Psychology Today

As an adult finding a copy of "Psychology Today" in Palomar College in the library in 1971 was the beginning of the end of my suffering in this lifetime.

Why?

Because as I read this magazine I had had no experience whatsoever in my life up until then with psychology only religion because my parents were ministers part time while I grew up. So, discovering that most of my suffering (through psychology) I realized actually came not from me but from all my ancestors in the form of all sorts of hang ups and cultural reactions to things for thousands of years.

So, realizing this lifted the weight of maybe 90% of the things I was upset by off my shoulders. So, I was able to see all this really had nothing to do with me in my present lifetime at all. So, as I moved forward by myself I didn't have to burden myself with any of it. So, I threw it all off and started to rebuild myself in a way I knew I could actually survive and not commit suicide within a few years.

So, the first big end to suffering for me was realizing all this.

Later, as I studied psychology, philosophy and comparative religion I realized that most of why mankind kills themselves and others is all this past stuff that really has nothing to do with them today at all.

So, in freeing myself by throwing all extraneous stuff off from my past and ancestors I could think more clearly about how to create my future and my family's future on into the future. Then when I studied comparative religions it was in a completely different context of trying to discover what was scientific within each religion that might be useful to me and to my family ongoing.

As I studied religions I noticed they all said pretty much the same things: Don't kill, don't steal, take care of each other, and "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

But, by using the scientific method on religions and religious study and holding everything I studied up to the scientific method I found my path slowly but surely through it all that might be useful to me and to my family.

So, I was able to customize all things I learned for the betterment of me, my family and all who were to come after me who would listen to me in any way.

I found many many hypotheses, fewer theories and still fewer laws to live by amongst it all.

But, everything had to prove itself to me if it wanted to be more than a hypothesis. For example, between 18 and 21 I realized that both Darwin's theory and Creationism are both theories. I don't have to be forced to believe in either one, do I?

So, that is where they are: Theories.

As I get more information about either I can then see better how each one fits into my concepts of the universe.

And if I live to be 1000 or 10,000 years like many of you reading this will or already have by the time you read this, you will understand exactly what I'm talking about.

By God's Grace