Advancing Psychological Education for All
It was dark in the mansion, though outside the cloister the sky was an even midnight blue over the topmost gables of the house. Shadows hung down the four stories of the mansion itself, where only here and there a shape distinguished itself, boughs heavy with apricots, and those lilies flickering in the dark, like … Continue reading
As we have seen, orienting our lives to consumption creates a climate of superfluity and ennui. The problem is closely related to a crisis that is affecting the entire Western World now but mostly goes unrecognized, because more attention is given to its symptoms than to its underling causes. Having considered some circumstances under which … Continue reading
We have learned something from the vast collections of data on primitive man: that if he was not in bondage to the authority of living persons, he was at the utter mercy of the power of the spirits. One might say, as a general rule, that acquainted person in a social situation require a reason … Continue reading
Each person wants one’s life to be a marker for good as one’s group defines it. Men and women work their programs of heroism according to the standard cultural scenarios, from Pontius Pilate through Eichmann and Calley. Once we see the role of acquaintanceship in social life, we are led to ask how this relationship … Continue reading
Once men consented to live by the redistribution of life’s goods through a god figure who represented life, they had sealed their fate. Because of this choice, acquaintanceship became important. In general acquaintanceship is an aspect of all social relationships that differ greatly in degree and kind will equally share it. Nonetheless, we can expect … Continue reading
Power is the life pulse that sustains man in every epoch, and unless the student understands power figures and power sources one can understand nothing vital about social history. Just as the individual is obliged not to exploit the accessibility of others (else they have to pay too large a price for their obligation to … Continue reading
We travel into space to unlock the mysterious gates of the Universe, but we do not know what is behind those gates. Sarah L. Winchester was terribly shocked by the death of her month-old baby girl; in fact it can be well believed she never fully recovered and this surely influenced some of her eccentricities. … Continue reading
Men lean on increase and creation ritual especially when times are bad; it is then that their spiritual technology has to work. Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night in Gibeah, when the hospital door exposed a matron to avoid worse rape. These were the prime in order and in might; the rest were … Continue reading
The result of one of the greatest tragedies of human existence, what we might call the need to “fetishize evil,” to locate the threat to life in some special places where it can be placated and control exists precisely because men make fantasies about evil, see it in the wrong places, and destroy themselves and … Continue reading
For man the emanations of light and heat from the sun were the archetypes of all miraculous power. And then various idols came into the heathen World. Say, Muse, their names then known, who first, who las, roused from the slumber on that fiery cough, at their great emperor’s call, as next in worth came … Continue reading
A mental disorder has been taking place, reflecting not only individual psychological strain but also the broader social and environmental forces that shape mental health.…
People often assume that sharing a physical environment means sharing a psychological or social reality. Yet this is one of the great illusions of modern…
Surely it could not be alive in there. And yet something stirred — not with the vulgar animation of breath, but with the slow, drifting…
“When the spirit resigns itself to sorrow, it is not the world that conquers us, but we who abandon the field.” What we are describing…
Randolph Harris II International Institute 