Answering the great questions behind Mysticism: What is the relationship between mysticism and psychology (eg. John of the Cross and Carl Jung)?
Mysticism and Psychology
Psychology is society's accepted method on putting definitions on how we work as conscious beings.
It tries to define our inner mechanics, going at it from a scientific perspective, yet science revolves around the physical.
What we see and what we can come in contact with is labeled real. Psychology tries to derive conditions based on our body's functions, like the body being a receiver, yet that is not all to the subject.
Our minds and our thoughts have the capability to interact with the body as much as any external source.
Mysticism
The way we function on a inner basis is so complicated that it goes beyond physical at some points. We are limited to our sensory perception and there are some things that go beyond it. These things are too complex of a structure to be fathomed in a single word representation.
Great philosophers like "Jung" try to structure these mechanics in empirical concepts. Rather than focusing on the physical connections, they focus on how mental structures interact with one another to create unique mixtures.
Id rather stress over the concept of psychology that is created today. People think that psychological issues are derivatives from external sources, which is to the most correct, but they believe that these things can be cured by further stimulation with other things that have a reversal polarized effect.
It's like taking a spit in someone's drinking glass by accident, afterwards pouring some bleach on it in hopes it cleans up.
Sorry for the rough example but that's what came up.
Psychology is the outcome or visible variations in someone after a mystical reaction.
Mysticism can rather be more related to philosophy than psychology.
A basic example of a mystical experiencing would be having a vivid dream. It is as if it never existed, yet it did and it can have an impact on our lives.
The human spirit is the greatest mystery of all :D
Psychology struggle from missing a positive definition of mental health imo.
Psychology is mainly focused on clinical problem, rather than study of the mind / spirit in itself.
I don't believe that psychological issues are derived from external sources, but that they derive from our own perception of those external sources.
A claustrophobic person is afraid of small places not because of the small places, but because of their given attitude towards those small places.
Another person, experiencing those same small places might not have any claustrophobic issues.
But I do agree with you that "mystical" experience as vivid dreams can have an impact on our lives.
Thanks for sharing @Vangelov! Looking forward for more :)
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
Thanks for the amazing feedback. Your words really do hold wisdom.
I should have put them on the article.^^
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