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 For most psychologists these powers and their use in matters of the physical world, or in political and social relations, are interesting studies. Para- normal life that includes parapsychological states has been quite a field for inquisitive seekers after the psychic condition.
The psychoanalytic thinkers did a great service to humanity when they removed the extraordinary limitation of psychology to measurable physiological behaviour. How the behaviour patterns organized themselves on the basis of units of behaviour called reflex-arcs and conditioned reflexes and so on has been the one primary condition of scientific psychology, as they called it. Of course it was science of kind, it was also psychology of a kind. The inner life of the individual, his psychic growth informed or warped by his expanding world of realization on the one side, and knowledge on the other, the awareness of an 'I' and 'Thou' and others, have not even been thought of as worth considering in the science of the psychic being. Not that they have no value. Their value is for the individual's existence within the world of men and things, which is practical, or pragmatic. It has just closed its eyes to the several problems of the religious and the mystical people. If the scientific psychologist thinks that knowledge is got only through sense organs and motor organs, the knowledge that mystics and seers claim is that which does not need the help of these organic instruments! Not only that, these instruments are obstructions to real intuitive vision and knowledge. They are hindrances. Therefore scientific psychology cannot accept this fundamental difference. One of them must forsake the name of psychology.
Psychoanalysis has rightly stated that the science of the inner life of the individual human being, who is a dynamic creature motivated by the basic desires for perpetuation, propagation, and sexuality, gives a better norm of man than the behaviouristic patterns of a cultural prison-house which may, for all that we may say, be good for the individual though bad for his liberty. But the psychic life does not end there. Deeper than the subconscious and the unconscious is a life that is of the spirit, which can only be known by means of the yogic transmission. The inner life extends to the cosmic unconscious as Jung has stated, and even more than that or deeper than that. The Vedic symbology which has been interpreted psychoanalytically by Jung in his "Psychological Types" does not fully
































































































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