The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY.

PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
Psychology and metaphysics are not
interchangeable terms. There is as
much difference between psychology
and metaphysics as there is between
intuition and instinct, between per.
sonality and individuality.
The metaphysician tells us that
mind is that underlined somewhat as
opposed to nonentity." When asked:
What is mind? he answers: Never
matter. What is matter?-"never
mind"
Metaphysics is the science of the
mind; psychology, the science of the
soul. If we regard metaphysics as
the science of the mind, we should
designate which mind. Has a man
two minds? Most assuredly; as dis
tinctively separate as day and night.
One Is the mind of the body (the
function of the physical brain); the
other, the mind of the soul. The one
is mortal; the other, immortal
These are sometimes called 1.-The
conscious and "subconscious," but, as
such, the terms are misleading mas
much as they suggest two phases of
one mind instead of las they should)
two distinctively different minds.
Herein lies the root of the whole mat.
ter: the very cornerstone of 1.-The
new psychology" We are not dealing
with duality of mind, but with dual
minds. For that reason l much pre-
Ter, and shall hereafter designate
them, the objective and subjective.
The collective" mind is the func-
ton of the physical brain. It's media
are the five physical senses. 1t comes
with the body, develops with the body,
perishes with the body. 1t controls
all voluntary motion 1t depends
upon the body for its existence. It's
highest faculty is reasoning. 1t rea-
sons deductively and inductively.
The subjective" mind is the func-
ton of the soul. The soul is a dis
tinct entity, and as such possesses in
dependent powers and functions, hav-
Ing u mental organization of it's own.
1t does not depend upon the body for
Its existence. The highest faculty is
intuition. 1t is the seat of the emo
tions and the storehouse of memory;
IN TACT, the memory is absolutely per-
feet. Everything you have ever read
or heard or seen or said or thought is
registered in your subjective mind. In
the case of one rescued from drown
ing land I speak from personal expe-
rlence) the curtain is thrust back and
the objective mind receives quick,
panoramic view Of lifetime. The
"subjective' mind controls all the ST.
lent, involuntary and vegetative fAnc.
tions. 1t is amenable to control by
suggestion. Being intuitive, it rea-
sons only deductively.
1t (the subjective mind) performs
Its highest functions when the OBJ.
1ect1ve senses are in allegiance under
ordinary conditions, however, the
"oD)ectlve' mind has the floor.
Soul and Body
On the material plane we have been
given material body to serve mate.
rial purposes. 1t is merely the tene.
ment of the soul; therefore it were
better to say: my soul has a BODY "
not my body has SOUL" The SOM is
paramount.
look upon the soul as a spark of
dlVinlty' and as such it possesses all
the potentialities of the Divine -
omnlscence' omnipotence, omnipres-
ence; these. of course, only in the de.
gree OF the spark to the whole-the
soul to the All Soul.
Then, with this premise, we NAV
logically conclude that man is immor.
tai. Let us put it in the form of q
syllogism:
The soul is thinking agent.
A thinking agent cannot be sew.
cred into parts.
That which cannot be severed can
not be destroyed.
Therefore the soul cannot he do.
stroyed.
The belief in Immortality has at
least this much in it's favor-the neg.
at''e cannot be proved. If immortal.
1ty is not true, it matters little wheth.
er anything else is true or not
There have been many attemn+. -
locate the soul. Because it cannot he
located; because the surgeon cannot
md 1t and dissect it with his scalnel
the materialist declares there is M
soul, and there is no God: thereforo
the materialist has no difficulty in az.
cept1ng evolution. On this no;n+ 7
quite agree with Felix Adler: "If NO
are descended from an anthronoid o,o
on the physical side, we are not 10
scended from him, in any strict senoo
OF the word. on our rational side: for
as lie IS born of life, so reason is horn
OF reason; and If the anthropoid ape
does not possess reason as we nos.
sess 1t, 1t cannot be said that on IN,
rational side we are his progeny"
1t strikes me that if there is a miss.
ing link In the chain of physical evo.
luton there is surely a missing link
IN the chain of rational evolution.
The highest faculty in man is intu.
1tion (soul perception); the highest
faculty In the animal-or in the AMI.
NAL nature of MANS instinct. Ido
not think with my friend, the late
Dr. Hudson, that intuition is instinct
OF higher growth. think there il q
great gulf between them; that the
animal possesses instinct only, while
man possesses both instinct and in
tuition; the instinct resident in the
spinal cord, or medulla oblongata. or
ala