The purpose of faith is to offer new vistas in terms of World and human development while refusing to betray the intimate correlation between universality and individuality, dynamics of form, freedom and destiny. There is a realization that spirit and nature are not separate and apart; intuition and reason must regain their importance as the means of perceiving and fusing inner being with outer reality. The enlarged meaning of life, of biology, is not revealed in the test tube of the laboratory but is experienced within the organism of life itself. The principle of life consists in the tension which connects spirit with the realm of matter, symbiotically joined. The element of life is dominant in the very texture of nature, thus rendering life, biology, a transempirical science. The laws of life have their origin beyond their mere physical manifestations and compel us to consider their spiritual source. In fact, the widening of the conceptual framework has not only served to restore order within the respective branches of knowledge, but has also disclosed analogies in mortal’s position regarding the analysis and synthesis of experience in apparently separated domains of knowledge suggesting the possibility of an ever more embracing objective description of the meaning of life. #RandolphHarris 1 of 14

Knowledge no longer consists in a manipulation of mortals and nature as opposite forces, nor in the reduction of data to mere statistical order, but is a means of liberating humankind from the destructive power of fear, pointing the way toward the goal of the rehabilitation of the human will and the rebirth of faith and confidence in the human person. The works published also endeavor to reveal that the cry for patterns, systems and authorities is growing less insistent as the desire grows stronger in both East and West for the recovery of dignity, integrity and self-realization which are the inalienable rights of mortals who may now guide change by means of conscious purpose in the light of rational experience. When dealing with problems of international understanding as well as to problem dealing with prejudice and the resultant tensions and antagonisms, the growing perception and responsibility is to point to the new reality that the individual person and the collective person supplement and integrate each other. The excellent film, Pride (2007), starring Terrance Howard, is an excellent reminder of the resistance people went through in the 1970s, when trying to be productive members of society and protect their children. They faced opposition from even their own culture for trying to advance. #RandolphHarris 2 of 14

The thrall of totalitarianism of both left and right has been shaken in the universal desire to recapture the authority of truth and human totality. Humankind can finally place its trust not in a proletarian authoritarianism, not in secularized humanism, both of which have betrayed the spiritual property right of history, but in a sacramental humanity and in the unity of knowledge. This new consciousness has created a widening of human horizons beyond every parochialism, and a revolution in human thought comparable to the basic assumption, among the ancient Greeks, of the sovereignty of reason; corresponding to the great effulgence of the moral conscience articulated by the Hebrew prophets. The purpose of such inquiries is to clear the way for the foundation of a genuine World history not in terms of nation or race or culture but in terms of a mortal in relation to God, to oneself, one’s fellow mortal and the Universe, that reach beyond immediate self-interest. For the meaning of life consists in respecting mortal’s hopes and dreams which leader to a deeper understanding of the basic values of all peoples. #RandolphHarris 3 of 14

This generation is discovering that history does not conform to the social optimism of modern civilization and that the organization of human communities and the establishment of freedom and peace are not only intellectual achievement but spiritual and moral achievements as well, demanding a cherishing of the wholeness of human personality, the unmediated wholeness of feeling and thought, and constituting a neverending challenge to mortals, emerging from the abyss of meaninglessness and suffering, to be renewed and replenished in the totality of one’s life. Justice itself, which has been in a state of pilgrimage and crucifixion and now is being slowly liberated from the grip of social and political demonologies in the East as well as in the West, begins to question its own premises. The modern revolutionary movements which have challenged the sacred institutions of society by protecting social injustice in the name of social justice are here examined and re-evaluated. In the light of this, we have no choice but to admit that the unfreedom against which freedom is measured must be retained with it, namely, that the aspect of truth out of which the night view appears to emerge, the darkness of our time, is little abandonable as in mortal’s subjective advance. #RandolphHarris 4 of 14

 Thus the two sources of mortal’s consciousness are inseparable, not as dead but as living and complementary, an aspect of that principle of complementarity through which we seek to unite the quantum and the wave, both of which constate the very fabric of life’s radiant energy. There is in humankind today a counterforce to the sterility and danger of quantitative, anonymous mass culture; a new, if sometimes imperceptible, spiritual sense of convergence toward World unity on the basis of sacredness of each human person and respect for the plurality of cultures. There is a growing awareness that equality may not be evaluated in mere numerical terms but is proportionate and analogical in its reality. For when equality is equated with interchangeability, individuality is negated and the human person extinguished. We stand at the brink of an age of a World in which human life presses forward to actualize new forms. The false separation of mortals and nature, of time and space, of freedom and security, is acknowledge, and we are faced with a new vision of mortals in their organic unity and history offering a richness and diversity of quality and majesty of scope hitherto unprecedented. In relating the accumulated wisdom of mortal’s spirit to the new reality, in articulating its thought and belief, faith is to encourage a renaissance of hope in society and of pride in mortal’s decision as to what one’s destiny will be. #RandolphHarris 5 of 14

All great changes are preceded by a vigorous intellectual re-evaluation and reorganization. The hubris may be avoided by showing that the creative process itself is not a free activity if by free we mean arbitrary, or unrelated to cosmic law. For the creative process in organic nature and the basic laws of the inorganic realm may be but varied expressions of a universal formative process. Faith hopes to show that although the present apocalyptic period is one of exceptional tensions, there is also at work an exceptional movement toward a compensating unity which refuses to violate the ultimate moral power at work in the Universe, that very power upon which all human effort must at last depend. In this way we may come to understand that there exists an inherent independence of spiritual and mental growth which though conditioned by circumstances, is never determined by circumstances. In this way the great plethora of human knowledge may be correlated with an insight into the nature of human nature be being attuned to the wide and deep range of human thought and human experience. #RandolphHarris 6 of 14

In spite of the infinite obligation of mortals and in spite of their finite power, in spite of the intransigence of nationalisms, and in spite of the homelessness of mortal passions rendered ineffectual by the scientific outlook, beneath the apparent turmoil and upheaval of the present, and out of the transformations of this dynamic period with the unfolding of a World consciousness, the purpose of faith is to help quicken the unshaken heart of well-rounded truth and interpret the significant elements of the spiritual progress now taking shape out of the core of that undimmed continuity of the creative process which restores mortals to humankind while deepening and enhancing one’s communion with the Universe. The individual is interested because to create is to be more fully and more freely oneself. Perhaps at no other time in all of human history has there been such general recognition that to be creative in one’s own everyday activity is an absolute good. Science and art, of course, have always been interested; the act of the imagination is their business. A scientific theory is an imagining of the way things could really be behind their appearances, expressed formally and accompanied by a set of rules whereby the goodness of the imagination may be appraised; a work of art is an expression of individual vision couched in a form which aspires to an audience of at least one who can say, “Yes, so it is!” #RandolphHarris 7 of 14

Beyond these local interests, whether individual or national, is the increasing recognition by mortals in all parts of the globe that our capacity for creative thought and action may literally makes all the difference in the World. The power of scientific discovery has suddenly increased the stakes, both for ethics and for politics; in its crassest form, science servers merely national striving for power, but in its purest serves that aspect of power involving the spread of our form of life and intelligence throughout the Universe. Human creativity may prove to be the key to success or failure in humankind’s quest for knowledge, in one’s journey beyond the bounds of the sure and the seen, in one’s exploration of the unknown. There are some considerations that make the psychology of human creativity so vitally important. We should turn our attention from the appraisal of personal health and stability to the appraisal of potential for creative development in humanity. It would be interesting and possibly very useful if we could learn more about the nature of creative activity, so that we might more readily find and foster creativity in individuals in our society, for the common good of all. All creation has been committed and offered to the human spirit, that mortals may penetrate it and thus be able to understand more and more fully the infinite grandeur of one’s Creator. #RandolphHarris 8 of 14

Some people argue that there is an evil character to psychological research. The objections to such research are mainly on these counts: it is vivisection; it is an expression of the effort of organized society to encroach upon the individual and to rob one of one’s freedom; it is presumptuous because it seeks to describe and to understand what is intrinsically a mystery. Psychological diagnosis is, moreover, a form of name-calling; it is a way of having the last word; it does not respect the individual. Finally, it is the present seeking to impose itself upon the future and to perpetuate the status quo through techniques which will identify the potentially constructive deviant and permit a stultifying society to control the individual. Since psychological research at its worst may indeed be destructive in just such ways, socially responsible psychologists have reason to sleep almost as uneasily as socially responsible physicist. This particular study has proceeded in recognition of some of the dangers which may be inherent in it, and it has been asked to participate have been willing to trust the investigators and to accept the inevitable hazards of all efforts at increasing knowledge. Both scientists and artists have something to fear when they embark upon the unknown. That which is essentially mysterious cannot yield itself to scrutiny; on the other hand, whatever we can find out about its nature is ours to know. #RandolphHarris 9 of 14

Since you claim to assess, you must know value. I myself know nothing concerning value of persons. I am interested in learning how you go about making your judgments. Assessment id s peculiar word to use of personality. It is a particularly odd word to couple with the word research, for scientific research is an inquiry into the true state of affairs, with description and explanation as its aims, whereas assessment is an appraisal for the purpose of attaching value. Yet both words are properly part of the name of the psychological institute. Their presence together indicates a central perplexity which confronts the scientific investigator who would deal with problems of human personality. Our dilemma has its origins in one of the uniquely human achievements—the moral valuation of things. In the Bible, the Fall of Man (into our present human condition) is ascribed to the act of our first parents in eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The psychological experience thus symbolized is at the heart of the human achievement in a material Universe, for the fall from innocence might better be called the accession to conscience and the beginning of civilization. Just as it is the human being alone who judges things ethically, so it is particularly the human act which is so judged. #RandolphHarris 10 of 14

A research program which accepts as its central purpose the study of excellence of human functioning is thus confronted by a special difficulty: how is such knowledge to be pursed in a purely descriptive and objective spirit in a domain of experience where fact is so interlaced with value? In the physical sciences it is still possible to hold that the description of the World is an enterprise that is not concerned with ethics. Even there, of course, eminent scientific minds, viewing the events which follow from such description, are becoming increasingly concerned with the responsibility of the scientists to one’s fellow mortals as well as to the facts. In a sense, the discovery of fact is itself an ethical act. The consequences of scientific research, it need hardly be said any longer, are sometimes for weal and sometimes for woe. Even in our description of physical relations we re not yet beyond good and evil. Still, the laws that describe the functioning of the nonhuman World have noting of ethics in them, for the events that they subsume are ethically neutral. The psychology of human personality, however, is persistently beset by the ethical character of the phenomena it tasks as its domain. When one sets out to give even a tentative definition of excellence of human functioning, one comes almost immediately to question of ethical valuation. #RandolphHarris 11 of 14

To say that fact is interlaced with value is not to state the matter so strongly enough, or, for that matter, accurately. It is more correct to say that human values are themselves among the salient facts, and that ethics are an integral part of the phenomena with which the psychologist must deal. Still, one might easily draw this matter too fine and lose contact with ordinary human feeling about the meetness of evaluating others. Psychological assessment is part and parcel of everyday life. This fact finds expression in the common phrase sizing someone up. It is interesting in this connection that all of us use a normative approach to human functioning when we undertake such appraisal. The source of the image is that comfortably normative mart, the haberdashery shop. Psychological diagnosis could perhaps be even better vilified than it was by some creative writers who turned their words upon it. It is like a ready-to-wear suit and usually fits just about as well. The sizing up of others and even of ourselves is  down-to-Earth practice which is not likely to vanish, whatever the garb that mortals in outer space may eventually find themselves wearing. In the economic and political field there is an erroneous alternative between unrestricted inequality and absolute equality of income. #RandolphHarris 12 of 14

As long as no one is being oppressed and denied their constitutional rights if everybody’s possessions are functional and personal, then whether someone has somewhat more than another person does not constitute a social problem, for since possession is not essential envy does not grow. On the other hand, those who are concerned with equality in the sense that each one’s shares must be exactly equal to anyone else’s show that their own having orientation is as strong as ever, except that it is denied by their preoccupation with exact equality. Behind this concern their real motivation is visible: envy. Those demanding that nobody should have more than themselves are thus protecting themselves from the envy they would feel if anyone had even an ounce more of anything. What matters is that both luxury and poverty shall be eradicated; equality must mean the quantitative equality of each morsel of material goods, but that income is not differentiated to a point that creates different experiences of life for different groups. This is what is called crude communism, which negates the personality of mortals in every sphere; this type of communism is only the culmination of such envy and leveling-down on the basis of a preconceived minimum. However, human existence requires that we have, keep, take care of, and use certain things in order to survive. This holds true for our bodies, for food, shelter, clothing, and for the tools necessary to produce our needs. This form of having may be called existential having because it is rooted in human existence. #RandolphHarris 13 of 14

It is a rationally directed impulse in the pursuit of staying alive—in contrast to the characterological having we have been dealing with so far, which is a passionate drive to retain and keep that is not innate, but that has developed as the result of the impact of social conditions on the human species as it is biologically given. Existential having is not in conflict with being; characterological having necessarily is. Even the just and the saintly, inasmuch as they are human, must want to have in the existential sense—while the average person wants to have in the existential and in the characterological sense. “Wherefore, let us be faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord; therefore, let us go down to the land of our father’s inheritance, for behold he left gold and silver, and all manners of riches. And all this he has done because of the commandments of the Lord,” reports 1 Nephi 3.16. Psychotherapy should give us a spring of data, the richness and depth of which are unique, on how wish, will, and intentionality are experienced by living, feeling, suffering people. There is an ideal way of willing, a willing by participation, which puts us in harmony with one’s body and World. That is one realm of wishing and willing. #RandolphHarris 14 of 14

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