"Supernatural Swindle" Materialist Map-Model of spirituality = Maladaptive Stereotype "Spirituality is unreal" since "Spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses." (W R. Miller, C E. Thoresen):=fallacy as "Death" then is a figment of imagination vs Proper knowledge maps the real world." K Gergen
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description: Rollo May, an American existential psychologist and author, observes
"There has been a radical change during the past three decades… Neither term, "symbol"
or "myth," even appears in the index of the standard psychology textbooks." 8He goes on to
say that this oversight was due to the "proclivity" – the materialist fixation - with data
"which could ultimately be described in physiological or stimulus-response terms."9
Elzbieta Halas also observes: "Too often symbolism is thought of as an epiphenomenon, a phenomenon that is derivative of what are considered to be more important factors, such as business, resources, power, organization, etc. which are allegedly 'objective' facts." 

There is a consensus among philosophers (Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gasset and others) that symbolism is pivotal for knowledge and consciousness - yet philosophers also agree symbolism lies outside quantification-rational analysis. Balaganapath emphasizes that "The meanings that these symbolic forms transmit are complex. Instead of standing for a single referent, they evoke a variety of meanings, some of which may be ambiguous."13 E Halas confirms that view: "Of primary importance is the concept of generic metaphor, around which the dominant symbolism of some social group is created (Turner, 1978: 246; Mill s, 1950: 86). These are key representations set in a symbolic system, which condense numerous meanings and unify multiple signs, such as an 'open society', or a 'rule of law'. That puts symbols outside the scope of strict rational analysis and materialist quantification. What complicates matters is that as both Muzafer Sherif and Viktor Frankl emphasized that the different disciplines of science and different schools of thought are largely separate and disconnected – so the symbolic schools of thought never made it into main-stream psychology.

The Materialist Quantification Bias Marginalized both Symbolism and Spirituality

Similar to Rollo May's description of symbolism, spirituality was also sidelined and marginalized. In a 700 plus page comprehensive 'History of Psychology' - titled
"The Story of psychology"18 - by Morton Hull, and find there is not have one single
reference to meaning, spirit, spirituality, or even religion. That being said I should add that
Morton Hull did highlight the archaic references in ancient Greek philosophy but left out
spirituality as expounded by Jung, Frankl, and William James. I thought perhaps this
could possibly been just one individual's prejudices, so I checked into my comprehensive
"reference handbooks" for Self and Identity, as well as, Social Psychology. To my dismay, I
discovered there was not a single reference to either spirit, spirituality, or religion. 
The "Supernatural Swindle" - "It is not true if the major premise is not true"  – Justice Rehnquist 

I asked my Filipina partner - who is Catholic - if God is "supernatural." She replied "Yes". I pointed out that Jesus Christ never once used the word "supernatural" in the Gospels and briefly described how Jesus Christ described his Model of the Holy Spirit as I do in the following section and compared that to the "supernatural" model. After discussing the issue, she agreed God did not "unequivocally equate" to the "supernatural" – which is why I call the "supernatural" concept a swindle.

The word "supernatural" is a materialist term which has no definition being "beyond the scope of science" The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states "1 Of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe 2 departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature." The "supernatural" is an unscientific concept and utterly meaningless. In fact, the "supernatural" is a "loaded term which automatically makes that a "fallacy" – specifically the "Definist Fallacy" On top of that the "supernatural" concept comes with "baggage" and conveys a meaning entirely different from the gospels - such as magic, powers, crystal ball prediction, etc.