Soulology 101 From Whence Cometh Mental Illness? ...an Introduction (Revised)

by Garry G. Laser

Overview

Soulology 101
From Whence Cometh Mental Illness? This is an introduction to what I call PinPoint Soul-Logical Understanding. No soul can be properly studied without considering all three life functioning capacities. Because scientific psychological research has rejected one of these capacities, which does not require "rational " thought, there is now a scrambling in the search for the missing link - that which is spiritual and involves conscience and intuition.

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The human brain is an amazing organ and it is used by our will, our mind and our emotion. The brain however is not the soul nor is the brain the seat of mental illness nor is it from where mental and emotional hellish issues are sourced.

So what function does the brain play as we understand mental illness and how it affects the neuro chemistry of the brain? I would suggest that the brain must be viewed to be the playground in which, what we in our society call mental illness, gets to hard wire certain pathways for thought patterns and emotional triggers.

The brain becomes the storage and the processing center of something which it is not in and of itself. The brain is not the soul, yet the major functioning elements of the soul use the brain to accomplish the purposes of the source from whence cometh the thought source mastery over the human soul.

The human soul has long been an enigma. Many a person has had thoughts as to why we do what we do and how what we do has such control over the way we think and feel, or is it the other way around - we often wonder. As we can so readily see, the soul presents a great opportunity for studying the human being.

The study of the human soul goes way back to the Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates among others. They themselves were seduced by their pantheistic religion and the mythology they loved and accepted.

Among this mythology we find many names of gods and goddesses, and on further study we find that each such deity of man was a deity of insufficiency and of need. Among the many mythology names we come across the names of a young maiden by the name of Psyche, the goddess of Aphrodite, her son Eros and the love child of Psyche and Eros being the daughter by the name of Hedone, meaning pleasure and bliss.

In mythology, the young and beautiful maiden Psyche was a melancholic, always strongly regretful and mourning lonely person. She was sick in body and woefully wounded in her heart. She loathed who she was, her beauty even when the world seemed to love her and admire her for her beauty. Eventually Psyche became fixated on the ever increasing desire for Eros. Her desire was for the god of desire.

According to mythology, everything came together, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, her son Eros and his wife Psyche and their daughter Hedone. Apparently all came together in love and ‘soul’ for that is what the word psyche means.

Psyche has thus become the Greek word we use for soul even in the Greek words of Scripture. And that is not where the problem lies. The problem I wish to address in this series of books and writings is that the study of psycho-logic has its origins in this milieu of self-serving, and self-indulging hedonistic desire for the god of desire and pleasure.

Sigmund Freud is often touted as being the father of modern psychology, and as he studied the human soul he was always drawn to the sexual aspect of human suffering just as in Greek mythology.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152433029
Publisher:	Garry G. Laser
Publication date:	11/21/2015
Series:	Soulology - Your Mental Health Counts
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
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About the Author

The author, Garry G. Laser was born in Germany in 1947. After his birth the hospital was unable to treat the infant’s medical condition and he was sent home with his mother to die there. The prayer of godly family and friends and their faith in God brought the healing God wanted to give. The family of five immigrated to Canada in 1954 and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a child, he was raised in a German speaking home and church environment. Dogma and legalism were never far from being included in all teaching and preaching, yet at the age of 14 years through the work of the Holy Spirit, he asked Jesus to come into his life. In 1971 a beautiful and stunning young lady by the name of Nettie Reiter had come to Winnipeg to attend a family related funeral and as a result it was love at first sight. Within less than 6 months Garry convinced her that he was her man and they got married and had 4 children. Garry and his wife currently live in Chilliwack, British Columbia and attend the Rosedale Community Church of God (affiliated with Anderson, Indiana and its heritage in the Wesleyan movement). Their 4 adult children and now five (5) grandchildren all reside within close driving proximity. What does Garry do for the most part of his day? Well, he gets up in the wee hours of the morning (12:01 to be more precise), studies and writes and then it’s off to work which commences at 5:35 AM in a cold, ‘case ready’ meat processing plant as a general laborer. At least that is the routine until he retires from there. It was as a result of a one year separation early in their marriage that God was able to work in Garry’s life and prepare him for considering the study of Scripture. After reconciling in their marriage the young family with one child (son Kevin) at the time, moved to Germany. Garry studied at Brake Bible School for two years and the family with their second child (son Ron) returned to Canada and moved to Three Hills, Alberta where after a year of studies he graduated from Prairie Bible Institute. With their third child (daughter Cindy), a Three Hills New Year’s arrival in tow, Garry commenced his studies at North American Baptist College in Edmonton Alberta. (Currently operating as Taylor University College and Seminary). While studying at NABC he was introduced to studies in psychology. After his first semester, funds dwindled, and Garry had to consider abandoning further studies. Garry’s work experience started at the entry level of stock boy with the Hudson’s Bay Company and within a short period of time he moved on to data processing and computer operations. He stayed within the field of computer operations until the move to Germany. When his studying years stopped, he found employment with Corrections Canada and commenced his job with corrections that had just opened the new Edmonton Maximum Security Institute. There he engaged in security and case work. At that time he also did voluntary chaplaincy work within that prison. From there he transferred to the newly opened Kent Maximum Security Institute in British Columbia and it was in Chilliwack where their fourth child (daughter Tamara) was born. In 1985, their eldest son, 10 years of age at the time had an inner tube tobogganing accident which resulted in prolonged unconsciousness and spinal cord severance. At that time of their family life the mortgage rates were at 21% and the additional cost of borrowing funds for home renovations resulted in eventual foreclosure action commencement by the bank. It was in this vulnerability that Garry came to believe he had freedom of choice to do whatever it would take to never again let his family down for lack of provision on his part. Garry wanted to get rich and get rich fast so nobody would ever again control his life and force him and his family out of their home. When he entered into the bankruptcy act for creditor protection and participated in the Orderly Debt Repayment program he was eventually able to pay off everything he owed, but there was one thing that really bothered him, he could not obtain a credit card for at least seven more years. That prompted him to seek any way possible to circumvent that restriction and during his pursuits in finding alternatives, he came upon the advertisements that promoted the “Get Rich Now” mail order programs. He took the bait and started selling “Get Rich” books too and that venture provided such an enormous income in only a few months that he quit his work in the field of corrections. This trip into abundance of money, the belief in self-sufficiency and self-resourcefulness and the belief in the lie that he actually did have freedom of choice, moved him into the arena where the rich seek to hide money in offshore accounts. Such company always includes the fraudsters, the hucksters, the money launderers and the deceiving, greedy liars. Keeping such company is bound to catch up to you, and, as often happens, there are those times when people with such labels are given a temporary home away from home. Garry enjoyed such quiet respite under God’s ultimate control for 10 months in Seattle. God has a way of catching up with all those who are His children for He has predestined all His children for the doing of good works for His good pleasure. Garry was one of those whom God wanted to change into the image of His Son. “God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. God decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity and therefore all of humanity is able to be restored in Christ. We all see the original and intended shape of our lives there in Him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.” (Romans 8:29 MSG) Garry was one of the names God lovingly called, and finally Garry heard. I believe this short autobiography of Garry’s life will shed some light and insight on what it is that God wants to ultimately accomplish in him in the way of maturing faith and come to use, from his personal life experiences, in the writings of Soulology, the PinPoint Soul-Logical Understanding book series; where the Divine Self Being restores the human self being. Garry is a follower of Jesus Christ; he is the husband of one, father of four, and a grandfather; a lover of God’s church and a general laborer in the service of God. Praise be to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen