Psychology

 

A major question in the field of psychology is “What causes you to be you?”  “What factors cause a person to think, feel and behave as they do?”

 

The typical academic way of approaching this question involves classifying causes into one of two categories “Genetics” and “Environment.”   Studies based on this dichotomy tend to indicate that about half of who we are is attributable to each category.

 

I propose that there is at least one more category which should be considered, “Inherent Tendencies of the Individual Incarnating Soul.”  This implies the existence of something called a soul which incarnates into matter and comes with qualities which precede genetics and environment.  This soul heavily influences how we think, feel and behave.

 

Modern science does not concede the existence of souls and does not take them into account in theories of Psychology.  I find this absurdly ironic because the word “Psychology” literally means “Study of the Soul.”  Yet somehow, the science of psychology, which is supposed to be the study of the soul, refuses to acknowledge the existence of souls, the very thing it is supposed to be studying.

 

 

 

 

7-20-2017