Achievements that go beyond the ordinary are often driven by magnificent obsession, a preoccupation with a subject that one’s mind won’t let go. When a person is in the grip of a magnificent obsession he either achieves something great or he wastes his time. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis diagnosed his self as having obsessive compulsive personality disorder; his mind wanted to understand why human beings did what they did. That was a magnificent obsession that led to the formation of a new discipline. Emil Kraepline began psychiatry and Ivan Pavlov and John Watson began Behavioristic Psychology; both also…

This paper reviewed some hypotheses on the origin of life on planet earth and the origin of the universe itself.   It then posited a hypothesis that the universe is an information system. The universe is a place of mutually interacting information and some of that information is in light, electrons, neutrons, protons, quarks, the human body, animals’ bodies, plants, rocks, planets, stars, galaxies and the entire universe. A universe of information, among other things, produced biological life forms which are part of the universal information system.  What Is The Origin Of Human Beings?  Ozodi Osuji  Introduction:   I have just…

This paper delineates the psychological structure and behavior pattern of the idealistic personality.  This is a person who in childhood, due to the exigencies of his inherited biological issues, used his mind to invent an idealized self; a self he believes is an ideal alternative to his problematic body and experiences obsessive-compulsive desire to become that ideal self. In every situation he finds himself in he seeks what is ideal and tries to live up to the ideal. He does this as if he is a slave to the ideal self-construct and in the processes loses the ability to seek…

Abstract:  This paper points out that there is a part of us, spirit that chose to live in body and chooses what we experience while in body. It says that we are not victims of nature and other persons, as science tells us that we are. It says that we choose what happens to us to experience so as to make us seem separated from each other and from the whole, aka God. Because we chose separation we can also choose to return to the awareness of union. We are always in unified state while dreaming that we are separated…

This paper says that looking at the empirical world, matter, space and time seem to determine what the individual thinks and does.  On the other hand, there are suggestive evidence that mind exists apart from the human body.  The paper says that this leaves us with two approaches to psychology, scientific psychology that studies how body affects mind and spiritual psychology that shows how mind affects body. It says that the two approaches do not mix, for their parameters are different.  The paper concludes that to help people we have to employ both scientific and spiritual psychotherapies.  Scientific And Spiritual…

This essay extrapolates from the physics of star death to speculate on what it means to be human being.  It suggests that existentialists' tendency to see people as nothing more than matter may not be all there are to people, that people may, in fact, be something more than the eyes see.  Black Holes, Nothingness And Humanity  Ozodi Thomas Osuji  The current hypothesis is that when medium sized stars, such as our sun, exhaust their hydrogen fuel they begin to fuse elements beyond helium until they get to iron and thereafter throw off their outer parts and their core implodes…

This essay points out the social utility of human tendency to guilt feeling. Those who feel guilt from anticipating harming other people are likely not to harm people. Therefore, it is useful if people feel guilty. On the other hand, the human tendency to guilt feeling is exploited by the amoral rulers of this world; they use it to control the people. Balancing guilt feeling and no guilt feeling would seem to be the right thing to do?  Ego Surivival And Social Control Of Guilt Feelers  Ozodi Thomas Osuji  To feel guilty, sinful and remorseful one must feel as if…

Absence of love is the cause of all mental disorders; Presence of love is the cure for all mental disorders; Separation from union, love is the cause of all mental disorders; Return to union, love is the cure for all mental disorders; Love returns us to union; love heals all mental disorders; All healers are lovers.   Center for Scientific Spirituality, CSS Anchorage, Alaska (907) 440-4317 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This paper says that we must do in the world of spirituality and religion what we do in the world of the physical sciences; that is, use the scientific method to examine what…