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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 3, 15th October 2018

that it is the culture that matters. All religions similar phenomenon as a synthetic experience
present in a particular culture could as well — a sort of integration of one’s nearness to
have a cultural commonality facilitating an God with one’s doubts and faithlessness. It is
understandable shift from one religion to doubtful whether such an explanation would
another in the realm of fantasy. Moreover, be relevant in the delusional thought-space.
very often people in the same culture get
converted from one religion to the other. The The Consciousness world-view
question then is, how does that commonality
express itself in the delusional thought-space? The emergent consciousness-based psychology
It would have been much more beneficial if that arises from the Aurobindonian perspective
the commonality was expressed in the non- would evaluate this phenomenon from a
delusional mind-space of the mass for that different world-view. The cosmic consciousness
would have averted much of the unwanted which is a tangible reality holds all the
hatred and acrimony around us. thought-currents of the universe. Some of
them may be contradictory, some of them
One could also guess if the delusional thought- are complementary. Giant waves of positive
space that gives equal credence to a rival energy dwell along with giant waves of
religion is demonstrating some sort of empathy. negative energy. These cosmic forces enter
It is doubtful if a psychotic subject can be the inner being of the individual and from
capable of projection of the self into the there trickle down through the cakras to the
feelings of others — the classical yardstick outer being or surface personality. Usually,
of empathy. One thing however is certain even a little of the positive energy that trickles
that the delusional space does not facilitate a in is responsible for our great artistic and
‘structured empathy’ (4) — such as exhibited literary outputs.
by religious scholars who seem to enter other
religions from an assumed vantage point of In the case of the delusional subject, there is
cultural superiority. In contrast, the psychotic a disharmony between the different levels of
experience develops spontaneously without the being. One is overwhelmed by the varying
any inhibition or ostensible motivation in a cosmic forces that invade the inner being and
movement of unbridled fantasy. thence penetrate the surface personality. At
the surface personality it is the ego which
Depth psychology organises all our functionings. As the ego
is disturbed in psychosis, it cannot handle
Depth psychology unravels perspectives the onrush of different religious forces that
that do not depend on the analytical reason. Some captivate the being, resulting in a situation
psychoanalysts would term this phenomenon that would be labelled as abnormal in society.
of delusional subjects eulogising rival Cosmic forces are not dependent on societal
religions as a regressive experience. It would norms.
be a regression to either paganism or to an
infantile state of consciousness where religious In this world-view, the mix-up of religious
differences are meaningless. In a non-psychotic expressions are considered neither as regressive
perspective, Jungian analysts would view a nor as synthetic but just endorses the fact that

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