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Psychologists Know Nothing About Themselves
My name is Mike Wolfe and a little of my background --
I've been in the Radio and Television business --
in Washington DC, Denver, Colorado --
so I've traveled a bit
and got tired of the big cities
and came to Central Oregon.
Is not the proclivity toward
psychology appointments or psychiatry appointments --
where people are trying to
essentially, as they state it,
find out about themselves --
somewhat the same
parallel as to what you are offering here?
No!
Because your Psychologists, even the founders --
Sigmund Freud,
Carl Gustav Jung,
Adler,
Assagioli --
even they knew nothing about themselves,
so how can
they help you
to know yourself?
Jung had been to India.
He went
to see the Taj Mahal.
He went
to Calcutta,
to Bombay.
And everywhere he was told,
"You being a great psychologist,
the only place you should go first
is to a man in south India,
Maharishi Raman."
That man
was
conceived by the whole country
as one who knows himself.
"You should go there and see whether it is true or not.
And if he knows himself,
perhaps you can learn something from him;
if he does not know,
you can help him to know."
But he would not go there,
and in his diary he writes:
"I was afraid to go there,
to face the eyes of a man who knows himself,
because I don't know myself."
He returned without going
to Maharishi Raman.
And when he was back
he must have been feeling guilty,
that this is not right.
Going to see the ruins of palaces
was worthless for a psychologist.
He was not a historian.
Going to see big cities,
what was the point for him?
He must have started feeling that
everywhere he went, every friend he knew,
all the professors in all the universities,
in all the psychological departments,
were pointing towards one man --
and he did not go there.
Out of that guilt
he started writing against Indian mysticism.
He started saying that
Westerners should remain
aloof
to the Eastern tradition of mysticism
because it is dangerous for the Western man.
Western man's development is different.
Eastern man's development is different.
Their psychologies are different.
This he said for the first time
after coming back from India.
Psychologies are not different;
there may be details,
minute, which are different,
but basic psychology is not different,
cannot be different.
He projected his own fear
all over the history.
So I don't think these psychologists
are helping anybody in any way.
They can't help themselves.
Do you know,
the suicide rate of psychologists
is double that of average human beings.
I think it's even worse than dentists...
Yes.
It may have
grown higher, because, for five years
I have not been reading a single word
of any book, of any newspaper.
For five years I have simply stopped....
So, perhaps it may have gone higher.
But,
five years ago
it was double.
And the same was the situation about madness --
it was double that of any other profession.
And the same was the proportion
in committing
all kinds of perverted acts,
than an a ordinary man...
These people --
suicidal,
insane,
committing perverted acts,
finding excuses to do them
through psychology --
do you think they can help anyone
to know himself?
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