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According to Celtic tradition, the soul shines all around the body like a luminous cloud. When you are very open – appreciative and trusting – with another person, your two souls flow together. This

Setting the Stage: Background and bio of spiritual-psychic

A. Dreams which proved presient - mostly documented (via emails) (1) a dream centered on Pakistan and nuclear war. (2) A Hybrid Dream-Perception: Precognitive "Tag" (i.e., a central action with one or two details) of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. (3) Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), (4) Synchronicity with Strasburg, France attack - dream (9-19-20) + undocumented (5) Dudayev (Chechen leader) Dream (6) Fredericksburg bomb (civilian)

B. Conscious Perceptions (1) my recent 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a "domestic terrorist" threat referring to a "bomb" as the weapon - to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020 (2) My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, women, 22 put together, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen's manifesto. (3) A phoned in warning to the FBI before the assassination attempt on president Reagan (4) I called the CIA before 9/11 (5) foresight of the fight in intelligence (and Congress) over the CIA whistleblower

Point of order: Nearly all my perceptions - as Jean MacPhail noted - are perceptions of political events - and thsu deepluy invovled in the processing of social-political signals adn the historical-political situation and circumstances. Of course, it wouldn't be surprising that my strength is ideologies, norms, unconscious processes, stereotypes, mindsets, and of course Mannheim. In 1981, when I produced the very detialed warning to the Toledo, Ohio FBI, I did not consciously believe in spirit, spirituality or psychic - at all. So, I can testify to the importance and influence of unconscious processes. Personally, my concludion is that the "self" is likely a substantially uncosncious construct. Mannheim's argument was pretty common sense - that the economic political reality would shape social-religious worldviews - which is historically correct. Which as David Hay points out includes modern materialist ideology whcih created "extreme individualism." Psychology and psychiatry are ideologies, not science.

For the record

Arthur Mullins describes-defines the Mannheim paradox: "Nevertheless, with these few exceptions, Mannheim holds that historical and political thought is determined by the socio-historical position of the thinker and the political aspirations and material ambitions of the group or of the groups to which it belongs. Such thinking is intrinsically value-laden, one-sided, distorted and therefore false. In short, all systems of historical-social-political thought are ideologies. (p. 143 Truth and Ideology: Reflections on Mannheim's Paradox by Willard A. Mullins, History and Theory, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May, 1979), pp. 141-154)

Christina Maimone observes: “Ideology is, as Mannheim uses the term, a mode of thinking that obscures the real condition of society from the group that holds the thought, thereby stabilizing the shared social reality of the mode of thinking. Groups are simply incapable of seeing particular facts that would undermine their worldview, that would show that their collective perception of the social situation is a misapplication of thought to experience. Ideology is most strongly associated with groups that occupy a dominant position in society. Their ideology serves to secure their place in the social order, although the development of their way of thinking has not been consciously controlled in this direction.

As long as one is aware of the relationships that determine meaning and shape how knowledge is situated within the structure of social thought, social science can be a meaningful enterprise that manages to produce knowledge about the absolute world through non-absolute perceptions.

"No one denies the possibility of empirical research nor maintains that facts do not exist [but] .... They exist for the mind always in an intellectual and social context." [Book by Karl Mannheim Ideology and Utopia p.102] What differentiates social knowledge from knowledge about the physical world is that the meanings given to knowledge and the ways in which social facts are understood in relation to each other are part of the thinker's social reality. . Facts about the physical world are not inevitably incorporated into the social reality of the thinker. (13) Knowledge about the social world, however, becomes part of and is interpreted according to the existing structure of my social reality, my mode of thought.

Christina Maimone, Political Science PhD Stanford (PS 311 – Week 8 Ideology and Utopia https://web.stanford.edu › maimone_wk8_p3) What Maimones, a political science PhD, says echoes somewhat what St Gregory fo Nyssaa said a couple of millenia ago.

“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.” ― Saint Gregory Of Nyssa

Why is the Battle of Chosin Reservoir important? Patriotism and Esprit de Corps as a “psychology of groups” and a form of social consciousness.

Korean War Battle of Chosin Reservoir: The British casualties in one day in the battle of the Somme during WWI were 50,000 dead and wounded. 50,000 casualties in one day – patriotism & esprit de corps - is an incredibly solid proof that there is a "psychology of groups.” - a refutation pf the materialist dogma that “There is no psychology of groups” – Social psychology Allport 1927 – [still problematic today]

Materialist Dogma: “There is no psychology of groups” (Allport 1927): “Psychologists who study groups approach the idea of a group as an entity only very gingerly. The field, or members of the field, apparently still feel the sting of Allport’s (1927) remonstration of those who were attracted to McDougall’s idea of “group mind.” (Hazel Markus, Shinobu Kitayama, Rachel Heiman, the authors of the chapter Culture and “Basic” Psychological Principles, of the Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles) There is no psychology of groups?? You can’t be serious? They need to get out of their "self-contained sandcastles as Muzafer Sherif termed them" adn go to a riocke consert - or a politcal protest - or better yet, sports teams - which all have their own colors and cheers. Talk about bulls**t.

Extreme Individualism: As a point of order, I did recently ask Brian J McVeigh, an anthropologist, author and expert on Japanese culture, if the statement “There are no psychologies of groups” is an example of “extreme individualism” and he said “Yes.” David Hay actually coined the phrase “extreme individualism” and Virgilio Enriquez argue is unhealthy and destructive [and me]

Why is social consciousness important? Recently a number of major antisocial behaviors have emerged since roughly 2000.

1. There have been 396 school shootings in the USA.

2. CDC: Suicide rates increased approximately 36% between 2000–2021.

3. All time high in mass shootings 2023 - 559 Mass shootings in 2023 so far

4. according to the Washington Post, hate crimes are at an all-time high in 2021 with 896 Filipinos reporting themselves as victims of hate crimes.

5. Assaults on teachers have dramatically increased - not only in the US but worldwide.

6. Assaults on healthcare workers has increased exponentially - also a world-wide problem.

7. epidemic in narcissism in western countries (Twenge, etc).

8. “A series of uncoordinated mass stabbings, hammer attacks, and cleaver attacks in the People's Republic of China began in March 2010. The spate of attacks left at least 90 dead and some 473 injured.” (Wikipedia)

- This particular behavior is unheard of – unknown! Killing – murdering – with a knife is up close and personal – very different from killing forma distance with a gun. Killing a 5 or 6-year-old child with a knife is horrifically brutally violent. Any way you look at the situation – it is Abnormal – with a capital A.

First, I would point out that these antisocial behaviors can’t be understood without a viable concept of “social consciousness” – which at the moment does not exist. My argument is that it would be readily apparent that the materialist ideology which is embedded in academia - being a "purposeless" ideology taught at universities - would be a significant contributing cause of anti-social behaviors – especially in light of the “extreme individualism” -anti-social characteristic of materialist ideology. Even Brian McVeigh – not on board with David Hay, Virgilio Enriquez, or me(lol) with the belief extreme individualism is unhealthy – agrees that the statement “There is no psychology of groups” is an example of extreme individualism

As a point of order I would highlight the fact that - in the USA the far-right Christian support of Trump - who is a racist inciting extremism - is also a contributing factor to the increase in hate crimes and the horrific number of school shootings in the USA by undermining peoples sense in justice and Christian values of “love”. In fact, there is a correlation between a higher rate of school shootings in the deep south (as reported by the Washington Post) - which is a hotbed of Trump Christians. – For what it is worth. In my view - it appears “to me” like the Trump Christian snake (Trump was put into power by the Antiscience movement in effect) is trying to eat the secularism snake – “to me for what it is worth”

“Secularism” (materialist ideology) meets the legal criteria for assault

Point of Order “Assault” - Karen Armstrong states that “The rational bias of our scientific modernity has resulted in a new and unskillful literalism. Protestants created the first fundamentalist movement at the time of World War I in order to protect Christianity, which, they felt, was imperiled by the new ideas and institutions. In some of the colonized countries, however, the process has been even more traumatic because it has been far too rapid. Secularization has often been experienced as an assault. It has also created a division between a Western- educated elite and the majority who feel bewildered by the new secular institutions. Thus, religion has become embattled and even militant. (The Role of Religion in Today’s conflict – paper presented June 2006 by Karen Armstrong)

As a point of order. I would highlight he fact that when you take the definition of assault by Cornell legal institute – materialist ideology - currently taught in academia could be fit that definition

1. Geertz’s universally accepted definition of religion (according to Chernus) excludes “spirit”

2. Geertz’s definition of religion excludes “community

3. Social psychology excludes social consciousness – and thus community

4. Psychology excludes the concept of “spirit” Hull’s “Story of Psychology (700 plus page history of psychology) only refers to “spirit” only in context of ancient Greek philosophers – no social consciousness of course – and minimal references to collective consciousness – like two or three paragraphs.

5. In spite of tens of thousands of years of spiritual and religious beliefs, countless religious schools of thought and millions and millions of temples and churches mainstream has no concept or idea of spiritual and religious beliefs as a drive or even important motivation (nor with people either).

6. In spite of the fact that research into music by neuroscientists which shows a consensus that musical spirituality has been an evolutionary adaptive trait in human evolution, no where else is that value in the social sciences to the best of my knowledge

7. The norm among mainstream social scientists is that spiritual-psychic experiences are “unreal” or superstitious nonsense.

It would seem readily apparent that materialist ideology (secularism) fits the Cornell definition of assault. Karen Armstrong states that “Secularization has often been experienced as an assault.” The point is that it does meet the criteria of “assault” legally

Introduction: Brief Overview of Modern Research into Social Perception – Consciousness

While I write quite a bit on transcendental spirituality such as the spirituality of grieving or autistic spirituality, I write more about social consciousness than anything else (I believe) - which is consistent with a major school of thought in Christian theology). I believe my first discussion on academia.edu on social consciousness was in 2018. As appoint of information “social consciousness is different from Durkheim’s collective consciousness and Jungian collective consciousness. “Social identity is a person’s sense of who they are based on their group membership(s).” while social consciousness is about relationships – and inter-relationships.

Social Cognitive Theory falls short of social consciousness: While, “The unique feature of SCT is the emphasis on social influence and its emphasis on external and internal social reinforcement. SCT considers the unique way in which individuals acquire and maintain behavior, while also considering the social environment in which individuals perform the behavior. The theory takes into account a person's past experiences, which factor into whether behavioral action will occur…The theory does not focus on emotion or motivation, other than through reference to past experience. There is minimal attention on these factors.” (The Social Cognitive Theory - SPH - Boston University https://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu)

Modern Research: the dynamics and reality of “social perception-consciousness”

The core or nucleus of new research in unconscious research and research into social perception might be best expressed when Bargh observes: “Within each of these is stored ingrained, implicit knowledge about appropriate values and behavior, likes and dislikes. Ways of Being.” (p.82) (John Bargh: “Before You Know It”) From a certain perspective the roles that people fulfill in their lives could be viewed as forms of social consciousness. For instance, there are the roles as parents, or roles as educators, and so on.

Bargh sums up social perception-consciousness “The idea that social perception is a largely automated psychological phenomenon is now widely accepted. Perceptual interpretations of behavior, as well as assumptions about an individual's behavior based on identified group membership, become automated like any other representation if they are frequently and consistently made in the presence of the behavioral or group membership features.” (The Unconscious Mind John A. Bargh and Ezequiel Morsella) IN a parallel way, Jung spoke about archetypes and symbols in the unconscious.

Introduction – social consciousness

Social Consciousness is Not an Ontology

In one of the two or three discussions I led in acadedmia.edu, there were five anthropologist professors were involved (who I individually messaged, but got no response – except one. That particular anthropologist had a theory that social consciousness is an “ontological reality” - the nature of being. The fact that the British casualties in one day in the battle of the Somme were 50,000 dead and wounded is a clear indicator that psychologies of groups and social consciousness is NOT “the nature of being” – but a very powerful force.

Further confounding the issue, a French anthropologist - when I questioned him about social consciousness (which is different from Durkheim/Jungian collective consciousness) said he knew nothing about it but he was sure someone, somewhere had written about it – and told me I needed to research every essay ever written to find it. So, I googled social consciousness in Wikipedia. There were only three references – no social psychologists or anthropologists – the most salient reference being Karl Marx, the creator of Marxism.

As a point of order, the Esprit de corps demonstrated at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir - and patriotism - also refute Dawkins False Premise: "[G]ene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behaviour…. there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals." Again 50,000 casualties in a single day is a clear indication that the premise that altruism can only be expressed in terms of a ”limited form” is false.

[Materialism] has “severely restricted and limited in the analyses that can be performed.

The Scope of Inquiry of Materilist Methodology is "severely restricted and limited in the analyses that can be performed"

An excellent example of this severely restricted protocol would be - as Kay Deux, a social psychologist points out the fixation of social psychology on laboratory experiments precludes "affective displays" and emotions. Kay Deaux, a prominent social psychologist, highlights the significance and importance of emotions especially in understanding many social, political or group related behaviors. Kay Deaux, emphasizes the fact that social psychology has historically had an “emphasis on experimenter-created social groups” which “precluded most affective displays.” Experiments conducted in a laboratory would necessarily have a contrived and arbitrary aspect to them – very limited - and in that environment, cognitive concepts, structures and paradigms tend to be nice, neat, and precise constructs that are measurable in some sense.

Kay Deux goes on to emphasize that “In contrast, natural groups, whether family, fraternity, or nation, are often the arena for intense displays of emotion and strong affective ties.” (p. 794 Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles edited by E. Tory Higgins and Arie W. Kruglanski) That is, the Materialist Doctrine - Ideology excludes some facts, information and evidence due to the fixation on physiological quantification.

That same dogmatic thinking also severely restricted spirituality research. As J. E Kennedy points out, “virtually no research has been done in parapsychology on the effects of psychic experiences on peoples' lives and worldviews.” “Very little research has been aimed at investigating the overall effects of paranormal experiences.” - J. E. Kennedy (An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Paranormal and Spiritual Experiences on Peoples' Lives and Well-Being J.E. Kennedy and H. Kanthamani (Original publication and copyright: The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1995, Volume 89, pp.249-265.)

Quick commentary by Jung

The critical notion is that of the individual as, in Jung’s words, “the one source of moral and spiritual progress for society”. Jung’s view of the primacy of the individual and the importance of the individuation process he puts succinctly when he says, “Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself ” (Jung CW Vol. 10 par. 540, italics Jung).

The Battle of Chosin Reservoir: Korean War USMC Archives (Quantico) 12-6-1950

Chesty Puller, Commander at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir

"We're surrounded. Good, that simplifies the problem……we're not retreating, we're attacking in a different direction."

Yep – my sentiments exactly - since I seem to be surrounded by materialists! It does simplify the situation!

Chesty Puller - most decorated United States Marine Corps officer. In the Korean War, Puller was the commander of the 1st Marine Regiment and participated in the Inchon landing at Inchon on September 15, 1950. At the Battle of Chosin Reservoir he was awarded two medals for heroism – after which he was promoted to brigadier general

Introduction

American military leaders, including General Douglas MacArthur, were caught off guard by the entrance of the People’s Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong, into the five-month-old Korean War. “At the beginning, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army pushed the 7th Army Infantry Division back, allowing the PVA to encircle the Marines on the mountain. The mentality of the Marines continues to inspire, more than 60 years later: "Never retreat, die where I stand or lay, but never retreat." Twelve thousand men of the First Marine Division, along with a few thousand Army soldiers, suddenly found themselves surrounded, outnumbered and at risk of annihilation at the Chosin Reservoir, high in the mountains of North Korea.

The Battle of Chosin Reservoir is perhaps the hardest fought battle in American history was the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. “On 27 November 1950, the Chinese force surprised the US X Corps commanded by Major General Edward Almond at the Chosin Reservoir area. A brutal 17-day battle in freezing weather soon followed. Between 27 November and 13 December, 30,000 United Nations Command troops (later nicknamed "The Chosin Few") under the field command of Major General Oliver P. Smith were encircled and attacked by about 120,000 Chinese troops.” The Marines fought in rugged mountain terrain for 17 long days in the bitterest Korean winter cold in memory. Frostbite was a common problem. Marines who fought at the Chosin Reservoir Battle would say that the cold was so penetrating that it “would sink right to your bones."

Though surrounded and encircled and in spite of being attacked constantly, ceaselessly, and without pause the Marines and Army units managed to hold together and fight their way out of the Chinese encirclement to the embarkment point at Hungnam – in spite of the fact that the main road connecting the Chosin Reservoir and the city of Hungnam quality was poor, and at times it was only a one lane gravel trail. At the end, 836 Marines had died and roughly 10,000 marines had been wounded. The Army fared worse with 2,000 dead with 1,000 wounded. Reports indicated that the Chinese losses were catastrophic and that six complete Chinese divisions were totally destroyed. Some analysts estimate Chinese losses anywhere from 30,000 to 80,000 killed.

The terrain was mountainous, but worst of all, it was cold. Freezing cold. By this time in the war, the winter had arrived in force, freezing over the landscape and creating many problems for troops, including disabling bouts of frostbite. The piercing cold was so unbearable, Marines at the reservoir said, "it would sink right to your bones." Even against overwhelming odds, Marines fought till their last breath. When the marine guard got to the extraction point, they sang the marine anthem.

Obviously, there is an unspoken and nonverbal bond and attachment between people. This bond is the fundamental characteristic – or nucleus – of social consciousness. The other point here is that a “mode of thought is not a “philosophical discussion,” but a very active “force” that shapes peoples’ motivations, drives, and behaviors into a coherent worldview. As a point of information, I have seen a few “military war” documentaries which often highlight veterans who indicate that – in reality, when it came down to it - they were not fighting for apple pie, or mom and country, but they were fighting for their "buddies" and fellow soldiers.

(Why the 'Frozen Chosin' is the defining battle of the modern Marine Corps https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/why-the-frozen-chosin-is-the-defining-battle-of-the-modern-marine-corps)

Social consciousness is social order

(for better or worse – i.e the ingroup-outgroup syndrome is part of social consciousness)

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. - Irish poet theologian John O’Donohue

There is a universal consensus among scientists, that human beings are - first and last - social animals. IT would stand to reason then that relationships - and social consciousness - would be pivotal in human consciousness – not to mention society. In today’s complex and sophisticated society human beings simply would not be able to function if human beings did not have some form of a minimally functional social consciousness.

Hinduism, Confucianism and Filipino Kapwa-loob: Hinduism has had the pivotal concept of Dharma – that encapsulates both social order and roles – as well as cosmic order - for almost two thousand years. Confucianism had the central concept of self as others. The Filipino culture has the “Kapwa norm and value [shared identity – which has no equivalent in the English language]. Furthermore, there is the loob value-norm which both Reynaldo Ileto and Jeremiah Reyes describe as a norm conveying “relational will” and an innate equality of people. embedded in Filipino culture.

Historical Social Consciousness

A. Confucianism

“For the early Confucians there can be no me in isolation, to be considered abstractly: I am the totality of roles I live in relation to specific others. […] [T]he relations in which I stand to some people affect directly the relations in which I stand with others, to the extent that it would be misleading to say that I‚ play’ or‚ perform’ these roles; on the contrary, for Confucius, I am my roles. Taken collectively, they weave, for each of us, a unique pattern of personal identity, 5” (Marion Eggert’s quoting Henry Rosemont: 5 Rosemont 2016: 52 f.)

B. Dharma – Concept of Social Consciousness: Dharma, a concept of Hinduism, dates back to between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. “Dharma is a concept of social order and duty that sustains the whole universe. A person’s placement in a caste (varna) and birth group (jati) is one element of dharma. Jati is historically also used to determine social interactions and marriages, as dharma guides every aspect of daily life. The term dharma may be translated as “religion,” “law,” “order,” “duty” or “ethics.” It is far more encompassing than any of the particular activities that might be described as “religion.” Dharma is what centers, upholds, and makes meaningful all activities, not just those done at certain times and certain places

Dharma is also social order. In India, this traditionally included one’s duty as part of a particular stratum of society, a caste (varna) or birth-group (jati). In Rig Veda X.90, a creation hymn,….. The hierarchy and stratification of society is thus written into the blueprint of the universe.” (https://pluralism.org/dharma-the-social-order The Pluralism Project by Harvard University

C. Kapwa-loob ethics, mindset (norms) & psychology- J Reyes and V Enriquez)

Karina Lagdameo-Santillan did an excellent job explaining the reality of "social consciousness in terms of Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino branch of psychology), “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. This Filipino linguistic unity of the self and the other is unique and unlike in most modern languages. Why? Because implied in such inclusiveness is the moral obligation to treat one another as equal fellow human beings. If we can do this – even starting in our own family or our circle of friends – we are on the way to practice peace. We are Kapwa People.” — Professor Virgilio Enriquez, founder of Sikolohiyang Pilipino.”

Cultural Illustrations of social consciousness

Ubuntu: In ancient African culture there is the widespread concept of Ubuntu. There is a Zulu proverb called Ubuntu that says: “I am a person through other people. My humanity is tied to yours.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu explained it this way: “One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu — the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness … We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”– which was advocated by Anglican bishop Tutu as an important prosocial value. Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu term meaning "humanity". It is sometimes translated as "I am because we are” – remarkably similar to the Confucian value that “there can be no me in isolation… I am my roles”

Biddhist Interbeing: Thich Nhat Hanh "all phenomena are interdependent…endlessly interwoven." This is the foundation of Nhat Hanh’s approach. He calls it the principle of "interbeing." "In Buddhism there is no such thing as an individual." There is no such thing as a separate object, event, or experience, because no any part of the world can exist apart from all others. Rather, everything that looks like a separate entity is actually dependent on, and therefore interwoven with, something else…. These elements are the influences from the other things with which it is interwoven. And those elements, too, are made up of other combinations. The world is an endless web of combinations.” (https://spot.colorado.edu/~chernus/NonviolenceBook/ThichNhatHanh.htm)

Celtic-Irish Soul Friend Irish poet theologian John O’Donohue:

“According to Celtic tradition, the soul shines all around the body like a luminous cloud. When you are very open – appreciative and trusting – with another person, your two souls flow together. This deeply felt bond with another person means you have found an Anam Cara, or "soul friend." Your Anam Cara always beholds your light and beauty, and accepts you for who you truly are.” – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: Wisdom from the Celtic World.

Christian Community

The ideal of the prophets is not a church or congregation of worshiping believers, but a community, society, or state of god like men and women living in love and truth together under the Messiah as king, who is filled with the spirit of God, exercising justice and judgment toward the poor and helpless (Isa. 9: I-7; I1: 1-5)…. Godliness is character, and character is not in things, but is the product of personal endeavor, however favorable the surroundings may be. Therefore, the prophets demanded of everybody an honest, energetic endeavor to realize the divine, ideal kingdom in this world……, They spurn a worship that shows no fruits in the social sphere…” THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS AS SOCIAL REFORMERS. By REV. GEO. STIBITZ, Philadelphia, Pa.

Commentary & Reflections:

For more perspective - I would highlight a comment from Moitreyee who happens to be an Indian poet, artist, and “story teller”. Moitreyee said "Charlie Peck yes the one thing that really strikes me in this write (this essay about social consciousness) is the mentioning of the fact that religion is a way of life, and is not something that has to be performed at certain times or in certain places. I believe in this and support this whole heartedly. My religion lives in my work.🌹. Thank you once again for sharing

“There is no psychology of groups” – Social psych Allport 1927 “Psychologists who study groups approach the idea of a group as an entity only very gingerly.”

Academic-Materialist Ideology & Close-Minded Dogma

It is readily apparent from the pictures of protests and rock concerts, that contrary to current mainstream views in the social sciences (i.e. social psychology - Allport 1927) which currently holds that there are No “psychologies of groups” and No social consciousness – that indeed there are, in fact “psychologies of groups” and social consciousness.

There are some truths which are “self-evident.” With even a tiny bit of common sense, it would only stand to reason that without social consciousness, society couldn’t possible exist to begin with. Without social consciousness people couldn’t possibly function in our incredibly sophisticated and very complex and complicated society. Here are the ongoing academic materialist arguments:

1) “There is no psychology of groups” (Allport’s Taboo – 1927)

2) human consciousness is restricted to the firing of neurons in the brain and so there cannot be any social consciousness.

Extreme Individualism

As a point of order, I did recently ask Brian J McVeigh, an anthropologist, author and expert on Japanese culture, if the statement “There are no psychologies of groups” is an example of “extreme individualism” and he said “Yes.” David Hay actually coined the phrase “extreme individualism” and Virgilio Enriquez argue is unhealthy and destructive [and me]

Materialist Ideology: Doctrine and Dogma

1) False Premise “There is no psychology of groups”

“Psychologists who study groups approach the idea of a group as an entity only very gingerly. The field, or members of the field, apparently still feel the sting of Allport’s (1927) remonstration of those who were attracted to McDougall’s idea of “group mind.” (Hazel Markus, Shinobu Kitayama, Rachel Heiman, the authors of the chapter Culture and “Basic” Psychological Principles, of the Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles)

Floyd Allport, in 1927 stated unequivocally that “Only within the individual can we find the behavior mechanisms and the consciousness which are fundamental in the interactions between people ………There is no psychology of groups which is not essentially and entirely a psychology of individuals.”

2) False Premise: "materialist model” of consciousness as being solely and entirely a “byproduct of the neurology and biochemistry of the brain”

The materialist argument that there is no "psychology of groups" – incredibly – according to materialists (and widely accepted) is based on the principle that "neurons fire in the brain and so consciousness is restricted to the human brain" Mossbridge and Baruss, in their book Transcendent Mind, highlight and emphasize the limited and restricted understanding of the "materialist model” of consciousness as being solely and entirely a “byproduct of the neurology and biochemistry of the brain” (p. 24) I frequently encounter a version of that which states that “Because neurons fire in the brain, consciousness is restricted to within the human mind.” I encountered that argument in a Neil de Grasse Tyson science FB group - who used that to justify his argument that social consciousness does not exist.

It does not follow from the fact that neurons fire in the brain that there is no social consciousness

Geertz’s “universal” Definition of Religion: No Community; No Spirit

Geertz's Universally Accepted Definition of Religion is missing two important aspects and characteristics "Spirit" and "Community"! Ironically, "The top word millennials used to describe their ideal environment for worship is "community," followed closely by "sanctuary." That means, then, that the absence of the concept of "community" in academic theories of religion is Not a trivial question! (Collective-consciousness as in Durkheim is not the same thing). As Buddha says, "We become what we believe" and I would add that - to a large degree -we believe what we are taught

Geertz's Definition of Religion: In his essay, Religion as a Cultural System: The Theory of Clifford Geertz, the prominent religious scholar Ira Chernus states: “One of the most influential figures in this social-scientific approach to religion is the anthropologist, Clifford Geertz. In an essay titled "Religion as a Cultural System" (1965) he [Geertz] spelled out a definition of religion that many others have borrowed, adapted, and employed in studying religion.”

Chernus goes on to say that according to Geertz, religion is "(1) a system of symbols (2) which acts to establish powerful, pervasive and long-lasting moods and motivations in men (3) by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."

Brian Hayden, the author of Shamans, Sorcerers, and Saints and anthropologist (whose book I happened to be reading at the time), "agreed" with my "assessment" of Geertz's definition of religion - in spite of the fact that in his book he cites Geertz's definition of religion and "agrees" with Geertz's definition of religion. Basically, Hayden said that "Yes, Geertz's definition of religion is flawed and off-track in leaving spirit out. Now, in light of the fact that much of his writing dealt with spiritual rituals, it would seem offhand that Geertz, of all people, would definitely not have left "spirit" out of a definition of religion.

Clifford Geertz’s definition of religion has effectively been THE Accepted Definition of Religion in the humanities! However, Geertz's definition is missing any concept or idea of "spirit." It appeared rather evident, in light of the fact that humans have believed in spirits and spirituality for tens of thousands of years that spirit or spirituality plays a prominent part in all religions,

The conspicuous absence of both community and spirituality would seem substantial evidence that Mannheim was correct: Academic materialism is a mindset- a mode of thought! In fact - the most salient aspect of religions is that they are groups – or communities. Such a blatant disregard of such readily apparent and indisputably evident facts indicates some deep researcher biases.

Why is social consciousness important? A More Detailed Analysis

“We become what we think” as Buddha said. The materialist ideology - with an inherent bias for extreme individualism and thsu an antisocial teaching - ideology - is unhealthy and destructive.

Nine Major Anti-Social Behaviors recently emerged since roughly 2000

1. 389 school shootings in America - Washington Post Article: “More than 357,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine There have been 389 school shootings since 1999, according to Post data” – “There were more school shootings in 2022 — 46 — than in any year since at least 1999. Since the 1990’s there have been 288 school shootings in the USA – five times all of the school shootings in Europe combines.

2. CDC: Suicide rates increased approximately 36% between 2000–2021. Suicide was responsible for 48,183 deaths in 2021, which is about one death every 11 minutes.3 The number of people who think about or attempt suicide is even higher. In 2021, an estimated 12.3 million American adults seriously thought about suicide, 3.5 million planned a suicide attempt, and 1.7 million attempted suicide. Suicide affects people of all ages. In 2021, suicide was among the top 9 leading causes of death for people ages 10-64. Suicide was the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-14 and 20-34.3

3. There has been a recent drastic increase in physical assaults on teachers in America – and worldwide i.e Teacher stabbed to death by pupil in France (BBC World News, France)According to a new survey from the American Psychological Association, one-third of teachers report that they experienced at least one incident of verbal harassment or threat of violence from students during the pandemic. (National Education Association, USA)

Germany sees increase in attacks on teachers. (Deutsche Welle, Germany) Student Violence Against Teachers Has Become the Norm and That’s NOT Okay. (Bored Teachers, USA) School principals experience highest rate (75%) of violence and abuse in Australia. (ABC News) Surprising Israeli statistic emerged: the victims of student abuse – primarily veteran teachers – don't seek help. (Bar-Ilan University. Israel) New Zealand teachers want action as student assault rates on staff escalate. (Stuff, New Zealand) – (Violence Against Teachers: 17 Alarming Statistics and Headlines https://www.bite-pro.com/blog/post/violence-against-teachers-17-alarming-statistics-and-headlines )

During the 2020–21 school year, a higher percentage of elementary public-school teachers than of secondary public-school teachers reported being threatened with injury (8 vs. 4 percent) or being physically attacked (7 vs. 1 percent) by a student from their school. Teachers Threatened With Injury or Physically Attacked by Students (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a05/teacher-attacked-by-students)

4. The FBI reported a new high in hate crimes in the USA: Washington Post: UPDATE March 13, 2023 7:18 PM Masood Farivar US Hate Crimes Hit Record High: FBI Updated Report

The number of hate crimes in the United States jumped dramatically in 2021 to set a record high of nearly 11,000 incidents, the FBI said in a supplement to its annual hate crimes report. – with a huge increase in hate crimes reported by Asians including 896 Filipinos

5. Intentional killings of police have increased dramatically in the USA

Last year saw the highest number of law enforcement officers who were intentionally killed in the line of duty since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an increase that comes as a rise in gun violence and homicides continues across the country.

According to preliminary year-end data provided to CNN by the FBI, 73 officers died in felonious killings in the line of duty in 2021. The year marks the highest total recorded by the agency since 1995, excluding the 9/11 attacks. (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/13/us/police-officers-line-of-duty-deaths/index.html)

6. Assaults on healthcare workers have had an exponential increase:

What’s behind an alarming rise in violent incidents in health care facilities “Government data shows that health care workers are five times as likely to experience workplace violence as other workers. They accounted for 73 percent of non-fatal injuries from violence in 2018, the most recent year for which numbers are available, and there are signs it's getting worse.”

7. Narcissism Epidemic: Since roughly 2000 there has been an epidemic of narcissism in western countries. Is modern life making us more narcissistic? And if so, why? We agree with Paris (2014, pp. 220 –226) that the answer to the first question is yes. In fact, as we demonstrate below, the case for

increasing narcissism is even stronger than presented in his article.

On the second question, we agree that expressive individualism

and lack of social support play key roles in this increase. However,

we question the idea that therapy is building narcissism.” (The narcissism epidemic: Living in the age of entitlement. APA Psych net)

8. All time high in mass shootings 2023 - 559 Mass shootings in 2023: “This is a list of mass shootings that took place in the United States in 2023. Mass shootings are incidents in which several people are victims of firearm-related violence, specifically for the purposes of this article, a total of four or more victims. As of November 30, a total of 660 people have been killed and 2,330 other people have been injured in 559 shootings. (Wikipedia)

9. Chinese Kindergarten Knife Slayings

China kindergarten stabbing: Six dead in Lianjiang By Kelly Ng & Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News The stabbings also fit in to a disturbingly familiar pattern. Firearms are banned in China but the country has seen a spate of knife attacks in recent years, although there was also one incident where the attacker used a chemical spray to injure a classroom of 50 children. The BBC has counted at least 17 knife attacks in schools, colleges and universities since 2010. Ten of those have happened between 2018 and 2023.

This particular behavior is unheard of – unknown! Killing – murdering – with a knife is up close and personal – very different from killing forma distance with a gun. Killing a 5 or 6-year-old child with a knife is horrifically brutally violent. Any way you look at the situation – it is Abnormal – with a capital A.

The article highlights these two incidents:

“In April 2021, two children died while 16 others were injured during a mass stabbing in Beiliu City, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

In October 2018, 14 children were injured in a knife attack at a kindergarten in Chongqing, south-west China.”

Excerpt from Wikipedia

A series of uncoordinated mass stabbings, hammer attacks, and cleaver attacks in the People's Republic of China began in March 2010. The spate of attacks left at least 90 dead and some 473 injured. As most cases had no known motive, analysts have blamed mental health problems caused by rapid social change for the rise in these kinds of mass murder and murder-suicide incidents. The state media has also been keeping news of these attacks quiet by deleting forum entries on the internet and releasing few facts on the incident for fear of copycat crimes and mass panic. (almost as bad as FB when it comes to spirituality – eh?)

The Dark Side of Psychology

Pivotal Behavioral Consequences Originating from the Concept and Academic Abstraction of Free Will – (excerpt from essay on Free Will)

Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born in 1942) is an author, and scientist who worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1973. He is somewhat of a maverick. Sheldrake advocates the concept of morphic resonance, and argues that "memory is inherent in nature" and further that "natural systems... inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind." Further, he argues that morphic resonance explains the "telepathy-type interconnections between organisms."

“The atheist [materialistic] ideology found a powerful ally in materialist science, which by the end of the nineteenth century, portrayed a purposeless, unconscious, mechanical universe where humans, like all life, had evolved without purpose or guidance. In this godless world [devoid of spirituality], humanity would take charge of it own evolution, bringing economic development, brotherhood, health, and prosperity to all mankind through progress.” (p.157) (Quotes from the Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health (2017) by Rupert Sheldrake)

Psychologies as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

It is true that the materialist ideology is purposeless. “We become what we think” – Buddha

Self-fulfilling psychologies are realities - and should be considered in context of psychology theories – especially materialism and reductionism. Most everyone has heard of “positive thinking” and that positive thinking yields positive results. For instance, there have been over 300 studies of “hope” – the origin of positive thinking as it were – and the overwhelming conclusion was that “Hope” produces positive health benefits (duh). One study of students revealed that students who were told they are smart performed better. So, yes – “We become what we think!”

Excerpt from article “Impression Formation” C.N. Macrae, S. Quadflieg,

The term self-fulfilling prophecies refers to the observation that sometimes our beliefs about others can lead us to treat them in such a way that they subsequently become what we expect them to be. Originally, the effect was demonstrated in the classroom and called the ‘Pygmalion effect.’

Detrimental health effects of academic ideologies and abstractions – from research on Free Will

Research by Kathleen Vohs and Jonathan Schooler showed that “It seems that when people stop believing they are free agents; they stop seeing themselves as blameworthy for their actions. Consequently, they act less responsibly and give in to their baser instincts. Vohs emphasized that this result is not limited to the contrived conditions of a lab experiment. “You see the same effects with people who naturally believe more or less in free will,” she said.

“Further studies by Baumeister and colleagues have linked a diminished belief in free will to stress, unhappiness, and a lesser commitment to relationships. They found that when subjects were induced to believe that “all human actions follow from prior events and ultimately can be understood in terms of the movement of molecules,” those subjects came away with a lower sense of life’s meaningfulness. Early this year, other researchers published a study showing that a weaker belief in free will correlates with poor academic performance…….

The list goes on: Believing that free will is an illusion has been shown to make people less creative, more likely to conform, less willing to learn from their mistakes, and less grateful toward one another. In every regard, it seems, when we embrace determinism, we indulge our dark side.” (There’s No Such Thing as Free Will - But we’re better off believing in it anyway. Story by Stephen Cave Atlantic, JUNE 2016 ISSUE)

Also, from more general studies, there appears to be a correlation between “meaningless” and difficulties handling stress: “People perceive their life as meaningful when they find coherence in the environment. Given that meaning of life is tied to making sense of life events, people who lack meaning would be more threatened by stressful life events than those with a strong sense of meaning in life.

Four studies demonstrated links between perceptions of life’s meaningfulness and perceived levels of stress. In Study 1, participants with lower levels of meaning in life reported greater stress than those who reported higher meaning in life. In Study 2 and Study 3, participants whose meaning in life had been threatened experienced greater stress than those whose meaning in life had been left intact. In Study 4, anticipation of future stress caused participants to rate themselves higher on the quest for meaning in life. These findings suggest that perceiving life as meaningful functions as a buffer against stressors.” Meaning in life and adjustment to daily stressors (Jina Park and Roy F. Baumeister Department of Psychology, Florida state university, Tallahassee, Fl, USA)

Extreme Individualism: David Hay and Virgilio Enriquez

David Hay emphasizes that as a result of the Enlightenment movement’s emphasis on rational individualism – especially Hobbes “the cultural construction of an extreme individualism which is particularly evident in the Western world, there has been a `forgetting’ of relational consciousness/spirituality resulting in damaging effects to the texture of human community.” David Hay (Spirituality versus Individualism: Why we should nurture relational consciousness, International Journal of Children's Spirituality)

K Lagdameo-Santillan observes that “According to Professor Enriquez, Kapwa is the “unity of the one-of-us-and-the-other” ……. He maintained that “Kapwa implied moral and normative aspects that obliged a person to treat one another as fellow human being and therefore as equal.” …….. But he also foresaw that this Filipino core value was threatened by spreading Western influences. “…once AKO (the I) starts thinking of himself as separate from KAPWA, the Filipino ‘self’ gets to be individuated as in the Western sense…”

Professor Virgilio Enriquez, founder of Sikolohiyang Pilipino.

It would seem the recent research into the “epidemic” rise of the mental illness of narcissism (Twenge, etc.) may support David Hay’s argument. I might briefly mention that narcissism is complex and controversial. While social media such as FB clearly seems to play a role in the increase in narcissism, the cause of narcissism is a separate issue with one psychologist arguing narcissism is caused by anxiety. Ye, if materialism is an ideology then that would clearly also contribute to the narcissism problem. Aline Vater in his article “Narcissism in Western Culture” states that “Narcissism scores are higher in individualistic cultures compared with more collectivistic cultures.

Addendum I. Narcissism in Western Culture by Aline Vater

“Narcissism scores are higher in individualistic cultures compared with more collectivistic cultures. Germany was formerly divided into two different social systems, each with distinct economic, political and national cultures, and was reunified in 1989/90. Between 1949 and 1989/90, West Germany had an individualistic culture, whereas East Germany had a more collectivistic culture.”

In contrast, it is remarkable that – in light of the unique “kapwa (“self as others” cultural psychology” and the documented fact that the Philippines though politically a very violent country has a very low rate of shooting sprees. As Buddha said, “We become what we think!”

Point of order: I would highlight that - academics never really considered how the materialist quantification principle – a “Rigid adherence to arbitrary quantification” as McGilChrist put it – which most everyone assumes is science – could create a mode of thought or mindset much like communism or capitalism or any other mode of thought – which drastically alters one’s orientation and approach. – A case of Colossal Researcher Bias.

Addendum: A Major Methodology Flaw

- A narrative explanation of the Definist fallacy–Maladaptive Stereotype that “All spirituality is unreal” I include this because I feel the Definist Fallacy is A Major Methodology problem that cause widespread “crooked thinking – to use Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist’s terminology

A short while ago I happened to be talking to a Filipina college graduate. I explained the materialist argument as explained by Miller & Thompson in the NIH article – that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. I was a bit surprised when she emphatically agreed with the argument that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. So, I asked her to consider the concept of “death” for a minute. Death is far beyond measurement or quantification – so then…, following the logic of the materialist argument then “Death would then be a figment of her imagination and “superstitious nonsense.” She did concede that a fallacy had indeed skewed her thinking – which is a major success for me. Bargh observes that most people just really don’t want to believe that any unconscious factors could influence their thinking - without their knowledge.

Bargh emphasizes the pervasive influence of unconscious influences in many circumstances. Bargh unequivocally states: “Imagine for a moment that you are a psychology professor who does experiments on conscious awareness. You keep finding that your subtle manipulations of people’s judgments and even behavior are successful –causing your experimental participants to like someone or to dislike that same person, to feel happy or sad, to behave rudely or with infinite patience. However, none of your participants have a clue as to what caused them to feel or behave.” The Unbearable Automaticity of Being, John A Bargh & Tanya L. Chartrand - p. 462 July 1999 American Psychologist)

My critique of materialism endorsed by four very prominent psychologists and medical researchers.

The critique has had well over 10,000 views and zero criticisms (between academia.edu, LinkedIn and FB science groups (before I stopped posting on FB) _ so is “peer reviewed!”

1. Dr. Paul Wong, Professor Emeritus of Trent University edited two large volumes of The Human Quest for Meaning

2. Dr. Harold Koenig, a medical doctor-psychiatrist, a well published and very well-known author and researcher stated about this article: "Charlie – makes perfect sense to me,

3. Dr. Stephen Farra: Columbia International University Emeritus "Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all

4. Stefan Schindler, an award-winning author, and retired psychology-philosophy professor

The U.S. Department of Justice has accepted my complaint # 83404-WLP as well as 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778 – They explained in detail how the Definist Fallacy causes serious misunderstandings and cause prejudices, misunderstandings, and outright ignorance at times. The complaint was filed against Kaiser Permanente – who had basically told me – to take my beliefs and go screw myself.

Assault by Kaiser Permanente

Reply from Kaiser Permanente Sr Director Evans suspended my rights to KP services for abusive conduct. The top listed abusive message by Director Evans - literally: “December 8, 2022 I felt that the acceptance of the Definist fallacy and your refusal to acknowledge my rights and beliefs as extremely offensive” I even filed a complaint with the DOJ [which I sent them but they never read apparently] which was accepted. My position is endorsed by Dr. Koenig, Dr Wong, and Dr Farra, and Stefan Schindler" That is the whole story there – Materialists simply don’t care at all – the hypocrites – when it comes down to it – simply do not have any respect at all for spiritual people.

There are some schools of thought – such as Existential – Positive Psychology – logotherapy and pastoral schools of thought as well as Jungian school of thought - which are receptive – but mainstream psychologists – for the larger part - are not objective even though they swear they are. As Viktor Frankl and Muzafer Sherif pointed out schools of thought and disciplines are separate and disconnected. Psychiatrists – as Dr Stacey Neal (Johns Hopkins – explained – have no education or training in people who have spiritual experiences. In my forty years of experience, I wodul say psychiatrists are no nothing close-minded bigots.

As J. E Kennedy points out - “very little research has been done” on people who have spiritual-psychic experiences – which unfortunately is too true. I read an article which said new training for psychiatrists was being considered. I wondered – what exactly they use as a training manual?? I have not come across a decent training manual as yet.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

- Alfred North Whitehead

I live in General Santos, Philippines and personally I view my Bla’an and T’boli Filipina connections as being far more intelligent than many [over]educated academics I have met - because they believe that dreams “can” be a source of divine inspiration – whereas psychiatrists generally view that literally as hallucinations and delusions. As Whitehead observes – it is about “possibilities and potential (and creativity)

I woudl re-empahsize my question about the dysfuntioanl overemphasis on quantification in materialist ideology – described by McGilChrist as a “rigid adherence to quantification” – which is appropriate to physics or chemistry got applied to human consciousness is mindboggling. Half of human consciousness is not quantifiable: hope, art, music, poetry, true love, awe-wonder, freedom, ideals, justice, - not to mention death. If materialsit quantification were striclty followed, human beinghs woudl be left with the intellience of a rat. Willaim James "practical use principle" - methodology- seems much more practical??

Footnote: Definition of Assault by Cornell legal institute

Assault is generally defined as an intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact. No physical injury is required, but the actor must have intended to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the victim and the victim must have thereby been put in immediate apprehension of such a contact.

“Intention” in the context of assault, means that the act is not accidental, but motive is immaterial. It does not matter if the goal of the tortfeasor was merely to scare the victim or if the act was meant as a joke. The tortfeasor need not have intended for the contact to be harmful or offensive, only to have intended the actual contact.

“Reasonable apprehension” in the context of assault, refers to the victim’s reasonable belief that the act will lead to imminent harmful or offensive contact.

The victim does not need to prove fear, only that they were aware that such a contact might occur. If the victim and the tortfeasor do not know each other, then the legal standard is what an ordinary reasonable person under the same circumstances as the victim would have believed. If the victim and tortfeasor have special knowledge of each other, this special knowledge may be considered when determining whether the victim’s apprehension was reasonable.

Link to academia profile

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CharlesPeckJr

Shortcomings of the psychology/psychiatric ideologies

Dr Neal, a psychaitrist trained at Johns Hopkins stated that she had no training or education in peopel who had spirtual experiences. Teh psychaitric diagnostic manula has Nothing abotu spiritualtiy in it - except in a derogatory or degrading fashion. Is ascience of the mind - whcih is devoid totally of spiritualtiy - a "science" - f**k no.

Furthermore, the APA manual is almost as bad. As J. E. Kennedy observes, “Very little research has been aimed at investigating the overall effects of paranormal experiences.”

(An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Paranormal and Spiritual Experiences on Peoples' Lives and Well-Being J.E. Kennedy and H. Kanthamani: Thee Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1995, Volume 89, pp.249-265.) That is, "psychology" knows little ro nothing about "people" who have spiritual experiences - an unfortuante reality from my research and experience. Dr. Ingela Visuri, author of Sensory supernatural experiences in autism. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 10(2): 151-165., states that there is a distinct difference between studying people and studying experiences.

I recently reviewed specifically the chapter "Mystical, Spiritual, and Religious Experiences” in Raymond F. Paloutzian & Crystal L. Park’s Handbook of The Psychology Of Religion And Spirituality (Guilford Press, 2013). A synopsis from the chapter of the phenomena covered is a short list of APA “anomalous experiences" – specifically "hallucinations, near death, past life, mystical, and paranormal experiences!" In that chapter there is nothing relevant about people who have experiences.

The Proof is in the pudding: Here is an overview of the different sections in the chapter, "Mystical, Spiritual, and Religious Experiences” What is disturbing – in my view – is the fact that6 in that chapter – people are absent - missing I found these sections which are titled:

Overview the chapter, "Mystical, Spiritual, and Religious Experiences”

1. "UFO's and Alien abductions"

2. "Psychedelics or Entheogens"

3. Near-Death Experience

4. Numinous and Mystical Experiences.

Aristotelian Scientific Method Applied to Spirituality –

Counterpoint to the materialist maxim that "All spirituality is unreal"

Aristotle described Scientific Method as

1. Gather the Facts

2. Categorize the Data

3. Analyze the Information

4. Draw Conclusions

A proper categorization has not been done – here is a preliminary sketch – in context of William James Principle of “Practical Use!” That is the focus is “real world” spirituality counterpoint to the materialist maxim that "All spirituality is unreal" - I write about artistic spirituality, the spirituality of music (surprisingly, the spirituality of grieving, and dreams of the deceased which as one psychologist observed are not "unusual" and some studies demonstrate facilitate healing, the spirituality of compassion. Recently I have also written about dreams as a source of [divine inspiration and the T’boli (and Bla'an) dream weaving - which is known world-wide for textile creativity.

My Counterpoint to the materialist maxim “All spirituality is unreal” – spirituality with real world context (Muzafer Sherif) and Practical Use (William James) versus the materialist "rigid adherence to arbitrary quantification" (McGilChrist)

1. Spirituality of Compassion: The Oxford Handbook on Compassion: “Compassion for others and social support have survival value and health benefits…. (p. 171)

2. Musical Spirituality Shulkin and Raglan "Our evolution is tightly bound to music and to the body as an instrument (e.g., clapping). Music, amongst other things, helps to facilitate social cooperative and coordinated behaviors."

3. Prophecy, Poetry, & Spirituality - Creativity, Transcendence: "The prophet is a poet. His experience is one known to poets. What poets know as poetic inspiration; the prophets call divine revelation" - Heschel

4. Kapwa-loob pro-social norms/spirituality Kapwa & Relational Spirituality: K Lagdameo-Santillan “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others

5. Children’s Spirituality Donna Thomas: “anomalous experiences can catalyze self-

healing for children and young people.”

6. Artistic Spirituality: Robert K. Johnston - 20 percent of Americans turn to “media, arts and culture” as their primary means of spiritual experience and expression...."

7. Healing Spiritual-Psychic Experiences in Grieving “Conversely, experience has shown pastoral caregivers that individuals do seem to cope better if they can "actualize" their spiritual experiences in times of crisis.

8. T’boli Dream Weaving/T’nalak – Dreams as a source of divine inspiration – i.e. Be Lang Dulay, a national artist, popularized T’nalak weaving with her over 100 different T’nalak designs."

9. Arctic Hunter Gatherer beliefs in animal spirits as "Human relationships with the natural world..." in context of William James Practical Use Principle

10. Dr. Ingela Visuri: Spirituality and "The Case of High functioning Autism"

11. Medical studies-research & meta-analyses

Perceptions of threats to the group

First I should emphasize that consistently studies show that somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences, of oen type or another. Also, Park and Paloutzian observe that there is a "normalcy" to spiritual-psychic experiences. Author and scholar Jean MacPhail observes - my experiences are unique - in part because my experiences are correlated with political events outside myself - as well as because my interpretations as perceptions of threats to the group are consistent and reasonable. On top of that a dozen are documented - mostly by emails. Furthermore, from my research, some of my experiences - compared to other historically documented warnings or predictions of political events, have much more detailed and more accurate details.

Point of Order: Instincts, Alarm Calls, & Daryl Bem's Precognition Laboratory Experiments

Richard S. Broughton observes that "The tragic events of 9/11 brought a flurry of cases to the attention of parapsychology labs. The cases ranged from dramatic dreams of airplanes crashing or exploding to the more frequent examples of unusual departures from normal routines that ended up saving someone’s life." (Encounters at the Frontiers of Time: Questions Raised by Anomalous Human Experiences Richard S. Broughton) It would be rather self-evident that visibility of the 9/11 event is a major factor. Historically - before 9/11 there were no historically documented instances of warnings or predictions of terrorism. Visibility plus modern social media woudl likely be factors.

That is consistent with my personal experinces as well. Political/historical "Visibility" in "consciousness" is clearly a factor in my experiences as well. The assassination attempt on President Reagan on March 30, 1981, Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. outside the Washington Hilton was highly "visible" in consciousness. The very detailed warning to the Toledo, Ohio FBI on October 18, 1981 centered on the Weathermen terrorist group whcih was a very well-known group that emerged out of the Vietnam War era - a splinter group of the SDS. The Weathermen terrorist group was especailly well-known in the FBI.

Instincts, Alarm Calls, and Daryl Bem's Successful Repeated Laboratory Experiments

My experiences as “alarm calls” are also consistent with Daryl Bem’s successful repeated experiments on precognition. In 2016, an article about a meta-analysis of Daryl Bem (et al) very successful precognitive experiments states that "When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments." The article goes on to say that the results showed that the experimental design focused on sex [instinctual] was by far outperformed the other designs. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Dugga)

As a footnote, I woudl add that from my micro-surveyt, my impression is that many of womenm's dreams focus of their families and of course their families would be their group.

Unusual Experiences are processed as "Unusual" by the Categorization process (shocking?)

Synthesis Consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung and William James

Three characteristics

1. "spirit, spiritual processes, and religious beliefs create meaning, a sense of reality - and ultimately Reality, and Truth.

2. Tolerance: That different experiences create different worldviews and understandings

3. Spiritual symbolism generates emotional energy

The synthesis consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, and William James simply put is that "spirit, spiritual processes, and religious beliefs create meaning, a sense of reality - and ultimately Reality, and Truth. In the anthology, Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology (2014), Paul Wong, observes: “Frankl considers meaning seeking as stemming from one’s spiritual nature. William James emphasizes in his classic work, originally published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experiences: “They [spiritual experiences] determine our vital attitude [sense of reality] as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense,…” Jung observed, in the Collected Works (CW8: 648 -1968 revised) that “Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest development.

This besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness!

Preamble

A Prophetic Perspective from the 1927 Steppenwolf Novel "A world that is strange and incomprehensible to him....in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness" - Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse) As the theologian Heschel observed, "The prophet is a poet. His experience is one known to poets. What poets know as poetic inspiration, the prophets call divine revelation Psychologically considered, prophetic inspiration is not materially different from furor poeticus of the master-poet or artist. The inspiration of the artist is what is meant by the hand of the Lord which rests upon the prophet.” (p.468-469)

"Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life that we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, its politics, its men! .... And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong. I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him." (p. 48-49)

"Secularization has often been experienced as an assault....[people] feel bewildered by the new secular institutions." Karen Armstrong

As Karen armstorng observed, "Secularization has often been experienced as an assault.... [producing a large number of people] who feel bewildered by the new secular institutions. Thus, religion has become embattled and even militant." In that sense thyen, "Spiritual blindness" is very prophetic of the "secularization - materialist ideology" that took hold beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. and which the materialsit quantification principle of materialsim became dominant.

Karen Armstrong states that “The rational bias of our scientific modernity has resulted in a new and unskillful literalism. Protestants created the first fundamentalist movement at the time of World War I in order to protect Christianity, which, they felt, was imperiled by the new ideas and institutions. In some of the colonized countries, however, the process has been even more traumatic because it has been far too rapid. Secularization has often been experienced as an assault. It has also created a division between a Western- educated elite and the majority who feel bewildered by the new secular institutions. Thus, religion has become embattled and even militant.

"Materialism has destabilized society!" - FBI agent Michelle McElwee

In my conversations with FBI agent McElwee - which began in December,2018 after I discovered a screenshots file had been inserted onto my computer - revealed by emails from two U.S. Senators with images attached - which brought the screenshot images up. Agent McElwee stated "Materialism has destabilized society!" After the U.S. Department of Justice accepted my complaints against Kaiser Permanente, FBI Agent McElwee stopped returning my phone calls. Of course, what FBI agent McElwee said dovetails into the position of Karen Armstrong, a well-known scholar of religious studies. Of course, Agent McElwee uses the term "materialism" which is much more current in academic circles.

The Antiscience Movement

The antiscience movement would be a clear indication that Karen Armstrong's assessement is correct. Article from the Scientific American The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands: Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world BY PETER J. HOTEZ MARCH 29, 2021 Peter Hotez observes: Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Antiscience is the rejection of mainstream scientific views and methods Now antiscience is causing mass deaths once again in this COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in the spring of 2020, the Trump White House launched a coordinated disinformation campaign that dismissed the severity of the epidemic in the United States, attributed COVID deaths to other causes,......

The Differernce between the author Peter Hotez and myself is that I said the same thing about Trump's no mask madness in April 2020 - while he waited until March 2021.

50,000 excessive & unnecessary American deaths: "To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run An old warning email to Agent McElwee 4-10-2020 Article frpm the Guardian: “US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies." Estimates by analysts vary from 50,000-100,000 unnecessary American deaths

Article in Guardian: “US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies. The Christian “No Mask Madness” without question produced a very large number of disproportionately high number of Americans who died of Corona Virus than most other European countries – by all accounts. A recent article stated that one hundred thousand Americans died of the corona virus that shouldn’t have compared to the Canadian death toll from corona virus.

An important point of order would be that nearly all of my experiences would easily fit into a category parallel to the alarm calls of animals. As Jean MacPhail, a scholar, author of A Spiral Life and a former fellow in neuropathology at Harvard University, observed, ‘My experiences are very unique!’ – in part because they relate to events outside myself, as well as being consistent with reasonable interpretations, as well as being relatively well documented.

Reflections

So, yes.....The Steppenwolf novel appears strangely prophetic of the contemporary world situation with the secularization - spiritual and religious division. "I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him." A fair number of my connections view this world as not only "incomprehensibele" but hostile and alienating as well.

Introduction:

A Very Real Assault: A Major Methodology Flaw: An Academic Maladaptive Stereotype

I have a critique specifically explaining and documenting a major Methodology problem - endorsed by 4 prominent psychologists including world famous medical researcher Dr. Harold Koenig. The U.S. Department of Justice recognizes the validity of the question in accepting my complaints I filed with them. On top of that I have well over 10,000 views and zero criticisms on academia.edu and FB (before I stopped posting on FB) - so it has been peer reviewed and should be accepted as established fact.

Death is Superstitious Nonsense: A Narrative Explanation

Not long ago, in General Santos, Philippines, I happened to be talking to a Filipina college graduate at a street restaurant. I explained to her that the materialist argument as explained by Miller & Thompson in their NIH article – that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it - according to the materialist logic. I was a bit surprised when she emphatically agreed with the argument that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it.

So, I did ask her to consider - just for a moment - the concept of “death.” Death, of course is far beyond measurement or quantification – unless you are like Heracles and can cross the the Greek Mythological river of death, Styx, separating earth from the underworld like Heracles and return unscathed! I went on to add, "So then, following the logic of the materialist argument that woudl mean that “Death is Superstitiosu nonsense, and nonexistent!"

She, paused for amoment, then she did concede that a fallacy had indeed skewed her thinking – which was a huge major success for me. Bargh observes that most people just really never ever want to believe that any unconscious factors could influence their thinking - without their knowledge - Not a thoguth they wodul like to entertain thoguh it happens in real life all the time.

The Definist Fallacy - Maladaptive Stereotype that "All Spirituality is unreal!"

A version of the materialist fallacy that I encounter fairly often is that one need to “Prove God” before one can have valid spiritual beliefs. When I first encountered that argument (and it si not uncommon) , I was like – “Prove God???..Are you crazy?” As St Gregory of Nyssa, St augistine, and Dionysius all agree - God is beyond comprehension. St Gregory of Nyssa observed: “We know in part and we prophesy in part’ [1 Cor 13.9]; “If any man thinks he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know” [1 Cor 8.2]; (p. 204)

Unconscious Processes 11 million bits of data per second

The unconscious processing abilities of the human brain are estimated at roughly 11 million pieces of information per second. Compare that to the estimate for conscious processing: about 40 pieces per second. Our conscious processing capacity isn’t insignificant, but clearly it’s just a retention pond compared to the ocean of the unconscious. And more and more research is uncovering abilities of the unconscious that defy reason. (From: Forbes: Your Brain Sees Even When You Don’t June 24, 2013)

The consensus of unconscious researchers from diverse disciplines is that the unconscious is the work horse of the human mind. “Based on the accumulated evidence, the authors conclude that these various non-conscious mental systems shoulder the lion's share of the self-regulatory burden, thereby keeping the individual grounded in their current environment.” (Bargh)

Subtle Unconscious Influences

Bargh emphasizes just how the pervasive and powerful some unconscious influences and motivations can be! Bargh points out: “Imagine for a moment that you are a psychology professor who does experiments on conscious awareness. You keep finding that your subtle manipulations of people’s judgments and even behavior are successful –causing your experimental participants to like someone or to dislike that same person, to feel happy or sad, to behave rudely or with infinite patience. However, none of your participants have a clue as to what caused them to feel or behave.” The Unbearable Automaticity of Being, John A Bargh & Tanya L. Chartrand - p. 462 July 1999 American Psychologist) Academic values, norms and stereotypes would neceessarily be very salitent and influential - though to my knowledge I am the first to focus on academic stereotypes.

Priming

One specific example that Bargh highlights is that, "If you are reminded of your group status before performing a test or task, and the cultural stereotype says that your group is not very good at it, your performance will be affected. You will consciously or unconsciously, “buy in” to that stereotype." (John Bargh Before You Know It p.83) It would only stand to reason that materialist academic stereotypes such as “quantification equating to science” (which is not true) and that would affect one’s views of the world and life. The "All spirituality is unreal" maladaptive stereotype is really a subset of the "Quatification equates to science" maladaptive stereotype.

As Claudia Nielsen emphasized, the psychiatrist McGilChrist astutely observed that “The scope of inquiry and understanding of the Materialist Doctrine with its rigid adherence to the actually arbitrary principle of quantification and over-emphasis on physiological characteristics is severely restricted and limited in the analyses that can be performed.”

Critique of materialism endorsed by four very prominent psychologists/medical researchers.

The critique has had well over 10,000 views and zero criticisms (between academia.edu, linkedin and FB science groups (before I stopped posting on FB)_ so is peer reviewed

1. Dr. Paul Wong, Professor Emeritus of Trent University edited two large volumes of The Human Quest for Meaning

2. Dr. Harold Koenig, a medical doctor-psychiatrist, a well published and very well-known author and researcher stated about this article: "Charlie – makes perfect sense to me,

3. Dr. Stephen Farra: Columbia International University Emeritus "Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all

4. Stefan Schindler, an award-winning author, and retired psychology-philosophy professor

Department of Justice: Complaints Against Dr Stacey Neal and Kaiser Permanente

The U.S. Department of Justice accepted my complaint # 83404-WLP as well as 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778 – They explained in detail how the Definist Fallacy causes serious misunderstandings and cause prejudices, misunderstandings, and outright ignorance at times. The complaint was filed against Kaiser Permanente – who had basically told me – to take my beliefs and go screw myself.

Assault

"Assault is generally defined as an intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact. No physical injury is required, but the actor must have intended to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the victim and the victim must have thereby been put in immediate apprehension of such a contact. (LII Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault

It would appear readily apparent that Kaiser Permanente is deliberately and intentionally putting down and repressing a valid and important question. As such that would easily meet the definition for assault as defined above – which would appear readily apparent to meet the criteria of assault meets the criteria of assault

"This besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness!"

In the epic novel, Steppenwolf, written by Hermann Hesse and first published in 1927, it would appear that some of the writing in the novel could, in truth, be considered properly prophetic - especially in regard to some of the psychological and spiritual aspects of our contemporary society and culture. Steppenwolf, the character and the central individual in the novel, decries the empty essence and of his society, when he proclaims, "Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life that we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, its politics, its men! .... And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of cafes, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong. I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him." (p. 48-49)

Addendum I: Critique of Academic Materialism with thousands of views and Zero Criticisms

Death is superstitious nonsense (Not Me as Bargh says)

A. A Narrative Explanation of the Definist fallacy – “All spirituality is unreal” maladaptive stereotype

A short while ago I happened to be talking to a Filipina college graduate. I explained the materialist argument as explained by Miller & Thompson in the NIH article – that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. I was a bit surprised when she emphatically agreed with the argument that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. So, I asked her to consider the concept of “death” for a minute. Death is far beyond measurement or quantification – so then,…,…following the logic of the materialist argument then “Death would then be a figment of her imagination and “superstitious nonsense.” She did concede that a fallacy had indeed skewed her thinking – which is a major success for me. Bargh observes that most people just really don’t want to believe that any unconscious factors could influence their thinking - without their knowledge.

The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, state in their article, “Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research”: “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” On source cited an example of a Definist fallacy would be the statement that the contenders arguments are “crackpot theories” – leaving no room for intelligent discussion. I would briefly question that how a methodology – described by McGilChrist as a “rigid adherence to quantification” – which is appropriate to physics or chemistry got applied to human consciousness is mindboggling. Half of human conscious is not quantifiable: hope, art, music, poetry, true love, awe-wonder, freedom, ideals, justice, - not to mention death. A version of the materialist fallacy that I encounter often is that one need to “Prove God” before one can have valid spiritual beliefs. When I first encountered that argument (and it si not uncommon) , I was like – “Prove God???..Are you crazy?”

As an example of unconscious factors and influences Bargh observes, “Yet the recent advances in child social psychology, such as David Kelly’s pioneering study of the facial preferences of young infants, are starting to paint a much more pessimistic picture: that these in-group/out-group preferences may be forming much earlier in life, well before a child starts school.” (p. 69 John Bargh Before You Know It) Of course I am the first to analyze academic norms and stereotypes

B. My critique of materialism endorsed by four very prominent psychologists and medical researchers.

The critique has had well over 10,000 views and zero criticisms (between academia.edu, linkedin and FB science groups (before I stopped posting on FB)_ so is peer reviewed

1. Dr. Paul Wong, Professor Emeritus of Trent University edited two large volumes of The Human Quest for Meaning

2. Dr. Harold Koenig, a medical doctor-psychiatrist, a well published and very well-known author and researcher stated about this article: "Charlie – makes perfect sense to me,

3. Dr. Stephen Farra: Columbia International University Emeritus "Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all

4. Stefan Schindler, an award-winning author, and retired psychology-philosophy professor

Addendum II. “There is no psychology of groups”

“There is no psychology of groups”???? – You can’t be serious!

Floyd Allport, in 1927 stated unequivocally that

“Only within the individual can we find the behavior mechanisms and the consciousness which are fundamental in the interactions between people ………There is no psychology of groups which is not essentially and entirely a psychology of individuals.”

Hazel Markus, Shinobu Kitayama, Rachel Heiman, the authors of the chapter Culture and “Basic” Psychological Principles, of the Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles, state rather boldly – and unequivocally - that currently, “Psychologists who study groups approach the idea of a group as an entity only very gingerly. The field, or members of the field, apparently still feel the sting of Allport’s (1927) remonstration of those who were attracted to McDougall’s idea of “group mind.”

Addendum III“Limited Analyses”

As Claudia Nielsen pointed out, the psychiatrist McGilChrist observes that “The scope of inquiry and understanding of the Materialist Doctrine with its rigid adherence to the actually arbitrary principle of quantification and over-emphasis on physiological characteristics is severely restricted and limited in the analyses that can be performed.”

Rupert Sheldrake, author and scientists, observes “The atheist [materialist] ideology found a powerful ally in materialist science, which by the end of the nineteenth century, portrayed a purposeless, unconscious, mechanical universe where humans, like all life, had evolved without purpose or guidance. In this godless world [devoid of spirituality], humanity would take charge of it own evolution, bringing economic development, brotherhood, health, and prosperity to all mankind through progress.” (p.157)

Strict quantification is the ultimate “filter” or – prison - which limits both perception and awareness. As author and scholar MacGilChrist observes, academic materialism possesses a "rigid adherence to arbitrary quantification." It appears that the stereotype that "quantification unequivocally equates to science" is widespread. That is patently false. Materialist strict quantification excludes art, music, hope, dreaming, dancing, creativity, poetry, true love, idealism, freedom, as well as justice and even imagination.

“Quantification” as a principle and approach is perfectly fine for physics – or chemistry – but for human co0nsciousness? Half of human consciousness is not quantifiable - human consciousness involves art, creativity, freedom, love, idealism, as well as dreams and even. Centuries ago Hume observed that there is a distinct difference between the “ought and the “is.” Einstein similarly stated that right and wrong are beyond the scope of science. You know, If the strict rules of academic materialism and a rigid adherence to quantification were followed, human beings would be left with the intelligence of a rat.

Reflections The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life. - Irish poet-theologian O’Donohue

Many spiritual leaders have said that when you break spirituality down to its fundamentals it is at its essence an awareness, and orientation and a drive. It is sometimes as simple as Aristotle's statement that "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

Attention: Modern science has demonstrated that "attention - which some neuroscientists refer to as "attention-intention-motivation since all the regions of the brain are so interconnected is absolutely pivotal in the awareness and outlook of the mind (Klinger, No one knows what attention is Bernhard Hommel & Craig S. Chapman & Paul Cisek3 & Heather F. Neyedli & Joo-Hyun Song & Timothy N. Welsh). Or as Christ - in a rather common-sense and wisdom approach said "Seek and ye shall find! Or conversely, if all you seek is quantifiable information - that is likely all you will find.

The neuroscientists, Bernhard Hommel et al observe “A few sentences after that famous phrase we quoted above in which William James wrote that attention “implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.” interact with another stimulus is indeed accomplished, quite literally, within the approach circuit of the rostral tectum. And while these simple circuits for governing interactive behavior may seem far removed from the higher cognition of humans, they are indeed the precursors to the mechanisms that control what has been called “selective attention.”

It is argued that selectivity in processing has emerged through evolution as a design feature of a complex multi-channel sensorimotor system, which generates selective phenomena of “attention” as one of many by-products. (“No one knows what attention is” Bernhard Hommel & Craig S. Chapman & Paul Cisek & Heather F. Neyedli & Joo-Hyun Song & Timothy N. Welsh)

Here is a link to the full mini-essay on my profile on academia.edu

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CharlesPeckJr

Critique of academic materialist ideology with thousands of views and zero criticisms

Death IS Superstitious Nonsense:

A. A narrative explanation & discussion with a Filipina college graduate of The Definist Fallacy - Maladaptive Stereotype

A short while ago I happened to be talking to a Filipina college graduate. I explained the materialist argument as explained by Miller & Thompson in the NIH article – that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. I was a bit surprised when she emphatically agreed with the argument that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. So, I asked her to consider the concept of “death” for a minute. Death is far beyond measurement or quantification – so then, following the logic of the materialist argument then “Death would then be a figment of her imagination and “superstitious nonsense.” She did concede that a fallacy had indeed skewed her thinking – which is a major success for me. Bargh observes that most people just really don’t want to believe that any unconscious factors could influence their thinking - without their knowledge.

B. Endorsed critique by four prominent psychologists:

I have a critique of materialism which to a large degree focused on the Definist Fallacy – maladaptive stereotype which is endorsed by four very prominent psychologists and medical researchers. For the record that critique has had well over 10,000 views between academia.edu, LinkedIn and FB science groups (before I stopped posting on FB)

1. Dr. Paul Wong, Professor Emeritus of Trent University edited two large volumes of The Human Quest for Meaning (which I personally found extremely helpful) and authored over 300 publications on topics stated about this essay, "Your letter to a congressman needs to be published somewhere.!"

2. Dr. Harold Koenig, a medical doctor-psychiatrist, a well published and very well-known author and researcher stated about this article: "Charlie – makes perfect sense to me, and very nice letter right on target! HK Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Associate Professor of Medicine Duke University Medical Center.

3. Dr. Stephen Farra: Columbia International University Emeritus, a Christian psychologist and director of the Psychology Program at Columbia International University i, stated unequivocally that the "Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all

4. Stefan Schindler, an award-winning author, and retired psychology-philosophy professor responded to my question: "Would you say the argument about the "methodological flaw" is correct" by stating, "Yes, correct!"

Plus, I filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice (because of harassment and degrading treatment by Kaiser Permanente). The DOJ accepted my complaints # 83404-WLP; 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778. The complaints explained in detail how the Definist Fallacy – maladaptive stereotype causes serious misunderstandings and cause prejudices, misunderstandings, and outright ignorance at times. The complaint was filed against Kaiser Permanente – who had basically told me – to take my beliefs and go screw myself. I filed 5 or internal complaints with KP stating how offensive I find their acceptance and approval of a fallacy which is a destructive maladaptive stereotype if there ever was one.

I filed the complaints because I felt their treatment of my spirituality and specifically the response to my query about the Definist fallacy was horrifically degrading

C. Bargh – Pervasive Unconscious Mental categories

For perspective - The Divine: a source of inspiration and motivation

Jean MacPhail observes that my personal spiritual-psychic experiences are “unique” in part because many of the experiences are documented (by email) and are correlated with events outside myself – besides have reasonable and consistent interpretations. My testimony would be my spiritual experiences have been a powerful source of inspiration and motivation for me – as well as a source of fruitfulness.

From my mini-study I conclude that there are a couple “universals” among people who have spiritual experiences: 1. People view their experiences and spirituality as a motivation 2. People say their experiences – spirituality help them make sense of the world. – which of course confirms what Viktor Frankl, William James, and Carl Jung conclude long ago., - Not to mention Christ – John 5:6 Spirit is Truth; worship in spirit and truth – John 4;23-24; The comforter, Spirit of Truth; guidance (Luke)

D. Unhealthy and destructive consequences of a maladaptive stereotype

From personal experience, the stereotype that transcendental spiritual experiences are automatically and necessarily “mental illness” is very widespread. That is also false – big time. There is no facts or evidence to support that false premise – zero, none, nada, zero.

In general, these type of unconscious influences - being outside ordinary awareness – or control are generally ignored or dismissed out of mind. However, it would stand to reason that unconscious academic- scientific stereotypes would be exceptionally effective in skewing thought processes.

I have encountered a number of American college graduates – particularly in FB philosophy and science groups – who stated unequivocally that they would NOT read any research or studies on the health benefits to spirituality. These college graduates were absolutely convinced that spirituality is totally “unreal.” When I pointed out that you can measure people all day – and night long, that particular replied spiritual people have no physical reality.

That maladaptive stereotype that all spirituality is unreal is so pervasive I have encountered many tell me that there is a separate “spiritual dimension” completely disconnected from the real world – parallel to the dualism of the Cathar sect from the 11th and 12th centuries One Cristian woman who had psychological training said that “Spirituality is outside psychology” – that is a classic materialist argument. – and the origins of “literalism” which as Karen Armstrong resulted from the “secularism” (materialism) which also produced extremist reactions as well. Materialism and literalism emerged very roughly the same time. The French philosopher Rene Guenon argues materialism first emerged with Descartes.

E. Complaint to Office of Inspector General: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services regarding Kaiser Permanente: I complained to member services and this was the response I got:

The issue: Kaiser Permanente Sr Director Evans suspended my rights to KP services to abuse. The top listed abusive message - literally: “December 8, 2022 I felt that the acceptance of the Definist fallacy and your refusal to acknowledge my rights and beliefs as extremely offensive” I even filed a complaint with the DOJ [which I sent them but they never read apparently] which was accepted. My position is endorsed by Dr. Koenig, Dr Wong, and Dr Farra."

the letter from Director Evans demonstrates my contention - that KP and "psychiatry" were deliberately and intentionally sabotaging the integrity of my identity and my beliefs. I have forty years of dealings with clinical psychology and psychiatry – during which I was intentionally conditioned and ostracized by “professionals.”

I always brought up my “unique” and often documented spiritual – psychic experiences which have reasonable and consistent interpretations – and during 40 years no one said a single word. THAT is deliberate and intentional conditioning.

In relation to KP, how could – or why would - a medical-scientific organization possibly approve and condone a fallacy?? The only conclusion one can draw is the psychiatrists, member services, and board doctors at KP could only be viewed as some kind of fanatical indoctrinated materialists. What other reason could there be? I mean - KP is degrading my beliefs - big time – when it is obviously a valid question – endorsed by 4 prominent psychologists, “recognized” by the Department of Justice, and rather a self-evident truth scientifically??? That is freaking absurd.

Personal perspective – Stories and narratives often have intrinsic value

In spite of the endorsed essay and analysis – my two oldest children have not sent me a Christmas card or Father’s Day card in three years. They have become convinced – due largely to the “psychiatric toxic” environment in Maryland My (now-ex) Lutheran wife went to the Baltimore County commissioner and told him I was psycho so the police came out with a paddy wagon and two police cars – took me into custody – put me in handcuffs – and transported me to a psychiatric hospital. The staff looked at my website and released me 15 or twenty minutes later. Of course, it might have helped that I have a copy of Van Hollen’s letter to me expressing interest in studies of spiritual experiences. The worst of it is my family (including my mother) started deliberately – and viciously attacking and vilifying me for my PTSD – which I have been diagnosed with by Dr Neal and Dr Schwartz. It is clear – to me – that KP personnel were deliberately antagonizing me – in my view.

A Christian psychologist told me to avoid my family. It is not safe for me as a spiritual person in Maryland. I explained my situation to a couple Filipina here about PTSD episodes – being your body kicked into full adrenalin alert and how like many people with PTSD like me yell – and yes – I cuss sometimes. A couple asked why they have never seen me yell. I responded very truthfully that Filipinas don’t say a lot of really ignorant and stupid things. My sister told me that I think I have "powers". I was being told my PTSD is psychotic rage. My brother in law told me I should write "science fiction" (rather than critiques of materialism endorsed by 4 prominent psychologists)

Another example would be that KP personnel very clearly - deliberately and intentionally - refused to answer my several inquiries about the Definist fallacy intentionally as a put down. All they had to say was – “I can understand how you look at things. It has gotten so bad even talking to psychiatrists can trigger PTSD.

Filipinos have a strong sense of family. Many express surprise that I am here alone - with no family relations. When I mentioned the fact that a Christian psychologist told me to avoid my family, they were shocked that a Christian psychologist would ever say that. It is a sad situation.

Link to academia.edu profile

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CharlesPeckJr

"a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.....in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness" - Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)

"Secularization has often been experienced as an assault....[producing a large number of people] who feel bewildered by the new secular institutions. Thus, religion has become embattled and even militant."

"Materialism has destabilized society!" - FBI agent Michelle McElwee

The Steppenwolf novel appears strangely prophetic of the contemporary situation with the secularization - spiritual and religious division. "I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him." In my conversations with FBI agent McElwee - whcih began after I discovered a screenshots file had been inserted onto my computere in December - revealed by emails from two U.S. Senators with images attached which brought the screenshot images up - Agent McElwee stated "Materialism has destabilized society!" After the U.S. Department of Justice accepted my complaints against Kaiser Permanente, FBI Agent McElwee stopped returning my phone calls. Of course, what FBI agent McElwee said dovetails into the position of Karen Armstrong, a well-known scholar of religious studies. Of course Agent McElwee uses the term "materialsim" which is much more current in academic circles.

Assault: A Major Methodology Problem- Academic Maladaptive Stereotupe

I have a critique specifically expalining and documenting a major Methodology problem endorsed by 4 prominent psychologists including world famous medical researcher Dr. Harold Koenig. The U.S. Department of Justice recognizes the validity of the question in accepting my complaints I filed with them. On top of that I have well over 10,000 views and zero criticisms on academia.edu and FB (before I stopped posting on FB) - so it has been peer reviewed and should be accepted as established fact.

Death is Supersitious Nonsense

An [abbrieviated] expalanation of the Definsit Fallacu - maladaptive stereotype

- narrative explanation as a discussion with a Filipina college graduate of The Definist Fallacy - Maladaptive Stereotype

A short while ago I happened to be talking to a Filipina college graduate. I explained the materialist argument as explained by Miller & Thompson in the NIH article – that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. I was a bit surprised when she emphatically agreed with the argument that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. So, I asked her to consider the concept of “death” for a minute. Death is far beyond measurement or quantification – so then, following the logic of the materialist argument then “Death would then be a figment of her imagination and “superstitious nonsense.” She did concede that a fallacy had indeed skewed her thinking – which is a major success for me. Bargh observes that most people just really don’t want to believe that any unconscious factors could influence their thinking - without their knowledge.

Assault

The Wall Poem - 1970 high school yearbook poem

Seeing nothing,

he searched for Godot,

found Steppenwolf,

and touched feet with the wall

Commentary & Reflections on the Wall

Jungian psychology holds that in the Unconscious and Collective Unconscious there are archetypes which are according to Jung "predispositions" in the unconscious of a person's mind. Archetypes would likely act similarly to having “scripts” or pre-programmed plans within consciousness. In looking back at the Seeing Nothing poem, the poem would appear a bit prophetic of some future events and situations that were to happen to me later in my life - so perhaps there were some predispositions and archetypal scripts at work in my mind which made things turn out the way they did. Also, the line about “Steppenwolf,” which reflects a Steppenwolf-split personality between a higher ‘divine’ personality and a lower ‘animal’ persona, would seem to express a conflict that happened within me, but also in society in general. In the wider ‘society’ there has been a definite decline in religious affiliation but also a decline in belief and even acceptance of spirituality.

Waiting for Godot

In the Waiting for Godot play, the author, Samuel Beckett, has the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting around - seemingly aimlessly - for the arrival of a person named Godot. Godot never arrives! Similar to the characters of Beckett’s play, in my own life, in high school and college and later, I searched for an unknown something or somebody – waiting for that mystery-answer to life to appear. But, of course, that never happened since, in all reality, at the time, I really didn’t have the faintest idea what I was looking for. So, in my own life, my life at the time was metaphorically a mirror reflection of Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot. From 1970 to 1981, I searched for Godot, when, in 1981 I had my precognitive “What a nightmare” spiritual-psychic experience – which started me on an entirely different journey and quest.

Also, in regard to “Waiting for Godot, I had some awareness in high school of the play, but I definitely had not heard that it had been suggested by Deirdre Blair that due to the common references to “feet” in the play that it might be an unconscious play on the slang term for boot, "godillot or godasse." In my short poem, of course, the concluding line was “and touched feet with the wall.”

Finding Steppenwolf

There is much in Steppenwolf that not only appears to to profoundly reflect some very salient characteristics of our contemporary society and culture, as wellmirror some aspects of my personal life, but also seems. Steppenwolf, the character and person, decries the the hollow essence and well-being of his society, when Steppenwolf proclaims,

in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness

"Spiritual blindness" rings especially true in today's world where much of orthodox or mainstream psychology views spirit and spirituality as illusion or even mental illness.

Due to the fact that, in my upbringing, I had no awareness or education in spirituality or psychic and consciously thought them superstitious nonsense at the time, there was an intense emotional and spiritual fight going on.

Essentially, then, in part due to the lack of any central purpose or meaning, for all practical purposes there were two personalities battling it out. One personality was a “rationalist” or materialist personality that regarded spirit and spirituality as superstitious nonsense. And in conflict with that materialist personality, there was a “spiritual” personality that believed in “Sprit” and a more pervasive “Spirit”, as in a universal intelligence to the universe, or God, as it were. It definitely wasn’t as if the spiritual experience had sprinkled some “fairy dust” on me. There were a lot of emotions, a lot of unknowns, and a lot of fears. It was a pretty gritty fight, in all truth.

So, the reference to Steppenwolf, who in the novel by Herman Hesse, had a split personality between an “animal” personality and a “human” and “higher spiritual” personality was definitely a prophetic observation. One analyst noted that Hesse felt there was an obsession with the “suffering and despair” of Steppenwolf eliminating the human potential for “transcendence and healing.”

Also, it is unclear whether the climatic murder of Hermine by Steppenwolf actually occurred or whether that was in truth just another illusion and hallucination of the “Magic Theater.” Some believe that Hesse tries to juxtapose the physical causal reality with a higher “metaphysical” Truth. In any case, in my life the struggle between what is real and what is illusion was a fairly constant struggle. The bottom line for me was that the two somewhat conflicting -philosophies-ideologies became entangled and it took me something like twenty to thirty years to sort things out. So, for me the reference to Steppenwolf represents a bizarre synchronicity and an incredibly eerily very prophetic.

Bokononism and ‘Feet Touching the Wall’

From Cat’s Cradle, written, by Kurt Vonnegut, Bokononism is a fictitious religion whose foundation is the principle of “foma.” In essence, foma, are held to be harmless untruths. The sacred Books of Bokonon, begin with this admonition: "Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma! All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies." The most sacred Truth of the Bokonon religion is to "Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy." So, the Truth of the religion is that if you believe in their lives you will have peace of mind, be righteous, and live the good life. Boko-Maru, the pinnacle of Bokononist worship, is the ultimate intimate act of prolonged touch and contact between the four naked soles of the feet of two persons. Of course, many people these days see God and religion as a “delusion” and “untruth.” I can’t help but comment that without “Spirit, Truth, and Compassion” religion is really just a farce.

Lastly, the poem, at the end, refers to “the wall” and it seems a little curious and a bit of synchronicity that I began writing and connecting with people just as Trump with his “Wall” came onto the stage. Though, “the wall” could represent the barrier I run up against frequently when I try to connect with people about spirituality and especially “transcendental” spirituality.

“There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” (Max Planck, a German quantum physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in 1918)

The Absolute Truth [God, Transcendental Intelligence] is Beyond Comprehension

The early Christian mystic Dionysius the Areopagite mirrored St Gregory of Nyssa, when he states, “I said in my Theological Representations that one can neither discuss not understand the One, The Super unknowable, the Transcendent, Goodness itself….”!

A Forty Year Synopsis–Bio of spiritual-psychic experiences and insights

"How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."

A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor's cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. "It's full! No more will go in!" the professor blurted. "This is you," the master replied, "How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."

“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.” ― Saint Gregory Of Nyssa

I believe it safe to say that - from 40 years of experience - it is clear that spirituality has become entangled in abstractions: powers, perfection, supernatural, unreal, limitless knowledge, crystal ball perceptions, etc. College education conveys “filters” – ways of sorting information than “knowledge” per se – and when it comes to spirituality there is no formal education on spirituality – so yes, most college graduates unconsciously assimilate a lot of academic stereotypes – and so need to empty their cup.

Dr Stephen Farra agreed with that – and went one better. Dr Farra stated “Our models are out reality. But our models are not reality. That coincides with the immortal philosopher Kant who argue we do not perceive the real world – but “representations” of the real world. Similarly, Bargh - from unconscious research - emphasizes mental categories and norms/stereotypes. Jung emphasizes symbols – which he argues are outside cognitive appraisals. The bottom line is that “models” - and how we envision the world - are not just pivotal and important questions-issues – but vital.

The Absolute Truth [God, Transcendental Intelligence] is Beyond Comprehension

Overview: 40 years of spiritual-psychic experiences

America March 2017: Might Makes Right Warning Letters to Embassies of Allies

& Revelation of Trump’s Abuse of Allies’ Leaders – July 2022

“Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger” - Thrasymachus

In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017, I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians they rose to the undisputed and unchallenged leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

Intelligence Revelation in 2020 “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' Angela Merkel….

Intelligence Leaks July 30, 2020: The title of an article in the Indy 100, Independent, stated that “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' bullying of Angela Merkel for 'vicious attacks' in private phone call” The article went on to say How Bernstein of CNN observed that Although Trump "regularly bullied and disparaged" other leaders like Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau and Scott Morrison, his most "vicious attacks" were reserved for women, the report claims. Bernstein quoted one of his sources as calling Trump's phone calls with Merkel and May "near-sadistic". Some of the things he said to Angela Merkel are just unbelievable: he called her 'stupid,' and accused her of being in the pocket of the Russians. He's toughest with those he looks at as weaklings and weakest with the ones he ought to be tough with.

In an article on June 3 2020 in the Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, “James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution”

Perspective: "James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens."

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.”

2. Truncated sum of 40 years of personal spiritual-psychic experiences:

A. Here are six dream, most documented by emials - all with consistent and reasonable interpretations that I list here:

(1) a dream centered on Pakistan and nuclear war.

(2) A Hybrid Dream-Perception: Precognitive "Tag" (i.e., a central action with one or two details) of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018.

(3) Dream about Libya (2-26-2019),

(4) Synchronicity with Strasburg, France attack - dream (9-19-20) + undocumented

(5) Dudayev (Chechen leader) Dream

(6) Fredericksburg bomb (civilian)

B. Highlights from forty years of conscious perceptions

(1) my recent 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a "domestic terrorist" threat referring to a "bomb" as the weapon. which is related - of course - to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020

(2) My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, women, 22 put together, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen's manifesto.

(3) A very brief (phoned in) warning to the FBI before the assassination attempt on president Reagan

(4) I called the CIA before 9/11

(5) miscellaneous: foresight of the fight in intelligence over the CIA whistleblower

Text sent 9-7-2019 to my old counselor: "Images - contrails high in the air. High stakes fight" Later I sent an email specifically about something being up with CIA/Intelligence interesting to the FBI (which appears accurate). An article on a "high stakes" intelligence fight between an intelligence head of Trump and Schumer (head of the Senate Intelligence Committee) - quoting Schumer has said has never happened in history before (with Trump, not all that surprising). I thought it was interesting It was in fact about a CIA officer - who never testified actually.

C. Reflections: An important point of order would be that nearly all of my experiences would easily fit into a category parallel to the alarm calls of animals. As Jean MacPhail, a scholar, author of A Spiral Life and a former fellow in neuropathology at Harvard University, observed, ‘My experiences are very unique!’ – in part because they relate to events outside myself, as well as being consistent with reasonable interpretations, as well as being - relatively speaking - well documented.

D. Instincts, Alarm Calls, and Daryl Bem's Successful Repeated Laboratorty Experiments

E. Quantum Entanglement was "Spukhafte Fernwirkung" to Einstein - which means, in German, "spooky action at a distance."

Quantum entanglement is the reality in physics that - in an “entangled pair” of subatomic particles the spin of one subatomic particle will react directly and immediately (at speeds faster than the speed of light) to the spin of the other subatomic particle even though separated by arbitrarily large distances. A conclusion from experiments in quantum entanglement is that the reactions in a quantum entangled pair of particles occur at a speed faster than light – which to Einstein was impossible according to his own theory. In fact, Albert Einstein called quantum entanglement, "Spukhafte Fernwirkung" - which means, in German, "spooky action at a distance." To Einstein quantum entanglement was an impossibility – something which just couldn’t happen. Quantum entanglement was a complete and baffling mystery.

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."

Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who was a pioneer in quantum physics stated that "If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. " That necessitates a re-evaluation of our understanding of the world and universe.

Schrödinger’s Cat Thought experiment: an important Technical point

Schrödinger’s Cat is a famous thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum superposition. Schrödinger’s Cat, as a thought experiment, states that if you seal a cat in a box with something that can eventually kill it, you won’t know if the cat is alive or dead until you open the box. So, until you open the box and observe the cat, the cat is simultaneously dead and alive. (What Is Schrödinger’s Cat? - https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/schrodingers-cat)

The Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment is used to argue that quantum physics is not applicable to human beings. However, the human brain actually generates an electric field and electrons which are transmitted by neurons can be influenced by quantum particles and particles as large as molecules are known to be engaged in quantum entanglement. I should emphasize that these are all abstractions - hypothetical concepts. "The experiment as described is a purely theoretical one, and the machine proposed is not known to have been constructed. However, successful experiments involving similar principles, e.g. superpositions of relatively large (by the standards of quantum physics) objects have been performed. These experiments do not show that a cat-sized object can be superposed...." (Wikipedia)

The Mustard Seed Epiphany - "What a nightmare" 1981 documented & very detailed warning to the FBI of impending Weathermen terrorist attack

Miracles: a matter of perspective

Background: I walked into an FBI office on October 18, 1981 - with no real prior experience and not a stitch of documentation to support my beliefs. For the record I had never heard of the Weathermen. My entire knowledge of the Students for Democracy organization - of which the Weathermen was a splinter group - is the fact that a friend of mine - back in the 1960's told me his brother was a member of the SDS.

Miracles are a matter of perspective. I walked into the Toledo, Ohio with a wild - and even wacky - stream of consciousness that at first glance [second glance as well] appears like the utter ravings of a madman. It was a full page stream of consciousness (unheard of)It was a full page uninhibited stream of consciousness which included a number of wild metaphor and symbolism: "I spit in Satan's face"; "monkey screams"; "snake hiss" "Fight hard, Die well" as well as "exorcism", and angels. So, in a sense, the miracle - for me - was that I walked into an FBI office with what appeared to be the "insane ravings of an utter madman"............ and walked out without the FBI throwing a net over me and hauling me off to the nearest asylum. Of course, it does help that - to my knowledge, there are no federal laws actually prohibiting insanity - so, "being insane is perfectly legal."

I walked into the FBI officein Toledo, Ohio, sat down with an FBI agent briefly. I pointed out three lines to the FBI agent in the tiny cubicle in the Toledo, Ohio office - there are only a like three straight forward line in the entire stream of consciousness.

When I got to the line of "New York" or "Miami," I asked the FBI agent who was seated across from me in one of the cubicles at the Toledo, I asked which he thought it would be - instantaneously the FBI agent retorted angrily, "How the Hell would I know! It is your dream!" The FBI agent clearly didn't believe in psychic - but he played the role of an FBI agent and asked several questions - like about the timing. I told him that my birthday came to mind - October 23 - which turned out to be just a couple days off. Quite a lot - like telephone telepathy seems to work via the process of association ("birthday" was produced by association with my own framework of reference."

Anyway, even though I consciously did not believe in psychic, spirt, prophecy or anything remotely spiritual at the time, there I was - sitting down and pointing out the only three lines in the "What a nightmare" that made any sense, to the FBI agent. I went over it calmly with the FBI agent - walking out without them throwing a net over you - and then it turns out to be the longest written-documented warning-prediction in history (written documents are like hens’ teeth - Nostradamus only had 4-line quatrains) stream of consciousness, and the only one at the time (prior to 9/11) about terrorism. For the record, in documented history, there are only 7 or 8 documented warnings about assassination.

Analysis

Comparatively speaking - as I mentioned before - the "Mustard Seed-What a nightmare" spiritual-psychic experience, which happened on October 18, 1981 is an exceptionally detailed spiritual precognitive warning. Some of the details in the precognitive stream of consciousness which turned out to be accurate are:

1. group,

2. fabricating bombs,

3. money,

4. woman,

5. 22 were assembled,

6. New York,

7. death, as well as the

8. weathermen terrorist manifesto.

Two days after I talked to the FBI agent, Katherine Boudin, a former leader of the notorious Weathermen terrorist group (now called Weather Underground), was arrested after a shootout with the Nyack, New York police force which had 22 officers. The shootout resulted after a chase which started with the botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck. Bomb making materials and plans were found in the terrorists’ apartment. “Fabricating bombs” was an incredibly precise description since none had been made but it looked like they were working on them. The New York Times quoted the Weathermen manifesto: “We are the incubation of your mothers’ worst nightmares.” The “What a nightmare” warning stated “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, and Angels said. “Fight Hard, Die Well! A prophet spoke.” It could be argued that the “Time is at hand” stated twice symbolizes the two policeman who were killed, while the prophet’s statement symbolizes the one Brink’s guard who was killed.

Besides these explicit details, as with much of historical prophecies, there appears to be some symbolic and metaphorical synchronicities in the "Mustard Seed" precognitive stream of consciousness. The statements, “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, Angels said.” - and - “Fight Hard, Die Well! A prophet spoke!” match the deaths of the two policemen ("Time is at hand" - twice by an angel) and the death of one Brink's guard (“Fight Hard, Die Well” a prophet spoke). Of course, angels could be said to outrank prophets same as policemen outrank Armored car guards. That kind of precise detail of identifying - albeit metaphorically - specific people or types of people who would be prominent in the event is quite literally "unheard of" in the long centuries of documented historical precognitive warnings-predictions.

Mustard Seed – A Divine Inspiration

Besides referring to angels, prophets, nuns, at the end I concluded with a statement about the "Mustard Seed." What makes my "What a nightmare" most intriguing - in my view - is that, the last line included the "Mustard Seed" [Parable] as well as “Christ was almost there” The mustard seed symbolism is widespread among religions. Besides, Christianity, Mohammed speaks about the Mustard Seed – also in terms of faith. Chandogya Upanishad of Hinduism refers to the mustard seed, and furthermore there are Hindu folklore stories-parables about the Banyan seed.

In the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the Mustard Seed says, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches." (Matthew 13:31–32) I must confess, I have never been able to completely grasp and fully comprehend the Mustard Seed Parable. I'm not sure exactly how Christ meant the Mustard Seed Parable and the concept of Kingdom of Heaven - as a state of mind, as a spiritual truth, or as a transcendental reality - or all three.

This passage may be right on target, as it were: Mark 4:26-29 And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil; and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know. "The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head." Perhaps the Holy spirit because it is transcendental is, by metaphor, out of sight and below ground, but when meaning and creativity flower then the human fruit is produced. In light of the rather exceptional transcendental aspect and spiritual essence of the "What a nightmare" - or Mustard Seed - transcendental spiritual experience, my sense of it would be that the transcendental spiritual aspect might give the Mustard Seed Parable Archetype, a certain collective spiritual Truth or energy.

Mustard Seed

The Prophet Muhammed (Allaaahu ‘alaihi wasaliam) said: “on the Day of Resurrection I will intercede and say, ‘o my Lord! Admit into Paradise (even) those who have faith equal toa mustard seed in their hearts.’” Sahih Al-Buhari Volume 9, Hadith 600

As Salaamu Alaikum!

Mustard seed (2) Khardal (خردل ) means mustard. Its seed has been mentioned twice in the Quran:

1. And We shall set up balances of justice on the Day of Resurrection, then none will be dealt with unjustly in anything. And if there be the weight of a mustard seed, we will bring it. And Sufficient are We as Reckoners. [21:47]

2. O my son! If it be (anything) equal to the weight of a grain of mustard seed, and though it be in a rock, or in the heavens or in the earth, Allah will bring it forth. Verily, Allah is Subtle (in bringing out that grain), Well-Aware (of its place). [31:16]

The Divine Inspiration of the Mustard Seed Parable seems manifest in context of the Synthesis Consensus of Viktor Frankl, William James and Carl Jung

There is a consensus among the three great scholars William James, Viktor Frankl, and Carl Jung on three points

1. Spiritual experiences – spiritual processes and spirit – create a “sense of reality” - meaning and purpose

2. Different experiences create different worldviews

3. Spiritual symbolism and abstractions generate emotional energy

When I brought up the “Synthesis Consensus” of Frankl, James, and Jung to Dr Paul Wong, He replied I should call it the “New Integrative Approach.” And it is “new” I have not come across the “synthesis consensus” in all of my research and it was definitely absent in the five psychology of religion books I had.

The Mustard Seed Parable dovetails perfectly with the Synthesis-Consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, William James, and Emile Durkheim that states unequivocally that "spirit" [spiritual processes] create meaning and a ”sense of reality” (W James) - and relative to the parable are "metaphorically" mustard seeds that create growth - and produce a wonderful Mustard Seed Plant – belief system. In my view that makes it a “divine” insight – from my perspective. My guiding lights now are “spirit and truth” (John 4: 23-24) and fruitfulness.

Carl Jung: "Spirit gives meaning to his [man's] life" - Carl Jung, a psychoanalyst and contemporary of Sigmund Freud, couldn't have been clearer or more succinct when he made that simple but profound statement. (CW8:643) Jung observed, in the Collected Works (CW8: 648 -1968 revised) that “Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest development. But life is essential to spirit, since its truth is nothing if it cannot live.” This is consistent with Jung’s strongly expressed belief that experiences are a primary influence on a person’s beliefs. In a remarkably parallel viewpoint William Gould observes that Viktor Frankl, who also believed human beings have "spirit," argued that "Meaning analysis is based on three essential premises: the freedom of will; the will to meaning, and the meaning of life." (p.42 Frankl: Life...) Here again “Spirit” appears to be moderated or influenced by both “life” and “will” – so the over simplistic statement that “spirit creates meaning and a sense of reality has several other significant forces influencing it.

Viktor Frankl: Paul Wong elaborates on Viktor Frankl's views regarding the nature and characteristics of spiritual or noetic (from nous)processes in the mind "in the following quotation: "The noetic (spiritual, specifically human) dimension contains such qualities as our will to meaning [Frankl's central concept of the human being's primary drive] our goal orientation, ideas and ideals, creativity, imagination, faith, love that goes beyond the physical, a conscience beyond the superego, self-transcendence, commitments, responsibility, a sense of humor, and the freedom of choice making. The human dimension is the medicine chest of the logotherapist. Patients are made aware that they have these rich resources of health within." (Fabry 1994 pp.18-19) (p.156) Also, Paul Wong notes that, like many other modern-day existentialist and positive psychologists, “Park (2007) regards religion and spirituality as meaning systems.” (p. 156) One could infer then that like Frankl, Park would agree that spiritual processes would be involved in meaning creation.

William James: “They [abstractions (symbols) and spiritual emotions-experiences] determine our vital attitude as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense, …… They are convincing to those who have them as any direct sensible experiences can be, and they are, as a rule, much more convincing than results established by mere logic are……if you do have them, and have them at all strongly, the probability is that you cannot help regarding them as genuine perceptions of truth, as revelations of a kind of reality [my underlining] which no adverse argument, however unanswerable by you in words, can expel from your belief" is what William James emphasizes in his classic work, originally published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experiences. (P.47) William James goes on to say that religious experiences and spiritual experiences create and generate a “sense of reality” (p.48)

II. Reasonable Beliefs: Categorizing unusual experiences as unusual.

What many people don't understand is that consistently studies show that somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences - and as Park and Paloutzian observe, there is a "normalcy" to spiritual-psychic experiences. Furthermore people - at times - lose their common sense and often get lost in abstractions. Common sense would dictate that the brain processes unusual experiences as "unusual" - pretty amazing.... huh? When people get into abstractions, they often lose sight of common sense understanding and sound judgment.
Studies and experiments that have established that the "categorization" process is a very important process in the human mind and the categorization process is both well-known and well-proven in psychology. William James goes on to say that religious experiences and spiritual experiences create and generate a “sense of reality” (p.48) Jung said pretty much the exact same thing actually - that an individual’s experiences shape a person's reality.
Recap of the synthesis consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, and William James has three characteristics

a. "spirit, spiritual processes, and religious beliefs create meaning, a sense of reality - and ultimately Reality, and Truth.

b. Tolerance: That different experiences create different worldviews and understandings

c. Spiritual symbolism generates emotional energy

In the anthology, Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology (2014), Paul Wong, observes: “Frankl considers meaning seeking as stemming from one’s spiritual nature. William James emphasizes in his classic work, originally published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experiences: “They [spiritual experiences] determine our vital attitude [sense of reality] as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense,” Jung observed, in the Collected Works (CW8: 648 -1968 revised) that “Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest development.

2. "To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run" 50,000 excessive & unnecessary American deaths

An old warning email to Agent McElwee 4-10-2020 "To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run." Guardian: “US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies." Estimates go from 50,000-100,000 unnecessary American deaths

"To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run. I tell you this Materialism Doctrine is utterly insane". (Karen Armstrong basically says that “secularism” (materialism) is the underlying cause for the creation of literalism and the militant Christian mobilization.

Point of Order: I should re-emphasize that an important point of order would be that nearly all of my experiences would easily fit into a category parallel to the alarm calls of animals. As Jean MacPhail, a scholar, author of A Spiral Life and a former fellow in neuropathology at Harvard University, observed, ‘My experiences are very unique!’ – in part because they relate to events outside myself, as well as being consistent with reasonable interpretations, as well as being relatively well documented.

3. A Dark Place.

My cousin died on Pan Am 103. I don't talk about it much,

Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747 registered N739PA. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, while the aircraft was in flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, it was destroyed by a bomb that had been planted on board, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. Large sections of the aircraft crashed in a residential street in Lockerbie, killing 11 residents. With a total of 270 fatalities, it is the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom, as well as its deadliest aviation disaster ever.” Wikipedia

Memories resurface from time to time - very fragmented – mostly it is all kind of foggy, to be honest. Of one thing I am sure - that I did in fact call Secret Service intelligence before it happened. But it is like having a piece of a broken glass - you know there was - in reality - a glass - but exactly what the glass is or was – I don’t know.

10-6-20 Email sent to FBI agent McElwee – Pan Am 103 – for the record

For some reason I remembered it yesterday. Out of curiosity I googled Pan Am 103 and found an article dated October 6, 2020 Syracuse University’s 2020-21 News: “Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars are currently hosting the first Remembrance activity of this academic year.”

The article stated: “Thirty-five empty chairs have been placed in the area stretching from the Place of Remembrance to the Hall of Languages. The seats are arranged in the formation of the seats on Pan Am Flight 103 that the 35 Syracuse University students they represent were sitting in for 38 minutes, up until the exact time the Pan Am 103 bombing occurred on Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Of course, when I sent that email to FBI agent McElwee I had no idea that this remembrance took place. It was a synchronicity that clearly wasn’t random.

Reflections

For perspective, I should mention first that - as Jean MacPhail, author and scholar, observes, my experiences are unique in part because my experiences are correlated with political events outside myself - as well as because my interpretations as perceptions of threats to the group are consistent - and reasonable. On top of that a dozen are documented - mostly by emails. I would add, from my research, my experiences are literally unique in that as far as detail - compared to historically documented warnings - or predictions of political events (including the Old Testament as well as Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, and even Edgar Cayce) there is nothing even remotely comparable as far as detail or consistency. In fact

Reasonable Belief

II. Reasonable Beliefs: Categorizing unusual experiences as unusual.

What many people don't understand is that consistently studies show that somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences - and as Park and Paloutzian observe, there is a "normalcy" to spiritual-psychic experiences. Furthermore people - at times - lose their common sense and often get lost in abstractions. Common sense would dictate that the brain processes unusual experiences as "unusual" - pretty amazing.... huh? When people get into abstractions, they often lose sight of common sense understanding and sound judgment.

Reflections and Perspective: Lessons Learned - Here are a few important principles I learned from early relatively well documented spiritual-psychic with consistently reasonable interpretations my experiences in 1981. In my view my personal experiences primarily served as a function to trigger a quest and questioning to be honest.

1. As J. E. Kennedy explains, studies show roughly 45% of people have an initial fear reaction. Such was mine. Like many I found my experience frightening – primarily because it was an unknown and my “mind had no way” to organize the experience. Doubts and fears fed a cycle of doubts and anxieties. One night I went two steps over the line – but realized it.

My epiphany was that the Absolute Truth [God] is beyond comprehension. That is an important factor in assessing prophecy. Reducing the divine to the existence as a prediction is not only unrealistic but degrading to God and the divine as well.

2. Early on I also grappled with the question as to the purpose of prophecy. I had been told that I should write down predictions. That was a Big Deal in 1981 – and it is a question brought up in the first line of my notarized warning to the FBI on October 18,1981. The question I asked is – does making predictions to make predictions make any sense biologically, psychologically, or even spiritually? The conclusion I came to is that purpose and motivation is pivotal.

That is, "purpose" is pivotal to prophecy - and spirituality – especially in light of "Spirit is Truth" (John 5:6)

The importance of motivation is very consistent with the spiritual beliefs of people I have engaged. When "spiritual people" are questioned – in many, spiritual beliefs are not just a motivation but a very profound source of inspiration. Historically, after tens of thousands of years of spiritual and religious beliefs – though incredibly it is not in academia – spirituality and religiosity would clearly be a powerful drive and motivation.

3. I have thought intensely about spirituality and transcendental spiritual experiences. As St Gregory of Nyssa pointed out only the “pure of heart” ‘see’ God. In my view it is clear there is spirit within and transcendental spirit. And without spirit within there can’t be any real connection with transcendental spirit. A proper analogy would be to the spiritual experience being the flower and the meaning, purpose, and creativity that are produced being the fruit.

4. Spiritual flowers; There are all sorts of spiritual flowers – compassion – or artistic – being two of the most notable types. Transcendental spirituality is not a prerequisite of “being divine” as it were. That being said I would argue fruitfulness is a prerequisite.

Abraham Heschel (1907 – 1972), a “leading” Jewish philosopher and theologian: In Heschel’s book The Prophets, Heschel quotes N. K. Chadwick: Everywhere the gift of prophecy is inseparable from divine inspiration. Everywhere this inspiration carries with it knowledge – whether of the past, in the form of history and genealogy; of the hidden present in the form of scientific information; and of the future in the form of prophetic utterance in the narrower sense…..Invariably we find that……….his [the poet’s] mood is exalted and remote from his normal existence…..” (P. 482 – 483) Relative to that question, Heschel observed that “raptis mentis” [divine rapture] is common both to poets and prophets. Essentially, Heschel identifies creativity – and fruitfulness as a fundamental aspect of the divine.

Scientific Perspective

For perspective, R C Henry, a renowned professor of physics and astronomy, in a 2005 essay concludes, "A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction." Eugene Wigner, a theoretical physicist and mathematician, stated unequivocally stated that “It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.” In a sense, since the most essential characteristic of human consciousness would be “intelligence” it would stand to reason that viewing the universe and the world as embodying intelligence would only be natural (and healthy).

Stephen Hawking Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

“A century ago, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of space, time, energy and matter. We are still finding awesome confirmations of his predictions, like the gravitational waves observed in 2016 by the LIGO experiment. When I think about ingenuity, Einstein springs to mind. Where did his ingenious ideas come from? A blend of qualities, perhaps: intuition, originality, brilliance. Einstein had the ability to look beyond the surface to reveal the underlying structure. He was undaunted by common sense, the idea that things must be the way they seemed. He had the courage to pursue ideas that seemed absurd to others. And this set him free to be ingenious, a genius of his time and every other.

A key element for Einstein was imagination. Many of his discoveries came from his ability to reimagine the universe through thought experiments. At the age of sixteen, when he visualised riding on a beam of light, he realised that from this vantage light would appear as a frozen wave. That image ultimately led to the theory of special relativity.

One hundred years later, physicists know far more about the universe than Einstein did. Now we have greater tools for discovery, such as particle accelerators, supercomputers, space telescopes and experiments such as the LIGO lab’s work on gravitational waves. Yet imagination remains our most powerful attribute. With it, we can roam anywhere in space and time. We can witness nature’s most exotic phenomena while driving in a car, snoozing in bed or pretending to listen to someone boring at a party.”

Quantum entanglement

Quantum entanglement is the reality that in an “entangled pair” of subatomic particles the spin of one subatomic particle will react directly and immediately - at speeds faster than the speed of light - to the spin of the other subatomic particle even though separated by arbitrarily large distances. A conclusion from experiments in quantum entanglement is that the reactions in a quantum entangled pair of particles occur at a speed faster than light – which to Einstein was impossible according to his own theory. In fact, Albert Einstein called quantum entanglement, "Spukhafte Fernwirkung" - which means, in German, "spooky action at a distance." To Einstein quantum entanglement was an impossibility – something which just couldn’t happen. Quantum entanglement was a complete and baffling mystery.

The future caused the past. Professor Truscott

Professor Truscott concluded that the experiment showed that; “A future event causes the photon to decide its past.” (Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness Science Daily, May 27, 2015 Australian National University)

Summary of Experiment: The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured. Physicists have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. The group reversed Wheeler's original experiment, and used helium atoms scattered by light.

If one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths then one has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom's past, said Truscott. .....So, what form it would take after passing through the first grate depended on whether the second grate was put in place afterward. Therefore, whether it continued as a particle or changed into a wave wasn't decided until a future event had already taken place. Time went backwards. Cause and effect appear to be reversed. The future caused the past. The arrow of time seemed to work in reverse.

What is Kapwa-loob?

Kapwa & Relational Spirituality: shared identity, an inner self, shared with others….unity of the self and the other Kapwa-loob are two unique aspects to culture in the Philippines. As K Lagdameo-Santillan observes, in her article, Roots of Filipino Humanism observes that “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. This Filipino linguistic unity of the self and the other is unique and unlike in most modern languages.”

In the Filipino social sciences, loob has nonetheless been explored in numerous ways such as being a “cave” of Filipino thought, an emotive state, a true self, a center of personality, a world of being, and a core indigenous value (Pe-Pua, 2017). However, in recent ethical philosophy, loob is sometimes used in contexts where it can aptly be translated as “relational will” since it is a will directed towards others (Reyes, 2015).

Reynaldo Ileto (1979), viewed loob as an inner self wherein one realizes equality with others. Theologian Jose De Mesa (1984) understood loob as the center of one’s personality but also the world of being itself. Most prolifically, psychologist Virgilio Enriquez (1992) enumerated many manifestations of loob as central to the Filipino value system. Filipino values are linked by a socio-personal value called kagandahang-loob” (“beauty-of-will”) that may be viewed as a “shared humanity” or “shared inner nobility” with others.” The idea of “many manifestations of will is consistent with neuroscience studies of morals, music, and so on – which emphasize the interconnectedness of the diverse regions of the brain. (Loob and Meaningfulness: A Filipino Theory of Meaning in Life Jairus Diesta Espiritu and Marielle Antoinette Hermoso Zosa)

Some modern research confirms William James “Sense of Reality” argument. David Hay's "survey" demonstrated that "Though many of these [spiritual] experiences were very brief, they often had a dramatic effect on mood-state and well-being, and people remembered them for the rest of their lives." (Fraser Watts, p. 58-59)

Studies on categorization process relevant to spirituality since unusual experiences would likely be categorized as unusual – are left out as well. I have a letter from U.S. Senator Van Hollen expressing interest in studies of spirituality. When I approached Towson University chair of psychology, I was sent an email by the chair, stating that not a single professor is interested in spirituality in any shape fashion or form.

The Unique Story of Jean MacPhail: A Childhood Foresight and Making Sense of the World

Jean MacPhail, a former fellow in neuropathology at Harvard University, author of A Spiral Life (good book), as well as a contemplative Vedanta nun, also lectures and writes articles essays. When Jean was a very young child of only five years old her world was shattered by a traumatic life-altering experience. Her mother walked out one day in a ‘fey” mood not to eb seen alive again. Jean – later – a age 14, wrote down in a poem her vision of her mother’s death at age 5 – which she found out was accurate much later at age 22 – yet went on to synthesize her emotions and broken life into a quintessential poem of meaning creation or re-creation and psychological-spiritual synthesis. When I first read her poem, I didn’t fully realize what was going on and glossed over it. Jean’s poem - at the really tender age of 14 years old was a remarkable synthesis of vision and “putting her house in order.”

When Jean was a very young child of only five years old her world was shattered by a traumatic life-altering experience. As Jean relates from her memories what happened she says, “What I know for certain is that one day in December my mother brought in the mail and sat down at the table to read it. After reading one of the letters, she began to sob convulsively and without stopping. She laid her head down at the table and just spilled her soul into a huge ocean of pain and misery. This was utterly devastating to me, for Scots are people do not show their emotions overtly. Of course, I had known for some time that she was in great pain, but I has never seen her cry like this. There was absolutely nothing I could do: I had no idea what the matter was, I was so unused to scenes like this – and I was only five years old.

After this episode, she was what can only be called fey. It was as if she was under a spell, not living in contact with this world, listening to some call that was leading her to her doom. She took care of me, but she was not with me. I felt a heavy, heavy load on my soul, not knowing what was happening and fearing the worst. A few days later about four o’clock in the evening she started to put on her coat. It was nearly dark, for Scottish winter evenings draw in very early, and it was pouring rain. “Where are you going Mummy?’ I said. “I am going out.” “But it is pouring with rain. You can’t go out in this rain!” She said nothing, but started to button her coat. “Let me come with you!” She looked at me for a while, her eyes not seeing me. “I’ll be back in a wee while. Wait for me.”

That was the last time – at the tender age of five years old - Jean saw her mother alive. Then at age 14 - and it wasn't until 23 that Jean finally worked up the courage to confront the medical examiner -Jean wrote out a poem-vision of her mother's death - which, in retrospect, was also clearly a spiritual epiphany - a synthesis of emotions and realities in forging a new life with both grace and wisdom uncanny for a fourteen-year-old.

A fourteen-year old’s poem

On the mountain, shadows

Pass and re-pass, over blue rocks

And black,

Where lies a broken temple

Silvered by the weak moon.

A wreath of curling locks

And an arm stretched out,

Cold, cold and heavy,

Soaked with the dews of night,

Devoid of life and sadness.

No trace of joy, yes, it is there ---

Silent, still, true bliss and happiness.

Fleeting wings bring the sighs

Of a child;

Teardrops fall as drops of gentle rain

On eyelids of white as marble.

A light of dim and yellow

Glows in the town.

The eye of love and a heart cries

In the still, warm night.

At age 23, Jean finally mustered enough courage to seek about and face the truth. Jean asked the medical examiner “How exactly did she die?” The medical examiner replied “She seems just to have kept walking in the hills in the rain until she collapsed and died of the cold. She was found in a burn.” (Scottish word for a kind of watercourse.) In her book, The spiral Life, Jean goes on to say, exactly how I had seen it: Even as I lay under the gas mantle, I had been aware of her struggling along in the rain and stumbling on the rough terrain. And I had seen her lying dead in the burn, with water pulling her hair this way and that.” (p. 216)

It should be noted that any objective analysis would be forced to acknowledge the details of Jean’s poem at 14 years old: “Where lies a broken temple, Silvered by the weak moon., A wreath of curling locks, And an arm stretched out, Cold, cold and heavy, Soaked with the dews of night” matches a woman found dead in a burn)

So, what is important, in my view, is that in that poem Jean transcended the “broken temple” “devoid of life and sadness; No trace of joy” and concluded the poem with this

Fleeting wings bring the sighs

Of a child;

Teardrops fall as drops of gentle rain

On eyelids of white as marble.

A light of dim and yellow

Glows in the town.

The eye of love and a heart cries

In the still, warm night.

So, yes, Jean forged a new life with both grace and wisdom uncanny for a fourteen-year-old. It was a very touching and compassionate resolution and synthesis – as well as realistic. Jean’s realistic and touching resolution was “Fleeting wings (perhaps of angels) which is a realization that as a child she could have done nothing to help her mother – yet she was sad “Teardrops fall as gentle rains” and she transcended the tragic situation with “The eye of love and a heart cries out.” Jean’s poem – for a fourteen-year-old has to be one of the most incredible poems I have ever personally seen.

Science without meaning

Albert Einstein observed that "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

A Deeper Knowledge:

Heschel refers to a “deeper knowledge” and observes that “what is we cannot say.” Heschel states about the ineffable aspect of consciousness which is beyond conscious expression: “Essential to human thought is not only the technique of symbolization but also the awareness of the ineffable. In every mind there is an enormous store of not-knowing, of being puzzled, of wonder of radical amazement.” (Quest p.139)

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein

Preamble & Perspective

Bargh - Unconscious Processes & Natural Contextual Tuning to the Environment,

This perspective is necessary for evaluating Michael Reed, the American nemesis of ten commandment monuments – in my view. Another aspect helpful in understanding Michael Reed would be as John Bargh, unconscious researcher, in many different ways explains that human consciousness and especially the unconscious is intimately interconnected with the environment in myriad ways. “Further supporting this notion of natural contextual tuning of one’s behavior to the present environment, cognitive research indicates that action-related objects activate multiple action plans in parallel and that action production is driven by some form of selective disinhibition. For example, findings suggest that ambient stimuli (e.g., hammers) automatically set us to physically interact with the world (e.g., perform a power grip, Tucker & Ellis, 2001).”

Some Personal Perspective - Synchronicity

June 2017 Michael Reed: No Ten Commandments Monument Is Safe from the Wrath of Michael Reed Michael Reed: "I’m the rider on the first white horse in Revelations The article also highlights that “In 2014, he destroyed a Ten Commandments statue in Oklahoma.

Synchronicity with Reed -synopsis (40 years) spiritual-psychic – precognitive experiences. The Might makes right letter to the embassies of the allies was in February 20176, remarkably synchronized with Reed’s White Rider action. Also, back in 2015 while Obama was still in office, I did start to send letters out – specifically to the then Attorney General Eric Holder – I delivered my story and documentation

Preamble: Reasonable Beliefs: Categorizing unusual experiences as unusual.
What many people don't understand is that consistently studies show that somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences - and as Park and Paloutzian observe, there is a "normalcy" to spiritual-psychic experiences. Furthermore people - at times - lose their common sense and often get lost in abstractions. Common sense would dictate that the brain processes unusual experiences as "unusual" - pretty amazing.... huh? When people get into abstractions, they often lose sight of common sense understanding and sound judgment.

Studies and experiments that have established that the "categorization" process is a very important process in the human mind and the categorization process is both well-known and well-proven in psychology. William James goes on to say that religious experiences and spiritual experiences create and generate a “sense of reality” (p.48) Jung said pretty much the exact same thing actually - that an individual’s experiences shape a person's reality.
The synthesis consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, and William James simply put is that "spirit, spiritual processes, and religious beliefs create meaning, a sense of reality - and ultimately Reality, and Truth.

In the anthology, Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology (2014), Paul Wong, observes: “Frankl considers meaning seeking as stemming from one’s spiritual nature. William James emphasizes in his classic work, originally published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experiences: “They [spiritual experiences] determine our vital attitude [sense of reality] as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense,…” Jung observed, in the Collected Works (CW8: 648 -1968 revised) that “Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest development."

synopsis of 40 years spiritual-psychic, precognitive experiences & Historical-Political situational Sense

America 2017 The Might Makes Right Madness: Warning Letters to Embassies of Allies

“Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger” - Thrasymachus

March 2017 & Revelation of Trump’s Abuse of Allies’ Leaders – July 2022

In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies (Canadian, British, German, French) in Mid-March 2017, I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians they rose to the undisputed and unchallenged leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

Intelligence Revelation in 2020 “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' Angela Merkel….
Intelligence Leaks July 30, 2020: The title of an article in the Indy 100, Independent, stated that “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' bullying of Angela Merkel for 'vicious attacks' in private phone call” The article went on to say How Bernstein of CNN observed that Although Trump "regularly bullied and disparaged" other leaders like Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau and Scott Morrison, his most "vicious attacks" were reserved for women, the report claims. Bernstein quoted one of his sources as calling Trump's phone calls with Merkel and May "near-sadistic". Some of the things he said to Angela Merkel are just unbelievable: he called her 'stupid,' and accused her of being in the pocket of the Russians. He's toughest with those he looks at as weaklings and weakest with the ones he ought to be tough with.

The intelligence leak from foreign intelligence sources led to further revelations such as how Trump called May a “fool” on a phone call which was later verified by former National Security advisor Bolton in his book. Bolton went on to say how he, former Secretary of State Tillerson, former Defense Secretary General Mattis, as well as another former top national security advisor all agreed that Trump is “delusional” – off his rocker in common parlance. So, it turned out I was dead-on target and incredibly accurate in my warning and assessment - and then some in my letters to allies. A critical point – in my view – is that in my letters – to the best of my recollection – I did not even refer to Trump.

2. Dreams: I have four documented dreams and two undocumented dreams - all with consistent and reasonable interpretations that I list here: (1) a dream about Pakistan and nuclear war. (2) A Hybrid Dream-Perception: Precognitive "Tag" (a tag would be a central action plus one or two details) of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. (3) Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), (4) Synchronicity with Strasburg, France attack - dream (9-19-20) + undocumented (5) Dudayev Dream (6) Fredericksburg

3. Conscious Experiences Highlights waking perceptions (1) my recent 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a "domestic terrorist" threat referring to a "bomb" as the weapon. which is related - of course - to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020 (2) the very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, women, 22 put together, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen's manifesto. (3) A very brief (phoned in) warning to the FBI before the assassination attempt on president Reagan (4) I called the CIA before 9/11

4. 50,000 excessive & unnecessary American deaths "To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run
old warning email to Agent McElwee 4-10-2020 "To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run." Guardian: “US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies." Estimates go from 50,000-100,000 unnecessary Am deaths
"To me much of humanity looks like an uncontrolled pack of lemmings on a suicide run. I tell you this Materialism Doctrine is utterly insane". (Karen Armstrong basically says that “secularism” (materialism) is the underlying cause for the creation of literalism and the militant Christian mobilization.

Reflections
For perspective, I should mention first that - as Jean MacPhail, author and scholar, observes, my experiences are unique in part because my experiences are correlated with political events outside myself - as well as because my interpretations as perceptions of threats to the group are consistent - and reasonable. On top of that a dozen are documented - mostly by emails. I would add, from my research, my experiences are literally unique in that as far as detail - compared to historically documented warnings - or predictions of political events (including the Old Testament as well as Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, and even Edgar Cayce) there is nothing even remotely comparable as far as detail or consistency. In fact
Reasonable Belief

NOT ME: Death is Superstitious Nonsense

Relative to unconscious factors and influences Bargh observes, “Yet the recent advances in child social psychology, such as David Kelly’s pioneering study of the facial preferences of young infants, are starting to paint a much more pessimistic picture: that these in-group/out-group preferences may be forming much earlier in life, well before a child starts school.” (p. 69 John Bargh Before You Know It) Bargh highlights the unconscious aspect of the human mind “Imagine for a moment that you are a psychology professor who does experiments on conscious awareness. You keep finding that your subtle manipulations of people’s judgments and even behavior are successful –causing your experimental participants to like someone or to dislike that same person, to feel happy or sad, to behave rudely or with infinite patience. However, none of your participants have a clue as to what caused them to feel or behave.” The Unbearable Automaticity of Being, John A Bargh & Tanya L. Chartrand - p. 462 July 1999 American Psychologist)

Maladaptive stereotype: Death is superstitious nonsense

A short while ago I happened to be talking to a Filipina college graduate. I explained the materialist argument as explained by Miller & Thompson in the NIH article – that spirituality is unreal and nonexistent because you can’t measure it. She said emphatically agreed that that is true. So, I asked her to think about “death” for a minute. Death is far beyond measurement or quantification – so then,…,…following the logic of the materialist argument then “Death would then be a figment of her imagination and “superstitious nonsense.” She did concede that a fallacy had indeed skewed her thinking – which is a major success for me. Bargh states people just really don’t want to believe that any unconscious factors could influence their thinking without their knowledge.

Dr Stephen Farra, wrote me "Charles, I strongly agree that the Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all! Frankl writes about how a closed Naturalism leads to a suffocating Reductionism, which leads to a mental and emotional Nihilism and the kind of Moral Corruption he experienced in Auschwitz and Dachau……”

That is true. I have encountered a number of American college graduates – particularly in FB philosophy and science groups – who stated unequivocally that they would NOT read any research or studies on the health benefits to spirituality. They were absolutely convinced that spirituality is totally “unreal.” When I pointed out that you can measure people all day – and night long, that particular replied spiritual people have no physical reality. That maladaptive stereotype that6 all spirituality is unreal is so pervasive I have encountered many tell me that there is a separate “spiritual dimension” completely disconnected from the real world – parallel to the dualism of the Cathar sect from the 11th and 12th centuries One Christian woman who had psychological training said that “Spirituality is outside psychology” – that is a classic materialist argument. – and the origins of “literalism” which as Karen Armstrong resulted from the “secularism” (materialism) which also produced extremist reactions as well. Materialism and literalism emerged very roughly the same time. The French philosopher Rene Guenon argues materialism first emerged with Descartes.

Studies consistently reveal somewhere from 1/3 to half of people have spiritual experiences and also that many people are literally afraid to talk about them. Jean MacPhail, author and scholar, observes my experiences are unique - in part because they relate to events outside myself and partly because the interpretations are reasonable and show consistency as perceptions of threats. This dovetails into Daryl Bem’s successful precognition experiments which emphasize instincts: “the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated…”

Synthesis-Consensus of William James, Viktor Frankl, & Carl Jung is a life & death question. First spirituality - particularly spiritual experiences - shape peoples’ "sense of reality” Secondly, different experiences (+ culture, upbringing) create diverse worldviews - particularly in spiritual experiences

In contrast, strict materialists view "all spirituality as unreal” - which is intolerant! For example, in one FB neuroscience group a “scientist” stated that all spirituality is about “giant cosmic parrots!” In my experience, a large number of academics have that view.

Brian Josephson, Nobel prize Welsh physicist, observes that too many scientists are fixated with the "supernatural = unreal' - rather than focus on "fruitfulness," real-world spiritual productivity-creativity, or way of life.

An excellent illustration of fruitfulness is the spirituality of music. There are a large number of studies on the role and nature of music, J Schulkin and G Raglan observe, “Music is a fundamental part of our evolution – and functional because it facilitates “human contact” and out “social self!”

Also, there is the spirituality of t'nalak “dream weaving” (as well as dream music) by the T'boli (and Bla’an) indigenous tribes in the Philippines. The T’boli are well-known for creativity and beauty in the t'nalak “dream weaving!” (& dream music) Then of course, there is artistic spirituality, the spirituality of compassion, love of nature, awe-wonder experiences.

D. Death IS A Figment of Your Imagination

As William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, observe “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” However, if you apply that argument to the concept of “death” which is fare beyond being “quantifiable”, then, Death is a figment of your imagination!" This critique has had over 5,000 views on academia.edu with zero criticisms.

Problems in Sciences

1. a Geertz's universally (Ira Chernus) accepted five part definition of religion has no "community" or social consciousness ref "Materialism as Ideology: There is no psychology of groups" https://doi.org/10.17613/s0f5-1540

b false premise: It does not follow from the materialist argument that neurons fire in the brain that there is no social consciousness

2. After tens of thousands of years of spiritual and religious beliefs Social Sciences have no viable concept of spiritual - religious beliefs as a motivation or drive -.ref: Evolutionary Adaptive Traits: “religions, spirituality are... meaning systems.. https://doi.org/10.17613/7tv5-zq88

3.J. E Kennedy states "very little research" has been done about people. An overview of Park and Paloutzian's Handbook-reference manual. It was mostly twilight-zone spirituality Dr Neal states she has no education in People who have experiences. DSM has NOTHING about spirituality

Excerpt from (2018) critique of academic materialism endorsed by Dr Harold Koenig (medical researcher Duke U), Dr. Paul Wong (psychologist Emeritus and author/editor of anthology,) Dr Stephen Farra (psychologist Emeritus), & Stefan Schindler (award winning religious scholar. As a point of information, I had over 5,000 views on academia.edu with zero criticisms - plus a few thousand on FB. The critique focused on the materialist Definist Fallacy which creates the (widespread) maladaptive stereotype 'All spirituality is unreal!' - because spirituality is beyond measurement and un-quantifiable. If you follow that line of argument then, also, it would follow that

Death is a figment of the imagination and “superstitious nonsense!" (because it also is un-quantifiable)

As, the psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” That is a fallacy – specifically the Definist fallacy – using a “loaded term” which makes meaningful dialogue impossible.

Other serious methodological Flaws
1. false premise - no social consciousness: "There is no psychology of groups" - Allport 1927 [believe it or not] - Geertz’s universally accepted definition of religion (as Ira Chernus observes) has no concept of community or social consciousness [or no concept of "spirit" for that matter]

2. As Dr Neal stated she has no training in PEOPLE who have experiences. DSM has nothing about spirituality at all. J E Kennedy states "very little research" has been done on 'people.' My analysis of Park and Paloutzian's Handbook confirms that fact shows a fixation with abstractions and analyses of experiences - no information or facts about people!

3. Selfish Gene Theory (Dawkins) “Limited form of altruism” Vs. Genetic Compassion & the Battle of the Somme: "a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals."

In truth, Academic materialism is founded on a number of false premises, fallacies, & maladaptive stereotypes. is NOT Science - it is a cult! Plus, the materialist mindset has created a severe researcher bias - as in the flaws, etc. above.

Point of order: I filed complaints with the DOJ against Kaiser Permanente with the DOJ. The U.S. Department of Justice accepted my complaints # 83404-WLP, 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778. What I found especially offensive (which I communicated in 5 internal complaints) is that they accepted and condoned a virulently anti-spiritual fallacy-maladaptive stereotype that "all spirituality is unreal. The KP doctors Dr Davis, Dr Neal, the board of doctors, as well as member services blew it off completely and utterly. Since 2020 I no response which in itself is ignorant and abusive. Dr De Paulo (JHU), Dr P Perez (effectively) explicitly conveyed that "all transcendental spirituality is psychosis. For the record, mood disorder has been my diagnosis since 2000 - (including Dr. Neal.

Excerpt form my profile on academia.edu

A New Spirituality - as intelligence, problem solving, & making sense of the world w/ motivation, meaning-synthesis, w. relational-connectivity & community, social consciousness - Emmons, Easterling, K Adams, B Hyde, J Parker, J MacPhail, Hay, D. Thomas, + Dr Koenig (medical research meta-analyses), K. Pargament, Dr. P Wong, Dr. S Farra, S Schindler & Dr I Visuri - not in mainstream psychology

The synthesis of Frankl,, Jung, and William James that spiritual experiences can create a sense of reality & meaning which also emphasizes that different experiences create different viewpoints.

Highlights of 40 years of personal spiritual-psychic experiences - 6 documented dreams + 6 'waking' experiences - comparatively unprecedented & exceptional. J MacPhail,. author-scholar, observes my experiences are unique - in part because they are correlated with political events & have consistent interpretations as perceptions of threats to groups - like animal alarm calls.- as reactions to stimulus vs “crystal ball": perception - dovetails w/ D Bem's repeated precognition (90) experiments w/ 12,000 subjects & highlight instincts

The 1981 notarized warning to the FBI of a Weathermen terrorist attack (Brink's case) is very detailed (group with money, fabricates bombs woman, New York, identify “nightmare" from their manifest0.. Most recent, a 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee I warned of a "domestic terrorist" bomb threat (Nashville bombing).

What got me visibility were my 2017 letters to the embassies of America’s allies and in February-March, 2017 In the letter to the Canadian embassy I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace - Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is they don't even have the right question"

An article in the Indy 100, Independent (July 30, 2020), stated “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' bullying of Angela Merkel for 'vicious attacks' in private phone call” Like many Americans I find the politicization of Christ and Trump’s Racism offensive. An essay that lists documented problems is "Question of academic freedom”

Excerpt from (2018) critique of academic materialism (see Dr S Farra's essay) endorsed by Dr Harold Koenig (medical researcher Duke U), Dr. Paul Wong (psychologist Emeritus and author/editor of anthology,) Dr Stephen Farra (psychologist Emeritus), & Stefan Schindler (award winning religious scholar. As a point of information, I had over 5,000 views on academia.edu with zero criticisms - plus a few thousand on FB.

The critique focused on the materialist Definist Fallacy which creates the (widespread) maladaptive stereotype 'All spirituality is unreal!' - because spirituality is beyond measurement and un-quantifiable. William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, observe that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” So, if you apply that to death which is not quantifiable, then. Death as well as spirituality is a figment of your imagination and “superstitious nonsense!"

Other serious shortcomings

1. false premise - "There is no psychology of groups (Allport) - Geertz’s definition of religion has no concept of community or spirit

2. Dr Neal stated she has no education or training in people who have experiences. DSM has nothing about spirituality. J. E Kennedy states "very little research" has been done about people. My analysis of Park and Paloutzian's Handbook confirms that.- focused entirely on abstractions and analyses of experiences - no people

Academic materialism is a system is founded on a number of false premises, fallacies, & maladaptive stereotypes - which makes it a cult (Rev13:12). The Materialist Mindset (Mannheim) creates a researcher bias.

I filed complaints with the DOJ against Kaiser Permanente The U.S. Department of Justice has accepted my complaints # 83404-WLP, 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778 much of the dispute centered on the Definist fallacy and my endorsed critique of materialism. Basically they accepted and condoned a virulently anti-spiritual fallacy and stereotype. KP board of doctors, Dr Davis, Dr Neal & member services blew it off. Dr De Paulo & Dr. P Perez (effectively) referred to my beliefs. Dr De Paulo conveyed that all transcendental spirituality is psychosis - including autistic spirituality, dreams of deceased ("not uncommon") & grieving Mood disorder has been my official diagnosis since 2000)

My social security address is 700 Port St Easton, MD - In May 2023 KP cut all my medical Medicare benefits because I don't have a Maryland address.- In my view retaliation for complaints I filed & reply by DOJ complaint on this: DOJ 293169-VXT from the Special Litigation Section DOJ is reviewing

“Sooner or later man will have to return to himself, even if from the stars. All this that is happening now is an extreme form of escapism, because it is easier to reach Mars than to find oneself. If man doesn’t find himself, then he faces the greatest of dangers: his own annihilation. - Carl Jung

“The atheist ideology found a powerful ally in materialist science, which by the end of the nineteenth century, portrayed a purposeless, unconscious, mechanical universe where humans, like all life, had evolved without purpose or guidance. In this godless world [devoid of spirituality], humanity would take charge of it own evolution, bringing economic development, brotherhood, health, and prosperity to all mankind through progress.” (p.157) “Atheism is a purifying fire. It burns up religious hypocrisy, corruption, laziness, and pretention. But its scorched earth policy may leave many people spiritually hungry, thirsty, and isolated. (p.164)” Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born in 1942) is an author, and scientist who worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1973.

K Lagdameo-Santillan emphatically states that: “According to Professor Enriquez, Kapwa is the “unity of the one-of-us-and-the-other”……. He maintained that “Kapwa implied moral and normative aspects that obliged a person to treat one another as fellow human being and therefore as equal.”…….. But he also foresaw that this Filipino core value was threatened by spreading Western influences. “…once AKO (the I) starts thinking of himself as separate from KAPWA, the Filipino ‘self’ gets to be individuated as in the Western sense…” Professor Virgilio Enriquez, founder of Sikolohiyang Pilipino.

David Hay emphasizes that “As a result of the cultural construction of an extreme individualism which is particularly evident in the Western world, there has been a `forgetting’ of relational consciousness/spirituality [i.e. kapwa] resulting in damaging effects to the texture of human community.” Hays quotes C.B. MacPherson, [who] charges Hobbes with creating the doctrine on which bourgeois liberal society still operates, or as he calls it `the theory of possessive individualism’ (Macpherson, 1962) That is still academic induced materialist-political norms and ideology which are still ongoing.

What David Hays talks about is actually a classic illustration of Mannheim's Paradox. Karl Mannheim (1893 – 1947), a founding sociologist is perhaps best known for his book Ideology and Utopia, as well as for articulating the Mannheim Paradox. Mannheim argued that essentially ideologies and the values built into those ideologies underlie social norms and beliefs. Furthermore, that these ideologies have a profound effect on philosophical, artistic, humanitarian expressions and theories. The Mannheim Paradox stated that the ideological views of the political scientist or sociologist will skew the views and understandings of other ideologies to the point that objective analysis would be impossible. In this particular situation, the political rational individualism which produced the revolutionary democratic and clerical reforms during the Age of Enlightenment got transplanted from the political environment into the social environment - with dire consequences.

In the article “Does a narcissism epidemic exist in modern western societies? Comparing narcissism and self-esteem in East and West Germany.” The authors Aline Vater, Steffen Moritz, and Stefan Roepke observe that studies consistently show that “Narcissism scores are higher in individualistic cultures compared with more collectivistic cultures.” The study did reveal that West Germans (with a more prominent western-materialist culture vs the communist collective culture) had higher scores for the mental illness of narcissism. The authors observe that “The development of personality traits is closely related to the cultural environment …. Individualistic cultures encourage a stronger focus on the self, whereas collectivistic cultures emphasize the importance of social values. Narcissism contains a strong focus on the self, accompanied by a high need for admiration, and grandiose fantasies….” It would seem an inevitable conclusion that the "academic materialist" ideology in western society – which has no scientific basis (as Dr Farra point out) - is generating a lot of mentally ill people.

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” - Voltaire

Excerpt from a critique of materialism - endorsed by four prominent psychologists (originally 2018) - should shed light on the situation

Preface - Endorsements & Qualifications:

1. Dr. Paul Wong: prominent author, researcher, and theorist, as well as existential-positive psychologist stated about this essay, "Your letter to a congressman needs to be published somewhere.!"

2. Dr. Harold Koenig, a medical doctor-psychiatrist and a well published author and researcher stated about this article: "Charlie – makes perfect sense to me, and very nice letter right on target! HK

3. Stefan Schindler, an award-winning author, and retired psychology-philosophy professor responded to my question: "Would you say the argument about the "methodological flaw" is correct" by stating, "Yes, correct!" And a Maryland University Psychology Professor stated "getting the message out"

4. Dr. Stephen Farra: Recently - International University Emeritus, Psychology, who stated unequivocally that the "Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all!" As a point of information, Dr. Paul Wong confirmed specifically that the Definist Fallacy is in fact a Fallacy!

Why is the Definist Fallacy-maladaptive stereotype important: Giant Cosmic Parrots: Academic Ignorant abusive comments

First, I would state that FB is different from LinkedIn. FB science, philosophy and psychology groups can only be described, in my view, as horrifically sick, ignorant and abusive. In response to rather generic posts I get sick and abusive comments - like "mental illness", Santa clause. etc., etc. A good illustration would be a post about body-mind-spirit on an anthropology group. The essay quoted Dr Harold Koenig, a well-known medical researcher and described the early cultures of Hawaii and Polynesia and in early Native American culture. A comment by a member of the group asked, "When are you going to stop posting "woo?" [s**t]

These academic materialists actually believe their stupid ignorance is scientific

What makes these comments by college graduates including neuroscientists frightening is that the "educated" people making these comments actually believe that their intolerant, ignorant, and abusive statements are fully backed and supported by "Science"! How could they believe that? To paraphrase John Bargh, the scholar and researcher of the unconscious, "Stereotypes rule and cognitive processes drool"! That is the Definist Fallacy is a widespread "assumption" in academia - and that generates the maladaptive stereotype that "All spirituality is unreal" - and therefore unscientific - which is false. That is facilitated by the fixation with the supernatural by scientists (as observed by Brian Josephson) which has successfully "pegged" all spirtuality as "supernatural" and therefore unnatural and unreal.

1. The most obnoxious comment was by a neuroscientist who stated on my post which was fairly generic post about spirituality and didn't even mention spiritual-psychic experiences: “please keep the religious drivel to religious channels, this is science and science by its very nature only deals with the material - what can be observed and measured. It serves no practical use of time to hypothesize whether giant cosmic parrots travelling from higher dimensions are responsible for anything because unless one flies into our view there’s no way to prove it.” Two other neuroscientists posted similar comments on that post.

2. This comment reveals the incredible arrogance of much of academia today. Esther is the administrator for a "neuroscience" FB group, and she sent me a message stating, “Esther ************ Charles Peck Jr "there are theorists from years ago who were not as scientific as more modern theorists. That is because we follow the scientific method and therefore our theories are raised from scientific deduction through the empirical method. Our practices today are not just cooked up in simple observations or hearsay. Practices and approaches are not philosophies but scientifically repeatable theories and laws (not just hunches and hypothesis). As for the notion that spirituality is “nonsense,”

3. . Towbridge on a FB Neuroscience group. Spirits don't exist. Promoting spirituality is promoting falsehoods. Accepting falsehoods leads to poor decisions. So, if people biologically tend to have "spiritual" explanations, we should merely do everything possible to overcome that tendency, not excuse it because it's "natural". This was a response to a post about the spirituality of autism. What makes that comment particularly ignorant is that the spirituality is literally hardwired into their brains. There were three other really stupid comments by neuroscientists on the same post. I did have 13 likes on the post. While when it comes to human consciousness nothing is black and white, from research and experience, I believe it would be safe to say that probably half of academic social scientists believe that “There is no spirituality” – which is flagrantly and blatantly so far removed from anything scientific as to be sickening.

4. David – a comment on my Different Functions of Religion Essay on academia.edu stated, “"Spirit" refers to some kind of disembodied personhood, or else it refers to something that already has a name. Compassion, full of wonder, awed, etc. have nothing to do with "spirit." "Spirit" as a sloppy synonym for such purely human, purely natural emotions should not exist in a scientific discourse about society or humanity”

5. I did my own field - mini-study of academic prejudices. I posted an essay on philosophy - science group. This was the core part of the essay

A Short List of Meta-Analyses of Studies into How Spirituality Affects Health

In a section titled Evaluating The Spiritual Pathways, Kenneth Pargament asks: How well does it work? Literally hundreds of research studies have addressed this question. The vast majority of the research on the efficacy of spiritual pathways has focused on their psychological, social and physical effects. In perhaps the most comprehensive review of this literature, Harold Koenig, Michael McCullough, and David Larson (2001) concluded that, in the majority of studies, measures of religious and spiritual beliefs, practices, relationships, and experiences are correlated with:

Well-Being, happiness and life satisfaction

Hope and optimism

Purpose and meaning in life

Higher self esteem

Greater social support and less loneliness

Lower rates of depression Lower rates of suicide

Less anxiety

Less psychosis

Lower rates of alcohol and drug use

Less delinquency and criminal activity

Greater marital stability and satisfaction

The question I asked was: Shouldn't scientists reviews studies of spirituality before rendering judgment? I was shocked when the answer I got from perhaps a dozen members was "No, they should not read studies of spirituality!"

The answer I got was is that spirituality is "unreal" I pointed out to one member that spiritual people are people - and real people can be studied from dawn to dusk. The member responded - "Spiritual people have no physical reality!"

Conclusions: When you talk to these people what is horrifically shocking is these college graduates actually believe what they are saying is fully backed by “SCIENCE” It is clear that that belief is generated by the stereotype that “All spirituality is unreal because you can’t quantify it – which is a fallacy. To paraphrase Bargh (perhaps a bit over-simplistic) – “Stereotypes rule and reason drools” The “All spirituality is unreal” maladaptive stereotypes is pervasive. I have encountered for example a Christian woman trained in psychology who told me that spirituality is outside psychology – a classic materialist argument.

For perspective Medical Guidelines for dealing with spirituality

Here are the Mayo Clinic guidelines for medical professionals to deal with spirituality: “Studies have shown that addressing the spiritual needs of the patient may enhance recovery from illness. Discerning, acknowledging, and supporting the spiritual needs of patients can be done in a straightforward and noncontroversial manner. Furthermore, many sources of spiritual care (eg, chaplains) are available to clinicians to address the spiritual needs of patients. Mayo Clin Proc. 2001;76:1225-1235 The medical guidelines all say the same thing – basically – that spiritual beliefs should be treated with respect.

II. Death is a Figment of Your Imagination

When an Academic Abstraction is More Important than a Human Being

The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” That is a fallacy – specifically the Definist fallacy – using a “loaded term” which makes meaningful dialogue impossible.

The classic argument is that because you can't measure spirit or God, therefore all spirituality is unreal and so all spiritual and religious are fantasy and superstitious nonsense. Death of course is not quantifiable - so by the same argument "Death would be a figment of your imagination and superstitious nonsense. The materialist argument has no merit. My argument is that "Spiritual people are people!" I feel sure that argument will stand the test of time!

Definition of Definist Fallacy.

One definition of the Definist Fallacy explains it as defining a term used in an argument in a biased manner (e.g., using "loaded terms") One example cited is "Before we argue about the truth of creationism, let’s define evolution as, “Faith in a crackpot theory that is impossible to prove with certainty.” In a nutshell using a Definist Fallacy creates a situation in which any true or honest dialogue is impossible.

The methodological question posed by "Academic Materialist Doctrine" in their maxim that one need to “Prove God” before one can have valid spiritual beliefs is currently an ongoing problem and an extremely salient question - as an article recently published on the Pubmed site on the NIH website clearly demonstrates. The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.”

Time after time, I was told I can’t talk about spirt or spirituality until I prove the existence of “spirit” or “God!” Due to my personal spiritual-psychic experiences, when I came across that, my reaction was: "You can't be serious! Prove God? That is a preposterous idea and a really stupid question - to be blunt!"

As a point of order, this question has nothing at all to do with "God"! And it has Nothing to do with beliefs, either. The question is solely and entirely about scientific methodology. The question is about how a blatant Fallacy like that could exist in "science" - especially since that maladaptive norm as Bargh would say, conveys the message that spiritual beliefs are inherently worthless!

Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist and the Academic Definist Fallacy

Excerpts from the article: Logical Fallacies and the Supreme Court: A Critical Analysis of Justice Rehnquist's Decisions in Criminal Procedure Cases University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 741, 1988; University of Memphis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 41 104 Pages Posted: 2 Jul 2010 Last revised: 15 Oct 2012 Andrew Jay McClurg University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Date Written: July 2, 2010

Abstract: Using former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s opinions in criminal procedures cases as a contextual showcase, the author explores the nature and extent to which even U.S. Supreme Court justices, members of the world’s most powerful tribunal, resort to regularly employing rhetorical tricks and otherwise logically fallacious reasoning in their opinion-writing.

A logical fallacy is a type of incorrect argument, and the study of fallacies is a sub-species of logic. A fallacious argument is one that appears to be correct and which may be very persuasive, but which proves on closer examination to be logically invalid. Examples range from the familiar (e.g., begging the question, straw man arguments) to the esoteric (e.g., ignoratio elenchi, undistributed middle term).

This article, which has been assigned as required reading at national judicial conferences, examines more than twenty categories of both formal and informal logical fallacies and applies them to Justice Rehnquist’s criminal procedure opinions as concrete examples of how “crooked thinking” permeates persuasive writing even at its highest level of sophistication

I must say in forty years I have never encountered a psychologist or psychiatrist who made even the slightest effort to follow those guidelines. – None, Zilch, Zip, Zero! Btu Dr Neal and Kaiser Permanente were THE worst - by far. Effectively they told me that I could take my beliefs and go f**k myself. Not even “I can understand how you feel” Nada!

So, I filed a complaint against Dr. Neal and Kaiser Permanente with the Department of Justice. Surprisingly, the U.S. Department of Justice has accepted my complaint # 83404-WLP and launched an investigation. The DOJ also accepted complaint #'s 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778 – They explained in detail how the Definist Fallacy causes serious misunderstandings and cause prejudice and outright ignorance at times. My sense of it is that the DOJ accepted my complaints more because Rehnquist has made fallacies a legal issue in and of themselves.

Reflections

Definist Fallacy is Spiritual Poison - Dr Stephen Farra Columbia International University Emeritus, Psychology [Also, Dr. Paul Wong sent me an email stating the "Prove God Norm-Fallacy" is wrong as well!

"Charles, I strongly agree that the Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all! Frankl writes about how a closed Naturalism leads to a suffocating Reductionism, which leads to a mental and emotional Nihilism and the kind of Moral Corruption he experienced in Auschwitz and Dachau. We have bodies and brains, but within those bodies and brains, we develop transcendent Souls, and self-transcendent Spirits. We potentially have great freedom and flexibility. On all this, I think we agree."

I would say materialists have proved Dr Farra right in spades - "Don't you have a church to go to?? Spirituality has no place in science!"

Talk about prejudice: "Don't you have a church to go to?? Spirituality has no place in science!" come from? In a Religion FB group a member stated bluntly: "Don't you have a church to go to?? Spirituality has no place in science at all!" What that individual was saying is that my spiritual beliefs are so worthless - such superstitious nonsense - they are not even worthy of scientific inquiry. How did this come about? First, for the record, I need to state categorically that this question has absolutely Nothing to do with belief - it is a question of true or false and right or wrong - simple as that.

A brief outline of my complaints filed against Kaiser Permanente.
The U.S. Department of Justice has accepted my complaint # 83404-WLP as well as 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778 – They explained in detail how the Definist Fallacy causes serious misunderstandings and cause prejudices, misunderstandings, and outright ignorance at times. The complaint was filed against Kaiser Permanente – who had basically told me – to take my beliefs and go screw myself. I filed 5 or internal complaints with KP stating how offensive I find their acceptance and approval of a fallacy which is a destructive maladaptive stereotype if there ever was one.

An article recently published on the Pubmed site on the NIH website clearly demonstrates the prevalence and academic reality of the Definist Fallacy. The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” Another form of that argument I often come across is that you have to prove God or Spirit before your spiritual or religious beliefs are valid.

It is such a prevalent maladaptive stereotype that in talking with a “Christian” woman who had psychological training she told me that spirituality is not part of psychology – that spirituality is unreal. The spirituality of compassion has been – is – and will continue to be very real. For perspective if you envision the spirituality of compassion as a phenomenon similar to autism then you only need 1.5% of the population to have the spirituality of compassion to be a true phenomenon. The materialist argument is an abstraction. Yet, when – one member in a philosophy and science group told me spiritual experiences are unreal, I asked him – “What about spiritual people? They are real!” – his response was that “spiritual people have no physical reality!” -= literally! And the materialist argument is only an abstraction. So, I personally don’t put a lot of faith in abstractions, or concepts.

Email I received from the DOJ.

DOJ Email "Dear Charles Peck Jr, You contacted the Department of Justice on July 1, 2021. Your report number is 83404-WLP. The Civil Rights Division relies on information from community members to identify potential civil rights violations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies are investigating for the Division. Therefore, you can contact your local FBI office or visit………

Definition of Definist Fallacy.

One definition of the Definist Fallacy explains it as defining a term used in an argument in a biased manner (e.g., using "loaded terms") One example cited is "Before we argue about the truth of creationism, let’s define evolution as, “Faith in a crackpot theory that is impossible to prove with certainty.” In a nutshell using a Definist Fallacy creates a situation in which any true or honest dialogue is impossible.

There is good news and bad news. - thought I would start with the bad news.

I am on a tourist visa in the Philippines. Kaiser Permanente my medical organization refused service because my address is not in Maryland - no medical advice at all, no questions on prescriptions which they prescribed - no access to medical tests - no nothing. I mean Nothing! Three different resources within Kaiser Permanente sent Dr. Amy Elizabeth Bernardino, DO (at Annapolis KP office) messages explaining I was in distress due to a lack of my ulceritis colitis medicine which I couldn't find in General Santos. She failed to return the call. - a hypocrite if there ever was one. Yet according to social security and the IRS my official address is my mothers house in Easton Maryland. I did have messages sent on the KP message system (also from Dr Sloane - who also said in spite of a 2016 colonoscopy she, as my gastrointestinal doctor was not treating me for ulceritis colitis) stating exactly that - that there will be no communication at all because my address is not in Maryland. The bottom line is I am cut off completely from any medical advice or care of any kind.

Carole, an academic connection (well published sociology professor) said she hopes I have a good attorney. Susan a friend of mine and community legislator said - "Pray for them, they are lost." When I told Jen a (really good commercial) painter friend-connection that an attorney intake administrator said her law firm might be able to help me., she replied, "Well good for you! I hope she hits them hard."

Preamble: These are the Mayo clinic guidelines

Studies have shown that addressing the spiritual needs of the patient may enhance recovery from illness. Discerning, acknowledging, and supporting the spiritual needs of patients can be done in a straightforward and noncontroversial manner. Furthermore, many sources of spiritual care (eg, chaplains) are available to clinicians to address the spiritual needs of patients. Mayo Clin Proc. 2001; 76:1225-1235

The role of spirituality in health care

Christina M. Puchalski, MD, MS1

Spiritual or compassionate care involves serving the whole person—the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Such service is inherently a spiritual activity. As these patients deal with issues of transcendence, they need someone to be present with them and support them in this process. We need to advocate for systems of care in which that can happen [i.e. death]. Patients who are spiritual may utilize their beliefs in coping with illness, pain, and life stresses. Some studies indicate that those who are spiritual tend to have a more positive outlook and a better quality of life [i.e. cancer]... One study showed that spiritual well-being was related to the ability to enjoy life even in the midst of symptoms, including pain [Roy Baumeister notes that studies show "meaning" can reduce pain]. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, The American College of Physicians, The John Templeton Foundation, and the AAMC all advocate spirituality as a very salient factor in health and positive thinking. The AAMC's definition of spirituality is a broad one:

Spirituality is recognized as a factor that contributes to health in many persons. The concept of spirituality is found in all cultures and societies. It is expressed in an individual's search for ultimate meaning through participation in religion and/or belief in God, family, naturalism, rationalism, humanism, and the arts. All of these factors can influence how patients and health care professionals perceive health and illness and how they interact with one another (30).

This is what the guidelines are - in my forty years of experience these are empty promises and worthless window dressing.

Setting the Stage

The highlights of my 40 years of [unprecedented & exceptional] spiritual-psychic experiences are 6 documented dreams + 6 'waking' experiences. Jean MacPhail,. author & scholar, observes my experiences are unique - in part because they are correlated with political events & have consistent interpretations as perceptions of threats to groups - like animal alarm calls. These experiences are clearly reactions to stimulus vs “crystal ball": perception & dovetail w/ D Bem's successful repeated precognition experiments - 90 experiments w/ 12,000 + subjects) highlighting instincts

The 1981 notarized warning to the FBI of the imminent Weathermen terrorist attack (Brink's case) is very detailed (group with money, fabricates bombs woman, New York, identify “nightmare" from their manifest0.. Most recently, my 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a "domestic terrorist" bomb threat = Nashville bombing. For the record, God did state "Academic Materialism is stupid as s**t" Being Irish I replied, "God - Don't take this the wrong way, but I already figured that out!"

What got me visibility were my letters to the embassies of America’s allies and in February-March, 2017 In the letter to the Canadian embassy I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace - Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is they don't even have the right question" An article in the Indy 100, Independent (July 30, 2020), stated “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' bullying of Angela Merkel for 'vicious attacks' in private phone call”

Prejudices among "professionals"

In spite of the fact that I have a dozen or so documented experiences all with reasonable interpretations, in spite of the fact that Jean MacPhail - author and scholar - observes my experiences are unique; in spite of the fact that Dr. Paul Wong acknowledges the reality of my experiences and says in the end they will play out in my benefit (I am not holding my breath); in spite of the fact that Dr Stephen Farra, a psychologist Emeritus, thinks my analyses are well thought out; in spite of the fact that there is a consensus between William James, Carl Jung, and Viktor Frankl that different experiences create different worldviews; in spite of the fact that the well-known categorization indicates that unusual experiences would be categorized as unusual; in spite of the fact that modern research into physics indicates that "time travel" is theoretically possible (Hawkings),

I have had several American psychiatrists who have told me my experiences and beliefs (in the Holy Spirit) are psychosis - especially Dr Ray De Paulo at Johns Hopkins University as well as Dr. Philip Perez but to include (via their actions as opposed to verbal statements) Dr. Stacey Neal and Dr Davis at Kaiser Permanente. Dr Ray De Paulo, a prominent psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins (1st in psychiatry - eh) - conveyed - deliberately - that "All Transcendental spirituality is psychosis" I emailed him several times objecting but got no response.

How bad did it get?

Imagine you have an established track record of giving (precognitive warnings) and realizing that thousands of Americans are going to die. You call the FBI and CIA, and warn them best you can (I did call the Central Intelligence Agency – as well as the FBI Washington D.C. headquarters). Then you watch on TV as thousands of Americans die. I was at work when it started. My boss pulled in a TV to watch. I walked out – couldn’t watch

Then - when I go public with my story - my (no ex) Lutheran wife starts attacking my be1iefs. The more I criticized psychology the more my ex attacked. I do have PTSD (according to NIH published article and a report by Dr Neal) Finally one day, while I was in the middle of a PTSD episode my ex literally got in my face and tells you that you are a failure because I called the CIA. Even though, I was in the middle of a PTSD episode. Even so, I was the one that retreated to the bedroom. My ex followed me into the bedroom and knocked the phone out of my hand. My ex bragged constantly about how she had native American ancestry. My son's DNA Personally, I think my Lutheran (now ex) wife never believed a word I said and was just using me as a meal ticket in retrospect.

In the last three years I have not received a Christmas card or father’s day card from my two oldest children. In spite of consistent diagnoses as mood disorder (including Dr Neal) since roughly 2000, my daughter and others started saying my documented experiences and beliefs are psychosis. It is a fact that these professionals condone – and encourage – the degradation and vilification of my spiritual and religious beliefs. I don't expect a medal but the vilification of and degradation of that experience clearly shows how sick and ignorant psychology and psychiatry are when it specifically comes to transcendental spirituality. Dr Neal stated that at Johns Hopkins she (nor any psychiatrists from my research) had any training in people. There is nothing in the psychiatric diagnostic manual at all about spirituality - not the spirituality of grieving, not the spirituality of children (i.e. children do have parents die), the spirituality of autistics - no nothing.

The KP situation is infuriating because the doctors have clearly demonstrated no concern - zero - for serious methodology flaws and destructive fallacies and maladaptive stereotypes. In my view it is clear KP and Johns Hopkins are anti-spiritual - simple as that - with forethought and malice in my view.

Research for perspective

The tragic events of 9/11 brought a flurry of cases to the attention of parapsychology labs. The cases ranged from dramatic dreams of airplanes crashing or exploding to the more frequent examples of unusual departures from normal routines that ended up saving someone’s life. Encounters at the Frontiers of Time: Questions Raised by Anomalous Human Experiences Richard S. Broughton

I am very cynical of "professionals" and academics, to be honest. I think the recent refusal to serve me is retaliation for complaints filed with the DOJ against Kaiser Permanente for abuse. My testimony is that the psychiatrists I have encountered from Johns Hopkins and Kaiser Permanente are downright ignorant and actually hateful about spirituality - vicious in my view. Excerpt from a critique of materialism - endorsed by four prominent psychologists (originally 2018) - a bit long

The Good News!

I. New Psychology of Spirituality - as intelligence, problem solving, relational-connectivity, community and social consciousness w/ perspective - spirituality as synthesis, way of life, motivation, meaning, & making sense of the world, + structure: Emmons, Easterling, K Adams, B Hyde, J Parker, J MacPhail, Hay, D. Thomas, + Dr Koenig (medial research meta-analyses), K. Pargament, Dr. P Wong, Dr. S Farra, S Schindler & Dr I Visuri (autistic spirituality)

NOT in DSM or APA manuals

II. Overview of Spirituality

Adams and Hyde observe that “Spirituality is a natural human predisposition …. and concerns a person’s sense of connectedness with self, others, and the world (or cosmos). For some people, connectedness with a Transcendent dimension is a part of spirituality …. that spirituality involves a deep-down awareness of one’s relationship with one’s self, and with everything that is other than one’s self…. spirituality as a type of intelligence…. One hallmark feature of intelligence concerns the ability to solve problems.

III. New Integrative Approach: Synthesis-Consensus of Frankl, Jung, and W. James: Spiritual Experiences Generate Meaning & a Sense of Reality

These perspectives of grief psychologists are consistent with the of Synthesis Consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung and William James - or the "New Integrative Approach" as Dr. Paul Wong termed it. Dr. Paul Wong elaborates on Viktor Frankl's views: "The noetic (spiritual, specifically human) dimension contains such qualities as our will to meaning [Frankl's central concept of the human being's primary drive] our goal orientation, ideas and ideals, creativity, imagination, faith, love that goes beyond the physical, a conscience beyond the superego, self-transcendence, commitments, responsibility, a sense of humor, and the freedom of choice making."

William James framework for spiritual experiences is perhaps most relevant to grieving for two reasons. First William James emphasizes “They [abstractions (symbols) and spiritual emotions-experiences] determine our vital attitude as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense,……if you do have them, and have them at all strongly, the probability is that you cannot help regarding them as genuine perceptions of truth, as revelations of a kind of reality [my underlining] which no adverse argument, however unanswerable by you in words, can expel from your belief" (P.47) William James goes on to say that religious experiences and spiritual experiences create and generate a “sense of reality” (p.48) So, in light of the fact that spiritual experiences are often involve highly charged emotions and also tend to shape a sense of reality, as well as the fact that grief is primarily about attachment and emotions it would make sense that spiritual experiences in the grieving processes could reshape and facilitate resolving the grieving (William James' classic work, originally published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experiences.)

IV Spiritual Intelligence - A view that dovetails into the New Integrative Approach: Kate Adams, Lincoln Brendan Hyde

SPIRITUALITY, SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE, AND DREAMS

Spirituality is a natural human predisposition (e.g., Hay & Nye, 2006; O’Murchu, 1997, 2000). It is more primal than institutional religion (James, 1901/ 1977; Maslow, 1970; Tacey, 2000) and concerns a person’s sense of connectedness with self, others, and the world (or cosmos). For some people, connectedness with a Transcendent dimension is a part of spirituality (Bosacki, 2001; Elton-Chalcraft, 2002; Fisher, 1999; Hyde, 2004; Tacey, 2003). Hay and Nye (2006) argue that spirituality involves a deep-down awareness of one’s relationship with one’s self, and with everything that is other than one’s self.

It is possible to conceive of spirituality as a type of intelligence (Emmons, 1999, 2000; Hyde, 2003, 2004; Kwilecki, 2000; Zohar & Marshall, 2000). One hallmark feature of intelligence concerns the ability to solve problems (Ruzgis & Grigorenko, 1994; Walters & Gardner, 1986). Zohar and Marshall (2000) define spiritual intelligence as the mental aptitude used by human beings to address and find solutions to problems of meaning and value in life. In drawing on discourse arising from theories of motivation and personality, Emmons (1999) further suggests that people are able to use spiritual resources to solve problems: The adaptive processing of spiritual information is a part of intelligence, and individual differences in the skills with which such processing occurs constitute core features of personality. Spirituality can serve as a source of information to individuals, and, as a function of interests and aptitudes, individuals become more or less skilled at processing this information (p. 163). (Children’s Grief Dreams and the Theory of Spiritual Intelligence: Kate Adams Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln Brendan Hyde Australian Catholic University)

Jeremiah the Prophet (reworked) - Prophecy as Force, "Community" and "social consciousness" + New three stage Paradigm for Prophecy w/ Different Perspective Plus prophecy as social consciousness in light of Barton

Preamble: social consciousness perspective on spirituality

American Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” As a point of order I would highlight that these assumptions are not strictly quantifiable in the sense of materialist methodology – and further that much of human consciousness is beyond strict materialist methodology

In that light I would emphasize that it would seem a self-evident truth that “society” could not possibly even exist at all without “social consciousness!” However, when I asked a psychology student if she had ever heard of “social consciousness”, she replied, “No!” Geertz’s “universally accepted” (according to Chernus) five-part definition of religion does not include either community or “spirit” for that matter. Yet, any objective or reasonable assessment of religion would highlight the characteristic of religions as groups, or communities as being incredibly salient characteristics. It would also appear an inescapable conclusion that the “teachings” of religions would dorm – being norms – a social consciousness. In |Social psychology the “norm” since Allport in 1927 is that “There is no psychology of groups!”

As a point of order, I should not have essays posts removed – or just not posted at all – on FB simply because I bring up social consciousness - or spirituality – which are not only valid questions – but excellent questions – which has been happening – a lot on psychology anthropology and even Jungian FB groups. Many of my essays are recommended by PhD’s such as Dr S Farra and Dr. P Wong, or “highlighted” by Dr. I Visuri. In my view that is unprofessional, prejudicial, and discriminatory harassment

Preface: Definition of prophecy by Mirriam-Webster

1: an inspired utterance of a prophet

2: the function or vocation of a prophet (specifically : the inspired declaration of divine will and purpose)

3: a prediction of something to come

(4.) To this prophecy as social justice needs to be added – being a common and very relevant theme of Christian leaders and theologians

THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS AS SOCIAL REFORMERS. By REV. GEO. STIBITZ, Philadelphia, Pa.

p.26

The true prophets exposed the false (Isa. 9: I5), and showed them to be self-indulgent, cowardly, venal, crying a false peace (Isa. 56: I -2; Mic. 3:5, II); but to the true prophets alone remained the thankless task of telling an unpleasant truth to a people that loved to have its ears tickled (Mic. 3:8-I I).

As for the virtues demanded, the opposite of the foregoing sins is not only in every case implied, but manifoldly expressed. Without going into detail, it is sufficient to call attention to the fundamental virtues of justice, mercy, and humility demanded by Micah (6:8): "What does the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?" and by Amos (5:24): "Let judgment roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream."

The ideal of the prophets is not a church or congregation of worshiping believers, but a community, society, or state of god like men and women living in love and truth together under the Messiah as king, who is filled with the spirit of God, exercising justice and judgment toward the poor and helpless (Isa. 9: I-7; I1: 1-5). Universal peace shall reign supreme (Isa. II:6-o1), every vile person shall be known by his right name (Isa. 32:5; and cf. 26: I-Io; chaps. 56-66). As to the home of this ideal kingdom of the prophets (and may we say of the Bible as a whole?), it is a land. It is this earth, and that not so radically different from what it now physically is as we sometimes think. Remove sin and its wide spread consequences, and who knows how far even this material world would be changed for the better? (Cf. Isa. I I: I-IO; Rom. 8: 8-25; Rev. 21:1-5.)

p.27

Godliness is character, and character is not in things, but is the product of personal endeavor, however favorable the surroundings may be. Therefore the prophets demanded of everybody an honest, energetic endeavor to realize the divine, ideal kingdom in this world……,They spurn a worship that shows no fruits in the social sphere, but insist on genuine Jehovah religion as the only root and cause of such fruits…..If now we ask what remedy the prophets suggest for social evils, we find the answer to be a true and living faith in God which works by love toward one's fellow-man.” That would – on the face of it appear to advocate a type of social consciousness

p.28

We have then here writers as early as eight hundred to a thousand years before Christ unanimously demanding as the purifying and plastic power of society the true and unselfish devotion of man to the supreme God, first; and, second, to his fellow-man…..

Prophecy as Social Justice: “Social Justice and the Prophets” by Walter J. Houston

Excerpt from Walter Houston’s article which focuses on social justice as a vital aspect of prophecy

“Let justice roll down like waters!” (Amos 5:24). Magnificent words, but what do they mean? What the prophet Amos means by them you can work out from the injustices that he attacks. The people he denounces take their own cut from the hard work of poor people (Amos 5:11), treat them with contempt, and take bribes. When they sell wheat, they rig the scales and the currency (Amos 8:5). It is always poor people who are their victims. These ruthless exploiters are nameless, but they plainly have wealth and power. Their home is Samaria, the capital of the eighth-century B.C.E. kingdom of Israel (Amos 3:9, Amos 4:1, Amos 6:1). Amos shows God demanding justice from them rather than worship: “I hate, I despise your festivals…But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5:21-24).

Walter J. Houston, "Social Justice and the Prophets", n.p. [cited 20 Apr 2022]. Online: https://www.bibleodyssey.org:443/en/passages/related-articles/social-justice-and-the-prophets

The question that I raise here is this: Is viewing prophecy as prediction gutting a pivotal characteristic of prophecy as promoting social justice and influencing social consciousness and culture. That is, which do you think would be more important to God: The accuracy of prediction or social justice? I mean if God wanted to make predictions God could have hired a stenographer.

It would seem readily apparent that “community” and “social consciousness” are pivotal to prophecy

Setting the Stage: Personal Background-bio of Spiritual Experiences:

My personal – and often documented – spiritual-psychic experiences are a tremendous asset in assessing the reality of “prophecy!” – in my view!

Abbreviated-synopsis of 40 years of spiritual-psychic experiences

A. I have four documented dreams and two undocumented dreams - all with consistent and reasonable interpretations that I list here: (1) a dream about Pakistan and nuclear war. (2) A Hybrid Dream-Perception: Precognitive "Tag" (a tag would be a central action plus one or two details) of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. (3) Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), (4) Synchronicity with Strasburg, France attack - dream (9-19-20) + undocumented (5) Dudayev Dream (6) Fredericksburg

B. Highlights from forty years: waking perceptions (1) my recent 10-30-20 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a "domestic terrorist" threat referring to a "bomb" as the weapon. which is related - of course - to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020 (2) My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, women, 22 put together, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen's manifesto. (3) A very brief (phoned in) warning to the FBI before the assassination attempt on president Reagan (4) I called the CIA before 9/11

Precognitive Dream about 'Pakistan and 'Nuclear War'

New “news” about that old "precognitive" dream about nuclear war and India – while not as detailed as the 1981 notarized warning to the FBI about the Weatherman terrorist “attack” brings to light important questions and issues about spiritual-psychic experiences

Precognitive Dream about 'Pakistan and 'Nuclear War' 1-18-2019 deserves some special attention: In the past few months for some reason, I have had several dreams about foreign countries which seemed a bit precognitive. In a rather strange dream from the night of 1-18-2019 to 1-20-2019 (which I emailed to k.... on 1-22) I had a somewhat vivid dream about Pakistan in which 'nuclear war was an aspect. Of course, spiritual experiences and especially dreams have a definite symbolic aspect and ordinarily cannot be taken literally. What made the dream rather strange was a kind of "dualistic" or "split world" characteristic to the dream since, in the dream, I was in the U.S. with my son, yet, seemingly simultaneously in Pakistan at the same time.

You can’t take dreams literally of course, and as you know, no nuclear war occurred. Furthermore, the Indian leader, Modi’s nationalism became more aggressive and India annexed Kashmir a semiautonomous region with large numbers of Muslims, then later removed citizenships from large number of Muslims. The bottom line is that the dream could fit into the category of a perception of a “threat to the group.”

Recently I came across this update posted today “Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that he was awakened to speak to his then Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj who told him that Pakistan was preparing for a nuclear attack in the wake of the Balakot surgical strike in February 2019 [Indian airstrike on a Pakistani target in retaliation for a Islamic Jihad attack on Hindus in India] and India is preparing its own escalatory response. "How Close...": Ex US Secretary Of State On India-Pak Nuke Threat After Balakot. In his book "Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love", Mike Pompeo says the incident took place when he was in Hanoi for the US-North Korea Summit on February 27-28, 2019 NDTV 1-24-23

Of course, dreams cannot be taken literally and it needs to be emphasized that – in all “truth” psychic capability is really "perception" and not "Absolute Truth." I can honestly say I have – in forty years never perceived the absolute truth as it were. In fact, the experiences I have had seem clearly to reflect the “visibility” factor as it were. 9/11 was the most striking event as far as perception goes. in history as it were – and there were a large number of people who had documented premonitions. My most detailed were the most perceptible as well.

NDTV

Home India News "Was Too Close": US Ex Top Official Claims On India-Pak Nuclear War Threat "Was Too Close": US Ex Top Official Claims on India-Pak Nuclear War Threat

In his book "Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love", Mike Pompeo says the incident took place when he was in Hanoi for the US-North Korea Summit on February 27-28, 201

Reasonable Beliefs: Would the human brain process unusual experiences as unusual.

There are two very important principles I learned early on from my experiences in 1981.

That is, "purpose" is pivotal to prophecy - and spirituality – especially in light of "Spirit is Truth" (John 5:6)

Historical Intuition

What actually got me visibility were my letters to the embassies of America’s allies and in February-March, 2017 In the letter to the Canadian embassy I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace - Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is they don't even have the right question"

An article in the Indy 100, Independent (July 30, 2020), stated “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' bullying of Angela Merkel for 'vicious attacks' in private phone call”

This would seem especially relevant in helping to shed light on Jeremiah’s historical insight in the Potter’s House Prophecy

New Paradigm for Prophecy: Prophet Jeremiah & his Seventy Year Exile Prophecy

Does God Put Prophets on the World "Solely and Entirely" to Make Predictions?

Prophecy - Introduction

While I am not a religious scholar, the only writing about the function of prophecy as a topic in and of itself would be Spinoza’s argument that prophets like Moses are “Exemplars,” which are defined as “a person or thing serving as a typical example or excellent model.” My argument is that prophecy is both a message and a narrative or story. Further it would seem rather evident that between the message and the narrative prophecies shape human consciousness which in turn shapes the future as it were since how we think and act would largely determine the future. Of course, in any good story a hero or exemplar is essential.

The Prophet Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah (“Jeremiah” means Yahweh establishes) lived in Judah, the southern kingdom of Judah roughly from 627-586 B.C. Jeremiah dates the beginning of his ministry (627 B.C.) when he had his vision of the almond branch and the tipping cauldron which conveyed the message of a threat from the “foe from the north!” An interesting comment about Jeremiah’s first prophecy would be that there is a play of words of the Hebrew word for almond which has its roots in the Hebrew word for “watching” and Jeremiah’s comment that God was “watching.” Another important nuance of the first prophecy is that Jeremiah speaks about God asking Jeremiah what he saw – which has an entirely different meaning from a ‘prophet coming down from the mountain and making “proclamations or pronouncements.” Jeremiah is often called the Weeping Prophet because he lived through witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.

Jeremiah The Fighter

Because Jeremiah’s message was so critical of the Jewish people and his country of Judah, Jeremiah aroused some bitter resentment and animosity against him, and there was even a plot to kill him – in which even his family appeared to have a role. “His unpopularity grew, and brought upon him jeering, ostracism, and cursing (15:10-11, 17; 17:15; 20:7).” (p. 101 book of jer) Often, Jeremiah cried out for justice against these people who were hurting him and hindering his mission. In the end, he was very bitter, and after the widespread destruction of Judah (confirmed by archaeologists), he was taken forcibly to Egypt to escape the wrath of the Jewish “Super-Patriots” who wanted revenge for Jeremiah having spoken out against the Jewish leaders.

Without question, the Prophet Jeremiah is that he was a fighter. In a public “prophetic display” Jeremiah broke a pottery vessel at Jerusalem’s gate of shards to symbolize how the Jewish people would be broken by God the same as Jeremiah broke the pottery vessel. In another public “prophetic display” Jeremiah revealed his prophecies condemning Jewish practices of worshipping idols in his “Temple Sermon.” For prophesying, Jeremiah was publicly humiliated by the head priest, put on public trial after his Temple Sermon, and just before the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians, thrown into a pit in a dungeon and left to die. It is crucial to understand the prophecy of Jeremiah that Jeremiah’s “message” changed (which also changed the “narrative”) from one of Jews incurring God’s wrath because of their faithlessness in turning away from the Ways of God and worshiping idols, to a message of reconciliation and hope. Here is Jeremiah 32:36-37: 36 "You are saying about this city, 'By the sword, famine and plague it will be handed over to the king of Babylon'; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 37 I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.

The Prophecy of the Seventy Year Exile

It should be noted that the first Babylonian attack and deportation happened in 597 B.C. In an effort to convince the people of Judah that Babylon was now their new master, they began a process of forcing key residents into exile, as early as 605 B.C. More deportations took place in later years, culminating with the wholesale destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 B.C. Jeremiah spoke twice about the length of time the deported Jews would remain in exile. The first reference is in Jeremiah 25:11 which appears to be a part of a summary (Jeremiah 25:1-14) Jeremiah 25:13 reads: “And this whole land shall be a desolation and a waste, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.” As I mentioned before, archaeologists’ excavations have demonstrated that during that particular historical period, numerous cities in Judah were in fact destroyed and there was widespread destruction. The Jewish captivity ended in 539 BC, when Cyrus, a leader of Persians and Medes, conquered Babylon and brought an end to its empire. Cyrus then gave the captive Jews the freedom to return to their homeland.

John A. Thompson, the Australian Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist, observed in his voluminous book about Jeremiah, that different scholars calculate the number of years of the historical exile in different ways. For instance, one method of calculation takes the number of years in between the fall of the Assyrian capital in 612 B. C. to the fall of Babylon in 539 B. C. which comes to seventy-three. That is really close to the seventy years as prophesied by Jeremiah – though as Thompson points out, not “exact.” (p.514)

However, on the face of it, the Exile itself should be the gauge since Jeremiah is addressing the Jews in his prophecy and so any analysis should be directed at the situation of the Jews and not the Assyrians or Babylonians. For the Jews, the exile went from the first defeat of Judah with the capture of Jerusalem and the deportation of a substantial number of important Jewish leaders and artisans in 597 B. C. to the edict liberating the Jews issued by Cyrus in 538 - which gives one a sum of 59 years.

To understand the message and the narrative of Jeremiah’s prophecy it is crucial to grasp that at the beginning of the Exile, the “false prophets” were prophesying that the exiled Jews that their redemption was around the corner, and that very soon they would be returning home. I’m sure, since Jeremiah would have known they were dead wrong would have incensed Jeremiah – especially since it would produce bad fruit as it were. That would appear to be really bad psychology – telling people something will happen soon and then that not happening could be pretty destructive to the morale of the people. So, Jeremiah took a stance and made a stand and prophesied that the Jews would return to their homeland in seventy years. Jeremiah’s message to the Exiled Jews was, essentially to ‘settle down in that redemption would be long in coming – but that redemption – and reconciliation would indeed take place.’

The Potter's House: Jeremiah’s Potter’s House Prophecy

Historical Situation Sense, & Shaping Social-Collective Consciousness

Jeremiah talks about the compulsion and coercion he felt that compelled him to speak and act: “If I say, “I will not mention him (God), or speak any more in his name, there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.” (Jeremiah 20:9) In Jeremiah’s prophecy deep seated emotions were involved and presumably social instincts as well. In spite of persecution, Jeremiah persists in his behaviors. Yet, Jeremiah seems to believe that God would not put him through what he went through, and questions why he is, in fact, being subjected to persecution. Jeremiah complains that God has deceived him and because of that “I am in derision daily, everyone mocketh me” (Jeremiah 20: 7)

Jeremiah: “18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me. 6 He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. 7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, 8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. 9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, 10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.”

What Jeremiah presents here is a vision of powerful forces (God) which will change and shape the Jewish people and faith. From a certain perspective, as I will show later, Jeremiah’s Potter’s House Prophecy – this vision of huge forces (God) that would affect and shape the Jewish nation turned out to be one of his more fruitful prophecies. For perspective I would highlight the fact that, If one steps back and looks at prophecy in a larger sense, especially in terms of historical cycles and purposes, in general, it appears that – from a distance - what prophecy has often “historically” achieved and accomplished is to produce significant influences on peoples’ world views and in Judaism and Christianity shaped the social and spiritual consciousness of many religious people. That is, prophecy shapes human consciousness. I would argue that an analogy could be made between a horse drawing a cart with goods in it and prophecy. There are three parts or aspects that are addressed – the horse-energizer, the cart or the narrative, and the goods or the message or Word of God.

Prophecy as Social Consciousness

George Barton, PhD: “Disaster and sorrow compel either a soul or a nation to seek anew the foundations of life. Times of sorrow are accordingly times of religious growth. The Babylonian exile was no exception. Indeed, the influence of this exile upon the religion of Israel was enormous. This was in part due to the fact that the exile was the external event necessary to crystallize the results of prophetic influences which had been at work for a long time, but it was also in part due to the deepening and clarifying of religious perception which disaster and sorrow bring.”

“The influence of the Babylonian exile is discernible in three great realms of life: (I) in the apprehension of religious truth; (2) in the outward organization of the religious life; and (3) in the standards of public morals. We shall endeavor briefly to treat each of these points, but before doing so a few words are necessary with reference to the nature of the exile it." (INFLUENCE OF THE BABYLONIAN EXILE ON THE RELIGION OF ISRAEL, PROFESSOR GEORGE A. BARTON, PH.D.) So, here Barton, who echoes a number of scholars clearly, and clearly states that Jeremiah's prophecy - combined with the suffering and pain of the Exile, did beneficially change the theology and worldview of Judaism. A very salient point

From Jeremiah’s description of the drive – and compulsion - that drove him to speak the Word of God, it would seem readily apparent that deep seated emotions and powerful spiritual instincts were at work. So, one could conclude that foresight, and prophecy, to some extent could be viewed in terms of a group related instinct, and the Word of God seems to be an expression of a social instinct as well since it promotes the concepts of justice, the needs of the oppressed and weak, as well as righteousness. Jeremiah is the perfect illustration of how prophecy changed human consciousness.

Conclusions about Jeremiah

I must say, in my view, Jeremiah did Exactly what he was supposed to do. He provided leadership and guidance. And provided a framework of what would occur in the future. To quibble over the fact that Jeremiah didn’t get the precise number of years down on the Exile would be, in my mind like criticizing Jeremiah for having his shoes untied. To my knowledge no one has ever predicted the exact date of an event, except perhaps for the assassination of Caesar, about which there is some historical debate. As the Biblical scholar, Thompson observed, “if we regard it [the number seventy] as a symbol for “many” (Judg. 1:7; 8:14; 1 Sam. 6:19; 2 Sam. 24:15; Ps. 90:10; etc.), it will serve the purpose which Jeremiah probably intended.” (p.514) 58 years translates to me as a "long time" and Jeremiah was correct - it was a long time. What impresses me was that Jeremiah not only knew that the Exile wouldn't end anytime soon but he stood up and "challenged" the false prophets. My argument is that prophecy is a narrative and that in this particular prophecy, Jeremiah created a narrative that, in the end, worked very well in shaping consciousness and the future. In my view Jeremiah got the job done – very well actually.

New Analogy & Model: Horse Drawing a Cart with Goods in it!

If one steps back and looks at prophecy in a larger sense – especially in terms of historical cycles and purposes, it seems clear that, in the end, what prophecy has often historically accomplished is to produce significant influences on the way people look at the world and clearly affected the social and spiritual consciousness of many religious people. That is, prophecy shapes human consciousness. I would argue that an analogy could be made between a horse drawing a cart with goods in it and prophecy. There are three parts or aspects that are addressed – the horse-energizer, the cart or the narrative, and the goods or the message or Word of God.

In this analogy, the horse would be the prophecy-prediction which energizes the prophecy. Donald Kalsched, a Jungian scholar, observation about archetypes, which in a general way are viewed as attitudinal or behavioral predispositions in the unconscious of the human mind, that "Archetypal energy is rooted deep in the unconscious and it is ‘archaic’, primitive, and also ‘typical’. Archetypal energies and affects are not easily assimilated by the conscious mind. They can be luminous or dark, angelic or demonic, but because they exist in raw, unmediated form they tend to be over-powering." Nancy Furlotti echoes that statement when she says, " Affect emerges from archetypes, which are the a priori ordering principles of nature, the world, and the psyche. When an archetype is activated, energy is put in motion that does not adhere to the laws of causality, or time and space." (Tracing a Red Thread: Synchronicity and Jung’s Red Book:(2010), Psychological Perspectives, 53:4, 455-478) Beliefs and ideas are very real and incredibly powerful and as both James and Jung observe, religious symbolism is often supercharged by emotional energy. The idea of spirit and prophecy as energy and force is very real, especially in light of a collective consciousness.

The second aspect or characteristic of prophecy would be the narrative of the prophet which served as the cart to carry the goods – or message of the prophecy. Every book of prophecy and every prophet tells a story and presents a narrative. As one psychologist observed, narratives are the oldest the oldest and most ancient form of knowledge, dating back without question to millions for years ago when the human species first discovered fire and gathered around, which of course led to storytelling. Narrative psychology only first emerged in the 1970’s one concept which the narrative psychologist Dan P. McAdams, developed is the idea of narratives employed as life story models which shaped identity and developed personality into sophisticated structures. The story of the prophet’s life and endeavors, in this case, served as narratives or stories which served to shape spiritual and religious thinking as well as put form to cultural conflicts. Like myths the prophetic narratives served as a vehicle to convey spiritual realities and truths – which of course were the “goods” carried by the cart.

Addendum Excerpt from essay: Mannheim & Materialism as Ideology vs Social Consciousness –

For nearly one hundred years, materialists have argued that 1) “There is no psychology of groups” (Allport’s Taboo – 1927) or 2) human consciousness is restricted to the firing of neurons in the brain and so there cannot be any social consciousness. That is an absurd argument.

It does not follow from the fact that neurons fire in the brain that there is no social consciousness!

Link to mini-essay/profile with over 80,000 views https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CharlesPeckJr

A picture is worth a thousand words & the pictures blatantly contrast with the Psychology Maxim, “There is no Psychology of Groups!”

Contrast the pictures above - of crowds gathered for rock concerts, protests, and folkdances with the prevalent academic norm and abstraction that “There is no psychology of the group” (i.e., Allport’s taboo 1927). Even a precursory glance at those pictures clearly and vividly conveys the reality that – actually – yes, there are psychologies of groups (more than one probably

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

That is very true - with 366 school shooting since Colombine "we" need to "rethink our thinking" - that would include mainstream psychology. Mainstream psychology has not factored in that materialism - especially academic materialism is a mindset and ideology (Mannheim)

Spirituality as synthesis and creativity: spirituality is what people make of it, often due to circumstances, experience and genetic predisposition - thoughts & ideas on diverse questions

If you go to the page on the left and click on "Questions, Thoughts & Ideas on Truth, Life-Force, Spirit & Unconscious Symbolism - thoughts and ideas on diverse questions" that will bring up a list of essays to choose from .

Setting the stage

Abbreviated synopsis of 40 years of spiritual-psychic experiences:

A. I have four documented dreams and two undocumented dreams - all with consistent and reasonable interpretations that I list here: (1) a dream centered on Pakistan and nuclear war. (2) A Hybrid Dream-Perception: Precognitive "Tag" (i.e., a central action with one or two details) of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. (3) Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), (4) Synchronicity with Strasburg, France attack - dream (9-19-20) + undocumented (5) Dudayev Dream (6) Fredericksburg bomb (civilian)

B. Highlights from forty years of waking experiences (1) email to FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20 warned of a "domestic terrorist" threat - specifically a "bomb" which relates to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020 (2) A detailed and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the Weathermen terrorist group: group, fabricating bombs, money, women, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen's manifesto. (3) A (phoned in) warning to the FBI before the assassination attempt on president Reagan (4) I called the CIA before 9/11 & warned them of 9/11. Nearly all of my experiences would easily fit into a category parallel to the alarm calls of animals.

The Absolute Truth [God, Transcendental Intelligence]

is Beyond Comprehension

Up close and personal:

There is more chaff than wheat when it comes spirituality - more [maladaptive] stereotypes than facts or evidence. Many seem to have a stereotype of spiritual enlightenment in terms of people running off to the airport signing, dancing, and chanting Hari Krisna (which today isn't all that bad of an idea). J. E. Kennedy points out that “45% of people in one particular study reported an initial reaction of fear to their spiritual-psychic experiences.” Fear of the unknown is a well known factor in the human mind.

It is generally understood that people have the "standard model of physics" as a template in their minds. In retrospect it is clear that the experience was frightening because it was an unknown. I thought over my experience – which was a very detailed and (notarized) precognitive warning - very intensely. I tell you doubts and guilts can eat you alive if you let them. I looked at the experience from every possible angle you could consider – and some angles many people likely couldn’t imagine. It was a wild ride!

As J.E. Kennedy observes, large numbers of people have an initial fear reaction. The more intense the experiences is the more the experiences seems to activate anxieties and fear. Here is Flynn's story - in brief. “I am 55 years old with 5 children 8 grand daughters and have been through an immense amount of pain and trauma in my life more than most yet I still love all. I found it difficult to handle my main experience and struggled for a long time, but finally once I got a 'structure' worked out I keep my balance pretty well.”

My mother was murdered when I was 9 so I believe that has a significant bearing on things yet she also taught me how to strengthen my mind using cards and guessing what they were from a very early age and she was an extreme humanist feminist kind person…….. I have had several instances in my life of it [spiritual-psychic experiences] - from my mother’s murder to girlfriend leaving me to accidents going to happen to asking god creator for direction and sign and getting it immediately; none of it make too much sense to me and I don’t understand why it happens to me so frequently!”

I had one really really bad night in Ann Arbor – mentally I was without doubt two steps over the line – and fortunately realized it - though it was a bit delayed reaction. My epiphany was that I realized that my detailed experience – which I could not ignore because it was written, documented – is beyond my comprehension – simple as that. I realized that s long as I live I would never ever “comprehend” that experience - the experience was acausal and so incomprehensible to the human mind. It hit me with such force, to this day I unequivocally equate knowing God with - not madness - but insanity. So, to this day it is welded into my consciousness that the absolute truth, and transcendental Intelligence [ God] are beyond words and beyond comprehension!

In my view what made it worse – in my case - is that at that time I had no upbringing in spirituality or religiosity. And believe it or not at the time I wrote out a very detailed precognitive warning to the FBI, notarized it, and went over it briefly with an FBI agent on October 18, 1981, consciously – at that moment, I was an atheist and furthermore, consciously I felt all spirituality was superstitious nonsense.

Brief Synopsis & Bio: 40 years of "Spiritual Experiences "

"How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure! ― Albert Einstein

In America 110 million Americans have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences - minimally

First, I would point out that in contrast to mainstream psychology's norms, A recent review of "numerous" studies of people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences by Park and Paloutzian reveal that somewhere between one third to one half of people have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences - of every type and variety imaginable - though hardly any talk about them. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies definitely "establish the normalcy of such reports and that social scientists have until recently ignored a common-phenomena." (p. 67)

Most have never heard that transcendental spiritual experiences can have positive benefits - so this worth covering briefly: Actualizing spiritual experiences - including dreams or visions of the deceased -can have a healing aspect

Essay-Blog: “Pastoral caregivers” [find] that individuals do seem to cope better if they can "actualize" their spiritual experiences.” L. W. Easterling, et al, & “can be adaptive”- Julia Parker + Jean MacPhail's childhood epiphany

A substantial amount of interest in spiritual experiences recently appears to be from a re-emergence of interest from the (unofficial) pastoral school of thought in psychology.

1, “Experience has shown pastoral caregivers that individuals do seem to cope better if they can "actualize" their spiritual experiences in times of crisis.”(Spiritual Experience, Church Attendance, and Bereavement,” by Larry W. Easterling, Th. D, Louis A. Gamino, Ph.D., Kenneth W. Sewell, Ph.D., Linda S. Stirman, B.S.N)

2. From another study, Julie Parker concludes that "The findings of this study support the emerging model of grief that posits that maintaining continuing bonds with the deceased can be adaptive. They also support the assertion that spiritual and/or religious belief systems are associated with adaptive outcomes of grief."

3. Gabriella Kilianova highlights the views of a Catholic priest in Slovakia. The priest “assumed that such dreams help people deal with the loss of their loved ones.” That does appear to be part of pastoral folklore as it were

4. Then there is the article: “Children’s Grief Dreams and the Theory of Spiritual Intelligence” by Kate Adams Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln Brendan Hyde Australian Catholic University.

“Dreams of the deceased, and those that are related to death in other ways, are thus not uncommon during childhood ..... studies have shown that some children reflect on their dreams and find meaning in them, with some of these dreams making a spiritual impact!”

5. Article: The Impact of Dreams of the Deceased on Bereavement: A Survey of Hospice Caregivers

Scott T. Wright, BA, Christopher W. Kerr, MD, PhD ckerr@palliativecare.org, […], and Debra L. Luczkiewicz, MD+3View all authors and affiliations Volume 31, Issue 2 “Most participants [58% of 278 participants] reported that their dreams were either pleasant or both pleasant and disturbing, and few reported purely disturbing dreams."

An Overview of Spirituality

Kate Adams and Brenden Hyde observe: “Spirituality is a natural human predisposition …. and concerns a person’s sense of connectedness with self, others, and the world (or cosmos). For some people, connectedness with a Transcendent dimension is a part of spirituality …. that spirituality involves a deep-down awareness of one’s relationship with one’s self, and with everything that is other than one’s self…. spirituality as a type of intelligence…. One hallmark feature of intelligence concerns the ability to solve problems.“ (Children’s Grief Dreams and the Theory of Spiritual Intelligence” by Kate Adams Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln Brendan Hyde Australian Catholic University.)

My Personal Experiences: List of Precognitive Dreams & Experiences: Highlights: 40 years of spiritual-psychic experiences

I list six dreams – four of them documented – all which have “reasonable interpretations” which are consistent as well. As Jean MacPhail, author and scholar notes, my spiritual-psychic experiences are unique – in part because the experiences are correlated with political events outside myself and as such easier to analyze, in part because many are documented and in part because they are very consistent. Nearly all of my experiences could best be described as expressions of perceptions of threats to the group - parallel to animal alarm calls. When I spoke with Daryl Bem (psychologist & researcher into precognitive phenomenon), he stated unequivocally that both he and Dean Radin (another psi researcher) believe that much of psychic experiences have an instinctual characteristic. I believe a good deal of the Old Testament prophecy could be understood as having an aspect in expressing perceptions of threats to the group.

Evidence: of precognitive capability: In 2016, an article about a meta-analysis of Daryl Bem (et al) very successful precognitive experiments states that "When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments." The article goes on to say that the results showed that the experimental design focused on sex [instinctual] was by far outperformed the other designs. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Dugga)

For perspective - beginning with intuitive perceptions - telltales & red lights

After My computer got hacked and I sent copies of a file inserted on my computer to FBI agent McElwee, since I do actually try to stay on the “good side” of the CIA – assuming of course they do actually have a good side – I did send the CIA an email about Turkey. I mentioned I had seen a TV video about Turkey having taken over a church-museum and turning it into a mosque. The video highlights the interview of a civic activist who fought Turkish president Erdogan’s repressive legislation and restrictions of freedom. The activist said - rather emotionally - that basically “freedom was gone” – that freedom no longer existed in turkey no more. My read was that Turkey I entering a new more aggressive stage in its nationalism. Not long after Erdogan further restricted peoples’ use of the internet and social media. Furthermore it “appears” that the escalating conflict between Turkey and Greece over fishing rights has largely been initiated by Turkey. Now there is this situation with Armenia. While I didn’t even hint about the Armenian problem, I do think I had the escalation of nationalism correct.

Speaking of telltales: the Chinese knife attacks I find very "alarming" for some reason. It could be that shooting people can be dome at a distance while knife attacks are very up-close and personal. Killing children with a knife violates human natural law big time. And the attacks have been consistent - year after year since 2010

Also, for perspective in China there appeared rather suddenly in 2010 knife attacks in China. An article states, "Three people were killed and six others wounded in a knife attack Wednesday at a kindergarten in southeast China's Jiangxi province. A "gangster wearing a cap and mask" stormed the private kindergarten in Anfu county at about 10:00 am local time (0200 GMT), police said in a statement published on China's Twitter-like Weibo. The 48-year-old suspect is still at large, they added. Around 100 children and adults have been killed and hundreds injured over the past decade in apparently uncoordinated, "lone wolf" attacks in which the motive was unclear and the overwhelmingly male assailants were either killed, ended their lives or were put on trial and executed. (3 killed, 6 wounded in stabbing rampage at kindergarten in China; suspect at large AUGUST 3, 2022 / 7:59 AM / CBS/AFP)

On top of that there is widespread agreement among psychologists that since 2000

1. there has been an “epidemic” in narcissism as well as

2. a dramatic 25% increase in suicide in the US since roughly 2000 as well.

There are a lot of red lights these days –

the Christian no mask madness which by all analysis cost over 50,000 un-necessary and excessive deaths of Americans. Historically I know of no historical precedent for the Christian no mask madness.

Recently the unarmed black man who was beaten to death by black officers is another telltale.

Preamble: Aspects and factors in spiritual-psychic experiences

1. First, in my experience - there is no crystal ball to make predictions. My experiences are the product to a large degree of perception of largely unconscious social-political stimuli combined at times with so9em transcendental spiritual insights. In my situation, most perceptions seem to result result from a political-historical situational-intuition. A good analogy for might be to a fighter jet in which the main engine does the bulk of the work and the precognition afterburner lights up every once in a while.

2. “Visibility” is clearly a factor. Dean Radin observed there were over a dozen documented cases of precognition of 9/11. The same is true for me. The most detailed were the most visible – like 9/11 or the assassination attempt on Reagan.

In contrast, there were no details on the Canadian incel dream. A lone “incel” terrorist used a vehicle to run over pedestrians on a bike trail. In that case there was nothing to perceive really. Visibility – politically and historically is a factor not only in my perceptions but in others as well. That would clearly indicate that “psychic is primarily (by far perception) Powers as most people understand that is simply out of the question – though in light of quantum entanglement and such, influence could not be ruled out.

3. Synthesis of senses:

A. In the 1981 “What nightmare – Mustard Seed” warning to the FBI there were clearly a synthesis of processes: an explicit statement (a group with money fabricates a bomb); metaphorical and symbolism (snake hiss, etc to symbolize the classic socialist work by Upton Sinclair The Jungle) or Prophet and angels to symbolize the guard and police that would die); poetic; spiritual symbolism in the Mustard Seed.

B. In a review recently I realized most of my perceptions tended to be of alienated people – two French terrorists, Hinckley, likely Boudin as well (a leader in the weathermen), the Nashville bomber……… That would be a clear indication that telepathy was involved – and my experiences are syntheses of sense.

4. Lastly nearly all my perceptions could be described in terms of perception of threats to the group.

Abbreviated abstract-synopsis of 40 years of spiritual-psychic experiences:

Precognitive Dream about 'Pakistan and 'Nuclear War' New “news” on an old "precognitive" dream about nuclear war and India

NDTV

Home India News "Was Too Close": US Ex Top Official Claims On India-Pak Nuclear War Threat "Was Too Close": US Ex Top Official Claims on India-Pak Nuclear War Threat

In his book "Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love", Mike Pompeo says the incident took place when he was in Hanoi for the US-North Korea Summit on February 27-28, 201

Highlights of Waking perceptions

my recent 10-30-21 email to FBI agent McElwee warned of a "domestic terrorist" threat referring to a "bomb" as the weapon. which is related - of course - to the Nashville bombing on Christmas day 2020

My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 of an impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, homemade bombs, money, women, 22 put together, New York, death, as well as the terrorist weathermen's manifesto. For the record - besides being notarized the document has a FOIPA stamp on it.

My (very brief) warning to the FBI before the assassination attempt on president Reagan

I called the CIA before 9/11\ plus called the DC FBI headquarters and filed a complaint in Richmond district court which - coincidentally brought the question of 911 calls to the fore (compared to 9/11 - thought process association, so to speak)

Lastly, I would highlight the fact that the pivotal October 18, 1981 notarized warning (with a FOIPA stamp) to the FBI about the impending attack by the weathermen terrorist group is very detailed with some unique characteristics of being the only one about terrorism (until 9/11), with a definite place as well as timing (verbally). Historically, it is literally unprecedented compared to other "historically documented illustrations." In fact, the line “22 are assembled” which is a synchronicity with the fact that there was a shootout with the Nyack, New York police force which as the New York Tiem reported had 22 members – which is clear evidence of precognition since when I wrote it neither the police nor the terrorists knew there would be a shootout in Nyack, New York.

Points of Order:

1, I should emphasize that in 40 years of “therapy” by psychiatrists and psychologists on the question of my spiritual – psychic experiences – which as Jean MacPhail, author and scholar, observed are unique in part because many are documented and detailed but also because the interpretations are consistent and reasonable - I did not have an intelligent conversation with any of them about my experiences. In fact, whenever I brought up my documented 1981 experience which is very detailed, not one of my therapists said a single word. Forty years of conditioning – gaslighting actually since my perception is they were doing it deliberately and that is gaslighting. Nicol mentioned form her research there are some open-minded European psychiatrists, But, then added that she hadn’t found any open-minded American psychiatrists.

While there are a large number of studies of dreams and visions of the deceased and a study by an Australian Catholic University by two researchers there who said that dreams of the deceased are not uncommon as well as indicating – like several other grief psychologists – that “actualizing experiences can help people cope with grief” – two studies by psychiatrists labeled dreams of the deceased as “hallucinations and delusions.” As a point of information, Dr. Stacey Neal told me she had no training or education in people who have spiritual or spiritual – psychic experiences) it is obscene for them to label it “delusions.” The very worse Psychiatrist I encountered was Dr Ray DePaulo – a prominent psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins who conveyed to me that “All transcendental spirituality is psychosis” It is especially sickening because he is a Catholic friend of the family. I sent numerous emails to De Paulo objecting to that “psychosis” designation. Being a good Catholic friend of the family, he never replied (that is sarcasm in case you missed that). Of course, when American Catholic leaders raise money for Trump who is a pathological liar, raving racist, and quite frankly stupid as s**t you really can’t expect a whole lot. The Politicization of Jesus Christ is a pervasive and controversial topic today and tons of articles on google can be found.

2, Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

a) Quantum Physics has changed "our" understanding of physics - and reality - though much of social sciences are behind the learning curve: Niels Bohr was a Nobel prize-winning Danish physicist, stated unequivocally that “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

b) Quantum Experiment Reveals “A future event causes the photon to decide its past.” - Professor Truscott the bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured.

A lot of people have the "crystal ball" stereotype of precognition - that psychics look into crystal balls - essentially - and make predictions. Factually and historically, that is nonsense. It is closer to the alarm calls of animals than to crystal ball predictions.

People have been having spiritual experiences for tens of thousands of years and consistently studies reveal that today somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences of one sort or another - which as Park and Paloutzian show have a "normalcy" in 1902 William James demonstrated that spiritual experiences create a sense of reality - which is supported by the views of Viktor Frankl and Carl Jung who both emphasized that different experiences create different world views.

Highlights from forty years of spiritual/psychic experiences & dreams!

Documented Dreams - Documented by emails

Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), and while the dream was not directly connected to any international events. seeming to be generally about "intelligence:" Similar to the timing of the dream about Pakistan-India, about a month later an article appeared: US troops temporarily leave Libya as security deteriorates Haley Britzky April 07, 2019 "The U.S. forces in Libya are temporarily leaving as the security situation on the ground has grown "increasingly complex and unpredictable." It turned out they pulled out permanently – and the situation deteriorated afterward.

Synchronicity with Strasburg, France attack - dream 9-(19-20)-18 Dream: On Sep 10, 2018, at 6:55 AM my dream contained several pivotal symbols and 'information.' The dream clearly spoke about an "Islamic secret society" as opposed to ISIS. It turned out from a NY Times article on 12-12-2018 stated "The gunman killed at least two people and wounded 12 in the Tuesday night shooting spree at the famous Christmas market in Strasbourg, a city of more than a quarter-million in France’s northeast border with Germany. …… the gunman was first seen shortly before 8 p.m. on the Rue des Orfèvres, in the heart of the Christmas market. He then moved through several streets, attacking with a handgun and a knife as he went." I have never heard of a terrorist carrying a knife. In my view, it is significant that the dream highlighted and emphasized "a very large knife." In any case it is said that "consistency" is a key to science - and in my view there is a consistency.

A Hybrid Dream-Perception: Precognitive "Tag" (a tag I describe as a central action plus one or two details) of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. In an email to a friend, I relayed a dream at 2AM which involved Canada and the CIA and Canada. The email (dated April 18, 2018) said "just thinking - 2AM .... woke from a really strange dream - the Holy Spirit was like split up into different pieces and people were trying to understand that." Earlier woke up from a dream about: Canada and the CIA (personally, I connect the CIA with terrorism).” Roughly a week later on an article stated: “The police have identified Alek Minassian, 25, as the suspect accused of killing 10 people and injured 15 with a rented van on Monday (April 24) in Toronto. Minassian appeared to identify as an "incel," or "involuntary celibate," Again there is consistency in this being a perception of a threat to the group.

Undocumented Dreams

When I lived in Fredericksburg prior to 9/11, I had a dream in which there were apartment style buildings which were built in the architectural style of the Southwest region in the United States in a dream! At the very end of the dream there was a bag which was left beside a car which “felt [heavy] like money” - but was not. Believing it to be a precognitive dream I faxed it to the Fredericksburg FBI where I was living at the time. About a week later a woman was killed by a bomb when she picked up a bag by her car. This happened in a city that was located to the southwest of Fredericksburg. I figure that would also be a tag in that it had the central action of a “bag beside a car” and the dream also talked about a “devastating explosion” but it is lacking a bit in specifics of who was involved.

Dudayev Dream: In a rather vivid dream. Before the Chechen leader, Dudayev, was killed, I had a dream about Russia. In the dream, I was in a bombed-out city of “rubble” near some mountains. I was in a room with two men. There was a stack of eight sided coins and six-sided dice. Next in the dream, there was a runway for a plane. The dream abruptly ended at a field. About a week later Dudayev was killed by a Russian warplane at a village. About a week later, on April 21,1996, Dudayev was killed by two laser-guided missiles that zoned in on his satellite phone signal, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft. He was killed in the village of Gekhi-Chu. There were six specific pieces of information in the dream that matched.

Overview: All of these dreams - all with reasonable interpretations - could easily be viewed and understood as “perceptions of threats” to the group parallel to animal alarm calls and responses to real stimuli.

Highlights of Waking perceptions

my recent 10-30-21 email to FBI agent McElwee warning about a “domestic terrorist” threat specifying a “bomb” as the weapon. which correlates - of course - to the Nashville bombing Christmas day 2020

My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 about the impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto. For the record - besides being notarized the document does have a FOIPA stamp on it.

My (very short) warning to the FBI prior to the assassination attempt of president Reagan

I did call the CIA prior to 9/11\ plus called the DC FBI headquarters and filed a complaint in Richmond district court which - by coincidence brought the question of 911 calls to the fore (as opposed to 9/11 - association thought process, as it were)

Mid-March 2017 Might Makes Right Letters to the Allies

In retrospect, what got me visibility though was my letter to the embassies of America’s allies and in February-March, 2017 In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017 on the letter mailed to the Canadian embassy (each was different) I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians, they rose to the undisputed and unchallenged leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

Intelligence Leak – 2020 Revelation “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic'… Merkel…

“Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger”

- Thrasymachus (c. 459 – c. 400 BC)

“I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process,”

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the fake news impeachment trial

Senator McConnell at the impeachment trial actually made no bones about how he viewed the impeachment trial as being totally and completely about power - having nothing to do with right or wrong - or even true or false. Before the Impeachment Trial even began, he made it perfectly clear he was going to ram an acquittal verdict down the throats of the Democrats - regardless of right or wrong, justice, truth - or anything "good or decent" in politics for that matter. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stated outright that no one should "expect him to handle President Trump’s impeachment trial as an impartial juror: “I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday while fielding questions about the upcoming trial. I tell you my letter to the Canadian embassy in mid-march 2017 hit the nail on the head.

The might makes right historical-political cycle is still running its course. The problem is that the extremist right wing “Christian” persecution and discrimination of minorities by “Christian leaders” is still ongoing and seems to be getting worse in a way. Voting: Laws making it more difficult to vote, and in several cases increasing the opportunity for Republican partisans to exert more influence over election administration and vote tabulation, have been probably the most visible component of the red state push. In 2021, 19 states – including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Montana and Texas – passed a total of 34 laws restricting access to voting, according to tabulations by the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU Law School. The center counts 250 bills to further restrict voting access that have been introduced this year or carried over from last year’s session and another 41 that could erode the integrity of election administration. Meanwhile, the new voter identification requirements in Texas have resulted in the rejection of so many mail ballots that local Democratic officials in Harris County have asked the US Justice Department to intervene.

Reflections and commentary

It would seem apparent that the might makes right letters to the embassies are one of the best illustrations of a spiritual-psychological read, as it were. In a letter to the Canadian embassy in 2018 I stated that: "Personally, I view the current politics as sort of like a political (with strong religious undercurrents) type of an almost influenza which will unfortunately run its course. A recent Pew Research study showed that Americans are more divided now than even during the height of the Vietnam War. Personally, I am sick to death of the politics." A recent study-poll revealed that 78% of Republicans want to see Trump re-elected.

A point of order: The influenza metaphor in August 2018 turned out to be an excellent forecast of the political course of events - but technically true as well. Prior to the last election which Trump lost studies revealed that in countries which were hardest hit by the corona virus Trump lost the most support among Republicans.

An Epithet by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis

In an article on June 3 2020 in the Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, “James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution”

James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens.

My story really started, in October 18, 1981 with a – comparatively – very detailed and exceptionally accurate compared to other historical documents. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto There were a couple of very important – critical actually - lessons I learned right at the start.

1. Between madness and insight: J. E. Kennedy points out 45% of people in one particular study reported an initial reaction of fear to their spiritual-psychic experiences. Categorization is well-known and well-proven process in the human mind. In my experience it si clear that the experience which is unexplainable under the normal standard model of physics everybody has embedded through real world experience in their mind was the cause of fear. I thought it over very intensely – I mean intensely! In my view what made it worse is that I had no upbringing in spirituality or religiosity – believe it or not – consciously I was an atheist and consciously – at the time – I felt all spirituality was superstitious nonsense.

Needless to say, I had a few rough days, but one night in Ann Arbor – mentally I was definitely two steps over the line – and fortunately realized it. I realized that my detailed experience – which I could not ignore because it was written, documented, with a FOIPA stamp on it – is beyond my comprehension – that I would never ever “comprehend” that experience. So, the fact that the absolute truth, and transcendental Intelligence [ God] are beyond words and beyond comprehension is welded into my consciousness. I personally feel it is rather presumptuous to talk about God.

Long before any of modern day scientists and psychologists, St Gregory of Nyssa, an early Christian mystic (roughly 335 – 395 AD), and the early Christian mystic Dionysius the Areopagite (c. late 5th to early 6th century), as well as St. Augustine all stated unequivocally that God - and "Absolute Truth" are beyond words and beyond comprehension.

St. Gregory of Nyssa states, “According to the true words of the Lord [Mt 5.8, the pure in heart will see God. They will receive as much as their minds can comprehend. However, the unbounded incomprehensible divinity remains beyond all understanding.” (SoS J.246 & M.941, p.161) The early Christian mystic Dionysius the Areopagite mirrored St Gregory of Nyssa, when he states, “I said in my Theological Representations that one can neither discuss not understand the One, The Super unknowable, the Transcendent, Goodness itself….”!

1. my recent 10-30-21 email to FBI agent McElwee warning about a “domestic terrorist” threat specifying a “bomb” as the weapon. which correlates - of course - to the Nashville bombing Christmas day 2020

2. My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 about the impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto. For the record - besides being notarized the document does have a FOIPA stamp on it.

3. My (very short) warning to the FBI prior to the assassination attempt of president Reagan

4. My call to the CIA prior to 9/11.

New Paradigm-Approach to Meaning and Spirituality

Holistic Synthesis & Baumeister’s Paradigm: Unconscious Spiritual Symbolism, William James Filter, and “New Integrative Approach” as Synthesis-Consensus of Frank, Jung, and James

“Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine,

and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.” - Viktor Frankl

"[O]ur perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds---it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity!" This profound observation by Albert Einstein shows how deeply embedded in human consciousness spiritually oriented emotions and spirituality actually are.

Introduction

Albert Einstein, near the beginning of his career, in a short article titled, The World As I See It (included in Living Philosophies (1931)), eloquently illustrated the spiritual ‘essence of being,’ as it were, when he stated unequivocally, “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery---even if mixed with fear---that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds---it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; it is in this sense, and this alone, I am a deeply religious man.” (p.11 Ideas) Awe and wonder about life, the universe, and ‘Creation’ are powerful feelings and emotions prevalent throughout humanity which frequently tend to engender spiritual feelings.

At one time or another, nearly everyone experiences spiritually oriented feelings and emotions. In fact, the Japanese language even has a specific word for the very natural and powerful emotions of awe and wonder, which Einstein so eloquently described: "Yugen!" Yugen is defined as an awareness of life or the universe that triggers or elicits emotional or spiritual responses too deep and too powerful for words, or alternatively, the core ability of a person to truly appreciate and comprehend art and beauty, and highlighting the Yugen perspective as the ability and potential to “evoke” an awareness as opposed to explicitly stating or explaining an idea or concept.

Carl Sagan, in his book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, argues Einstein's case for spirituality and spiritual beliefs in even stronger terms than Einstein used. Carl Sagan stated “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” The wonder and awe at the perception of the radiant beauty of life, the universe, and 'creation' - the transcendent “mystery” - as Einstein so fondly spoke of it, lies beyond our ordinary 'primitive' human consciousness.

Baumeister's Paradigm & Holistic Synthesis

Baumeister pointed out that - technically - there is No Ultimate Meaning of Life - that a person's meaning of life is made up of myriad smaller meanings - the meanings of parents, siblings, children, academics and school, religious beliefs, spirituality, government, police, and so on. Neuroscientists stress that same principle - that the brain is so intricate and so interconnected that a lot of different factors go into "morals" for instance. In general, my understanding of meaning is consistent with meaning as expressed by Viktor Frankl, William James, and Carl Jung. Generally, people don’t make up meaning - but uncover and discover meaning. Meaning is embedded in our DNA and the unique circumstances of our experiences, our culture and historical environment, circumstances and – of course – our lives. In a sense life is a story of discovery and development of our meanings, perspective, purposes, and destiny. As such meaning would be a holistic synthesis.

Why is Baumeister’s Paradigm important? Because if you don’t have the proper model, misunderstandings can easily result. The life of Lev Tolstoy, the famous novelist and author of War and Peace seemed to parallel the spiritual crises of the characters in his novel. After he reached a pinnacle in his career after writing War and Peace, Tolstoy had a major spiritual crisis. He became pretty despondent and depressed. Driven to understand the meaning of life, he diligently studied philosophy and the humanities. In his fervor Tolstoy decided that no emotions had any real merit for application to the “Ultimate Meaning of Life.” Of course, today “emotions” psychologists and neuro-scientists will tell you emotions are pivotal in motivations. Of course centuries earlier both St Gregory of Nyssa and St Augustine pointed out that Absolute Truth {God] is beyond human comprehension. Because Tolstoy could not find any absolute meaning or purpose of the universe, he concluded – like many still do today that there is no meaning to life – and the only way to live life is through faith. So, having the proper tool for analysis is important. I encounter college graduates today who tell me there is no “meaning” to life because they cannot perceive the ultimate purpose of the universe. That is Tolstoy’s fallacy – to think his life is intimately intertwined with the ultimate purpose of the universe.

Funk and Gazzanigna observe that: “Morality is a set of complex emotional and cognitive processes that is reflected across many brain domains. Some of them are recurrently found to be indispensable in order to emit a moral judgment, but none of them is uniquely related to morality…………Some of the emotions processed are more central to morality than others, but all emotions contribute to moral judgment given specific contextual situations. Brain Architecture of human morality, Funk and Gazzanigna Current opinion in Neurobiology 2009 19:678-681)

The Holistic Synthesis of Spiritualities

Of course, the same is true for spirituality - especially with religious people - there would be the spirituality of compassion ("love one another"), the spirituality of righteousness and morals (which is distinct from righteousness in my view), artistic spirituality. the spirituality of marital fidelity, the spirituality of religious rituals, the spirituality of the sacred, music, dancing, and so on. Abraham Heschel (1907 – 1972), a “leading” Jewish philosopher and theologian, in his book The Prophets, Heschel quotes N. K. Chadwick when he says: “Everywhere the gift of prophecy is inseparable from divine inspiration. Everywhere this inspiration carries with it knowledge – whether of the past, in the form of history and genealogy; of the hidden present in the form of scientific information; and of the future in the form of prophetic utterance in the narrower sense…..Invariably we find that……….his [the poet’s] mood is exalted and remote from his normal existence…..” (P. 482 – 483) Heschel goes on to say, “The prophet is like a poet who is frequently overcome by a raptus mentis [raptus conveys seized, captured, trance-like state, and ecstasy and mentis conveys standing outside oneself or departure of the mind].

In fact, Catherine Hall, in her article, ‘Reading and [w]rocking’: Morality and musical creativity in the Harry Potter fandom, observes, “Wizard rock, often stylized in written form as ‘wrock’, creatively engages with and augments the content world of Harry Potter through musically and lyrically diverse performances. Fan studies centred on Harry Potter have often discussed the application of fictional heroism to real-world issues, and wizard rock musicians are frequently cited as fandom activists. However, there is little analysis of the music, lyrics and performances of wizard rock as it relates to the moral messages of the series……… wizard rock community’s application of fictional heroism through music, lyrics and performance encourages fellow Harry Potter fans to embrace heroic qualities in the real world.” (CATHERINE HALL Florida State University ‘Reading and [w]rocking’: Morality and musical creativity in the Harry Potter fandom; Journal of Fandom Studies Volume 4 Number 2 © 2016 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/jfs.4.2.193_)

The bottom line is that the Holistic Synthesis Paradigm, I believe is the proper “model” or framework for understanding spirituality.

Real Energy: Unconscious Symbolism – minimally – contains psychological emotional energy

YouGov's latest research shows that nearly two thirds of Americans (62%) say that they like Star Wars. Men (73%) are more likely than women (51%), however, to say that they like Star Wars. Women (39%) are also nearly twice as likely as men (23%) to say that they have never watched a Star Wars movie. Logo

69% of Americans have, however, watched a Star Wars film. When you first saw a Star Wars film depends a lot on how old you are, as younger Americans are unsurprisingly a lot more likely to have first seen the movies when they were kids. Overall, however, 35% of Americans first saw a Star Wars when they were a child and 34% first saw a Star Wars when they were already an adult. (Star Wars more popular with men than women, You Gov, Peter Moore) It is interesting that polls indicate that North America has the largest fan base proportionately with over 1 in 3 internet users identifying themselves as Star Wars fans. Wikipedia states the fact that “A real-life religion based on Star Wars called Jediism follows a modified version of the Jedi Code, and they believe in the concept of The Force as an energy field of all living things, which "surrounds us... penetrates us" and "binds the galaxy together", as is depicted within Star Wars movies, although without the fictional elements such as telekinesis

So, it would seem an inevitable conclusion that in light of the widespread popularity of Star Wars and Harry Potter that this could not happen without spiritual and spirit as life force symbols and symbolism in the unconscious. What people consciously believe is a matter Free Will – as well as circumstance, upbringing, personality and experiences. As Bargh observes what people consciously believe and how the unconscious processes information are two different questions. That being said, - to say that spiritual symbols do not exist and are not influential at all would be utter foolishness.

Carole Cusack, co-editor of the anthology, The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom, observes ion the coauthored Introduction, Cusack argues that in their contextualization of these works as sources of scripture, containing sacred truths and moral imperatives, this development indicates a “radical democratization of the sacred,” both by wresting the traditional art of hermeneutics form scholiasts and theologians and handing it to the lay-reader, and by substituting young adult novels for the Bible or a similarly ancient and revered text.” (p. 7) I personally found Cusack’s comment about the “radical democratization of the sacred,” fascinating. If one accepts the archetypal collective unconscious as a given (which Fandom substantiates) – and a reality – then the question of the spiritual and religious leaders having lost control of “spirit” – and the Holy spirit - is a question with a number of possibilities and potential.

Genetics of Spiritual and Religious Beliefs & Genetic Unconscious Spiritual Processes

It would stand to reason, then, that spirituality, and the brain's spiritual-religious processes, would have been deeply engaged in creating - and establishing - the social ideals of religion and society. I would mention briefly, now, that religious beliefs and beliefs in spirit and spirituality have been around in human society and human consciousness for tens of thousands of years. Spiritual beliefs may date - at least - as far back as 100,000 years ago which dates the earliest known "grave goods" found in a human burial in a cave in Israel. Many scientists believe that the consciousness of death was the genesis of religious beliefs since the mysterious and frightening disappearance of consciousness when a person died required some kind of explanation or way to grasp this traumatic event. Studies of twins and adopted children have demonstrated that some traits of personality are inherited. Likewise, some studies show that "religiosity" is genetic to some extent as well. It would only stand to reason, then, that the human mind would have 'factory installed software,' as one neuroscientist put it, connected with spiritual symbolism and abstract-thought as well as meaning creation, and ideals.

Tim Spector, in the article, What Twins Reveal About The Science Of Faith (Popular Science, August 8, 2013) states, “They [the researchers] estimated the heritability of spirituality to be around 40 to 50 percent, which is quite high considering how tricky it is to measure. Other U.S. studies using even more detailed questions in larger numbers have found similar or even stronger genetic influences. These studies demonstrate our variable but innate inherited sense of spirituality, which affects how we perceive the world, ourselves and the universe. This is independent of our formal religious beliefs and practices and, strangely, largely independent of family influence.” Complementing this is the research of Koenig et al. (2005) who report that the contribution of genes to variation in religiosity (called heritability) increases from 12% to 44% and the contribution of shared (family) effects decreases from 56% to 18% between adolescence and adulthood.”

Building Blocks: Setting the Stage: Basics of Unconscious Processes

Brief overview of some principles involved in unconscious processes. Unconscious “mental categories” – paralleled perhaps by unconscious archetypal symbolism structure – is a pivotal characteristic of the unconscious which filters information – creating mindsets. As Bargh observes there is a consensus that the unconscious is the work horse of the human mind.

1. Three major forms of automatic self-regulation are identified: an automatic effect of perception on action, automatic goal pursuit, and a continual automatic evaluation of one's experience. From the accumulating evidence, the authors conclude that these various nonconscious mental systems perform the lion's share of the self-regulatory burden, beneficently keeping the individual grounded in his or her current environment. (Bargh, the New Unconscious)

2. Genes primarily drive our behavior through motivations (Tomasello et al., 2005). The active goal or motive is the local agent by which the genetic influence from the distant past finds expression. Evolution works through motives and strategies—the desired end states that we seek from whatever starting point in history and geographical location the cards of fate have dealt us (Tomasello et al., 2005). The Unconscious Mind

3. Evolution (as well as early learning and culture) influences our preferences and, through them, our tendencies to approach or avoid aspects of our environment. We are predisposed to prefer certain objects and aspects of our environment over others. We are often guided by our feelings, intuitions, and gut reactions, which prioritize the things that are important to do or attend to (Damasio, 1996; Schwarz & Clore, 1996). (Bargh)

John Bargh on Filtering Processes of the Human Mind

Attention “implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.” William James

John Bargh, a research and psychologist of the unconscious, observes, “When I was about twelve years old, we had a big family reunion and I decided to bring a tape recorder so we’d have a recording of our grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins for posterity. I come from a large extended family so it was a really noisy room. During the gathering, our grandma sat on the couch and told some great stories in the middle of all other conversations. We listened and enjoyed all of them, and a few days after the reunion, we went back to listen to it again. What a disappointment! Just noise, noise, noise, a million people talking at once and no way to pick out her voice from the other people talking, even though we heard her so clearly at the time. We quickly figured out that we hadn’t noticed the background noise because we had been so captivated by our grandmother’s stories. We’d filtered out what everyone else was saying. The actual, physical sounds in that room at the time, without the mind’s built-in filters, were there on the tape recording.” From my forty years of experience with psychiatrists and psychologists I can tell you flat out they never heard a single word I said. In fact, in forty years whenever I told my “What a nightmare – Mustard seed story” which is documented (notarized with a FOIPA stamp) not one said a single word – nothing – which si conditioning. They block – or filter - it out. The psychologists and psychiatrists I encountered were simply not objective – at all! (p. 111 Before you know it)

Attention, Intention, Motivation, Drive, and Spirituality

For perspective, it would be helpful to step back and take a quick look at the underlying fundamentals involved in religious and spiritual beliefs. Clifford Geertz ’s reputation as a brilliant anthropologist is well deserved. He takes complex conceptual frameworks and expresses them in easily understood comprehensive statements. A pivotal argument in his writing is that symbolism and meaning are both essential and critical for both culture and religion. As Ira Chernus emphasized Geertz’s five-part definition of religion published in the mid 1960’ has become universally accepted in the social sciences. The pivotal concept of religion as a 'realistic' "system of symbols" in which emotions and "long lasting moods and motivations" play a pivotal role is central.

“The view of man as a symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animal, which has become increasingly popular both in the social sciences and in philosophy over the past several years, opens up a whole new approach not only to the analysis of religion as such, but to the understanding of the relations between religion and values. The drive to make sense out of experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and pressing as the more familiar biological needs. And, this being so, it seems unnecessary to continue to interpret symbolic activities --- religion, art, ideology – as nothing but thinly disguised expressions of something other than what they seem to be: attempts to provide orientation to an organism which cannot live in a world it is unable to understand.” (p.140) Geertz never explains why he used the word “orientation” as a pivotal concept in his description of religious beliefs. However, several spiritual leaders advocate the idea that there is a spiritual substrate as it were which is simply an awareness or orientation of the world and the All.

William James in the chapter Perception of Reality in his iconic treatise Principles of Psychology “makes the still startling assertion that “Will and Belief….are two names for one and the same phenomenon.” Even more fundamental and challenging is the formula he put in the note, saying “belief and attention are the same fact.”” (P. 46 Heart of William James) That is very similar to Viktor Frankl’s “Will to meaning – where motivation, drive and meaning are intimately intertwined The contemporary psychologist, Eric Klinger, whose expertise is in personality psychology and motivation theory, focuses on the influences of motivation and emotion on cognition. Klinger suggests a “primary function of several emotions is to direct attention to concern-related stimuli. (p.42)

Neuroscience and Attention

Neuroscientists also focus on attention – especially in the parietal complex and emphasize the intimate interconnections between attention-Intention and motivation. I feel it important to comment that this simple and basic function of emotions explains a pivotal function of the spiritual beliefs in animal spirits during the hunter-gatherer stage – to direct attention to animals being that at that stage animals were the source of the human species sustenance at that time [an argument I haven’t yet found in google-scholar search of anthropology and sociology]!

So, it would seem an inescapable conclusion, then, that a primary function of the spiritual beliefs in animal spirits would be to "direct attention" as Eric Klinger argues and William James observed over one hundred years earlier that "attention" and belief are intricately interconnected and - again - a major reason for the spiritual beliefs in animal spirits is to assure energy and attention is directed and focused on an activity which is prerequisite of survival - which most biologists would likely agree to be a "fruitful" pursuit." Of course, I would be remiss if I failed to point out that the fruitful and down to earth goal of survival would hardly be said to be an entirely "supernatural" endeavor - though - again, very productive, creative, and - at least in my view - fruitful. I must confess though that staying alive does appear a rather worthwhile endeavor in my view (though I could possibly be highly opinionated, by some standards). Spirituality has been intimately connected with survival until materialism came along and became dominant after the Age of Reason. The problem is not with spirit7ality – the problem is with materialism.

Neuroscience, Filters, and Attention

It is argued that selectivity in processing has emerged through evolution as a design feature of a complex multi-channel sensorimotor system, which generates selective phenomena of “attention” as one of many by-products. The present paper reaffirms and expands this position by placing particular and new emphasis on the interconnected and integrative nature of the human sensorimotor information processing systems. This emphasis on integrated sensoricognitive-motor processes takes inspiration from the synthetic approach to understanding “cognition” (Hommel & Colzato, 2015) and a proposed phylogenetic refinement of the scientific approach to understanding behavior (Cisek, 2019 [this issue]). (p. 2288)

As an alternative to the analytic approach, we provide a brief review of the phylogenetic evolution of the human brain (for an expanded account, see Cisek, 2019 [this issue]) and show how selective attention emerged as just one necessary consequence of the challenges facing animals behaving in the natural world. (p.2289)

How is this related to attention? A few sentences after that famous phrase we quoted above, James wrote that attention “implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.” interact with another stimulus is indeed accomplished, quite literally, within the approach circuit of the rostral tectum. And while these simple circuits for governing interactive behavior may seem far removed from the higher cognition of humans, they are indeed the precursors to the mechanisms that control what has been called “selective attention.” The tectum is homologous to the human superior colliculus, which, as discussed earlier, is strongly implicated in both orienting gaze through eye and head movements and in controlling covert attention when gaze is stationary (Basso & May, 2017).

Summary and Conclusions

We thus conclude that selectivity emerged through evolution as a design feature to enable efficient goal-directed action. Such selectivity became necessary as the action repertoire of the given line of organisms that led to humans increased. This means that selectivity is an emerging property arising from myriad underlying processes, and the simple fact that humans (and other species showing selective attention) evolved the way they did, with selective attention being one of many byproducts, next to “selective intention” and “selective decision making.” Here, we have primarily emphasized selection mechanisms in the superior colliculus and parietal cortex, but similar arguments can be made for other selection mechanisms in other brain regions. P. 2298

The Synthesis-Consensus of Jung, Frankl, and James:

"Spirit" [spiritual processes] Creates Meaning and a Sense of Reality

It appears readily apparent from my research that the three "best" theories that properly addressed the "spiritual" aspect of spiritual and religious beliefs were developed by Carl Jung, Viktor Frankl, and William James. What makes that remarkable is that Jung, Frankl, and James each had their own spiritual experience. It was well known that Carl Jung had a “spiritual guide” who he referred to as Philemon who was a source of inspiration and creativity for him. As Tom Butler-Bowdon observed about William James, “Inserted into the text of The Varieties of Religious Experience is the mention of a man who managed to save himself from insanity by anchoring his mind to powerful statements from the Bible. It so happens that this person, referred to as a 'French correspondent', was the author himself.” Viktor Frankl, as a prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp told a tale of how one time when he and fellow prisoners were on a forced work party on a very bitterly cold evening, Frankl felt a euphoric state of universal love overwhelm him.

It seems by implication that their experiences helped them understand some of the basic principles about spirituality. Carl Jung’s seems, apparently, to have realized that “spirit” [spiritual processes] are autonomous unconscious processes with a capability to over-ride the ego similar to how the conscience can over-ride the ego. As Butler-Bowden observed, “James' conclusion was that a state of faith could transform a life utterly, even though what is believed strictly speaking may not exist. Religion can genuinely heal a person, integrating what before was fragmented.” That is James argued that spiritual and religious experiences can create a sense of reality.

Carl Jung: "Spirit gives meaning to his [man's] life" - Carl Jung, a psychoanalyst and contemporary of Sigmund Freud, couldn't have been clearer or more succinct when he made that simple but profound statement. (CW8:643) Jung observed, in the Collected Works (CW8: 648 -1968 revised) that “Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest development. But life is essential to spirit, since its truth is nothing if it cannot live.” This is consistent with Jung’s strongly expressed belief that experiences are a primary influence on a person’s beliefs. In a remarkably parallel viewpoint William Gould observes that Viktor Frankl, who also believed human beings have "spirit," argued that "Meaning analysis is based on three essential premises: the freedom of will; the will to meaning, and the meaning of life." (p.42 Frankl: Life...) Here again “Spirit” appears to be moderated or influenced by both “life” and “will” – so the over-simplistic statement that “spirit creates meaning and a sense of reality has several other significant forces influencing it.

Viktor Frankl: Paul Wong elaborates on Viktor Frankl's views regarding the nature and characteristics of spiritual or noetic (from nous)processes in the mind "in the following quotation: "The noetic (spiritual, specifically human) dimension contains such qualities as our will to meaning [Frankl's central concept of the human being's primary drive] our goal orientation, ideas and ideals, creativity, imagination, faith, love that goes beyond the physical, a conscience beyond the superego, self-transcendence, commitments, responsibility, a sense of humor, and the freedom of choice making. The human dimension is the medicine chest of the logotherapist. Patients are made aware that they have these rich resources of health within." (Fabry 1994 pp.18-19) (p.156) Also, Paul Wong notes that, like many other modern day existentialist and positive psychologists, “Park (2007) regards religion and spirituality as meaning systems.” (p. 156) One could infer then that like Frankl, Park would agree that spiritual processes would be involved in meaning creation.

Reflections: "Spirit" and spiritual beliefs are prevalent in every major religion, in one form or another, but especially in the Gospel of John, spirit and truth and the inter-connection is frequently highlighted. Jesus Christ stated unequivocally that "Spirit is Truth" (John 5:6) - which is remarkably parallel to Jung's observations about spirit, truth, and life.

Summary: Holistic Synthesis resulting form Filtering processes of Unconscious symbolism

1. Harry Potter and Star Wars Fandom Studies: Fandom studies clearly indicate the existence of unconscious spiritually oriented symbolism.

2. Unconscious Spiritual Symbolism: Spiritual symbolism tends to be emotionally charged at times

3. Unconscious Potential: That could be understood as an Unconscious potential – similar to the “seed” parable which often symbolizes the potential creation of life.

4. Filter: Which people filter information differently which could explain why Fraser Watts, in Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, did highlight the fact that in one survey 24% of the people in the survey who responded that they did have spiritual or transcendental spiritual experiences turned out to be atheists. Since atheists as well as religious and spiritual people have spiritual experiences that would seem a clear indication that "unconscious" spiritual processes are at work. I have come across some information that indicates that the “materialist” mindset is also genetic to an extent. And there are studies as J. E. Kennedy points out that indicate that NF personalities have a predisposition for seeing visions of deceased people.

Highlights: 40 years of spiritual and psychic-spiritual experiences

I have about six documented dreams - with reasonable interpretations that could also be considered "threat perceptions" to the group alongside animal alarm calls. Highlights of my awakened psychic-spiritual experiences would be:

1. My recent 10/30/21 email to FBI Agent McElwee warning of a “domestic terrorism” threat specifying a “bomb” as a weapon. which corresponds - of course - to the Nashville bombing on Christmas Day 2020

2. My very detailed, specific and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 about the impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, bomb-making, money, wife, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the meteorologists' terrorist manifesto. Strong that it receives - in addition to being notarized, the document bears a FOIPA stamp.

3. My (very brief) warning to the FBI before the assassination attempt on President Reagan

4. My call to the CIA before 9/11.

I should mention briefly that – personally - I believe my spiritual – psychic experiences are expressions of the Holy Spirit. Furthermore the “proof” is in my fruitfulness. My writing about social consciousness which links it scientifically to the abundant evidence from research into social perception and unconscious research, is a new approach. Furthermore, I outline kapwa-loob (self as others) and Enriquez’ Filipino psychology, as well as Ununtu (self as others) (i.e. Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu), and Anam Cara (i.e Irish poet-theologian John O’Donohue), as well as Confucianism (also self as others) and the similar concept of Dharma in Hinduism. In my research, other Irish Catholic leaders support the idea of relatedness and Anam Cara in articles I have seen. Also in my research some Filipino Catholic leaders support the Filipino idea of “self-as-others” which form my research is relatively sophisticated involving Kapwa and loob and several other ideas and words. The problem is that materialist social sciences have no ideal or concept even remotely similar.

On top of that I identify the primary materialist argument on social consciousness that human consciousness is restricted to the firing of neurons in the brain (or alternatively Allport’s there is no psychology of groups as a false premise or fallacy. It does not follow from the fact that neurons fire in the brain that there is no Social Consciousness. Furthermore, I highlight the studies that indicate that the materialist cult of extreme individualism (David Hay) has given rise to an epidemic of the mental illness of narcissism.

Spirit, Spirituality, Creativity, and Making Sense of the World

“Spirit, to me, is literally; everything. It is the universe beyond our very small, limited existence as human in a physical world. This encompasses your view too, of Spirit being a creative force. It is THE creative force since it is everything. So, when we as humans, create or connect or dream or heal...we tap into Spirit.” - Angel (counselor of old - 2018) What is interesting is that contemporary sociological evidence provides substantial support for the correlation between spirituality, creativity, idealism and Making Sense of the World

My Worldview (for the record) My personal guiding lights are "spirit and truth" as in John 4:23-24. That is a very broad and inclusive principle, which spiritual people from other religious backgrounds generally don't object to - especially in that spirit as life-force is an almost universal symbol - concept in early human cultures throughout the world. Spirit and truth as I understand it also embraces the spirituality of Einstein - as well as atheists and artists and creative people in general- who profoundly proclaimed in his eloquent statement that “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Einstein identifies spirituality in that context as a powerful motivation and drive to grasp and comprehend the truth and reality of the universe. Einstein also stated that "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Lastly I would add that spirt and truth would seem well "grounded" in that much of human endeavor centers on "truth" in one form or another and spirituality would embrace much of the innumerable intangible and unquantifiable aspects of human consciousness such as art, hope, ideals, true love, creativity and so on.

"‘Reading and [w]rocking’: Morality and musical creativity in the Harry Potter fandom," Catherine Hall

Catherine Hall begins her article by stating: "Wizard rock, often stylized in written form as ‘wrock’, creatively engages with and augments the content world of Harry Potter through musically and lyrically diverse performances. Fan studies centred on Harry Potter have often discussed the application of fictional heroism to real-world issues, and wizard rock musicians are frequently cited as fandom activists. However, there is little analysis of the music, lyrics and performances of wizard rock as it relates to the moral messages of the series. Focusing on the work of the first wizard rock band, Harry and the Potters, I unite ethnographic fieldwork with historical research and the study of myth to place wizard rock within a narrative of musical activism, fan creativity and morality in music. Similar to their heroes in the books, these musicians imbue their music and their self images with the series’ morals, historical tropes and archetypes. They make this morality tangible by donating proceeds of compilation albums or music subscription series sales to nonprofit organizations, and by weaving these messages into their music. I argue that the wizard rock community’s application of fictional heroism through music, lyrics and performance encourages fellow Harry Potter fans to embrace heroic qualities in the real world."

A Pivotal Piece of the Puzzle for Understanding Spirituality (as opposed to proving)

A Contemporary Sociological Proof of Unconscious Spiritual symbols and Symbolism due to the Immense and Unprecedented Massive Popularity and Public Displays of Star Wars and Harry Potter Fandom – so it is blatantly self-evident that the Jung-Bargh Unconscious Spiritual Symbolism is a Reality – in particular Jungian Archetypal Theory. The Scale of Fandom: Star Wars and Harry Potter: Star Wars: 125,844,257 Americans described themselves as either “avid” or “casual” fans of Star Wars. Out of an adult population of 209,128,094. Harry Potter: According to Pottermore, more than 500 million Harry Potter books have been sold worldwide. That means one in 15 people in the world owns at least one Harry Potter book

Evidence of a genetic predisposition for the idea or symbolism of “spirit” is easy to find and plentiful in abundance. For instance, “May the Force be with you!” has become a cultural Icon. In the article The Fandom Menace, Tom Morris observes that “With a total value of over $68 billion, “Star Wars” is the fifth-highest grossing media franchise of all time.” Morris goes on to say that “At the beginning of 2017, Star Wars fans accounted for over 1 in 3 internet users. But into the second half of 2019, this figure has fallen to just over 1 in 4.” What is fascinating is that “Star Wars has the rare advantage of being a popular franchise, with cross-generational appeal” in that, roughly between 23 to 26% of internet users from generation Z, generation X, Millennials, and Boomers. Another intriguing fact is that “2 in 3 Star Wars fans agree the internet makes them feel closer to people.” (The Fandom Menace: Profiling Star Wars’ Influential Fanbase Tom Morris Tom’s an Insights Analyst & Writer at GWI). The “Jedi” are a real organized religion in some countries. Throughout the world many people answer census questions and list their religion as "Jedi knights" with surprisingly high responses in England, Australia and New Zealand. So, yes, large numbers of people who believe in a Life-Force that "surrounds us... penetrates us" and "binds the galaxy together" – to quote Obi Wan Kenobi.

That is consistent with the the Synthesis Consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung and William James - or the "New Integrative Approach" as Dr. Paul Wong termed it. Dr. Paul Wong elaborates on Viktor Frankl's views regarding the nature and characteristics of spiritual or noetic (from nous) processes in the mind: "The noetic (spiritual, specifically human) dimension contains such qualities as our will to meaning [Frankl's central concept of the human being's primary drive] our goal orientation, ideas and ideals, creativity, imagination, faith, love that goes beyond the physical, a conscience beyond the superego, self-transcendence, commitments, responsibility, a sense of humor, and the freedom of choice making.

I would add that this view is also consistent with Christ's teachings on the Holy Spirit - which could be generally said to focus on: spirit and truth, spirit of truth (especially in John), life, guidance, as well as fruitfulness. My personal guiding lights are "spirit and truth" as in John 4:23-24. That is a very broad and inclusive principle, which spiritual people from other religious backgrounds generally don't object to - especially in that spirit as life-force is an almost universal symbol - concept in early human cultures throughout the world. Lastly I would add that spirt and truth would seem well "grounded" in that much of human endeavor centers on "truth" in one form or another and spirituality would embrace much of the innumerable intangible and unquantifiable aspects of human consciousness such as art, hope, ideals, true love, creativity and so on.

The Origins of "spirit" in human consciousness.

For early humans the sudden disappearance of “life’ – the sudden cessation and absence of an unseen mysterious energy and vitality must have activated and inspired human consciousness to create symbols necessary to grasp, cope, and understand this very disquieting and emotionally traumatic event. As Carl Jung noted, there is a linguistic connection between the words for spirit which has roots in the word for "breath!" The Hebrew word “ruach” – the word connected to the idea-symbol of “spirit” translates alternately as “wind,” “breathe,” or “spirit.” In Arabic, there are two words for the words: spirit, soul or self - namely, ruH (spirit, soul) & nafs (spirit, soul, self). Both of these Arabic words are also connected to the ideas of breath or wind (e.g. ruH is connected to riH (wind) and nafs to nafas [breath]). In modern English, the word "spirit" stems from the Latin word, spiritus, and conveys the meaning of "spirit, soul, courage, or vigor." However, the Latin "spiritus" originates in the Proto Indo European peis or speis, meaning “to blow.” As language evolved, it descended into Latin as the verb spirare, “to breathe." The Latin word anima, "soul," which is derived from the Indo-European root meaning "to breathe."

On the other side of the world, the Hindu word prana in Sanskrit, refers to “breath,” "life force," or "vital principle" and is viewed as a cosmic energy. The ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts in which “Ka” was the vital essence. Ka was breathed into a human being at the instant of birth and it was “Ka” that actually gave the person life. Likewise, in Scandinavian, Baltic, and Slavic languages, the words for "breath" are intimately connected to concepts of "the spirit.” For instance, in the ancient Germanic literary work, ond is the gift of the widely revered god of ancient Germanic mythology, Odin, who is often portrayed as a one-eyed and long-bearded spear wielding god famous for his valorous deeds which date back to the original creation. Ond, which is the metaphoric gift of spirit, also translates literally as “breath,” whose metaphoric meaning, as in so many languages, is “spirit” or “soul”.

It is true that this is the day and age of science and free will, and people can and have the right to think and make decisions. That being said it is crystal clear that with recent research into the unconscious, and in light of tens of thousands of years of spiritual and religious beliefs that there is without doubt a large number of symbols and symbolism in the human unconscious associated or directly connected with spirituality in one form or another. So, in a sense, the right question to ask is not what spirituality is, but what people make of it. Looking at the current world situation - especially in light of Christian support for Trump who, besides being a pathological lair, is a flagrant racist, the question of how people view God would seem very salient. As St. Augustine, St Gregory of Nyssa, and many other Christian leaders emphasize - God is beyond words and beyond comprehension anyway.

The Genetics of Spiritual Beliefs: Tim Spector, in the article, What Twins Reveal About The Science Of Faith (Popular Science, August 8, 2013) states, “They [the researchers] estimated the heritability of spirituality to be around 40 to 50 percent, which is quite high considering how tricky it is to measure. Other U.S. studies using even more detailed questions in larger numbers have found similar or even stronger genetic influences. These studies demonstrate our variable but innate inherited sense of spirituality, which affects how we perceive the world, ourselves and the universe. This is independent of our formal religious beliefs and practices and, strangely, largely independent of family influence.”

The Genetics of Evolution: "Genes primarily drive our behavior through motivations (Tomasello et al., 2005) is a pivotal conclusion drawn by the authors, John A. Bargh and Ezequiel Morsella, in the article, "The Unconscious Mind!" Nancy Furlotti brilliantly summarizes the views of Carl Jung, and William James in observing that, "Affect emerges from archetypes, which are the a priori ordering principles of nature, the world, and the psyche.” That statement would be largely a self-evident “truth” as it were since in order to function “efficiently” or “effectively” in any reasonable way, these “a priori ordering principles of nature, the world, and the psyche” would necessarily be a prerequisite reality in the human mind.

John A. Bargh and Ezequiel Morsella go on to say, “The active goal or motive is the local agent by which the genetic inﬂuence from the distant past ﬁnds expression. Evolution works through motives and strategies—the desired end states that we seek from whatever starting point in history and geographical location the cards of fate have dealt us (Tomasello et al., 2005).” The authors break down motivations in by stating that "There are a multitude of behavioral impulses generated at any given time derived from our evolved motives and preferences, cultural norms and values, past experiences in similar situations, and from what other people are currently doing in that same situation. Furthermore, the authors suggest that much of perception and motivation is very subtle and processed largely unconsciously: “These impulses have afforded us unconsciously operating motives, preferences and associated approach and avoidance behavioral tendencies, as well as mimicry and other behavior priming effects triggered by the mere perception of others’ behavior." (Perspectives On Psychological Science Volume 3—Number 1 73 Copyright r 2008 Association for Psychological Science)

So, after tens of thousands of years of spiritual ands religious beliefs, it would be safe to assume that "we" all have "roughly" - very roughly - the same "unconscious structure of symbolism" associated with spirituality - it is more so that people filter information and symbolism very differently. As Jean MacPhail, a scholar of religious studies and author observed, the relatively well documented spiritual-psychic experiences, I have had personally, are unique - in part because they relate to political events outside my self, there is consistency of my experiences as "perceptions of threats to the group" - parallel to the alarm calls of animals as well as all having reasonable interpretations. The bottom line is that the only difference between me and others is primarily because I filter information differently - and as Jung, James, and Frankl all point out "different experiences create different worldviews!" Some seem to like my writing because I do express a different - ands interesting - perspective. Teh "categorization process" is well known and well proved and it would stand to reason that unusual experiences would be processed and categorized by the brain - as "unusual!"

Baumeister's Paradigm: As Baumeister points out, "THE Meaning of Life" does not really exist but rather the meaning of life is really a conglomeration of diverse needs, drives, and relationships. A person's meaning of life consists of the relationships with parents, siblings, friends, teachers, education, academia, church, spiritual and religious beliefs, law and order, morality, and so on.

The neuroscientists, Funk and Gazzanigna observe that: “Moral neuroscience is an intricate and expanding field. This review summarizes the main scientific findings obtained to date. Morality is a set of complex emotional and cognitive processes that is reflected across many brain domains. Some of them are recurrently found to be indispensable in order to emit a moral judgment, but none of them is uniquely related to morality…………Some of the emotions processed are more central to morality than others, but all emotions contribute to moral judgment given specific contextual situations. (Brain Architecture of human morality, Funk and Gazzaniga)…….The neural circuits of brain regions implicated in morality overlap with those that regulate other behavioral processes, suggesting that there is probably no undiscovered neural substrate that uniquely supports moral cognition.” Brain Architecture of human morality, Funk and Gazzanigna Current opinion in Neurobiology 2009 19:678-681) I would add that if one overviews early human societies, spiritual and religious beliefs clearly overlap morality.

Preamble: "Life is partnership of God and man; God is not detached from or indifferent to our joys and griefs. Authentic vital needs of man's body and soul are a divine concern. That is why human life is holy" [everyone has some sort of transcendent "thread" that gives continuity to life and consciousness] Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian (Between God and man, edited by Fritz A Rothschild Free Press Paper backs published by Simon and Shuster, 1959 p.140)

"Although motivational factors are thought to be pivotal for psi phenomena, very little research has been aimed at investigating the overall effects of paranormal experiences." - Kennedy and Kanthamani

Article: An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Paranormal and Spiritual Experiences on Peoples' Lives and Well-Being J.E. Kennedy and H. Kanthamani (Original publication and copyright: The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1995, Volume 89, pp.249-265.

Excerpt: "Data from a convenience sample of 120 people actively interested in parapsychology who reported having had at least one paranormal and/or transcendent experience showed that these experiences increased their interest and beliefs in spiritual matters and increased their sense of well-being. More specifically, the majority of respondents indicated that the experiences resulted in increased belief in life after death, belief that their lives are guided or watched over by a higher force or being, interest in spiritual or religious matters, sense of connection to others, happiness, well-being, confidence, optimism about the future, and meaning in life. They also indicated decreases in fear of death, depression or anxiety, isolation and loneliness, and worry and fears about the future.

A large majority of respondents indicated that these effects resulted from a combination of more than one paranormal and/or transcendent experience. The magnitude of changes in well-being and spirituality were positively associated with the number of anomalous experiences. Measures of current well-being and current importance of spirituality were positively associated with reported changes in well-being and spirituality resulting from anomalous experiences.

Although 45% of the respondents indicated that a paranormal experience had made them very afraid, this fear appeared to be temporary or mixed with positive feeling because only 9% indicated that their experiences have been scary with no positive value. Further research should investigate the extent to which the findings for this selected sample apply to other populations and the extent to which motivations relating to spirituality direct or underlie the occurrence of paranormal phenomena, including in experimental settings. Recent research suggests that a world view that is open to aspects of life beyond the physical.

Recent research suggests that a world view that is open to aspects of life beyond the physical materialistic realm can be conducive to health and well-being (Borysenko, 1993; Gartner, Larson, & Allen, 1991; Koenig, 1990; Larson, et al., 1992; Ornish, 1990). Interest in this research on mind body medicine and the link between spirituality and health is rapidly growing. [p. 249-250]

Although one might expect that psychic experiences would promote this type of worldview, virtually no research has been done in parapsychology on the effects of psychic experiences on peoples' lives and worldviews. Several studies have found that near-death experiences induce positive changes or transformation in many people (Gallup with Proctor, 1982; Greyson & Stevenson, 1980; Ring, 1980; 1984), but this investigation generally has not been extended to other types of paranormal experiences

Information on the effects of psi experiences also may provide insights into motivational factors that are widely presumed by parapsychologists to guide or underlie psi phenomena. Although motivational factors are thought to be pivotal for psi phenomena (Broughton, 1988; Stanford, 1974a, 1974b; Weiner and Geller, 1984), very little research has been aimed at investigating the overall effects of paranormal experiences."

"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees!" - St Gregory of Nyssa

Methodology: Commentary and Reflections

I have found the following statement by J.E. Kennedy and H. Kanthamani very true. Although motivational factors are thought to be pivotal for psi phenomena, very little research has been aimed at investigating the overall effects of paranormal experiences." In my view studies about "people" who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences" are like hen's teeth. A brief example would be a study of spiritual-psychic experiences in Iceland in which there was a high percentage of people who reported visions or dreams of the deceased. However the circumstances - such as "grieving" were left out.

Many respected social psychologists, including Muzafer Sherif, Edgar Schein, and Leon Festinger, relied on qualitative data from real-world contexts to ground theory building. (p. 51) As Adler and Adler (1994, p. 40) suggest, Quantitative observations, conducted in situations deliberately designed to ensure standardization and control, differ markedly from observations framed by the qualitative paradigm. Qualitative observation is fundamentally naturalistic in essence; it occurs in the natural context of occurrence, among the actors who would naturally be participating in the interaction, and follows the natural stream of everyday life. As such, it enjoys the advantage of drawing the observer into the phenomenological complexity of the world, where

connections, correlations, and causes can be witnessed as and how they unfold. (p.54) (Ethnography and Experiment in Social Psychological Theory Building: Tactics for Integrating Qualitative Field Data with Quantitative Lab Data, Gary Alan Fine and Kimberly D. Elsbach; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 36, 51–76 (2000) Article ID jesp.1999.1394 )

Muzafer Sherif, besides critiquing the need for "real world context," also was ultra-critical of the fact that as Viktor Frankl observed - the disciplines of science and schools of thought are separate and disconnected. Except Sherif referred to the schools of thought as “self-contained castles” who "write Social Psychology textbooks, but exclude positions which disagree with their own rather than educate students of a shared paradigm (such paradigms don’t exist, sheriff argues)." (wikipedia)

J.E . Kennedy observes: "very little research has been aimed at investigating the overall effects of paranormal experiences." I have found that to be very true in my research, and I strongly advocate hat understanding people is critical in spirituality.

Dr. Visuri (author of article on autistic spirituality & my favorite Swedish scholar) suggested that perhaps I would find information about "people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences." in Park and Paloutzian's Handbook of The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (over 600 pages long) In talking with "professionals" most appear to assume if they needed to know something they would have been taught. When it comes to spirituality that simply is not true.

I had been through the Handbook before but said I would re-review it - in particular the chapter "Mystical, Spiritual, and Religious Experiences. In the introduction it said: “Psychologists of religion have avoided the study of paranormal experiences, tending to classify as neither religious nor spiritual. Earlier investigators labeled paranormal experiences as anomalous, attributing them to simply extraneous ("magical") thinking (Zusne & Jones) ……[because they are magical] List of APA anomalous experiences" "hallucinations, near death, past life, mystical, and paranormal experiences"

The subchapters are: 1. "UFO's and Alien abductions" 2. "Psychedelics or Entheogens" 3. Near-Death Experience 4. Numinous And Mystical Experiences. (which is mostly analysis of experiences with next to nothing on people) The conclusion says it all: "If we have reviewed experiences often ignored in mainstream psychology, it documents that the field of psychology of religion has a tumultuous history." (p. 435) Of course, I am like - what about the spirituality of grieving, children's spirituality, spirituality of recovering addicts, the spirituality of autistics and so on?

My argument is that you can't possibly understand spirituality until you understand people who have spiritual experiences. I hold that to be a self-evident truth.

Visuri, I. (2019). Sensory supernatural experiences in autism. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 10(2): 151-165.

Handbook of The Psychology Of Religion And Spirituality Edited by Raymond F. Paloutzian & Crystal L. Park (Guilford Press, 2013)

"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees!" - St Gregory of Nyssa

Abstractions, concepts and ideologies create idols and people kill one another over idols. Communism and capitalism would be two prime examples. Then there are the very powerful primal forces, as Geertz points out, of religious, ethnic, nationalistic ideologies which are driven by powerful emotions generated by group related instincts so easily triggered via the ingroup-outgroup syndrome - which historically has generated countless atrocities and genocides in history in certain outgroup conflict situations.

That being said, it is clear that concepts in academia can become idols which are embraced far out of context with their true worth and meaning. Here are some examples

Dawkins Selfish Gene theory which states that

Dawkins claims that "gene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behaviour. However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals." (wikipedia)

a. That is blatantly and obviously false “The Battle of the Somme was a battle of the First World War in which 57,470 suffered by the British were the worst in the history of the British Army.

b. Compassion for others and social support have survival value and health benefits….(p. 171) The powerful consequences of the presence or absence of others are seen as shaping forces in the evolution. Social interactions and within species interdependence are universal components of life on earth. Even bacteria are more reproductively successful in the presence of others of their own species. (p. 174, Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science – edited by Emma M. Seppala, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Stephanie L. Brown, Monica C Worline, C. Daryl Cameron, James R. Dory)

2. Materialist Dogma: human consciousness is confined to the firing of neurons

a. The materialist paradigm for human consciousness is that human consciousness is confined to the firing of neurons in the brain. Mossbridge and Baruss emphasize that the materialist view is that consciousness is a “byproduct of the neurology and biochemistry of the brain” (p. 24)

b. Hazel Markus, Shinobu Kitayama, Rachel Heiman of the Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles, state rather boldly – and unequivocally - that “Psychologists [today] who study groups approach the idea of a group as an entity only very gingerly." Allport’s Taboo: Floyd Allport, in 1927 stated unequivocally that “There is no psychology of groups which is not essentially and entirely a psychology of individuals.”

There is a consensus among scientists that people are primarily social animals. Social consciousness has been around since the 3rd century A.D. minimally in the form of the concept of Dharma in Hinduism. Similarly “Confucianism is often characterized as a system of social and ethical philosophy rather than a religion. In fact, Confucianism built on an ancient religious foundation to establish the social values, institutions, and transcendent ideals of traditional Chinese society. It was what sociologist Robert Bellah called a "civil religion,"
Modern Scientific Evidence

Bargh summarizes the concept of social perception by stating that “The idea that social perception is a largely automated psychological phenomenon is now widely accepted. Many years of research have demonstrated the variety of ways in which behaviors are encoded spontaneously……….and how stereotypes of social groups become activated automatically on the mere perception of the distinguishing features of a group member” (The Unconscious Mind John A. Bargh and Ezequiel Morsella)

Bargh observes that: “Within each of these is stored ingrained, implicit knowledge about appropriate values and behavior, likes and dislikes. Ways of Being.” (p.82) (John Bargh: “Before You Know It”) In fact from a certain perspective the roles that people fulfill in their lives could be viewed as forms of social consciousness.

With materialists the concept that consciousness is confined to the firing of neurons became an idol. and it became a maladaptive stereotype. I got thrown lout of a Neil De Grasse Tyson FBN science group because of that ridiculous idea - obviously and blatantly flawed and worn many times over. In my view the widely recognized rise and increase in narcissism is clearly a product of this entirely an unconscious maladaptive stereotype in the Bargh-ian model which as so widely accepted among academics.

Reasonable Belief: Holy Spirit as Reasonable Belief

In light of consistent and reasonable interpretations of numerous experiences - many of them documented - combined with the consensus of William James, Viktor Frankl, and Carl Jung that spiritual experiences create a "sense of reality " in James Words and also that different experiences create different worldviews and perspectives - as well as Park and Paloutzian's declaration that - from their review of numerous studies which show somewhere between one third to one half of people have experiences there would seem to be a "normalcy" to the minimally 110 million Americans who studies consistently show have spiritual experiences of one kind or another. So, my beliefs in the holy Spirit is a reasonable belief!

Jean MacPhail, author of Spiral Life, scholar, as well as a former fellow at Harvard Neuropathology, observes that my personal spiritual-psychic experiences are "unique" - in part because the precognitive experiences relate to political events outside myself, as well as the fact that a number of them (over a dozen) are documented (mostly via emails). On top of that, the interpretations of my experiences are very consistent - as well as all are very reasonable interpretations. The consistency is due to almost all being "perceptions of threats to the group" parallel to animal alarm calls.

For perspective, I would highlight the fact that one aspect of old testament prophecy is - in part - perceptions of foreign (and internal) threats to the group (i.e. Jeremiah's curse of Babylon - throwing a written curse into the river by Babylon) . Briefly I would mention that Dr. P. Wong acknowledges the reality of my experiences and thinks in the end (after a lot of grief) they will play in my favor. I write a lot about the psychological processes involved in meaning, belongingness, spiritual drive...... and so on - which play into spiritual and religious processes - and Dr. Stephen Farra recommends several of my essays dealing with spiritual and religious worldview. Having spiritual experiences are a tremendous asset in writing about spiritual and religious beliefs. Being a smart ass I would point out that Dr. Wong was exactly correct about getting grief about my experiences, but I am - at the moment - a bit pessimistic about seeing any benefits.

Einstein's Spukhafte Fernwirkingen - Niels Bohr & A New Dimension for Science

“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” - Niels Bohr

The question of Quantum entanglement is a core issue which divides classical and quantum physics. A bit oversimplified the spin of one subatomic particle is directly connected with the spin of another subatomic particle even though separated by large distances and interactions occur at speeds faster than the speed of light. A conclusion from the experiments on quantum entanglement is that quantum entanglement is in reality a “quantum state” that cannot be reduced or factored into the product of if its constituent states of its local individual particles but remain independent as an inseparable whole. In sum, in quantum entanglement, one constituent or individual particle cannot be fully described without considering the other(s).

Bem's Successful Precognition Experiments and Mossbridge's Meta-analysis of Presentiment Experiments

Daryl Bem’s Successful-Repeated Precognition Experiments!

The parapsychologist, Daryl Bem, through successfully repeated experiments demonstrated that precognition experiments do, in fact, produce consistently successful results. "When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments" On top of that the results showed that the experimental design that focused on sex [instinctual] was by far outperformed the other designs. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Duggan).

Julia Mossbridge's Meta-Analysis of Presentiment Experiments

From my understanding it seems "presentiment" was discovered by accident. Psychologists who were testing peoples’ physiological responses to graphic and frightening pictures noticed that there appeared to be a small but consistent physiological response BEFORE the actual display of the pictures as well. What I find especially interesting, is that some evidence for presentiment has been discovered in some experiments with animals such as hamsters.

Mossbridge located 49 ‘successful’ experiments - but with her strict standards she was forced to eliminate 23 experiments, which left her with 26 experiments. The results of the meta-analysis produced an effect size of .21 (both fixed and random effects), which is rated “small” on the Cohen scale. Considering it is about "psychic" it is surprising, in a way, any consistent results show. Mossbridge and colleagues conclude: “The remarkably significant and homogenous results of this meta-analysis suggest that the unexplained anticipatory effect is relatively consistent, if small in size.” (p. 12 predictive).

As it is Said, Attitude is Everything!

Mainstream psychologists used to - and often still do - say that experiences such as mine simply are not physically possible according to the standard model of physics. Well, that is no longer true. Some argue that in light of the Schrödinger's cat paradigm human beings are far outside the subatomic level at which quantum physics works. But the electric currents that run through the human brain are within the quantum physics dimension. Quantum entanglement is known to effect particles even as large as molecules.

Perspective

SPIRITUALITY, SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE, AND DREAMS Spirituality is a natural human predisposition (e.g., Hay & Nye, 2006; O’Murchu, 1997, 2000). It is more primal than institutional religion (James, 1901/ 1977; Maslow, 1970; Tacey, 2000) and concerns a person’s sense of connectedness with self, others, and the world (or cosmos). For some people, connectedness with a Transcendent dimension is a part of spirituality (Bosacki, 2001; Elton-Chalcraft, 2002; Fisher, 1999; Hyde, 2004; Tacey, 2003). Hay and Nye (2006) argue that spirituality involves a deep down awareness of one’s relationship with one’s self, and with everything that is other than one’s self. The following section synthesizes the theory of spiritual intelligence with theoretical approaches used in dream research, particularly those pertaining to dreams that have a spiritual impact upon the dreamer, and dreams related to death and grieving. Spiritual Intelligence and Problem Solving It is possible to conceive of spirituality as a type of intelligence (Emmons, 1999, 2000; Hyde, 2003, 2004; Kwilecki, 2000; Zohar & Marshall, 2000).

One hallmark feature of intelligence concerns the ability to solve problems (Ruzgis & Grigorenko, 1994; Walters & Gardner, 1986). Zohar and Marshall (2000) define spiritual intelligence as the mental aptitude used by human beings to address and find solutions to problems of meaning and value in life. In drawing on discourse arising from theories of motivation and personality, Emmons (1999) further suggests that people are able to use spiritual resources to solve problems: The adaptive processing of spiritual information is a part of intelligence, and individual differences in the skills with which such processing occurs constitute core features of Children’s Grief Dreams and Spiritual Intelligence 59 personality. Spirituality can serve as a source of information to individuals, and, as a function of interests and aptitudes, individuals become more or less skilled at processing this information (p. 163). James (1901/1977

Children’s Grief Dreams and the Theory of Spiritual Intelligence Kate Adams Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln Brendan Hyde Australian Catholic University

"The inspiration of the artist is what is meant by the hand of the Lord which rests upon the prophet.” - Heschel

Since, counseling with Angel and discussing the myriad maze of questions regarding spirituality with Angel in 2018 , my thinking has developed a bit. One important addition, in my view, would be the "spirituality" aspect of social consciousness. That is, while spirituality is a multi-faceted diamond the relationship(s) aspect of spirituality - in my view - is important!

“7.3 Relational Consciousness: In various parts of each interview the children expressed a level of consciousness relative to other passages and this appeared in how the children saw themselves in relation to others and self expressed through questions about connectedness and God and their environment in questions about transcendence.”

Relative to children’s spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences, Donna Thomas observes that “Children and young people commonly have ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ anomalous experiences that are silenced, ignored or medicalized by ‘adults-in-authority.’ Whether ‘positive’ or ‘negative’, anomalous experiences can catalyze self-healing for children and young people. Through children achieving greater self-awareness and a sense of intra-connectedness between self, others and the world.”

New Integrative Approach - The Synthesis-Consensus of William James, Viktor Frankl, and Carl Jung

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding!" - Leonard Da Vinci

Dr. Paul Wong, Professor Emeritus of Trent University and Trinity Western University, and the founding President of INPM, - after I approached him with a brief summary of my Synthesis Consensus of Viktor Frankl, William James, and Carl Jung, looked it over and made some thoughtful comments. Paul Wong observed “Your approach is new in the sense of a broad-minded integrative approach, breaking down the artificial traditional divide between science and religious, or scientific psychology versus humanistic or psychoanalytic psychology.” He went on to suggest that “A new integrative approach" would be suitable."

The Synthesis Consensus

William James:

“They [abstractions (symbols) and spiritual emotions-experiences] determine our vital attitude as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense, …… They are convincing to those who have them as any direct sensible experiences can be, and they are, as a rule, much more convincing than results established by mere logic are……if you do have them, and have them at all strongly, the probability is that you cannot help regarding them as genuine perceptions of truth, as revelations of a kind of reality [my underlining] which no adverse argument, however unanswerable by you in words, can expel from your belief" is what William James emphasizes in his classic work, originally published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experiences. (P.47) William James goes on to say that religious experiences and spiritual experiences create and generate a “sense of reality” (p.48)

Viktor Frankl:

Paul Wong elaborates on Viktor Frankl's views regarding the nature and characteristics of spiritual or noetic (from nous)processes in the mind "in the following quotation: "The noetic (spiritual, specifically human) dimension contains such qualities as our will to meaning [Frankl's central concept of the human being's primary drive] our goal orientation, ideas and ideals, creativity, imagination, faith, love that goes beyond the physical, a conscience beyond the superego, self-transcendence, commitments, responsibility, a sense of humor, and the freedom of choice making. The human dimension is the medicine chest of the logotherapist. Patients are made aware that they have these rich resources of health within." (Fabry 1994 pp.18-19) (p.156) Also, Paul Wong notes that, like many other modern day existentialist and positive psychologists, “Park (2007) regards religion and spirituality as meaning systems.” (p. 156) One could infer then that like Frankl, Park would agree that spiritual processes would be involved in meaning creation.

Carl Jung:

"Spirit gives meaning to his [man's] life" - Carl Jung, a psychoanalyst and contemporary of Sigmund Freud, couldn't have been clearer or more succinct when he made that simple but profound statement. (CW8:643) Jung observed, in the Collected Works (CW8: 648 -1968 revised) that “Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest development. But life is essential to spirit, since its truth is nothing if it cannot live.” This is consistent with Jung’s strongly expressed belief that experiences are a primary influence on a person’s beliefs. In a remarkably parallel viewpoint William Gould observes that Viktor Frankl, who also believed human beings have "spirit," argued that "Meaning analysis is based on three essential premises: the freedom of will; the will to meaning, and the meaning of life." (p.42 Frankl: Life...) Here again “Spirit” appears to be moderated or influenced by both “life” and “will” – so the over-simplistic statement that “spirit creates meaning and a sense of reality has several other significant forces influencing it.

Spirit and Truth in the Gospels

Truth, guidance, and life are major themes of Jesus Christ when he speaks about the Holy Spirit. Perhaps I should begin with John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. That is, being born of the Holy Spirit makes us spiritual beings. For instance, Christ says that the "Holy Spirit ... shall teach you all things" (John 14:26). That is mirrored in Luke 12: 12 For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” In gospel of John, the Holy Spirit is referred to as the “Spirit of Truth” three times (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13), plus there is “Spirit is truth” in John 5:6. On occasion the Holy Spirit is referred to as the comforter (John 14:16-17). In Luke, 2:27 it says Simeon was guided by the Holy Spirit (Luke 2:.27). My personal guiding lights would be John 4:23-24 23

Spirit and Truth are my personal guiding lights. That is a very inclusive and embracing "principle" as it were, and I find I can speak with many Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and so on - usually without problem. Jesus Christ states in John 23-24 "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” The belief in “Spirit and truth” is inclusive enough that it includes Einstein’s yugen as well as most other “spirituality” (as opposed to religious beliefs) of most other religious beliefs. As Edgar Cayce the documented healer and spiritual leader observed, “It is not by chance that ye are in a material or earthly consciousness in the present... all activities of the mind, of the body, must be based upon SPIRITUAL things (#EdgarCayce reading 1754-1).

Studies of the effects and circumstances of people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. IN a rare study J.E. Kennedy and H Kanthamani state. "Data from a convenience sample of 120 people actively interested in parapsychology who reported having had at least one paranormal and/or transcendent experience showed that these experiences increased their interest and beliefs in spiritual matters and increased their sense of well-being. More specifically, the majority of respondents indicated that the experiences resulted in increased belief in life after death, belief that their lives are guided or watched over by a higher force or being, interest in spiritual or religious matters, sense of connection to others, happiness, well-being, confidence, optimism about the future, and meaning in life. They also indicated decreases in fear of death, depression or anxiety, isolation and loneliness, and worry and fears about the future. A large majority of respondents indicated that these effects resulted from a combination of more than one paranormal and/or transcendent experience. The magnitude of changes in well-being and spirituality were positively associated with the number of anomalous experiences. Measures of current well-being and current importance of spirituality were positively associated with reported changes in well-being and spirituality resulting from anomalous experiences. Although 45% of the respondents indicated that a paranormal experience had made them very afraid, this fear appeared to be temporary or mixed with positive feeling because only 9% indicated that their experiences have been scary with no positive value. An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Paranormal and Spiritual Experiences on Peoples' Lives and Well-Being, J.E. Kennedy and H. Kanthamani (Original publication and copyright: The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1995, Volume 89, pp.249-265.)

Commentary: Dr. Neal trained at Johns Hopkins stated when it specifically comes to spiritual-psychic experiences (or spirituality in general for that matter) she had no education or training. In discussions - when challenged most clinical psychologists indicate they "have it covered." When I request them to cite sources, I never get an answer. My question would be - how could they have the proper training when the proper research and assessment have not been done. This si specifically about spiritual-psychic experiences as opposed to religiosity or spirituality.

A recent review of "numerous" studies of people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences by Park and Paloutzian reveal that somewhere between one third to one half of people have spiritual-psychic experiences - of every type and variety imaginable - though hardly any talk about them. Study after study clearly indicate that – in this open-minded society based on Judeo-Christian beliefs which “value” spirituality – people who have spiritual experiences literally fear retaliation if they speak openly about their spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences [for good reason I must add]. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies definitely "establish the normalcy of such reports and that social scientists have until recently ignored a common-phenomena." (p. 67)

"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees!" - St Gregory of Nyssa

“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or metaphysical truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism. This will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides!” - Quantum physicist - Wolfgang Pauli

Setting the Stage

Preface Perspective

Science and psi - perspective

The psychologists, Dean Radin and Daryl Bem, both argue vigorously that instinctual processes are involved with many spiritual-psychic experiences. Daryl Bem's precognition experiments have been performed a large number of times resulting in repeated successful precognition experiments, even though the experiments had different designs. Of the various designs, Daryl Bem's experimental design which focused on precognition of sexual stimuli, by far, outperformed all other experimental designs. An article summarizing a Meta-analysis of Bem's widely reproduced experiments stated that "The complete database comprises 90 experiments conducted between 2001 and 2013. These originated in 33 different laboratories located in 14 countries and involved 12,406 participants." (1.) And went on to say, that by far Daryl Bem's best performing design was 'the precognitive detection of erotic stimuli' (1.)

Pauli's synopsis of the materialist - spirituality dilemma is right on the money. And it si true you can't truly engage in spirituality or mysticism without getting into blue fog to some extent. Fortunately for me I like the color blue. That being said, my theory about spiritual people is that they are "people!" After forty years it is pretty clear to me that the biggest problem with spirituality is that spirituality got entangled in a lot of abstractions - many of them actually unsubstantiated maladaptive stereotypes devoid of truth or real meaning.

So, first I would point out that in contrast to mainstream psychology's norms, A recent review of "numerous" studies of people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences by Park and Paloutzian reveal that somewhere between one third to one half of people have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences - of every type and variety imaginable - though hardly any talk about them. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies definitely "establish the normalcy of such reports and that social scientists have until recently ignored a common-phenomena." (p. 67)

Brief Synopsis - Bio of 40 years of "Spiritual Experiences "

Lastly I would highlight the fact that the pivotal October 18, 1981 notarized warning (with a FOIPA stamp) to the FBI about the impending attack by the weathermen terrorist group is very detailed with some unique characteristics of being the only one about terrorism (until 9/11), with a definite place as well as timing (verbally). Historically, it is literally unprecedented compared to other "historically documented illustrations."

Highlights: 40 years of spiritual and spiritual-psychic experiences

I have roughly six documented dreams - with reasonable interpretations that could also be viewed as “perceptions of threats” to the group parallel to animal alarm calls. The highlights of my waking spiritual-psychic experiences would be:

2. My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 about the impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto. Fort he recxord - besides being notarized the document does have a FOIPA stamp on it.

3. My (very short) warning to the FBI prior to the assassination attempt of president Reagan

4. My call to the CIA prior to 9/11.

Points of Order:

1. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

b) Quantum Experiment Reveals “A future event causes the photon to decide its past.” - Professor Truscott The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured.

2. A lot of people have the "crystal ball" stereotype of precognition - that psychics look into crystal balls - essentially - and make predictions. Factually and historically that is nonsense. It is closer to the alarm calls of animals than to crystal ball predictions.

3. People have been having spiritual experiences for tens of thousands of years and consistently studies reveal that today some where between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences of one sort or another - which as Park and Paloutzian show have a "normalcy" in 1902 William James demonstrated that spiritual experiences create a sense of reality - which is supported by the views of Viktor Frankl and Carl Jung who both emphasized that different experiences create different world views.

Highlights from forty years of spiritual/psychic experiences & dreams!

Documented Dreams - Documented by emails

1. Pakistan-India Dream: For instance, the documented precognitive dream from 1-18-2019 which (partly) took place in Pakistan and centered on the issue of Nuclear War has a very reasonable interpretation of having come true in the sense that On 2-28-2019, an article appeared: "Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear war." It needs to be emphasized that - historically - "psychic" is really "perception" and not "Truth".

2. Dream about Libya (2-26-2019), and while the dream was not directly connected to any international events. seeming to be generally about "intelligence:" Similar to the timing of the dream about Pakistan-India, about a month later an article appeared: US troops temporarily leave Libya as security deteriorates Haley Britzky April 07, 2019 "The U.S. forces in Libya are temporarily leaving as the security situation on the ground has grown "increasingly complex and unpredictable." It turned out they pulled out permanently – and the situation deteriorated afterward.

3. Synchronicity with Strasburg, France attack - dream 9-(19-20)-18Dream: On Sep 10, 2018, at 6:55 AM my dream contained several pivotal symbols and 'information.' The dream clearly spoke about an "Islamic secret society" as opposed to ISIS. It turned out from a NY Times article on 12-12-2018 stated "The gunman killed at least two people and wounded 12 in the Tuesday night shooting spree at the famous Christmas market in Strasbourg, a city of more than a quarter-million in France’s northeast border with Germany. …… the gunman was first seen shortly before 8 p.m. on the Rue des Orfèvres, in the heart of the Christmas market. He then moved through several streets, attacking with a handgun and a knife as he went." I have never heard of a terrorist carrying a knife. In my view, it is significant that the dream highlighted and emphasized "a very large knife." In any case it is said that "consistency" is a key to science - and in my view there is a consistency.

4. A Hybrid Dream-Perception: Precognitive "Tag" (a tag I describe as a central action plus one or two details) of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. In an email to a friend, I relayed a dream at 2AM which involved Canada and the CIA and Canada. The email (dated April 18, 2018) said "just thinking - 2AM .... woke from a really strange dream - the Holy Spirit was like split up into different pieces and people were trying to understand that." Earlier woke up from a dream about: Canada and the CIA (personally, I connect the CIA with terrorism).” Roughly a week later on an article stated: “The police have identified Alek Minassian, 25, as the suspect accused of killing 10 people and injured 15 with a rented van on Monday (April 24) in Toronto. Minassian appeared to identify as an "incel," or "involuntary celibate," Again there is consistency in this being a perception of a threat to the group.

Undocumented Dreams

5. When I lived in Fredericksburg prior to 9/11, I had a dream in which there were apartment style buildings which were built in the architectural style of the Southwest region in the United States in a dream! At the very end of the dream there was a bag which was left beside a car which “felt [heavy] like money” - but was not. Believing it to be a precognitive dream I faxed it to the Fredericksburg FBI where I was living at the time. About a week later a woman was killed by a bomb when she picked up a bag by her car. This happened in a city that was located to the southwest of Fredericksburg. I figure that would also be a tag in that it had the central action of a “bag beside a car” and the dream also talked about a “devastating explosion” but it is lacking a bit in specifics of who was involved.

6. Dudayev Dream: In a rather vivid dream. Before the Chechen leader, Dudayev, was killed, I had a dream about Russia. In the dream, I was in a bombed out city of “rubble” near some mountains. I was in a room with two men. There was a stack of eight sided coins and six sided dice. Next in the dream, there was a runway for a plane. The dream abruptly ended at a field. About a week later Dudayev was killed by a Russian warplane at a village. About a week later, on April 21,1996, Dudayev was killed by two laser-guided missiles that zoned in on his satellite phone signal, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft. He was killed in the village of Gekhi-Chu. There were six specific pieces of information in the dream that matched.

Highlights of Waking perceptions

2. My very detailed, specific, and notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 about the impending attack by the then active Weathermen terrorist group. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto. Fort he recxord - besides being notarized the document does have a FOIPA stamp on it.

3. My (very short) warning to the FBI prior to the assassination attempt of president Reagan

4. I did call the CIA prior to 9/11\ plus called the DC FBI headquarters and filed a complaint in Richmond district court which - by coincidence brought the question of 911 calls to the fore (as opposed to 9/11 - association thought process, as it were)

Mid-March 2017 Might Makes Right Letters to the Allies

In retrospect, what got me visibility though was my letter to the embassies of America’s allies and in February-March, 2017 In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017 on the latter mailed to the Canadian embassy (each was different) I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians, they rose to the undisputed and unchallenged leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

Intelligence Leak – 2020 Revelation “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic'… Merkel…

“Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger”

- Thrasymachus (c. 459 – c. 400 BC)

“I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process,”

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the fake news impeachment trial

Reflections and commentary

An Epithet by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis

In an article on June 3 2020 in the Atlantic By Jeffrey Goldberg, “James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution”

Link to some documentation of experiences (if you have time): Brief Overview of some Precognitive Dreams

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/insights-from-38-years-precognitive-dreams

Excerpt from the essay on Jeremiah:

"[T]he unbounded, incomprehensible divinity remains beyond all comprehension."

St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395), an early Christian mystic who is venerated as a saint in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism, emphasizes that God is beyond words and beyond comprehension. In the book, Life of Moses, St. Gregory emphatically points out that “…every concept formed by our understanding which attempts to attain and to them in the divine nature serves only to make an idol of God, not to make God known”. ~ from “The Life of Moses”.

I learned that in a very "up-close and personal way. Like many people who have experiences I found my experiences somewhat disconcerting (as J. E Kennedy points out) - so, of course, my thought processes went into high gear trying to figure out exactly what was going on. I just about drove my self crazy (literally) - until one day I crossed over the line from sanity to insanity, realized that my experience - being acausal - is beyond comprehension - and consequently put the brakes on the cognitive processes which were driving me crazy.

For me that as an epiphany that I took to heart. I realized the Absolute Truth (and God) are beyond comprehension. That is one of the best lessons I ever had - a lesson drilled into me how little I know. Needless to say I started asking questions - and I can state categorically that in forty years it is a fact that you can ask a whole lot of questions. As Bob Dylan observed in his song I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Furthermore, because of my spiritual experiences I knew pretty well what to look for which was an invaluable asset in my research.

The "Crystal Ball Maladaptive Stereotype" - my 2nd Epiphany

Having spiritual experiences - which as Jean MacPhail notes are unique - does give me an advantage from a certain perspective. In my heart I realized that when I get to the pearly gates - assuming I get that far, St Peter will Not Ask - "How accurate were you predictions" - that will never happen. In fact why the experiences were happening was The Big Deal back in 1981. Here is the first line of my notarized and very detailed What a nightmare warning and Mustard Seed Epiphany: "Prediction has nothing to do with nothing, I pray this is wrong."

First, I should emphasize that in my forty years of experience, my experiences are “perceptions" and reactions to stimuli as opposed to powers – or making "crystal ball" predictions. I should emphatically state that making predictions to make predictions - crystal ball maladaptive stereotype - historically does not work. Comparing apples to apples Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, and even Edgar Cayce (when it came to earth changes or political events) had a very high rate of failures.

Early on I sat down and thought about "prophecy" and realized that God would not put prophets on earth (as many crooked thinking Christian leaders believe in contrast to most Christian theologians who mostly emphasize prophecy as social justice, etc) solely and entirely to make predictions. My understanding of prophecy and spirituality is that purpose is vital and critical!

Does God Put Prophets on the World "Solely and Entirely" to Make Predictions? Prophecy - Introduction

The Prophet Jeremiah

Perspective:

Irish poet-theologian John O’Donohue emphasized that “Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So, I think beauty, in that sense, is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life."

Irish poet-theologian John O'Donohue's profound observation makes for a wonderful synopsis of spirit, truth and meaning - parallel to the "deeper dimension of Kenneth Pargament, Einstein and Dr. P Wong. In a sense, this spirituality is something you "get" - it is an intrinsic essence of human consciousness.

My personal guiding lights in life are "spirit and truth" from John 4:23-24. When you look at what Jesus Christ actually did say in the gospels, Christ focused quite a bit on truth and guidance, as well as life – and no hint or innuendo about any twilight zone mysticism or supernatural powers. Spirituality is a multifaceted diamond - as it were - with a myriad of aspects including spirituality as oneness, connectivity, love, creativity, making sense of the world, guidance, and truth.

To my knowledge that direction to worship God in "spirit and truth" is the only explicit direction in the gospels as to how to worship - and there is no hint or commandment to worship God as a God of miracles. A metaphor I believe is appropriate would be to compare miracles to the flower of the fruit and fruitfulness is what justifies spirituality (not miracles).The view of the Holy Spirit in terms of a “rigid adherence” to miracles is a very tunnel vision understanding of the Holy Spirit.

That is a critical point in todays' world where many equate spirituality with the supernatural. When I bring up transcendental spiritual experiences or spiritual-psychic experiences, quite often people talk about ghosts or UFO's and aliens - far from "fruitfulness or creativity.
Of all people, I know that miracles can happen and can be a physical reality. In the past 40 years I have had a number of spiritual-psychic experiences - which as Jean MacPhail, scholar and author notes - are unique. My pivotal - notarized and very detailed - precognitive warning to the FBI occurred on October 18, 1981 about the impending Weathermen terrorist attack.

Like many people who have experiences I found the experience disconcerting (as J. E Kennedy points out) - so, of course, my thought processes went into high gear trying to figure out exactly what was going on. I just about drove my self crazy (literally) - until one day I crossed over the line from sanity to insanity, realized that my experience - being acausal - is beyond comprehension - and consequently put the brakes on the cognitive processes which were driving me crazy.

For me that as an epiphany that I took to heart. I realized the Absolute Truth (and God) are beyond comprehension. That is one of the best lessons I ever had - a lesson drilled into me how little I know. Needless to say I started asking questions - and I can state categorically that in 40 years you can ask a whole lot of questions. As Bob Dylan observed in his song I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Furthermore, because of my spiritual experiences I knew pretty well what to look for which was an invaluable asset in my research.

I would emphasize that Voltaire's statement about questions is "right on" - since, in my view, scientific theories - at the moment are just either well framed or poorly framed questions. You will never - ever hear me say I have The Answer because I know absolute Truth is beyond human comprehension.

I must - unfortunately - emphasize is that what I personally encounter most frequently are what could only be termed maladaptive stereotypes. College graduates I have encountered generally appear to have little or no education in spirituality - even psychology students. One student of psychology I spoke with had not heard of William James 1902 epic work "The varieties of Religious Experience" in which he demonstrated that spiritual experiences shape a person sense of reality - supported by Viktor Frankl's and Carl Jung's views that different experiences create different world views (duh). Modern research - as in the - now - well proved process of categorization in the human mind!

In forty years I have encountered a number of maladaptive stereotypes - "powers" for example. When people start talking about powers I am usually thinking - You know, if I had any powers you would be toast! My own sister actually told me that 'I think I have powers' Then there is the maladaptive stereotype - by believers and nonbelievers alike - that somehow psychics must be perfect. By far the most prevalent maladaptive stereotype is that all spirituality is unreal!" - which is false bigtime.

There is nothing wrong with the spirituality of compassion such as care-givers-volunteers. Volunteering in America, estimates there are 77.4 million volunteers in America working an estimated 6.9 billion hours. Historically there are people who dedicate there entire lives to helping and caring for others. Take Dr. Sweitzer - or Mother Teresa who cared for the poor and helpless and founded an entire network of charity hospitals. Compassion is a powerful drive and in the United States the group, The maladaptive stereotype that spirituality is unreal is very prevalent and very powerful. I had a "Christian" woman with training as a psychologist tell me that "spirituality is outside psychology - which is the classic materialist argument that "All spirituality is unreal!" The meta-analyses of health benefits of spirituality by Dr Koenig and numerous other scholars prove otherwise. It is sop pervasive I had a Jungian analyst tell me that the spirituality of compassion is a "matter of opinion" - which really means "unscientific or unreal." That is false. If you use the same standards applied to autism which are believed to be 1.5% of the population then certainly in the U.S. it would seem a foregone conclusion one could find 1.5% of the population who truly possess the spirituality of compassion.

For perspective, Dr. Ray De Paulo, a prominent Catholic psychiatrist (family friend too) from Johns Hopkins University conveyed to me that "All transcendental spirituality is psychosis." As a point of information I would point out that a Catholic woman from the Philippines agreed that my question here is very relevant. Dr. Stacey Neal, also, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, told me she had no experience, education or training in people who have spiritual - psychic experiences. I have confirmed that from other sources, as well.

From my research, it appears readily apparent that the psychiatric diagnostic manual (DSM) excludes a number of different types of spirituality: 1. Dreams of the deceased (which are "not uncommon" in children as one researcher put it - and documented since prior to 750 B.C in Egypt ) 2. Studies of the spirituality of grieving or further that serval studies indicate that spiritual-psychic experiences while grieving can help facilitate the grieving process (which is consistent with William James demonstration that spiritual experiences shape a sense of reality) 3. Children’s spirituality 4. The spirituality of some recovering addicts, 5. Not to mention the spirituality of art, music, or dancing.

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"Beauty is the illumination of the soul!" - John O'Donohue

Yes,...... tis "I"! in the picture above - also known under the alias "Me!" - or even "Charlie Peck!" I am Irish, crazy, and single! [and I wonder why - huh?] I must say I am an outsider similar to how Van Gogh succinctly describes his own situation: “It is only too true that many artists are 'crazy' – it is a life which, to say the least, makes someone an outsider . I'm fine when I fully immerse myself in work, but I'll always stay half crazy." Being an outsider to a large degree is not of my doing - I have ostracized more than once. For perspective many people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences are afraid to talk about them and often feel like outsiders similar to Van Gogh - or "outliers" - as Nunzi expresses it.

Even though, as Jean MacPhail observes, my somewhat documented personal spiritual-psychic experiences are unique - unprecedented really - in part because they are correlated mostly with political events outside, partly because of the consistency and reasonableness of interpretations, I personally view myself more as an artist parallel perhaps to a spiritual Van Gogh - or Irish poet-theologian John O'Donohue (I am 1/3 Irish with another portion of Scottish to put me over 50%) than as a psychic like Jeane Dixon, Nostradamus or Edgar Cayce or. Making predictions to make predictions makes no sense and when analyzed comparatively - apples to apples - demonstrates that historically that has led to a very high rate of failure. For me - that was an early realization for me and I stopped making predictions a year or two after my pivotal and very detailed warning to the FBI in 1981. For the record most Christian theologians argue prophecy was far more about social justice than making predictions.

"The inspiration of the artist is what is meant by the hand of the Lord which rests upon the prophet.” - Heschel

As Abraham Heschel (1907 – 1972), a “leading” Jewish philosopher and theologian, in his book The Prophets, Heschel quotes N. K. Chadwick: Everywhere the gift of prophecy is inseparable from divine inspiration. Everywhere this inspiration carries with it knowledge – whether of the past, in the form of history and genealogy; of the hidden present in the form of scientific information; and of the future in the form of prophetic utterance in the narrower sense…..Invariably we find that……….his [the poet’s] mood is exalted and remote from his normal existence…..” (P. 482 – 483)

Heschel states that the prophet is a poet. "His experience is one known to poets. What poets know as poetic inspiration, the prophets call divine revelation Psychologically considered, prophetic inspiration is not materially different from furor poeticus [ the divine frenzy or poetic madness] of the master-poet or artist. The inspiration of the artist is what is meant by the hand of the Lord which rests upon the prophet.” (p.468-469) A common thread throughout cultures of the world is that creativity-spirituality are intricately interconnected and are often expressed in poetry and verse. Spiritual leaders throughout the world and widely scattered in human history have relied on poetic expression. Just to name a few: St. Teresa of Avila, the monk Thomas Merton, St. John the Cross, Zen Masters such as Dogen, Ryoken, Huang Po,

There are all sorts of spirituality. Artistic spirituality is prevalent, as well as dancing and music, such as singing in choirs not to mention through the spiritual inspiration of composers. Paul James-Griffiths observed that “we must also understand that although they professed to be Christian they were also human beings with faults and weaknesses. Some of them like Mendelssohn, Bach and Bruckner continued in a strong Christian faith throughout their lives, whereas others like Handel encountered Christ later in life; others like Liszt had deep struggles with sexual sins, and yet at the same time were deeply religious, and others like Wagner accepted Christ a few years before he died but wrestled with accepting the whole Bible. Many were Roman Catholics and some were Protestants, but all of them acknowledged that their musical inspiration came from God and the Bible, and they believed in the essential Christian doctrines. (Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers by Paul James-Griffiths | Aug 20, 2016 | Arts)

"The inspiration of the artist is what is meant by the hand of the Lord which rests upon the prophet.” - Heschel- and a poem of mine for perspective

The unseen inner fire

Forged of creativity and imagination unleashed,

Abstractions, symbols, and archetypes from the furthest reaches,

driven by fiery emotional ideals and spiritual myths

so much like those sudden flashes of brightness on the sun’s volcanic molten nuclear surface

- like those brilliant solar flares

, - those boiling upheavals and eruptions of imbued electromagnetic violence

- launched upward from the surface in coronal-mass-loops of ejected energized mass

first lifted then pulled down by unseen electromagnetic forces.

Ever erupting – unceasingly ejecting raw desires in pyrotechnic displays

Life-drive and Life-Force,

Oft born of necessity and purposes barely grasped, consciously or rationally understood,

Born of mass-matter, biology and physiology,

yet induced by transcendental energy seeming of such divine inspiration

Seeming from nothing

- from inert and empty matter

- comes this force

this energy of power and vital force,

with such resolute, determined, and compelling will

bending – eternally - desires, wants, and needs to its end

Ever shaping meanings, purpose, and destiny

I. Normalcy: Minimally 110 million Americans with spiritual-psychic experiences

In contrast to mainstream psychology's norms, A recent review of "numerous" studies of people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences by Park and Paloutzian reveal that somewhere between one third to one half of people have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences - of every type and variety imaginable - though hardly any talk about them. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies definitely "establish the normalcy of such reports and that social scientists have until recently ignored a common-phenomena." (p. 67)

In almost every study of people who have experiences, an almost universal "refrain" is that people are literally afraid to speak openly about their experiences. Julie Parker observes that "Several qualitative studies report that bereaved experients oftentimes fear that they are experiencing symptoms of mental illness, and/or are resistant to disclosing their EEs because they believe that others will perceive them as “crazy,” ridicule them, and/or disbelieve them (Devers, 1988, 1997; Drewry, 2002; Hastings, 1983; Hoyt, 1980; LaGrand, 1999; Peterson, 2001; Whitney, 1992" (Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved and Adaptive Outcomes of Grief * Julie S. Parker)

Baumeister's Paradigm

Baumeister pointed out that - technically - there is No Ultimate Meaning of Life - that a person's meaning of life is made up of a myriad smaller meanings - the meanings of parents, siblings, children, academics and school, religious beliefs, spirituality, government, police, and so on. Neuroscientists stress that same principle - that the brain is so intricate and so interconnected that a lot of different factors go into "morals" for instance.

With the diversity of spiritualities that would be doubly true for understanding peoples' spirituality : Corinthian 12: 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

Of course, since then this world has changed - and revolutionized like ten thousand times over. Just the electronics, the internet information revolution and social media ahs turned the world inside out for all practical purposes. Out of body experiences are quite common these days. Of course, now, there si remote viewing. From my research it is readily apparent that since World War I documented spiritual-psychic experiences have exploded compared to the last two thousand years.

Points of Order:

1. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

Mid March 2017 Might Makes Right Letters to the Allies

In retrospect, what got me visibility though was my letter to the embassies of America’s allies and in February-March, 2017 In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017 on the latter mailed to the Canadian embassy (each was different) I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians, they rose to the undisputed and unchallenged leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

Intelligence Leak – 2020 Revelation “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic'… Merkel…

“Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger” - Thrasymachus

Senator McConnell at the impeachment trial actually made no bones about it. Before the Impeachment Trial even began, he made it perfectly clear he was going to ram an acquittal verdict down the throats of the Democrats - regardless of right or wrong, justice, truth - or anything decency in politics for that matter. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stated outright that no one should "expect him to handle President Trump’s impeachment trial as an impartial juror: “I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday while fielding questions about the upcoming trial. I tell you my letter to the Canadian embassy in mid march 2017 hit the nail on the head.

Reflections and commentary: Letter to the Canadians August 2018

It would seem apparent that the might makes right letters to the embassies are one of the best illustrations of a spiritual-psychological phenomena , as it were. In a letter to the Canadian embassy in 2018 I stated that: "Personally, I view the current politics as sort of like a political (with strong religious undercurrents) type of an almost influenza which will unfortunately run its course. A recent Pew Research study showed that Americans are more divided now than even during the height of the Vietnam War. Personally, I am sick to death of the politics." A recent study-poll revealed that 78% of Republicans want to see Trump re-elected.

An Epithet by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis

In an article on June 3 2020 in the Atlantic By Jeffrey Goldberg, “James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution”

I feel I should highlight the very real factor that it seems the extremist Republicans who have hardened their hearts really seem to care less about "our children!"

As appoint of information, I sent copies to several U.S. Senators and Congressmen. In November, 2017 I received a letter from U.S. Senator Van Hollen expressing interest in research into spiritual experiences. Included with the letter was a preliminary version of my essay “A Theory of Four Needs that [adequately] Explain and Describe Religion: The Four Primary Drives: The Need for Meaning, the Need to Belong, the Need for Ideology, and the Spiritual Drive” which is fairly popular. Later I did get email contacts for Senators Elizabeth Warren and Senator Hassan as well. I send a lot of emails - but I do know that some of them do get read. Of course, what they actually think might be a different question. Of course, if I had better control of my PTSD back then – which for me is a serious drawback – I would likely be much better off. That has been a challenge since 2017 - which I have made a lot of improvements with. I should also highlight briefly the fact that I did also get some "unwanted attention" from my "Might makes Right warning. In my high school year book (Philips Andover Academy - school of both Bush presidents by the way) I said, "I got entangled in government through no fault of my own." I would say - unfortunately - that is a very realistic assessment of my situation.

a link if you are interested to the "what a nightmare" story
https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/mustard-seed

The Significance and Wonder of Rebecca's Poem

Rebecca’s poem – in my view was an absolutely exquisite expression of a person’s feelings and intellect when challenged by unknown influences in human consciousness. Yet this sick Trump cyber hacker had to butcher it Trump and his supporters are sickeningly hateful and vindictive. Among others, Trump and Juliano actually ran a smear campaign against the former Ukrainian ambassador during the impeachment farce. For me it never seems to end.

Recently I was reviewing the pivotal, very detailed 1981 "What a nightmare- Mustard Seed" spiritual-psychic experience is Notarized – and which also happens to have a FOIPA stamp on it. Some of the [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto. My pivotal "What a nightmare - Mustard Seed" precognitive warning-spiritual experience centers on the Weathermen terrorist group "Brink's Robbery as it is called. In my narrative I explain I had a very brief exchange with an FBI agent in which I showed the agent a few lines to the FBI agent in the tiny cubicle in the Toledo, Ohio office (it was a stream of consciousness and there were only three explicit lines [like a group with money fabricate a terrible bomb – most everything was metaphoric and symbolism). In the narrative, I explain that “When I got to the line of "New York" or "Miami," I asked the FBI agent who was seated across from me in one of the cubicles at the Toledo, I asked which he thought it would be - instantaneously the FBI agent retorted very irately, "How the Hell would I know!,.....It is your dream!"

Somebody keeps changing the sentence and taking out the word “Hell!” – but that is Exactly the word the FBI agent used. It is endless. I find the word “laugh” in the middle of an essay about spirituality. My essays on the “Might Makes Right” Essay got totally mangled. I have the titles to my essay altered. It is endless.

a link if you are interested to the "what a nightmare" story

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/mustard-seed

Reflections: Consistently, studies show that somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences (i.e. Park and Paloutzian) of one sort or another - but people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences are generally afraid to talk about them. And mainstream psychology has sidelined and marginalized spirituality to the point where - as Dr. Neal, trained at Johns Hopkins, observed, she has no education or training of people who have spiritual experiences. I have confirmed that with other sources. I also posted that in academic discussions. The only reply I got is that psychology does teach "theories." First people are not abstractions, and secondly in that it appears that theories left out spiritual beliefs as a motivation (not to mention social consciousness and the teachings of religion), I have little faith in existing theories.

Reflections, Commentary and ultra-brief Conclusions

After forty years it is crystal clear that the biggest problem when it comes to spirituality is that spirituality got entangled in abstractions - mostly some really stupid maladaptive norms and stereotypes. the maladaptive stereotype of spiritual experiences somehow involving powers or people who have experiences believing they have powers is prevalent. I have talked with a lot of people who have spiritual experiences and never run into anyone saying they have powers. In witchcraft that might be an mental aspect - though not a reality. In fact many who have intense experiences mention a feeling of powerlessness. J. E. Kennedy, a researcher into paranormal highlight he fact that - at first - people are often afraid. I can tell you flat out form my experience my experiences are 99% perception and I was reacting to stimuli (telepathy is a potential influence) and not powers. In fact mine are clearly primarily perceptions of threats to the group parallel to the alarm class of animals.

Then there is the "perfection" maladaptive stereotype. I have encountered this maladaptive stereotype among spiritual people as well as ordinary people. I went to an Edgar Cayce meeting talking about Cayce's readings nd it wa clear they all thought Edgar Cayce was infallible. Every prophet was fallible.

I came across a website that stated that Ezekiel’s prophecy-prediction of the fall of Tyre. When you actually look at Ezekiel’s actual prophecy (26:1-6) Ezekiel’s prophecy stated that Tyre would be utterly destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. What actually happened – historically - is that “Tyre came to terms with Nebuchadnezzar and accepted Chaldean suzerainty in 573 B.C.E. (p.98 Callahan) It wasn't until centuries later that Alexander the Great came along that Tyre was capture and he didn't even destroy it utterly as Ezekiel’s prophecy proclaimed. What it has resulted in is in the reality that many “Christians” believing quite literally, that “miracles” and accurate prophecies demonstrate and “prove” the existence of God. I got into a discussion on that point with a Christian on my Jeremiah's New Paradigm of prophecy essay. As I recall the pastor quote either Paul or Peter when i challenged him that Jesus Christ never said anything like the fact of prophecy or miracles proving God. He did not deny the fact that Christ never said that. In my view it is lousy psychology since it deprives a person of his obligation and duty to judge between right and wrong - which many Christians seem unable to do these days. In any case the stereotypes that prophets are "perfect" is false and that is a maladaptive stereotype and fallacy leading to crooked thinking.

There was a website I saw which stated that Ezekiel’s prophecy prediction of the fall of Tyre “proved” the existence of God – presumably because it demonstrated the existence of God’s “Word.” Of course the very logic of that argument would seem somewhat flawed.

A New Approach based on the theory that - in the end - spiritual people are people: When science strays from scientific methodology!

Abstract: A Failure to Follow Scientific Methodology

In my mind it is absolutely mind-boggling that science has yet to categorize types of spirituality. Scientific method - as defined by Aristotle over two thousand years - is: 1. gather the facts and evidence 2. categorize the facts 3. analyze the facts 4. Draw conclusions. I can tell you form the last ten years of study and research that there is no proper "categorization. I have a critique endorsed by four prominent psychologists - namely Dr. Harold Koenig, Dr. Paul Wong, Dr. Stephen Farra, and religious scholar S Schindler. That critique since roughly 2018 has gotten well over 5,000 views and zero criticisms. One item cited is that there is no proper categorization - or even precursory attempt. To find peoples' spirituality and spiritual experiences you have to look in the backrooms and off the beaten track schools of thought. I found grieving spirituality in a couple of different topics including pastoral care. Children's spirituality is much the same. Then there si the spirituality of recovering addicts, as well. There are meta-analyses but finding data with situation context or the circumstances is hard to come by and most studies tend toward abstractions.

Preamble: My Theory of Spirituality

My theory of spirituality is that spiritual people are "people" - and that a large problem with spirituality is that spirituality got entangled in abstractions. Wayne D. Norman and Malcolm A. Jeeves, in their article, Neurotheology: Avoiding a Reinvented Phrenology, "However, it appears religious/spiritual behavior must be understood in terms of emotion, perception, self-consciousness, memory, and many other functions." Dr Visuri points out that the spirituality of autistics, which is influenced by their physiology, produces "unexplainable sensory" experiences. The spirituality of grieving is prevalent. One small study showed 84 out of 125 people engage spirituality during grieving.

Not surprisingly considering extreme emotions and profound fears connected with death - consistently produces dreams of - or visions of - the deceased found consistently in studies throughout the world (Hong Kong, Slovakia, native American, two in the U.S., Philippines, Sweden, and so on. Of course in light of some circumstances such as Joan of arc, Michael Reed and others one must allow that schizophrenia - hearing voices and so forth should allow that schizophrenics have what at times can be a rather challenging form, of spirituality. A very prevalent form of spirituality would be the spirituality of poets and artists. The famous artist el Greco proclaimed, "I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.” Michelangelo stated “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

Abraham Heschel (1907 – 1972), a “leading” Jewish philosopher and theologian, observed that “raptis mentis” [divine rapture] is common both to poets and prophets.“ The prophet is like a poet who is frequently overcome by a raptus mentis [raptus conveys seized, captured, trance-like state, and ecstasy and mentis conveys standing outside oneself or departure of the mind]. At times the poet is overcome unexpectantly, at other times he prepares himself for the creative moment with a pen in hand and an inkstand on his desk. With his attention concentrated on a specific content, a certain excitement enters his soul, with his thoughts and images flowing upon him."

As a point of order I would point out that to be a phenomenon like autism only 1.5% of people need have that characteristic of spirituality - such as the spirituality of compassion. That would be a piece of cake since last I checked 77 million Americans were care-giver volunteers. as Jean MacPhail points out - my often documented spiritual and spiritual - psychic experiences are unique - and consistent and reasonable. As a point of order, I argue that my beliefs in the Holy Spirit are reasonable. I have over a dozen documented experiences and after forty years I would state unequivocally that the Holy Spirit is really the only realistic term to use in describing my personal experiences - in my view. Others might speak of Angles, or God, or Spiritual dimensions. People make spirituality, not enlightenment or even God.

Albert Einstein has one of the most incredibly eloquent descriptions the spiritual ‘essence of being,’ "[O]ur perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds---it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity!" This profound observation by Albert Einstein shows how deeply embedded in human consciousness spiritually oriented emotions and spirituality can be. (The World As I See It (included in Living Philosophies (1931)),) While I believe in God - though I feel it si presumptuous to talk about God, I know a couple Buddhist who are wonderful people. In fact I would highlight the fact that Einstein had a lot better judgment than Christian leaders who supported Trump knowing damn well from the git go he is a raving racist. It is clear that mouthing words of Christ and God does not - automatically and necessarily - make one a better person.

A New Approach to Spirituality

Why do "we" need a new approach for spirituality. Well, to start with - to my knowledge - there is, at the moment no unified or universal approach to spirituality at all. So, a new approach is better than none at all. I feel safe in saying that a realistic assessment or picture of what has happened historically is that materialism - within mainstream academia - effectively sidelined and marginalized spirituality - with the end result that spirituality was largely ignored and treated as a special case - and stigmatized unfortunately as well. As the iconic sociologist Robert Bellah (1970b) observes, “There is no other sphere of human culture which is excluded from sympathetic academic consideration on its own terms on the grounds that such a study endangers science, reason, logic, and the whole heritage of the Enlightenment” (p.133).”

I have a letter from U.S. Senator Van Hollen expressing interest in research into spiritual and spiritual-psychic experiences. In 2018, I took my letter and I approached the chair of psychology, G. Munro, at Towson University and wanted to discuss spirituality with a psychology professor at Towson. After several emails and calls to President Schatzel of Towson University (which she never bothered to answer), I finally got a reply form Munro that there was not a single psychology professor in his entire department who had any interest whatsoever in spirituality in any form or fashion. One shocking fact I discovered in my research is that clinical psychologists have no education or training whatsoever in people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences - or any of peoples' spirituality at all.

What is - in my mind absolutely mind-boggling - is that science has yet to categorize types of spirituality. Scientific method - as defined by Aristotle over two thousand years - is: 1. gather the facts and evidence 2. categorize the facts 3. analyze the facts 4. Draw conclusions. I can tell you form the last ten years of study and research that there is no proper "categorization. I have a critique endorsed by four prominent psychologists - namely Dr. Harold Koenig, Dr. Paul Wong, Dr. Stephen Farra, and religious scholar S Schindler. That critique since roughly 2018 has gotten well over 5,000 views and zero criticisms. One item cited is that there is no proper categorization - or even precursory attempt. To find peoples' spirituality and spiritual experiences you have to look in the backrooms and off the beaten track schools of thought. I found grieving spirituality in a couple of different topics including pastoral care. Children's spirituality is much the same. Then there si the spirituality of recovering addicts, as well. There are meta-analyses but finding data with situation context or the circumstances is hard to come by and most studies tend toward abstractions.

Dreams of the deceased

Dreams of the deceased would be an excellent illustration. Now dreams of the deceased have likely been going on for thousands of years. In fact, I feel it worth mentioning a recorded dream of the deceased by an Egyptian. Prior to 750 BCE, only a handful of examples have survived. The earliest are found in letters to the dead. On one, a woman writes to her deceased female relative, begging her to expel the pain of her body while she watches the deceased fight on her behalf in a dream. Another letter contains what may be the first recorded case of an anxiety dream caused by a guilty conscience. Here, a man writes to his dead father begging him to prevent another dead man from malevolently watching him in a dream. (Visions of divinities were exceptional. Dreams of Early Ancient Egypt By Kasia Szpakowska)

Studies – hidden in the backrooms and offbeat schools of thought show that dreams and visions of the deceased – not all that surprisingly are common (2 U.S., Hong Kong, Slovakia, Native American, Sweden, etc.) A very important point is that I had to google scholar not only dreams of the deceased (which has been going on for thousands of years and are apparently relatively common, but I had to google the nationality. I found the study of Hong Kong dreams of the deceased by google scholaring Chinese dreams of the deceased. I had to enter the nationality to search for dreams of the deceased. Dr. P. Wong mentioned he knows the researcher of the Hong Kong study.

So, besides the readily apparent powerful primal emotions often involved in grieving and death, on top of that some personality and genetic traits make some people more receptive than others. J.E Kennedy observes, “In a study of a technique attempting to induce a sense of contact with someone who had died, 96% of the participants with NF personality types reported after-death contact experiences, whereas 100% of the participants with ST (sensing, thinking) personality types did not have these experiences (Arcangel, 1997). So, an important point here is that as the personality studies show some peoples' minds filter information differently - and in this case NF personalities do appear to have a predisposition for sensing contact with the deceased.

Yet though this phenomenon appears common mainstream psychologists have no knowledge of this. It is infuriating to me that I went through forty years of treatment and in response to my documented spiritual-psychic experiences, which is very detailed as well as notarized with a FOIOPA stamp on it - not one said a single word - Nothing. Then "they" make all these judgments about me - while knowing nothing. Dr. Stacey Neal, a graduate of Johns Hopkins, stated that psychiatrists have no training in people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. I have confirmed that from other sources, and from posting it in discussions on academia-edu the only response I got was that there is training in theories. My reply is that people are not abstractions and theories I read fall way short - no spirituality as drive, no social consciousness, etc. Plus the APA and even "progressive organization refer to anomalies. I must say in 40 years I have not yet met an anomaly.

In contrast to the lack of knowledge of mainstream psychologists a recent review of "numerous" studies of people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences by Park and Paloutzian reveal that somewhere between one third to one half of people have spiritual-psychic experiences - of every type and variety imaginable - though hardly any talk about them. Study after study clearly indicate that – in this open-minded society based on Judeo-Christian beliefs which “value” spirituality – people who have spiritual experiences literally fear retaliation if they speak openly about their spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences [for good reason I must add]. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies definitely "establish the normalcy of such reports and that social scientists have until recently ignored a common-phenomena." (p. 67)

Yet, "mainstream" psychologists and psychiatrists know absolutely nothing about the 110 million Americans - or more - who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. There are some underlying causes for this. The first is - as study after study after study show - people who have experiences literally are afraid to even talk about them for fear of being degraded and humiliated. The second reason is that mainstream psychology has sidelined and marginalized all information about spirituality. As both Viktor Frankl and Muzafer Sherif observed the social sciences and psychology are really a large number of schools of thought which are largely separate and disconnected. Muzafer Sherif very realistically and accurately referred to the different schools of thought in psychology as "self-contained sand castles!"

Nora's Childhood Experiences

I would add Nora's childhood experience which I believe is an excellent illustration of spirituality as a spectrum of diverse and different "abilities" or talents. From a study of childhood spirituality which appears relatively common - though little known. Nora’s account of her ability to see auras as a younger child: When I was four or five years old, I was playing dolls with two friends. One of them asked what my favorite color was. I replied ‘Pink.’ She asked what shade of pink? I said the shade of pink of the light around your head. Both little girls said ‘What light around the head?’ A fear like a knife went through my heart as I knew they were telling the truth; they didn’t see the light. I was seeing something they could not see. I never saw lights around people again until I was in my 30s. Nora considered seeing auras normal until she realized her friends could not. Suddenly there was something unacceptable about her ability to perceive light around people’s heads. It is not clear why her fear was so immediate but it seems to be based on a sense of appropriateness or safety. She shuts off her perception interrupting her capacity to see auras until, in adult life, she began a deliberate process of study:

The significance this had on my life after I remembered this experience has made me a seeker of higher consciousness. A believer that my function on this planet is significant to every person on the earth. Although Nora’s account is from early childhood, she models the process of re-constructing her sense of self and life journey based on a recovered capacity. In other accounts that I have of the ability to see auras, the loss of the perception in response to the reactions of others is common. I seem to hear stories from people who have recovered their capacity but wonder how many children have perceptual capacities lost while growing up. How many children have not regained their perceptions? What are the cultural implications of severed capacities in children’s lives?

Mannheim's "Mindsets as Filters" Paradigm

I ground my dialogue in the paradigm that all people – as Mannheim (and William James) pointed out - have mindsets or modes of thought that act as filters – seeking some types of information and filtering out other types of information. The spirituality of autistics would be a good illustration. As Dr. Visuri noted in her article and study of the spirituality high functioning autistics that they tend to have “unexplainable sensory experiences” – in which their physiology would likely have an influence. Of course, as J.E. Kennedy emphasizes there are extreme skeptics – in which there is an identifiable correlation with left brain focus – in that right brain is connected to intuition and imagination. In contrast women are well-known and well-proven to be more receptive to both spiritual and religious ideas and beliefs – and it is well known and well proven that women tend to have a more balanced use of left or right brain. In my view there is clearly a spectrum of spiritualties.

And one needs to keep in mind the 1.5% rule – that comparatively to autistics who are believed to be roughly 1.5% of the population then for a phenomenon to be “real” – for instance the spirituality of compassion, then only 1.5% of the population need to have compassion rooted in spiritual processes. Another example would be schizophrenics. Numerous people – including shamans - believe schizophrenics are spiritual – especially in light of Joan of Arc who heard voices or Michael Reed, the modern-day nemesis of ten commandment monuments – who hears voices and translates them into commands by God to knock down ten commandment monuments.

Shamans – who are known to have “cured” some schizophrenics. Shamans believe that schizophrenics are shamans being born. Then of course, there is Einstein’s yugen and the view of awe and wonder as a spiritual enlightenment. Personally, though I have had a number of documented spiritual-precognitive experiences, I personally identify with the spirituality of artists and poetry - which I likely one of the most prevalent forms of spirituality. The bottom line is that when it comes to spirituality it is clear - in my view - that you can't lump it all together and one need view spirituality as a spectrum of spirituality.

I must emphasize that my theory of spirituality is that spiritual people are “people!” From forty years of experience in dealing with psychologists, academics and professionals, I can safely say that a large part of the problem with spirituality is that it got entangled in abstractions (i.e the supernatural) Gillian, a Canadian Catholic who is a connection on the website for scholars academia.edu, messaged me "Hi Charles. Yes, spirituality is about people. It took a literally eons to recognize what was in us! She goes on to say how that led to her personal enlightenment, "and we were gradually learning, but it was only when Jesus was born and lived that we learnt more about God." Jim Harries, (PhD University of Birmingham, UK), another connection from academia.edu also stated that from a certain perspective religion is about people.

Addendum

Endorsements & Qualifications & Being "Fruitful!"

"Letter to a Congressman" posted in 2018 w/ easily over 5,000 views

Endorsed by 4 prominent PhD’s, medical researchers and psychologists

1. Dr. Paul Wong: prominent author, researcher, and theorist, as well as existential-positive psychologist stated about this essay, "Your letter to a congressman needs to be published somewhere.!"

2. Dr. Harold Koenig, a medical doctor-psychiatrist and a well published author and researcher stated about this article: "Charlie – makes perfect sense to me, and very nice letter right on target! HK

3. Stefan Schindler, an award-winning author, and retired psychology-philosophy professor responded to my question: "Would you say the argument about the "methodological flaw" is correct" by stating, "Yes, correct!" And a Maryland University Psychology Professor stated "getting the message out"

4. Dr. Stephen Farra: Recently - after the original essay was published, I connected with Dr. Stephan Farra of Columbia International University Emeritus, Psychology, who stated unequivocally that the "Prove God Norm Fallacy" - or "Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all!" Dr. Paul Wong also confirmed specifically that the Definist Fallacy is actually (surprise, surprise) a Fallacy!

Besides Dr. Stephen Farra, Dr. Paul Wong also confirmed specifically that the Definist Fallacy is actually a Fallacy! (surprise, surprise)

Kaiser Permanente, Fallacies, and Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist

Because I researched and studied fallacies and the thinking on regard to spirituality I asked my doctor Dr. Stacey Neal at Kaiser Permanente what her thoughts on the Definist Fallacy were - having sent her sufficient information to evaluate that. She responded she had "No opinion." Since I know hoe destructive the norms generated by that fallacy are I was seriously offended. This started before July 2021. Since then I have filed five complaints regarding the Definist Fallacy and just got completely blown off by Dr Neal, the quality review and the board of doctors. I sent them the critique of the psychology of religion endorsed by 4 psychologists., Dr. Farra's analysis, a brief review of Rehnquist's article, as well as the Mayo Clinic's recommendations on spirituality.

The U.S. Department of Justice has accepted my complaint # 83404-WLP as well as 83404; 95500, 91650, 91569, 90778 – These complaints explained in detail how the Definist Fallacy causes serious misunderstandings and prejudices, misunderstandings, and outright ignorance at times in academia and among students. The complaint was filed against Kaiser Permanente and Dr Stacey Neal – who had basically told me – to take my beliefs and go screw myself.

Brief look at the Mayo Clinic guidelines for contrast

These are the Mayo clinic guidelines

Mayo Clin Proc. 2001; 76:1225-1235

An article recently published on the Pubmed site on the NIH website clearly demonstrates the reality of the Definist Fallacy. The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” In posting on FB “science and neuroscience and psychology groups I frequently encounter a variation of that materialist argument: “You need to prove God (or spirit) before your beliefs are valid.” The first tiem I came across that argument (that si pretty much a quote) I thought to myself, “Prove God?? Are you crazy?? You can’t prove God!”

Supreme Court Rehnquist and Rulings on Fallacies

There really isn’t anything solid I could find in psychology, but I did – rather surprisingly – find fallacies in a 104 page article on Supreme Court Rehnquist’s rulings on fallacies which basically said Fallacies are quite common in court room arguments and can be quite “Persuasive” and generate “crooked thinking!” The Definist Fallacy is very persuasive and generated the norms “There is no spirituality” or “All spirituality is superstitious nonsense – both of which are crooked thinking – nothing but smoke and mirrors.

Article: “Logical Fallacies and the Supreme Court: A Critical Analysis of Justice Rehnquist's Decisions in Criminal Procedure Cases University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 741, 1988.

“Using former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s opinions in criminal procedures cases as a contextual showcase, the author explores the nature and extent to which even U.S. Supreme Court justices, members of the world’s most powerful tribunal, resort to regularly employing rhetorical tricks and otherwise logically fallacious reasoning in their opinion-writing.

A logical fallacy is a type of incorrect argument, and the study of fallacies is a sub-species of logic. A fallacious argument is one that appears to be correct and which may be very persuasive, but which proves on closer examination to be logically invalid. Examples range from the familiar (e.g., begging the question, straw man arguments) to the esoteric (e.g., ignoratio elenchi, undistributed middle term).

This article, which has been assigned as required reading at national judicial conferences, examines more than twenty categories of both formal and informal logical fallacies and applies them to Justice Rehnquist’s criminal procedure opinions as concrete examples of how “crooked thinking” permeates persuasive writing even at its highest level of sophistication.”

“So then, you will know them by their fruits." Creativity and productivity is my best asset, in my view”

“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15–20).

Creativity, Purpose-drive, and Guidance:

1. Personally, I feel that “my creativity” is one of my best assets. Here are some highlights starting with an essay "recommended" by Dr Farra, a psychologist Emeritus Perhaps the most significant essay is the critique of the psychology of religion endorsed by 4 prominent psychologists. A critical part of that critique is that I properly identified the materialist argument as explained by Miller in his article on the NIH website as a fallacy. Both Dr Farra and Dr. Wong specifically agreed with my assessment (rather obvious really) Dr. Farra referred to the Definist Fallacy as “spiritual poison” – in my view an understatement. I first introduced this in 2018 and had over 5,000 views combined between academia.edu and FB science and psychology groups.

I Letter to a Congressman - Methodology Flaws (fixation with laboratory experiments & Definist Fallacy) endorsed by Dr. H. Koenig, Dr. Stephan Farra, Dr. Paul Wong,

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/letter-english

2. In conjunction with that I have a mini-essay on my academia.edu profile - which in just short of 3 months has gotten over 80,000 views Abbreviated version in which I highlight the fact that Academic Materialism is a Mindset and Not Science! Essentially, I add onto the critique essay with Mannheim’s argument which Dr Farra summarizes well: “Surely, Materialism is a "mindset" or "filter" that apriori (ahead of time, before any discussion begins) Rules Out anything/everything but itself." and has brought "a deep darkness to our world!”

I specifically Identify the Academic-Materialist NORMS and Maladaptive stereotypes

a. “All spirituality is superstitious nonsense.” - or Spirituality is unreal!"

b. "There is no spirituality."

And conclude that There are no facts or evidence to support these norms!

3. II Drive to Understand & Need for Meaning! - "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."- Leonardo Da Vinci - endorsed by Dr. Stephen Farra "Charles, Fine paper - accurate, well written,

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/drive-understand-5-12-22

4. Social Consciousness - "connectivity" from community in Judaism to Celtic Anum Cara and Filipino pakikipag-kapwa as social unity, Dharma, & Erica Hill's diffuse hunting ritual https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/social-consciousness-5-9-22

5. Spirituality as an Evolutionary Adaptive Trait: Mythology, Meaning, Mode of Thought in the Garden of Eden Story - Narrative & Truth – Synthesis-Consensus of Frankl, Jung, and James. https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/evolutionary-trait

6. Children's Spirituality [Studies] 4-11-22 Intro Park and Paloutzian; Relational Consciousness; Dreams of the Deceased & real people Flynn, Rebecca, Crystal Jean, plus Nora, Nunzi, Sophia + children & https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/children-spirituality

7. Art & Spirituality: I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.” El Greco - Langer -origins of spirituality; Jung art as collective psyche; Cusack -religious influences pivotal https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/art-spirituality-2

8. When Jungians aren't Jungian; Is autism a matter of opinion? Is compassion a matter of opinion? Nietzsche, Mannheim, and Justice Rehnquist - review of fallacies https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/autism-opinion

Social-perception - Social Consciousness

This brief mini-analysis of social consciousness should illustrate some shortcomings of the materialist mindset. I can’t help but observe – wryly - that re-inventing the wheel – social consciousness – is productive.

Allport’s Taboo The Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles, states that today “Psychologists who study groups approach the idea of a group as an entity only very gingerly." – ever since Floyd Allport in 1927 stated unequivocally that “Only within the individual can we find the behavior mechanisms and the consciousness which are fundamental in the interactions between people ………There is no psychology of groups which is not essentially and entirely a psychology of individuals.”

Compare that with historical reality perhaps best exemplified by Marion Eggert’s illustration in quoting “the following lines by Henry Rosemont: 5 Rosemont 2016: 52 f. “For the early Confucians there can be no me in isolation, to be considered abstractly: I am the totality of roles I live in relation to specific others. […] [T]he relations in which I stand to some people affect directly the relations in which I stand with others, to the extent that it would be misleading to say that I‚ play’ or‚ perform’ these roles; on the contrary, for Confucius, I am my roles. Taken collectively, they weave, for each of us, a unique pattern of personal identity, such that if some of my roles change, others will of necessity change also, literally making me a different person.5” Confucianism, Hinduism, with the concept of Dharma, as well as Filipino and Irish early culture had some very sophisticated ideas of social consciousness. Yet, while western society can measure the synchronized spin of subatomic particles at great distances, the Materialist (unsupported dogma) is that “There is no psychology of groups.” And human consciousness is restricted to the firing of neurons in the brain.

It is ironic that there are tons of research on “social perception” and new unconscious research all of which support the idea and reality of asocial consciousness – in spades and then some. John Bargh states that “The idea that social perception is a largely automated psychological phenomenon is now widely accepted.” As well as, “Our identities have multiple aspects –mother, musician, teacher, yoga enthusiast, NASCAR fan. Within each of these [identities] is stored ingrained, implicit knowledge about appropriate values and behavior, likes and dislikes. Ways of Being.”

I have an ongoing discussion on social consciousness on the academia.edu with over 748 participants. I feel that is really good considering there are some fairly heavy-duty ideas and concepts in the discussion. So, yes, I think pursuing and developing the idea of social consciousness is creative and “fruitful”

Addendum II

Mannheim’s Model – Modes of Thought that filter information & Materialist Mindsets

Recently, I have added Mannheim's "Model" and the Mannheim argument that academics and ideologies are a reflection of political-social ideology – supported by Nietzsche and Voltaire. Nietzsche argued that "truth" is to a large degree a product of social convention. Before Nietzsche and Mannheim there was Voltaire who correctly observed that "Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time!"

Dr. Christina Maimone, a political science PhD, observes, “Ideology is, as Mannheim uses the term, a mode of thought that obscures the real condition of society to the group holding the thought, thereby stabilizing the shared social reality of the mode of thought. Groups are simply unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world!"

As a point of order, when you get to the bottom of barrel, Academic materialism is based on quantification. Unfortunately, academics never point out that quantification Does Not Equate-Unequivocally to Science. In fact, "Quantification" excludes quite a bit. Quantification rules out art, beauty, creativity, humor, imagination, death & restricts our understanding of love, freedom, ideals, etc. If all you seek is "Quantification" that is what will be found. Modern science does have research to back this up – from William James to John Bargh as well as selective attention found in neuroscience (Attention. Intention, Motivation)

Dr. S. Farra, a contemporary psychologist Emeritus, states: "Surely, Materialism is a "mindset" or "filter" that apriori (ahead of time, before any discussion begins) Rules Out anything/everything but itself." and has brought "a deep darkness to our world!" Buddha stated: "We become what we think!"

There is NO difference between an "academic norm" or "stereotype" and any other norm: Bargh observes, "If you are reminded of your group status before performing a test or task, and the cultural stereotype says that your group is not very good at it, your performance will be affected. You will consciously or unconsciously, “buy in” to that stereotype. (John Bargh Before You Know It p.83)

Conclusions: Errors and Omissions overlooked-bypassed by "Psychology of Religion"

1. Spiritual and religious beliefs as a Drive or Motivation. When you talk to "spiritual people" spiritual beliefs are a serious motivation - Big time! In contrast spirituality as a motivation is conspicuously absent from academia

2. No Social Consciousness: Materialist Dogma "There is no psychology of groups"' or "consciousness is restricted to the "firing of neurons in the brain." vs historical concept of community in Judaism, Dharma (Hinduism and Buddhism), social order in Confucianism, Celtic Anum Cara O'Donohue, Filipino Kapwa

3. No Role at all for the Teachings of Religion in the “Psychology of Religion” – which is a major flaw since it is the teachings of a religion that provide members a sense of sharedness and solidarity that makes relgions viable!

4. Mainstream psychology leaves out the ideas of tolerance which are inherent in the Synthesis-Consensus of Viktor Frankl, William James, and Carl Jung. All three say that different experiences produce different world views - something it seem materialist psychologists I have encountered simply can't seem to tolerate. In the Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) William James demonstrated that spiritual experiences do tend to create a sense of reality. On top of that there is the well-known and well-proved categorization process is a pivotal process in the human mind. It would only stand to reason that "unusual experiences would be categorized as unusual!" Hmmm,...could that possibly be - that people might have different viewpoints from the status quo without being insane?? ..................Naaaah! No way!

5. Clinical psychologists – to be blunt - know nothing about spirituality! As Dr. Neal, of Johns Hopkins University, points out psychiatrists (and psychologists) have no education or training in people who have spiritual-psychic experiences or even spirituality at all. It is true that “Out of sight” - is in fact – “Out of mind!”

Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers!

Voltaire (1694-1778)

If you don't ask any questions, it isn't likely you will get a whole lot of answers! (me)

I am a writer & poet. On the website for scholars which has 77 million members, academia.edu I have 303,131Total Views and I am in the top 0.1%! My mini-critique of "Academic Materialism is unscientific and destructive" which is on my academia.edu profile went viral and has gotten over 70,000 views in just short of three months. The mini-critique focuses on methodology problems the most glaring of which is the fact that materialism is a mindset and the statements "All spirituality is superstitious nonsense."; "There is no spirituality!"; and "All spirituality are matters of opinion" are all Norms without a stitch of evidence to support them and to a large degree the product of the Definsit Fallacy. As the article on Rehnquist's rulings on fallacies fallacies can be "persuasive" and generate "crooked thinking!"

As a point of information, I already set much of that in a critique of psychology (years ago) endorsed by the well-known and well-published medical researcher from Duke Dr. Harold Koenig, the well published author and psychologist Dr. Paul Wong, the psychologist Emeritus, Dr Stephan Farra, and Stephen Schindler a award wining author and religious scholar. I did properly identify the materialist argument as the Definist Fallacy. I did add the Mannheim Materialist mindset argument to that since then which Dr Farra agrees to and some of modern scientific research (selective attention (parietal cortex and even William James)

Here is a link to my academia.edu profile(you can join for academia.edu for free): https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CharlesPeckJr

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’ Donohue: Irish poet-theologian

Social Perception - Social Consciousness

Social perception - social consciousness is such an excellent illustration of some built in academic abstraction-entanglements, I feel the question deserves some special attention. For the record, I do have a discussion with over 700 participants on "Social perception - social consciousness: John Bargh: "ingrained, implicit knowledge about appropriate values and behavior"& largely automated social perception processes & Historical overview: community in Judaism, Anum Cara, Filipino pakikipag-kapwa, Dharma - social consciousness creates society" -

As a point of information, "social consciousness" doesn't exist - at this particular moment - in social psychology (social psychology without social consciousness?), though it did exist in abundance throughout human history. In 1927, Floyd Allport, with the “help” of his brother Gordon Allport, in 1927 trashed McDougall’s Group Mind” – and social consciousness with it by stating “Only within the individual can we find the mechanisms of behavior and the consciousness that are fundamental to interactions with between people ……… There is no psychology of groups, which is not essential and absolute psychology of individuals.” As a result, as Hazel Markus, Shinobu Kitayama, Rachel Heiman, the authors of the chapter Culture and “Basic” Psychological Principles, of the over 700 plus page Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles, state rather boldly – and unequivocally - that “Psychologists who study groups approach the idea of a group as an entity only very gingerly." This materialist dogma is often expressed by “scientists” as the idea that “Consciousness is completely confined to the firing of neurons in the brain!” (Baruss and Mossbridge)

As the prominent unconscious psychologist John Bargh emphasizes, “The idea that social perception is a largely automated psychological phenomenon is now widely accepted. [Furthermore] behaviors are encoded spontaneously and without intention in terms of relevant trait concepts ……. and how stereotypes of social groups become activated automatically on the mere perception of the distinguishing features of a group member….. Perceptual interpretations of behavior, as well as assumptions about an individual's behavior based on identified group membership, become automated like any other representation…….”

Link: https://www.academia.edu/s/710842e418

The bizarre twist to the question is that social perception has been researched extensively - and the "attention-intention-motivation" link is well known throughout the social sciences and within neuroscience as well! There are tons of articles which describe social consciousness to the - but never take it to the next level - which Vedic science did in the 3rd century. I have been pushing the social consciousness essay because the paradigm of social consciousness is a much more accurate model or paradigm of human consciousness than the materialist paradigm that human consciousness is confined to the firing of neurons in the brain.

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Preamble: My Theory of Spirituality

as Jean MacPhail points out - my often documented spiritual and spiritual - psychic experiences are unique - and consistent and reasonable. As a point of order, I argue that my beliefs in the Holy Spirit are reasonable. I have over a dozen documented experiences and after forty years I would state unequivocally that the Holy Spirit is really the only realistic term to use in describing my personal experiences - in my view.

That also dovetails into Mannheim's argument that mindsets (which while they fall into categories are also unique) are 'filters" that seek certain types of information and exclude other types. That being said - as Jean MacPhail points out - my often documented spiritual and spiritual - psychic experiences are unique - and consistent and reasonable. As a point of order, I argue that my beliefs in the Holy Spirit are reasonable. I have over a dozen documented experiences and after forty years I would state unequivocally that the Holy Spirit is really the only realistic term to use in describing my personal experiences - in my view.

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 7:15-20

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ..

"Toto, I do believe that we are no longer in Kansas!"

I spent a very enlightening and very educational scholastic year in France as a junior in high school. It was a great experience. A vital lesson for me personally is that I learned that people - peoples - are diverse. This was back in 1968-1969 when De Gaulle was still president. I still remember the evening my French brothers, Paul and Pierre, told me they were going out to rumble with the communists. What flashed through my mind was the scene in the movie Wizard of Oz when Dorothy says to her dog, Toto, "Toto I do believe we are not in Kansas anymore!" I must say, the whole cultural "atmosphere" seemed to have been different back then. There were student protests on the left bank. In fact, there seemed to be several different cultural - political undercurrents. Also, at that time WWII and the German occupation was still a cultural and psychological presence.

For me. that truly was an excellent lesson to learn - that the French people have a different - and diverse - culture. In fact, the diversity is so pervasive, saying there is a "French People" might be a bit misleading since so many different "visions" seem to be involved. In engaging people on spirituality-consciousness what I discovered is that Anglo-American FB groups had internalized the materialist mindset more than either Filipino or French. From hard experience I found that members of Anglo-American FB psychology and science groups can be quite abusive (spirituality is Giant Cosmic Parrots, mental illness, etc) That shouldn't be all that surprising since Anglo-American axis could well be described as a major hub of western thought and influence.

There are some very profound differences between Filipino culture and Anglo-American culture. Karina Lagdameo-Santillan does an excellent job explaining the differences in her essay about "social consciousness. She quotes the founder of Filipino psychology (which deviates from strictly western psychology): “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. This Filipino linguistic unity of the self and the other is unique and unlike in most modern languages. Why? Because implied in such inclusiveness is the moral obligation to treat one another as equal fellow human beings. If we can do this – even starting in our own family or our circle of friends – we are on the way to practice peace. We are Kapwa People.” — Professor Virgilio Enriquez, founder of Sikolohiyang Pilipino).

Perhaps due to French diversity, I have found French people generally relatively receptive to spirituality. I should note that, while interest is higher among French and Filipinos - to my knowledge - none have gone off running to airports dancing and singing Hari Krishna (which at this tiem may not be that bad idea of an idea anyway). There is "no cookie cutter" identity for either the French or the Filipinos (or Americans). In fact Anglo-Americans have shown a remarkable amount of interest in the "Critique of Psychology of Religion Essay" and are primarily responsible for the nearly 800 views of that essay recently. Also, I have gotten strong interest from that segment in essays like the "Four Needs that Explain Religion." Yet I can safely say that Filipinos have a different attitude toward spiritual experiences and the views of the essays about spiritual-=psychic essays is far above American interest. My read is that "interest" would be the best term for assessment of Filipino attention.

Irish-Celtic Prophecy

Being that I am roughly one third Irish with another chunk of Scottish genes to put me over 50%, I felt a brief summary of Irish-Celtic cultural heritage might be in order. On top of that, Jean MacPhail, an author and scholar with her own remarkable and striking experiences - who I write about quite a bit is also Scottish with some Irish ancestry as well. So,.........

AS Caroline Francis Richardson observes in her article “The Use of Prophecy in the Irish tales of the Heroic Cycle,” Irish/Celtic Prophecy was/is quite different and distinct from other forms of prophecy, and so would likely have a distinct genetic component as well (for the record) . Irish prophecy bore no resemblance to ancient Greek Prophecy and its fascination with Oracles, such as the Oracle of Delphi. Caroline Richardson emphasizes that in contrast to Irish tradition which had no priest or hierarchal organization, in contrast to ancient Greek religion which consisted of “An organized body of priests interpreted the oracles of Zeus and Apollo and were able, therefore, to color the policies of the nation and to influence the character of the whole people as well as individuals.” (p.394) Furthermore, Irish Prophecy bore no resemblance to the focus on social prophecy of justice and covenants, of Old Testament prophets who frequently promised the wrath of God for injustices and idolatry.

Caroline Richardson summarizes Irish/Celtic prophecy in these terms: “Prophecy is not the possession of a single group of persons; it has no local habitation; it has no influence on the policies of the nation, or on individuals; it is not an integral part of the plot of the stories. And in these tales the plot’s the thing, not often a finished plot, but something definite does take place; men and women, and the Twatha de Danaan act!” (p.395) Caroline Francis Richardson observes in her article “The Use of Prophecy in the Irish tales of the Heroic Cycle,” The Sewanee Review, Oct, 1913, Vol 21. No 4 (Oct, 1913, pp 385-396) I would say my story and Jean MacPhail's story do have plots. And I am something of an "outsider" - parallel perhaps to Van Gogh - and I belong to no particular groups or organization. In light of especially American problems in Christianity - in particular Christian support for Trump who is a raving racist - I would say I am a follower of Christ though not a follower of Christianity - which It think has too many problems (way too many). My guiding lights are "spirit and truth" (John 4:23-24). I would also add that as far as mindset I am remarkably close to the famous Irish poet-theologian John O'Donohue who was a former Catholic priest.

The Holy Spirit, Reasonable Belief, and The Fourth Blind Man

The narrative at the beginning - "a conversation between an Irishman and God" - is a narrative and story - which does properly convey my situation. Personally, I do very seriously believe in spirit and the Holy Spirit (and God/Transcendental Intelligence). That being said I seriously believe that talking about God is presumptuous and beyond human comprehension and words as St Augustine, St Gregory of Nyssa and many other Christian leaders firmly advocate. Personally I equate knowing God with literal insanity.

As Jean MacPhail, an author, scholar, and former fellow at Harvard Neuropathology observes - my personal spiritual-psychic experiences are unique - in part because many are documented but also, in part, because the experiences relate to events outside myself! While my spiritual-psychic experiences are somewhat haphazard - in part because it is clear my experiences are reactions to stimuli as opposed to predictions from a crystal ball. In fact, it could be said that my spiritual-psychic experiences are best described as being consistently perceptions of political “threats to the group” - as it were. Perhaps my experiences could - in part - best be understood as human variants of the alarm calls of animals. An important point is that all the interpretations of my spiritual-psychic experiences could easily be described as reasonable. and consistent!

As a point of order: From my forty years of experience, I can very safely state my experiences are 99% perception (and not powers). In fact the most detailed perceptions have tended to be the most politically-historically "visible" events (such as 9/11 which as Radin points out for which there are a large number of documented precognitive experiences) First though I would begin with a couple of dreams since historically dreams have - on occasion - been vehicles for insights and transcendental epiphany. I have over five dreams which are "relatively detailed" with reasonable and consistent interpretations.

In Homer's epic The Odyssey, Penelope, Odysseus' wife, who had a dream that seems to signify that her husband Odysseus may be about to return, says: Stranger, dreams verily are baffling and unclear of meaning, and in no wise do they find fulfilment in all things for men. For two are the gates of shadowy dreams, and one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those dreams that pass through the gate of sawn ivory deceive men, bringing words that find no fulfilment. But those that come forth through the gate of polished horn bring true issues to pass, when any mortal sees them. But in my case it was not from thence, methinks, that my strange dream came." (In the book Odyssey 19, lines 560-569)

First, I would like to start with the clearest illustration of the dreams I documented by email. Pakistan-India Dream: The documented precognitive dream from 1-18-2019 which (partly) took place in Pakistan in the dream and centered on the question and idea of Nuclear War has a very reasonable interpretation of having come true. I had a somewhat vivid dream about Pakistan in which 'nuclear war' was an aspect: "At the end, the dream was about nuclear war again….” About a month later, India, suddenly launched an air strike against Pakistan in retaliation for an attack on Indian civilians in Kashmir by Islamic extremists. On 2-28-2019, an article appeared: "Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear war." The perception of the possibility of nuclear war would of course a be a perception of a threat to the group. You can’t take dreams "literally" of course, and as you know, no nuclear war occurred.
I did have several dreams about France and a couple of dreams about France were salient as it were. I should say I spent a year in Rennes, France as a high school exchange student in the 1968-69 school year. I must say that, for some reason I have had a fair number of dreams that “took place” in France or Frenchmen - for some reason. Not all of them were precognitive of course. One distinct dream was about a French paratrooper flying in a plane. I still remember - in a scene on the ground he was among group of homeless people on the street. There was a whole string of them - like five or six. For me - in my experience - it is almost the opposite of looking into a crystal ball and seeing the future.. It is much like what is said about the Holy spirit is like the wind because no one knows from whence it comes from or wither it goes. And with me that is true. Things come and things go, and it was interesting that for the longest time I had a stream of dreams about France. Perhaps that was due to the fact the French have suffered quite a bit from terrorist attacks - an unconscious calling as it were.

1. While the interpretation of this dream is not as clear as the dream about Pakistan-India which did highlight nuclear war and a month later an Indian air strike on Islamic terrorists provoked an article about the potential for nuclear war - or the dream about Chechnya and Dudayev which had six distinct details, but there are some distinct synchronicities.

'Synchronicity' with Strasburg, France attack - dream 9-19-20-18

That is an important factor, since while this dream is consistent as being a “perception of a threat to the group,” France has suffered deeply from Islamic terrorism with 22 terrorist attacks from 2015 to 2018 which killed 249 French people. French leaders such as Manuel Valls and Francois Hollande who view the attacks as attacks against democratic values and ideals born of enlightenment which “makes us who we are.” The bottom line is that while there is for example the unique item and symbol of the “Knife” in the dream which the terrorist yielded, the numerous terrorist events make it impossible to definitely assign any definite status to the dream. But it is interesting to merit review.

Dream: On Sep 10, 2018, at 6:55 AM my dream contained several pivotal symbols and 'information.' The dream clearly spoke about an "Islamic secret society" as opposed to ISIS. It turned out from a NY Times article on 12-12-2018 stated "The gunman killed at least two people and wounded 12 in the Tuesday night shooting spree at the famous Christmas market in Strasbourg, a city of more than a quarter-million in France’s northeast border with Germany. …… the gunman was first seen shortly before 8 p.m. on the Rue des Orfèvres, in the heart of the Christmas market. He then moved through several streets, attacking with a handgun and a knife as he went." I have never heard of a terrorist carrying a knife. My dream significantly highlighted and emphasized "a very large knife." Although, "In a communiqué via its propaganda channel Amaq, the terrorist organization Islamic State says that Chérif Chekatt "was part of IS's army," the day of the terrorist attack, the police had shown up at the suspect’s apartment to arrest him for murder involved with a robbery. One commentator noted, “They thought he was involved in some sort of robbery last summer and they had raided his house when he wasn't there, and therefore this could have triggered him to do this.” In the dream, murder was a distinct theme: " There was a very large knife used for ritual killings-sacrifices made by the secret society."

2. Macron and Libya: I had a dream about Libya (2-26-2019), and while the dream was not directly connected to any international events. seeming to be generally about "intelligence:" Similar to the timing of the dream about Pakistan-India, about a month later an article appeared: US troops temporarily leave Libya as security deteriorates Haley Britzky April 07, 2019 "The U.S. forces in Libya are temporarily leaving as the security situation on the ground has grown "increasingly complex and unpredictable." It turned out they pulled out permanently – and the situation deteriorated afterward.

An article on June 22, 2020 stated: “Turkey is playing a dangerous game in Libya and is violating all of its commitments made at the Berlin conference,” Macron said on Monday, referring to the January meeting co-sponsored by Ankara and Moscow. Describing the situation in Libya as “intolerable,” Again that would be a perception of a potential threat to the group (world peace).

The highlights from my forty years of spiritual-psychic experiences would be these experiences:

my most recent email would be to Baltimore, MD FBI agent McElwee warning of the Nashville bombing on 12-25-2020 which occurred on two months later on 12-25-22, Christmas day.
1981 call I made to the FBI in Toledo, Ohio warning of an impending attack on President Reagan,
notarized & exceptionally detailed, "What a nightmare - Mustard Seed" warning-spiritual epiphany from October 18, 1981. Details: group fabricating bombs, money -twice, New York, death, woman, the title "What a nightmare" identified Weathermen terrorist manifesto
call to the CIA warning about 9/11

Standing My Own Ground: Normalcy

What makes me unique is the fact that I can stand my own ground! In light of the well-proven and universally accepted "categorization" process as well as William James 1902 demonstration that spiritual experiences create "a sense of reality" (mirrored by Carl Jung's observation that different experiences create different worldviews), I can demonstrate to "objective" individuals (not materialists) that my beliefs are reasonable. For the record, besides documented experiences there are likely five or six federal agents I could [theoretically] subpoena. To be blunt though - the mainstream psychologists I encounter have no training in people who have spiritual-psychic experiences or peoples' spirituality and none that I encounter have any knowledge of William James 1902 demonstration that spiritual experiences create a sense of reality. and a "normalcy"

The Materialist Flaw

From hard experience, the majority of people have the mistaken view that I have to prove what "is" - usually including God or spirit - before my beliefs are valid. That is incorrect. Bringing in God, spirit, or an intangible force is a fallacy - precisely the Definist Fallacy. In fact from a psychological viewpoint the existence of God is - from a certain perspective - irrelevant.

Furthermore what someone else thinks is also irrelevant. As Carl Jung, William James, and Viktor Frankl have all agreed on is the fact that in human consciousness different experiences create different worldviews or sense of reality. That is I can actually have a worldview and sense of reality that is different from the tiny materialist tunnel vision realties they live in. The problem is mainstream psychology does not teach what William James established in 1902. As a result my children, my siblings and my family think my experiences - many documented and all with "reasonable and consistent" interpretations - are insane - literally. My experience then is that psychology has done me and my family horrific damage with their lies and ignorance.

The Mindset and Paradigm of Modern psychology dates back to the 1800's

As Iain McGilchrist, writer, Oxford scholar, and psychiatrist points out, mainstream psychology uses a very outmoded and outdated model and paradigm for reality which human consciousness has never conformed to to begin with. For instance people had had dream of the deceased for thousands of years. The first recorded case dates to before 400 B.C. in Egypt. In contemporary times, there are studies from Hong Kong, Slovakia, two from the U.S., the Philippines, Native American, and Sweden that I have located so far. Three of those studies of dreams of the deceased indicate that spiritual-psychic experiences facilitate healing (which is consistent with William James argument that spiritual-psychic experiences shape a sense of reality).

Spukhafte Fernwirkingen - A New Dimension for Science

Niels Bohr was a Nobel prize-winning Danish physicist, who pioneered the development of the quantum physics and theory which improved our understanding of atomic structure. Niels Bohr stated unequivocally that “If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

In a letter to Max Born on 3 March 1947 to describe the strange effects of quantum mechanics, where two particles may interact instantaneously over a distance, Albert Einstein referred to that quantum physics effect as spukhafte Fernwirkungen, which means “spooky actions at a distance” The question of Quantum Entanglement is a core issue which divides classical and quantum physics. A bit oversimplified the spin of one subatomic particle is directly connected with the spin of another subatomic particle even though separated by large distances and also interactions occur at speeds faster than the speed of light. That is where the word acausal comes from - realities outside

the standard physics of cause and effect.

Wolfgang Pauli, another Nobel prize-winning quantum physicist was careful to recognize that “although [particle physics] allows for an acausal form of observation, it actually has no use for the concept of meaning” — that is, meaning is not a fundamental function of reality but an interpretation superimposed by the human observer. It would stand to reason then that "Truth" would also be an idea superimposed as well.

Quantum Experiment Reveals “A future event causes the photon to decide its past.” - Professor Truscott Summary of Experiment: Physicists have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. The group reversed Wheeler's original experiment, and used helium atoms scattered by light.If one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths then one has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom's past, said Truscott. (Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness Science Daily, May 27, 2015 Australian National University)

Daryl Bem’s Successful-Repeated Precognition Experiments!

The parapsychologist, Daryl Bem, through successfully repeated experiments demonstrated that precognition experiments do, in fact, produce consistently successful results. It began with Daryl Bem's 2011 article about his original experiments which produced very significant results. That article got a lot of other researchers interested. Also, Daryl Bem had the foresight to develop "kits" to give to other researchers so they didn't have to reinvent the wheel. Quite a number of researchers became involved.

In 2016, an article about a meta-analysis of these experiments states that "When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments." The article goes on to say that the results showed that the experimental design focused on sex was by far outperformed the other designs. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Duggan).

The results measured in "effect sizes" ( a rule of thumb gauge of the performance of an experiment), were, not huge. “The overall effect size (Hedges g) is 0.09, combined z = 6.33, p = 1.2 x 10 to the -10.” (p. 7 meta) And the meta-analysis of Bem’s replications convincingly demonstrated that, indeed, the results, though relatively small, were very consistent. Furthermore, with some very advanced statistical analysis tools such as the newly developed “p-curve” analysis tool, which did produce an effect size of .2 - which does "register on the Cohen scale.

Of course, science - at least theoretically - doesn’t care whether results are astounding and magnificent or just ordinarily measurable - so long as the results are consistent and measurable. There is the famous "aspirin" experiment testing how people with cardiac problems reacted to "aspirin" treatment to ease the strain of the heart. The experiment was halted after the effect size of .08 was produced - which is far below the Cohen Scale's "small" .2 correlation!

Personally, I was surprised to discover any successful precognition research at all. From my roughly thirty eight years of personal spiritual-psychic experiences I would state categorically that "it" is much more an art and without doubt Not a science. Honestly you never get news reports, and to be completely honest, spiritual-psychic experiences don't come with an instruction manual. "Psi" is very elusive and trying to capture precognitive perceptions - in my view - is very much like trying to catch a snark - defined in the dictionary as an imaginary animal and frequently used to refer to someone or something that is difficult to track down!

The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll is a fictional nonsense rhyme about a motley crew of ten form a pact to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous "Boojum!" one crewmember does actually find the Snark but immediately quietly vanishes, which of course forces the narrator of the story to conclude that the Snark was a Boojum after all.

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.

After forty years I can tell you unequivocally that "railway shares" just plain don't work. I have found a sense of humor and flexible perspective invaluable in snark hunting in contrast.

If you don't ask questions it isn't likely you are going to get a whole lot of answers!

40 years of Virtual Ostracism and Gaslighting by "professionals"

As a point of order, I would point out that in 40 years of dealing with psychologists and psychiatrists none of the professionals ever talked to me about my spiritual-psychic experiences - many of which are documented - all with reasonable interpretations. When I brought my documented and very detailed “Mustard Seed” warning-spiritual epiphany experience up – not one said a single word about it. Not one professional ever asked a single question or engaged me in conversation in any way whatsoever. The silent treatment – a form of ostracism – for forty years. That is about as degrading and dehumanizing as it can get because it conveys to me that my experiences and my beliefs are so worthless that they are not even worth talking about. As most modern psychologists will tell you – the bulk of communication is actually unspoken and unconscious. After 40 years I can safely say - for whatever reason - the "professionals" were ostracizing me deliberately. Psychologists now have a consensus that the unconscious is the workhorse of the human mind. So, what would 40 years of virtual ostracism (ostracism is well known to breed aggression) and silent treatment do. Well, every time you met with a professional and they never allowed or invited any dialogue about beliefs important to you, that would communicate that "your beliefs are so insignificant and trivial they don't merit any conversation at all - that is how worthless they are. So, yeah that is about as Dehumanizing and Degrading as you can get!

I would say the mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists I have dealt with in forty years - for a certain perspective lied to me for forty years and they are so deep into their own lies, in my view - that for all practical purposes they are lying to themselves. It is a waste of breath trying to talk to them. Most are so indoctrinated into materialism they seriously don't want to know. In an experiment on chimpanzees, a window was put into their cages. The chimpanzees would always open the window out of curiosity. In forty years, those chimpanzees literally showed more curiosity than the mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists I dealt with - literally. And "they" still think that is acceptable. I personally can't imagine anything more dehumanizing than meeting with doctors knowing damn well they are not going to talk to you about documented experiences because they believe spirituality is worthless - which is what mainstream psychologists actually believe.

Conversation between an Irishman and God - A Narrative-Metaphor

An Irish Proverb for Perspective: "May you be at the gates of heaven an hour before the devil knows you're dead!" I’m thinking I might want to make it two hours just to be safe – eh?

One day I was out walking. It was a dark, cloudy day. All of a sudden, there was a swirl of movement in and amongst the dark bottomed clouds the clouds parted and God’s voice came down from the heavens. “Charlie, AHEM! You know, this world is a mess and many of the leaders right now are really screwed up! So - Charlie - you need to get your butt-eth up I want you to girdeth up thy loins! Then, You need to get out there and kicketh some butts! And whatever you do, I want you to make sure you take out the “There is no spirituality” norm and the “Prove God” norm, because those statements are stupid as s**t!” [I must confess that it is possible that the “stupid as s**t” part could possibly be my personal interpretation of what God really said]

After a few minutes of serious refection, I responded to God. I said, "Well,...God. You know, .........., I have been meaning to talk to you about that very issue. You know, it may be surprising, but as you know... I have been trying, and - unfortunately - I have to admit - believe it or not - things just are NOT Working Out the way you would think! Being an Irishman (and a smart ass), I added, "Now, God,.....I don't want you to take this the wrong way,....... but I figured out that materialism is incredibly worthless and without any merit or meaning long time ago!"

Perspective and Analysis:

My advantages: I have a couple of advantages others often don't have.

First, I am an outsider, much like Van Gogh's self-portrayal. Many people who have spiritual experiences will say the same thing. The point is that, I have no commitments to organizations and almost no conflicts of interests, so "see" the situation more clearly in a sense.
I have had numerous documented spiritual and spiritual-experiences which has been invaluable during my research. that is, I knew exactly what to look for.
My spiritual gift - as in Corinthians - would likely fall under prophecy - but really should be termed Political-Historical Intuition & occasional precognition. What that means is that politics, ideology, structure, norms and unconscious processes (i.e. Bargh) are second nature to me. So, that also helped extensively in my research and analysis!

Geertz states "First where social science, shaped as is all thought by the overall values within which it is contained, is selective in the sort of questions it asks. the particular problems it chooses to tackle and so forth, ideologies are subject to a further, cognitively more pernicious "secondary" selectivity, in that they emphasize some aspects of social reality - that reality, for example, as revealed by the current social scientific knowledge - and neglect or even suppress other aspects. " [p. 198 The Interpretation of Cultures. Geertz overviewing Talcott Parson's exposition on Mannheim and ideology,]

Preamble: In my view that is the best description of what happened to spirituality - and social consciousness in the academic institution. It is ironic in light of Geertz's universally accepted "Definition of Religion": In his essay, Religion as a Cultural System: The Theory of Clifford Geertz, the prominent religious scholar Ira Chernus states: “One of the most influential figures in this social-scientific approach to religion is the anthropologist, Clifford Geertz. In an essay titled "Religion as a Cultural System" (1965) he [Geertz] spelled out a definition of religion that many others have borrowed, adapted, and employed in studying religion.” Chernus goes on to say that according to Geertz, religion is "(1) a system of symbols (2) which acts to establish powerful, pervasive and long-lasting moods and motivations in men (3) by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and (4) clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that (5) the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic."

Being roughly one third Irish ancestry with another part of Scottish to bring my ancestry-DNA over one half of my ancestry - with DNA ties or connections to the Bretons in France, as well as the Welsh - I should point out that the Irish history reveals a different Cultural bias when it comes to prophecy. AS Caroline Francis Richardson observes in her article “The Use of Prophecy in the Irish tales of the Heroic Cycle,” Irish/Celtic Prophecy was/is quite different and distinct from other forms of prophecy, and so would likely have a distinct genetic component as well (for the record) . Irish prophecy bore no resemblance to ancient Greek Prophecy and its fascination with Oracles, such as the Oracle of Delphi.

Caroline Richardson emphasizes that in contrast to Irish tradition which had no priest or hierarchal organization, the ancient Greek religion consisted of “An organized body of priests interpreted the oracles of Zeus and Apollo and were able, therefore, to color the policies of the nation and to influence the character of the whole people as well as individuals.” (p.394) Furthermore, Irish Prophecy bore no resemblance to the focus on social prophecy of justice and covenants, of Old Testament prophets who frequently promised the wrath of God for injustices and idolatry.

The Irish poet, spiritual leader, and former Catholic priest, John ' Donohue, shows an independent streak in his book Anam Cara: O'Donohue states that "According to Celtic tradition, the soul shines all around the body like a luminous cloud. When you are very open – appreciative and trusting – with another person, your two souls flow together. This deeply felt bond with another person means you have found an Anam Cara, or "soul friend." Your Anam Cara always beholds your light and beauty, and accepts you for who you truly are." A major flaw in modern social sciences is that there is no accepted concept of social consciousness in contrast to historical reality as in the strong sense of community in Judaism, the concept of Dharma as in roles, duties as well as cosmic destiny, not to mention the [pivotal concept of social order and structure in Confucianism. It may be that O'Donohue instinctively grasped that the absence of this pivotal concept and "being-ness" for human consciousness - that does truly need to be addressed.

The Irish poet and spiritual leader, John O'Donohue highlights the vital creative-beauty aspect of spirituality! O'Donohue proclaims that "Beauty is the Illumination of the soul!" Beauty, awe, and wonder are extolled by nearly all the spiritual leaders in history as being a pivotal characteristic of spiritual creativity and energy. Spirituality can be quite complex - involving not just enlightenment but compassion, righteousness, spiritual ideals such as justice, and so on. A very striking and profound "fact" that I came across was in reading the social psychologist' Roy Baumeister's writing I came across the statement that - in truth - the Meaning of Life is actually a conglomeration of myriad different and various meanings - the meaning of parents, the meaning of siblings, the meaning of teachers, school and scholastics, the meaning of government & freedom, the meaning of church, the meaning of religion and spirituality - and so forth. I am sure the meaning of spirituality - or enlightenment - has the same kind of makeup - psychologically. A good analogy for creativity-energy , awe-wonder, divine beauty and mystery might be to the nucleus of the spiritual atom as it were.

St Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 c. 395) is widely accepted in most mainstream churches. In the book, Gregory of Nyssa: Song of songs, Panagiotes Chrestou in the preface summarizes St. Gregory's worldview: "Gregory's theology , as expressed in his work, is dynamic and progressive,; it is set on an endless journey. We will always be traveling towards the infinite towards the vision of the divine [the drive to touch the divine as part of envisioning] .....The soul's love of divine beauty is an eternally perfective and creative power." (p.3 Gregory of Nyssa: Song of Songs by McAmbley) O'Donohue's themes are most frequently joy, divine beauty and creation, being, and nature as a source of life and being.

O'Donohue - on life and being - states “May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter into the quiet immensity of your own presence. May you have joy and peace in your own senses.” Albert Einstein, who believed that the mystery and wonder of the universe is what drove his being and created his purpose, stated that, "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." One last comment. There seems to be an eternal dilemma between spirit within and external spirit. In light of that I found John O'Donohue's observation very interesting: "Only holiness will call people to listen now, this is not about forging a relationship with a distant God but the realization that we are already within God." "Already within God!!"

In a sense, awareness, perspective and mindset are "everything" - as it were! As Thich Nhat Hanh observed, "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle." All is miracle!

In Anglo-American FB science and psychology groups here are some quotes of what I get as feedback: All spirituality is about "Giant Cosmic Parrots" - or alternately, "fairies" (including the spirituality of grieving); "Don't you have a church to go to? There si nothing scientific about spirituality!" - Plus of course "mental illness" Santa Clause, etc.

That principle is very true when it comes to spirituality as well. The basic problem is that materialism has sidelined and marginalized! For practical purposes, all spirituality and Peoples' spirituality - especially it seems the spiritual and spiritual-psychic experiences of people - even the spirituality of grieving, children's spirituality. Dr. Neal, trained at Johns Hopkins University, said that she has had no education or training in peoples' spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. It is shocking that mainstream clinical psychologists and psychiatrists (or psychologists in general) have no training and know nothing about spiritual experiences, but that it true. That is why many react adversely at times - because it is alien to them and they feel they are "no longer in Kansas" as it were. I should emphasize that to a large degree Christian leaders and theologians have relied on psychology to deal with spiritual and spiritual-psychic experiences as well with religion and spirituality in general. Many have accepted materialism outright even though it is the antithesis of the Christian "worldview."

Seriously, I do find "fake news scientists" saying things like "spirituality is all about Giant Cosmic Parrots (or fairies, mental illness, santa clause, etc) incredibly offensive. That particular neuroscientist commented on my post which was a fairly generic post about spirituality and didn't even mention spiritual-psychic experiences. The comment by the neuroscientist read “please keep the religious drivel to religious channels, this is science and science by its very nature only deals with the material - what can be observed and measured. It serves no practical use of time to hypothesize whether giant cosmic parrots travelling from higher dimensions are responsible for anything because unless one flies into our view there’s no way to prove it.” Two other neuroscientists posted similar comments on that post.

Many believe that materialism is scientific. However, when you get out there and talk to people you find out very quickly materialism - as it is today - is not even remotely scientific. More accurately it is a cult whose gospel consists mostly of maladaptive stereotypes and norms - for which there is no evidence.

For perspective: Materialism is a mindset

“Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism; we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man’s conscience, he hears a voice whispering, “There is something not right,” no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. ~Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes’ “Analysis der Kinderseele” (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931.

Dr. Stephen Farra - psychologist Emeritus: "Surely, Materialism is a "mindset" or "filter" that apriori (ahead of time, before any discussion begins) Rules Out anything/everything but itself. This has brought a deep darkness to our world!" Materialism which is absorbed unconsciously is at its core is a form of nihilism. As Buddha said, "We become what we think!"

Stereotypes and Norms - from John Bargh's book "Before You Know It"

“If you are reminded of your group status before performing a test or task, and the cultural stereotype says that your group is not very good at it, your performance will be affected. You will consciously or unconsciously, “buy in” to that stereotype. (John Bargh Before You Know It p.83)”

The same principle applies to academic norms and stereotypes as worldly norms and stereotypes such as the stereotype that "girls are not good at math." In fact I would argue that being supported by the full weight of science, academic norms such as “quantification” or the “All spirituality is superstitious nonsense" norm” are twice as powerful and create widespread "crooked thinking!" – especially for intellectuals and academics, especially since - to my knowledge - this is the first attempt to apply the rules on norms to academic norms.

Intro from my academai.edu profile which went viral and got over 60,000 views in 75 days.

"WE" have Set our House on Sand! Academic Materialism is Unscientific!

a. Academic materialism centers on quantification which Does Not equate-unequivocally to science. Quantification rules out art, beauty, creativity, humor, imagination, & limits understanding love, freedom, ideals, etc.

b. Kay Deaux points out the fixation with laboratory experiments excludes group emotions & as such is the most tunnel vision definition of science in history.

c. Academic Materialism deviates from scientific materialism because it is based on a fallacy & restricted by quantification which was set out in an essay endorsed by Dr. Koenig, Dr Wong, Dr Farra (w/ over 5,000 views on academia & FB science groups)!
d. in Mannheim's theory Materialism is a Mindset - If all you seek is quantification that is what will be found.

II. Academic-Materialist Norms
a. "All spirituality is superstitious nonsense."
b. "There is no spirituality.

There are no facts or evidence whatsoever to support any of these norms - which have become what Bargh would refer to as maladaptive stereotypes - conveyed unconsciously!. As Hume, Einstein, and Damasio point out, good-evil are beyond the scope of science. But it does not follow that morals then are "superstitious nonsense" because good & evil can't be quantified.

Conclusions - abbreviated:

Proof is in the Pudding, Errors and Omissions that the "Psychology of Religion” left out
1.Spiritual beliefs as a Drive or Motivation is missing
2. No Social Consciousness: Allport: "There is no psychology of groups"'
3. no role at all for the Teachings of Religion which are bypassed
4. left out William James (1902) sense of reality and Jung's different experiences =
5. clinical psychologists (as Dr. Neal points out) have no training in people who have spiritual-psychic experiences.

With over 60,000 views and not a single criticism these errors and omissions should be viewed as established facts.

These are major problems - all of them. For instance, Ask a spiritual person whether they view spirituality as a motivation! The fact is - at the moment "science literally cannot explain how millions and millions of churches and temples got built or how all the tens of thousands of religious beliefs and cults came into being. No idea!

Here is a link to my academia.edu profile

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CharlesPeckJr

St. Gregory of Nyssa: “Making an idol of God”

Gregory of Nyssa (c. AD 335 – 395) – Along with his older brother, Basil of Caesarea, and Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory was one the three great Cappadocian Fathers of the 4th century.“…every concept formed by our understanding which attempts to attain and to hem in the divine nature serves only to make an idol of God, not to make God known”. ~ from “The Life of Moses”.

According to the true words of the Lord (Mt 5:8), the pure in heart will see God. They will receive as their minds can comprehend [after 40 years I came to the conclusion that my personal mindset-filter definitely has some limitations]. However, the unbounded incomprehensible divinity remains beyond comprehension. (p.161 St Gregory of Nyssa Song of Songs) St Augustine mirrored what St Gregory said in stating that God is best known b y un knowing him.

From St Gregory's Song of songs

"God’s manifestation to the great Moses began with light [Ex 19.18], after which he spoke through a cloud [Ex 20.21] Having risen higher and having become more perfect, Moses saw God in darkness [Ex 24. 15-18]. By this example we learn that our withdrawal from false, deceptive ideas of God is a transition from darkness into light. Next, a more careful understanding of hidden things leads the soul through appearances to God’s hidden nature which is symbolized by a cloud over-shadowing all appearances and which little by little accustoms the soul to behold what is hidden. Finally, the soul is led on high. Forsaking what human nature can attain, the soul enters within the sanctuary of divine knowledge where she is hemmed in on all sides by the divine darkness. The soul forsakes everything without, that is appearances and ideas; the only thing left for her contemplation is the unseen and unattainable in which God dwells. Scripture says of the Lawgiver, “Moses entered into the darkness where God was!” [Exodus 20.21]. (p.202 SoS)

Abstractions can be very seductive - and being almost always all cognitive are problematic in academia as well.

Stephen Cave, in the article, There’s No Such Thing as Free Will -But we’re better off believing in it anyway, observes that “Many scientists say that the American physiologist Benjamin Libet demonstrated in the 1980s that we have no free will. It was already known that electrical activity builds up in a person’s brain before she, for example, moves her hand; Libet showed that this buildup occurs before the person consciously makes a decision to move.”

“This research and its implications are not new. What is new, though, is the spread of free-will skepticism beyond the laboratories and into the mainstream. The number of court cases, for example, that use evidence from neuroscience has more than doubled in the past decade—mostly in the context of defendants arguing that their brain made them do it. And many people are absorbing this message in other contexts, too, at least judging by the number of books and articles purporting to explain “your brain on” everything from music to magic. Determinism, to one degree or another, is gaining popular currency. The skeptics are in ascendance.” (There’s No Such Thing as Free Will - But we’re better off believing in it anyway. Story by Stephen Cave Atlantic, JUNE 2016 ISSUE)

Research by Kathleen Vohs and Jonathan Schooler showed that “It seems that when people stop believing they are free agents, they stop seeing themselves as blameworthy for their actions. Consequently, they act less responsibly and give in to their baser instincts. Vohs emphasized that this result is not limited to the contrived conditions of a lab experiment. “You see the same effects with people who naturally believe more or less in free will,” she said.

Stephen Cave, goes on to say, “Another pioneer of research into the psychology of free will, Roy Baumeister of Florida State University, has extended these findings. For example, he and colleagues found that students with a weaker belief in free will were less likely to volunteer their time to help a classmate than were those whose belief in free will was stronger. Likewise, those primed to hold a deterministic view by reading statements like “Science has demonstrated that free will is an illusion” were less likely to give money to a homeless person or lend someone a cellphone.”

Of course powerful group related instincts played a role in current American politics as well. as well. But still, when a person says they believe in God, that really doesn't mean that much in today's world. Actually what Jesus Christ actually said is to worship (or live) in "spirit and truth" (John 4:23-24)

"WE" have Set our House on Sand!

Below is the conclusions from my academai.edu profile which went viral and has received over 70,000 views in just short of 3 months. It starts, "WE" have Set our House on Sand! Academic Materialism is Unscientific - and destructive!" and is basically a critique of very serious methodology problems in the social sciences which have distorted the facts and skewed the thinking of academics.

Excerpt from Academia profile

Conclusions: Errors and Omissions overlooked-bypassed by "Psychology of Religion"

Spiritual and religious beliefs as a Drive or Motivation. When you talk to "spiritual people" spiritual beliefs are a serious motivation - Big time!. In contrast spirituality as a motivation is conspicuously absent from academia
No Social Consciousness: Materialist Dogma "There is no psychology of groups"' or "consciousness is restricted to the "firing of neurons in the brain." vs historical concept of community in Judaism, Dharma (Hinduism and Buddhism), social order in Confucianism, Celtic Anum Cara O'Donohue, Filipino Kapwa
no role at all for the Teachings of Religion which are bypassed totally
mainstream psychology leaves out William James (1902) sense of reality and Jung's different experiences = different worldview.
Clinical psychologists (as Dr. Neal points out) know nothing - have no training in people who have spiritual-psychic experiences or even spirituality at all. Out of sight is - in fact - out of mind.

Summary-Conclusions

Dr. S. Farra, a psychologist Emeritus, states: "Surely, Materialism is a "mindset" or "filter" that apriori (ahead of time, before any discussion begins) Rules Out anything/everything but itself." and has brought "a deep darkness to our world!" Academic Materialism is a form of nihilism. Buddha: "We become what we think!

There is NO difference between an academic nor or stereotype and other norms: Bargh observes, "If you are reminded of your group status before performing a test or task, and the cultural stereotype says that your group is not very good at it, your performance will be affected. You will consciously or unconsciously, “buy in” to that stereotype. (John Bargh Before You Know It p.83)

Mannheim pointed out the truth of what Dr. S. Farra statement nearly one hundred years ago. As Christina Maimone observes, “Ideology is, as Mannheim uses the term, a mode of thought that obscures the real condition of society to the group holding the thought, thereby stabilizing the shared social reality of the mode of thought. Groups are simply unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world, that would show their collective perception of the social situation to be a misapplication of thought to experience. Ideology is most strongly associated with groups that have a dominant position in society. Their ideology serves to secure their place in the social order, although the development of their mode of thought was not consciously controlled in this direction.

As long as one is aware of the relationships that determine meaning and shape the way knowledge is situated in the structure of social thought, social science can be a meaningful endeavor that manages to produce knowledge about the absolute world through non-absolute perceptions.

“No one denies the possibility of empirical research nor does any one maintain that facts do not exist [but] …. They exist for the mind always in an intellectual and social context.” [ Karl Mannheim’s work Ideology and Utopia p.102] What makes social knowledge different from knowledge about the physical world is that the meanings given to the knowledge and the ways in which social facts are understood in relation to each other are a part of the social reality of the thinker. Facts about the physical world are not inevitably incorporated into the social reality of the thinker. 13 Knowledge about the social world, however, becomes a part of and is interpreted according to the existing structure of my social reality, my mode of thought.

Christina Maimone, Political Science PhD Stanford (PS 311 – Week 8 Ideology and Utopiahttps://web.stanford.edu › maimone_wk8_p3)

For the record - this essay is about methodology issues which are pervasive and insidious - which Dr. P Wong wants me to publish (being they are all sound arguments - for the most part already posted on academic (i.e "letter")

No social consciousness, no teachings, no spiritual drive (etc.) is a Huge problem! In fact the word "Butchers" comes to mind!

Point of order: My theory of spiritual people is that they are "People!" From forty years of experience I believe I can safely say that a real problem is that to a large degree spirituality got entangled in abstractions - both academic and theological, as well. I pointed out in an academia theology discussion that their definition of theology was totally abstractions (literally) and left people out of the picture. I am a bit cynical and while some Christians talk about a Godless people, I would say - at the moment the Christian God is to a large degree a people-less God.

"However, it appears religious/spiritual behavior must be understood in terms of emotion, perception,

self-consciousness, memory, and many other functions." That also dovetails into Mannheim's argument that mindsets (which while they fall into categories are also unique) are 'filters" that seek certain types of information and exclude other types.

Link to the academi.edu profile

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CharlesPeckJr

As a point of information, I have posted the statement that mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists have no training on academia.edu discussions. Academia.edu is a website for scholars with 77 million members. I am in the top .1% and I have - at the moment - over 281,000 total views of my essays. As a result of posting the education and training questions in academia discussions for years, the only criticism that I got was that "theories" are taught. I point out that spiritual people are not abstractions - and that the theories I have seen - in my view - have serious shortcomings and flaws. In mainstream psychology spirituality is a problem - but spiritual-psychic expericnes are worse, by far. The psychologist, Daryl, Bem states: "Psi is a controversial subject, and most academic psychologists do not believe that psi phenomena are likely to exist. A survey of 1,188 college professors in the United States revealed that psychologists were much more skeptical about psi than respondents in the humanities, the social sciences, or the physical sciences, including physics, They are more than twice as likely as respondents in other disciplines to assert that psi is impossible (34% to 16%) (Wagner & Monnet, 1979)." (1) (p. 5)

Another statement which got no criticism is that psychology failed to properly categorize types of spirituality. Aristotle described scientific methodology as 1. gather the facts and evidence 2. categorize and classify the data 3. analyze the data 4. draw conclusions. That has not been done.

In fact to gather evidence and studies I have to go into the backrooms and the sidelined schools of thought in psychology to gather information. For instance, to find studies about spiritual experiences in grieving I found some in "pastoral care."

It shouldn't be a surprise - in light of the terrifying idea of death and the powerful emotions involved - that dreams and visions of the deceased is one of the most common spiritual-psychic experiences. Of course death is a universal reality of "life" and no one escapes its reach. One small study showed that 68 out of 125 people engage spirituality in grieving. Since it is a universal and relatively widespread, I thought I would briefly highlight some the worldwide studies of dreams of the deceased - studies from Hong Kong, two studies from the U.S., Native American study, a study done in Slovakia, as well as the Philippines & Sweden, etc.

Considering that human consciousness is not a machine as many materialists would like to portray it, it would be reasonable that many people have dreams and visions of the deceased. Furthermore, as J. E Kennedy observes: "In a study of a technique attempting to induce a sense of contact with someone who had died, 96% of the participants with NF personality types reported after-death contact experiences, whereas 100% of the participants with ST (sensing, thinking) personality types did not have these experiences (Arcangel, 1997)."

Chimpanzees Mourning Dorothy, the Chimpanzee

The November issue of National Geographic magazine features a remarkable image of chimpanzees at a rescue center in Cameroon watching the burial of one of their own. Since it was published, the photo and story have gone viral, turning up on websites, in newspapers and on TV shows around the world. National Geographic writer Jeremy Berlin interviewed the photographer, Monica Szczupider, who was working as a volunteer at the rescue center when she took this photo, and who submitted the picture to National Geographic’s Your Shot:

On September 23, 2008, Dorothy, a female chimpanzee in her late 40s, died of congestive heart failure. A maternal and beloved figure, Dorothy spent eight years at Cameroon’s Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, which houses and rehabilitates chimps victimized by habitat loss and the illegal African bushmeat trade." (Behind the Lens: The Grieving Chimps BYMARILYN TERRELL, National geographic) (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/behind_our_photo_of_the_grievi)

As the authors J Gillies and R Neimeyer emphasize, "Death, especially when it takes on the mask of senselessness and meaninglessness, would seem to be the ultimate challenge to the “meaning of life” and the authors note how Janoff-Bulman and McPherson (1997) focused on the subjective “experience” of pain which they relate to the “shattered assumptions” and an “increased awareness” of the fragility of life and human vulnerability (Janoff-Bulman & McPherson, 1997, p.103)" (Loss, Grief, And The Search For Significance: Toward A Model Of Meaning Reconstruction in Bereavement, J Gillies and R Neimeyer) The incredible photo of chimpanzees grieving for Dorothy the maternal chimpanzee should make the vital point that "we" are dealing with incredibly powerful emotions rooted in some very primal instincts.

Ancient dreams!

The most common word used for “dream” throughout Ancient Egyptian history was the noun “resut” which means literally “awakening.” There was no specific verb for dreaming—only a noun. In their terminology, one could see something “in a dream,” or see “a dream.” In other words, a dream was the object of a verb of visual perception—it was something you could passively see, rather than something you could do.

In contrast to modern understandings of the nature of a dream, the Egyptians did not think of it as arising from within the sleeper, nor as a psychological phenomenon, nor as an activity performed by an individual. Rather, it had an objective external existence outside the will of the passive dreamer. In a way, the dream was perceived as a threshold space whose boundaries lay somewhere between the world of the living and the world beyond—one that allowed contact between the dreamer and those who inhabited the afterlife: gods, the dead, daemons, and the damned.

Prior to 750 BCE, only a handful of examples have survived. The earliest are found in letters to the dead. On one, a woman writes to her deceased female relative, begging her to expel the pain of her body while she watches the deceased fight on her behalf in a dream. Another letter contains what may be the first recorded case of an anxiety dream caused by a guilty conscience. Here, a man writes to his dead father begging him to prevent another dead man from malevolently watching him in a dream. (Visions of divinities were exceptional. Dreams of Early Ancient Egypt By Kasia Szpakowska)

In a study of a technique attempting to induce a sense of contact with someone who had died, 96% of the participants with NF personality types reported after-death contact experiences, whereas 100% of the participants with ST (sensing, thinking) personality types did not have these experiences (Arcangel, 1997).

DREAMS AS COMMUNICATION METHOD BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE DEAD ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY FROM SLOVAKIA - GABRIELA KILIÁNOV Á

Gabriela Kilianov introduces her study of dreams of deceased in Slovakia by saying that “Dreams about deceased ancestors and departed relatives or friends represent a special category of dream experience in European and non-European societies. Research findings have demonstrated a rather high frequency of their occurrence. Anybody can have this experience; it is not limited to such “experts” as shamans, healers, or priests. In various cultures, dreams about ancestors or deceased relatives have been perceived as a means of communication between the living and the dead to convey messages, warnings, or explanations, or to ask for help (see, e.g., Jedrej 1992: 114, 121; Shaw 1992: 42–45; Hasan-Rokem 1999: 216 ff.; Pócs 1999: 29 ff.; Tiukhteneva 2007: 43 ff.). (p. 7 -8)

In her conclusion she goes on to say, “Dream narratives about the dead present a consistent and important part of everyday communication in Závod. Usually, they are confined to private talks, but in some circumstances the boundary between private and public talks is rather fuzzy. In some specific cases, narrators may even deliberately try to promote their dream narratives in public talk to give the community important messages about family affairs that for some reason became public events. Descriptions and interpretations of dreams mostly belong to women’s activities. If a message from the dead communicated in a dream requires some action, this is mostly performed by women (prayers, requesting a mass for the dead, giving alms, mending family relationships, etc.).

Gabriela Kilianov also includes what is a regular or normal statement in many studies – the prevalence of women as an overriding significance in spirituality. She states, “The findings presented here demonstrate that dream narratives are told mostly by women either to other women or to a mixed audience. Representations of dreams as a communication method between the living and the dead do not depend on women’s education, age, or social position. They are instead related to the vigor of their Christian faith (concepts of the souls, heaven, hell, and purgatory) and to their interest in various supernatural phenomena that have been intensively discussed in the press, on TV and radio, and so on.”

In contrast, a recent review of "numerous" studies of people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences by Park and Paloutzian reveal that somewhere between one third to one half of people have spiritual-psychic experiences - of every type and variety imaginable - though hardly any talk about them. Study after study clearly indicate that – in this open-minded society based on Judeo-Christian beliefs which “value” spirituality – people who have spiritual experiences literally fear retaliation if they speak openly about their spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences [for good reason I must add]. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies definitely "establish the normalcy of such reports and that social scientists have until recently ignored a common-phenomena." (p. 67)

Yet, no one knows anything about the minimally 110 million Americans who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences for two reasons. The first is - as study after study after study show - people who have experiences literally are afraid to even talk about them for fear of being degraded and humiliated. The second reason is that mainstream psychology has sidelined and marginalized all information about spirituality. So, of course in reading my writing many who read what I write may feel like Dorothy - because a lot of the information I present is strange and alien, as it were, and people may think, "Toto, I do believe we are no longer in Kansas!"

Forty Years of Virtual Ostracism, Degradation and Dehumanizing Treatment

Introduction:

When I had my first experiences back in 1981, one of which as both detailed and notarized, definitely felt like Dorothy - by far. That is actually a somewhat common feeling for many who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. My personal goal has always been to understand the experiences and cope with them rather than "prove them." In forty years I have gained a fair amount of understanding, and I can sum up the biggest problem as being a lot of maladaptive stereotypes. The first maladaptive stereotype would be the king-kong crystal ball stereotype. A widespread folklore misconception is that prophecy is about prediction - which happens to be false. Jeremiah hardly "predicted" anything at all and Ezekiel's Tyre prophecy was off base.

I might briefly mention that the horse-cart-metaphor prophecy paradigm is that of a horse pulling a cart with goods (Word of God). The horse is the prophecy-prediction which energizes the prophecy and the cart is the prophets narrative which structures the prophecy. If you think about - Why would God put prophets on earth solely and entirely to make predictions. Jesus Christ never even hinted that to be true in the Gospels. As a point of information, most Christian theologians portray prophets as prophets & social activists and idealists promoting social justice. (Jeremiah's Potter House Prophecy: Shaping Consciousness [as PhD Barton explains], New Prophecy Paradigm (horse and cart metaphor), & Prophets do not make predictions): https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/jeremiah-potter-s

As a result of this pervasive crystal ball maladaptive stereotype, when you compare apples to apples Nostradamus, Jeane Dixon, and Edgar Cayce too had very high rates of failure.

In any case, to start, I would emphasize that Jean MacPhail, an author, scholar, and former fellow at Harvard Neuropathology observes - my personal spiritual-psychic experiences are unique - in part because many are documented and also because the experiences relate to events outside myself! While my spiritual-psychic experiences are indeed somewhat haphazard my (often documented) spiritual-psychic experiences are best described as being consistently perceptions of political “threats to the group” - as it were. Perhaps my experiences could best understood as human variants of the alarm calls of animals. An important point is that all the interpretations of my spiritual-psychic experiences could easily be described as reasonable. and consistent!

The highlights from my forty years of spiritual-psychic experiences would be these experiences:

my most recent email would be to Baltimore, MD FBI agent McElwee warning of the Nashville bombing on 12-25-2020 which occurred on two months later on 12-25-22, Christmas day.
1981 call I made to the FBI in Toledo, Ohio warning of an impending attack on President Reagan,
notarized & exceptionally detailed, "What a nightmare - Mustard Seed" warning-spiritual epiphany from October 18, 1981. Details: group fabricating bombs, money -twice, New York, death, woman, the title "What a nightmare" identified Weathermen terrorist manifesto
call to the CIA warning about 9/11

Postscript: Link to a list of experiences with over a dozen documented: Overview of Precognitive Dreams & Experiences - w/ supporting evidence from Bem's Precognitive Experiments

Link: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/overview-perceptions-dreams

An illustration of spirituality: What is spirituality?

Since I write about consciousness-spirituality, an illustration of how I envision spirituality might be in order. Only too often as soon as I bring up "spirituality" - frequently, people talk about ghosts or aliens or twilight zone spiritual alien beings. Personally, I could care less about ghosts. However I care deeply about people who have experiences of ghosts - especially those who are grieving. Consistently, studies reveal that - depending on the questions - somewhere between one third to half of people have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. And from my research it is also clear that mainstream psychologists know next top nothing about the minimally 110 million Americans who have spiritual experiences.

Dr. Neal, trained at Johns Hopkins University, stated she had no training or education in people who have spiritual-psychic experiences - which has been confirmed from other sources as well. Take the reference textbook, The Handbook of Self and Identity, edited by Mark R. Leary and June Price Tangney. Those editors state the purpose of their book, saying that “Given the tremendous advances in theory and research on the self over the past few decades, the time seemed ripe to assimilate the work in this burgeoning area within a Handbook of Self and Identity.” (p. xi) The Handbook of Self and Identity is over 700 pages long and quite comprehensive. I bought the Handbook to help me in my research about the role of meaning in personality theory – and it was helpful on that issue. Yet, when I recently went to the index of the Handbook, there was NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE reference to spirit or spirituality. The Handbook of Self and Identity lists over 3,000 psychologists that it referenced. How is it that not one of those 3,000 psychologists did not even mention spirit or spirituality?

In my view, 12 year old Edna's spirituality is one of the best illustrations of spirituality. [as Christ meant it - in my view]. The following is an excerpt from an article about a study of children's spirituality. In my view spirituality is about people and my theory of spiritual people is that they are in fact "people!"

Edna: "I began to understand then, that everything I needed to overcome the turmoil that I was experiencing, was within myself … Spirituality became a part of my life, and was repeatedly looked upon for understanding in other situations. My spirituality is a part of my very existence that is made up of hopes, mysteries, and values. It is shown in my interactions with others, and in my writing … It is the light of being that gives meaning and understanding to everything and everyone that I encounter. I give thanks to the spirituality within me.

You wouldn’t ordinarily think a 12-year-old could write something as sophisticated and profound as that – but this was written by “Edna (12), struggling with the death of her father,”

from my essay on children's spirituality: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/children-spirituality

Also, I would point out that Edna also encapsulates my argument that spirituality is a form of social consciousness:

Edna: "My spirituality is a part of my very existence that is made up of hopes, mysteries, and values. It is shown in my interactions with others, and in my writing … It is the light of being that gives meaning and understanding to everything and everyone that I encounter."

Essay on social consciousness: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/social-consciousness-5-9-22

That being said, I should emphasize that quite often transcendental spirituality goes hand in hand with "the light of being that gives meaning and understanding to everything and everyone that I encounter." Jean MacPhail is a scholar, author, and former fellow at Harvard neuropathology. In her book, "A Spiral Life" Jean explains how - at age five her mother walked out one day, never to come back, and at age five she knew her mother had died. In her book, Jean explained an event which greatly disturbed her mother when she was just five years old - and observed that "After this episode, she [her mother] was what can only be called fey. It was as if she was under a spell, not living in contact with this world, listening to some call that was leading her to her doom.

That was the last time – at the tender age of five years old - Jean saw her mother alive. Then at age 14, Jean wrote out a poem - foresight vision of her mother's death coupled with spiritual epiphany - a synthesis of emotions and realities in forging a new life which displayed both grace and wisdom out of place for such a young girl of fourteen years old. It wasn't until Jean reached the age of 23 that Jean finally worked up the courage to confront the medical examiner - and discover her vision had been consistent with the way her mother died and was found in a "burn" (Scottish word for a kind of watercourse) and seemed to have died of cold and exhaustion.

Jean wrote an exquisite poem that described her foresight and put her [internal] house [mind] in order much the way Edna did

Where lies a broken temple

Silvered by the weak moon.

A wreath of curling locks

And an arm stretched out,

Cold, cold and heavy,

Soaked with the dews of night,

Devoid of life and sadness.

In the next section Jean puts a wonderful perspective on her mothers tragic death. the verses clearly show a recognition and realization as a child she had been powerless "the sighs of a child" - yet still recognizing her deep sorrow.

"Fleeting wings bring the sighs

Of a child;

Teardrops fall as drops of gentle rain"

The poem ends with a wonderful "resolution" of her reality - love and grief. For a 14 year old to end with love I feel is a testimony of character and will.

The eye of love and a heart cries

In the still, warm night.

Lastly the lines below seem to reflect a foresight that her mother had died far form town.

"On eyelids of white as marble.

A light of dim and yellow

Glows in the town."

So Jean MacPhail's experience mirrored Edna's view that "I began to understand then, that everything I needed to overcome the turmoil that I was experiencing, was within myself … Spirituality became a part of my life, and was repeatedly looked upon for understanding in other situations."

Link to synopsis of Jean MacPhail's childhood experience

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/jean-macphail-epiphany

Partly due to the powerful emotions involved in spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences, they often tend to be very independent as well as having diverse mindsets. My personal guiding lights are "spirit and truth" (John 4:23-24) which is a very inclusive principle. That includes the spirituality of many diverse religious beliefs as well as Einstein's Yugen. Albert Einstein expressed his powerful drive to understand and realize the truth of the universe in observing: “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Einstein's judgment and understanding was generally well balanced often with profound insights. For instance Einstein observed that "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." (Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press)

Half of my FB friends are poets. I consider myself an artist much more than a psychic, since I have had a number of documented spiritual-psychic experiences - more similar to Irish poet-theologian John O'Donohue than to Nostradamus or Jeane Dixon. Moitreyee Raj, a very talented Indian poet, artist, and "story teller commented on an essay I wrote about social consciousness. The essay on social consciousness compares the modern view of psychology which assumes that "There is no psychology of groups." (Allport) and that consciousness is restricted to the firing of neurons in the brain to the historically pivotal cultural concepts of social consciousness such as Dharam in Hinduism, the social order of Confucianism, the well-developed idea of community in Judaism, the idea of Anum Cara - Celtic soul friend - developed by John O'Donohue, as well as the idea of Kapwa in Filipino.

Karina Lagdameo-Santillan did such an excellent job explaining the truth of "social consciousness I feel I should include what she said. She quotes the founder of Filipino psychology (which deviates from strictly western psychology: “Kapwa is a recognition of a shared identity, an inner self, shared with others. This Filipino linguistic unity of the self and the other is unique and unlike in most modern languages. Why? Because implied in such inclusiveness is the moral obligation to treat one another as equal fellow human beings. If we can do this – even starting in our own family or our circle of friends – we are on the way to practice peace. We are Kapwa People.” — Professor Virgilio Enriquez, founder of Sikolohiyang Pilipino.” Of course, Christ stated unequivocally: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another!” (John 13:34-35) Buddha has dozens of quotes about love and the word compassion/compassionate are the most frequent word in the Quran. I believe this is too true of western culture.

I am a bit sarcastic at times, I feel I have an obligation to highlight the fact that - literally - there are more references to compassion in the Quran than in any of the five psychology of religion textbooks I have. Eight was the highest number of references to compassion in the five textbooks on the psychology of religion that I have and that textbook happened to have an equal number of references to Freud. It is true that the medium is the message.

I asked both an Episcopalian and Anglican priest if in light of the fact that Christianity fought science tooth and nail from Galileo to Darwin, if it wasn't hsi8toriclaly ironic that Christianity accepted psychology without any questions or challenges. They both answered unequivocally, "Yes"

I point out that academic materialism is based to a large degree on a fallacy - and so teaching untruths - also know as lies. I have had over 40,000 views of my academia-edu profile which states that "Academic materialism is unscientific and destructive" without a single criticism. Christian theologians and leaders are just not adopting - at all.

Moitreyee said "Charlie Peck yes the one thing that really strikes me in this write is the mentioning of the fact that religion is a way of life, and is not something that has to be performed at certain times or in certain places. I believe in this and support this whole heartedly. My religion lives in my work.🌹. Thank you once again for sharing." I responded, "Moitreyee Raju yes! and thank you for your comments. I think that there is a Lot of Truth to what you say - and more should focus on living "the life" than rituals. [and especially politics]! When you strip away the external religious wrapping, clothing, and too often dogma - underneath human spirituality is remarkably similar and spirituality at times can bridge the external religious hinderances. The Upanishads also highlight the vital role of the idea and archetype of life: Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity." Similarly, Christ observed, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10)

As far as spirituality, I have found that the framework that Christ spoke about over two thousand years ago is still a viable framework, in spite of the fact that the world - and human consciousness has changed like ten thousand times over.

Then there is Gerlinde, an award winning poetess: "I'm Gerlinde, a writer from Italy, I started to write in September 2020. Gerlinde goes on to say, "Spirituality is a limitless dimension of human experience and has a special approach to life, where research and inner growth counts, extending our life to a deeper level of existence that brings balance to body, mind and soul."

Linda, a Buddhist, in a parallel fashion observed: "for myself, it was a gradual awakening as to who, I AM. It was always there waiting, my first direct experience was at a meditation retreat in Montana... 30 days, no talking, nothing but meditation, food, sleep. One morning, while watching the snow come down outside through a big picture window, I heard the phrase: "This, is all there is"! Later Linda added "My spiritual practices GOT ME TO HERE!"

Some people, in reading some of my writing may feel much like I did in France in 1968-1969 - that they are no longer in Kansas! The basic problem is that materialism has sidelined peoples' spirituality as well as spirituality in general, and so a lot of what I bring up will be "strange" and seem perhaps even alien.

Thank you God for making me crazy!

Van Gogh: observed that “It is only too true that a lot of artists are 'crazy' – it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I’m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I’ll always remain crazy. I am an "outsider!"

My viewpoint is remarkably similar to Van Gogh's! Except after dealing with a lot of close-minded wacky mainstream materialist psychologists and psychiatrists, who as Dr Neal points out, literally know nothing about spirituality, my view is a bit different than Van Gogh' viewpoint. For me, there is not a day that goes by during which I don't thank God for making me crazy. If I took this world seriously I would have found a very high bridge long ago and practiced my diving skills - truly. So, yeah,....Thank you, Thank you,,...Thank you God for making me crazy! And, yeah!....I am an outsider - no question about it!

Spirituality and spiritual beliefs as drive

When it comes to spirituality in psychology and the social sciences, I encounter absurd situations quite frequently. I have researched the spirituality question substantially for roughly ten years. In my situation because I have had spiritual experiences I knew what I was looking for. Now I have researched and researched and researched specifically the question of spiritual and religious motivation and/or drive. It was one of the first questions I explored when I started posting essays in 2017. Actually, I first started asking about spiritual and religious drive, for instance, in connection with Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and so on. Of course, there were the prophets like Jeremiah, Moses, Isaiah and others who were seriously persecuted yet still persevered which would necessitate a serious drive and motivation.

I started with S. Schindler, an award-winning author and retired professor of religion. I also asked questions in several discussions on academia-edu, and encountered consistently negative answers that there is no drive or motivation connected with spirituality. I brought it up with Dr P Wong in connection with an essay about stone worship and the seeming self-evident conclusion that a drive had to eb involved. Dr Wong instructed me to check with other psychologists - Dr Emmons. Dr Park and many others – which I did. I have google-scholared spiritual beliefs as drive and came up with nothing. Furthermore, I found nothing in any of my five psychology of religion textbooks.

So, my question is: How is "we" have particle accelerators, rovers on Mars, the Hubble telescope and every kind and type of telescope imaginable, and we can measure the spin of two subatomic particles separated by large distances but "our science" has no explanation for how all the religions and spiritual beliefs came into being and no idea how all the millions and millions of churches and temples came into being.

Setting the Stage: Ultra Brief Spiritual Biography

As Jean MacPhail, an author and scholar, observes - my personal spiritual-psychic experiences are unique in part because they are documented and they relate to events outside myself! While my spiritual-psychic experiences are indeed somewhat haphazard my (often documented) spiritual-psychic experiences are best described as being consistently perceptions of political “threats to the group” - as it were. Perhaps best understood as human variants of the alarm calls of animals. An important point is that all the interpretations of my spiritual-psychic experiences could easily be described as reasonable. It might be best to start with my warning letters to the allies.

“Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger” - Thrasymachus

March 2017 The American Might Makes Right Historical Cycle: Head's Up - Warning Letters to Embassies of Allies

In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017, I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians, they rose to the leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

Some of the things he said to Angela Merkel are just unbelievable: he called her 'stupid,' and accused her of being in the pocket of the Russians. He's toughest with those he looks at as weaklings and weakest with the ones he ought to be tough with. The intelligence leak from foreign intelligence sources led to further revelations such as how Trump called May a “fool” on a phone call which was alter verified by former National Security advisor Bolton in his book. Bolton went on to say how he, former Secretary of State Tillerson, former Defense Secretary General Mattis, as well as another former top national security advisor all agreed that Trump is “delusional” – off his rocker in common parlance. So, it turned out I was right and then some in my letters to allies.

As a point of order, I sent copies of my letter to the allies to several US Senators, as well – Senator Van Hollen, Senator Warren, Senator Sanders, as I recall – as well as several Congressmen, including Ruppersberger as I recall. I did get a letter eventually from US Senator Van Hollen expressing interest in research into spiritual experiences. Link to that letter:

https://my.website-editor.net/home/site/2e831e00655d4730a39d2e1264515dac/letters-from-senator-van-hollen-and-governor The bottom line is that is how I got email addresses for Senator Van Hollen, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Hassan.

While that letter did get the attention of some Senators, It also got some unwanted attention. My accounts such as my Ionas account my comcast email account, etc. have been hacked periodically. A computer expert who specializes in security said that in commercial work hacking is, unfortunately, currently common place. The computer expert also stated unequivocally that in commercial work, people are targeted. I have a list of problems and incidents that have occurred. I have PTSD and one of the triggers is getting hacked. I have been know to go ballistic from time to time though going off the rails happens much less these days. I confess, as a result of going off the rails, I have been known to write spicy emails on occasion.

I began serious research about ten years ago. The most shocking discovery is that clinical psychologists and psychiatrists have absolutely no education or training in people who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. Dr. Neal, who trained at Johns Hopkins, stated she had no training. That has been confirmed by several other sources including Kaiser Permanente Quality assurance.

For perspective, my documented experiences are unprecedented historically both in detail and consistency. Also, I have done a LOT of research into spiritual-psychic experiences as well as research into the spirituality of grieving, recovering addicts, as well as children's spirituality. Instead of saying - "That's interesting! Let's talk!" Kaiser Permanente has been trying to put me down and shut me up. 9/11 had quite an impact on me. After 9/11, I said to my self "This world is pretty screwed up!" After calling the CIA and warning about 9/11 and then watching as thousands of Americans die, I am just not going to let some two-bit punk who has not idea what they are doing push me around. I actually never had an intelligent conversation with family either, and conflicts emerged with my Lutheran wife after I went public. I have PTSD and at the worst of it my Lutheran - now ex-wife - literally got in m y face and told me what I was a failure for calling the CIA. Why should people believe me? Because I say so. I have enough other documentation - plus anyone who reads my writing and has any kind of common sense will realize I am just not the type to make stuff up. I have no idea what the U.S. government's problem is - and this point I could care less. I have enough documentation and several essays endorsed by prominent psychologists that I can stand on my own.

Preface: The 1.5% rule!

It is believed, that in the USA roughly 1.5% of people are autistic. So, comparably only 1.5% of people in the US would need to have the characteristic of “the spirituality of compassion” in order for that to be a valid scientific phenomenon. Many think that there has to be some huge monolithic spirit - almost in terms perhaps of “The Blob that Ate Chicago (great movie – though a little dated having been made in 1958). Precisely because of that, I try to avoid using the term “spirituality” and try to talk about "spiritualties" because it is clear from my research that spirituality is a spectrum of “spiritualities” - from artistic spirituality to enlightenment.

It really shouldn’t be that difficult to demonstrate that 1.5% of Americans have a drive for compassionate behaviors rooted in spirituality and spiritual beliefs. Last I looked there are 77.5 million Americans engaged in compassionate volunteer work. On top of that genetic research indicates that spirituality and religiosity are inherited to a significant extent. After tens of thousands of years of spiritual and religious beliefs it is a sure bet that spiritual symbols and symbolism are genetically acquired and embedded in the human unconscious – which is consistent with Carl Jung’s theory.

Genetics:

Complementing this is the research of Koenig et al. (2005) who report that the contribution of genes to variation in religiosity (called heritability) increases from 12% to 44% and the contribution of shared (family) effects decreases from 56% to 18% between adolescence and adulthood.”

My Personal Perspective

For me personally, it is vital to help people understand some of the processes and potential of spirituality. Spiritual symbols and symbolism in human consciousness are a potential source of energy and creativity that can be tapped into. Spirituality is, of course separate and distinct from religion which only too often brings the powerful emotions of ideology and the ingroup-outgroup conflict into play.

Spirituality can be very creative. I would briefly mention just a few – like artists Da Vinci, El Greco, Van Gogh, etc. Another example would be Lev Tolstoy, the brilliant Russian novelist who wrote War and Peace, among other novels. was very spiritual. Spiritual poetry dates back to Exodus in some of the proclamations of Moses which were in verse. There are hundreds of famous spiritual including Sufis, Hindus, Lao Tzu, Zen Buddhists, a huge number of Christians, and so on. If one were to erase spiritual art in history, it would be likely that 2/3 of art would be gone. Then, there is the Giant of Science, Isaac Newton, whose religious views were pretty wild, in all truth. There are a ton of spiritually driven scientists such as the largely untrained scientist Faraday who “invented” the magnetic field.

The spirituality of Einstein, who is considered an athirst deserves special mention. Albert Einstein, near the beginning of his career, in a short article titled, The World as I See It (included in Living Philosophies (1931)), eloquently illustrated the spiritual ‘essence of being,’ as it were, when he stated unequivocally, “The most beautiful experience we can have been the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery---even if mixed with fear---that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds---it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; it is in this sense, and this alone, I am a deeply religious man.” (p.11 Ideas)

As Mannheim points out worldviews are filters and everybody's filter works a bit differently. In my view Einstein is perfectly fine and exhibited wonderful balance and excellent judgment. As Ingela Visuri's research of spirituality in "High Functioning Autistics" and exhibit "unexplainable sensory experiences" and very rarely include the concept of God, in part due to their physiological make-up (i.e. deficit in the brain's default network mode - which envisions others and reads their intentions. Autistics filter information differently, yet, in my view their spirituality is perfectly fine. Lind, a Buddhist connection-friend is a very spiritual (and wonderful) person.

Secondly, after forty years of spiritual experiences, I can tell you Academic Materialism as it is today is a very destructive force that needs to be brought into check. excerpt from my academia-edu profile

intro

Academic materialism is unscientific and destructive - because it is based on a fallacy - already established in the essay "Letter to a Congressman" endorsed by Dr. Koenig, Dr Wong, Dr Farra. w/ over 5,000 views on academia & FB science groups). Academic Materialism deviates from scientific materialism & in all truth is a scientific hoax! Plus, in Mannheim's theory Materialism is a Mindset. That is, if all you seek is quantification that is what will be found.

Conclusion

Errors and Omissions: A Materialist Mindset limits awareness, seeking< or "investigation"

The "Psychology of Religion” left out

1. spiritual beliefs as a drive or motivation (I researched extensively),

2. no role at all for the Teachings of Religion, (not in any psychology of religion book I have or in google scholar)

3. No Social Consciousness (since Allport trashed McDougall's group mind - and social consciousness in 1927)

4. no sense of reality William James, 1902 (a student of psychology said she had never heard of that)

5. as Dr. Neal points out clinical psychologists have no training in peoples' spirituality

Roughly 26,000 views of my profile in 30 days and not a single criticism.

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." - Albert Einstein

Preamble:

I am an Independent Scholar-Writer. I focus on what mainstream psychology leaves out of their "standard - and orthodox" - education about spirituality - which is quite a bit to be honest. I write about a diverse range of questions and issues - from art and artistic spirituality to enlightenment. I am a member of the International Network on Personal Meaning, a professional organization of psychologists founded by Dr. Paul Wong.

Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers! – Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

Perhaps the most relevant question regarding spirituality would be: Does the human brain process unusual experiences as unusual?

Bringing Balance to the Force

What I personally find the most distressing is that spirituality has been sidelined and marginalized to the point that universities are not teaching what William James demonstrated in his classic work, Teh Varieties of Religious Experience in1902 - that spiritual experiences create a "sense of reality." Jung said pretty much the same thing that different experiences create different worldviews. But when it comes to norms - by default - universities convey the materialist norm that spiritual experiences are "superstitious nonsense."

A common-sense approach would be to realize that the human brain processes unusual experiences as unusual. That is how Park and Paloutzian conclude that studies show there is a "normalcy" to spiritual experiences - which studies also consistently show that between 1/3 to 1/2 of people have experiences of one sort or another - though they rarely speak about them for fear of retribution (as every author of articles about peoples’ spirituality states. Bringing balance to the force is said only partly tongue in cheek. The materialist norms (for which there is no evidence whatsoever – are as extreme as one can get – “There is no spirituality!” All spirituality is superstitious nonsense!” Those unscientific norms are as extreme and hateful as one can get! So, yes,…”We” need to bring balance to the force!

“We” have set our house on sand.

If you don't understand that there is a "normalcy" - then any meaningful dialogue is impossible. It is only partly tongue in cheek I say that “we” need to bring balance to the force. my academia profile bio does state unequivocally that academic materialism is unscientific and destructive – because it is founded on a fallacy. For years I have been saying “we” have set our house on sand. Everything in the bio is pretty much also in my “Letter to a Congressman” which an essay endorsed by 4 prominent psychologists with over 5,000 views and not one valid criticism (in fact none at all). The current “theory of religion” does not have the “teachings of religion”, no drive, and no social consciousness. If that isn’t sand, I don’t know what is

Perspective on my story: Forty Years of Virtual Ostracism

For perspective – As Jean MacPhail, scholar and author, points out my spiritual-psychic experiences are unique – being documented experiences related to events outside myself – with reasonable and consistent interpretations. In forty years of dealing with professionals not one ever engaged me in conversation or made even the slightest attempt to "talk to me" (as if I were a real human being) about my experiences. In fact, when I brought up my experiences (the "Mustard Seed" is notarized and very detailed) not one of the therapists ever said a single word - not one word. Minimally that is the "silent treatment" you give to "turncoats" in prisoner of war camps. There is no question that the forty-year silent treatment is a severed form of conditioning. Forty years of the "silent treatment" is a long time. I mean talk about dehumanizing - and degrading! To be honest it is abusive - plain and simple. My treatment is in direct contrast to what "published" medical guidelines actually exist. Every author of every study about peoples' spiritual - psychic states most never say anything due to fear of psychologists and psychiatrists. I have talked to a number of people who have had spiritual experiences and most talk about being estranged or alienated. Nunzi, for example, described herself as an "outlier" - similar to how Rebecca, Flynn, and others view themselves. In fact, one of my connection - friends referred to professionals as mindless, heartless, "cannibals!" I get a little over the top in some of my descriptions, as well - from time to time.

Gaslighting

These are passages I need to add regarding hacking (actually gaslighting)

Periodically, my essays are forty-year altered by invasive gaslighting that would appear to be the result of a cyber–Trump Drone. Examples of hacking - this is what I discovered on my divine insight

Here is the original version of Rebecca's poem before being mangled by some cyber dickhead.

Rebecca's Poem: "I must believe or not believe"

The gift and curse of this sight

Colors my world in shades of blue

I must believe or not believe

Stay blind or walk the path to you

And while I surrender to the mystery

All the feelings come along too

I get fractured by this weighted sight

In my personal view Rebecca's poem is the most eloquent and quintessential expression of what goes through a person's mind when they are confronted by the unknown - by chaos. So, to have some sick ignorant Trump dickhead get on my computer and screw around with a wonderful and exquisite poem by Rebecca is past infuriating – it is sickeningly outrageous.

The version of that was altered on my divine insight essay.

Rebecca's insight (mangled)

The gift and curse of this sight

Coloring my world in shades of blue

should I believe or not

Stay blind or walk the way to you

And as I surrender to the mystery

All the emotions come too

I'm offended by this weighty view

Why do I think it is a Trump drone?

I also had my mini essay "might takes right" section removed from my website Homepage is also a serious mind f**k that Trump drones love to do. Also, my Might makes right essays were tampered with on my Ionas website - both my French and my English versions. That is what made it clear that my hacker was a Trump drone. Of course, early on I couldn't even load an essay which was critical of Republican Senator Collins conduct regarding the racial question. On top of that, recently I had an essay altered and the sentence read that people are all the same,

A computer security expert told me that hacking in commercial work is a serious problem. He also said that people are targeted in commercial work. As a result of my "Might makes right" I did get a letter from U.S. Senator Van Hollen partly because I sent copies of my letter in March 2017 to several senators after my letter to the allies. My "read" is that the letter tot eh allies also got the attention of the wrong people. Teh computer expert did say to wipe my computer, etc., - but the expert never said what to do if your accounts are being hacked. I have sent FBI agent McElwee emails with evidence of information on my accounts being hacked - actually gaslighting because they want me to find it (the point of gaslighting). The computer expert also mentioned that if the computers in intelligence are involved which are incredibly sophisticated there really isn't anything you can do.

As I said this invasive gaslighting has been going on since roughly 2020. One of the big things is that I am missing are all the emails I sent to my counselor of old from 2018 – which was a critical year for me. I Sometimes I get hit as many times as twice a week. I find things like the word "laugh" in an essay about spirituality (not exactly a matter of national security so not likely instigated by a proper agency). I have discovered a message I sent to a close friend on FB in the message box of another woman. I have had two pictures on my FB profile - both of minorities - pulled down. I have had a picture of a poet (half the FB connection-friends are poets) that was very nice picture deleted from my computer. It is clear that my hacker friend picks items that I like and they are not random. It is clear the Trump drone wants to get under my skin. Well, it worked.

Postscript – Background & Perspective:

Unprecedented, Exceptionally Detailed, & Documented Spiritual-Psychic Experiences

Jean MacPhail, an author and scholar who has had her own rather intricate spiritual experiences, observed that my roughly dozen or so documented (mostly by email) spiritual-psychic experiences - which are complemented by a fair number of undocumented experiences - are unique, for several reasons. First, the experiences relate to verifiable events in the world outside myself. Furthermore, the dreams and spiritual-psychic experiences all have Reasonable Interpretations - which should be enough - in and of itself -to convince psychologists that my beliefs are reasonable. On top of that the interpretations are very consistent in that the experiences could easily be categorized as perceptions of threats to the group - and, in fact, parallel to the alarm calls of animals.

The highlights from my forty years of what truthfully would best be described as somewhat haphazard spiritual-psychic experiences would be these experiences:

1. 1981 call I made to the FBI in Toledo, Ohio to warn them of the, then, impending attack on President Reagan,

2. the notarized, exceptionally detailed, "What a nightmare - Mustard Seed" warning & spiritual epiphany from October 18, 1981. Details: group fabricating bombs (very precise - had materials and plans but no bombs), money -twice (robbery of Brink's armored truck was the central action), New York, death, woman (Katherine Boudin was a notorious member of the Weathermen terrorist group), Title "What a nightmare" identified Weathermen terrorist manifesto which stated "We are the incubation of your mothers’ worst nightmares""

3. call to the CIA (as well as the FBI a complaint field in Richmond District Court) warning about 9/11

4. recent email to Baltimore, MD FBI agent McElwee warning of the Nashville bombing on 12-25-2020.

Here is a brief summarization of the actual contents of the email warning to FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20 of the Nashville Bombing which occurred on two months later on 12-25-22, Christmas day.

"In a mini -stream of consciousness: "My senses are tingling as it were and red lights are flashing and I feel that there is something up that may turn out to be important.......... terrorism - domestic - and specifically bombs" (<charlie.peckjr@comcast.net> To: "mvmcelwee@fbi.gov" <mvmcelwee@fbi.gov> Date: 10/30/2020 3:30 PM)

Precognitive-Intuitive Dreams

I have had several dreams - four of them being documented by sending emails - all with reasonable and consistent interpretations. For instance, a dream on 1-18-2019, took place partly in Pakistan and partly in the U.S., and centered on the symbolism of Nuclear War had a reasonable interpretation since roughly a month later, India, launched an air strike against Pakistan in retaliation for an attack on Indian civilians in Kashmir by Islamic extremists - and as a result on 2-28-2019, an article appeared: "Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear war." Of course, you cannot take dreams literally.

As a point of order, I have extensively studied historic spiritual psychic experiences. From I my research I believe it would be safe to say in the history of documented spiritual-psychic experiences there are no examples of terrorism. Comparatively assassination - for which there are Of course, eight recorded instances would be easy - name the target and get the timing or place and you "have it" as it were. I should note that so far FBI agent McElwee has not yet complained that I include her actual email address. What I like about agent McElwee is that she did indicate pretty much that - as far as she was concerned - I could interpret my dreams pretty much any way I want to.

“Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger” - Thrasymachus

America 2017 The Might Makes Right Historical Cycle:

Warning Letters to Embassies of Allies March 2017 & Trump’s Abusive Calls to Allies’ Leaders

In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017, I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians, they rose to the leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

As a point of order, I sent copies of my letter to the allies to several US Senators as well – Senator Van Hollen, Senator Warren, Senator Sanders, as I recall – as well as several Congressmen.

I did get a letter eventually from US Senator Van Hollen expressing interest in research into spiritual experiences. Link to that letter: https://my.website-editor.net/home/site/2e831e00655d4730a39d2e1264515dac/letters-from-senator-van-hollen-and-governor

Another example of stream of consciousness illustration – Intelligence fight

This is an example of a foresight of the fight in intelligence over the CIA whistleblower a few years back., Text 9-7-2019: "Images - contrails high in the air. High stakes fight" Later I sent my counselor of old an email about something being up with CIA/Intelligence interesting to the FBI (which accurate)

[Also, I state categorically that with my own eyes I did personally see that a section of my “Might Makes right” essay was removed from both my computer and my Ionas account. The might makes right essay is anti-Trump. That doesn’t even count the other problems I have had which are somewhat documented.]

Here is an article about a "high stakes" fight between an intelligence head of Trump and Schumer who is head of the Senate Intelligence Committee. - which the article states that Schumer has said has never happened in history before (with Trump, not all that surprising), “Legal showdown looms over House subpoena to intel director 9/15/2019:

I also post essays on Academia.edu, a website with 75 million members and - at the moment, my total views number over 206,000 (I am in the top .1%) At the moment I have 1000 "followers" plus 1,920 "highly engaged readers." Here is an excerpt from the bio on my profile. Recently my views on academia.edu have gone haywire: my 30-day Profile Views (my bio) are - at the moment - over 3,100 (in a month) with my 30-day Document Views at over 3,100 (at the moment) per month.

Academic materialism is unscientific and destructive

It is likely that the profile views may surged because I title my bio [on my academia.edu profile] with the headline with "Academic materialism is unscientific and destructive!" - primarily because it is based almost entirely on a fallacy! In fact, I do have an essay - "Letter to a Congressman" endorsed by Dr. Koenig, Dr Wong, Dr Farra - which covers much of the same ground. I would say that it has been "peer reviewed" because - between posting on Academia as well as on FB science groups I have had over 5,000 views. I believe I first posted it in late 2017 or early 2018 and I have not one received a single valid critique of my essay (actually nothing at all really). And the Definist Fallacy was covered in that essay as well.

I should preface this by stating that in my research a rather shocking discovery is that clinical psychologists and psychiatrists have no training in people who have spiritual-psychic experiences. Dr Neal who trained at Johns Hopkins University, told me she had no training or education in peoples' spirituality. This has been confirmed by several other sources. I did get a response that there are theories by psychologists. First I would say people are not abstractions - plus, theories often tend to distort people as much as they accurately portray them. Eric Erikson, whose work one of those theories are based on, wrote biographies of Martin Luther and Gandhi who were very spiritual people. One day I checked and reviewed those biographies and did not find one single reference to either spirit or spirituality. As they say, the medium is the message! None of the five psychology of religion books I have had a reference to William James 1902 observation that spiritual beliefs create a "sense of reality" or Carl Jung's pivotal statement that “Life and spirit are two powers or necessities between which man is placed. Spirit gives meaning to his life, and the possibility of its greatest development. But life is essential to spirit, since its truth is nothing if it cannot live.” (Collected Works (CW8: 648 -1968 revised)) Christ referred to Life many times as well as "Spirit is truth!" (John 5:6) In the Upanishads there are also references to spirt as life (for the record). In any case, it is a fact that clinical psychologists and psychiatrists have no training or education. Think about it, hairdressers have training for God's sake!

1. The Definist Fallacy: I correctly identified the "academic" materialist argument - as defined by W R Miller C E Thoresen, who observe that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” - as precisely the Definist fallacy because spirituality in that context is a loaded term. which both Dr. P Wong and Dr S Farra, both agreed that is a logical fallacy. Dr. Farra observed that the Definist Fallacy is "spiritual poison" An article on Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist's rulings on fallacies in the courtroom, sums up the problem statin unequivocally that fallacies can be very "persuasive" and lead to "crooked thinking."

From my research plus forty years of experience and from discussions with numerous people of all views it is very clear that the Definist fallacy is very persuasive - and, unfortunately, also very widely accepted. I have encountered [way too] many college graduates who refuse to even look at the hundreds of studies of peoples' spirituality that exist - as Pargament points out - because they believe that it is scientifically required to prove God or Spirit in order to have valid spiritual or religious beliefs. That is one version or variation of the Definist Fallacy as expounded by Miller et al. Of course, it is utterly impossible to prove God or Spirit. That is something long ago realized by St Augustine, St Gregory of Nyssa, and many other Christian (and no Christian) scholars know only too well.

I believe any decent study would show widespread "crooked thinking" among academics as well as way too many college graduates. A recent poll showed 31% of Americans believe that there is no spirituality. That is so off the rails, and completely untrue, it is sickening. As the philosopher, Langer notes, the origins of spirituality are in dancing, art, and music. The there is well-proven children and adolescent spirituality, the spirituality of compassion, of course 9on which a large number of studies have been done), grieving, recovering addicts, autistics, as well as the idealism such as exhibited by Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, and Lev Tolstoy.

Brian Josephson, the Nobel Prize winning quantum physicist (who believes telepathy may be scientifically hypothetically possible), observed that materialist scientists have a fixation with the "supernatural" - in complete contrast to an analytic approach focused on the "fruitfulness or (God forbid) the function of spiritual and religious beliefs (such as forming communities or groups). That is without doubt the most salient form of "crooked thinking" resulting from the Definist Fallacy which only too persuasively and too easily unconsciously connected spirituality with the "supernatural," "superstitious nonsense" and the "unreal!" For the record, in contrast to the "supernatural," when Christ spoke about the Holy Spirit, Christ most often spoke in terms of the the "Spirit of Truth," Spirit is Truth (John 5:6), "Life," "guidance" (Luke - Simeon), and Spirit and Truth (John 4:23-24 - spirit and truth being my guiding lights)

When you look at academic materialism from a distance, there is absolutely no facts or evidence to support these norms of Academic Materialism:

1. "All spirituality is superstitious nonsense."

2. "There is no spirituality."

3. "All spirituality is a matter of opinion!"

I should emphasize that many Christian leaders and theologians are letting themselves get manipulated into "crooked thinking" by fallacies which are in essence lies. I have had one too many Christian leader-theologian tell me Academic Materialism - which is based on a fallacy is perfectly fine or "adequate" in the works of one cleric with a collar stated. The Christian psychologists Dr Farra and Dr Wong seem to be the exceptions.

I add in the Definist fallacy which as the Rehnquist article says are "Persuasive" and produce "crooked thinking. To me it is clear that the Definist fallacy is the engine that drive academic materialism

On top of that I argue that internalizing materialism since it is unconscious, has also negatively affected peoples judgment. And I have checked and rechecked - with experts (including probably ten prominent psychology professors), in literature, as well as google scholar - actually since 2017 roughly)

Evidence

1. social sciences do not have the concept of spirituality and religiosity as a major motivation and drive. How can all these religious groups form throughout history and millions and millions of churches and temples be built - without all these "objective" scientists realizing that a drive has to exist.

2. the social sciences have no concept of a proper social consciousness ever since Allport trashed McDougall's group mind in 1927. Of course the materialist dogma states that human consciousness is confined and restricted to the firing of neurons in the human brain - disregarding the fact that human reality is primarily about relationships - not to mention details such as the well know unspoken bond between soldiers in esprit de corps (which is clearly a reality outside the firing of neurons in the brain.

3. I can find no concept of teachings of religion as playing a role in forming communities

4. I can find no concept of one of the functions of religious beliefs as having a role in forming communities or groups. It would seem rather self-evident that since religious beliefs have been pivotal in forming groups that an inherent function would be group formation. .

Furthermore I argue that the materialist mindset has skewed peoples thinking to the extent that my "read" is that it has played a significant role in the Christian no mask madness - which assessments of unnecessary American deaths form that vary from 50,00 to over 100,000 Americans who died needlessly due to unnecessary exposure to covid.

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

Irish poet - spiritual leader John O’ Donohue

In psycho-cybernetics which is a powerful tool in shaping peoples' behavior - "envisioning" a goal is critical! So, what one thinks and how one thinks is vital.

Stereotypes and the Unconscious

People often do a lot of "assuming". A rather pervasive assumption - stereotype - is that quantification equates unequivocally to science. That is a false assumption. Take art, for instance. Art is very real and without question a positive force in humanity. Yet art cannot be quantified - so taking quantification as an absolute rule or principle leads to a serious misconception. Also, as Hume, Einstein and Damasio point out, right and wrong - and good and evil - are beyond the scope of science.

Nietzsche said that truth is to a degree a product of social convention. Mannheim stated the same thing with a focus on social sciences, philosophy, and psychology. On top of that Mannheim observed that these are “modes of thought” or mindsets – which I feel is unfortunately only too correct. That is, Mannheim argues that mindsets filter information. That is, mindsets seek certain types of information and filter out certain types of information., - the Materialist mindset being a prime example.

A good illustration might be spiritual and religious beliefs as a “drive.” The idea of spirituality as drive is built into the mindsets of spiritual people. Yet in social sciences spiritual or religious beliefs as a motivation or drive does not exist for some reason – that is in spite of tens of thousands of years of spiritual and religious beliefs and millions and millions of temples being built (I mean the churches and temples were built by motivated people – not a product of fairy dust).

Mannheim's Materialist Mindset, New Research on the Unconscious and Bargh

Preamble: Mannheim’s Social Consciousness - Ideology as a “Mode of Thought” - Karl Mannheim (1893 – 1947), a founding father of sociology stated unequivocally that “We must realize once and for all that the meanings which make up our world are simply an historically determined and continuously developing structure in which man develops, and are in no sense absolute.” Christine Maimone emphasizes that “Ideology is, as Mannheim uses the term, a mode of thought that obscures the real condition of society to the group holding the thought, thereby stabilizing the shared social reality of the mode of thought. Groups are simply unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world, that would show their collective perception of the social situation to be a misapplication of thought to experience." IN Mannheim's theory, then the social sciences would fall into the category of ideologies and "modes of thought" - as would all spiritual and religious worldviews, as well. Furthermore it would appear to be self-evident that "modes of thought" presupposes social consciousness in one form or another.

What makes Mannheim's materialist mindset question, an especially troublesome issue, is that - as Bargh points out - stereotypes and norms are generally unconscious as well as being outside conscious awareness to a great degree. . Bargh stated in “The Unbearable Automaticity of Being, John A Bargh & Tanya L. Chartrand - p. 462 July 1999 American Psychologist), that “The idea that social perception is a largely automated psychological phenomenon is now widely accepted. Many years of research have demonstrated the variety of ways in which behaviors are encoded spontaneously and without intention in terms of relevant trait concepts…..” ). Perceptual interpretations of behavior, as well as assumptions about an individual's behavior based on identified group membership, become automated like any other representation if they are frequently and consistently made in the presence of the behavioral or group membership features.

Bargh states that "Three major forms of automatic self-regulation are identified: an automatic effect of perception on action, automatic goal pursuit, and a continual automatic evaluation of one's experience. From the accumulating evidence, the authors conclude that these various nonconscious mental systems perform the lion's share of the self-regulatory burden, beneficently keeping the individual grounded in his or her current environment." Later Bargh does assess mainstream psychology in stating, "Thus, the mainstream of psychology accepts both the fact of conscious or willed causation of mental and behavioral processes and the fact of automatic or environmentally triggered processes."

Bargh goes on to say that, "Imagine for a moment that you are a psychology professor who does experiments on conscious awareness. You keep finding that your subtle manipulations of people's judgments and even behavior are successful—causing your experimental participants to like someone or to dislike that same person, to feel happy or sad, to behave rudely or with infinite patience. However, none of your participants have a clue as to what caused them to feel or behave in these ways. In fact, they don't believe you, and sometimes even argue with you, when you try to explain your experiment to them and how they were caused to feel or behave."

In conclusion Bargh observes, Mental categories are absolutely essential in simplifying and understanding the information-rich environment (e.g., Bruner, 1957; E. E. Smith & Medin, 1981), but stereotypes are maladaptive forms of categories because their content does not correspond to what is actually present or going on in the environment. We reasoned therefore that even though automatic stereotype effects on behavior could cause problems in social interaction as demonstrated by Chen and Bargh (1997), the more natural effect of perception on behavior—when perceptual activity is based on what is actually going on at the moment— would be more positive. In other words, the express link between perception and action likely exists for a good, adaptive reason, such as creating appropriate behavioral readinesses in the absence of conscious guidance and monitoring. Within a social group setting, one is more likely to get along harmoniously with others in the group if one is behaving similarly to them, compared with being "out of sync" and behaving differently. Thus, it makes sense for the default behavioral tendency in an interaction to be based on one's perception of what the other person is doing."

I must confess the tenacity with which some Christian theologians and leader hang on to the materialist mindset which is based largely literally on a fallacy brings to mind the verse in chapter 13 of Revelations: "And all the world marveled and followed the beast."- keeping in mind that Mannheim was right and Materialism is a mindset - which is easily and readily internalized like so many other stereotypes and norms - mostly unconsciously as Bargh notes.

Spiritual Beliefs versus Religious Beliefs

I do need to emphasize that spirituality is distinct and from religious beliefs! In fact, often spiritual beliefs are in conflict with religious beliefs. My personal guiding lights are "spirit and truth" as in John 4:23-24 and I would say after 40 years of spiritual and spiritual-psychic experiences I would say that the Holy Spirit and while I do believe in as transcendental intelligence (God), I believe that talking about God is presumptuous - as does St Augustine, St Gregory of Nyssa, and Denys the Areopagite (late 5th to early 6th century) as well as many other Christian leaders and other spiritual leaders such as Lao Tzu. While I believe in God, I also strongly feel that talking about God is “babbling incoherently” as Denys the Areopagite observes.

Furthermore in light of the American right wing Trump Christian racism which is an abomination, I would say that while I am a follower of Christ, but I am Not a Christian. In fact one study revealed that 25% of people today say they are spiritual but not religious. Lastly I would comment that I believe everyone has a spirt and I will talk to anyone for hours if they will let m e about spirituality. Studies consistently show that one third to one half of people have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences. What I have found is that - since people throughout the world in every culture has spiritual experiences - spirituality can often bridge across religious obstacles.

Being that culture (and some genetic predispositions as well) are a major influence in peoples' - genetically my DNA results indicate that I am roughly one third Irish with a strong Scottish factor and genetic connections with Bretons and Welsh - and today happens to be St Patrick's day I feel quoting Irish poet- spiritual leader John O’Donohue would be in order - and a quintessential illustration of spirituality.

May I live this day

Compassionate of heart

Clear in Word

Gracious in awareness

Courageous in thought

Generous in love

Irish poet- spiritual leader John O’Donohue

So, - What is spirituality?

A Basic Building Block of Spirituality: The Genetics of Spiritual and Religious Beliefs

One approach I feel is off base would be those psychologists or others who think that it is just "those" people who have spiritual experiences and are spiritual - and different from others.

Gilbert Todd Vance, in an article, Genetics of Religiosity, states that, “While it may at first appear that religiosity would not be influenced by genes, studies have shown that genetic effects contribute to individual differences in a wide array of traits and behaviors, including social attitudes, personality, vocational interests, IQ, and religiosity.” Furthermore, genetic studies of the hereditability of personality traits, including twin studies, including a large cross-cultural twin study completed in North America, Europe, and Asia by Yamagata S, Suzuki A, Ando J, Ono Y, Kijima N, Yoshimura K, Ostendorf F, Angleitner A, Riemann R, Spinath FM, Livesley WJ, et al. (2006), do strongly suggest that both heritability as well as environmental factors influence personality traits using the five-factor model of personality.

James Kennedy, in discussing the genetic aspect of spiritual and psychic experiences, notes that, “In fact, it is likely that humans have evolved genetically-based personality characteristics that are highly adaptive to environmental conditions (Plotkin 1998). (p.40)

My argument is that everyone has "roughly" (likely very roughly) the same built in software - unconscious symbolism and so forth. Everyone due to personality and other factors filter and understand things differently. Take Einstein for instance. Einstein was a very spiritual person at the core. He just happened not to believe in God. I quote Einstein all there tiem. he had very good judgment overall - and he was a heck of alot better than the Evangelical preacher who actually stated publicly that God put Trump in the world so Trump could exorcise America (that's a quote)

One approach I feel is offbase would be those psychologists or others who think that it is just "those" people who have spiritual experiences and are spiritual.

The Genetics of Spiritual and Religious Beliefs

Perspective:

Unprecedented, Exceptionally Detailed, & Documented Spiritual-Psychic Experiences

The highlights from my forty years of what truthfully would best be described as somewhat haphazard spiritual-psychic experiences would be these experiences:

1981 call I made to the FBI in Toledo, Ohio to warn them of the, then, impending attack on President Reagan, a
the notarized, exceptionally detailed, "What a nightmare - Mustard Seed" warning & spiritual epiphany from October 18, 1981. Details: group fabricating bombs (very precise - had materials and plans but no bombs), money -twice (robbery of Brink's armored truck was the central action), New York, death, woman (Katherine Boudin was a notorious member of the Weathermen terrorist group), Title "What a nightmare" identified Weathermen terrorist manifesto which stated "We are the incubation of your mothers worst nightmares""
call to the CIA (as well as the FBI a complaint field in Richmond District Court) warning about 9/11
recent email to Baltimore, MD FBI agent McElwee warning of the Nashville bombing on 12-25-2020.

Here is a brief summarization of the actual contents of the email warning to FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20 of the Nashville Bombing which occurred on two months later on 12-25-22, Christmas day.

Supplemental illustration 9-7-2019

This is one more illustration of a stream of consciousness perception. It is an example of a foresight of the fight in intelligence over the CIA whistleblower that happened a few years back. Text 9-7-2019: "Images - contrails high in the air. High stakes fight" Later I sent my counselor of old an email about something coming up with CIA/Intelligence interesting to the FBI (which appears accurate)

Here is an article about a "high stakes" fight between an intelligence head of Trump and Schumer who is head of the Senate Intelligence Committee. - which the article states that Schumer has said has never happened in history before (with Trump, not all that surprising). “Legal showdown looms over House subpoena to intel director 9/15/2019: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/legal-showdown-looms-over-house-subpoena-to-intel-director/ar-AAHkAgr?ocid=spartandhp

Precognitive-Intuitive Dreams

As a point of order, I have extensively studied historic spiritual psychic experiences. From I my research I believe it would be safe to say in the history of documented spiritual-psychic experiences there are no examples of terrorism. Comparatively assassination - for which there are are eight recorded instances would be easy - name the target and get the timing or place and you "have it" as it were. I should note that so far FBI agent McElwee has not yet complained that I include her actual email address. What I like about agent McElwee is that she did indicate pretty much that - as far as she was concerned - I could interpret my dreams pretty much any way I want to.

America 2017 The Might Makes Right Historical Cycle: “Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger” - Thrasymachus

Warning Letters to Embassies of Allies March 2017 & Trump’s Abusive Calls to Allies’ Leaders

In letters that I mailed to the embassies of our allies in Mid-March 2017, I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians they rose to the leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring."

As a point of order, I sent copies of my letter to the allies to several US Senators as well – Senator Van Hollen, Senator Warren, Senator Sanders, as I recall – as well as several Congressmen. I did get a letter eventually from US Senator Van Hollen expressing interest in research into spiritual experiences. Here is a link to that letter: https://my.website-editor.net/home/site/2e831e00655d4730a39d2e1264515dac/letters-from-senator-van-hollen-and-governor

Forty Years of Virtual Ostracism

For perspective - in forty years of dealing with professionals not one ever engaged me in conversation or made even the slightest attempt to "talk to me" (as if I were a real human being) about my experiences. In fact when I brought up my experiences (the "Mustard Seed" is notarized and very detailed) not one of the therapists ever said a single word - not one word. Minimally that is the "silent treatment" you give to "turncoats" in prisoner of war camps. There is no question that the forty year silent treatment is a severed form of conditioning. Forty years of the "silent treatment" is a long time. I mean talk about dehumanizing - and degrading! To be honest it is abusive - plain and simple. My treatment is in direct contrast to what "published" medical guidelines actually exist. Every author of every study about peoples' spiritual - psychic states most never say anything due to fear of psychologists and psychiatrists. I have talked to a number of people who have had spiritual experiences and most talk about being estranged or alienated. Nunzi, for example, described herself as an "outlier" - similar to how Rebecca, Flynn, and others view themselves. In fact, one of my connection - friends referred to professionals as mindless, heartless, "cannibals!" I get a little over the top in some of my descriptions, as well - from time to time.

Medical Guidelines: Cultural Religious Competence In Clinical Practice (very similar to others like the Mayo clinic

Diana L. Swihart; Siva Naga S. Yarrarapu; Romaine L. Martin.

Recommendations

Apologize for cultural mistakes

Ask the patient and family how you can help make their experience more comfortable.

Avoid being judgmental

Avoid making assumptions and be patient.

Avoid employees serving as interpreters for other employees.

Be aware of the uniqueness of their religion and their special needs.

Be respectful

"Be respectful!" would be the key - like the golden rule in psychology "I am OK! You are OK!"

John O'Donohue, the Irish poet and spiritual leader, I think, put it best in his description of friendship “Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”

In fact connectivity is an essential aspect of spirituality. – John O’Donohue in his well written book, Anam Cara: Wisdom from the Celtic World, observed that "According to Celtic tradition, the soul shines all around the body like a luminous cloud. When you are very open – appreciative and trusting – with another person, your two souls flow together. This deeply felt bond with another person means you have found an Anam Cara, or "soul friend." Your Anam Cara always beholds your light and beauty, and accepts you for who you truly are."

"Being Crazy is Perfectly Legal!"

What I find infuriating is that - in my situation it is clear to me that their policies and ostracism - conditioning are deliberate. may seven or eight years ago, when, in my search for a sympathetic psychologist, I came across a psychologist, who happened to be familiar with Lillydale, a city in New York - a city dedicated to “psychics.” In fact, John related a story he had heard about a psychic. John's story told about a psychic who told a client that his father had two funerals. After the client thought for a minute, the client responded that, "Yes, that is correct." The client's family had been so divided over a rather insignificant dispute that it had become necessary to hold two funerals.

I was really looking forward to meeting with John. I brought up my notarized, precognitive “What a nightmare” warning-prediction, in part because I wanted to make sure we were singing off the same page and he understood where I was coming from and also because it is very complex and I am still not sure I fully understand it. John asked why I wanted to talk about it, saying he didn’t think that a good thing. I told him because it is unique in a historical sense partly because comparatively due to its detail and partly because there are maybe around a dozen documented precognitive ‘predictions’ in historical literature.

John responded, “Oh no, there are thousands of documented predictions.” I was utterly shocked - just dumfounded - because I knew from very substantial research that that was completely off the wall, and utterly ridiculous. I briefly asked him where he got his information. Rather than answer he repeated his statement. I wasn’t going to sit there and listen to a blithering idiot so I got up to walk out. John blurted out, “You should thank me. Any other psychologists would think you are crazy.” Without skipping a heartbeat, I hotly retorted, “It is perfectly legal to be crazy!” – turned on my heel and left. I should really should have added, "If I weren't crazy, there is no way I would ever be able to get along with all the wacky lunatics like yourself."

Lastly, I would highlight that form my research, psychologists and psychiatrists actually have zero education or training in people who have spiritual - psychic experiences. Dr Neal, who was trained at Johns Hopkins stated she has not had any training whatsoever. Teh lack of training was confirmed by KP as well as being confirmed by other sources. It is a bite in the ass to realize psychologists, psychiatrists - and a whole lot of others say a whole lot of things - and it turns out they know absolutely nothing about people who have spiritual - psychic experiences. If that were not bad enough, my research showed that psychologists don't even have any knowledge of William James ground breaking work The Varieties of Religious experiences in which James demonstrated that spiritual experiences create a sense of reality. I talked to a student of psychology who said she had never herd of James classic work The Varieties of Religious Experiences. Common Sense would tell you that "unusual" experiences would be categorized by the brain as "unusual!" Not according to many psychology - oriented people I speak with.

Charles E Peck Jr. - My "bio" from my academia.edu profile - elaborated.

Academia.edu is a website for academics and scholars with 75 million member - in which I am in the top .5%! Independent Scholar

Organizations: member of International Network on Personal Meaning founded by Dr. Paul Wong,

- 1975 graduate of the College of Wooster

Brief Overview of Accomplishments
1. The Definist Fallacy:

I correctly identified the "academic" materialist argument - as illustrated by William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, who observe that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” as the Definist fallacy because spirituality in the context as Miller explains is a "loaded term" - and thus a fallacy.

Both Dr. P. Wong and Dr. S. Farra, both agree that the materialist argument is a logical fallacy - whcich is both scientifically wrong, but harmful as well. Dr. Farra goes on to state unequivocally that the Definist Fallacy is "spiritual poison" - which I personally view as a gross understatement.

An article on Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist's rulings on fallacies in the courtroom, states that fallacies can be very "persuasive" and lead to "crooked thinking" (spiritual poison)

From my research and forty years of experience I would state unequivocally that the Definist fallacy is very persuasive and - unfortunately - widely accepted. I have encountered [way too] many college graduates who refuse to even look at the hundreds of studies that exist (as Pargament points out] because they believe that it is necessary to prove God or Spirit in order to have valid spiritual or religious beliefs [one version-variation of the Definist Fallacy]. Of course, it is utterly impossible to prove God or Spirit - something long ago realized by St Augustine, St Gregory of Nyssa, and many other Christian (and no Christian) scholars know only too well.

I believe any decent study would show widespread "crooked thinking" among academics as well as way too many college graduates. A recent poll showed 31% of Americans believe that there is no spirituality. That is so off the rails, it is sickening. As Langer notes the origins of spirituality are in dancing, art, and music. The there is well-proven children and adolescent spirituality, the spirituality of grieving, the spirituality of recovering addicts, the spirituality of autistics, and then there is the spirituality of compassion, as well as the spirituality of idealism such as exhibited by Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi, and Lev Tolstoy.

As Brian Josephson, the Nobel Prize winning physicist observed, scientists have a fixation with the "supernatural" as opposed to "fruitfulness and function. That "crooked thinking" is another "product" of the Definist Fallacy which only too persuasively and too easily unconsciously connected spirituality with the "supernatural," "superstitious nonsense" and the "unreal!" For the record, when Christ spoke about the Holy Spirit it was in terms of the the "Spirit of Truth," Spirit is Truth (John 5:6), "Life," "guidance" (Luke - Simeon), and Spirit and Truth (John 4:23-24 - my guiding light)

When you look at academic materialism from a distance, there is absolutely no facts or evidence to support their norms: 1) "All spirituality is superstitious nonsense." and (2) "There is no spirituality." And Christian leaders and theologians are letting themselves get manipulated by outright fallacies.

2. Mainstream psychology overlooked the salience of the materialist argument as a fallacy, and also overlooked and bypassed the sociologist Mannheim's (correct) argument that social sciences are ideological products of the 'powers that be.' That is the materialism mindset - in essence - is a "mode of thought" as an ideology and Not an objective logical argument or scientific platform. Primarily due to spirituality being sidelined or marginalized (out of sight = out of mind) mainstream psychology does convey in substance that "all spirituality is superstitious nonsense" including - believe it or not - compassion and motivation. I have come across college graduates who say that compassion cannot possibly be spiritual in nature.

3. Identified the Synthesis-Consensus of Frankl-Jung and James as agreeing that spiritual processes [spirit] creates meaning and a sense of reality - hitherto unknown which Dr Wong referred to as an integrative synthesis.

4. Developed a "theory" of Social-Consciousness based on Bargh's concept of automated-unconscious social perception, using the Vedic concept of Dharma (social roles and duty)& Conducianist Scoail order coupled with Erica Hill's analysis of arctic Hunter-gatherers

5. Described an analysis of the teachings of religion and their role in religions - absent in mainstream psychology of religion books

6.. Developed four needs theory of religious beliefs including spiritual beliefs as a drive

7. Developed New Social Identity Theory that adds the powerful group related emotions stemming form group related instincts to the ingroup-outgroup syndrome specifically in outgroup conflict conflicts to help understand racism - and patriotism as well as ideology a problem Identified Kay Deaux's observation that social psychologists' fixation with laboratory experiments excludes group related emotions and genocides - since they don't fit into a laboratory setting. - & Explained the mechanisms of scapegoating

Setting the Stage: General Introduction of Basic Principles and Realities in Spirituality

For the perspective - at a minimum - there are 110 million people in America who have spiritual and psychic experiences. A recent review of "many" studies of people who have spiritual-psychic experiences by Park an Paloutzian reveals that between one-third and one-half of people have spiritual-psychic experiences of every kind imaginable - although one does not. hardly talk about it. many studies convincingly demonstrate that a common fear among people who have experiences is the fear of being demonized, degraded and ostracized. Julie S Parker - in her article Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved and Adaptive Outcomes of Grief observes, "Several qualitative studies report that bereaved experients oftentimes fear that they are experiencing symptoms of mental illness, and/or are resistant to disclosing their EEs because they believe that others will perceive them as “crazy,” ridicule them, and/or disbelieve them (Devers, 1988, 1997; Drewry, 2002; Hastings, 1983; Hoyt, 1980; LaGrand, 1999; Peterson, 2001; Whitney, 1992)."

That is a fair amount of studies the author cites - which is why I quote this particular author. Every author of every article about spiritual-psychic experiences all the same exact thing. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies "definitely establish the normality of such relationships and indicate that social scientists have until recently ignored a common phenomenon." (p.67) Sidelining, marginalizing, ignoring, and often abusing spiritual people such as College of Wooster chair has done is Not science! In forty years - until I stopped going not one "professional ever said a single word or asked a single question.

As Jean MacPhail noted my experiences are unique in part because they are documented, they involve events outside myself, the experiences have very consistent and reasonable interpretations. What that means is due to those factors plus the well-proven categorization process and William James proven demonstration that spiritual experiences I can stand my own ground and establish psychologically that my beliefs are reasonable beliefs.

A Spectrum of Spiritualities - of abilities, talents and gifts

From my research it is clear that there is Spectrum of Spiritualities. In fact Susanne Langer points out that when you go back to the origins of spirituality in early human and prehistoric cultures what you find is the spirituality of dancing, art, singing, & music embracing the spirituality of children which is relatively common as well as grieving, plus Enlightenment, Spiritual Epiphany, & Einstein's Yugen & Synthesis-Consensus of Jung-Frankl-James: spiritual-processes [spirit] create meaning.

Early religious views of spirituality often had remarkably similar views - that peoples spirituality was a reflection of their personal strengths and personality - confirmed to a degree by modern research. For instance in the New Testament in Corinthians 12 it states "7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,..." and so on. Marwa, a passionate Muslim woman responded to my question of how she viewed spirituality similarly. Being a PhD in psychology she quickly recited a number of different Muslim clerics and scholars citing each person's strength - whether it be courage, discernment, wisdom and so forth. Shyamala, a hybrid Hindu expressed much the same idea -except in terms of Dharma that in principle each person has their own cosmic destiny and purpose

Vigorous commitment to the truth that spirituality is vital to human consciousness and human life

It is pivotal to understand that, despite our religious differences, Shyamala, Marwa, as well as myself - as well as many, many others I have spoken with - all have a vigorous commitment to the principle and truth that spirituality is vital to human consciousness and human life. In my view I would say that there is no such thing as spirituality - but that there are spiritualties. There are a couple of reasons why I say that. It has been almost two thousand years since the Christian and I say only partly tongue in cheek that, unfortunately for me, the forefathers left out political-historical intuition-foresight as well as remote viewing, telepathy, empath, Near Death Experiences, Out of body experiences, and so on! A popular for of spirituality - even among some Catholics - is the idea of spirituality as energy. In early Hinduism, the goddess of Shakti often was presented as a form of energy manifestation. Plus in early human cultures the concept of spirt as life-force was prevalent in nearly all cultures. In a sense life itself is at the core a form of energy - which is beyond rational analysis in that nobody knows where this energy truly originates. Also as the theologian Tillich observed, periodically Christianity has retreated into the fortress of morality - such as now. There is a form of conservative-spirituality that has been proven to exist, and there is a definite correlation between religiosity and conservative political beliefs. Of course there is the spirituality of ideals as in Martin Luther King Jr, Tolstoy, and Gandhi. However what should come to most Christians minds first - but rarely happens is the spirituality of compassion - which of all forms of spirituality is very easily measured and quantified.

Preamble: It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

― Albert Einstein

And to a degree that is what materialism - which as the author and scholar MacGilChrist observes academic materialism possesses a "rigid adherence to arbitrary quantification" - this obsessive fixation with quantification has made of this "modern" world a senseless jumble mental clutter.

I mean, half of human consciousness is not quantifiable - such as art, creativity, freedom, love, idealism, not to mention morals which both Einstein, Hume,. and Jung identified as being outside the scope of science. If the strict rules of academic materialism and a rigid adherence to quantification were followed, human beings would be left with the intelligence of a rat.

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

Irish poet-theologian O’Donohue

Many spiritual leaders have said that when you break spirituality down to its fundamentals it is at tis essence an awareness, and orientation and a drive. It is sometimes as simple as Aristotle's statement that "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." Modern science has demonstrated that "attention - which some neuroscientists refer to as "attention-intention-motivation since all the regions of the brain are so interconnected is absolutely pivotal in the awareness and outlook of the mind (Klinger, No one knows what attention is Bernhard Hommel & Craig S. Chapman & Paul Cisek3 & Heather F. Neyedli & Joo-Hyun Song & Timothy N. Welsh). Or as Christ - in a rather wise common sense approach said "Seek and ye shall find! Or conversely, if all you seek is quantifiable information - that is likely all you will find.

Letters to the Embassies of the Allies March 2017 The Might Makes Right Historical Cycle:

For me a sense of historical cycles and situational sense seems to have been significant. In letters sent to our allies' embassies in Mid-March 2017 [each letter was different & first one I sent was to the French embassy in February], I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question."

Trump’s Abusive Calls to Allies’ Leaders:

July 30, 2020: The title of an article in the Indy 100, Independent, stated that “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' bullying of Angela Merkel for 'vicious attacks' in private phone call” The article went on to say How Bernstein of CNN observed that Although Trump "regularly bullied and disparaged" other leaders like Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau and Scott Morrison, his most "vicious attacks" were reserved for women, the report claims. Bernstein quoted one of his sources as calling Trump's phone calls with Merkel and May "near-sadistic".

Some of the things he said to Angela Merkel are just unbelievable: he called her 'stupid,' and accused her of being in the pocket of the Russians. He's toughest with those he looks at as weaklings and weakest with the ones he ought to be tough with. The intelligence leak from foreign intelligence sources led to further revelations such as how Trump called May a “fool” on a phone call which was later verified by former National Security advisor Bolton in his book. Bolton also indicated that many at the top levels of national security thought Trump was off his rocker.

Reasonable Belief

I should emphasize that the shaping and existence of my worldviews are consistent with the well-known and well-proven process of categorization in the human mind. Furthermore, as William James demonstrated in his classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience back in 1902, spiritual experiences shape a person's "sense of reality" (duh). Lastly as Park and Paloutzian point out, somewhere between one third to half of people have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences and studies show there is a "normalcy" to experiences. Unfortunately, my research reveals that psychologists and psychiatrists have no formal education or training. Dr. Neal, who was educated at Johns Hopkins, stated she had no formal training or education in peoples' spirituality or people who have spiritual-psychic experiences. I should not that consistently studies show - depending on the questions asked - somewhere between one third to half of people have spiritual-psychic experiences of one kind or another. As Rebecca, one of those people who has had spiritual-psychic experiences observed - spiritual psychic experiences which often tend to be intense - spiritual-psychic experiences force a choice on a person - "to believe or not to believe!" Of course since clinical psychologists and psychiatrists have no training they don't know that. The lack of training for mainstream psychologists has been confirmed by me elsewhere. which has been confirmed elsewhere. Recently I spoke with a psychology student who said she had never heard of William James classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience - much less spiritual experiences create a "sense of reality." From experience I can also add that way too many Christian leaders have accepted mainstream psychology carte blanche.

Gaslighting

In forty years, during which I dealt with perhaps a dozen or so psychologists and psychiatrists, whenever I brought up my notarized and very detailed and spiritual “Mustard Seed – What a nightmare” warning, the psychologists and psychiatrists neve-ever said anything - at all! - Not a single word! That is gaslighting! The silent treatment is what you give turncoats in prisoners of war camps. In fact, what the psychologists and psychiatrists did is a form of ostracism – a horrific way to treat human beings. In fact, it is very well-documented and well-proven that ostracism produces and generates aggression. I can testify that it does piss you off – that is for sure!

So, after forty years, I asked my (then) psychiatrist, Dr. Neal – I have a mood disorder and at times a pretty bad case of PTSD – her views of the Definist fallacy – quoting Dr Stephan Farra, who stated that the Definist Fallacy is "spiritual poison, of course. Her response was that she had no opinion – which I found offensive since – first it is a fallacy and, in this day and age of science, scientists should be against fallacies point blank. I ended up filing four internal complaints with Kaiser Permanente – which they ignored and refused to answer. The quality control person stated “We need to get you back to dealing with Dr Neal (I had refused to meet with her because of that. Dr Neal eventually said she didn’t remember saying that – so I sent her what she had said from the messages and restated my views and understanding of the Definist fallacy. She didn’t answer. I have even sent KP the Rehnquist abstract and still no response.

Forty years of Experiences - Summary

Dreams & Reasonable Interpretations:

In Homer's epic The Odyssey, Penelope, Odysseus' wife, who had a dream that seemed to signify that her husband Odysseus could possibly be about to return, proclaims: Stranger, dreams verily are baffling and unclear of meaning, and in no wise do they find fulfilment in all things for men. For two are the gates of shadowy dreams, and one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those dreams that pass through the gate of sawn ivory deceive men, bringing words that find no fulfilment. But those that come forth through the gate of polished horn bring true issues to pass, when any mortal sees them. But in my case it was not from thence, methinks, that my strange dream came." (In the book Odyssey 19, lines 560-569)

Dreams:

Stranger, dreams verily are baffling and unclear of meaning, and in no wise do they find fulfilment in all things for men. For two are the gates of shadowy dreams, and one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory.

1. Pakistan-India Dream ( precognitive dream documented by email)

This shadowy dream, from 1-18-2019, took place partly in Pakistan and partly in the U.S., and centered on the symbolism of Nuclear War - and which does have a very reasonable interpretation as being a legitimate foresight. Teh vivid dream took place in Pakistan and 'nuclear war' was an aspect: In recounting the dream in an email I stated that "At the end, the dream was about nuclear war again….” About a month later, India, suddenly launched an air strike against Pakistan in retaliation for an attack on Indian civilians in Kashmir by Islamic extremists. On 2-28-2019, an article appeared: "Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear war." You can’t take dreams literally of course, and as you know, no nuclear war occurred.

Furthermore, the Indian leader, Modi’s nationalism became more aggressive and India annexed Kashmir a semiautonomous region with large numbers of Muslims, then later removed citizenships from large number of Muslims. The bottom line is that the dream could fit into the category of a perception of a “threat to the group.” - in this case being "world peace" as it were.

2. Dudayev Dream: In a rather vivid dream. Before the Chechen leader, Dudayev, was killed, I had a dream about Russia. In the dream, I was in a bombed out city of “rubble” near some mountains. I was in a room with two men. There was a stack of eight sided coins and six sided dice. Next in the dream, there was a runway for a plane. The dream abruptly ended at a field. About a week later Dudayev was killed by a Russian warplane at a village. About a week later, on April 21,1996, Dudayev was killed by two laser-guided missiles that zoned in on his satellite phone signal, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft. He was killed in the village of Gekhi-Chu.

The pieces of the puzzle from the dream:

a. Mountains: Chechnya is in Russia in North Caucasus mountains;

b. Six-sided sphere: roughly (very roughly), Chechnya could be said to be six-sided;

c. Rubble: Chechnya cities had been very bombed by the Russians;

d. Airport Runway: a Su-24MR and a Su-25 were used to kill Dudayev;

e. Remote village: Dudayev was killed “near” Gekhi Chu;

f. Field: because he was killed “near” Gekhi Chu that meant he was probably in a field.

g. While it is conjecture, it would seem possible that the coins and dice represented Russian intelligence purchasing information.

Commentary: My perceptions seem to clearly fit a pattern as "perceptions of threats to my group." It has always puzzled me why I would perceive a threat in Chechnya not directly connected to the U.S. Comparatively speaking the dream also had a fairly high number of details for precognitive dreams - 6!

3. A Hybrid Dream-Perception: (Documented by emails)

What was strange for me in this one was the dream in which the Holy Spirit appeared to be divided into different and separate parts - which is pretty weird - and theologically unlikely on the face of it. You just can't take dreams literally.

Precognitive "Tag" of the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018. In an email to a friend, I briefly spoke about a dream which I awoke from at 2AM which involved Canada and the CIA and Canada. The email (dated April 18, 2018) said "just thinking - 2AM .... woke from a really strange dream - the Holy Spirit was like split up into different pieces and people were trying to understand that." Earlier woke up from a dream about: Canada and the CIA (personally, I connect the CIA with terrorism).”

Roughly a week later on an article stated: “The police have identified Alek Minassian, 25, as the suspect accused of killing 10 people and injured 15 with a rented van on Monday (April 24) in Toronto. Minassian appeared to identify as an "incel," or "involuntary celibate," in a Facebook post published hours before. As always, there is consistency in this being a perception of a threat to the group.

Here are the highlights of my 40 or so years of somewhat haphazard spiritual-psychic experiences 1. My call to the Toledo, Ohio FBI office warning of the assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981 2. My notarized, historically unprecedented ,and exceptionally detailed warning about the Weathermen terrorists on October 18, 1981; 3. My call to CIA prior to 9/11 to warn about 9/11. 4. A relatively recent spiritual-psychic warning - or alarm call, as it were - would be an email sent to FBI agent McElwee [who I first connected with back in December 2018] on 10-30-20 foreseeing the Nashville bombing which happened on Christmas Day 2020.

Here is a summarization of the actual contents of the email warning to FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20: "In a mini -stream of consciousness: "My senses are tingling as it were and red lights are flashing and I feel that there is something up that may turn out to be important...........Of course What a nightmare symbolizes terrorism - domestic - and specifically bombs" (<charlie.peckjr@comcast.net> To: "mvmcelwee@fbi.gov" <mvmcelwee@fbi.gov> Date: 10/30/2020 3:30 PM)

Is there such a thing as "pure precognition" Brief footnote about precognition as a synthesis of the senses.

The FBI report emphasized that Warner had "several eccentric conspiracy theories, and [had suffered] the loss of stabilizing anchors and deteriorating interpersonal relationships." Warner's "eccentric conspiracy theories" would clearly indicate alienation was likely a significant factor. However, the FBI concluded that "It is important to note that only Warner knows the real reason why he detonated his explosive device."

A precognitive dream (April 18, 2018) which "tagged" the "incel" terrorist in Canada in late April, 2018, identified Alek Minassian, 25 - who appeared to identify as an "incel," or "involuntary celibate". That would clearly indicate an alienation factor

In an undocumented instance in France, a Muslim lone-wolf terrorist, named Mohammed Mera, went on a killing spree from March 11 to 19, 2012. Mera indicated he was angry at France because fo Muslims killed by the French in Afghanistan.

A documented “tag” relates to a lone wolf killer-terrorist in Franc in 2018. A NY Times article on 12-12-2018 stated "The [lone] gunman killed at least two people and wounded 12 in the Tuesday night shooting spree at the famous Christmas market in Strasbourg, He then moved through several streets, attacking with a handgun and a knife as he went."

Of course way back in 1981, when I called the FBI to warn of an impending attack on President Reagan, it turned out that Hinckley clearly could be categorized as being alienated at the time.

The 1981 Mustard Seed Spiritual Epiphany - What a nightmare Warning

Preamble From the FBI Website:

When SDS collapsed in 1969, the Weather Underground stepped forward, inspired by communist ideologies and embracing violence and crime as a way to protest the Vietnam War, racism, and other left-wing aims. “Our intention is to disrupt the empire ... to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks,” claimed the group’s 1974 manifesto, Prairie Fire.

By the next year, the group had claimed credit for 25 bombings—including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, the California Attorney General’s office, and a New York City police station.

Main article: Brink's robbery (1981)

Some members remained underground and joined splinter radical groups. The U.S. government states that years after the dissolution of the Weather Underground, three former members, Kathy Boudin, Judith Alice Clark, and David Gilbert, joined the May 19 Communist Organization, and on October 20, 1981 in Nanuet, New York, the group helped the Black Liberation Army rob a Brink's armored truck containing $1.6 million. The robbery was violent, resulting in the deaths of three people including Waverly Brown, the first black police officer on the Nyack police force.

My pivotal and exceptionally detailed October 18, 1981 spiritual-psychic experience is the Notarized (with a FOIPA stamp on it) What a Nightmare - Mustard Seed Experience - which also happens to have a FOIPA stamp on it. Besides the explicit details in the warning such as "groups, fabricating bombs , identification of the Weathermen Manifesto, woman, money [twice], "22 were assembled," New York, and death - as with much of historical prophecies, there are some symbolic and metaphorical synchronicities in the "Mustard Seed" precognitive stream of consciousness.

Taking into consideration metaphorical and symbolism, the line from the Mustard Seed Epiphany, “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, Angels said!” - would appear to be an uncanny symbolic representations of the deaths of the two policemen who were killed by the Weathermen terrorist group in the shootout. Also the death of one Brink's guard would seem to be represented by the sentence “Fight Hard, Die Well” a prophet spoke!" Although symbolic and metaphorical, that kind of intricate detail is quite literally utterly unknown and unheard of. In historical documented experience there simply is nothing like it. Identifying - even though metaphorically - the specific type and number of people that would die has never been done before and completely unprecedented - absolutely mindboggling, truth be known.

The title I put in as a header for the stream of consciousness was "What a nightmare!" - which unbeknownst to me identified - or "tagged" - the Weathermen manifesto. Paul L. Montgomery, a New York Times reporter quoted the Weathermen manifesto: “We are against everything good and decent in Honky America.” Said an early manifesto. We will loot and burn and destroy. We are the incubation of your mothers;’ nightmares.” (2 Women in Brink’s Case Identified with Weathermen from start in 69., Oct 22, 1981, pg B4) As a point of order I would highlight the fact that the entire stream of consciousness matches or mirrors the "bravado" of the Weathermen manifesto - and actually if I hadn't written it the way I did, I wouldn't have put "What a nightmare" as the title.

Letters to the Embassies of the Allies March 2017

The Might Makes Right Historical Cycle: From Athens, 478 BC to America, 2017

As a preface to this mini-essay, I should emphasize that after I sent copies of the letters to several Senators and Congressmen. Not too long after that I received a letter from U.S. Senator Van Hollen and then U.S governor Hogan expressing interest in research into spirituality and spiritual-psychic experiences. I must say those letters haven’t done me hardly any good at all. Those letters are posted on a page on my website: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/

In letters sent to our allies' embassies in Mid-March 2017, I stated: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles.

I went on to say that "I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians, they rose to the leadership of the Greek world. They used their power to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring." There were, in fact, two armed revolts against the Athenians by their 'allies' who the Athenians had abused horribly. Without question, The Athenians, at that time, had let power got to their heads and had adopted a "Might makes Right" state of mind. It is said that attitude is everything. In the case of the Athenians at that time the Power had become the one and only reality for them.

The Delian League was formed in 478 BC as an alliance of city states that numbered over 300 at one point to liberate Greek Cities from the Persians and for mutual defense against the Persians. However, the Delian League degenerated from a mutual alliance into the Athenian Empire after Athens took over the League’s treasury and compelled the city states to pay their dues (in money or ships). The injustice and unfairness of the Athenians in dealing with members of the Delian League must have engendered a large amount of resentment, since major beneficiary was certainly Athens. Pericles launched a massive re-building project of the city, in part funded by the Delian League treasury.

The Athenians constantly bullied, intimidated, and threatened their allies. Naxos rebelled and attempted to secede from the Delian League in c. 467 BCE. Athens response was to attack the island and reduce it to a semi-dependent city state. Later, the island of Thasos which wanted to keep control of its mines and trade centres and tried to gain some independence. The Athenians attacked Thasos and laid siege to the city for three years after which the city finally surrendered. In 428, Mytilene, one of five major cities on the Greek Island of Lesbos revolted against this BCE. After a debate in the Athenian Assembly the revolt was brutally suppressed. Lesbos - except the city of Methymna which had remained loyal - was reduced to the status of a subservient colony. It seems clear that a resurgence of this same mind-set - this Might Makes Right attitude is taking shape in US history right now.

Trump’s Abusive Calls to Allies’ Leaders – verification of my “read” of the situation.

Briefly - Link to experiences with some documentation and short explanation

The paragraph above is a capsulation of the actual email sent to FBI agent McElwee. I included that so people might realize I am not making this up. Here is a link to a list of spiritual-psychic experiences with a fair amount of documentation. I differ form many in that I argue that many spiritual-psychic experiences are syntheses of senses and (largely unconscious) processes. On top of that I argue that precognition in my situation appears to involve telepathy as well. A Pivotal Point is that while the experiences do appear rather haphazard there is a well-defined and distinct consistency to the experiences in that all appear to be in one way or another perceptions of threats to the group - parallel to animal alarm calls. And I believe I could safely add that the interpretations are all relatively speaking - "reasonable!"

A Brief Overview of some Precognitive Dreams - Pattern of Connecting with Certain Personality Types & Perceptions of threats to the group with support from Bem's Successful Precognitive Experiments

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/overview-documented-experiences

Perspective: The Artist as an Outsider:

I came across an article about Van Gogh which explains my situation pretty well - as an outsider artist. Vincent van Gogh is perhaps the most celebrated example of the “mad artistic genius”, a man who was frequently cited by art historians as suffering from manic depression and who revealed through his letters to have questioned his own sanity. In and out of institutions for much of his adult life, the root cause of van Gogh’s mental state has been hotly debated, with porphyria, schizophrenia, tertiary syphilis, lead poisoning and addiction to absinthe among the possible explanations. Actually, Vincent van Gogh found the 19th century painting called The Madness of Hugo van der Goes rather mesmerizing. The painting is about the medieval artist Hugo van der Goes, who had been confined to a monastery due to his mental illness. The painting depicts a person who is clearly tormented brooding and agonizing on unseen questions and issues. All around the man are people trying to help and calm the tormented man. Van Gogh wrote that, at times, he himself identified with the painting of Hugo.

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote, “He saw his glass of absinthe grow and grow until he felt himself in the centre of its opal light, weightless, completely dissolved in this strange atmosphere.” As a point of order, it could be said that, mind-altering drugs have been known to influence the creation and creativity of art. Absinthe later became linked to bohemian culture. Besides, van Gogh, Manet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec who were artists known to indulge in absinthe, a drink suspected of containing psychoactive components (which has not been proven) later famous absinthe drinkers included Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Aleister Crowley, Erik Satie, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, and Alfred Jarry.

Wikipedia summarizes the psychiatric situation in this way: “Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, did not eat properly and drank heavily. His friendship with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor when, in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear. He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, including a period at Saint-Rémy. After he discharged himself and moved to the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, he came under the care of the homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet. His depression persisted, and on 27 July 1890, Van Gogh is believed to have shot himself in the chest with a revolver, dying from his injuries two days later.”

Van Gogh himself fairly succinctly summarized his situation when he stated that, “It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill – it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I’m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I’ll always remain half crazy.” Having had over a dozen documented spiritual-psychic experiences (which author and scholar Jean MacPhail observes are unique) - with reasonable interpretations - yet I am still considered an outsider (even by my wife and children) – I can heartily empathize with the statement “I’ll always be half crazy!” In 40 years and perhaps a dozen psychologists and psychiatrists, not one talked to me about my experiences or even asked a single question. That is gaslighting plain and simple – conditioning and a form of ostracism. Not one professional asked even one single question – in forty years. In prisoner of war camps turncoats get that “silent treatment.”

Personally, I would add this comment to van Gogh’s observation - that I thank God every day for being crazy! If I took a world seriously in which scientists do in fact, to great degree, accept and condone a fallacy (the Definist fallacy) The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” That argument is a fallacy - specifically the Definist Fallacy which is using loaded terms which make any meaningful dialogue or communication impossible. The argument is that spirit is not measurable so spirituality does not exist. That is doubly false since while spirit is not measurable, spirituality – for instance as in compassion - is very measurable. On top of that, as Kenneth Pargament notes there are literally hundreds of studies of peoples’ spirituality. The brilliant materialist “scientists” failed to distinguish between spirit and spirituality. In any case, I swear, if I took this world seriously, I would have found a very high bridge long ago and practiced my diving skills. So, yeah, I thank God every day for being crazy!

Daniel G. Scott observes in his article on childhood spirituality (which though little known are relatively common), observes, “Stories of spiritual experiences are not common discourse in contemporary culture and, in many people’s imagination, a cultural taboo exists around their experiences. They fear being misunderstood, dismissed or treated as someone who is ‘crazy’ or ‘weird’ if they tell their story (see Hay & Nye, 1998). The feeling of marginalization may influence the capacity of the person to interpret and integrate those events into their self-constructs.” (International Journal of Children's Spirituality Retrospective spiritual narratives: exploring recalled childhood and adolescent spiritual experiences Daniel G. Scott) From my own experience and from talking to a number of others who have spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences, feeling alienated or estranged is rather common.

John O'Donohue (1956 – 2008), an Irish poet and spiritual leader was raised in a native Gaelic speaking family, on the “family-farm” located in County Clare, Ireland. When he was still very young, John O’Donohue entered seminary and became a Catholic priest for 19 years. Krista Tippett observed that John O’Donohue “insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with the inner human landscape and what he called “the invisible world,” constantly intertwining with what we can know and see.” (On Being with Krista Tippett John O'Donohue The Inner Landscape of Beauty) John O’Donohue, appeared to possess that innate wisdom and spiritual insight that some have. John O’Donohue observed – correctly – that “Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.” THAT is what mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists are depriving people who have spiritual experiences of – is “Recognition!” Gaslighting is the exact opposite of recognition - which is the correct assessment of what has really happened to me realistically and factually - gaslighting!

Most people would be utterly shocked that the Social "Sciences" had an active "fallacy" in use currently in academia, but, unfortunately it is too true that academics have used the Definist Fallacy to manipulate data and opinions - for decades actually. The methodological question posed by "Academic Materialist Doctrine" in their maxim that one need to “Prove God” before one can have valid spiritual beliefs is currently an ongoing problem and an extremely salient question - as an article recently published on the Pubmed site on the NIH website clearly demonstrates. The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.”

In a nutshell, using the Definist Fallacy in a discussion or argument ends any meaningful conversation or discussion right there because the term being discussed has no reasonable definition. Definition of Definist Fallacy.: One definition of the Definist Fallacy explains it as defining a term used in an argument in a biased manner (e.g., using "loaded terms") One example cited is "Before we argue about the truth of creationism, let’s define evolution as, “Faith in a crackpot theory that is impossible to prove with certainty.” Using a Definist Fallacy creates a situation in which any true or honest dialogue is impossible.

In my research I discovered that Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist had done considerable work in bringing to light the role of fallacies that, surprisingly, do turn up in legal cases. From a 104 page article, “Logical Fallacies and the Supreme Court: A Critical Analysis of Justice Rehnquist's Decisions in Criminal Procedure Cases University of Colorado Law Review" states that A logical fallacy is a type of incorrect argument, and the study of fallacies is a sub-species of logic. A fallacious argument is one that appears to be correct and which may be very persuasive, but which proves on closer examination to be logically invalid. Examples range from the familiar (e.g., begging the question, straw man arguments) to the esoteric (e.g., ignoratio elenchi, undistributed middle term).

As the article notes, "A fallacious argument is one that appears to be correct and which may be very persuasive, but which proves on closer examination to be logically invalid." That is fallacies distort the truth and create illusions. What the argument that spirit - or God - is not measurable created are norms which simply are false - and just plain ignorant, to be blunt. There are various forms: 1. "All spirituality is superstitious nonsense!" (including grieving and even compassion) 2. "There is no spirituality" (including the awe-wonder spirituality of both Einstein, Carl Sagan, as well as theologian Abraham Heschel and St Gregory of Nyssa) 3. "Spirituality is a matter of opinion!" The Definist fallacy-norm is incredibly "Persuasive" and successfully fixated in huge numbers of peoples' minds that "All spirituality is "intangible or supernatural" Spirit and God are intangibles. Spirituality is tangible and what makes spirituality tangible is people. Spiritual people are real and spirituality is as measurable as love, freedom and likely more measurable than art - which all agree pretty much is indeed real. You can measure compassion a thousand ways just from Monday to Sunday. That norm is widespread and embraced even by numerous Christians. I frequently end up arguing with Christians that spirituality is real.

A New Theory of Spirituality - The Theory that Spiritual People are "PEOPLE!

A somewhat typical spiritual definition of spirituality that I recently encountered defines "matters of the spirit" as "ethereal" - or transcendental. Academic Materialists - as the Quantum Physicist Brian Josephson emphatically points out - are fixated on the "supernatural" and goes on to say materialists ignore the "fruitfulness" of spirituality. As a point of order I should emphasize that academic materialism deviates from scientific materialism due primarily to a couple of serious methodological problems such as the fixation on laboratory experiments as the social psychologist Kay Deaux points out.

My definition of spirituality is that spirituality is about people and are expressions and understandings of peoples' spiritual and religious beliefs. Beliefs - including transcendental beliefs - are still "there" - but as part of human consciousness - which in my view puts them in a better perspective. People should be center stage when it comes to psychology-science. On top of that scientific research indicates that the "type" of spirituality does vary to a degree depending on genetic disposition, personality, gender (women tend to be more open-minded), upbringing, experiences and circumstances (i.e. distress as Dr, Visuri observes is an underlying cause in some cases in her thorough and detailed study f the spirituality of high functioning autistics).

Currently people are severely marginalized by mainstream psychology because of its materialist bias. Dr. Neal - of Johns Hopkins University - stated she has had no training or education in Peoples' Spirituality - such as the spirituality in grieving (a small study showed 64 out of 125 engage spirituality in grieving), or the spirituality of children (it is a little known fact that spiritual experiences among children are relatively common, or the spirituality of autistics, and so on, and so on. My 40 years of experience plus research indicates the same exact situation with mainstream clinical psychologists. I would say it would be safe to say 90% of academic psychologists as well as mainstream clinical psychologists have no education or awareness of the studies of peoples' spirituality (theories are different from studies of people)!

Not everybody has spiritual beliefs - which in the day and age of science is perfectly fine. However as a point of order to be an identifiable phenomena similar to autistics, only 1.5% of people need to have identifiable real spiritual beliefs. One of the most common would be Einstein's Yugen or the spiritual beliefs in awe and wonder - - his spiritual beliefs in the mystery and wonder of the universe which was the primary drive in his life. As John O'Donohue, the Irish poet-theologian, points out “May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter into the quiet immensity of your own presence. May you have joy and peace in your own senses.” Many spiritual leaders say that when you break spirituality down to its essence, spirituality is an awareness, an orientation, or an attitude. As a point of order, I would emphasize that religious and spiritual beliefs are very diverse - sometimes tremendously. As an academia connection, Lwanda, pointed out, "The man who kills in the name of religion is spiritually bankrupt. Such as the suicide bomber."

Point of information - Essays written and posted explaining the underlying causes of racism

In September 2016, I wrote Congressman Ruppersberger highlighting Trump's blatant hate speech and flagrant racist rhetoric. First Trump vilified and demonized Hispanics and Mexicans, then the NFL players taking a knee, and finally the 4 minority Congresswomen who were duly elected and maliciously vilified the Squad so that in North Carolina a Republican Mob chanted "Send them back." I stated unequivocally that there obviously would be an increase in hate crimes and right wing white supremacist extremist terrorism. The FBI statistics (which may be understated show and increase of 17% in hate crimes in both 2017 and 2018 as well as a severe spike in right wing extremist terrorism. Furthermore, in my letter I cited articles showing that police profiling is a fact and reality in America. Essays written and posted explaining the underlying causes of racism - though for each post I didn't get many views - I posted enough that - since 2016 I have gotten well over 1,000 views.

If the World wants Peace, "We" Need to Outlaw the Ingroup-Outgroup Syndrome: Ideologies and Instincts - Incredibly Powerful Emotions are Generated by Group-Related Instincts

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/instincts-and-ideologies

McDougall's Group Mind - the "Unreasoning Impulsiveness" of Groups Very Relevant to Current Events - But, Group Mind was Excluded by Allport's Taboo (1927) of All Social Consciousness. https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/mcdougall-group-mind

New Theory of Social Identity - Explaining Scapegoating & The Ingroup-Outgroup Syndrome of Social Identity Theory PLUS Powerful Emotions of Unconscious Processes from Group-Related Instincts

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/new-theory-social-identity-scapegoating

Scapegoating from 1890's - Learning from the Systemic Anti-Semitism In Medieval Europe

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/anti-semitism-europe

Underlying Causes of Racism: Human History, in a sense, has been a History of Conflict with Outgroups with Genocide after Genocide after Genocide!

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/underlying-causes

Theory of Spirituality, Categorization and Perspective

Preface: My personal theory of Spiritual People is that Spiritual People are in fact, believe it or not - "People!" Furthermore it is clear that academics with their often myopic abstractions and the Academic Materialist fixation - as the Quantum Physicist Josephson points out, with the Supernatural. Academic materialism deviates from scientific materialism due to a methodological flaw in their fixation with laboratory experiments which excludes information as well as the fixation with the supernatural and their ongoing use of a Fallacy in their arguments. From 40 years personal Experience i can tell you mainstream psychology has demonized - in fact demonized - spiritual people. A pivotal goal - and no so "hidden agenda" -of my writing is to knock out the norm that "There is no spirituality and to root the Definist Fallacy out of academic thinking - because it has no place there - and never did.

Circumstances, Physiology, and Distress

Personality

The significance of personality factors might best be illustrated by J. E Kennedy's observation that “In a study of a technique attempting to induce a sense of contact with someone who had died, 96% of the participants with NF personality types reported after-death contact experiences, whereas 100% of the participants with ST (sensing, thinking) personality types did not have these experiences (Arcangel, 1997).”

Physiology

Ingela Visuri, in her article, Varieties of Supernatural Experience: The Case of High-Functioning Autism, concludes form her extensive research that: “A majority of the participants report unexplainable, sensory experiences that seem to occur without any input of stimuli: touch by invisible hands, visions of things that other cannot see, whispers when no one else is to at home, and sensations of invisible bodies being present." Invisible touch is a type of experience somewhat peculiar to autistics and almost certainly relates in some way to their peculiar physiology. My argument would be that since relationships with others is a challenge to many autistics often due to their physiology, would be that the invisible touch would be a way for the brain to compensate for an absence of normalized relationships.

Spiritual Experiences

William James demonstration in his 1902 classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study In Human Nature, that spiritual experiences create meaning and a "Sense of Reality!" Carl Jung said the same thing - That experiences shape a person's beliefs (duh).

A Unique Story: Jean MacPhail & Documented Experiences

Jean MacPhail, a former fellow in neuropathology at Harvard University, author of A Spiral Life (good book), as well as a contemplative Vedanta nun, observed that what makes my situation unique is that my ten or so documented spiritual-psychic experiences are unique because the documented experiences involve precognitive perceptions of world events which are outside of myself and unrelated to my situation. Furthermore, almost all my spiritual-psychic experiences - which have reasonable interpretations - are very consistent and could be best described as perceptions of threats to the group - very similar and parallel, in fact, to the alarm calls of animals.

In roughly 40 years, I have had, personally, perhaps a few dozen "precognitive" spiritual-psychic experiences! Of those spiritual-psychic experiences, ten or more are documented precognitive dreams - with reasonable interpretations - or perceptions - almost all are perceptions of threats to the group. I need to emphasize that in my personal situation, my "talent" or gift could best be termed Political-Historical Intuition-Precognition. The Might Makes Right Historical Cycle letters I sent to the allies in mid-March 2017 warning America was in a historical cycle similar to Athens in roughly 450 BC after they defeated the Persians and then bullied, intimidated and threatened their allies. Intelligence Leaks July 30, 2020: The title of an article in the Indy 100, Independent, stated that “Trump accused of 'near-sadistic' bullying of Angela Merkel for 'vicious attacks' in private phone call” The article went on to say How Bernstein of CNN observed that Although Trump "regularly bullied and disparaged" other leaders like Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau and Scott Morrison, his most "vicious attacks" were reserved for women, the report claims. Bernstein quoted one of his sources as calling Trump's phone calls with Merkel and May "near-sadistic".

Very briefly I would highlight the most salient spiritual-psychic experiences out of the several dozen I have had - and of which over ten are documented. 1. My call to the Toledo, Ohio FBI office warning of the assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981; 2. My notarized, historically unprecedented ,and exceptionally detailed warning about the Weathermen terrorists on October 18, 1981; 3. My call to CIA prior to 9/11 to warn about 9/11.

MY pivotal spiritual-psychic experience - from 40 years of, to be honest, rather haphazard experiences - is the Notarized (with a FOIPA stamp on it) which set me, as many people who have experiences will tell you, on a quest. Besides the explicit details in that Mustard Seed - What a nightmare warning such as "groups, fabricating bombs , identification of the Weathermen Manifesto, woman, money [twice], "22 were assembled," New York, and death, as with much of historical prophecies, there appears to be some symbolic and metaphorical synchronicities in the "Mustard Seed" precognitive stream of consciousness. The statements, “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, Angels said.” - and - “Fight Hard, Die Well! A prophet spoke!” match the deaths of the two policemen ("Time is at hand" - twice by an angel) and the death of one Brink's guard (“Fight Hard, Die Well” a prophet spoke). Allowing for symbolic and metaphorical interpretation, that kind of intricate detail is utterly unknown and unheard of. Any historical comparison with documented precognitive experiences shows that - in detail - there is nothing remotely close in "documented" experiences.

A relatively recent spiritual-psychic warning - or alarm call, as it were - would be an email sent to FBI agent McElwee [who I first connected with back in December 2018] on 10-30-20 foreseeing the Nashville bombing which happened on Christmas Day 2020.

Email Warning to FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20 - in a mini -stream of consciousness: "My senses are tingling as it were and red lights are flashing and I feel that there is something up that may turn out to be important...........Of course What a nightmare symbolizes terrorism - domestic - and specifically bombs" (<charlie.peckjr@comcast.net> To: "mvmcelwee@fbi.gov" <mvmcelwee@fbi.gov> Date: 10/30/2020 3:30 PM)

A good metaphor for my processes might be to compare them to the jet engine of a fighter with the political-historical intuition being the engine in which the afterburner - precognition - kicks in somewhat erratically to be honest. The bottom line sit hat - though haphazard - there is a remarkable consistency in experiences being best described as perceptions of threats to the group (with reasonable interpretations) - very similar to the alarm calls of animals.

I should briefly highlight that any objective overview of spiritual precognitive experiences does reveal there are some consistencies in precognitive. They reveal that there is a consistency especially in that - at least in my personal precognitive experiences - the most detailed tend to be correlated with the most "visible events politically and "media-wise" as well. Dean Radin, the prominent parapsychologist observed that there were over a dozen documented precognitive experiences of 9/11. Of course these facts would clearly indicate that precognition is primarily "perception" - and not "powers" as some uneducated and unenlightened people might think. I get into discussions with spiritual and psychic people and I assert that while God may be omnipotent and omniscient, human consciousness is without question limited.

Historical "Documented" precognitive experiences demonstrate that easily. There are almost no "Places" except perhaps Beware the Ides of March warning to Caesar - and that is only because Caesar was in Rome. The only real exception that I know of would be the "Mustard Seed-What a Nightmare" notarized and very detailed warning-Spiritual Epiphany because it has the specific location "New York" in it. I believe it was Stephen Colbert who mocked Theresa Caputo for not being able to come, up with the name of the murderer of one of her subjects. IN precognitive experiences (versus one on one personal reading) no one has ever come up with a name. In fact, the October 18, 1981 notarized and very detailed "What a nightmare" warning - though by far the most detailed doesn't have the name of the notorious Weathermen terrorist or Katherine Boudin's name - who also was quite notorious, as well. Timing is also rare. Of course there was the "Beware the Ides of March warning - but even that is controversial. The biographer of Jeane Dixon, who is pretty much an undocumented psychic did interview the socialite that jean Dixon spoke to before the JFK assassination (she was part of JFK's inauguration committee) because she hoped the socialite would warn JFK. Jeane Dixon did indicate the "south" though not specifically Dallas. Jeane Dixon did seem to have the timing roughly correct, also. In the "What a nightmare" warning I was a couple days off - which historically is pretty good.

Standing My Ground:

What Jean MacPhail's observation comes down to is that due to my documents being of events outside myself, and also being reasonable interpretations consistently best described as perceptions of threats to the group - I can stand my ground because modern science does indicate by studies that my brain is processing information correctly. That would be particularly true - in light of William James demonstration in his 1902 classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study In Human Nature, that spiritual experiences create meaning and a "Sense of Reality", plus the Well-Tested and Well-Proven "Categorization Process" - that my beliefs are reasonable. Some of it is just plain common sense. The human brain would inevitably process "unusual" experiences or circumstances as "unusual!" Jung said the same thing - that experiences shape reality (duh!)

On top of that Park and Paloutzian state that numerous studies demonstrate there is a "Normalcy". That is, people who have spiritual-psychic experiences are not automatically and necessarily "mentally ill." Minimally 110 Americans Have Spiritual-Psychic Experiences. Consistently studies show that somewhere between one half to one third to half of people have spiritual-psychic experiences of one sort or another. Crystal L. Park and Raymond F. Paloutzian, editors of the comprehensive anthology, Handbook Of The Psychology Of Religion And Spirituality, observe that "Numerous survey studies in both the United States and Europe have demonstrated the normalcy of reports of religious experiences, including mystical experience (see Spilka, Hood, Hunsberger, & Gorsuch, 2003, pp. 307-312). (p. 67 The Guilford Press, New York, 2005)

7. Also mainstream psychology bypassed and overlooked Mannheim as well.

Karl Mannheim (1893 – 1947), a founding father of sociology is perhaps best known for his book Ideology and Utopia. Mannheim’s Argument: “We must realize once and for all that the meanings which make up our world are simply an historically determined and continuously developing structure in which man develops, and are in no sense absolute.”

Christine Maimone emphasizes that “Ideology is, as Mannheim uses the term, a mode of thought that obscures the real condition of society to the group holding the thought, thereby stabilizing the shared social reality of the mode of thought. Groups are simply unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world, that would show their collective perception of the social situation to be a misapplication of thought to experience. Academic Materialism is an ideology just like Mannheim pointed out roughly a hundred years ago and performs exactly like an ideology especially in the characteristic that “Groups [academic materialism] are simply unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world, that would show their collective perception of the social situation to be a misapplication of thought to experience"

I posted a lot of critiques of mainstream psychology with its distinct materialist bias and met with a rather cold reception by many Christians. Furthermore as Tony Hyman, who holds a Doctor of Christian Education as well as a Doctor of Ministry Degree, observes - in a very pragmatic fashion - "As materialism is concerned I believe the Bible is pretty clear in that we must not "live on bread alone, but every word that God speaks"(Good News Bible Mt 4:4) Nor "store up riches for yourselves here on earth, where moths and rust destroy...20 Instead , store up riches for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy..."( Mt 6:19) The point that one can not live "on bread alone" is really just common sense, to be completely honest. Tony went on to say, "For sure all of us in Christ who are called who are by "the grace" given these different "gifts" are going to pick up flack and resistance as they come into conflict with vested interests, especially where "Where Money Rules". So keep up the good work Charles, you are not alone on the Battlefield." It seems tenacity (or simply pig-headedness) pays off!

Perspective

I learned a very valuable life lesson during a high school year in Rennes, Brittany in France in the 1968-1969 school year - when the buffaloes still roamed freely in the western plains of America. One evening, when my French brothers Paul and Pierre announced that they were going to come out and scold the Communists (that was during De Gaulle's time). I had the sudden realization - an epiphany really - that my situation was very much like Dorothy in the movie The Wizard of Oz, when she said to her dog, "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!"

That is to say, it was the realization that cultures are not all alike and that French culture is very different from American culture. So, the lesson I learned is that each culture is different and unlike others in many ways! Unfortunately, I have forgotten most of my French. Jean-Marie Francois Gilbert Avril has put in - voluntarily a large amount of his own personal time translating essays almost as fast as I can post them. As a point of information, I do have some ancestral links with France. My grandfather, Albert Murphy fought with the Canadian Army at the Battle of Vimy Ridge with in France during World War I, and my great-uncle Allen Peck was also a pilot in the Lafayette Squadron during World War I.

The Enigma

Psychologically, what happened on October 18, 1981 shouldn't have happened by all the know principles and theories of psychology . The question is: How can an individual with no spiritual or religious education or training, with no awareness of spiritual-psychic experiences, no written backup or even support and walk into the FBI office in Toledo, sit down with an FBI office go over a Notarized spiritual-psychic stream of consciousness (which now has a FOIPA stamp on it) with a FBI agent - which turned out to be - historically - the most exceptionally detailed precognitive warning - ever. On top of that, the stream of consciousness only had three explicit statements on a full page stream of consciousness (which is unprecedented in itself).

The meeting with the FBI agent in Toledo was very short. I pointed out the line, "a group with money fabricates a terrible bomb"; a "woman and money are keys"; and when I got to the line Miami or New York I asked the FBI agent which place he thought it might be. The FBI agent snapped back: "It is your dream! How the hell should I know!" I believe it would be safe to say the FBI agent was not fully engaged in spiritual-psychic experiences and was "pissed off" - to be blunt. He went on and asked me a couple of questions, one of which was when I thought this might happen. I indicated October 23 - which turned out to be a couple days off. For the record, timing is very rare in "documented" precognitive experiences, so it was actually pretty good. What is worse is that the stream of consciousness appeared like the Ravings of an Utter Madman and included prophets, angels, exorcism, snake hiss, monkey screams, and jungle. As a point of order, Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" was a classic of socialist literature. I hadn't ever heard of the Weathermen terrorist group, who the group turned out to be, but they were notorious and were also "communist."

My pivotal spiritual-psychic notarized warning to the FBI on October 18, 1981 was - in comparison to historically documented cases - Extremely detailed! Furthermore, compared to historically documented precognitive spiritual-psychic experiences. Besides the explicit details in that Mustard Seed - What a nightmare warning such as "groups, fabricating bombs , identification of the Weathermen Manifesto, woman, money [twice], "22 were assembled," New York, and death, as with much of historical prophecies, there appears to be some symbolic and metaphorical synchronicities in the "Mustard Seed" precognitive stream of consciousness. The statements, “Time is at hand! Time is at hand, Angels said.” - and - “Fight Hard, Die Well! A prophet spoke!” match the deaths of the two policemen ("Time is at hand" - twice by an angel) and the death of one Brink's guard (“Fight Hard, Die Well” a prophet spoke). Of course angels could be said to outrank prophets same as policemen outrank Armored car guards. That kind of precise detail of identifying - albeit metaphorically - specific people or types of people who would be prominent in the event is quite literally "unheard of" in the long centuries of documented historical precognitive warnings-predictions.

What "Makes" the Mustard Seed - What a Nightmare experience was actually the very last line which concludes the exceptionally detailed and historically unprecedented and unrivaled documented transcendental spiritual experiences with the Mustard Seed [Parable]. The Mustard Seed Parable turned out to be perfect for my particular situation and fit perfectly, in my view into the social-historical situation as well. The Mustard Seed Parable is perhaps the most simple and straightforward of Christ's many parables. Christ's Mustard Seed Parable: Mark 4:30–32: "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow." The Mustard Seed Parable is about "growth" and "creation" and as such it is about "life!" Which brings into focus Christ's pivotal point about spirit, “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing." (John 6:63). Furthermore, Christ states unequivocally that “The Kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21)

Pakistan-India Dream: For instance, the documented precognitive dream from 1-18-2019 which (partly) took place in Pakistan and centered on the issue of Nuclear War has a very reasonable interpretation of having come true. I had a somewhat vivid dream about Pakistan in which 'nuclear war' was an aspect: "At the end, the dream was about nuclear war again….” About a month later, India, suddenly launched an air strike against Pakistan in retaliation for an attack on Indian civilians in Kashmir by Islamic extremists. On 2-28-2019, an article appeared: "Opinion: India, Pakistan, and the remote but real threat of nuclear war." You can’t take dreams literally of course, and as you know, no nuclear war occurred. Furthermore, the Indian leader, Modi’s nationalism became more aggressive and India annexed Kashmir a semiautonomous region with large numbers of Muslims, then later removed citizenships from large number of Muslims. The bottom line is that the dream could easily be portrayed as a perception of a “threat to the group.”

Link to detailed analysis: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/mustard-seed

Link to "A Brief Overview of some Precognitive Dreams"

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/overview-documented-experiences

Julia Mossbridge's Meta-Analysis of Presentiment Experiments

What I find especially interesting, is that some evidence for presentiment has been discovered in some experiments with animals such as hamsters. From my understanding it seems "presentiment" was discovered by accident. Psychologists who were testing peoples’ physiological responses to graphic and frightening pictures noticed that there appeared to be a small but consistent physiological response BEFORE the actual display of the pictures as well. The Presentiment mirrored the ‘post’-sentiment .Some researchers began testing for this anticipatory response, and referred to that response as a “presentiment.”

The psychologist, Julia Mossbridge and her colleagues, did a meta-analysis of the presentiment experiments that had been performed in different laboratories around the world. All the experiments she reviewed were ‘randomized’ which means they showed neutral and emotional stimuli in random patterns. She applied very stringent standards and her meta-analysis was a tightly focused analysis. She selected only for directional responses instead of bidirectional responses. In other words the analysis focused on experiments in which the anticipatory response was in the same direction as the post stimulus physiological response.

Mossbridge and colleagues conclude: “The remarkably significant and homogenous results of this meta-analysis suggest that the unexplained anticipatory effect is relatively consistent, if small in size.” (p. 12 predictive). Mossbridge did mention, in passing that a similar anticipatory response had been detected by some researchers in animal behavior and labeled by them “pre-play.”

Daryl Bem's Repeated Successful Precognition Experiments.

Might Makes Right Letters to the Embassies of U.S. Allies - March 2017

It caught me by surprise, but in 2017-2018 I gained some [limited] visibility - or “fame,” if that is what you want to call it – from the letters I sent to the Embassies of the allies in mid-March 2017. rather than my exceptionally detailed and notarized “What a nightmare – Mustard Seed” spiritual-psychic experience and warning to the FBI of the impending Weathermen Terrorist Attack which killed two policemen and one Brink’s guard. Briefly I would highlight again - as a point of order - that the details included group, fabricating bombs, New York, "22 were assembled", money, woman, Weathermen manifesto, death - and that large number of details is unprecedented in [documented] history! As a result, I did get a letter from U.S. Senator Van Hollen expressing interest in research into spiritual-psychic experiences. What I did is, I sent copies of my letter to the allies to Senators Warren, Sanders, Van Hollen, Feinstein (on the intelligence committee at the time), as well as a few Congressmen (Ruppersberger was on I believe). Also, briefly, I would remark that extremely consistently studies show somewhere between one third to half of people have – though numerous studies also show people today are literally afraid to talk about (in our enlightened society). Later I got email-contacts from the often-times fiery Senator Elizabeth Warren, as well as Senator Hassan.

[Link to Van Hollen's letter posted on my website for reference https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/letters-from-senator-van-hollen-and-governor]

In a letter sent to our allies' embassies (German, French, English, and Canadian) in Mid March 2017, I stated in my letter to the Canadian Embassy: "I read an article which said that Trump’s envoy to the United Nations was going to “take names” and dictate terms to the nations of the world. That is an utter disgrace. When it comes down to it, at times, Americans can be downright arrogant. Some Americans [especially, it seems when it comes to spirituality] think they have all the power and all the answers. The truth of it is Americans don’t even have the right question. History repeats itself and has definite cycles. I believe America is in the cycle of might-makes-right. After the Athenians defeated the Persians, they rose to the leadership of the Greek world. They used their power, unfortunately, to bully and dictate terms to their allies. The Athenians ended up massacring all the inhabitants of Lesbos on the argument that might-makes-right. Their policies ended up backfiring." There were, in fact, two armed revolts against the Athenians by their 'allies' who the Athenians had abused horribly. It was definitely a "Might Makes Right" state of mind - and historical cycle.

Might Makes Right:

The Massacre on Lesbos and Athenian Arguments Typified by Thrasymachus:

“Injustice,…………. is stronger, freer…. Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger”

In the annals of Athenian history, Cleon, an Athenian politician, in a debate in the Athenian council about a punitive (and as it turned out bloody) action to be taken against Lesbos, an "ally" of theirs argued, “We are an empire, we are at war, these are the laws you have passed, you need to uphold them or you put the city and empire in jeopardy.” In Plato's book, the Republic, the philosopher Thrasymachus perhaps argued the power position more forcefully: “Injustice, if it is on a large enough scale, is stronger, freer, and more masterly than justice' and goes on to state: Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger; Justice is obedience to laws; and Justice is nothing but the advantage of another."

That is Exactly Trump and McConnell's attitudes and beliefs: "Justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger!" Convicted out of his own mouth, as the impeachment trial was getting ready to get underway at the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stated outright that no one should "expect him to handle President Trump’s impeachment trial as an impartial juror: “I’m not an impartial juror. This is a political process,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday while fielding questions about the upcoming trial. Trump's flagrant and blatant abuse of power has been recently perfectly illustrated by his attempt to destroy the election by the January 6, 2021 Right Wing Extremists' Violent Attack on the Capitol . Many seem to think historical cycles is a philosophical theory.

In a word, it is politics -and politics is POWER! McConnell, Paul Rand, Ryan, and Nunes hadn't the slightest intention of being fair or being concerned in the least for right and wrong. So Senator McConnell and the republican senator granted and acquittal for a president who uses National Security as his personal plaything. And what about: Andrew Milburn, a former top Marine officer who denounced President Donald Trump's decision to pull American troops out of Syria amid a Turkish attack on the Kurds, "saying it amounts to a betrayal of allies that will harm U.S. national security." and What about the 300 Former foreign service and Intelligence Officials who condemned Trump's use of the State Department as his personal "toy" or all practical purposes. All the Republican Senators are perfectly fine with that. The republican Senators have accepted and condoned corruption on a scale never seen before in America - all for POWER!

FBI Agent McElwee, Department of Homeland Security, & Hacked Computer

Preface: Tennis or Hockey

From a Washington Post article, NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds, by By Barton Gellman August 15, 2013

The NSA audit obtained by The Post, dated May 2012, counted 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications. Most were unintended. Many involved failures of due diligence or violations of standard operating procedure. The most serious incidents included a violation of a court order and unauthorized use of data about more than 3,000 Americans and green-card holders. In dozens of cases, NSA personnel made careless use of the agency’s extraordinary powers, according to individual auditing reports. Also, prior to 9/11 a Congressional review of FBI wiretaps showed consistent and relatively pervasive unauthorized wiretaps.

When you get into intelligence and terrorism and National security you are not talking about tennis - you are talking about hockey. If you read Woodward's book on intelligence, you will get a feel for it. On top of that while most of the CIA is analysis you get into covert operations they are definitely doberman pinchers versus German Shephards.

At the very tail end of 2018, I connected with FBI agent McElwee. It is something of a story in itself. As I have already said I had already gotten a letter from U.S. Senator Van Hollen. In a bit of synchronicity, I did attend a reunion for an student exchange program jointly coordinated by Phillips Andover Academy (which Bush Presidents attended) , Phillips Exeter Academy, and several other well-known schools. It just HAD to be held at the D.C. Spy Museum of course (personally I am not overly fond of any of the agencies of the U.S. government to be quite honest [H. W. Bush was Director of the CIA]). It turned out the president of the student exchange program happened to be the husband of Senator Hassan. Senator Hassan happens to have been on the committee for the Department of Homeland Security. When I tried to speak to Senator Hassan, her legislative aide intervened and handed me her card which had her email address on it [which I have made good use of since I am a prolific writer].The strangest thing about the whole affair is that when I talked to her husband and mentioned the word psychic, he spun on his heels and almost literally ran way from me.

For perspective I should highlight the fact that the political situation back in 1981, in my view, made my personal situation very difficult. was was an Andover graduate H.W Bush was the Vice President and former CIA Director. The CIA Director Casey was according to Woodward a paranoid and way over the top into cloak and dagger stuff. And as I recall I fairly clearly indicated to the FBI agent in Toledo, Ohio that the Reagan administration would squash me. In retrospect - after an attempted assassination of a president and in that situation there was as much chance as a snowball in hell as getting any rational decision.

You know there is a problem when, after you warn about a presidential assassination and in 1984 a Secret Service agent comes out and tells you that you are schizophrenic - something is wrong. For the record I have never had any of the symptoms of schizophrenia - ever. Personally I could care less what happened but as far as I am concerned all of them can go screw themselves. And the thing is - in 40 years not one person - psychiatrist, psychologist, or FBI agent ever asked me a question - so all the judgments that they made were based on their own prejudices and misconceptions. 40 years - not a single question - except for D,......

Shortly after I emailed Senator Hassan's aide - [Senator Hassan is on the committee for Department of Homeland Security (DHS is the overseeing age cy of all intelligence/security.] I received an email; form Senator Hassan's aide with images attached which didn't seem to open.

Then I received an email from Van Hollen's aide with images attached. It may be because I don't like anything or any agencies dealing with intelligence [the only thing I know about intelligence is from watching the movie Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy - and I want to keep it that way], but it took me about a week to figure out that the images that were coming up when I clicked on the images attached to the aides emails actually were coming from inside my computer. After I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that the two emails from two different Senators with images attached which when I tried to open "revealed" the "screenshots file" - were sent deliberately because someone wanted me to discover the screenshots file - whcih I had not placed on my computer. So, obviously my computer had been hacked

So, in the screenshots file there were 21 screenshots which first began in January 2018 and continued to August 2018. What stood out is that there were four screenshots of emails highlighting Patrick McCarthy. In thinking it through I observed that those screenshots might not be as much about the FBI as about Patrick McCarthy. I never liked him. He told me once he wouldn't help me file a FOIPA Request about the Mustard Seed document. I was like who the hell does he think he is judging me like that. For the record, to this day I don't know who - FBI or intelligence connected with the Senate hacked my computer. I mean complaining that the FBI isn't responding to letters or phone calls is not earth-shaking news or any shocking news flash.

The Materialist Dark Side of Un-Science

I have done substantial research into materialism - about which many authors - from French philosopher Guenon who argues that materialism originated with Descartes to current NIH Director Francis Collins - have written. In a nutshell what happened - as Jung pointed out materialism emerged first as an emphasis on physiological measurements as being the best scientific source. However it mutated into "academic materialism" which diverges from scientific materialism due to two methodological flaws.

The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.”

To put that in perspective, Brian D Josephson, a Nobel-prize winning quantum physicist who also believes that precognition and telepathy are hypothetical real possibilities, in his article, Religion in Genes (Nature, Vol 362, April 15, 1993) stated unequivocally that “With religion, focusing on the factuality or otherwise of religious belief similarly misses the point: the significant questions in this context relate to the functions and fruitfulness of religious beliefs.” “Dawkins criticizes religion on the grounds of apparent conflicts between religious beliefs and scientifically established facts.” That is, in a nutshell, scientists are fixated on the "supernatural." I have found from forty years of personal experience that is a very common problem that I have encountered time after time after time.

Definist Fallacy: One definition of the Definist Fallacy explains it as defining a term used in an argument in a biased manner (e.g., using "loaded terms") One example cited is "Before we argue about the truth of creationism, let’s define evolution as, “Faith in a crackpot theory that is impossible to prove with certainty.” In a nutshell using a Definist Fallacy creates a situation in which any true or honest dialogue is impossible. As you will see I run into that very frequently. Academic Materialists bring God and Spirit into a scientific discussion and those terms are “loaded terms” without any definition which prevent any reasonable discussion.

A recent essay - which at the moment has had over 300 views - which asked the question. “Should scientists review studies of peoples’ spirituality before rendering judgment.” I started the essay by saying “Some people - like me – thrive on spirituality, some people get moderate health benefits, and some get nothing at all. Basically, out of maybe two dozen responses I have looked at so far - the answer I got was basically "No." - Flat out! That is the general response was that "No, scientists should not review studies of spirituality." The standard response was that Spirit and God are not "physical realities." My response was People are physical realities usually adding dumb asses. Materialists have used a literal fallacy to completely dehumanize - and eliminate spiritual people - with a fallacy! It was pretty clear to me that very few looked at the Meta-analyses of peoples' spirituality included in the . Almost all reflected a fixation with the “supernatural” – something the quantum physicist Brian Josephson remarked about which is and in my view is clearly a product of the definist fallacy.

That attitude is widespread in academia. One of the responses on a Philosophy FB site was he would not look at the studies because eh knew that spirituality was all about magical fairies and things like that. I told FBI agent McElwee - and my mother - that my estimate was that 1/3 to 1/2 of people believed there is no spirituality - which is ludicrous - absolutely a tinkerbell fantasyland. they both thought that was low. Only the Definist fallacy "Norm" (which is what it is - it would have to be a norm since the article in NIH describes a widespread belief among academics) could generate that kind of beliefs on that scale. If you look at what materialists say - and do - there is nothing even remotely scientific in their ideology or behavior - not even remotely!

Below is a link to endorsed essay which explains two specific methodological flaws which I have been able to identify. I actually think that is one of my better achievements. spirutlaly minded psychologists have complained about materialism endlessly. I - did in fact proeprlky identify what they were complaining about as a fallacy: Letter to a Congressman : Methodological Flaws and Abuses Due to the Materialist Bias - Based on original letter Endorsed by 4 Notable Psychologists Dr Koenig, Dr Wong & Dr Farra & S. Schindler

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/letter-to-a-congressman

Crystal L. Park and Raymond F. Paloutzian, editors of the comprehensive anthology, Handbook Of The Psychology Of Religion And Spirituality, observe that "Numerous survey studies in both the United States and Europe have demonstrated the normalcy of reports of religious experiences, including mystical experience (see Spilka, Hood, Hunsberger, & Gorsuch, 2003, pp. 307-312). Depending on the specific wording of the questions asked, anywhere from a third to a half of the populations affirm such experiences. Furthermore, the report of such experiences is correlated with gender (stronger for females), education (more common with higher education), social class, (more common in higher social classes), While this correlational data does not provide evidence of what causes such reports, it does establish the normalcy of such reports and indicates social scientists have until recently ignored a common phenomena." (p. 67 The Guilford Press, New York, 2005)

As a point of order, I feel I need to emphatically state that Ingela Visuri, in her article, Varieties Of Supernatural Experience: The Case Of High-Functioning Autism states, "The results also indicate that distress triggers the participants to seek out supernatural ascriptions and invisible relations." On top of that Jean MacPhail, an author, scholar and nun also stated that her "read" is that "stress" is a definite factor. Furthermore, it would be self evident that distress would be a factor in the spirituality of grieving, the spirituality involved in depression, as well as the spirituality of recovering addicts. Lastly Stanley Hall in his 1882 studies of adolescent spiritual experiences which were - and are - relatively common were a product of all the teenage biochemicals throbbing through the veins of rapidly growing teenagers - which would be a form of distress. That is while as Park and Paloutzian state the causes of such reports have not been established, yet, on the face of it, it would appear that distress would be a very evident factor in spirituality. Furthermore, studies have shown that personality factors such as NF personalities, gender, as well as genetic predisposition play a role as well.

Standing My Ground: Categorization & William James "1st Law of spirituality!"

What Jean MacPhail's observation boils down to is that I can stand my own ground. That is, I can "scientifically" demonstrate that my beliefs are reasonable, using studies done by psychology. The first would be studies and experiments that have established that the "categorization" process is a very important process in the human mind. For instance, Categorization is a pivotal concept in the social identity theory of social psychology. Social psychologists Tajfel and Wilkes conducted experiments in the mind's process of categorization, which showed that the categorization is a real and distinct and identifiable process of the human mind. Subjects were shown four shorter lines next to four longer lines. Curiously, when the four shorter lines were labeled “A” and the four longer lines labeled “B,” the subjects exaggerated the shortness of the short lines and the length of the longer lines. This didn’t happen in the unlabeled condition. Tajfel and Wilkes called this an accentuation effect of the categorization process.

The categorization process is such a primary and pervasive process that even the most “primitive” or traditional early human societies categorization was a pivotal tool employed by them for the purpose of survival. Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, points out that most primitive hunter-gatherer tribes have an extremely sophisticated knowledge of plants and animals. Studies revealed that every native Hawaiian knew the names of each and every useful or harmful plant and animal - though interesting enough useless plants remained unnamed. Also, the anthropologists Handy and Pukui noted that the Hawaiians utilization of their ecology was “well-nigh complete.” Hanunoo tribe in the Philippines has over two thousand words for different plants and identifies 461 types of animals. The bottom line is that the way the mind works is that all experiences have to be categorized in some form and fashion - and given that my experiences, which are documented, and real - my mind Naturally - and correctly identified the experiences as spiritual-psychic experiences! IN my situation - and from talking with others who have experiences - their minds are doing exactly that they are supposed to be doing.

Both Carl Jung and William James emphasized the fact that experiences shape and determine peoples beliefs and worldviews. I am no different. In his classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James observed: “They [abstractions (symbols) and spiritual emotions-experiences] determine our vital attitude as decisively as the vital attitude of lovers is determined by the habitual sense, …… They are convincing to those who have them as any direct sensible experiences can be, and they are, as a rule, much more convincing than results established by mere logic are……if you do have them, and have them at all strongly, the probability is that you cannot help regarding them as genuine perceptions of truth, as revelations of a kind of reality [my underlining] which no adverse argument, however unanswerable by you in words, can expel from your belief" is what William James emphasizes in his classic work, originally published in 1902, The Varieties of Religious Experiences. (P.47) William James goes on to say that religious experiences and spiritual experiences create and generate a “sense of reality” (p.48) Jung said the same thing actually - that experiences shape a person's reality (Duh!)

For the record, in my research, when I looked through the five Psychology of Religion books I have, they all brought up William James, yet not one of the five Psychology of Religion I have brought up William James pivotal concept that spiritual experiences create a sense of reality. Furthermore, as Dr. Neal (trained at Johns Hopkins) observed and Kaiser Permanente confirmed, psychiatry provides no training in peoples' spirituality. From personal experience and research the same situation exists with clinical psychologists.

In 40 years, when I related my experiences, I never got one single comment - not a single word from any of my "therapists." ON top of that in 40 years not one asked a single question about my experiences - not one. THAT is Conditioning! Period. After forty years I can tell you categorically that these "professionals" were deliberately trying to extinguish my beliefs. One psychologist told me that in the APA manual there is a section suggesting psychologists condition people with spiritual beliefs just as I described. Of course their description of spiritual-psychic experiences is titled Anomalies - and that pretty much tells you the entire story. ALL of mainstream clinical psychology is horrifically dehumanizing. That is - unfortunately the reality.

Setting the Stage: Mannheim's Law

Briefly, I would outline that, historically, there is a clear pattern of synergy between Social-political structure and spiritual-religious beliefs. Even on the face of it the spiritual-religious beliefs in animal spirits is clearly reflected in the totemic societies. The patriarchal characteristic of the ancient Greek pantheon of God reflected the social-political structure of ancient Greek society. The Temple economy of the ancient Sumerian religion reflected the social political reality that their economy was based on a crop that required centralized irrigation system and centralized political organization. Then there is the Hindu religion emerged form the Aryan conquest of India and the caste system they had created. Link to essay explaining the historical political-religious synergy in more depth: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/historical-political-religious-synergy-8-24-21

Basically, what Mannheim is essentially saying is that worldviews, modes of thought and ways of looking at the world [ideologies] are "filters" [to use a word Kat, a friend of mine uses] - and these filters seek out and select certain information and exclude other information or data. This is consistent with what Eric Klinger and other emotion-psychologists observe about emotions. Eric Klinger states that a “primary function of several emotions is to direct attention to concern-related stimuli. (p.42) Carl Jung and William James, as well as Robert Solomon said pretty much the same thing – that [especially where spiritual beliefs are concerned] emotions are what make things important and significant for human consciousness. However, what Mannheim is also saying though, is that the principle of ideologies as modes of thought are applicable to academics theories and methods as well.

The iconic sociologist Robert Bellah (1970b) confirms Mannheim's Law in that it applies to academic modes of thought especially in context of the materialist Doctrine in a: “There is no other sphere of human culture which is excluded from sympathetic academic consideration on its own terms on the grounds that such a study endangers science, reason, logic, and the whole heritage of the Enlightenment” (p.133).” (p.36) So, tat Academic Materialism, especially, in that it deviates form scientific materialism is explicitly an ideology in Mannheim's definition in that materialist academics are "unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world,!"

I would like to briefly mention an illustration of how scientific methodology, when internalized can influence ways of thinking. I asked a biology PhD, what she thought the meaning of life is. Her response was "There is no meaning to life!" Her reasoning was that since science cannot scientifically determine a purpose for life (which is true). However her statement, on the face of it is ridiculous. Her life is full of meanings of every kind - the meaning of her mother and father, the meaning of her job, the meaning of her husband - and so on. Clifford Geertz distinguished between "models of" and "Models for" in discussing rituals an religious beliefs. The same could be said of academics. An academic "model of" does not necessarily mean it is a "model for" which works in the real world. This is a rather innocuous example. When you look closely at what materialists are saying and Academic Materialism is doing, there are a number of abuses and intolerance I will cite as I go along. A "neuroscientist" on a FB neuroscience group commented on my post which was fairly generic post about spirituality: “please keep the religious drivel to religious channels, this is science and science by its very nature only deals with the material - what can be observed and measured. It serves no practical use of time to hypothesize whether giant cosmic parrots travelling from higher dimensions are responsible for anything because unless one flies into our view there’s no way to prove it.” That is classic Mannheim ideological functions - in particular "unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world,!" To me it is clear Mannheim hit the nail on the head - roughly one hundred years ago!

Perhaps - in very broad strokes - one of the most salient "facts" or evidence of the materialists' inability to come to grips with spirituality would be the widespread fear of people to talk about their experiences. There is also a consensus among researchers such as Ingela Visuri, Fraser watts, and Julie S. Parker that people actually literally fear to disclose very real and often emotional spiritual-psychic experiences. Julie S Parker cites numerous qualitative studies report that bereaved experients oftentimes fear that they are experiencing symptoms of mental illness, and/or are resistant to disclosing their EEs because they believe that others will perceive them as “crazy,” ridicule them, and/or disbelieve them (Devers, 1988, 1997; Drewry, 2002; Hastings, 1983; Hoyt, 1980; LaGrand, 1999; Peterson, 2001; Whitney, 1992) (Julie S. Parker, EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES OF THE BEREAVED AND ADAPTIVE OUTCOMES OF GRIEF*) That is, people don't talk about their spiritual-psychic experiences because materialist psychologists are Not Objective, Nor Fair, Nor Scientific in any way - a rather bulk evidence that materialist psychologists are "unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world,!" Human beings have been having spiritual and spiritual-psychic experiences since the dawn of consciousness. Minimally 110 million Americans have experiences of every sort and type imaginable - and mainstream psychologists know nothing about these people - nothing!

Methodological Flaws and Academic Ignorance

1, Kay Deux - Intense Displays of Emotion

Kay Deux, a social psychologist, is the first (and only to my knowledge “academic” to point out that the materialist doctrine is a serious problem for social psychology. Of course, being a psychologist in the academic environment, she never even hinted that the Materialist Doctrine is the culprit of a major problem. Kay Deaux, in her analysis of group related studies and theories, in her chapter in the Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles observed that the exclusive use of laboratory experiments as the only tool of research “precluded” “affective displays.” In psychology, it is well known that emotions are notoriously subjective and not easily quantified. Kay Deux goes on to emphasize that “In contrast, natural groups, whether family, fraternity, or nation, are often the arena for intense displays of emotion and strong affective ties.” (p. 794 Social Psychology Handbook of Basic Principles edited by E. Tory Higgins and Arie W. Kruglanski)

2, Materialist Methodology: “Rigid Adherence to Arbitrary Quantification” & Racism

As Claudia Nielsen pointed out, the psychiatrist McGilChrist astutely observed that “The scope of inquiry and understanding of the Materialist Doctrine with its rigid adherence to the actually arbitrary principle of quantification and over-emphasis on physiological characteristics is severely restricted and limited in the analyses that can be performed.” If one stops and thinks for a moment, and seriously considers the question, “Art” of course pops right out as a subject impossible to quantify or measure. Then of course Jung also pointed out that “creativity” is beyond the scope of scientific inquiry. Einstein – and Jung - both emphasized that right-and-wrong cannot be quantified either and are also beyond the scope of scientific inquiry.

People Make Spirituality Real!

Preamble: Jean, a spiritual friend with a Jungian bias, told me that she admires me for my persistence in arguing that "Life is life" and "People are People." Bettina Morella - parallel to what I say argued vigorously that spiritual people need to liberate themselves from the academic labels (and [maladaptive] stereotypes). Academics think in terms of abstractions and that is dehumanizing in and of themselves. IN reading studies it is rare to find the actual stories or experiences of people. As a point of information there does seem to be an across the board agreement that "people are people!" Dr. Marwa Gally, a PhD in child development psychology, who is also a passionate Muslim [who has had her won spiritual experiences] thought my essay made a very good point! On the other hand, Robert Juliano, one of the most knowledgeable scholars I have met, and who is very judicious in what he says, also "liked" my essay as well! I think it is a good sign that - so far - there appears to be widespread agreement that "people are, in fact, people!" Pretty Amazing - huh? !

Spiritual People are People!

My "theory" - and my approach - about spiritual people - and peoples' spirituality - is that spiritual people are - actually in fact - "People!" - Unbelievable - huh? I should emphasize that the theory that spiritual people are – in fact, “people” is only an “unproven theory” (quite literally in academic perspective) at the moment in mainstream psychology. That argument is, actually, rather novel and sadly enough, only too true at the moment! To paraphrase Brian Josephson, the Nobel-prize winning quantum physicist (who got the Nobel prize for his work on quantum tunneling), a lot of scientists have gotten hung up on the "supernatural or transcendental God," and ignore the creative and fruitful aspects of religious and spiritual beliefs. Of course, bringing in any "loaded" terms is according to the universally accepted rules of logic - a Definist Fallacy - scientifically! – As well as psychologically and to a great degree spiritually as well.

The Day and Age of Science and Free will

Furthermore - this is the day and age of "Science and Free Will" and the only thing that will bridge science and religious beliefs is what they have in common - people. In fact, spirituality without people has to be one of the most worthless ideas that I - personally - have ever come across. On top of that, my question is how can anyone understand God without first understanding spirituality - which means - theoretically - one should understand peoples' spirituality before one can truly understand God! - Theoretically at least. I have spoken to a number of “Christian leaders” and “theologians” and some, in my view, fail to understand the real-world implications of this historical cycle and the Fact that science names the tune in this day and age – and religions must deal with it in some reasonable form or fashion. I can’ change the historical cycle of science and free will. Pope Francis can’t change it. All the Muslim clerics in the world can’t change it either.

For perspective, I spoke with an Anglican Priest and an Episcopalian priest. I asked them, “In light of the fact that Christianity fought science tooth and nail from Galileo to Darwin and evolution, is it historically ironic that Christianity did not question or challenge psychology at all. They both responded, Yes!” That is probably the biggest mistake Christianity ever made.

Incredible as it may sound, that is an ongoing methodology used by the “science of psychology.” In an article recently published on the Pubmed site on the NIH website discussed that very issue. The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, “Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research,” that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” That is just another version of the Definist Fallacy since the statement that “there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible!” is just a different type of “loaded term” disallowed by the universally accepted rules of logic. I would say with some pride that while a lot of people talk about materialism, I did properly identify the core Academic materialist argument as an unscientific fallacy. Both Dr Paul Wong, a prominent psychologist and author of two anthologies “man’s Quest for Meaning,” and Dr Farra agree that the academic materialist argument is indeed and in fact a fallacy. Dr Farra goes on to say that the Definist Fallacy is “spiritual poison” – which I believe is right on target but a rather mild statement in view of its destructiveness as the origin for the norm that “All spirituality is superstitious nonsense.”

Out of Sight – Out of Mind!

The end product of materialism – which nearly all scholars would agree on is that it sidelined and marginalized all the spiritual schools of thought in psychology – excluding them from mainstream psychology and the vast majority of university curriculum (at least the five Maryland University curriculum I reviewed). Worse than that all the studies of peoples’ spirituality – such as the spirituality of grieving, children and adolescents, recovering addicts, etc. – are excluded from mainstream psychology – and believe it or not- also from clinical psychologists’ training as well. Out of sight – out of mind is a psychological law and truth. It is people that make spirituality real and if peoples spirituality is marginalized and excluded the conclusion people must reach is that “There is no spirituality!”

Spirituality of Poet-Theologian O’Donohue to the spirituality of grieving

My writing embraces all numerous varieties and types of spirituality-consciousness. First off there is the spirituality of the Irish poet and theologian John O'Donohue, who passed away in 2008 unfortunately still young. O'Donohue emphasizes "creativity and "divine beauty" - or awe wonder which both Einstein an Sagan found to be a profound source of inspiration and drive. The spirituality of grieving is rather common and one small study showed that 64 out of 125 people engage in spirituality when grieving. I have come across two studies which show that spiritual-psychic experiences when grieving - even visions of their departed loved ones - appear to facilitate resolution of the grieving process.

Then there is the spirituality of autistics which has the peculiar rather common feature of "invisible touch," which is likely due to the peculiar physiological makeup of autistics. Then there is the spirituality of adolescents and children which is relatively common, as well as the spirituality of recovering addicts which can in some circumstances be very helpful, and the spirituality of depression. Of course not everybody is "spiritual" - especially in this day and age of scientific - and often unscientific - skepticism.

Personality, experience, upbringing, education, genetic predisposition, as well as gender (numerous studies show women are more receptive)! Of course, mystic epiphanies and spiritual enlightenment are also relatively common. Of course - then there are people like me who have unexplainable precognitive dreams and perceptions. As a point of information, over ten of my spiritual-psychic experiences are documented - with reasonable interpretations!

For perspective: Minimally - there are 110 million people in America who have spiritual-psychic experiences. A recent review of "numerous" studies of people who have spiritual-psychic experiences by Park an Paloutzian reveals that somewhere between one third to one half of people have spiritual-psychic experiences of every type imaginable - though hardly any talk about them. numerous studies demonstrate convincingly that a common fear among people who have experiences is the fear of being demonized, degraded, and ostracized [in this wonderfully enlightened and open-minded society – that is sarcasm by the way]. Park and Paloutzian go on to say that the studies definitely "establish the normalcy of such reports and indicates social scientists have until recently ignored a common-phenomena." (p. 67)

Back to the Future? Early Religious Spirituality

As a point of information, early in most religions there was a recognition that personality and talents shaped and determined the different types of spirituality. In the Christian New Testament, Corinthians I: 12 the types of spirituality are healing, wisdom, knowledge, faith, and prophecy. Shyamala, a hybrid Hindu-Christian spoke about the importance of Dharma, in the sense that everybody has their own dharma - or cosmic destiny. There are the Dharma of warriors, priests, doctors, laborers, teachers, and so on. When I asked Marwa, a passionate and very spiritual Muslim, how she viewed spirituality, in light of the fact that she has a PhD in psychology, it wasn't surprising that she reeled off the names of eight or ten Muslim spiritual leaders and clerics - then went on to explain explaining that this person had the spirituality of discernment, that one the spirituality of bravery, of discernment, of wisdom, of jurisprudence judgement, and so forth.

It is difficult to explain that the "people approach" in "Mainstream" psychology and academia is unfortunately, in truth - a new approach. Dr Neal, a psychiatrist - which was confirmed by Kaiser Permanente Corporation - said that she has no training in peoples' spirituality. From experiences and research, it appears that clinical psychologists – including Jungian and logotherapists (based on Frankl’s theory). With 40 years of experience, I can tell you without doubt mainstream psychology is very "dehumanizing" and a primary "goal" of mind is to rehumanize spiritual people. In fact, my sense of it is that half the people and I believe it is almost a knee jerk reaction that spiritual people unequivocally = supernatural = powers = omniscience = perfection - etc.

Embrace & Engage Life's Agon!

My perspective, from forty years of spiritual experiences, substantial research, and hard questioning and intensive doubts at times, is that spirituality [not necessarily equating to "spirit"] is more about creativity, drive, and life force than the supernatural miracles, though those do happen form time to time. That is spirituality revolves around engaging and embracing life - and life's Agon! The word, Agon comes from an ancient Greek and means a "conflict, struggle or contest." The ancient Greeks saw their world and their gods in terms of a struggle and conflict. The essence of Agon was reflected not only in combat but in athletic competitions, including horse - or chariot - racing, and perhaps epitomized by the tragedies of Greek theater which involved setting protagonist versus antagonist. For many life is not easy, and my view is that the unconscious spiritual symbols and symbolism generated by tens of thousands of years of spiritual and religious beliefs can be a resource for people when needed. Furthermore, it is very important to "understand and grasp the process of engaging life in terms of creativity - very much like the creativity of Michelangelo who profoundly observed about his art and the artistic act of creation: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free!” That, is envisioning and engaging are the processes that make "it" happen as it were.

The pivotal, very detailed "What a nightmare- Mustard Seed" spiritual-psychic experience - which happens to be Notarized and also happens to have a FOIPA stamp on it. Some of the [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto. As a point of order I do have an obligation to emphatically state that the U.S. government - more specifically the DOJ-FBI has been less than forthcoming when it comes to the "What a nightmare" document [not all that surprisingly]. So, being Notarized with a FOIPA stamp on it should hopefully dispel the smoke the U.S. government has been blowing. As a quick point of order it would seem necessary to note that the DOJ-FBI appears [something deduced form exchanges with FBI and federal agents] to have decided - in their ultimate wisdom - to exclude the "What a nightmare" notarized warning from the FBI "central indexes" and - apparently - squash the exceptionally detailed What a nightmare - Mustard Seed' warning.

The devil is in the details, as they say. Of course the human mind must do something with every experience it has. "Categorization" is a well-proven and well-known process of the human mind. Being that I had no upbringing or education in spirituality or religious - and, at the time I was a complete atheist, consciously - the experience initiated an intense struggle that took twenty years or so to run its course. After a month or so I realized that the experience - and Absolute Truth [God} were beyond my comprehension. It did give me a glimpse into the incredibly complexity of human consciousness-spirituality. It was one of the best things that ever happened to me because I started questioning. I feel it safe to say I have looked at spiritual experiences from every angle you could imagine - and some angle and aspects most people likely couldn't possibly imagine.

My Perspective Fruitfulness and the Irish-Gaelic Poet John O'Donohue

Preamble: Brian D Josephson, the only Welshman to win the Nobel prize [for discovering quantum tunneling], said almost exactly the same thing that Freud said long ago: “With religion, focusing on the factuality or otherwise of religious belief similarly misses the point: the significant questions in this context relate to the functions and fruitfulness of religious beliefs.” Josephson goes on to say, “Dawkins criticizes religion on the grounds of apparent conflicts between religious beliefs and scientifically established facts.” That is - as I discovered myself - large umbers of academics are fixated on the supernatural aspect of spiritual and religious beliefs. Lastly I should highlight the fact that Josephson believes that "we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen."

For perspective, I would highlight the fact that, in roughly 40 years, I have had a fair number of spiritual-psychic experiences, of which ten or so are documented. The most salient experiences would be (1) the call I made to the Toledo, Ohio FBI office warning of the assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981, (2) the notarized exceptionally detailed warning about the Weathermen terrorist attack on October 18, 1981, and (3) the call I made prior to 9/11 to warn the CIA of 9/11. The most recent would be an email sent to FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20 foreseeing the Nashville bombing. In a mini-stream of consciousness an email precognitive warning to FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20: "terrorism - domestic - and specifically bombs." -"My senses are tingling as it were and red lights are flashing and I feel that there is something up that may turn out to be important...........Of course What a nightmare symbolizes terrorism - domestic - and specifically bombs" <charlie.peckjr@comcast.net> To: "mvmcelwee@fbi.gov" <mvmcelwee@fbi.gov> Date: 10/30/2020 3:30 PM

From personal experience I can tell you that there are a lot of what John Bargh would call "maladaptive stereotypes" when it comes to transcendental spiritual experiences - even among "Christians." Many people equate unequivocally spirituality with the "supernatural" - which is wrong - and twisted. A lot of people immediately bring up "powers" - or that "psychics are supposed to be "perfect" - and so on. Even though my experiences were transcendental, in my experience - which others who have experiences confirm - is that the Holy Spirit - as it were - works through human consciousness. Perhaps it is the blood since I have a good amount of "Irish" in my ancestry, but my views match John O'Donohue's (and Josephson as well) remarkably well! Creativity and Awe-Wonder have been central in my view, though I would add "drive" and "Life-Force," as well.

Link: The Irish-Gaelic Poet-Theologian John O'Donohue (contemporary), St. Patrick, St Gregory of Nyssa, Abraham Heschel, Einstein, Sagan, An Intrinsic Logic to Life - Yugen (Japanese word), Wonder-Awe: https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/an-intrinsic-logic-to-life-yugen-japanese-word-wonder-awe-contemporary-irish-poet-theologian-john-o-donohue-st-patrick-st-gregory-of-nyssa-abraham-heschel-einstein-sagan

Alarm calls - Daryl Bem's Successful Repeated Precognition Experiments (incl. 12,406 subjects)

As a point of information I would emphatically and unequivocally point out that Daryl Bem's repeated successful precognition laboratory experiments definitely indicate that the question of telepathy and precognition are valid scientific questions. Daryl Bem, a prominent researcher and psychologist related to me that both he and researcher Dean Radin believe that instincts play a pivotal role in spiritual-psychic experiences. In 2016, an article explaining a meta-analysis of Daryl Bem's Successful Repeated Experiments states that "When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments." The article goes on to say that the results showed that the experimental design focused on sex was by far outperformed the other designs. Sex without question is, of course is a very powerful instinct in the human mind. Also having the large number of 12,406 subjects who participated in the precognition experiments and still having a "significant" result is a very clear indication that precognition is a very valid question in science. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Duggan). I would conclude by stating that from a psychological viewpoint the "human" question is much, much more important than the academic abstract question - BY FAR!

Studies of the Genetics of spiritual and religious beliefs

As Tim Spector, in the article, What Twins Reveal About The Science Of Faith (Popular Science, August 8, 2013) observes, “They [the researchers] estimated the heritability of spirituality to be around 40 to 50 percent, which is quite high considering how tricky it is to measure. Other U.S. studies using even more detailed questions in larger numbers have found similar or even stronger genetic influences. These studies demonstrate our variable but innate inherited sense of spirituality, which affects how we perceive the world, ourselves and the universe. This is independent of our formal religious beliefs and practices and, strangely, largely independent of family influence.”

V. Ingela Visuri "Distress triggers" Spiritual Seeking and Spiritual-Psychic Experiences

To paraphrase, Brian Josephson, the Nobel prize winning physicist, scientist (as well as many Christians in my opinion) become fixated on the supernatural. While I personally believe in the reality of spirit being within every person - I need to set that aside to understand some of the psychological dynamics. Similarly, scientists who are fixated on the supernatural which far too many equate unequivocally with superstitious nonsense or even mental illness - they also need to set that concept aside to also understand some of the psychological dynamics involved.

“Distress” and Tapping into Unconscious Spiritual Processes

Ingela Visuri, as a result of her intensive study of spirituality in high functioning autistics stated that "The results also indicate that distress triggers the participants to seek out supernatural ascriptions and invisible relations." In reviewing types of spirituality "distress" appears to be a cause in many different scenarios of spirituality such as the processes of grieving, recovering addicts, depression, as well as many others very likely. Tapping into unconscious spiritual processes which most likely are deeply embedded in the human unconscious, makes a lot of sense.

Brief Word for the French From my Student Exchange Experience

A welcome for the French (and the rest of the world too, of course)

"Few people have the imagination for reality!" - Goethe

In 40 years I have had perhaps thirty or so spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences, of which ten or so precognitive dreams and perceptions are documented. My personal, once in a lifetime, notarized, very detailed, and profoundly spiritual precognitive warning to the FBI happened back in 1981. The details included group, money, woman, fabricating bombs, New York, “22 were assembled,” death, identification of Weathermen Terrorist manifesto. I feel I should stress that many have the preconception that all spiritual experiences are "hallelujah" moments. In my situation I can honestly say that - for me - it was more like being hit by a ton of bricks.

As Goethe so profoundly observed, "Few people have the imagination for reality!" I would just add this statement to what Goethe said - "Unless circumstances force people to improvise and kick in the imagination processes. The spiritual experience – especially since it appeared to include information form a “source” outside my self – presented a challenge for my unprepared mind to grasp and understand. It was a terrible time and the cognitive processes kept turning and turning and turning – and quite literally just about drove me crazy. As Nisargadatta Maharaj observes, "The search for reality is the most dangerous undertaking for it destroys the world in which you live.” That is something I can testify to!

Looking back at the experience that happened nearly 40 years ago, I am a little more philosophical about it. The human mind must in some way do "something" with every experience that it has. MY mind went wild trying to figure out "what" exactly this alien experience was and what to do with it. I kept turning the experience over and over in my mind looking at it form every possible angle you could imagine - and likely from some angles you couldn't possibly imagine. Everybody's experience[s] are different, and and many of the minimally 110 million Americans who have spiritual-psychic experiences of one kind or another take things in stride , yet several I have met have relayed struggles very similar to mine.

I would describe "The Doubts" - at that time - as ravenous beasts that were tearing my reality limb for limb - as well as my "self and identity" such as it was. Some spiritual experiences can put a lot of emotional and psychological torque into your thoughts and mind and your - as many besides my self would testify. One day when the conflict had reached a peak intensity, I realized "I" had gone way too far and I - the way I looked at things - had gone one or more steps past anything that might be called sane! Luckily, I realized that I had to do something so I said to myself: “Enough!” "Stop!" For me, it was a personal epiphany because I realized that the “Absolute Truth" [God] - and my experience - is simply beyond my comprehension. So, I reined in the cognitive processes which were running wild - analysis without purpose!

William James First Law of Spirituality!

The Diversity - within Diversity - within Spirituality Plus Einstein's Spirituality

As Thomas Bryson observed that "Each and everyone of us creates his or her own theistic paradigms." That is very true and basic axiom of consciousness in general and spiritual and religious beliefs in particular - especially in the Age of Science - and Free will! In that light then, in a sense, spirituality is inextricably and intimately interconnected with consciousness, so much of my writing focuses on consciousness. While it isn't possible to address the ten thousand realities - all the metaphysical, philosophical, spiritual and religious paradigms. Yet one can address some of the underlying factors, causes and processes.

Furthermore a pivotal characteristic of the human mind is that Consciousness and Spirituality cannot be separated in truth. In my view, consciousness-spirituality are the foundation for the various enlightenments such as Christ, Muhammed, Buddha, Hinduism, and so on. MY argument is that to truly understand enlightenment one needs to understand spirituality and to understand spirituality. Furthermore to understand spirituality, it would be necessary to understand peoples' spirituality and in particular spiritual or spiritual-psychic experiences.

One of my more popular essays is The Reality of Reality - The Problem with Reality is that there is just too much of it - Embracing Chaos: "Envisioning" Michelangelo, Cayce, Carl Jung's Images & Myth Plus William James "Fusion" - The Reality of Reality - The Problem with Reality is that there is just too much of it! https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/the-reality-of-reality

It's popularity possible originates from people being sympathetic to the idea that reality in today's world with information overload being a real issue with social media, fake news, and all the vivid images and pumped up stereotypes in advertising these days. The essay overviews different psychologies and processes - showing for instance the huge difference between rational analysis and reason!

As the immortal artist, Michelangelo profoundly observed about art and the act of creation: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free!” Carl Jung, William James, as Well as Viktor Frankl all emphasize symbols and "abstractions" - as William James calls them - are vital in human consciousness. What they are - in essence - are images or pictures. How we envision or picture the world, reality, and truth is important and can lead to success or failure depending how one envisions reality. Imagine how Michelangelo's angel would have turned out if his inner picture was in reality an image of the hunchback of Notre Dame. What - and how - we "envision" is pivotal, in my view, to the ability to function effectively - and with some modicum of balance. So, the awareness of pictures, symbols and symbolism in our minds would be very important.

An Axe To Grind : DOJ Civil Rights Complaint 84125FXD -Definist Fallacy

Although many psychologists and authors talk about materialism and the materialist bias which distorts the "Truth" in mainstream psychology, such as Francis Collins, author of God’s DNA and Director of NIH, the maverick scientist Rupert Sheldrake, the psychologists Baruss and Mossbridge, as well as the French philosopher Guenon - who long ago argued that materialism began with Descartes - not many are aware that materialism exists, much less that it could be a serious problem. You know Spirituality is a Serious Issue in Psychology, when you review "The Story of Psychology," which is a 700 plus page comprehensive 'History of Psychology' textbook, which was written by Morton Hall, a well-known and prolific author on the subject of psychology (Anchor Books, 2007), and, to my amazement, I did not find a single reference to either meaning, spirit, spirituality, religion, or even meaning (hard to believe – but true).

Incredible as it may sound, there is an ongoing methodology issue revolving around the Definist Fallacy which is used by Academic Materialists internally within the "Academic World" - which is very different from the real world with its own rules, procedures and protocols - to manipulate data and information - which is used by the “science of psychology” as an internal repressive mechanism with the academic world.

In an article recently published on the Pubmed site on the NIH website discussed that very issue. The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, “Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research,” that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is no is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” This statement of materialist ideology is just another form of the same argument above that states the academic absurd Materialist “Prove God” Maxim with the end result that spiritual and religious beliefs are worthless and have no validity because they are (defined by academics) as “intangible and beyond the senses.” It is a circular argument that states that You can’t prove “Intangible” and unmeasured because they are defined as intangible and unmeasurable (beyond the senses).

The problem is that The Materialist “Prove God Maxim” - is a Fallacy by the universally accepted rules of logic. One definition of the Definist Fallacy explains it as defining a term used in an argument in a biased manner (e.g., using "loaded terms") One example of the Definist Fallacy cited is "Before we argue about the truth of creationism, let’s define evolution as, “Faith in a crackpot theory that is impossible to prove with certainty.” In a nutshell using a Definist Fallacy requires a person to do things that are impossible and can't be done. You don't need a degree to understand the Definist Fallacy problem.

Of course, the existence of the article demonstrates that materialism is a widespread belief and therefore that the Definist Fallacy or Prove God Norm-Fallacy. I encounter it all the time on FB Psychology/religion/social sciences FB groups. A recent study by PRRI showed that today roughly 31% of people believe that “There is no spirituality!” – which is ludicrous since a ton of studies show that the spirituality of grieving for instance is very real – and furthermore at least two studies show that spiritual-psychic experiences during grieving facilitate the healing process. On top of that there is the spirituality of autistics, the spirituality of recovering addicts, the spirituality in depression, as well as the spirituality of adolescence first studied by Stanley Hall in 1882. Of course – though there are atheists and so on – some people thrive on spirituality and there is the spirituality of enlightenment, as well as mystic epiphanies and so on.

Commentary by Dr. Stephen Farra Columbia International University Emeritus, Psychology: “Charles, I strongly agree that the Definist Fallacy (leading to a closed Materialism) is spiritual poison, and has hurt us all! Frankl writes about how a closed Naturalism leads to a suffocating Reductionism, which leads to a mental and emotional Nihilism and the kind of Moral Corruption he experienced in Auschwitz and Dachau. We have bodies and brains, but within those bodies and brains, we develop transcendent Souls, and self-transcendent Spirits. We potentially have great freedom and flexibility. On all this, I think we agree." Dr. Paul Wong also stated unequivocally that the Definist Fallacy is wrong and destructive, as it were.

Stupid is as Stupid Does - Fighting with Kaiser Permanente over the Definist Fallacy: Believe it or not in "our" society with its incredibly sophisticated technology and and unbelievable science I am currently fighting with one of the top medical-scientific organizations in the US (Kaiser Permanente) over a freaking Fallacy for God's sake. By default they said is is OK. I said I found it offensive and filed 4 complaints. KP REFUSED to answer despite their 3 day policy. Didn't even throw me a bone like "I can see how you would see things. They are backing up and supporting the Definist Fallacy which Dr. Farra calls "spiritual poison" I would say they proved my point that the Definist Fallacy or the Prove God Fallacy-Norm is indeed - as I have said - a powerful and destructive Norm (Duh).

Being Crazy is Perfectly Legal: The Unknowledge of Mainstream Psychology

In the 40 years since then, I have talked with a dozen or more psychologists-psychiatrists and in those 40 years not one of them asked me a single question about any of my spiritual-psychic experiences. IN 40 years not one said one word about my experience – not that’s interesting, not “what were you thinking?”, not “Even though I don’t agree with you, but I can understand how you see things”! Not a single word – Nothing. The last time I talked to a psychologist about 7 years ago, it was clear the psychologist was deliberately trying to redirect my attention.

What happened is that -when, in my search for a sympathetic psychologist, I came across a psychologist, who happened to be familiar with Lillydale, a city in New York, dedicated to “psychics.” In fact, John related a story he had heard about a psychic. John's story told about a psychic who told a client that his father had two funerals. After the client thought for a minute, the client responded that, "Yes, that is correct." The client's family had been so divided over a rather insignificant dispute that it had become necessary to hold two funerals. John responded, “Oh no, there are thousands of documented predictions.” I was utterly shocked - just dumfounded - because I knew from very substantial research that that was completely off the wall, and utterly ridiculous. I briefly asked him where he got his information. Rather than answer he repeated his statement. I wasn’t going to sit there and listen to a blithering idiot so I got up to walk out. John blurted out, “You should thank me. Any other psychologists would think you are crazy.” Without skipping a heartbeat, I hotly retorted, “It is perfectly legal to be crazy!” – turned on my heel and left.

The bottom line is that my experience with "professionals" obviously reflected a rather complete disregard for people and their spirituality. Dr Neal and her Kaiser Permenente psychiatrist quality manager both indicated psychiatrists have no training in peoples' spirituality. From research and personal experience it is clear that the same is true for psychologists (including Jungians to my knowledge). I should emphasize that the most critical conclusion that Park and Paloutzian reached from their analysis of the studies, is that spiritual experiences do have the characteristic of having a “normalcy” that up to now have been “ignored by social scientists.” I can testify at great length, from my 40 years of experience of dealing with psychologists and psychiatrists that social scientists have not only ignored the question of "normalcy," but some have deliberately tried to extinguish my spiritual beliefs.

Due to my perspective gained from those experiences, my view is that, form a certain perspective, it is actually people who "make" spirituality in one sense or another. Furthermore, from a certain perspective religion, to a large degree, is about people - and community. The same would be true in respect to God in that, to a large degree, God is about people - and Life!

My biggest complaint about mainstream psychology is that they are NOT scientific at all when it comes to spirituality. In a nutshell "they" refuse to understand that I - and most of the other 110 million Americans who have spiritual-psychic experiences - have a different reality - and it is perfectly "OK" - in fact most say and treat people in terms of the opposite - that spirituality is NOT OK!

The Boxer

Such are promises

All lies and jests

Still a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards the rest

[ Simon and Garfunkel's Prophetic Boxer song - excerpt]

Dimensions and Diversity in Spirituality!

When I asked people of other faiths how they viewed “spirituality” – which is very different from “spirit” of course – I was surprised at the remarkable similarities and resemblance between them there is. While much of modern psychology when they speak of “spiritual intelligence” try to define it as a generic or universal description rather than talking about spiritual intelligences of different types. The wisdom that spirituality applies to different people in different ways and much of that depends on personal traits, habits, or talents.

Christian: Corinthians 12: 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. 7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy,……

Shyamala, a Christian-Hindu, with ancestral roots in Sri Lankan Tamils, has spiritual beliefs parallel to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who said “my two primary sources of inspiration, spiritual comfort, and illumination come from the New Testament, and the Bhagavad Gita” Shyamala states that "In our Vedas teachings, we each have a Dharma...a sort of duty... There is the Dharma of an educator...there is the Dharma of an intellectual person...who will always be in the pursuit of gaining knowledge...& enlightening others about it... There is also the warrior Dharma...The merchant Dharma... The labourer Dharma... The other is the outsider Dharma... These are the people who change things... None of the dharmas are either superior or inferior.

Marwa, a Muslim woman who has had spiritual experiences of her own, and who also has a PhD in psychology said her spiritual experiences are a "Gift by Allah, giving to those who love believing in him, and give them this spiritual gift" - a "gift and will commit leading to creativity and geniuses." Being a PhD, Marwa reeled off eight or ten Muslim spiritual leaders or clerics each had different gifts of wisdom, clemency and patience. gentleness and patience, bravery, intense faith, resourcefulness, and leadership, as well as discernment and inspiration.

In the Beginning - the Birth of Spirituality

Susanne Langer observes, "Every culture develops some kind of art as surely as it develops language. Some primitive cultures have no real mythology or religion, but all have some art - dance, song, design (sometimes only on tools or on the human body). Dance, above all, seems to be the oldest elaborated art..... Art is, indeed, the spearhead of human development, social and individual. What sort of thing is art, that it should play such a leading role in human development? It is not an intellectual pursuit, but is necessary to intellectual life; it is not religion, but grows up with religion, serves it, and in large measure determines it."

Brian Hayden, in Shamans Sorcerers, and Saints, asks “Why are music and dance among the most valued experiences of people in virtually all cultures, rom the nasal droning ritual charms of Australian Aborigines, to the sacred beat of North American Indian drums, to the complex polyrhythms that infuse all aspects of traditional African life? Singing and rhythmic beats are integral parts of the great feasts in New Guinea, Australia, and Africa.” (p. 33)

That is, dancing, music, song, design, and art are distinct activities and behaviors that were all interconnected in human consciousness as spiritual activities. So, a choir member attending church would have spiritual singing and music processes engaged. Then there are religious related morals as well - which would be also likely engaged as well. the bottom line is that spiritual and religious beliefs are very complex and should not be arbitrarily oversimplified. Way too many people equate all spirituality totally and completely with the "supernatural," otherworldly, or Totally Transcendental Ultimate God. Spirituality is about people and spirituality is about creativity and life-force much much more than the supernatural. That is a pivotal point both psychologically and spiritually.

Science and Types of Spirituality

This belief that spiritual experiences-worldviews are a product of personality (i.e. NF personalities), experience, gender (numerous studies show women are more receptive to spirituality), genetic predispositions (i.e. twin studies show some people have a predisposition for experiencing spiritual-psychic experiences), gender left brain bias links to skepticism (which ordinarily doesn't access intuitive and creative processes which are right brained)– not to mention the unique type of spiritual experiences of autistics.

I should mention - for perspective - that a fair amount of human consciousness-spirituality has been left out of Corinthians, to be honest - like common sense and the gift of patience, awe-wonder, and so on. On top of that our vastly transformed modern society has added a number of brand new categories such as Out of body experiences and Near death experiences. Furthermore in certain parts of the world certain specific types of spirituality exist such as in Iceland where old Irish folklore specters or visions are still reported - perhaps giving additional credence to Jung's collective consciousness. Lastly, I should add that it is now known that circumstances such as grieving, recovering addicts, depression as well as adolescents (who Stanley Hall back in the 1800's showed had a predisposition for spiritual experiences).

In fact, it seems in part due to the acceptance of materialism by establishment Christina leaders one study found some Millenials and other younger generations searching for the spirit and the divine in pagan rites such as Norse beliefs who had a fierce belief in "spirit" much like Christian spirit, as well as even witchcraft. Also there has been a resurgence in beliefs in shamanism. There has also been a resurgence in interest in crystals which of course connects with genes inherited from stone worship thousands of years ago. In fact I have spoken to at least two graduate psychology majors who specifically told me they were driven away by materialist Doctrine's barren and empty ideology and became interested in some metaphysical or spiritual beliefs far outside the Materialist tunnel vision dimension.

Mirabai [Hindu spiritual poet-saint]

Instinct, Alarm Calls, Prophecy, - Bem's Proven Precognition Experiments

In the last 36 years I have had numerous precognitive dreams and perceptions, with over ten spiritual-psychic experiences documented. The most salient precognitive experiences being my warning to the FBI prior to Hinckley's assassination attempt of President Reagan, my call to the CIA, when I did my best to warn them of 9/11, and, most recently, my email to Baltimore FBI agent McElwee on 10-30-20 foreseeing the Nashville bombing. Then, of course, there is my pivotal, very detailed, and profoundly spiritual "What a nightmare- Mustard Seed" spiritual-psychic experience which is Notarized and also, by sheer chance and coincidence, happens to have a FOIPA stamp on it. Some of the [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto.

That being said, I need to emphasize that, for several reasons, I do not consider myself as being a "psychic" - one being I am nothing like what most people understand as psychic. I don't have powers! I don't read minds (though every once in a while I pick up images though always in connection with perceptions of threats to the group). I can't look into a crystal ball and predict things - rather I respond to stimuli. Historically, those who tried making predictions to make predictions - which makes no sense, psychologically, biologically, or even spiritually had a very high rate of failure. In fact, my precognitive dreams and perceptions could actually be best described as my human variation of the alarm calls of animals such as Vervet monkeys who have four different distinct alarm calls for four different types of predators.

Daryl Bem, a prominent researcher and psychologist related to me that both he and researcher Dean Radin believe that instincts play a pivotal role in spiritual-psychic experiences. In 2016, an article explaining a meta-analysis of Daryl Bem's Successful Repeated Experiments states that "When Bem’s own experiments are included, the complete database comprises 90 experiments from 33 different laboratories located in 14 different countries. A total of 12,406 individuals participated in these experiments." The article goes on to say that the results showed that the experimental design focused on sex was by far outperformed the other designs. Sex without question is, of course is a very powerful instinct in the human mind. Also having the large number of 12,406 subjects who participated in the precognition experiments and still having a "significant" result is a very clear indication that precognition is a very valid question in science. (A Summary of “Feeling the Future: A Meta-analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events by Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron & Duggan).

My most recent "alarm call, a precognitive perception which in this case was a mini stream-of-consciousness was an email I sent to FBI agent McElwee which I quote here including the date an email address: <"My senses are tingling as it were and red lights are flashing and I feel that there is something up that may turn out to be important...........Of course What a nightmare symbolizes terrorism - domestic - and specifically bombs"<charlie.peckjr@comcast.net> To: "mvmcelwee@fbi.gov" <mvmcelwee@fbi.gov> Date: 10/30/2020 3:30 PM > For the record before 9/11 when as Dean Radin observes there were a large number of documented precognitions of 9/11 due to its high visibility in the collective consciousness as it were (I know of at least two documented precognitions of children), there were No documented precognition or predictions of terrorist events.

First, very briefly, on the subject of "predictions" and prophecies, much of the Old Testament Prophecies - from a certain perspective - could easily be described or understood in terms of "warnings" or perhaps even prophetic alarm calls. A very salient point is that though, some "Christian" leaders try to justify God and religion based almost entirely on the accuracy reflecting a theoretical divine nature of prophecy, I believe I can safely state categorically that God does not put Prophets on earth for the sole and entire purpose of making predictions. If the entire purpose of prophets is to predict the future, then were the case, then all Jeremiah would have had to do is dictate a memo!

For the record, I am not perfect. I make mistakes just like every other psychic in history. As the theologian Tim Callahan, pointed out, when you look at Ezekiel’s actual prophecy (26:1-6) it stated that Tyre would be utterly destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. What actually happened is that “Tyre came to terms with Nebuchadnezzar and accepted Chaldean suzerainty in 573 B.C.E.” (p.98 Callahan) It wasn't until centuries later that Alexander the Great came along that Tyre was captured and he didn't even destroy it utterly as Ezekiel’s prophecy proclaimed. For the record, I questioned an an Anglican priest who did state categorically that prophets are not perfect. In talking with Christians, a number do have the ["maladaptive" - as Bargh would say] stereotype of prophetic perfection are perfect and Ezekiel's Tyre prophecy was not only correct - but perfect! Personally, my plan is to keep on keeping on and hope to actually make a lot more mistakes before I die!

The Quest, Another Stage: A Divine Insight: Mustard Seed Parable

What "Makes" the Mustard Seed - What a Nightmare experience was actually the very last line which highlights the Mustard Seed [Parable] - which turned out to be perfect for my particular situation. The Mustard Seed Parable is perhaps the most simple and straightforward of Christ's many parables. Christ's Mustard Seed Parable: Mark 4:30–32: "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it? It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth, yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

I didn't really grasp the significance and meaning of the Mustard Seed Parable until recently - decades later. In my research into psychology, an important discovery for me is the Synthesis-Consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, William James, and Emile Durkheim. Carl Jung, perhaps, stated the synthesis-consensus best, when he stated that "spirit [spiritual processes] give meaning to [his] life!" So, what makes the Mustard Seed parable particularly illuminating insight is that it dovetails perfectly with the synthesis-consensus statement "spirit creates meaning and a sense of reality." Of course, that also dovetails with Christ's statement that "Spirit is Truth" in John 5:6. Of course this would also tie into Luke 17:21, “The Kingdom of God is within you.” - Which brings into focus Christ's pivotal point about spirit, “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing." (John 6:63).

My understanding is that the Mustard Seed Spiritual experience is an expression and reflection of the Holy Spirit. I would add, that everybody has their "thing" - their way of looking at things - whether it be philosophical, metaphysical, mystical, spiritual or religious. My personal guiding light would be John 4: 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” That fits well with the view I have - that in my view every person - whether they know it or not has a spirit [or minimally unconscious highly energized spiritual symbols and symbolism which can prove very creative and innovative at times] and that in that God is Spirit. So, dealing with the spirt of each person is my way of looking at things - which, of course, may not work for everyone.

So, I look at things much like The Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, who was an activist in the civil rights struggle in South Africa along with Nelson Mandela, when he stated unequivocally , "The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated." Along those same lines, Einstein stated unequivocally: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” I see spirituality which is an underlying bridge between religions as a way to connect and unify. John 4: 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

Spirit Within!

Islamic religion, which is rooted in Judaism and the Old Testament-Talmud, recognizes the legitimacy of Jesus Christ. Some of their beliefs remarkably mirror some of Christ's insights. For instance, Muhammad Baqir Majlisi from al-Durr al-Manthur observes on the question of the creation of Adam: "God created Adam as He wills...He created his flesh and blood, his bones, hair, and his body from soil and water; this is the beginning of the creation of Adam. Then He put the soul into his body. Then by the soul man can stand and sit, listen and see, learn and know what animals can know and beware of dangers. Then God put the spirit into the body. By the spirit Adam knows right from wrong and guidance from error and he camouflages and learns and manages all of his affairs."

That mirrors almost word for word (i.e "Guidance" from error) what Christ said in Luke 2:.27 that the [Simeon] was guided by the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, there is the statement in John 5:6 that "Spirit is Truth!" IN John 15:26 Christ refers to the Advocate sent by the Father as the "Spirit of truth!" Scholars emphasize that the Hebrew ideas of truth and knowledge were more "up close and personal" than modern concepts of truth and knowledge - and so would match more readily the statement by the Islamic leader Majlisis that "spirit" [of Adam] gives the knowledge of "right from wrong." In a wider sense Christ states in John 3: 6 that "Being born of the Holy Spirit makes us a spiritual being!" The bottom line is that there is "spirit within" which is reflected in Christ's statement in John 14:17 "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."

Atheists and Angels!

In light of the fact that I have had over thirty precognitive spiritual-psychic experiences over-all, some might be surprised that I have no problem with atheists. Not everybody is cut out for spirituality but there is no excuse intolerance or ignorance that only too often some Dogmatic Academic Materialists can express at times. In general, I feel that "how people think" is their business. In fact, at one time, I was the perfect atheist, in a sense. When I was twenty nine years old, I didn't believe in psychic, prophecy, spirituality of any sort, God, miracles or Christ. Yet on October 18, 1981, I managed to produce the notarized "Mustard Seed -What a nightmare" spiritual precognitive experience. I would emphasize that, in my writing all I do is lay out the "pieces of the puzzle" and highlight underlying processes and potential!

Of my ten or so documented precognitive dreams or perceptions, the What a nightmare-Mustard Seed spiritual experience is by far my most exceptionally detailed and profoundly spiritual precognitive experience-warning - which in documented history is unprecedented and unrivaled - by far in detail. Some [accurate] details are: group, fabricating bombs, money, woman, 22 were assembled, New York, death, as well as the weathermen terrorist manifesto. The fact of the matter is that when I walked into the FBI office on October 18, 1981 with a notarized, written, very detailed precognitive-spiritual warning-prediction, consciously my views were actually very antagonistic to spiritual-psychic experiences. If you think about it - the miracle of the "What a nightmare-Mustard Seed" warning is that I walked into the FBI office and walked out without a net being thrown over me and being hauled off to the looney-bin.

I mean - think about it! I walked into an FBI office with no real prior experience with absolutely nothing in writing and having a stream of consciousness that at first glance (and second glance as well) appears like the utter ravings of a madman. It was a stream of consciousness and some of the lines were "monkey screams," "snake hiss," "exorcism," "Fight Hard Die Well!" When I asked the agent when I got to the line of "New York" or "Miami," the FBI agent who was seated across from me in one of the cubicles at the Toledo, Ohio FBI office, snapped angrily, "How The Hell Should I Know? It is your dream!" The FBI agent clearly didn't believe in psychic - but he played the part of a FBI agent and asked several questions - like about the timing.

Anyway, even though I consciously did not believe in psychic, spirt, prophecy or anything remotely spiritual at the time, there I was - sitting down and pointing out the only three lines In the "What a nightmare" that made any sense, to the FBI agent. I went over it calmly with the FBI agent - walking out without them throwing a net over you - and then it turns out to be the longest written-documented warning-prediction in history (written documents are like hens teeth - Nostradamus only had 4 line quatrains) stream of consciousness, and the only one at the time (prior to 9/11) about terrorism. For the record, in documented history, there are only 7 or 8 documented warnings about assassination.

On top of that, the apparent perfect synchronicity of the Mustard Seed Parable (in the last line) would seem extraordinary in that the Mustard Seed Parable with its simple story of growth and creation would match the very relevant and meaningful Synthesis-Consensus of Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, and William James that spiritual processes - or spirit - creates a sense of meaning and with as well as a sense of reality. What makes the situation a complete Enigma is, at the time, that I had absolutely no idea whether it would come true or not. One factor I think that resulted in the exceptional detail is that at that particular time I had reached the point where I didn't care one way or the other which way it turned out. Many artists will tell you if you think about what you are painting it will never turn out right.

Evidence of Inherited-Genetic Traits or Predispositions for spirituality.

I would reinforce my statement that everyone has the same spiritual symbols and symbolism in their unconscious by highlighting the genetic research that consistently reveals inherited genetic traits of spirituality and religiosity. Tim Spector, in the article, What Twins Reveal About the Science of Faith (Popular Science, August 8, 2013) states, “They [the researchers] estimated the heritability of spirituality to be around 40 to 50 percent, which is quite high considering how tricky it is to measure. Other U.S. studies using even more detailed questions in larger numbers have found similar or even stronger genetic influences. These studies demonstrate our variable but innate inherited sense of spirituality, which affects how we perceive the world, ourselves and the universe. This is independent of our formal religious beliefs and practices and, strangely, largely independent of family influence.”

Unconscious and Spiritual Symbolism

Brief Review of Unconscious Processes from the article "The Unbearable Automaticity of Being," John A Bargh & Tanya L. Chartrand - p. 462 July 1999 American Psychologist)

"Three major forms of automatic self-regulation are identified: an automatic effect of perception on action, automatic goal pursuit, and a continual automatic evaluation of one’s experience. From the accumulating evidence, the authors conclude that these various nonconscious mental systems perform the lion’s share of the self-regulatory burden, beneficially keeping the individual grounded in his or her current environment. (P.462)"

"The idea that social perception is a largely automated psychological phenomenon is now widely accepted. Many years of research have demonstrated the variety of ways in which behaviors are encoded spontaneously and without intention in terms of relevant trait concepts (e.g., Bargh & Thein, 1985; Winter & Uleman, 1984; Carlston & Skowronski, 1994; Uleman, Newman, & Moskowitz, 1996), how contextual priming of trait concepts changes the perceiver's interpretation of an identical behavior (through temporarily increasing their accessibility or readiness to be used; see Bargh, 1989; Higgins, 1989,1996; Wyer & Srull, 1989, for reviews), and how stereotypes of social groups become activated automatically on the mere perception of the distinguishing features of a group member (e.g., Bargh, 1994, 1999; Brewer, 1988; Devine, 1989). Perceptual interpretations of behavior, as well as assumptions about an individual's behavior based on identified group membership, become automated like any other representation if they are frequently and consistently made in the presence of the behavioral or group membership features."

“Imagine for a moment that you are a psychology professor who does experiments on conscious awareness. You keep finding that your subtle manipulations of people’s judgments and even behavior are successful –causing your experimental participants to like someone or to dislike that same person, to feel happy or sad, to behave rudely or with infinite patience. However, none of your participants have a clue as to what caused them to feel or behave.” The Unbearable Automaticity of Being, John A Bargh & Tanya L. Chartrand - p. 462 July 1999 American Psychologist)"

Conclusions:

It is crystal clear to me, from my experience, since I consciously had no beliefs whatsoever in psychic or spirituality at the time - yet walked into the FBI office with no experience or any written back-up, and produced an exceptionally detailed and written document (which are like hen's teeth) - that the spiritual processes are largely unconscious.

From research as well as from personal experience it is readily apparent that Unconscious Processes play a dominant role not only in everyday processes and behavior but Unconscious Processes are especially prevalent and influential in spiritual symbols and symbolism. I would assume that other people would be roughly similar to my self as far as spiritual symbols and symbolism in the Unconscious unconscious or Collective Unconscious (as Jung theorized). Though personality, life experience as well as upbringing would influence a person those same common symbols and symbolism would also be similarly highly energized by emotions - as William James, Carl Jung, Kalshed, and Furlotti all argue.

Generally, I don't tell people what they should believe. However, in this case, I would just say to people that the highly energized spiritual symbols and symbolism in the unconscious is a potential that anybody with will, purpose and focus can tap into for creativity, imagination, and - even – on occasion “enlightenment” (of any and every type imaginable too). As John Bargh, a researcher into the Unconscious Processes, puts it, there is a solid consensus among researchers from the various schools of thought in psychology researching Unconscious Processes that not only is the unconscious the work horse of human consciousness but also that there is a vast amount of information, intentions, motives, and, as Bargh argues, "planning!"

As a quick Point of Order I feel it is justified and Necessary to emphatically point out that - to the best of my understanding and research, that the DOJ-FBI appears to have decided - in their ultimate wisdom - to exclude the "What a nightmare" notarized warning from the FBI "central indexes" - and, apparently, squash the exceptionally detailed precognitive What a nightmare - Mustard Seed' warning. Furthermore, I emphasize that the "What a nightmare" document is Notarized, an - by sheer "chance and coincidence" - does happen to have a FOPIA stamp on it and also has been publicized on this website for almost 5 years now. Lastly, as another point of information I would point out that the reason for

External Forces and Angels!

It is interesting that when I related the Mustard Seed experience to a psychology professor, who is somewhat of skeptic and his work focused on will agreed with my conclusion that there was a force at work beyond my ego-will in the "Mustard Seed" spiritual-psychic experience - and he agreed. I should mention that I've been told by several people I have angels (plural) looking out for me - something I agree with actually, though I am not really into angels and actually I wouldn't doubt that the angles put in some overtime as well. Of course, I had actually called the Toledo, Ohio, office prior to the assassination attempt of Reagan - and it has crossed my mind that might have been the same FBI agent I talked to in my call warning about the attack on President Reagan. Here is a link to the "Mustard Seed" Experience which has at the very bottom [the hard to read] the hand written and notarized stream of consciousness with a FOIPA stamp on it.

https://www.spirittruthandmeaning.com/mustard-seed

My Guardian Angel by Robert William Service

When looking back I dimly see
The trails my feet have trod,
Some hand divine, it seems to me,
Has pulled the strings with God;
Some angel form has lifeward leaned
When hope for me was past;
Some love sublime has intervened
To save me at the last.

For look you! I was born a fool,
Damnation was my fate;
My lot to drivel and to drool,
Egregious and frutrate.
But in the deep of my despair,
When dark my doom was writ,
Some saving hand was always there
to pull me from the Pit.

A Guardian Angel - how absurd!
I scoff at Power Divine.
And yet . . . a someone spoke the word
That willed me from the swine.
And yet, despite my scorn of prayer,
My lack of love or friend,
I know a Presence will be there,
To save me at the end.

Before I get into the details and issues involved in spiritual-psychic experiences I feel it necessary to set the stage on certain issues to establish a proper perspective.

When an Academic Abstraction is More Important than a Human Being

"Don't you have a church to go to?? Spirituality has no place in science!"

What does this question center on? In a Religion FB group a member stated bluntly: "Don't you have a church to go to?? Spirituality has no place in science at all!" What that individual was saying is that my spiritual beliefs are so worthless - such superstitious nonsense - they are not even worthy of scientific inquiry. How did this come about? I need to state categorically that this question has absolutely Nothing to do with belief - it is a question of true or false and right or wrong - simple as that.

The methodological question posed by "Academic Materialist Doctrine" in their maxim that one need “Prove God” before one can have valid spiritual beliefs is currently an ongoing problem and an extremely salient question - as an article recently published on the Pubmed site on the NIH website clearly demonstrates. The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, unequivocally state in their article, Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research, that “A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.”

One of my strongest assets is that I will go out into hostile environments and engage others – partly in an effort to come to grips with the problem. What I discovered is that the idea that “spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses.” is a core argument of the Academic Materialist Doctrine, which I encountered only far too often in posting on psychology, religion, and neuroscience FB groups. However what I keyed into was the form it took. Time after time, I was told I can’t talk about spirt or spirituality until I prove the existence of “spirit” or “God!” Due to my personal spiritual-psychic experiences, when I came across that, my reaction was: "You can't be serious! Prove God? That is a preposterous idea and a really stupid question - to be blunt!"

Furthermore, after consideration and having the prove God fallacy thrown into my face I realized that it was just plain “stupid” and not scientific or rational in any way. Even a precursory overview of the statement “nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses” would clearly indicate that that statement is a fallacy on the face of it because what they mandate is simply Not Possible – at all. Secondly as a logical statement it is a [Definist] fallacy because it takes the same form as “You need to “Prove God to talk about religious beliefs [that is, for your religious beliefs to be valid] – and of course no one can prove God so it is an impossible request and therefore a Definist Fallacy (which I illustrate below).

So, I researched it and discovered, not all that surprisingly, that that particular approach of Academic Materialism - which deviates from scientific materialism - is a Fallacy by the universally accepted rules of logic. One definition of the Definist Fallacy explains it as defining a term used in an argument in a biased manner (e.g., using "loaded terms") One example cited is "Before we argue about the truth of creationism, let’s define evolution as, “Faith in a crackpot theory that is impossible to prove with certainty.” In a nutshell using a Definist Fallacy requires a person to do things that are impossible and can't be done. I would repeat that, You Don't Need a Degree to understand the problem and grasp the Definist Fallacy! In fact, it seems to help not having one.

So, yeah millions and millions of academic scientists believe in a complete fallacy – How can that be?

As a point of order, this question has nothing at all to do with "God"! And it has Nothing to do with beliefs, either. The question is solely and entirely about scientific methodology. The question is about how a blatant Fallacy like that could exist in "science" - especially since that maladaptive norm as Bargh would say, conveys the message that spiritual beliefs are inherently worthless!

Post script:

My position:

First off, to me "Truth" is very important. Secondly what psychology and the social sciences teaches young people is critical. Third the "Prove God Norm-Fallacy" is - for all practical purposes - an "academic swindle" - literally. That academic abstraction which is a fallacy, and not worth the it is printed on, allows the materialists to artificially and arbitrarily completely exclude and severely repress evidence and information important to understanding spirituality. That is, the "Prove God Fallacy is destructive and harmful. - And it is all smoke and mirrors - utter horse-hockey - lies and bulls**t. And what possible "reasonable" reason could these wonderfully enlightened psychologists have for excluding studies which would help people understand peoples' spirituality. What excuse could there be for keeping information about the spirituality of gr9eing, or the spirituality of autistics, or the spirituality of awe-wonder from people and psychologists? What is absolutely infuriating is that many theologians, Christian leaders, and many Jungians are being led around by their noses by materialists who are using a fallacy - a swindle - to push them around. And it is like pulling teeth to get a yes or no - or a true or false for a simple straightforward and impel question - the equivalent of asking what is 2+2.

Due to a large degree to the maladaptive materialist stereotypes about spirituality, My children won't talk to me. I ended up debating - and outright fighting - with my "Lutheran" wife (soon to be ex-wife) about spiritual and religious issues. MY wife endlessly criticized my writing . I guess writing about the spirituality of art is just way too radical for the Lutheran leaders at St John's church, it seems. As a point of information I would point out that the Lutheran leaders at Christus Victor and St John's Lutheran churches never replied to any of my emails or requests for meetings, and did effectively blacklist me. That's the way it was - and it is still is the way it is.

In retrospect, the more I criticized psychology the more she and my children would attack me and my writing, until finally she and my children started saying that my experiences are psychosis. Now, since roughly the year 2000, I have had the same diagnosis of Mood Disorder: Dr. Neal, Dr. Schwartz, Dr. Mu, Dr. Woods (Va.), and a Johns Hopkins consultant (he actually diagnosed me bipolar). So, in my life, psychology and psychiatry has shown no consideration whatsoever for my values and inflicted serious harm and damage not only to me - but to the relationships I have with my family. At the very end before we split up, my wife got in my face and told me what a failure as a human being I was and how stupid I was to call the CIA prior to 9/11 when I did my best to warn of 9/11. It was vicious.

And psychology and psychiatry laid the groundwork for her actions. And now, in the middle of a bitter divorce, my psychiatrist tells me the "Prove God" norm-Fallacy which is wide-spread and communicates that my spiritual beliefs are worthless - no better than superstitious nonsense - is perfectly OK with her and Kaiser Permenente which is a sick and ignorant attack on my core values and beliefs! So, yeah,....for me, this is personal. In any case, the moral of the Kaiser Permenente story is that my spiritual values were absolutely meaningless and utterly worthless to Dr. N and Kaiser Permenente - but that is pretty much the real story when it comes to society as a whole and especially mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists - though that applies to a number of medical doctors as well - including my pulmonologist at KP who turned up her nose at my questions. At the end of the day an academic abstraction was far more important than my spiritual beliefs and way far more important than any of my feelings. Am abstraction - and a fallacy at that is far more important than a human being to socials scientists today. That's the facts - nothing but the facts.

My Question is: How could a blatant fallacy like the “Prove God Norm-Fallacy” - which is very real as an article in the NIH Pubmed website demonstrates, and which communicates that all spiritual beliefs are worthless and superstitious nonsense - even exist at all in a civilization with such advanced technology and science. I mean “we” have Quantum Physics and Quantum Entanglement, and “we” can measure the spin of two subatomic particles separated by large distances – yet this blatant Fallacy as explained below not only exists – it thrives in the academic environment Millions if not billions of social scientists believe this fallacy – and are perfectly fine with believing in a fallacy.

For the record - this essay is about methodology, the rules of logic, and right and wrong. The question has Nothing at All to do with either beliefs or God! - for the record. That is one reaosn I find the situation so upsetting. The Question was a question of methodology - of the rules of logicv- and Right and Wrong. Dr N and Kaiser Permenente showed a complete lack of ethics, a failure to distinguish between true and false and an utter and contemptible lack of compassion or caring for my values and my beliefs - like NO Consideration whatsoever. So, I messaged Dr N and told her I wouldn't meet with her until Kaiser Permenente adopted policies about spirituality that are not as sick, disgusting and hurtful as the ones they have adopted at the moment.

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Excerpt from a critique of materialism - endorsed by four prominent psychologists (originally 2018) - should shed light on the situation

Preface - Endorsements & Qualifications:

1. Dr. Paul Wong: prominent author, researcher, and theorist, as well as existential-positive psychologist stated about this essay, "Your letter to a congressman needs to be published somewhere.!"

2. Dr. Harold Koenig, a medical doctor-psychiatrist and a well published author and researcher stated about this article: "Charlie – makes perfect sense to me, and very nice letter right on target! HK

3. Stefan Schindler, an award-winning author, and retired psychology-philosophy professor responded to my question: "Would you say the argument about the "methodological flaw" is correct" by stating, "Yes, correct!" And a Maryland University Psychology Professor stated "getting the message out"

Why is the Definist Fallacy-maladaptive stereotype important: Giant Cosmic Parrots: Academic Ignorant abusive comments

These academic materialists actually believe their stupid ignorance is scientific

5. I did my own field - mini-study of academic prejudices. I posted an essay on philosophy - science group. This was the core part of the essay

Greater marital stability and satisfaction

The question I asked was: Shouldn't scientists reviews studies of spirituality before rendering judgment? I was shocked when the answer I got from perhaps a dozen members was "No, they should not read studies of spirituality!"

The answer I got was is that spirituality is "unreal" I pointed out to one member that spiritual people are people - and real people can be studied from dawn to dusk. The member responded - "Spiritual people have no physical reality!"

For perspective Medical Guidelines for dealing with spirituality

II. Death is a Figment of Your Imagination

When an Academic Abstraction is More Important than a Human Being

Definition of Definist Fallacy.

Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist and the Academic Definist Fallacy

Reflections

Definist Fallacy is Spiritual Poison - Dr Stephen Farra Columbia International University Emeritus, Psychology [Also, Dr. Paul Wong sent me an email stating the "Prove God Norm-Fallacy" is wrong as well!

I would say materialists have proved Dr Farra right in spades - "Don't you have a church to go to?? Spirituality has no place in science!"

The role of spirituality in health care

Jeremiah the Prophet (reworked) - Prophecy as Force, "Community" and "social consciousness" + New three stage Paradigm for Prophecy w/ Different Perspective Plus prophecy as social consciousness in light of Barton

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