"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
Creators: name: E Peck Jr, Charles
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Irish
subject: Science--Philosophy
subject: Methods (Music)
subject: Evolution--Methodology
subject: Indigenous art
subject: Arts, Irish
subject: Indigenous peoples
subject: Ethics
subject: British Society for the Philosophy of Science
subject: India (Republic). National Committee on Science and Technology. Panel on Education and Scientific Research
subject: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee
subject: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. General Conference. Delegation from Canada
subject: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Directorate for Scientific, Technological, and International Affairs
subject: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Board of Scientific Counselors
subject: University of Utah. Dept. of Educational Psychology
subject: American Psychological Association. Division of Military Psychology
subject: University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Dept. of Psychology
subject: University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Psychology
subject: National Institute of Psychology (Pakistan)
subject: Minnesota. Board of Psychology
subject: California School of Professional Psychology
subject: Arkansas Board of Examiners in Psychology
subject: American Psychological Association. Division of Clinical Psychology
subject: American Association of State Psychology Boards
subject: Guild of Pastoral Psychology
subject: University of Kansas. Dept. of Psychology
subject: Association for Humanistic Psychology
subject: Spirituality in art
subject: Spirituality--Social aspects
subject: Spirituality--Psychology
subject: Spirituality in literature
subject: Spirituality--Anglican Church
subject: Spirituality--Church of England
subject: Spirituality--Spanish colonies--History
subject: Spirituality--Health aspects
subject: Spirituality--Middle Ages
subject: Spirituality--Christianity--Middle Ages
subject: Spirituality--Coptic Evangelical Church
subject: Spirituality--Unitarian Universalist churches

description: "It is not true if the major premise is not true" – Justice Rehnquist  
Point of order Models/Maps: Beyond the scope of strict materialist-quantification methodology, human consciousness revolves around models. 
a.	K Gergen emphasizes that "proper knowledge maps-models" accurately reflect the actualities of the real world, including the symbolic, the spiritual, and the social.
b.	"To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model!" Iain McGilChrist
Spirituality is unreal! Flawed Materialist Map-Model of Spirituality
The materialist approach, with its rigid adherence to quantification and measurable data, creates a distorted and incomplete "map-model" of spirituality, and generates the maladaptive stereotype that "all spirituality is unreal." 

The Core Materialist Argument = "Death is a figment of your imagination"
The Definist Fallacy: The psychologists, William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen, state in their article, "Spirituality, religion and health: an emerging field of research": "A philosophical basis for this perspective is materialism, the belief that there is nothing to study because spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses." - which creates the illusion and the fallacy that "spirituality is unreal" which is widespread" 

The pivotal part of that argument is a fallacy – specifically the "Definist fallacy" because "spirituality is intangible" is a "loaded" term - which constructs an artificial obstacle which obstructs and prevents any real dialogue or communication. However, if you consider the concept of "death" – which, of course, is "intangible" – following the materialist line of argument then "Death becomes a "figment of your imagination" – which is absurd of course.
McGilChrist astutely observed "The scope of inquiry and understanding of the Materialist Doctrine with its rigid adherence to the actually arbitrary principle of quantification and over-emphasis on physiological characteristics is severely restricted and limited in the analyses that can be performed."
The Mannheim-Maimone Model that political-economic realities shape the social sciences which are "value laden" ideologies and modes of thought – which is in line with the views of McGilChrist. Materialist fixation with quantification is an extremely value-laden mode of thought with a built-in "dehumanizing" factor in that quantification is very inflexible and this very intolerant with a tendency to exclude evidence that contradicts its assumptions, creating a "filter-attention process" that limits our understanding of the world. 
Social Sciences have not done a proper assessment of spirituality, religion, or social consciousness for that matter.