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Stone to Bread: Comparing Ortho-therapy with the Science of Fulfillment

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Science with all its attractive solutions robs us of this rare opportunity to experience the grace of God from our lives. It provides for us an option to get our problems fixed without the need to go through the ‘uncomfortable’ path of confession, prayer and submission through faith. It enables us to get rid of our misfortune without the need to know or acknowledge God. The diseases/poverty/disability, etc was not really a problem… it was a solution posing as a problem. It makes us realize that life is nothing more than a mere transit terminal wherein we get dropped by one plane (birth) and wait till we get to another one (death)…  It was an alarm that reminds us to cease snoring in the blissful state of material ignorance and seek a solution to the real problem… the sickness of the soul. Hence Science is an extension of the stone to bread temptation that is tabled as an alternative to the life of unconditional submission as exemplified through the life of Christ.

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Psychology starting from its inception was never meant to be a therapeutic science, i.e. a field dedicated to helping humans overcome their mental problems. Its true aim was no different from the purposes of all other streams which are classified as scientific - the control and efficient utilization of resources; in this case the most valuable and yet the most unpredictable of all resources – the mind. A person even vaguely familiar with this field of study would begin to see why psychology spends a great deal of time studying the unconscious mind - the irrational, animalistic, and consequently manipulate-able aspect of the human mind. Victor Frankel’s book ‘A man’s search for meaning’ which emphasizes that man, unlike any other animal, has got the ability to overcome environmental and hereditary constraints has largely been ignored. Instead Wundt, Freud, Pavlov, Skinner, and a host of other psychologists who are honored as the founders of modern psychology unanimously choose the animal-model to study the human mind. They portray man as the victim of his environment and heredity. In their rather dark depiction of man they picture him as being eternally condemned to live subdued to his animalistic and unconscious nature. Wundt’s extensive study on rats, Freud’s endeavor to model the normal mind on extremely marginalized population of neurotics and psychotics, Pavlov’s driving of classical conditioning basing his study on dogs… all these should be understood taking into account that their models and theories do not serve to heal man from his wounds, nor free himself from the bondage of irrationality/sheer animalism – they serve to keep him in bondage to these dark forces thereby controlling his behavior through application of certain principles. Modern day industrial psychology, social engineering, campaigning, and other applications base their model (the stimulus-response model) on this pessimistic aspect of man and contrive to predict and control his behavior in order to optimize gain.

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Even therapeutic aspect of psychology was promoted with sinister aims in mind. Psychotherapy was conceived with the intent of assuming the functions of the church. The couch-focused therapy was intended to replace confession and psychologists were to be the new secular priests that would act as the clergy for the new world order. The new age had found no place for the ecclesiastics who were seen as an embarrassment and incompatible with the new look of man and were to be cast aside. Yet it soon became evident that the church was not as easily replaceable as she was once thought. Apparently the human society was not civilized enough to let go of this ‘bag of superstitions’ and ‘opium for the masses’. A void too big to be overlooked eventually became visible and an institution which was to take over the functions of the church was desperately needed. That the highest suicide rate is found in the very nation (America) that possesses the largest number of psychiatrists and psychologists is testimony to the fact that ‘project takeover’ has miserably failed.

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Ortho-Therapy: who needs a painkiller when they can get the cure??

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