Self-actualization personality become part of our life
Abstract:
Self-actualization personality become part of our life--- The theory of
self-actualization personality is the core of humanistic psychology. However,
both humanistic psychology and transpersonal psychology are unaware of the fact
that mental depressions have effect on the attainment of self-actualization
personality. Mental depression comes into existence in human-being¡¯s infant
stage and goes through their lifetime. It takes shape due to human-being¡¯s
suffer from corporal agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative
impact. This thesis points out the origin, the role and the effect of mental
depression. It also makes a preliminary study on the influence of eliminating
mental depression.
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Weidong, a 1989 graduate from Guangzhou University, is now the member of Guangdong Psychology Health Association.
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Author: Zhong Weidong
Self-actualization personality become part of our life
(Ò»)
Introduction---View the unification of psychology in materialist dialectics
Nowadays, the development of natural science goes far beyond humane
studies so that whenever we enjoy the convenience that natural science and
technologies bring to us, we must also bear the destructive effect that rise in
the process of making use of them. For instance, nuclear fusion technology can
be used for not only generating electricity but also manufacturing atomic bombs;
gene biologic engineering technology can cure some diseases, but it can also
change people into a ¡° David¡¯s deer¡±. Therefore, it is very urgent for us
to do the humane studies on human nature¡¯s kind and evil, rational and
irrational behavior. This issue originally belongs to philosophic. It has been
disputed for thousands of years without any results. We have no other choices
but to try solving this problem with the help of psychology to study
human-being¡¯s behavior, emotion and motivation. But psychology itself is now
faced with a serious problem---the problem of unification. This unification is
not metaphysical or just mechanically putting together all schools of theories.
It¡¯s a unification that indeed has internal links.
As we all know, object is motive and continuously developed
without any exception for the lord of creation---human beings. Therefore, we
should not view the development of personality with a still and isolated eye.
Max, the great philosopher in 19th century, assumed that people in
the future would be of great wisdom, high constructiveness and creativeness.
That is to say that our personality will be developed
into the kind of personality with great wisdom, high constructiveness and
creativeness. We haven¡¯t seen any theory on self-actualization personality
until 1960s with the advent of humanistic psychology.
Self-actualizers
enjoy lasting interests and pleasures, possess the sense of appreciation, bask
in happiness excitingly, curiously, and respectfully. Maslow said on his book:
self-actualizers observe every sunset like they never see it before, even after
having seen it many times. The ¡°climax¡±
experience, Maslow said, is the most useful moment in people¡¯s whole life.
People feel strong and confident at those moments. They can manage themselves
well. Maslow compared ¡°climax¡±
to an engine. All of a sudden, all the engine¡¯s cylinders begin to function to
the best of their ability. People reaching their climax would not only feel
strong, independent, attentive, but would also find the world more beautiful,
harmonious and real. A single ¡°climax¡±
experience is able to make an average man see the glimpse of what
self-actualization must be like. Self-actualizers are more society-sensitive,
according to Maslow; they can easily mingle with people. ¡°They
own deep recognition, sympathy and love for human beings, and because of that,
they are ready to offer help, just as they do in their own family.¡±
They are extraordinarily creative. In Maslow¡¯s opinion, creativity is a
testament to healthy personality. They reveal original creativity here and
there, have good appetite, live happily and sleep soundly, without remorse,
shame or regret. They are free from any external threats. So under no condition
would they give in.
¢Ü
A.H. Maslow and Carl Ranson Rogers¡¯ theories on
self-actualization personality has corroborated Max¡¯s view about future
human-beings. As for humanistic psychology, the theory of self-actualization
personality has been brought forth for 40 years, But few people can attain this
ideal and mature personality. Thus many scholars begin to doubt about this
theory of ideal personality---Is this a personality a real person has? Or can
real person possess this personality? So here we can see the key defect of
humanistic psychology lies in that common people cannot attain
self-actualization personality by the way we use. Maslow put forward eight means
to attain self-actualization personality in his works:(about the eight means)
(1)
Self-actualization means leading a life with full, active and
self-forgetful attitude and devoted oneself to an affair with heart and soul.
Therefore, an individual should always devote himself to an affair or mission,
throw off his mask, formality and cowardliness,
and enter into the spirit of self-forgetfulness.
(2)
When facing with the choice between going forward and falling back, up
growth and safety, we must choose up growth instead of defense and try our best
to make every choice an up growing one.
(3)
¡°One must bend ear towards the call of their internal impulse¡±. In
other words, we should let our nature and potential crop out spontaneously and
regard them as the Supreme Court rather than listen to the authoritative and
traditional voice.
(4)
When have doubts, one must speak out honestly rather than conceal it and
examine his conscience in many areas. Because this means assume liabilities and
fulfill oneself.
(5)
Begin from doing trifle things, foster aspiration and hobbies, have the
courage not to afraid of everything, know better one¡¯s own destiny and mission
and act accordingly.
(6)
Self-actualization is not only an ending state, but a process of
fulfilling personal potential at any time and to any extent. This means the
possibility of fulfilling someone always needs a diligent and energy costing
phase zero.
(7)
Summit experience is a short
instant of self-actualization. We must set criteria to enable the existence of
summit experience in order to make self-recognition, self-discovery and
self-fulfillment more clearly.
(8)
One must know his defensive psychology and have the courage to give it
up.
Here we see none of the eight means comes down to mental depression
which exists in people¡¯s inner space. Maslow and Rogers haven¡¯t noticed
mental depression¡¯s influence on personality. But it is also unpractical for
Super-individualism psychology to try attaining self-actualization personality
by transcendental meditation which absorbs eastern Yoka and Zenic skill practice
method, because it haven¡¯t noticed mental depression¡¯s influence on
personality too.---Both humanistic psychologists and super-individualism
psychologists neglect mental depression!
Human is not born afraid of everything, wearing mask, being prudent
and recoiling. It is mental depression that makes people behave like this, make
defensive choice and unwilling to assume liability. It is also due to mental
depression so that people cannot recognize and discover themselves. Where do
these mental depression come from? How do they come into being? What effect can
it bring to our personality?
They originate from the memories that take shape due to
human-being¡¯s suffer from corporal agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt
or some negative impact. The contents of these memories then drop hint to
people, and this is the so-called subconscious. This kind of hint influence
people according to its own content no matter what time and no matter in which
place. If its content includes human language, it then has stronger
psychological energy---language implication.
As to this, maybe you will consider it the subconscious theory of
psychoanalysis. No, it differs from the subconscious theory of psychoanalysis:
Firstly, subconscious is not human instinct impulse. It¡¯s
acquired one that takes shape owing to human-being¡¯s suffer from corporal
agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative impact. Its content
is the memories that formed by sense organs¡¯ feeling to the outside world
(including sound memory). They then drop implication on human. It is this
implication that distorts human-being¡¯s mental and makes them off the trail.
People then are unwilling to assume liabilities, wearing mask, and behave
prudently and recoiltingly.
Secondly, human being is good and rational instead of evil and
irrational. The irrational behavior is acquired through later learning, its
representative is ¡°invasion¡± (see behaviorism Albert Bandura of invasion
theory for details). The essence of human psychology is the function of brain
and reaction to the objectives and The aim of psychology is to be survival and
immortal.
Thirdly, human may not have consciousness during antenatal stage,
but it do have memory. It can also have subconscious because of hurt and being
anesthetized. The implication begins early from antenatal stage. In other words,
mental depression begins from antenatal stage.
The rational definition of subconscious: It¡¯s memories that take
shape due to human-being¡¯s suffer from corporal agony, being anesthetized,
emotional hurt or some negative impact. Their contents can drop implication to
human-beings.
Psychoanalysis has been existing for more than a century indeed. Its theory has
great influence on posterity in the areas of art and culture. But their
recognition of subconscious is emotional and has not got to rational level. Its
view to the formation, the origin and the function of subconscious is still
blurred.
Psychoanalysis school¡¯s definition on subconscious:
(1)
Sigmund
Freud¡¯s definition on subconscious: subconscious is composed of instinct
desires especially the desire of sex. Floyd¡¯s so-called sex is in the broad
sense. It refers not only the genital wallop but all the feelings of pleasant
sensation. These instinct desires of subconscious are dynamic, they are
attempting to seek ways to express and release on and on. But however strong the
instinct impulses are, they still be crowded out below the threshold of
conscience due to their conflict with the traditional social customs, morals and
laws.
In his opinion, conscience is the outcome of subconscious and the
process of conscience is the derivative of the process of subconscious.
Therefore, the essence of people¡¯s psychology is subconscious instead of
conscience. Subconscious is the final motive power of human¡¯s psychology and
behavior. It refers to human¡¯s instinct impulse, all kinds of instinct and the
depressed desires after birth. It carries strong burden of psychology energy.
(2)
Definition of C.G Jung¡¯s Analytic psychology on subconscious:
Subconscious is made up of individual subconscious and collective subconscious.
Individual subconscious is part of mind near to self-consciousness, including
the individual experience that has been forgotten and depressed. Collective
subconscious is deep in the bottom of heart. Its basic connotation is the
accumulation of ancestor¡¯s experience in history. It is the inborn genetic
tendency of human¡¯s behavior which determines human instinct.
A.
Adler¡¯s individual psychology ushers a new psychoanalytical socio-cultural
tropism, but has no new definition about subconscious.
Social subconscious of Vroom¡¯s humanistic psychoanalysis: The
so-called social subconscious means the cohabiting repressed fields of most
members in a society.
Lacan¡¯s structuralism psychoanalysis: Lacan, a Frenchman, found
that subconscious is similar to a language structure.
Because our knowledge of subconscious is emotional, the false
irrationalism and mysticism tendency of psychoanalysis theory came into being.
The research into individual subconscious, collective subconscious and social
subconscious should based on the rational recognition of subconscious.
Therefore, in the aspect of the ideal self-actualization personality, one must
recognize the function of subconscious, mental depression and the limitation of
the former psychoanalysis school. The aim of psychological unification is to
enable common people to attain self-actualization personality. If this goal
cannot be achieved, then the unification of psychology will mean nothing.
(¶þ) Basic concept
In this research system, we
will bring forth some basic concept focusing on human subconscious (mental
depression) and self-actualization personality etc.
Eliminating
mental depression,guided
by basic principles of dialectical materialist philosophy, focuses on corporal
agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative impact.
Investigations into the impacts of subconscious formed by the oppression on
men¡¯s process of cognition, emotion and will lead to a set of method that is
able to free the rational thinking from the depression. Thus, a bridge to
Self-actualization personality
has been forged.
1¡¢Investigation
Objects: At the first stage, investigation focuses on corporal
agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative impact.
At this stage, the investigation is guided by basic principles of dialectical
materialist philosophy. At the second stage, investigation focuses on human
beings with Self-actualization personality, and their process of
cognition, emotion and will.
2¡¢Basic
philosophy theories: matter is primary and consciousness is secondary. Matter
decides consciousness and consciousness reacts to matter. Consciousness of human
brain is the reflection of the objective materialist world on the brain.
3¡¢Classification
of consciousness: conceivable consciousness and inconceivable consciousness (the
so-called subconscious)
4¡¢Effects
of consciousness: initiative of conceivable consciousness and implications of
inconceivable consciousness (subconscious---mental
depression)
5¡¢Reasons
for the formation of subconscious£ºthe
periods of corporal agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative
impact
.
6¡¢Contents
of subconscious: reflection of the objective materialist world on human brain at
the moment people suffer from the periods of corporal agony, being
anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative impact. All these things around people, conceivable by
hearing, vision, taste and feeling, are part of subconscious. When language is
involved, language implications are added to subconscious and empower the
subconscious, since human language is purposeful.
Characteristics
of subconscious: its contents are invisible to consciousness but have influence
on it and rational thinking, as well as on incretion system, in the form of
psychological suggestions. It influences human health.
7¡¢Stages
of subconscious in human brain: fetus subconscious----formed in uterus by
various external harmful accidents (such as mother¡¯s inadvertent fall; sex in
pregnancy; drugs taken that have narcosis effects); subconscious formed after
birth by the periods of corporal agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative
impact
.
8¡¢The
memory system of human brain: it is composed of normal memory bank and
subconscious memory bank in terms of the classes of consciousness. Normal memory
bank stores every thing except the periods of corporal agony, being
anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative impact ..
9¡¢Subconscious
memory bank stores corporal agony, emotional hurt ,being anesthetized
and some negative impact. That is to say, physical pain is unable to be recalled
in normal memory bank, because it is stored in subconscious memory bank.
How
to convert subconscious into normal consciousness to eliminate the influence of
subconscious(mental depression)£ºGuide
the normal thinking of people involved to seek those painful experiences, and to
relive them in consciousness. Give vent to all the feelings in physical pain and
emotional hurt completely.
10¡¢Human
conduct motives: there are four kinds of motives. The first one is personal
survival. The second is sex and bearing. The third is community, country and
nation. The fourth is human being. All these four motives are equal and contain
every motive of human conducts. Selfishness is formed by the predominance of the
first motive over the other ones. Optimum conduct of human being is the
combination of all these four motives.
11¡¢Evolving
from animals, human beings experience the same physical pain, but also enjoy
rational thinking that is beyond animals¡¯ reach. Physical pain, as a system of
self-prevention, reminds human beings¡¯ consciousness to take action to avoid
further harm. It is good for survival; but from it stems subconscious, which has
implications for rational thinking: that is the answer to the Sphinx¡¯s mystery
of human combination of angel and evil.
12¡¢Human
nature is good, while evil stems from various kinds of subconscious in human
brain and from nurture. Natural and harmonious human beings are the most
advanced and beautiful.
(Èý)Potential
is primary! It is the necessary path to human beings with high intelligence,
constructiveness and creativity!
1. Human Potential and Subconscious (Mental depression)
People
know little as to the scale of human potential and the way to exploit it. This
has been mentioned philosophically. Tony
Buzan, the British scholar, thinks, "Human brain is like a sleeping
giant"
¢Ù
. Otto,
another scholar, described it more specifically. He pointed out that man under
average conditions usually uses only a small fraction of his thinking ability.
If we could drive our brain to use half of all its potential, we would master 40
languages with ease, memorize a USSR encyclopedia thoroughly, and learnt courses
of dozens of universities. Maslow,
the famous humanist, said in his book ¡°Man¡¯s
Potential and Values¡±,
each one of us releases only a tiny part of our potential. Hopefully, you can
persistently realize your own potential and undertake the most exciting
exploration in life.
¢Ú
Most
of the scholars think that human potential is unlimited. But how comes only a
tidy fraction of it has been exploited by modern people? There are some
arguments existing to show bad habits, poor culture environment and people¡¯s
desire for security and other low-level necessities hinder people¡¯s
realization of potential. While
other scholars argue that the largest obstacle to people¡¯s realization of
potential lies in society where insufficient conditions, environment and
opportunities make it impossible for people to bring potential into full play.
They emphasize that social system is essential for realization of potential.
However, there must be some intrinsic factors that hinder its realization, since
potential is inherent in human life. While the predecessors focused merely on
extrinsic factors, such as culture environment and social system.
Before
talking about human potential, I feel it necessary to mention human nature. Is
it good or evil? At all times and in all over the world, all the arguments can
be sorted into several kinds listed below, with their own reasons: it is good;
it is bad; it is neither good nor bad; it is good as well as bad. From a
different point of view, good and evil, literally, are opposite to each other.
Good things are good to human survival and improvement; Bad things are
the other way around, symbolizing killings and ruin of lives. From this point of
view, good human nature can mean inherent desires to survive and improve. If
human nature is evil, lives are bound to be killed or be ruined. In other words,
human beings are bound to die out. But in light of human history of development,
human beings are always looking for ways to survive and improve. This is enough
to prove that human nature is good. Knowing this is of great importance.
In
the process of life, brain records all experiences like an accurate video tape
recorder. Readers of Floyd¡¯s psychoanalysis will notice people¡¯s mistakes in
hearing, seeing, writing and speaking. Those spiritual mistakes stem, according
to Floyd, the founder of psychology, from subconscious in human brain. But how
does subconscious function in human brain? Let us first take a look at human
birth. Human life begins from a zygote. From ten months of pregnancy in
mother¡¯s uterus to birth with a cry; from innocent kindergarten children to
elementary school kids; from middle school students to freshmen in university
and society; from energetic young people to experienced adults; and from senior
citizens to death. In this process, there are a lot of happiness and pleasures,
as well as physical pains and emotional hurts. Every time one suffers from pain
or hurts, all things around, such as sound, image, smell, feeling, temperature
and humidity, are converted into subconscious and stored in his brain. It is
those physical pains and mental hurts with objective environment and emotions at
that time that form human subconscious! Subconscious that mistake people in
hearing, seeing, writing and speaking often have negative language implications,
such as ¡°I
can¡¯t hear/see normally or clearly.¡±
Human
brain works like an accurate computer to collect information through hearing,
seeing, feeling and smelling and then judge from information collected. But
negative elements in subconscious exist to mislead human brain¡¯s judgment in
information and create judging mistakes. That is the effects of subconscious on
human brain. Mistakes in hearing,
seeing, speaking and writing amount to only a fraction of the impacts
subconscious have on human brain, but it is this kind of subconscious that
breaks down our inherent ability and change it into ¡°potential¡±
we modern people dream of.
One
of the most important signs of potential exploitation is memory exploitation.
But what is the standard of human memory? In other words, to what level can
human memory develop? Once there was a USSR master in memory who performed his
memory on stage. He asked one of the audiences to write an irregular string of
numbers. After merely a casual look at the paper, he returned it and recited the
number in exact order. It is a showcase for his excellent memory. But do we
really possess excellent memory? If so, how comes most of us suffer from
amnesia? It is a question rarely answered. In fact, modern medical science has
proved that amnesia is an illness. But what gives rise to it? Is it the
deterioration of nature, or lack of vitamin and amino acid in our food, or the
combination of both? Extrinsic factors do make a difference, but not a major
one. What matters is the intrinsic subconscious. This kind of subconscious has
language implications, such as ¡°I
cannot remember¡±,
¡°I
forget it¡±
and ¡°it
is out of my mind¡±.
That is to say, there is a period of traumatic unconscious that had happened to
most of us. During that period, language implications, such as ¡°I
forget¡±
and ¡°I
cannot remember¡±,
would make their entry into our brain! They prevent us from recalling and
memorizing. To conquer those implications, people use subjective will or
psychological implications, such as ¡°I
can remember it¡±
and ¡°
I cannot afford to forget it¡±.
This period of conquering with subjective will is called ¡°self-transcendence¡±.
If one is able to free his brain from subconscious that encumbers memory, he can
raise his memory onto a high level, like a camera. Man is always in a persistent
battle against failing memory, and in the process of self-transcendence. The
process of self-transcendence is also the process of battling against
subconscious. Some people may argue, ¡°man
naturally suffer from failing memory as he grows old¡±.
It seems that memory depends on physical factors. But truth turns out to be the
other way around. Psychologically, the basic reason for failing memory of senior
citizens is their unwillingness to recall owing to conventional views. That is
to say, they become unwilling to transcend themselves, and tend to give up the
war against their own subconscious.
Although
subconscious directly influences thinking in human brain, we know little about
it. However, we had made progresses in medical and educational fields before we
knew it. Take hospital for example,
nurses are often heard saying:¡°The
patient is unconscious. Please do not visit him.¡±
Why? It is because what you had said during your visit in the patient¡¯s
unconsciousness would be added to his subconscious. When the patient came to,
those language implications would certainly affect his thinking and health. Most
of the patients in hospital are unconscious. No doubt sharp noises of nature
affects patients¡¯ physical and mental health, but human language, which is
purposeful, affects patients in a worse way after it has been converted into
subconscious. That is why all should be kept quiet in hospital. Moreover, that
is why a patient, rational teaching method, instead of a rude one, is required
to teach children. It is to avoid the negative impacts of subconscious on
children¡¯s soul.
Another
standard of potential exploitation is human receptivity, such as the ability to
sense a new thing, the ability to feel the pain. Infants in mother¡¯s arms have
a very sharp receptivity. In contrast with infants, we adults¡¯ receptivity is
too blunt in terms of pain. We tend to compare young people with the elderly and
credit the former with sharper senses to new things. Why? Is age a decisive
factor in human receptivity? The truth turns out in another way. The elderly
experience more pains and frustrations in their life. Therefore, there is a
larger amount of subconscious in their brain. This kind of subconscious blunts
their ability to sense or feel things, and drives them to be skeptical about any
new things. Concurrently, the formation of subconscious replaces a fraction of
human sensibility. That is why the elderly is cooler and more realistic than
young people, but less vigorous. Laozi and Zhuangzi, Chinese Taoists, claimed,
"man should return to the senseless and desire-free state of infants".
That is to say, man should try to possess infants¡¯ mentality (receptivity,
memory, imitation ability, etc). If one has a high-level mentality, his
creativity is considerably high without any doubt.
Another
interesting topic is indolence. How does it form? Don¡¯t people know the
disadvantages of indolence? Indolence is unwillingness and reluctance to make
progress in one¡¯s work, study and life, to do what is required, and to
transcend oneself. One is equipped with indolence mentality rather than
indolent. Then how does it form? People tend to become sick and tired of what
they have been kept on for a long time, because his enthusiasm wanes. As his
interest wears off, mental fatigue takes place. How does it happen? The
objective world is ever changing. Every day is a new one. Thus, everyday work
should be ever new. But why do people not sense this change, but feel mentally
fatigued? The reason is that modern people are quite blunt, unable to feel the
subtle change of things. As mentioned above, bluntness of human receptivity is
caused by traumatic subconscious. On the other hand, owing to the limitation of
education, people have in their mind negative implications, such as ¡°do
not do that¡±,
¡°stop
here¡±
and ¡°leave
it alone¡±.
Those implications prevent human thinking and action from moving for something
new or starting a new career. That
is the mental reason for sticking to convention or unwillingness to go ahead. To
sum up, indolence is the influence of subconscious in human mind.
An
overwhelming majority of those who had been persecuted in Cultural Revolution of
Chinese have in their minds implications like ¡°
say it the other way around¡±
or ¡°do
not be honest¡±.
In everyday reading, they would find themselves tend to read the title or words
of an article in an irregular order. For example, they are inclined to mistaking
¡°the
country for all¡±
for ¡°the
country all for¡±.
This inclination would make it hard to speed up reading or understand the
article appropriately. How does it occur? It is another ¡°masterpiece¡±
of subconscious. It stems from an
implication in one¡¯s mind. When
man takes a look at something, the normal reflection of naked eyes is distorted
wholly or partially by subconscious. The effects of subconscious become all the
more noticeable when man feels sick and tired.
Everyone
in the world would experience emotional hurt: loss of parents, friends, loyalty
or necessities, even loss of pets. Not only would emotional hurt make us more
and more realistic, apathetic and cynical, it would also deprive us of
creativity and enthusiasm! Subconscious formed by emotional loss affects us
unceasingly.
Human
beings experience trauma and pain while they are exploring society, trying to
make a living, and releasing their creativity. In natural science fields, people
have already made large achievements, and we can just move to the unknown
following the steps of predecessors. Having a wealth of knowledge and experience
in their minds, our predecessors would have become highly creative and
constructive if their minds had been freed from subconscious to bring their once
oppressed potential into full play. They would have made excellent contributions
to human beings in music, art, painting, etc.
2.
The Formation of Subconscious
We
have already understood the effects of subconscious caused the periods of corporal agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative
impact
. Now let¡¯s take a look at the concrete process of the formation of
subconscious. Firstly, human beings possess rational thinking, which lies
somewhere in the head materially. Rational thinking is self-existent, influenced
by no sense organ. While each sense organ (ears, eyes, tongue, nose and skin)
are independent. That is to say, if what produces rational thinking in brain has
been removed out of misfortune, the function of sense organs would not be
affected, as is shown in organ transplantation case. But the man would descend
into a mindless, easy-to-be-tamed animal! The same is true to medical removal of
brain used in psychotherapy. On the other hand, if sense organs have been
removed or have died, the function of rational thinking would not be affected.
Using these independent sense organs to collect information, human brain makes
judgments.
People
have long been convinced that all sense organs would cease to function when man
becomes unconscious. It is a myth. In fact, coma merely means that rational
thinking would cease to function and connect with the external world. All sense
organs, including ears, eyes, tongue, nose and skin have not stopped yet! Rather
than dying, they are persistent in serving the brain and recording the sound,
temperature, feel, smell and taste. Where would they store those records? Why we
cannot recall them after we come to ourselves? Because those records are stored
in subconscious memory bank, instead of normal memory bank where rational
thinking is stored. They make up subconscious. If people experience pain at that
time, pain would be contained in subconscious. If there is another one speaking
around him, and if the sound waves could be received by cells of his hearing
organ, what had been spoken out would also be added to his subconscious! And
this subconscious would have implications for human thinking.£¨Normal
memory bank used by rational thinking organs do not store pain. In other words,
we cannot normally recall pains, as is proved by scientific researches.£©
Example
1£ºIf
one is told, ¡°you
can¡¯t do that¡±,
while he is suffering from pain, those implications would be rooted in his
subconscious. Subsequently, each time he tries to do anything, he would be
affected by this subconscious, which would largely encumber his initiative and
creativity.
Example
2£ºSuppose
a football player is injured in the field. At the moment he get injured, all
surroundings in the field£¨green
field£¬teammates¡¯
words£¬audiences¡¯
din, etc£©would
all be instilled into his soul and become a part of subconscious. Subsequently,
when the player plays hard next time in the same or similar circumstances, he
would get cowhearted and dare not play aggressively due to his previous
experience. His performance and ability would be affected.
Example
3: One mother often worries about her naughty son, beats him out of inexplicable
fret, and exclaims to him: ¡°Are
you blind? Can¡¯t you see such a thing?¡±
or ¡°Are
you deaf? Can¡¯t you listen to what I have said?¡±
While beating him, she unknowingly instills language implications into her
son¡¯s soul. What is foreseeable is that he would have problems in seeing or
listening as he grows up.
Subconscious
springs not only from corporal agony, but also from emotional hurt, being anesthetized
, and negative impact. For instance, stimulations of a disastrous and terrifying
accident would be recorded by human sense organs. The disastrous and terrifying
surroundings would be converted into memory, whose contents would have
implications for human thinking. The implications would cause functional
disorder of internal secretion system and cause coronary heart disease and
hypertension.
3.
Let¡¯s
take a look at infants¡¯
subconscious.
Infants¡¯
subconscious: suggestive memory left in infant stage by trauma
(While
reading the article below, bear in mind the basic principles of dialectical
materialist philosophy, and the principles of universal connections, and use
them as guidance. )
From
simple virus cell to complex human being, every organic creature has memory.
Organic creature would not have survived without memory. Human being, the most
complex creature on earth, stems from the combination of germ cell and ovum.
Germ cell and ovum, as different kinds of cell, have memory inherently. Although
the memory is backward, it would not be cut off by the development and division
of cells. That is to say, memory is continuous and the total memory system of
human being contains the memory of the germ cell and ovum, such the memory of
germ cell¡¯s swimming in mother¡¯s cunt, and the memory of the combination.
(By the way, how wonderful and excellent the memory is! Humans that are cloned
out would not be privileged to possess this kind of memory! ) Researches on
memory rarely go anywhere, though magnificent progresses have been made in
modern psychology, experimenting instruments, such as micro-electrode, positron
radiation analysis and scan, electroencephalogram, electron microscope and
electronic computer, have been used to study human molecules and atoms.
Infants¡¯
subconscious: suggestive memory left by trauma in infant stage. This is a field
full of challenges, not only because rare attention has been paid to the
influences of infants¡¯ subconscious on human beings, but also because the
answer is far beyond the reach of present experimenting instruments. That is the
memory of infants, embryos, germ cells and ovum. Infants¡¯ education prevailing
in modern society affirms the infants¡¯ memory at later stage. But what about
the education at early stage? And the education of embryos? We all know that
mother¡¯s uterus is warm and comfortable. This knowledge comes, without any
doubt, from the memory of infant embryo and germ cell.
Can modern experimenting instruments decipher it? There exists another
question of the receptivity of external sounds at infants¡¯ stage. Sound waves
can penetrate through human body with ease. Only because little embryo has no
hearing cells, can we assume that it is unaware of sound waves? In other words,
would the sound waves created by our words affect embryos, or left something
behind? That is a topic of great interest and challenge! Modern physiology
thinks that hearing is created after hearing cells are divided from embryo, and
embryo can¡¯t hear previously. But if embryos can sense sound waves (even in a
primitive way), we can then assume that embryos can memorize sound waves? How to
prove it? One way is to try to recall the memory of embryos to see if there is
external language. If embryos get hurt in this period, subconscious would take
shape, and the objective realistic world, sound included----if it could be
received by embryos----would contribute to subconscious and have implications!
Those implications would further affect human rational thinking and physical
health, and constitute sensible thinking. Eliminating mental depression¡¯s
emphasis has been put on elimination of infants¡¯ subconscious.
Use the motivating words like ¡°
please return to the infant stage to see if you were hurt¡±
or ¡°
return to the hurting moments of infants stage¡±,
etc. Explore the moment when
subconscious takes shape and transform it into consciousness. If language is
found in the subconscious, we can assume that human embryos can sense sounds
even before the formation of hearing cells. There is a philosophical view that
man is inclined to crimes, irrational actions and evil thinking even before
birth. It is not hard to understand. Because human beings get hurt as early as
at the embryos stage! Hurt gives rise to subconscious; subconscious gives rise
to irrational thinking.
I
once had a failed case of transforming infants¡¯ subconscious into
consciousness: Guided by words like ¡°please
return to the infant stage to see if you were hurt ¡±,
one of my colleagues had explored his brain thoroughly before he found one
incident. This made him feel a feeling of extreme happiness spreading from his
feet upwards. Consequently, he was suddenly overwhelmed with a sharp pain
in his throat. He then asked me for water. Lacking in experience and out of
sympathy, I handed him a bottle of mineral water. But after his drinking, all
the previous feelings had gone. He was deprived of that feel! I was full of
remorse for it. Obviously, he had already found a physical pain right there on
infants stage. But while he was feeling it, I failed to motivate him to relive
it and to give vent to all emotions involved. So I just failed to transform the
subconscious into consciousness and to know the exact time of the occurrence of
this physical pain. Was it one month after pregnancy, or three months, five
months? Nor did I get to know its detailed contents, only knowing that it
contains sharp pain in throat. I still have it on my mind.
A
decade ago, a Buddhism-lover told me that there was a theory in Buddhism: if man
manages to put his memory back to his infant stage and recall what had happened
at that time, he could obtain great wisdom. Knowing little about Buddhism, I am
not sure whether what he said is true. But Eliminating mental depression should
aim at human beings with high intelligence, constructiveness and creativity.
Through the transformation of subconscious into consciousness, subconscious at
all stages can be eliminated, and human nature can be regained.
In this process, transformation of infant subconscious is of great
importance!
Maslow,
the humanist psychologist, put forward self-realization and its eight measures,
such as be courageous, listen to the voice inside, me-nonexistent mode, etc. But
he overlooked the mental oppression, failed to mention implications subconscious
has for human beings and failed to investigate the transformation of
subconscious. The eight measures mentioned above are all in vain.
Psychoanalysis
school was the first to study subconscious. However, owing to its lack of
guidance of dialectical materialist philosophy, it failed to know exactly the
formation of subconscious, or the implications subconscious has for human
beings. It is those implications that create inexplicable impulses of various
kinds, leaving influence on human mental and physical health.
4.
Sense and Sensibility
To
reach high intelligence, constructiveness and creativity, there is a very
important question to be answered: that is the question of sense and
sensibility. Obviously, high intelligence, constructiveness and creativity
belong to rational thinking. Then where does sensibility come from?
Mystery of Sphinx£º
How
comes human beings
Half
angel
Half
beast?
The
everlasting mystery of Sphinx
In
all ages
From
East to West
Kept
unanswered¡
The
mystery of Sphinx is the mystery of sense and sensibility.
Mystery
of Sphinx used to be a question investigated only by philosophers, rather by
psychologists. In fact, philosophy involves sense and sensibility, while
psychology focuses on consciousness and mental motives that create conducts. To
find the answer to the Mystery of Sphinx, we must combine philosophy with
psychology. Our Eliminating mental depression theory raises its own answer:
evolving from animals, human beings experience physical pains as animals do, but
also have rational thinking that is beyond animals¡¯ reach. Physical pain is a
protective system, motivating human mind to take actions to avoid further harm.
It is good for survival; but from it subconscious springs. And subconscious
comes to have implications for rational thinking. Irrational conducts stem from
the potential implications. That is the answer to the Mystery of Sphinx: humans
are half angel and half beast.
Some
people argue that because human evolved from animal, human inherited irrational
thinking from animal; thus, irrational thinking could only be controlled by
qualified education. It is a myth. What we inherited from animal are the
biological senses, rather than irrational thinking.
But
where does the irrational thinking come from? Let us first take a look at an
example of sense and sensibility: Go players all understand the importance of
the strategy. Nie Weiping, a go master, understands it all the more deeply. He
once said regretfully after a loss in an international match, although he kept
ahead at the first half, he messed up later. Although there existed an optimum
strategy in mind, he used the worst one actually. It is indescribable. He lost
the match. What a pity! The optimum strategy, as well as the worst one, is the
result of rational thinking. And the go master had already made a judgment! At
that moment, if he had taken the optimum one, it would have be a rational move.
But why did he take the worst one? It was irrational! How comes the go master
took an irrational move and ruined his match? It would not be a mystery were it
not for the subconscious theory of Our Eliminating mental depression.£¨the rational recognition of subconscious£ºsubconscious
formed by corporal agony, being anesthetized, emotional hurt or some negative
impact
would have implications for human beings. It contains language implications if
language is involved.£©
The
go master¡¯s irrational move, which resulted in the loss of match, is
stimulated by interference of subconscious with rational thinking. Language
implications must contain words like ¡°do
it the other way around¡±!
Influenced by the implications, the go master confused the optimum strategy with
the worst one, and suffered from irrational moves. The formation of subconscious
could be traced back to youth of the go master. Maybe it has something to do
with the Cultural Revolution? How
many times have the master missed the championship due to the subconscious? Only
he himself knows.
Another
example: in the 1980s, A¡¯s parents bought a 14-cun black-and-white television.
He was then a middle school boy. In summer holidays, his parents were going to
leave for some days. A asked them not to lock the TV in the cupboard, but they
did agree. A gave vent to his grievance as soon as his parents left. He smashed
things, threw a set of chess out of window¡
Why was A driven to give vent to his irrational thinking? In his childhood, A
had witnessed the arguments and fights between his parents and had watched his
mother hysterically smash plates¡
All these things hurt A mentally and gave rise to subconscious. What he did in
summer holiday is just the repetition of his mother¡¯s actions!
This conduct contains the motives to live better and can be traced back
to emotional loss. The influence of subconscious on human conduct is evident
here.
The
question of sense and sensibility could not be specified in few words. What I
said above is just an initial explanation, but the implications of subconscious
for irrational thinking are clear.
Conclusion
We
have known that implications formed by physical pains, emotional loss and coma
are hindering the realization of human potential, and we must take active
measures to eliminate its negative effects. It is common that people would
confide to the most trusted friends what they had suffered for self-comfort. In
psychological medical field, there is also a treatment called ¡°emotional
unbosoming¡±
or ¡°mental
unbosoming¡±.
At the most crucial moment, patients relive what had driven him imbalanced, and
gradually recover. Subconscious stems from physical pains, emotional loss, so we
can eliminate implications and set the patient free, if we can just put him back
to the days when he suffered physical pains and emotional loss, motivate him to
relive the experience, and guide him to reveal his feelings. The process of
eliminating implications is also the process of transforming subconscious into
normal consciousness.
As
the influences of subconscious are eliminated one by one, human memory,
intellect and thinking will be raised to an amazing level. Human beings will
find themselves realizing the self-realization Maslow had originated: more
happy, confident, with better health and creativity. Just as Karl Marx, the
great philosopher said, ¡°Not
everyone can become Raphael, but everyone may push his own limits continuously,
as long as he is willing to!¡±
We
are faced with the problem of mental diseases. It is essential to find a way to
find its root and a solution. Take paranoia schizophrenia. It has been
repeatedly reported that many laborers are driven mad in crowded trains around
Chinese New Year, when a huge number of laborers are swarming towards big
cities. Under the illusion that people around would hurt him, he would be driven
to take offense and do something harmful. Where does the illusion come from? Why
do they have the illusion of being hurt? According to basic principles of
Marxist dialectical materialism, consciousness in human mind is the reflection
of the objective world. So the illusion of being hurt in the patients is also
the reflection of the objective world. What is the objective world? How does it
function in human mind to create illusions? Obviously, the patients had
experienced pains of being surrounded and beaten! The experience left
subconscious in their minds. In the overcrowded trains, the surroundings
reminded him of the previous experience and stimulate his subconscious. Then he
assumed that he would be surrounded and beaten again! The previous pain is what
caused the illusion. As to treatment, emotional unbosoming in psychoanalysis is
recommended to guide the patients to relive the pains mentally, give vent to his
painful feelings. Then he would recover again. Other kinds of mental diseases,
as long as it is not caused by external trauma, would also be traced back to the
moments of physical pains, emotional loss and coma.
In
medical field, healing treatment to remove the subconscious is recommended after
anaesthesia in interest of fast recovery. Attempts to trace the root of drug
addicts are viable, because subconscious formed by anaesthesia may be the root
of drug addiction.
In
public security field, those attempts may stave off crimes, since all deliberate
violent crimes can be traced back to previous hurts. In education field,
violation is to be banned in family, school and society to avoid physical pains!
In
recent years, trends of mechanical thoughts go from strength to strength as the
development has been made in gene science and cloning technology. Some people
even claim that evolution of human beings in the future should be based upon the
improvement of human genes. Genetic engineering should be initiated to cultivate
human beings with better health and higher intelligence to meet the demand of
nature science. We are against this proposition, because it is not natural. In
the future, we will be able to challenge and overcome these trends of thoughts
with our achievements, contributions, and our improvements to high creativity,
constructiveness, and intelligence. We will be able to prove that we human
beings, naturally evolving, is healthier, happier, smarter, more constructive
and creative than mechanical humans! Because nature is the best, and natural
human is the best!
Society
in the future is composed of human beings with high intelligence,
constructiveness, and creativity. Thanks to The unification of psychology, and
thanks to The unification of self-actualization personality and mental
depression, the bridge to high intelligence, constructiveness, and creativity
---Self-actualization personality has been under construction.
Zhong Weidong
January
2004
Exhibit
1£º
Examples of eliminating subconscious(mental depression)
During
my work in Zhujiang Commercial Company (Guangzhou), I attempted to set one of my
colleagues free from his subconscious in spare time. I guided his consciousness
to return to his initial stage, around two years old (in the early 1970s), and
find an incident of physical pains: he was beaten by a falling block on his
temple, and was in a coma for several minutes. Under my guidance, his
consciousness relived the incident. Through thorough narrations interrupted by
repeated yawns, he gradually poured out all his feeling and pains, thereby
setting himself free from those subconscious. The next day, I called him and
asked how did he feel. The answer was: ¡°It
feels like a new word,¡±
he added, ¡°I
feel like I have wasted all of my previous time.¡±
What should be noted is that I had just overcome a trivial burden caused by
subconscious, but it resulted in his good feelings.
Unfortunately,
I was then terribly haunted by emotional hurts of love and work, and
discontinued my studies.
Exhibit
2: Disagreement Over the Mechanization of Human Beings
On
the future development of human beings, Hawking, the famous British physical
scientist, said:
The
combination of advanced science and technology will inevitably give rise to
unimaginable changes, including the birth of smarter and healthier humans
through genetic engineering. Genetic engineering will accelerate the pace of
human evolution, which is necessary for the improvement of science and
technology.
Source:
South China Daily, March 1998
Many
philosophers, psychologists, and scientists, Stephen Hawking included, are for
the mechanization of human beings to keep pace with modern/future society.
However, I have a different opinion.
The
technology of human cloning is believed to reach maturity in five to ten years.
Nations all over the world have issued bans on human cloning due to conventions
and ethics. But in my opinion, just as crimes are unavoidable, so is the trend.
It is due to the capitalist nature of pursuing profits. And there is hardly any
difference between genetic engineering and the mechanization of human beings.
Crop
varieties can be improved through hybridization; human beings can strengthen
resistance against disease through gene improvement. But a new kind of disease,
gene disease, is bound to occur in future. Just imagine: in the face of cloned
men, who would be smarter and healthier, would we betray our senses of
inferiority? And where would human beings go mentally, if human beings were just
genetically improved?
There
was a science fiction called ¡°
Smarty in the future¡±
in the early 1980s. Smarty, a reporter, interviewed a family in the future
world, finding that the great grandparents were still living, in their age of
150. They used man-made heart, liver and lung. I consider it practicable to
replace the accidentally damaged organs with man-made ones cultivated by gene
engineering. Owing to violence, human beings are oppressed and persecuted
mentally, suffering from emotional loss, which would react to human sensibility
and health, weaken human resistance against diseases and self-reconstruction,
and causes bad cold, amnesia, senile dementia, etc. These problems cannot be
solved by replacement of organs. But it is an immature assumption that all the
problems could be solved once for all through genetic engineering, instead of
through spiritual instructions. Any studies of human beings would be shallow if
it doesn¡¯t involve philosophy, psychology and human spirit.
In
one word, we human beings that were naturally born are intelligently superior to
cloned humans and genetically improved humans. What matters most at present is
that we should be fully aware of our God-given intelligence and strengths, and
of the negative effects of subconscious; we should pat attention to our
spiritual purity, eliminate violence, and set individuality free; we should
actively realize our mental potential. Only by doing these things can we claim
ourselves the wisest of all creatures on earth and the most advanced species in
nature. Only by doing these things can we live in harmony!
Human
beings have gone a long way in physical science, whereas little achievements
have been made in psychology. We are even not sure about human nature. Like a
cripple, we know not when we would fall.
It
is time to solve the problem£¡
Our
goal is self-actualization and human beings with high intelligence,
constructiveness and creativity, instead of mechanized, genetically improved
human beings!
Nature
is beautiful£¡
Exhibit3£ºPhilosophical
Views on Drug Addiction
-----A
¡°Peach-picking¡±
Project in Psychology
Once
addicted to drug, people get dependent on it mentally and physically. In
researches in drugs, it is called drug addition, symbolizing their inability to
forget the extraordinary pleasures caused by drugs even after the abstinence
from drugs. The mental desire for it makes them more painful than the physical
pains do. As a result, many drug addicts would soon get addicted again due to
this mental addiction. Therefore, experts point out that abstinence from drugs
is not very difficult compared with the abstinence from the mental addiction.
Take
heroin for example. Generally speaking, its reactions in human body can be
divided into two stages: the first is ¡°impulse¡±,
also named ¡°lightning¡±;
the second is ¡°climax¡±£¬also
named ¡°planet¡±.
One book called ¡°Social
illness in the Western world¡±
described, ¡°users
would be immediately hit by the momentary impulse¡¯. That is the initial attack
of heroin, which would be described by feelings like overwhelming pleasure. It
is a climax coursing through the whole body. In the views of most people, it is
an incomparably pleasant feel, accompanied by excitements, illusions and boasts.
All these belong to the ¡°impulses¡±.
Drug addicts also report sharp scabies on skin, especially on stomach. It would
last for several minutes before being succeeded by ¡°climax¡±,
which would last longer. It is indescribable and dreamlike, with a pleasant and
deepened sense of comfort. One drug addict described the ¡°climax¡±
as ¡°eternal
death, living without pains.¡±(3)
Drug
addiction is illusory feelings and memories caused by self-poisoning: though
illusory, it is desirable.
The
goal of The unification of psychology is self-actualization personality: human
beings with high intelligence, constructiveness and creativity. Only the
plainest knowledge is available currently, because we know little about human
beings with high intelligence, constructiveness and creativity, nor do we know
much about their emotions, thinking and will. Our source of knowledge is
confined to descriptions of ideal character made by Maslow and Rogers, the
leading humanists.
Self-actualizers enjoy lasting interests and pleasures, possess the sense of appreciation, bask in happiness excitingly, curiously, and respectfully. Maslow said on his book: self-actualizers observe every sunset like they never see it before, even after having seen it many times. The