Revised: 5-18-2012

"BS&bp"

Behavioral Science and the oxymoron "behavioral psychology"

"BS&bp" is my "symbol" for Modern Mental Health, and the oxymoron "behavioral psychology".

...[A Soft warning regarding this page, and this website: My work and my writing weaves back and forth between what is physical, and what is Esoteric. As a consequence, it may appear to some as though I am confused, or my writing is confusing.... and, what I write does seem confusing to some people. The reason is that I am writing about that which is Esoteric, unfamiliar, unknown, and normally ignored by modern mental health, or "BS&bp". If you can push through the unfamiliar parts of my writing, you may be positively surprised.

Behavioral Science is what B.F. Skinner, the founder of "Behaviorism" studied. Over time, Behaviorism became what is now known as "behavioral psychology". To mix the terms "behavior" and that of "Psychology" is what the Intelack type individual [research Here] would do. That is, someone unfamiliar with the fact that the term "Psychology" means a "study of the Esoteric dimensions of Man". The prefix "psyche" is Greek for "Self, Soul, and Mind", or the Esoteric [non-physical] dimensions of Man, which are incapable of being perceived by the brain or physical senses. The point being.... There is nothing about behavior in the term "Psychology", thus combining the terms "behavior" and "Psychology" constitutes an oxymoron.

"But", you say, "The vast majority of people in mental health today are unaware of this oxymoron." To wit, I say "Yes, that's true." And in an attempt to figure out the reason for this, I stumbled upon the concepts of the Malady of Intellectualism Explained Here, and Intelack . Of course, the Intelack individual, who is confined to the brain and its thinking for studying life, is unable to perceive the Esoteric dimensions of Man, due to a lack of Intuition [explained in the explanation of "M-I" above]. And lacking this access to Intuition, the Intelack individual is naturally unaware that using the terms "behavior" and "Psychology" together constitutes an oxymoron.

Let us therefore be as clear as we can possibly be in discussing what it is those trained in BS&bp do. Since it is not Psychology, as given to us by the ancient Greeks, some 2,000 years ago.

I should explain that prior to Psychology adopting the mistaken notions of B.F. Skinner [his Behaviorism], in the early 1900's, people desiring to become psychologists had to undergo an extensive course of personal psychotherapy or psychoanalysis... required to help them discover and explore their own MIND realms, and to become familiar with the Esoteric dimensions of Man. This naturally kept the numbers of people seeking such training to a minimum. With the introduction of "Behaviorism" in the early 1900's, this requirement was eventually lost to Intellectualism [tenets of Skinner], which believed that there was nothing within Man worth pursuing. This was Skinner's belief as made clear in his writings, and by Richard I Evans, Here].

For the last century, BS&bp has studied "behavior" [using the tenets of Intellectualism]. This is what BS&bp does. BS&bp studies the physical behavior of Man...assuming that such behavior is in reaction to something outside of Man. As a consequence of this mistaken practice, the Esoteric dimensions of Man have been quietly forgotten and are no longer part of the study of "psychology". So the fact that the Esoteric dimensions of Man cannot be seen by use of ones brain and physical senses has been subtly eliminated from the conscious awareness of those trained in BSbp. What cannot be seen is the fact that behavior is a "symptom" of something taking place [not outside of a person] but... from WITHIN a person's MIND [discussed Here ]. Something "causes" behavior, this is certain. But... is this "something" inside Man, or outside Man?

The Intelack individual is convinced by his MIND that behavior is in reaction to something outside of a person. The Intelack simply cannot "see" [as Christ put it] the Esoteric operations of the MIND within a person [not being aware of these operations within himself]. The reason is that to "see" [which means "subtly experience"] the Esoteric, one must use ones faculty of Intuition.

B.F. Skinner, said that there was nothing within a person that could explain a person's present behavior [quoted in a book by Richard I Evans, see Bibliography. Skinner was unaware of the Esoteric dimensions of Man since he never studied Psychology. Skinner was a perfect example of the Intelack individual, or someone who is confined to Intellectualism [brain and thinking] as the only means available to that person for relating to life [which means largely unaware of the emotionality within him/herself].

In other words. The question is.... "What "causes" behavior"? And my point is that the Intelack individual looks outside a person and calls what he sees of a person's behavior, a "reaction". And misses entirely that what he sees as a reaction is, in fact, an orchestrated projection to external phenomenon by a person's MIND.... whose primary purpose if to dissociate what has been stimulated within the MIND of that person... in a form that masks the repressed phenomena within that person's MIND that serves as the "CAUSAL" behind that person's behavior. .

In other words....to try and figure out what is causing a person's behavior... one must look "within" the person's MIND, not outside the person. And first, one must realize one has a MIND, and determine what ones MIND is [and remember... ones brain is incapable of doing this], and lacking this, how is one to even know one has a MIND? And if one is unaware of ones own MIND, why would one impose a "MIND" upon someone else?

Yes, we may well see something outside the person, and we can certainly "blame" that something as being the "cause" of that person's behavior. But in doing so, we subtly dissociate that person from "responsibility" for his or her behavior. We miss, in other words, the actual "causal" that has orchestrated the behavioral response. And this "causal" is always a person's MIND. If we do this, we deny to the person an opportunity of properly addressing what has "caused" the person to respond in the way in which he/she did. But this level of "actual" Psychology has not been practiced for a long, long time. At least a century.

You see, the Intelack individual, [unaware of the MIND, and the fact that the MIND can cause a person to "vent energy" in behavior]..... looks at behavior and mistakenly "thinks" that a person's behavior must be in reaction to something taking place outside of that person.!

A clear case of mistaking the motivational "source" of behavior...because one is unfamiliar with [blind to] the Esoteric [and thus invisible] three-quarters of Man. This is the present condition of BS&bp.

"Why would the Intelack individual do this", you might ask? And my answer is...."Because the Intelack individual cannot comprehend nor hold as a reality the fact that what prompts a person's behavior are unseen repressed emotional phenomena operating within a person's MIND.... and "behavior" is the way in which that person's MIND "vents" energy it doesn't want the person to recognize as coming from within him/herself". This, of course, is what Psychology used to study. I don't believe we will see a return to a study of the Esoteric dimensions of Man until the Earth itself changes [perhaps coming December 21, 2012?].... Explained Here.

This then is the legacy of BS&bp: A denial of the Esoteric 3/4ths of Man based on an unknown fear of the "unknown" within those individuals who lack the faculty of Intuition. This denial of the Esoteric dimensions of man impacts all other fields of study. Most of these fields are headed up by individuals who are confined to Intellectualism, [to various degrees], by the way.

It is no doubt unrealistic to imagine that the vast majority of the population, who naturally lean toward Intellectualism, would mysteriously awaken to the fact that there are others among Mankind who can perceive the Esoteric dimensions of Life, that they cannot. The reason this is unrealistic is that unknown to those confined to Intellectualism, there is a subtle fear within the MIND of such people that causes them to distrust [and not infrequently kill] people who demonstrate psychic capabilities. And this is just the way of Life. To understand this "way" of Life, one must spend a great deal of time studying the mysticism of Life. If one reads Lao Tsu, or Lao Tse: book referenced in Bibliography, and understands it, one is part of the minority of the Earth. My advice... mask what you know until you are quite old.
Peace

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