Thus, in the particular situation of having religious experiences both primary and secondary process thinking stop and the mind starts working another way. Hallucinations which may occur at this point are examples. The hallucinations appear as an artificial way of creating harmony between the subject and his environmental maze, in some respect a way to cheat. Hence, in addition to the rational secondary process thinking and affective primary process thinking, religious experiences oblige us to enlarge the psychoanalytic model of the psyche and to hypothesize a third type of psychological process, a third way of functioning for the psyche a way of thinking through images and symbols. We must have a sense of balance.
Some people are too much in the unconscious.
Certainly, I am not recommending that they immerse themselves in hallucinations, but I think the dominant rational, reductionist, scientific dualist establishment needs to come to terms with these things. The whole problem of Western society is that we rule ourselves according to theory and we have different theories of humanity. Marxist man is such a pathetic caricature of a human being that eighty per cent of what a human being is is left out of Marxist man. Hitlerian man is another lame vision. We are very proud of democratic man or democratic humanity, but obviously this does not answer all questions.