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Table 1
Illustrations of how biological theology serves as the origin for
clinical and educational practices in spiritual psychology
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Behavioral Symptoms in Affective, Cognitive, and
Sensorimotor Domains
evils | sins | temptations | ills | disorders | disfunctions
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Applications in Rational / Spiritual Psychology
spiritual therapy | religious education | self-help | spiritual growth
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Justifications in
Biological Theology
doctrines |
revelations | illustrations | enlightenment
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1. Cognitive Problems
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1. Cognitive Therapy
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1. Doctrine of Spirits or the Vertical Community
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anxieties | basic existential dissatisfaction |
being over critical | complaining | cynicism | depression | doubting |
feeling inferior | hopelessness | multiple personality | negative self-image
| pessimism | phobias | psychosis | schizophrenia | self-denigration |
unrealistic expectations | worrying | etc. |
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Learning new self-regulatory sentences that can be
used to deliberately change one's spiritual associates
(e.g., I am worthwhile vs. I deserve nothing; | or, I could never succeed at
that vs. I can do it if I try hard enough); | etc. |
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Spirits feel an attraction to certain thoughts or
persuasions. When connection with them is thus opened, their affections flow
in, thus enslaving the individual as long as the thoughts or beliefs are held
on to.
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2. Character Weaknesses
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2. Religious Morality
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2. Doctrine of Temptations
and Regeneration
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corporeality | cowardice | dangerous lifestyles |
drug addiction | drunkenness | eating disorders | gambling | indecisiveness |
lack of cleanliness | procrastination | superficiality | thrill seeking |
etc. |
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Acknowledging God's Omnipotence and shunning evils
in oneself as personal sins against the Divine (indicating insufficient love
or commitment). Cooperating with God through conscience, exerting daily
effort at change.
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The Divine Human regenerates everyone through
temptations, providing only those that the individual can overcome
as-of-self. This process proceeds until death, and in the afterlife one's
fate is as one's loves have become.
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3. Sexuality Disorders
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3. Understanding
Psychobiology of Couplehood
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3. Doctrine of Conjugial
Love
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banalization of love |
being unromantic | child abuse | coldness among married partners |
desacralization of marriage | fear of intimacy | fear of sexuality |
fetishism | frigidity | impotence | lack of passion | love of marital
infidelity | love of pornography | love of prostitution | love of seducing
virgins | mechanical sex | misogyny | persecuting the weak or innocent |
profaning Scriptures | promiscuousness | pseudointimacy | rape and the love
violation | self-centered approach to sex | sexism | sexual harassment |
swearing | uncontrolled lust | unsafe sexual experimentation | vulgarity |
etc.
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Studying and understanding
the psychobiological consequences to the mind when one rejects chastity and
fidelity in marriage partners. Recognizing the sacredness of marriage.
Practicing this on a daily basis throughout life.
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Everyone who has not been
sufficiently regenerated retains an inherited hatred of chastity in marriage
and of the sphere of innocence of children, which is the sphere of Heaven and
God.
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4. Psychopathic Tendencies
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4. Conscience Therapy
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4. Doctrine of the Love of Self
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cheating | deceit | delight
in punishing | greed | insincerity | lying | manipulating others |
megalomania | narcissism | perjury | robbery | shallowness of relationships |
etc. |
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Learning through
self-examination to become aware of one's self-serving biases and restoring
the delights of being noble and good
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Love of self destroys the
conscience. It is chiefly the love of ruling over others and possessing their
goods.
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5. Sociopathic Tendencies
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5. Spiritual Practice
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5. Doctrine of the Three
Levels of the Mind
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antidemocratic tendencies |
criminality | cruelty | cultism | discrediting truth | dogmatism | escapism
|fundamentalism | impudence | intolerance | irrationality | lack of respect
for authority | libel | machismo | malice | mania | murder | obsession |
paranoia | persecution | philistinesism | prejudice | rebelliousness |
revenge | technophobia | unethical behaviors | xenophobia | etc. |
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Learning to do the practice
of faith, religion, or spirituality, in order to reopen the spiritual levels
of the mind. This level becomes closed when faith or conscience is
systematically ignored or reinterpreted to justify oneself. This can be
successful only in conjunction with religious morality (see top of Table).
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The mind has three levels:
natural; spiritual; celestial. The following close the spiritual and
celestial levels of the mind, leaving the individual spiritually insane, led
by fantasies and, worse than beasts: falsification of the Word; religion of
the mouth only; misuse of the Church; cultism; magic; spiritism; materialism;
pantheism; atheism; naturalism, and the like.
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6. Mood Problems
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6. Controlling
Sensorimotor Environment
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6. Doctrine of the Grand
Human
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accident proneness |
aesthetic dullness and grossness | anger | bad dreams | bad moods | bad
posture | compulsions | forgetfulness | grumpiness | inability to concentrate
| insomnia | lack of creativity | nightmares | overactive imagination |
seasonal affective disorders | etc. |
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Learning and experimenting
with how to alter one's environment: body position | clothing and coverings |
physical context or background | climate | scenery | sequence of acts | etc.
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Such deliberate body and environmental changes alter one's lines of spiritual
connections with the Grand Human.
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The arrangement and
interconnections of spiritual societies are in the image of the human body
and in accordance with mental genius or character (spiritual geography).
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7. Learned Helplessness
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7. New Age Education
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7. Doctrine of Uses
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acceptance of mediocrity |
adult dependency | anti-intellectuality | empty headedness | fatalism |
foolishness | giving up prematurely | gullibility | irresponsibility | lack
of initiative | laziness | low ambition | not taking responsibility for self
| playing the victim | stupidity | etc.
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Right-brain educational and
socialization practices that emphasize the development and nurture of the
affective domain, first, and second, its conjunction with the cognitive
domain.
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Heavenly life, which is the
life of love, intelligence, and wisdom in action, is created by the love of
uses, i.e., of desiring to be useful to others and making them happy out of
oneself.
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