Human development… With these steps, facts are falsified
The world is going through an uncertain period in its history, people lose confidence in political and economic systems that do not provide effective solutions to their problems, and patients get tired of trying dozens of new treatments for cancer, depression, and bipolar disorder without results, so they lose confidence in this scientific pattern that takes too much time to come up with some The results, and some of them begin to search for alternative solutions to ease their pain. Here, energy sciences, the law of attraction, and all other forms of contemporary human development appear, to present these easy solutions with claims of a scientific form, presenting themselves as “alternative science.”
We do not know, in fact, a specific date for the beginnings of this contemporary pattern of human development, but it can be said that Dale Carnegie’s book “Let Anxiety and Begin Life” published in the 1940s was a fundamental turning point in the history of this type of “comfort” offering, which It began, after the end of the Second World War, in the form of books, and perhaps lectures, that relieve people from the burden of life, and push them to contemplate themselves more, what may cause them to discover the problems they really face, and begin to deal with them with degrees of calm, and this book is still To date one of the best sellers.
A Brief History of Pseudoscience
With the passage of time, and the increase in people’s demand for this type of “human development”, new topics appeared within its ranges, after the main discussion was related to how to avoid anxiety, how to see things from another perspective to modify our thoughts about ourselves and the world, and the doses of motivation by talking about the experiences of some Successful people, for example, have intervened, in a completely qualitative leap, to put in place what looks like new “laws” for human development that, through these laws, have become similar to science, that is, they no longer motivate people with a book or a lecture about a personal experience, but their pioneers began to develop Therapeutic mechanisms, meditative techniques, and — in turn — making claims that these mechanisms and techniques can treat specific diseases, with specific doses of exercises that the trainer teaches you.
Here we need to pause and say, briefly and simply, before delving into our topic, that from a scientific point of view, those techniques, mechanisms, and laws are pseudo-sciences (1) (pseudoscience) that have nothing to do with science, but they only take, on the surface, the form of writing or scientific performance, meaning that Energy sciences, geometry, neuro-linguistic programming, the law of attraction from the book of secret, alternative medicine, etc., are non-scientific practices that have never stood firm in front of scientific tests that are distinguished by several characteristics, including being falsifiable through experiments, and being able to repeat those experiences To get similar results.
However, let us now put aside all this talk about the difference between what is scientific and what is not scientific and ask a little about the roots of that final leap that affected this contemporary project, in other words, let us simply ask: Does the relationship of these technologies to science exceed the barrier of their need for cognitive support to What is deeper than that? Or, let’s reframe our question in another way: Did these technologies first appear at the very moment that they needed to exist before, say, forty to sixty years ago, in the world of human development?
No, at first glance, some people think that these latest technologies are a natural extension of the world of human development, which is expanding day by day to link itself with psychology or theoretical physics (quantum in particular), thus becoming an industry worth billions of dollars that attracts millions of people, but that is not true. Basically, other roots are more profound outside the framework of science or the world of human development itself, they are religious roots in the history of several philosophical religious movements that spread several centuries ago, and took from those same principles rituals, and rituals and then imported into the contemporary world of human development in a more closely related to science.
Take, for example, Book 2 “The Secret” issued in 2006 as a transcript of a documentary bearing the same name written by Ronda Byrne and which has become very popular throughout the world. The book talks about what we call the Law of Attraction, which says that similar things attract, if you want health, With money and a happy marriage, all you have to do is focus on those things and think positively about them and they will come to you obediently, but let’s compare that idea with another religious movement called “New Thought” that originated in the United States of America in the century nineteenth.
Contemporary Religion!
Where Phineas Quimby 4, from whom this movement drew its teachings, was afflicted with tuberculosis, and none of the treatments he underwent could save him, so he decided to stop it and try another different thing that really succeeded in relieving his pain, which is running with his horse and contemplating nature, This caused, as he claimed, that Quimpe was completely cured of his illness. This venerable event invited Quimpe to form ideas related to self-healing and the ability of the mind to direct the body to get rid of its problems whatever they are. From Free Robux in which the mind dwells, so if your mind is deceived by some invisible enemy with a belief, you have put this belief in your body in the form of a disease, whether with your knowledge or without your knowledge. But by my theory, I deal with your enemy and restore your health and happiness to you. “
These were the roots of what we call the “Law of Attraction”, which took that term “law of attraction” by the sixteenth century, then annexed it and promoted it, the new thought movement as part of its beliefs by the eighteenth century and generalized it to include everything from health to marriage. Money, a good job, children, etc., the law of attraction, with this terminology that we know, is a major part of the beliefs of the owners of that religious movement. Other.
After that, the law began to be promoted in the twentieth century through several books that were not of a religious nature, for example, the famous book “Think You Get Rich” which, until now, is still gaining a lot of popularity, and that gradually developed to the last leap, which is a book. “ The Secret “In 2006, and the subsequent spread of the book and the law itself and its incorporation into most human development courses and Free Robux, especially those related to meditation and energy sciences, we are therefore facing a religious belief in the first place.
In addition to this, religious-philosophical movements such as “New Thought” and “New Age” 6 are Western esotericism, which is an intellectual current whose followers believe that there are hidden (hidden) sciences or secrets belonging to the elite. Of the scholars and thinkers who receive their knowledge of this through intuition and personal revelations, not revelation, and we find this trend spread within many religions and cultures, and it is — simply — the basic idea on which ideas such as the law of attraction or energy sciences depend, especially when they all talk about that these were “ancient secrets.” “Only very few people know them and as long as they have been transmitted between them, throughout history, in the complete secrecy as if they are treasures.
As for energy sciences 8, or life energy, or all those claims that fall under the idea that there is energy for space and its geometry and energy for the body or for life, and that this energy can be used for healing, it is also one of the convictions that have long been promoted by followers of esoteric religious movements such as the New Thought and the New Age. And others, but the New Age movement specifically tried to include science in its context in a more profound way, in other words, that movement tries to create a comprehensive unified theory of the world that integrates the spiritual and the scientific side, let us consider that last point a little.
How did human development get its golden idea?
The ideas of this movement towards science stand on several aspects, all of which are currently popular in the world of human development, for example, the movement relies on the research behind alternative interpretations of the prevailing science, whether by discussing convergences between some theoretical sciences such as quantum mechanics and metaphysics of Eastern mysticism (Quantum Healing) or by casting aside Rouhani on some theoretical structures in environmental sciences, such as the Gaia hypothesis, which assumes that the living and inanimate parts of the Earth appear as a single complex system interacting with each other so that we can think of it as a single organism.
But the most striking here is the mechanisms 10 by which that movement expressed, at the hands of its followers, their convictions in this direction, as the movement deliberately referred to any methodology or theory of its own as a science, or that it has a scientific nature or mechanisms, for example. Using terms such as scientific meditation, scientific therapy, mental science, yoga science, and so forth, as a twisted way, perhaps, to seize the charm and respect of science.
In addition, one of the 11 hallmarks of the New Age religious movement is the description of some of its therapeutic or contemplative approaches based on similes and metaphors drawn from experimental sciences, scientific theories, and technology, beginning with the reference to specific healing methods unrelated to quantum physics as “quantum healing.” Up to talk about the “holographic universe”, which is a scientific hypothesis, and using that hypothesis — in the language of science — to talk about a ubiquitous deity, or connected beings with each other, or other claims. In other words, we are faced with the case of using “linguistics” to refer to religious beliefs and practices that are essential “far removed from science”.
That last point was what the contemporary human development needed for the revolutionary transition, in the last twenty or thirty years, from the talks of motivation and calling for a quieter life to all those modern “technologies” that take a scientific language but are mainly religious convictions of Western esoteric movements that have lived over several centuries. And it finally emerged in this modern scientific commercial form, after its appearance in the United States, all of these allegations met with acceptance in almost all countries of the world, and spread like wildfire, transforming from books and lectures to therapeutic courses, training, and clinics that receive patients from all sides.
A cleric dressed in expensive clothes!
The human development coach is then, in one way or another, he knew it or not, a contemporary cleric stands to preach the teachings of that contemporary religion that calls for calm and meditation through exercises, teachings that say that a person has mental energy capable of overcoming barriers of time and space and controlling things, events and people Others only through “faith” in this, teachings that say to one of us, “Rest assured, what you badly wish you will get.” And those convictions in the divine religions found similar signals urging good thinking about God and certainty of his response to the supplication. Here, human development trainers took these aspects of the texts They merged it in the manner of the New Age movement with science, and presented it as a modern image of their own religion, despite the fact that one of the most famous sentences — for example — in my documentary “The Secret” completely contradicts their beliefs, where one of the instructors simply says: “You are the universe, you are God.” In the last quarter of it.
So you will find that the human development coach, especially the energy “specialists”, in the Arab world, for example, will often stick to the verses of the Qur’an, and the matter — at times — goes beyond the simple use of the text and is interpreted — in a way similar to the mechanisms of experimental science — to what is more complex. From that, such as claiming that there are healing capacities for the beautiful names of God, or for specific verses, this pattern was clear and successful before in the Western esoteric movements, and it is succeeding again.
And let us, before the end of our conversation, make it clear that we are not trying here to refute these convictions as religious beliefs, so we prove them wrong or correct. Every person has the right to embrace what he thinks is true of religious ideas.
