Psychology and hidden phenomena

It is wrong to assume that psychology is concerned with the metaphysical nature of the problem of immortality. Psychology cannot establish any metaphysical (truths), and it does not attempt to do so in the first place; rather, it is concerned only with the science of mental phenomena. The idea of immortality is a psychological phenomenon widespread across the entire earth. Every (idea) is, from a psychological perspective, a phenomenon, just as (philosophy) or (theology) are. For modern psychology, ideas are entities, like animals and plants, and the scientific method manifests itself in describing nature. All mythological ideas are fundamentally real, and much older than any philosophy. They originally were perceptions and experiences, like our knowledge of the physical nature. To the extent that these ideas are universal, they are symptoms, or properties, or ordinary evidence of mental life, present naturally and not requiring proof of (their truth). The only question we can discuss usefully is whether they are universal or not. If they are universal; they belong to the components of the natural soul and its proper structure. And if they are not encountered in the conscious mind of a particular individual, then they are present in the unconscious, and the state is an unhealthy one. The fewer of these universal ideas are in consciousness, the more are in the unconscious, and the greater their influence on the conscious mind. This state of affairs resembles some sort of neurotic disorder. It seems that the heart has a memory that can often be relied upon to benefit the soul, more so than the mind, which has an unhealthy tendency to lead existence (in the abstract), easily forgetting that its awareness perishes the moment the heart fails in its task. Ideas are not merely counting devices in the hands of the computer mind; they are also vessels filled with living feeling. (Freedom) is not merely an abstract idea; it is also an emotion. The mind becomes unreasonable when separated from the heart.