In the future, psychiatric disorders will increase worldwide, while the material, human and intellectual resources available to treat them will decrease or, in some cases, stagnate. So, we have to live with the fact that there are "lunatics" around us and learn to distinguish between dangerous and unsafe persons, real and untrue allegations, personality disorders and "normal" cases. I am not writing against modern psychology, but rather to point out its shortcomings. 

One of the problems with materialistic psychology is that it declares one part of experiential reality to be true and another, arbitrarily designated part to be false, and if one has experiences in the latter area, it classifies them as symptoms of illness. The other problem is that it cannot deal with experiences which it does not consider to be real, and tries to supress them away with drugs, with varying degrees of success. Individuals who have been 'normalised' by medicine therapy are reintegrated into society as if everything were fine, but in reality, nothing has been resolved. Materialistic psychology wants to be an exact science, so it uses scientific tools to demonstrate this. 

Psychology becomes materialistic by interpreting the soul as matter. If the soul has to find a material form, the nervous system is the most appropriate one. In materialistic psychology, therefore, the soul equates with the functions and dysfunctions of the central nervous system, or in other words, with the awareness that the central nervous system generates. This may seem to be the right solution because the nervous system is testable and psychological pathologies are indeed associated with nervous dysfunctions. Materialistic psychology completely rejects the possibility that the nervous system is only a carrier of consciousness, just as a CD or other storage medium is a carrier of music. This simplification may be useful as a work-hypothesis, because it may facilitate the categorisation and 'normalisation' of psychological illnesses, but it does not bring us any closer to understanding ourselves and the environment (the world), and harmonising the relationship between the two. In materialistic psychology, personality is therefore the sum of nervous system functions (mental activities) and cannot be independent of the nervous system, i.e. in the event of its destruction or death, personality is also destroyed or ceases to exist. Anyone who experiences anything else is ignorant or stupid, or even a SICK who needs to be cured. Therefore, when an individual who experiences paranormal phenomenon meets a materialistic psychologist, he/she is better off saying 'I believe so' and not entering into a discussion. Belief is sacred and freedom is protected by law, no one can be put in a locked ward for their beliefs at this time. 

However, materialistic psychology has, by this way of thinking, set its own limits, which will be transcended by time and the individual. I, for example, refuse to have my personality or consciousness interpreted as a mind activity which, when I die, will decay with my body. If one stops at this idea, one is not necessarily confronted. At most, he/she is said to be a poor uneducated believer who does not understand the findings of modern science. But I cannot be called uneducated (I have two diploms and two doctorates in the natural sciences) by the educated (the modern equivalent of the biblical scribes). And the religious can label me an unbeliever, which they are right to do. I equally do NOT believe that materialistic science can describe reality completely, nor that religious dogmas have anything to do with truth. I claim to have a relationship with God, and I understand the principal operation of the Universe and manifest creation; all knowledge and experience I gained by walking on the inner spiritual path. What is my truth now it is the truth of others, because the main stages of the inner journey are the same in every human being. So, whoever takes this path can verify the truth of my statements in time. And if the diagnosis of materialistic psychology and the diagnosis of the theistic religions - qualifying me - are in agreement, I can dispense with both, because fortunately I do not need either. 

The essential difference between materialist and esoteric psychology is therefore a different understanding of the nature of the soul, and this entails further differences of approach which are evident from my previous and further writings. 

Next, let us look at the most important theorems that I have stated about the soul. I will elaborate on the following points in a later chapter.
 

1. The soul is not identical with the mind, personality or consciousness, but it can be confused with them. The soul is the divine part of our personality that we have to become, the goal towards which we are moving.

2. An individual can identify himself/herself with his/her body, his/her nervous system (its functioning), the traits of personality (the totality of emotion and thought, the total mind activity), his/her consciousness, and of these, only the material constituents of the body are disintegrated at the moment of death. However, only the soul is immortal, the other parts will disintegrate in time and its elements can be reused.

3. The nervous system is regulated by the mind, the mind is regulated by the consciousness, the consciousness is regulated by the soul. Science thinks that the nervous system creates all other concepts, meaning that if the malfunctioning of the nervous system is corrected (e.g. by medication), everything falls into place. In reality, the latter idea can be experienced also, but if we stick to it, we miss the opportunity to really know the structure and functioning of ourselves.

4. After the death of the physical body, we continue to exist as an information field which envelops the immortal soul and can be experienced by others. This information field - by its nature and interaction with others - can possess, influence, assist, guide others; as well as it can be absorbed, transferred, erased, disintegrated.

5. Together with the information field that remains after death, the soul can also enter a new body, this is called reincarnation. It does matter what kind of information field the soul enters a new body with, in this sense the cleansing of the information field plays an essential role in the quality of the unborn child.

6. Defects of information field are no excuse for the injustices and cruelties we commit against ourselves and each other. Materialistic psychology may absolve the individual from worldly punishment in many cases, but the soul never absolves, but instructs to correct the error.

7. It is not God who punishes or directs, but the individual soul as defined above (who you really are), so no one can blame God for their own physical and spiritual misery, and even envy the good fortune or abilities of others is pointless. God has only created the framework (time, space, energy, forms, rules of the game) for experiencing existence independent of Him.

8. Everyone is on this Earth to recognize the above and will return again and again until that happens, regardless of the current state of the Earth.

Margaret Rhasoda-Varga
UCCM head-master
(Without illusions, excerpt)