The Search for Emotional Health: Part 1 of 2

There is many historical data available concerning the handling of so-called “mental health” issues, which term is derived from the idea that the root cause of emotional problems lies in the issues, which term is derived from the idea that the root cause of emotional problems lies in the mind. The word “mental” is, of course, an English language expression coined in comparatively recent centuries. From the middle ages, Lunatic or Insane asylums were common as was the exorcising of Demons, but more “enlightened” times saw Frontal lobotomy surgery, Insulin Shock Therapies and Electro Convulsive Shock treatments. Exorcising demons was an attempt to handle cause, but it is obvious from my perspective that all the others were addressing manifestation and not cause.

As an aside, to me, all these treatments were a manifestation of the frustration experienced by the ‘authorities’ in the mental health field because of their inability to achieve significant worthwhile results. It appears that emotional problems such as depression were ignored as an accepted part of life, although extreme cases saw the proliferation of the lunatic or insane asylums. Today, at least in the western world, depression is recognised as the single most common malady in society.

Philosophy is defined as “the love or pursuit of wisdom in its broadest sense.” Two philosophers, the American William James and the German Wilhelm Wundt appeared on the scene in the 1870s and addressed emotional health issues with a more humane and clinical approach rather than the more brutal approach outlined above. However, their interest was still confined to manifestation rather than the fundamental cause. Wundt’s work ushered in present-day psychology when he set up experimental workshops and became recognised as the father of Experimental Psychology. He was therefore far more influential than James who developed what he called Pragmatism.

As idealistic as their approach was, their interest was not a deeper understanding of our inherent spiritual nature but was confined to gaining an understanding of human behaviour. What is interesting is that it is as a result of Wundt’s work that Psychology is currently recognised and defined as a study of human behaviour. In hindsight, it is a pity that Wundt did not create a more accurate and definitive name for his work, because defining psychology in those terms is totally illogical and at odds with the word itself, which is derived from the Greek psyche (human spirit) in other words a study of the human spirit and definitely not a study of human behaviour.

Every mental health regimen, without exception, has until the advent of Causism™ never addressed the question as to what is the source of all emotional problems, what causes them? Apart from Causism™, all mental health modalities ignore the spirit and attribute emotional problems to either the mind or the brain and rely on narrative, in other words, talking about problems, together with large doses of advice as a solution. I must admit that it was only after a profound ‘out of body experience’ that I abandoned any materialistic concepts and commenced researching from the dedicated viewpoint of Mind, Body and SPIRIT. I also ignored narrative procedures completely. The Spirit was eventually defined as a Human Energy Unit.

Delving into emotional problems and concentrating on narrative solutions, only addresses the manifestation and not the root cause, the ‘why’. Also, the atheistic approach that I dismiss, ignores Spirit, and falsely uses Mind & Brain, ignoring the fact that the brain is a physical entity and part of the body. The conventional psychological theory has confused the mind and the brain with the spirit. Causism™ research revolves around the concept of Mind Body & Spirit. This concept has been reinforced by the recent realization that the mind, and energy entity, is the interface between the spirit (psyche) and the physical universe. If only psychology and all other mental health regimes were prepared to examine my work, for we now have a definite line between all three elements of life, Mind, Body & Spirit.

Causism’s™ discovery of the Identity, the fourth element in life completes the picture and provides the final answer for the cause of all human behaviour and attitudes, good, bad and indifferent. Today, whenever some unnamed behaviour is recognised, Psychology quickly coins a name for it to create the false impression that they understand it.

Down the ages many great philosophers have commented on the existence of the psyche as an entity in itself, for instance, the Frenchman Rene Descartes is famous for his, “I think, therefore I am” He was, of course, referring to the “I” as the human psyche. Further back in time you have the Greeks Aristotle and Zeno, but despite the multitude of others, my own research has uncovered no record of any attempt to study the psyche in-depth, hence it being left under the umbrella of the infinitely broad subject of philosophy. There it remained until the 1870s when Wundt and James came into the picture, although it was Wilhelm Wundt who was the major contributor, and it is mainly his work that ushered in Psychology, as we know it. Also, according to Wikipedia, he was the first person to call himself a psychologist.

It appears that the human spirit was historically the province of religion and it remains there still. I have no hesitation in claiming to be the first person in recorded history to concentrate on an in-depth study of life, which has revealed the indisputable importance of the Psyche. Wundt worked from the contrary proposition that man was devoid of spirit and self-determinism, which of course challenged the basic concepts of the Christian faith and from a religious point of view was heresy. The expression, Mind, Body and Spirit must have been an anathema to him. It seems obvious to me that the almost unchallenged subservience to religious dogma in the western world over centuries is the root cause of the stagnation in an understanding the spiritual nature of Mankind. However, there appears to be no doubt that as education of the so-called masses spread, so did free-thinking flourish.

My own case is an example of education broadening one’s viewpoint and fostering new ideas. Although the experience related in both my book and the manual under the heading “Where it all began”, gave me an incredible insight into life, it was my education in the energy fields of electronics and magnetic theory, coupled with the development of the computer that gave me the tools to take advantage of that insight. One cannot, of course, ignore insight, nor negate an innate knowingness, but neither can one ignore the contribution of Caxton who gave us the printing press, Marconi who gave us radio and the Scotsman Baird who was a major player in the development of TV. The list is of course endless.

Knowledge is now not overtly suppressed by an authoritarian religious overlord, as was the case with Copernicus and Galileo for example. When the former proclaimed that the earth was not the centre of the universe as per accepted Christian dogma, he was unknowingly or perhaps knowingly challenging the authority of the church and as history will tell you they did not take kindly to it. The “church” in Rome was ruthless in suppressing any freethinking and the Inquisitions of Rome and Spain are a testament to that, although the Spanish Inquisition is probably the most well known.

Briefly digressing from the current theme. As much as we look upon those inquisitions from today’s more enlightened viewpoint, there is an even more widespread intra-religious conflict raging among Islamic sects in the Middle East that make the inquisitions seem like child’s play. Times do not change!