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.