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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a
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Psyche
psyche –– The human soul, spirit or mind. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: In the real world, the human psyche or entity that
dwells within the physical body is defined as being permanent and real and, as such, deemed to be actual. This entity as soul,
spirit or mind is a non-corporeal entity that is ‘inside’ the physical flesh and blood body, looking out through the eyes,
hearing through the ears, smelling through the nose, etc.
This entity can be conveniently seen to have two component parts: who
one thinks one is – a psychological entity – and who one feels oneself to be – a psychic entity. Broadly speaking, who one
thinks oneself to be is one’s social identity – the sum of the morals, ethics, values and psittacisms that have been instilled
from birth by one’s peers in order to make one a fit and fitting member of one’s particular group in society.
Who one feels oneself to be is ‘me’ at my very core – the
instinctual animal sense of being implanted by blind nature to ensure the survival of the species. This genetically inherited
sense of ‘self’ is the very basis of the self-survival instinct.
The study of the psyche blossomed in the West when academic study
broke free from the churches and has been formalized in the last centuries as the discipline of
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psychology – (The science of the nature, functioning, and development of the human mind
(formerly, of the soul), including the faculties of reason, emotion, perception, communication, etc.; the branch of science that
deals with the (human or animal) mind as an entity and in its relationship to the body and to the environmental or social context,
based on observation of the behaviour of individuals or groups of individuals in particular)
and the discipline of
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psychiatry – (The medical treatment of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal
behaviour).
Thus both the social programming and the
neuro-biological programming of human beings are now accepted as ‘normal’ and ‘natural’ – inherent in the Human
Condition. The instinctual passions of nurture and desire are given credence and kudos whilst fear and aggression are to be
controlled within ‘acceptable limits’. Given that fear and aggression are both emotional responses caused by chemical surges
that originate from the primitive brain or amygdala, the treatment of any excesses is ultimately a chemical treatment. Anyone
exhibiting excessive fear, depression, anger or violence beyond what is considered ‘normal’, and such that they cannot control
it themselves, are given chemicals to suppress or counter-balance those sourced from the amygdala.
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The sole aim of psychiatry is to
treat those whose psychological behaviour exceeds the limits of what society deems normal. In short, when moral and ethical
self-restraint fails, and where treatment is available and sought, chemicals are relied upon to stem the tide of instinctual
passions. Of course, this usually happens after the event, as in murder, rape, attempted suicides, etc., or not at all in the case
of mass ‘outbreaks’ of passion such as demonstrations, riots, wars, genocides, etc.
The Eastern spiritual interpretation
of the psyche essentially is that the inner realm consists of two parts – ego and soul – and the aim of spiritual practice is
to sublimate and eliminate the ego such that one identifies as being only the soul. This shift of identity is typified by the
teachings of self becoming Self, of having discovered one’s Original Face, or in popular jargon, ‘getting out of one’s head
and into one’s heart’. Thus the spiritual believer turns away from the real world of ‘mind’, the physical body, and
earthly suffering and enters into an imaginary heartfelt, meta-physical, blissful realm. By giving full reign to passionate
imagination one taps into and enters a psychic world – well-trodden and extensively mapped by millions upon millions of
devotees, billions of sacred words, poetry, platitudes and countless ancient ceremonies, divinations, rituals and traditions.
This psychic world of imagination is
so strongly felt, so vast in scope and so seductively overwhelming to the senses as to be convincing real. For those who ‘travel’
in this psychic world there are no limits to affective imagination, and a visit to any New Age bookshop will testify to the both
the plethora of beliefs and the passionate conviction of the believers. This collective psychic world seems so all-encompassing
– a world so powerful as to be convincingly real – one feels as if one has discovered the Hidden Secrets of humanity – all
has been revealed!
The seduction of this psychic ‘other-world’
is essentially three-fold –
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Its very Ancient-ness – it stretches back into the mists of time
from whence ‘I’, as a psychic entity, instinctually feel I came from.
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It is an escape from the real world and from real world worries and
feelings. It offers an ‘inner’ haven of peace and tranquillity. This escape has been historically typified by retreating from
the world into caves, monasteries and ashrams where meditative practices are undertaken in order to still the mind, separate from
the senses and thus give full reign to affective imagination.
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The promise of life after death for one’s psyche such that the
psychic entity imagines it will survive the ‘death of the body’.
And yet, these imaginative thoughts
and passionate feelings only exist as thoughts in the head (or felt in the heart as a direct result of instinctual chemical
surges) – this psychic other-world is but a product of one’s own psyche and that of one’s fellow believers and of all those
countless others who came before. All this gigantic psychic construct, while appearing real, is not actual. The moment one stops
feeding these beliefs, they shrink and eventually wither and die away. The major problem for anyone who has tapped into the
psychic world is that to get out seemingly involves only one alternative – to go back to the real world one has left behind.
There is now a third alternative – an actual world of unbelievable purity and perfection for those willing to eliminate the
total psyche, both ego and soul. For those ensnared in the psychic spiritual world it takes enormous courage to turn around –
but the seduction of that which is actual will eventually win out over that which is merely imaginary.
This web-site is for those who will be intrepid
pioneers in this process of bringing peace to the world.
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