Psychology of God and the Devil
In one intuitive moment, when the waking mind merged with the dreaming mind, and the left brain sparked with the right brain, these ideas were forged. It was as if ancient, primitive thought had collapsed back like a wave of quantum energy on to the shores of modern consciousness. Make no mistake. This is not psychology of the current empirical, quantitative mode. This is from intuition – the teacher within – where deep unconscious trends blend and match to arrive at startling new models of thought and new ways of seeing the world.
God, the giver, who is the flow of love. God, the eternal ’cause’ of all effects. What can spiritual psychology say about this creator? Psychology, being literally the study of mind and behavior, ought to commence this from deep in the meditative experience. Being ‘in the zone’ of the creative artist is to be operating with high frequencies of alpha, theta and delta waves in the cerebral hemispheres. When you are deeply immersed in this ‘creative zone’ you are only then able to perceive yourself as ‘The Creator,’ if you will.
Now remember that all books were written by human beings. Social teachings, spiritual scriptures and religious guides can not logically escape this restraint. The writer believes that all such special and holy books were written from within ‘the zone’ of the creative human mind. Quantum physicists now believe that the human consciousness plays a necessary, creative role in shaping reality itself, from moment to moment. So in a sense, higher levels of human consciousness have god-like powers of cause and effect. This is supported in the Hindu scriptures by Krishna’s concept of ‘a single law of cause.’
The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, also acknowledged these ideas by saying that humans ’stand at a point before creation.’ The mind is viewed as something to purify first, before it can reveal its creative mysteries. The Chinese sages, such as Lao Tse and Confucius, also emphasized purification through meditation and the practice of virtue.
Finally, for the record, the Mormons teach that ‘Intelligence is The Glory Of God.’ This brief quote reveals how a human attribute can be viewed as having divine powers. We live in human societies where the political process of leadership has sometimes had to be rationalized in unexpected ways.
Now let us focus our intelligence on the concept of the devil. The source of bad, ‘evil’ things which rule or dominate this world can only be ‘the condition of being under severe psychological stress.’ This is the destructive force that we see unleashed too frequently in modern times. It may also be behind every divorce, every war and most crimes. The breakdown of the social fabric has stress as a major contributor. Stress has very many causes and sociologists emphasize the structural and changing aspects of a society as being the major causal areas.
Psychologists, however, might mention unbridled emotions such as greed, fear and guilt as having negative influences. Spiritual masters would consider the dominant thinking of the individual and the habits of focus and self-talk as being all important. Meditation would be prescribed as the cure.
Summary and Conclusion:
So a simple bi-polar model has emerged to explain God and the devil in any human community. Assuming these things to be universal, God is equated with ‘being in the creative zone’ of the mind, while the devil is equated with ‘being in the destructive zone’ of the mind. That’s it in a nutshell: being creative versus being destructive. The problem is, it is doubtful whether humans can stay conscious long enough to see exactly what is going on! That takes desire, self awareness and perhaps a leap of faith.
Geoff Dodd is a New Zealander with a background in psychology, now living in Western Australia. He has had extensive Internet experience since 1996 and is a webmaster operating 35 web sites.
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