The Illusion Of Psychiatry

1.	The psyche exists as a function of brain development.
	False. The fabric of human consciousness is soul...incarnated spirit. Psychiatry unwisely dismissed the true meaning of the Greek word psyche as an unprovable belief and thus scientifically unacceptable. This major error is having huge clinical repercussions. By rejecting the psyche as soul and viewing it as brain-matter psychiatry switched from a universal belief to a completely unfounded belief. That the human psyche is brain is eminently unprovable. Form does not create consciousness...consciousness creates form. Bring yoga breathing into your life and you risk experiencing the true meaning of the word psyche.

2.	Mind is synonymous with psyche...with human consciousness.
	False. This, too, serves to generate confusion. The mind is, by definition, the organ of memory. Memories are stored in the mind, and returned to us by the mind. The mind, clearly, is a device (the organ) for memory storage and retrieval. It is part of the human communication system...it is a database structure...all of which is technical...hardly psychological.

3.	The mind is in the brain.
	False. The entire body is the mind...the entire body is the organ of memory. The brain is a transducer and an information receiving system. The brain is the interface between the psyche and the body/mind. As such, the brain is a transducer that receives the energy of thought and converts it into neurological energy, permitting access and control of the body. The brain also receives energies of perceptual information from the environment and memory information from the body/mind.

4.	There is a subconscious mind.
	False. This implies there is a specific area of the mind where all forgotten memories move to and congregate. This is not so. Each memory is individually conscious (i.e. rememberable) or subconscious (i.e. forgotten).

5.	A neurosis is intrinsic to the psyche.
	False. The word neurosis has misleading implications. A neurosis is not intrinsic to the psyche but to the mind. Behavior conventionally considered a neurosis arises from painful memory placed in the mind...memory that is programming that runs the psyche and initiates repetititive behavior that does not contribute to one's life. All memory is programming to some extent. The most powerful programming is memory that has suppressed emotion attached, created by emotional trauma that has been suppressed. Why call it neurosis when what is going on is our behavioral reaction to subconscious programming?

6.	Psychoanalysis analyzes the psyche.
	False. Such analysis is not of the psyche but of memory, all of which is located outside of the psyche. The attempt is to determine which of our suppressed upsets lodged in the mind (subconsious programming) has control over us. It should be called memory analysis, not psychoanalysis.

7.	The ego is intrinsic to the human psyche.
	False. The ego is the inadvertent product of the psyche. We create our ego when, ignorant of the mind as the organ of memory, we strongly identify with the mind, with its content (most of which is questionable) and with the influence of the mind's powerful memory functions. The sum-total of our ensuing intellectual and emotional way of being is manifestation of ego.

8.	Personality defines consciousness.
	False. Personality is the manner or style by which ego presents itself. Personality defines ego.

9.	The psyche suffers intrinsic psychosis.
	False. Psychotic experiences are extreme cognitions and/or behaviors that result from anyone (or any grouping) of the following energies...chemical, emotional, psychic and spiritual...all of which potentially exist in the psyche's environment...the body/mind.

10.	Schizophrenia is fragmenting of the psyche.
	False. Schizophrenia, indicated by multiple personalities, arises from fragmenting of ego�ego's demise. It is dissolution of identifying with the mind�and should be viewed as a healing�a major step toward the profound spiritual experience of self-realization. Bona fide spiritual experiences have been diagnosed as schizophrenia. This points to medical psychiatry's ignorance of the metaphysical mind.

11.	The plights of the human psyche can be resolved with prescription drugs.
	False. Drugs synthesized for the psyche are brain-chemistry oriented. Human consciousness is not brain, but incarnated human spirit. Pharmaceutical drugs deny the human spirit and ultimately degrade its physical environment with improper chemical energies. Energies� chemical, emotional, psychic, and even spiritual�are at the root cause of seeming mental problems, and must be dealt with appropriately. Yoga breathing is a natural healing modality that deals with emotional and psychic energies...and appropriately nutritious food, along with herbs, vitamins, minerals and essential oils, is the correct way to heal the body of chemical energies. Engaging spiritual energies can require any of the many existing spiritual healing modalities. Meds can stabilize spiritual experiences but will never resolve the condition in the appropriate spiritual manner to allow spiritual growth.

12.	Modern psychiatry is a science.
	False. Psychiatry is a nonscience. A true science is distinguished by natural energy systems...such as light and heat...and the technologies they give rise to. No energy system is presently at the foundation of today's psychiatry, nor has psychiatry a workable structure of the psyche with a coherent healing rationale. Psychiatry's approach is speculative. Psychiatry, trapped in its medical and behavioral paradigms, fails to recognize the fusion between psychophysics (the modern science of human perception�an energy system) and metaphysics (the ancient spiritual science of mind�also an energy system) as constituting the long sought inclusive science of the psyche that adequately explains its many seeming pathologies.

13.	Psychiatry is a bastion of reality.
	False. Western psychiatry is ignorant of what constitutes ultimate reality. It does not have the necessary spiritual insight into what is termed the illusion of life. It rejects the domain of the supernatural and invalidates bona fide spiritual experiences, diagnosing them as symptoms of psychosis. The greater truth is that the bastion of reality eludes modern psychiatry.