God Psychology

Brooks Greene-Barton once told me that the original purpose of psychology was to describe Human’s relationship to God.
At the beginning psychology was organized to answer the question of who we are, what is the human existence about, what does it mean to be a human being. Over some hundreds of years this purpose shifted. As psychology became a science its point of reference changed. From considering human existence in relationship to God it moved to considering human existence in relationship to society.
Psychology in its current form strives to understand, describe and correct human behavior so that it can fit inside of society’s standards and ideas of what is “normal”, “right”, “moral”, “desirable”. Current psychology is by and large organized only from the perspective of the Mind.

About 3 years ago I met with Brooks and we talked about the possibility of creating God Psychology, psychology that would be organized from God's point of view; psychology organized to help people realize and integrate who they are in relationship to God rather than who they are in relationship to society; psychology designed to help people open to their own unique nature, get in touch with their own unique perspective on reality, their own unique way of being human, rather than to help them fit in into the system.

It seemed a good idea at the time, and we decided that writing a book on the subject would be best way to proceed. We agreed to cooperate. I had the advantage of having my psychology degree and Brooks that of being the amazing being that he is, able to hold space for others to open to their own uniqueness in a matter of seconds.

I have never written a book before. In fact I haven't written much more than school papers, so I decided to practice by writing short essays and publishing them as blogs. Three years later the book is still not written, but there are plenty of blog posts. I was organizing them a few days ago and a realization hit me: God Psychology is here, in all those posts, already created!

The ideas have been presented, the perspective has been established, it already exists. Each post is a story of reality as seen from God's point of view, each presents God's relationship, God's perspective on being human.

There is a certain format that psychological theories follow: there is a personality theory, which explains the structure of mind/psyche/personality. Then there is a theory which describes what motivates behavior. A piece describing disfunction and disorder, another piece on human’s social interactions, and finally, therapy, which is the practical application of all the above.

This formula does not apply to God Psychology, because God Psychology does not deal with the psychology of mind, persona, ego, personality, character. Being God, being oneself in relationship to God, cannot be understood, analyzed, classified, but it can be described. It can be described through relationship, through God’s perspective on relationship.

This is the purpose of God Psychology. This shift in perspective on reality: from mind point of view to God point of view, in ordinary reality, in every day life. It is not about deep, enlightened states and wallowing in a golden light - it is about being God, as a human being, in this life, right now. It is about what happens after enlightenment has been achieved, it is about seeing reality as who we are, really, fully and completely. As God.

The book shall still be written, but as the God Psychology already exists, I felt it deserves its own space where it can be presented, visited and discussed: http://godpsychology.org/