Mystics of Tomorrow
“To the mystics of tomorrow: have no fear, have no sorrow.”
Bob Marley – Ride Natty Ride
Introduction
When William James (1902) published his work on “Varieties of Religious Experiences: A Study in Human Nature” human society were obviously looking for empirical answers as to what was psychologically occurring with people, their stories, and lives. Historically, researchers also had the need to define “religious experience” because stories like Joan of Arc or a mass of varying psychological presentations were seemingly unexplainable at the time without religion. Something else was going on, but what “it” was and is now better known, defined, considered normal. What “it is” is dissociation and dissociation is transdiagnostic. The level of ignorance, wall or system of denial, and “disordered” identification is now a choice because addiction has been operationally defined as dissociation (O’Brien, 2023a). This suggests that we know who or what consciousness is, we know who is making the choice, who is defining the words, and who has what implicit bias.
Modernization and industrialization require confirmation for legal and business practices, which suggests that only (a) truth and knowledge base can exist as a singularity. In religious beliefs, 1 + 1 = 3. In the real world, this equation is true. In the “real world” of human services absolutes are not absolute, but are required to provide certainty to our citizenry, regulators, government, or congregation. However, we may know more now than what James could have known, yet, the same conversations still need to be had on what is real and what is not (O’Brien, 2024c). This singularity fallacy (1+1 only =’s 2), fact defining, and need for certainty is based on the belief that only hard evidence can explain what is going on in the realms of mysticism and shamanism, but the soft sciences have demonstrated that they have hard evidence to support their end needs (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2023b) and position in society (O’Brien, 2024b)(and where it should be (O’Brien, 2024c)).
Our clinical observation is that people are required to learn how to recover from their past by understanding it so they can regain their future because this is what healing is, living healed, or living recovery looks like. In a society and culture (and the professions that inform them) that believes dissociative experience are not religious, spiritual, or sent from God, but are “emotional”, “insane”, “crazy”, “disordered”, and “diagnosable”, we must protest against their definitions and labels. Before there were Gods, there was Logos. As Healers, having experienced all of these labels, we can say that these labels are in the eye of the beholder. For those who cast the first stone, be weary of dissociative recovery Healers because we know the way back and forth. We observe that what is emotional is what is being labeled as spiritual, religions are how systems would organize spiritual or emotional experiences, and that the macro and micro arguments pertaining to religion and spirituality are obsolete when we are as big as we are small, here and not here, and in the real world 1 + 1 = 3 (O’Brien, 2024c).
Over a hundred and twenty years later from James’s work, we present that the “religious” context on what dissociation is and what we would now call dissociative experiences. These dissociative expressions produce narrative, literature, or story (e.g., logos, lived experience, or qualitative wisdom (e.g., the body keeps the score)). These dissociative experiences are still not understood by the majority of professionals and professions that “should” (e.g., medical and psychology) (O’Brien, 2023a). Furthermore, if society is uniformed, being misled, and blind to their own end because the diagnostics are incomplete (because they are missing the full range of pathology or are governed by the same uninformed systems of bureaucracy and professions that inform them because the education and psychological models are ignorant), then we have to educate everyone on our work. As a solution, our work recently identified missing aspects of pathology, suggesting a much smaller scope of pathology is presenting, would include addiction as a dissociative feature, and would include these three missing addictions: perfectionism, altruism, and ambition (O’Brien, 2023a). With these missing diagnoses, we believe accurate diagnostic criteria are required for professional ethics and moral responsibility to be demonstrated by those who require it of their citizens (O’Brien, 2024b).
We have posited before that this lack of “common” knowledge and “mystical” foresight about addictions and dissociation is due to their psychology not defining the “disease” of addiction accurately, not recognizing that the physical body is the psychological unconscious (O’Brien, 2024c), that the potency of the drugs and their route of administration are traumatic to the body and produce traumatic and dissociative effects on the unsuspecting or unknowing psyche (O’Brien, 2023a), and that transferring addictions must exist because addictions have been operationally defined and one can become addicted to anything (O’Brien, 2023a). The states of dissociation, produced by trauma and stress or drug use, have implicit meaning (e.g., religious and qualitative context) that deserves recognition and acknowledgement because these missing aspects of psychology could lead to better communication and understanding between professions and professionals. In turn, this moral relationship could lead to better policies and laws from the professions who lack understanding and profit from their ignorance.
We posit that these dissociative states are expressions of (unresolved) memory systems physically emoting somatically releasing, starts the healing process, contain and/or are encoded with emotional expressions and narratives (beliefs), and is our clinical in-road to healing intergenerational trauma. With psychedelic medicines, meditation, somatic activation, neuroregulation, or dissociative states of consciousness “mystics of tomorrow” offer healing today because when the score that the body is keeping is known, then recovery shifts in understanding, beliefs, and societies can happen.
Orientation
The absence of tangible knowledge or “appropriate” level of awareness around dissociation, drugs, meditation, mystical experience, and religious and/or spiritual practices are believed to be due to missing psychological definitions (trauma, dissociation, and addiction), developmental age of the professions and the society they come from (O’Brien, 2024b), inaccurate philosophical understandings in Western logic (O’Brien, 2024c), out of date case conceptualizations (e.g., potency of drug can be what is traumatic), publishing and access hypocrisy (e.g., if anyone can order a therapy’s training manual on Amazon, then may be it isn’t that special), gatekeeping professional and intergenerational dynamics (O’Brien, 2024b), questionable diagnostic pathology (O’Brien, 2023a). To show the level of dissociation of the population to the business of therapy 47% of American believe that going to therapy is a sign of weakness, average client are 79% better off than clients who do not seek treatment, and someone can get a free month of therapy as a promotion.
These ignorance’s are based on or extends to psychology’s auxiliary professions like the medical model, law, policy, and society (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c). The reason why the drug potency not being identified by the medical model being traumatic is so important is because people who were skeptical were more likely to have an adverse reaction to the COVID “vaccine”, it takes 8-12 times to get an accurate dissociative diagnosis (if they should even exist), and that the number 3 killer in the U.S. is the application of medical model. When we look at number 1 and 2 reasons why US citizens die we see an extension of the same ignorance that made the bad laws and tells modern medicine that it is doing a good job.
Laws that impact or obscure (like removal religious exemption, mandating reporting for abuse, gender reassignment, abortion, and psychedelic are illegal) are the ways that system maintains their control and their normal, but if the normal that they are selling and citizens are buying aren’t working to the degree that consumers or clinicians would expect? This system of logic and denial is what produces stigma, unconscious bias, or implicit judgement; hence its dissociative nature is very disconnected from human nature, the unconscious body, and philosophical logic (e.g., emotional logic and implicit wisdom)(O’Brien, 2024c).
Living as though eternity exists is somehow different or wrong suggests that those who don’t are right. However, living dissociated is not living disconnected from everything because when the lights go out, darkness appears. Human society needed answers to some of their observations about human behavior and James (1902) work opened the pathway for society to objectively address the stigma of mental health and religion, but that too seems to be out of reach for psychology (HERE). The application of his work appears to still be warranted in 2025, as there is enough misinformation being propagated by social media, news outlets, governmental agencies, professional organizations, educational systems, intergenerational transmission of “knowledge”, and industrial psychology/medical models of care that we need to say something because our research and developing approach is aiming to remain on the right side of history as the Age of Psychedelics blooms.
William James (1902) psychological analysis of religious experiences is a dissociative academic experience and historical timepiece for those who want to know what dissociation is and what/who he was analyzing (e.g., the observed). What we know now is that dependence is not a “good” or a “bad” thing – it is a stage of the relationship between now and then. His work also gives us a look into the society that he came from, helps us define who we are today, allows us to measure how far we have come as a society, or how far we still have to go. However, as a historical example that demonstrates why psychology is just starting to become aware of what world literature, music, religions, spiritual teachers, philosophy, history, and the arts have known eternally forever, his life’s work is also another example of how we are not following the “right” “science” currently (O’Brien, 2024c). What appears to be true is that we are following antiquated laws and business practices that serve existing structures of power and control, but fail to meet the individual’s and citizens family needs. The fact that “absolute power corrupts absolutely” was coined in the 1500’s, but psychology does not have addiction accurately defined in the DSM, we have to see what Stage of Change we are in (O’Brien, 2023a). As any addiction predicated on dissociative means, we have to question those in power who took the same classes we did, but have come to different self-serving professional conclusions.
Here is a summary of what we spiritually know and what the others are trying to “confirm”: we are not alone, we are all one, we are all connected, we cannot be separated, and we cannot die because we were never born. These spiritual statements capture long held spiritual or religious beliefs (e.g., logos come before words) that guide the more qualitative professions like psychology. This mindset is also what fuels religion and as an example of the passion and hate that history has shown. We must be careful not to offend because we see that Spirituality is the unconscious of Religion and is expressing itself emotionally because something is not morally right. If psychology’s job is to morally develop citizens and the next generation, we would hope and expect that psychology knows more than the common person. However, our work is showing that common sense is lacking in modern psychology because the more rigid, pervasive, and intrusive aspects of professional society (e.g., law, order, and business practices) are so powerful that they have become addicted (O’Brien, 2024b).
We see the religious and spiritual topics as “in our wheelhouse” because treatment is a far better way to learn what is diagnosable and what isn’t. For the record, our level of experience with treatment and clinical care is Neurofeedback (which can be informed and guided by qEEG), trauma resolution methods like EMDR (evidence-based therapy for PTSD), and the use of psychedelic medicines as a Healer. We have 13 years of clinical experience in a variety of healthcare settings (intensive outpatient, substance use, crisis, military, first responders, and private practice), 15 years of personal recovery from addiction (15 years of active use), substance use disorder credentialing, a PhD in Addiction Studies, and are currently working on postdoctoral work in Applied Recovery.
What we have learned by combining Neurofeedback with psychedelics, EMDR, Brainspotting, and meditation is that we have to acknowledge that having a neutral presence (through meditation or medicine use) in one’s ability to achieve “dual attention” is critical to the desired outcomes of care. This is especially true for dissociative clients, which would be most according to our transdiagnostic research. Combined with our research (O’Brien, 2023a) that is exploring missing aspects of pathology, psychology, and spiritual/dissociative experiences, we can honestly state that education on dissociation and addiction are significantly missing from our educational system, professional development, spiritual dynamics, society, and culture because we are addicted to not knowing who we are and/or we are addicted to not saying what is really going on because we have amnesia. Historically, religion has broken up this ignorance monopoly, but as the cutting edge of science nears, we will find ourselves at the beginning once again asking, “who is asking the questions?” Because Western society is currently bringing psychedelics into the society’s social consciousness, the historical consequence that religion and authority have had as a means of social control, promotes a state of dependence and the dissociative and realities that our work supports (e.g., in the form of the science of healing and recovery) as the spiritual solution offers, is what we will we ultimately be exploring here.
Background to the Problem
Historically, “crazy” or “insane” would have been what these “religious experiences” would have been labelled from 1920-1980. Schizophrenia is what they used from 1980 but has fallen out of favor to date, but now the opinionated and catch-all diagnoses of “dissociation” as a transdiagnostic phenomenon (O’Brien, 2023a) are anxiety, depression, ADHD, bi-polar, borderline personality disorder, neurodivergence, autism, and PTSD. These are the latest phrases that we clinically hear from people trying to feel better (FYI: the want to feel more better will also be addressed in this work), but see this result of the missing consequence of addiction being transdiagnostic (suggesting that one can be addicted to anything (e.g., therapy dependence).
Our work (O’Brien, 2023a) directly challenges these societal and diagnostic assumptions, but also overtly religious expectations that amount to nothing more than dissociative experiences that can be explained once the observer can relate to the story being told. However, these conclusions will not be professionally or societally popular, but will win us the favor of our audience: the collective unconscious (e.g., right side of history)(e.g., memory)(e.g., the body)(e.g., the unconscious)). To the point of writing this, we know we will be crucified by them, are committing professional suicide, and are doing it anyway. This sacrifice is the spiritual way to demonstrate and show their pathology, our own degree of recovery, and level of moral development. The fact that society is missing that dissociation and addictions are transdiagnostic means that we still have an incomplete understanding of psychology and medical “science” (O’Brien, 2023a) and governing professions need to developmentally grow up before it is too late. The level of importance of the study of the Psychology of History can be known and cannot be understated.
The truth as we see it is that true pathology, spirituality, and moral character is rarer than we may think, have known, or have identified (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2024c). As an American, and the West in general, we are still operating as if mystics, soothsayers, shaman, and healers do not exist because the normed society has forgotten. Civilization and the medical model have pawned off “crazy”, “disordered”, and “diagnosis” on psychology and what psychology and medical “science” are finding is that psychology is more powerful, dominant, and advanced then what they had cognitively thought (O’Brien, 2023a). Psychology embodies the sacred feminine and honorable male energies (positive/negative/neutral) and those spiritual forces do not need religion to exert power and control over them. While we will be exploring biological constants as our shared reality, our work on unconscious processes could resolve some of life’s unanswerable questions once and for all because what reality really lies beyond the great divide is already known by the “mystics of tomorrow” who can read the future like the past.
While we appreciate the efforts of those who have come before us professionally, we must acknowledge that while they believe that they have done well, if what modern society is a product of their outcomes, then we are all doomed to repeat it again and again and again like Groundhog’s Day. Therefore, we see major cognitive dissonance in what professionals and professions espouse or require of each other (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024d). For their own selfish, self-preserving, and self-serving reasons are, what if what is criminal “crazy”, “insane”, or “addicted” is what is in control of the societal means and cultural norms, then the level of development of our law and society better match what is required by those who are requiring it of “its” citizens (e.g., following the evidence instead of their research). Answering the statement of “what if who is defining “crazy”, “pathology”, “addicted” or “mental health” are the crazy, not normal, addicted themselves, and ironically physical?” is Psychology’s main task as a profession, but to date, psychology has failed. However, and to be fair, psychology does have more backing than ever, but yet “they” still don’t believe that psychology is the Queen and all the Kings are worker bees serving the hive. Psychology is clear on a number of things that society (namely government, law, and policy) has not accepted as truth yet and the more masculine professions who benefit, depend, or can create exponentially profits. By not validating its importance in areas of social or moral progress, we all have to decide if we want to realign our values with the meaning of the words (e.g., law and ethics over morals) they chose or we can use our definition of moral over ethics (e.g., Moral-Ethics)(O’Brien, 2024d) because that is reasonable from a humanity perspective.
Reorientation
In the absence of transferring addictions in the academic literature (due to not having an accurate definition of addiction and not accounting the addictions of perfectionism, altruism, and ambition), we must present our material directly and avoid seeking peer review because this is not uncharted territory. If the writer knows history or literature and why story’s repeats, then the reader can implicitly read between the lines. This is why we are an independent research institute because if the writer knows history, then the reader can come to know the future as well. As we are analyzing a sick system because it believes that corporations are people, professions can be moral, and that psychedelics are drugs, then we are going to be hesitant about engaging with “peers” who are not actively advocate for them (and are enabling other professions to continue what they are doing, in the absence of moral character). The implicit reality that we live in a reality that sells us that we are not alone, we are all connected through our experience that cannot be separated, and that nothing can die because we were never born (e.g., just like we cannot sell what we do not own (e.g., Land Back Movement)).
Psychology has a lot of philosophical explaining to do when it comes to law, economics, business practices, spirituality, and religion (O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024d), let alone psychology (O’Brien, 2024c). Also, America and the West has a lot to consider (HERE). As we have already addressed fallacies in Western philosophy, law, mathematics, ethics, economics, and moral business practices with our blogs and foundational literature (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2023b; O’Brien, 2023c; O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c; O’Brien, 2023d), we will turn our direction attention to the missing aspects of understanding how psychology, spirituality, morality, and religion are all one process and what readers can do with this knowledge. To the mystics of tomorrow, have no fear – have no sorrow because all deaths are actual, symbolic, and metaphorical.
Data
Next time you are in a crowded shopping center or grocery store, try and name who would have been burned at the stake in the 1600 or 1700’s? Man or woman? Under duress, people see or hear people who are not there, but what if they do not know that they are in distress, living dissociated, or have survived some incident of distress if denial can deny this reality? Therefore, if the labeler cannot see what is not there or does not believe that it could be there based on their known knowledge (but does not question their own level of intelligence), then we see the same issue with calling addiction a disease (O’Brien, 2023a), hallucinations as dissociative delusions (O’Brien, 2023b), different ways of learning are disorders (HERE), as trauma an abnormal response to an abnormal event, and dissociation a crime. 70% of people do not have an internal dialog (HERE) (supporting our doctoral observations on standard deviation, spectrum theory, and universality of addiction (O’Brien, 2023a)), we have to question our pathology and professional balance of power. 1-4% of people cannot visualize (HERE). Because psychology has been shown to be critically incomplete by our work (O’Brien, 2023a) and their track record (O’Brien, 2024c), then perceived authority of choice should not be in the hands of those who perpetuate misinformation and apply illogical conclusions, particularly at a governmental policy and societal level.
On the other side of the coin, in intense states of “pleasure” people talk to God, engage with aliens, and heal (O’Brien, 2023a). What is really happening is that they are becoming “not there” or what people label as dissociated. Dissociated is depersonalization and derealization processes that capture what it feels like to be dissociating and know it because the memory systems are active. As we have identified addiction as transdiagnostic (O’Brien, 2023a), this status offers addiction/recovery a better understanding of the psyche’s normal expressions. Therefore, those in recovery would have meaningful observations and insights into the nature of the mind manifesting itself into conscious awareness.
Particularly relevant court, legal, and political/policy systems, as we have to look at our fields lack of awareness on addiction and dissociation (O’Brien, 2023a), research on betrayal traumas offers the fields of psychology and medical model important information to consider (HERE) as to how and why. What these professional sibling dynamics (HERE) lacks in awareness is the family system betraying the citizenry and future generations so they can be “right” but for something that cannot be true (e.g., spiritual principles stated above and O’Brien, 2024c). While religion usually holds this mythical stance, mystics and healers have to become a profession again to help societal order to be reestablished (think of Jedi knights, survival artists, the A-Team, or monks). If the scientific community holds no responsibility, other than to itself or the words they choose to use, then action does speak louder than words. Therefore, religion and science are the same process or experience, but labeled differently by observers who think that the meanings of the word can be understood separately from the derived definition of the words used to define them.
After watching the newest documentary on the musician Bob Marley, it was stated to us that it was sad that Bob could have lived had he accepted the doctors’ suggestion or recommendation to cut off his toe to save his life. For those who don’t know, the main issue is that the “religion” or “way of life” called Rastafarians that Bob lived and died by was to not desecrating the body or relying on Western or modern “medicine”; therefore it went against Bob’s faith and he died at the age of 36 (almost as if he was filling the book) from cancer. Our observation in this story is that we do not think that we get Bob Marley’s words and music without the conviction and faith of the artist. The moral faith that he had to consider himself a believer to choose God over science is something that we could all do, but are politely forced to choose differently on a daily basis.
Bob’s level of moral character is well known (as he also got up on stage to perform the next day after being shot with a gun from political violence relating to playing a peace concert or faithfully and publicly smoked cannabis when it was illegally illegal, we must see history’s level of sacrifice to be able to know what is moral today. To a major point in this writing, when the system of power touts moral character (HERE) but does not recognize the irony, we have to speak out. When religious exemptions are legally removed, psychedelics have psychological value and are still illegal, natural immunity is discarded by governmental agencies, parents have lost medical and psychological rights, laws that limit free speech and choice – all in the name of public policy/protection/safety, then all dangers must be clearly identified so we have a clear understanding of who is using what logic, when, with whom, on what, and with what intention. To know these is to know the future of tomorrow. This is where the mystics of tomorrow have earned the right to be at the negotiation table for the future and are not asking for permission to exist. We are here. We are mindfully dissociated and we know what that means (O’Brien, 2023a).
Discussion
How do we know that the healing process is happening or not? How do you know who is “ascending” or becoming self-actualized? How do we know if the ones labeling themselves as healed are or not? Whether it is from our past or present, all psychological issues stem from memory systems being influenced by the combination of a stress (that creates a separation of self) and (addictive) conditioning factors that may not be identified by providers.
Dissociative expressions are normal, hence the states that they produce are normal and known. These addictive conditioning factors are implicit interactions with the external environment that the unconscious memory systems retain (e.g., lessons learned). As separation “isn’t real” (e.g., temporary) but is, what cannot be divided (eternity or intangibles) are what they are healing. The aspects of healing that fill in the gaps (e.g., repairing process) are now psychologically known to psychology through the opiate and endocannabinoid system (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2023b). For those who don’t know, modern “science” discovered the endocannabinoid system in 2012 after delaying psychedelic research. This is same ignorance in Western society and culture that brought nuclear bombs, non-addictive opiates, “War on Drugs”, or made psychedelics illegal (or said they have no “medical value”).
Like asking Nostradamus for proof of what they do not believe exists, their logic seems odd in hindsight. As a hidden addiction motive, perfectionism, altruism, and ambition are what we are unconsciously feeling when we are helping someone without pretense, the reality that they believe that they are creating themselves in the image of their maker is the irony that they cannot understand, but it will be what they will remember when the time is right (e.g., moment of death)(e.g., pineal gland releases DMT upon death). Chaos looping is observable and if, as citizens, we believe that our parents know what they are doing and how to die with dignity and grace, then we may be the fools waiting for the intergenerational industrialized slave trade to end. This is why we need to be able to be morally self-governed; therefore, we can all live by the wisdom of “21 rules, but 1 will do”.
Why do people believe in rumors, narratives, definition, meanings, and beliefs that are not of their own experience? Because we believe that these stories contain all the facts that one needs to confirm their own findings. When questioning authorities’ logic is different from questioning authorities, we must observe that identifying who the observer and observed is helps communicators communicate effectively. However, when one realizes that dividing is multiplying, there are three sides to the coin, 1 x 1 also =’s 3, and that 1 + 1 also =’s 3, then their own logic is not adding up. When religion, psychology, and medical “science” does not add up, then who or what are we to connect with? Well, for sure, not the medical business model that is, otherwise, this would be an abusive relationship.
Unless people are actually allowed to follow their own expressions, religion, creeds, laws, rules, and morals, then this world cannot be saved and nothing will ever be solved because we all must be living dissociative from the realities we are avoiding. For example, “thou shall not kill unnecessarily and without honor” and being engaged, starting, or enabling endless wars. Acceptance of this is the answer that will answer all of life’s unanswerable questions. This feedback loop is required for existence to exist AND for those seeking patterns to confirm their suspicions; therefore, we know we exist because they believe that they do and dissociation is about being here now because that is what healing is.
Conclusions
If you want to know the future, just look into your hearts’ soul because you already know. When the meaning and the definitions of the words used are not in common consensus, this will breed miscommunication which will give birth to misinformation and mistrust. Implicitly, if organized religion, industrialized medicine and psychology do not offer accurate definitions, then the meaning of the words have been lost. But we have found them. We have found the logos, because that is who we are. We are the breath of life. We are the past, present, and future. We are no longer fawning over their definitions because “We the People” can look up the definitions to justify our meaning.
“We the people” are America’s unconscious and if psychology, religion, law, and science cannot define us accurately, then we will define ourselves with our historical meaning. We are the body, which is the psychological unconscious. Now give us the power of choice back or we will take it with us. One cannot stop the truth from being realized, unless they are avoiding their healing process. But how would one know if they are avoiding spiritual work? Well, that remains to be seen but what we know is that there are many religions who have been able to do their own self-proclaimed first commandment if thou shalt not kill needlessly. Until then, no judgement or law can withstand emotional logic, qualitative reasoning, or spiritual development, which is based on the ability to morally develop, to critically think, and implicit growth.
Until you experience the promises of self-help, then America is not ready to do their healing work because she is on the crisis of the week schedule that is a part of the tearing and repairing healing. Again, we go back to the tautology and the spiritual imperatives outlined in the beginning of this work. Spirituality and morals are normal and natural because they cannot exist out of the context of knowing. The opposite systems of ethics, laws, and business (moneylenders) are not normal or natural, which is why we cannot morally follow unjust, unfair, and illegal laws.
Conscious or unconscious there is a consciousness to awareness because one can remember and one cannot. Conscious, but no choice. This juxtaposition is the addiction and dissociative processes, predicated on trauma, in case the reader does not know. The fact that we become what we are meant to be is enough spirituality for us. The solution to “more better” is less more. Misery loves company, but recovery loves action.
Future Solutions
A lot of people are predicting political violence in America soon and believe that we need a leader to see us out of this predicament we are in. If that is what you want, then what you need is to understand that a slave is someone who is looking for someone to save them. We would like professionals who have been there and grown from their professional experiences rather than those who are maintaining this level of dysfunction. If we had this, we would not see the removal of religious exemption and an unconscious war on spirituality, religions, females, children, the body, and the unconscious (e.g., psychology).
Psychology is now a hard science and the hard sciences are going to need to get soft to be able to survive or even recognize the next wave of the historical echo we are on. Some call it the apocalypse; others call it death or mass extinction. Our question is whether or not the people or the reader is personally ready to meet this fate? If you are not, then consider connecting with us to help you prepare because this is what is in store for us all. So, you can know your future today, if you are willing to ask all of the right questions and follow where the answers take you.
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