Ram Psychology Overview Ram
Psychology has been founded upon principles which are universal, and which
are entirely applicable to a creative, fulfilling life, in modern,
international society. Established in Truth, the direction of the enterprise
has been to realize a way of functioning, at a personal and social level,
which can be manifested in every aspect of one’s life, whether at home, in
the community, or at work. At our highest level of functioning, we are not
just human animals, or mentally-orientated beings, but can, in fact, realize
a spirituality that pervades everything we do in our lives. In standing up to
untruth, and having produced a modern formulation of timeless spiritual
maxims, which can be expressed outside of specific religious contexts, I have
been able to found a business enterprise that does not advocate dogma, but,
instead, is now continuing to address key personal and organisational issues
in healthcare, welfare and commerce, which are prevalent at the individual
and management levels, whilst also considering executive policy making,
customer service, and individual accountability for decision-making. By
attending to connected clinical and welfare assessment issues, and further
governance and systems implementation issues, in the NHS, and by focussing
upon organisational issues in IT and the telecommunications industry, it has
become increasingly apparent that culture change, which could be achieved
through the appropriate management of documented information, is most
certainly needed, so that fundamental improvements in quality of care and
service can be realized. Confidence in healthcare services, and the corporate
management of private information, would be enhanced through the honest
appraisal of clinical and administrative errors, by the relevant
organisations, through service improvement programmes. Addressing the
unacceptable failures of Information Technology, in the NHS, and elsewhere,
to deliver on many of its promises, would help to redirect executive effort
that has previously led to much waste of time, money and resources. It is
time for a fundamental change in how we view knowledge, personal
responsibility, client management and customer service, in a world where
there is now an imperative to address the environmental crisis which the
planet is facing. |
Historical
Foundations The British Psychological Society
(BPS) was founded on 24th October 1901, at University College London, and,
today, the discipline is still generally functioning within an ethos, and in
a direction, that was set at that time. While psychology was being established
as a scientific discipline, in the West, it shunned subjective experience to
focus instead upon human behaviour that was thought to be measurable in the
positivist tradition. Cognition was later admitted, following the
establishment of the behaviourist programme, but higher consciousness and the
divine life are still hardly acknowledged today in any of the main areas of
study within modern psychology, or in psychological practice. Divine
consciousness was not an unfamiliar idea when Western psychology was being
shaped by its founders. William James wrote extensively about the divine, and
he was acutely aware of yogic discipline, and core teachings in Indian
philosophy. Nevertheless, this ancient body of knowledge was not then
assimilated by the new profession of psychology, when it was being spawned,
and there is little evidence that modern psychologists embrace this ancient
knowledge of higher subjective experience when using modern cognitive and
behavioural methods in their work today. In
1893, eight years before the founding of The British Psychological Society, a
Parliament of Religions was held in the USA, in Chicago, that was attended by
the influential master of Indian Philosophy and spiritual teachings, Swami
Vivekananda. He was well received, and he introduced many Westerners in the
USA, and also in England, to many core and very important Indian ideas.
William James subsequently referenced Vivekananda’s writing about the
“superconscious state”, which is beyond intelligent reason, in his now
vintage book: The Varieties of Religious Experience. This classic publication
of a series of lectures, by William James, was published, with much critical
acclaim, during the year of Vivekananda’s death, in 1902. For
more than 550 years after the life of Jesus Christ, Church elders did not
ignore the ancient Eastern teachings on karma and reincarnation. The eternal
wisdom was expounded by the Christian Gnostics, and it was not until AD 553
that reincarnation was declared a heresy, at the Second Council of
Constantinople, an ecumenical Church council, convoked by the Byzantine
Emperor Justinian I, and was subsequently expunged from Christian teachings.
Therefore, for a period that lasted longer than the time span from the start
of Henry VIII’s reign, on 21st April 1509, to now, these crucial teachings
were known, and were an established position within Christian debate. Given
the major cultural changes that have occurred, in Europe, since the horrific
burnings of heretics and witches, for many centuries, which followed the
establishment of the original sin, hell and redemption ethic of Christian
religious thought, there should now be no reason why spiritual teachings
about the soul, reincarnation and karma cannot become established within
mainstream culture in the context of consciousness, self-development and
self-knowledge. |
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