CAN TWO FORMULAS OF PHYSICS CLARIFY PSYCHOLOGY AND DEMYSTIFY RELIGIONS INTEGRATING THEM BOTH INTO A NATURAL SCIENCE THAT CAN HEAL THE PERSON AND THAT CAN HEAL THE WORLD?
The thesis of the Formal Theory is that the unconscious is defined as a machine that transforms energy from chaos to order, from conflict to its resolution, following the formulas of the pendulum oscillation and the equilibrial operations of the trays of the scale.
The operations are about the essence of psychology as an energetic transformation that is experienced emotionally as catharsis, cleansing, or as a conflict resolution. It is one that reduces psychic discomfort and increases social adjustment by changing a person’s attitude. This unconscious resolving conflict manifests in our spontaneous thought process organizing emotions as a cascade, a chain reaction, predictably evolving from a conflict to its resolution. This universal thought process has inspired all religions as alternative approaches to clarifying the meaning of life. Religions as conflict resolutions have improved the family system.
Religions have evolved restructuring family role relations as belief systems, and have contributed great civilizations. All the same religions have not achieved their mission: peace in the world. The process as science reduces the conflicts generated by the multiplicity of resolutions. The simplicity of energetic transformation along the two formulas sheds light to all diversity, unifying all theories of psychology and all religions.
The Formal Theory breaks down the barriers between art and science, between psychology and religions by examining conflict resolutions in terms of energy. The theory shifts our attention from the medicalization of behavior and the cosmogonal attribution of the divine to the study of the creative process reflecting the unconscious thought system as an energy transforming process.
The Formal Theory is validated by identifying the suggested order organizing thoughts and emotions manifested as conflict resolutions in every sample of creativity; we know this order as the common denominator of all stories, as the plot of stories; now we can examine stories as energetic transformations abiding by the two formulas of the unconscious mind. Finding this order in samples of creativity proves that science is the ultimate analysis of all emotional realities: the conclusion is that the unconscious commands thoughts to resolve conflicts, reducing psychic tension and increasing social adjustment.
We now can understand psychology and religions as the Science of Conflict Resolution as the Moral Science. We can utilize this knowledge to improve education, mental health services and to resolve political conflicts.
The world needs a new moral paradigm; it is the Moral Science
Since my childhood, growing up in Athens, Greece, during the years of WWII and the holocaust then the communist civil war, I have wondered about understanding behavior in seeking the solution for the conflicts of the world. I pondered on the topic during my school and the college years. I examined history, theories, religions, psychology and science. In medical school I composed a play about the Trojan War and came across a pattern that repeated five times in the Greek cosmogony that led to the creation of the religion of the gods of Olympus. Then I continued as a psychiatrist. I evolved new insights on the nature of behavior and morality as based on science. Finally after years of research and years of creating a message and a forum for its delivery I am ready to share my findings. They are a completely new perspective in integrating knowledge into wisdom. I think they can provide clarity on issues that have troubled the world forever.
My work six volumes so far, growing to ten, focuses on the analysis of the creative process as a scientific mechanism that resolves conflicts. I recognized morality as a scientific phenomenon originating in the mind. I assembled art exhibits illustrating it. The concept was easy to detect in samples of creativity. The museum exhibits clarify the creative process as two scientific phenomena organizing our thought process. The exhibits demonstrate the unconscious as a conflict resolution process manifested in all creativity. The unconscious is an automatic, homeostatic, scientific mechanism, transforming energy of conflict to resolutions. The pendulum phenomenon manifests as a syndrome of six-roles, six emotions and the equilibrial scale as a set of four relational modalities, four relational alternatives. The exhibits confirm that the mental software are three pendulum oscillations guided by three equilibrial principles automatically resolving conflicts.
The Moral Science unconscious changes psychology’s concepts:
The new unconscious, can be readily captured and graphically portrayed in the combination of the two scientific phenomena as a syndrome of six-role states, a sine wave, the mental heartbeat and as spirals illustrating the modalities, as the moral compass. The graphic configuration is that of the sperm. The pendulum energy as a six role process propels the resolutions process like the tail of the sperm propels its moral head to the encounter the egg. We identify the energy propelling, the tail, from the energy transforming mechanism, the head, as the two parts of the unconscious process.
Wellness diagnostic categories.
We identify four diagnostic categories four wellness personality types, as affected by the formal relational operations along the power and attitude distinctions. These are wellness diagnostic categories compared to DSM illness diagnostic categories. Formal diagnoses have two components: The first is the syndromal structure of the process. It is represented as three cycles of the pendulum oscillation, or as six formally interrelated role-states. This is a syndrome, an emotional chain reaction represented graphically as a sine curve, as three waves in a row.
The second component is the relational modalities determined by the attitude modifying formal operations. Reciprocity distinguishes power alternatives, dominance versus submissiveness, and negation attitude alternatives: cooperation versus antagonism. Accordingly we recognize the four types of resolving conflict as dominance and subordinancy with cooperative and antagonistic variations. These are represented graphically by the four spirals of the head of the sperm model. The syndromal sequence and the four alternative ways of resolving conflict represent four wellness personality types, very useful in predicting behavior, wellness and pathology, in understanding ourselves and others.
A self-assessment
We can become conscious of the unconscious and make changes in behavior utilizing the Conflict Analysis Battery, a theory based self-assessment. The battery combines an inventory with projectives; the inventory identifies a person’s relational modality and the set of projectives reconstruct the six-role process. The battery is didactic, diagnostic and therapeutic.
Pathology and Therapy
Pathology is determined by the energetic intensification of the respective modalities. Therapy consists in reducing the intensity of the conflict resolution pattern. The self-assessment, the CAB creativity for self-discovery is diagnostic and therapeutic. Metaphors reconstruct our syndrome, the six-role process with creativity exercises: memories, mask, hidden feelings, animal metaphors, dreams, and a short story. The CAB’s inventory by answering questions on five relational scales identifies one’s alternative modalities. A person completing the assessment becomes conscious of the unconscious.
We utilize the battery as a concise program of emotional education. The person is educated on the logic of the pattern, recognizes power and attitude options and their consequences in the syndromal organization of her emotions. The creativity tests offer cathartic release of emotions, they generate insights and provide guidance for changes, identified by the test taker. The battery provides both clear relational modality diagnoses meaningful to the test taker and also implicitly clarifies the changes needed to optimize one’s social adjustment. Repeating the battery expedites therapy and helps to monitor a person’s progress.
The use of the battery shifts the traditional focus of therapy from the therapeutic relationship, to knowledge of psychology and insights on one’s pattern manifested in one’s creativity.
We also study cultural stories to retrace how religions evolved as discoveries of how to improve the family by discovering alternative types of conflict resolution identified with the redefined role model divine. Religions have evolved restructuring the family institution from matriarchy, to patriarchy, to asceticism and the monotheistic religions reducing family conflicts. The messianic religions inspired the world with three alternative paths to resolution in dealing with stress. The science unifies their discoveries and completes their mission introducing mutual respect, as the key principle for psychology and religions to be unified into the Moral Science.
The challenge of the Moral Science
The public have expected religions to provide moral inspiration and psychology to provide emotional guidance, but religions have been alienating dogma and frozen norms while psychology has been disappointing as dry and technical biological knowledge without inspirational wisdom. Psychology and religions have neglected three aspects of behavior: science, morality, and biology. The Formal Theory has identified them as these manifest in the analysis of the creative process. The Formal Theory assumes leadership integrating psychology and religions into the Moral Science founded on science and accepting the unconscious as a homeostatic energy transforming function.
The Moral Science has discovered wisdom in understanding the creative process as a scientific conflict resolution phenomenon that reconciles morality and psychology with each other and with the sciences. It also has reconciled religions as partial and complementary discoveries of science. Its wisdom is in introducing the creative process as reflecting the unconscious as an energetic transformation, a homeostatic phenomenon, founded on two phenomena of science. The unconscious captures energy like the pendulum upon a normative deviation and transforms it along three formal attitude modifying operations. The Simple Harmonic Motion conserves energy but the formal operations upgrade it.
We experience this transformation as the magic of spirituality. The reason is that the three equilibrial principles restore balance in the trays of the mental scale: reciprocity shifting the person from passivity to activity, negation changing a person’s antagonism to cooperation, and correlation shifting us from alienation to mutual respect. The mental pendulum stops upon the third oscillation as the three formal operations transform conflict energy to moral growth or social adjustment. Catharsis is experienced as the cleaning of one’s mind from a state of dormant anxiety.
Morality is not metaphysical; it is a scientific biological phenomenon. The unconscious is like chlorophyl capturing energy and upgrading it. It conducts psychosynthesis, which is like plants’ photosynthesis. The evidence for this finding is in examining stories completing a cycle of emotions from a conflict in the beginning of a story to its moral end, a dialectic of emotions. Aristotle identified it as the dramatic process of Greek tragedies manifested as continuity of action beginning with a hubris, a normative deviation, and ending with justice and catharsis.
The role of the Moral Science in the emotional education of the public
The world to find peace, needs a unifying moral paradigm and the Moral Science placing morality on a scientific and biological foundation provides it. Wisdom is in the reconciliation of religions, psychology, biology and science. The science can be practically meaningful helpful for the conduct of psychotherapy as well as in educating the public. As scientific knowledge it should become available in the classroom as emotional education placing conduct and attitude as the foremost criteria of learning about science as well as its personal relevance.
Religions captured the science with metaphors and developed a thorough program of psychological emotional education based on the innate moral order. Our role is in the scientific interpretation of metaphors, of the creative process to identify science but also finding morality and spirituality integrated into the science. Spirituality is shifted from theism to a deep admiration of the creative process. God is the principle of increasing meaning, order, as a periodic phenomenon that transforms chaos to order. God is a metaphor of the unconscious function of transforming energy from chaos to order, conflict as psychic tension to resolution as pleasant social adjustment, to resolution as a periodic phenomenon.
We can reaffirm admiration of the process of energy transformation as the spirituality of genesis, and respect of values reaffirming the trust in commandments as the optimal relational choices. We may respect the relational modalities and have a favorite approach to resolving conflict. The religious holy days and weekly rituals are an emotional education respecting god as the optimal way of seeking resolution by emulating him in development of a good attitude.
