Advancing Psychological Education for All
Man’s age-old dilemma in the face of death is the meaning of the thing that is paramount of importance; what man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal Spirits: or have ye chaos in this place after the toil of battle to repose … Continue reading
The separation of a completely individualized being is itself complete in a materialistic World. However, love reunites that which is self-centered and individual. It is the fulfilment and triumph of love that is able to reunite the most radically separated beings, namely individual persons. When persons are mutually present and no involved together in conversation … Continue reading
Much of the ceremonial rituals that took place in The Winchester Mansion goes back to the Knights Templar. The Order of the Knights Templar can be traced in part to the Templars. And yet, the Knights Templar are also the claimed ancestors of satanists, a fact which is decidedly hard to prove, though within an … Continue reading
We can make war on poverty but shrink from the extensive readjustment required to stop breeding it. Soliloquies and audible internal dialogues are characterized by the individual’s knowing that the person one is talking to is either oneself or is not there in real conversation with one. Reveries have the same character: the individual knows … Continue reading
The much-vaunted “freedom” of American life may be considered an illusion. Part of the reason is because we are the slaves of technology—technology is no longer an extension of ourselves. Other than that, we can only do what we are told, otherwise we have to fact the consequences for our actions. While outwardly participating in … Continue reading
Changing lives may not always a good thing because your vision may not be a what someone else wants for themselves, and sometimes changes are for the worse. Most parents believe that if they did their jobs well enough all of their children would be creative, intelligent, kind, generous, happy, brave, spontaneous, and good—each, of … Continue reading
In more fluid, changing societies we are more apt to find controls that are internalized—that do not depend to so great an extent on control and enforcement by external agents. However, regardless of the congruence between socialization practices and adult norms, any extreme pattern of training will produce stress for the individuals involved. The deviations … Continue reading
In the winter of 1864, twenty-four-year-old Sarah L. Winchester and her husband William Wirt Winchester were living in a mansion in New Haven, Connecticut USA. It was a small town and Mr. Winchester worked at Winchester Factory Castle, which was, believe or not, 3.2 million square feet. There were 1,200 employees employed in the castle. … Continue reading
It is a mistake to believe that evil spirits and demons do not exist at all, and equally so to see demons under every bed. At one time, in another century, the Devil was well defined as any adversary of flesh and blood. High on a throne of royal state Satan exalted sat…and princely counsel … Continue reading
The scientist of science-fiction and horror films, whose experimentation leads to disastrously unforeseen consequences, is a more anxious representation of the awareness that the most future-oriented nation in the World shows a deep incapacity to plan ahead. We are, as a people, perturbed by our inability to anticipate the consequences of our acts, but we … 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 