreams … and the new interest in story telling … are admirable accounts of the way … people are generating self-help on the issues. With an active web reference on any issue under the sun … folks are getting an opportunity to raise their level of capability and understanding. In channeling this into a … lifetime learning process … we are gaining insights into our understanding of ourselves.

In creating an expression and communicating what we learn … we achieve the necessary imperative for taking this out from our isolated individual experience … and subjecting it to inquiry. Publishers report receiving 300 manuscripts a week … in these times. No doubt they are all attempts to represent our thoughts out in the open on issues. The old theories … continue to exert a profound acceptance in us. But until we learn to think on our own … our opportunities for healing are limited. It is after all about us.