River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-06
PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY.

FSycnOlOgy ana 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. II 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 "the
conscious" and "subconscious," but, as
such, the terms are misleading mas
much as they suggest two phases of
one mind instead of (as they should)
two distinctively different minds.
Herein lies the root of the whole mat
ter; the very cornerstone of "the
new psychology" We are not dealing
with a duality of mind, but with dual
minds. For that reason l much pre-
fer, and shall hereafter designate
them, the objective and subjective.
The objective" 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 it's 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
tons and the storehouse of memory;
in fact, 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 (and l speak from personal expe-
rience) the curtain is thrust back and
the objective mind receives a quick,
panoramic view of a lifetime The
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lent, involuntary and vegetative fHnc-
lions. 1t is amenable to control by
suggestion. Being intuitive, it rea-
sons only deductively
1t (the subjective mind performs
it's highest functions when the OBJ
jective senses are in allegiance under
ordinary conditions, however, the
objective" mind has the floor.
Soul and Body
On the material plane we have been
given a 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 a SOUL The soul is
| paramount.
| look upon the soul as spark of
divinity, and as such it possesses all
the potentialities of the Divine =
omniscence, 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 may
logically conclude that man is immor-
tai. Let us put it in the form of a
syllogism:
The soul is thinking agent.
thinking agent cannot be sew
cred into parts.
That which cannot be severed can
not be destroyed
Therefore the soul cannot be de-
stroyed.
The belief in immortality has at
least this much in its favor-the neg
alive cannot be proved. If immortal
ity is not true, it matters little wheth-
er anything else is true or not.
There have been many attempts to
locate the soul. Because it cannot be
located; because the surgeon cannot
find it and dissect it with his scalpel.
the materialist declares there is no
soul, and there is no God; therefore
the materialist has no difficulty in ac-
cepting evolution. On this point I
quite agree with Felix Adler: eff we
are descended from an anthropoid ape
on the physical side, we are not de-
scended from him, in any strict sense
OF the word, on our rational side: for
as life is born of life, so reason is born
OF reason; and if the anthropoid ape
does not possess reason as we pos
sess it, it cannot be said that on our
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 as missing link
in the chain of rational evolution.
The highest faculty in man is intu-
ition (soul perception); the highest
faculty in the animal-or in the ami
NAL nature of mans instinct. do
not think with my friend, the late
DR.. Hudson, that intuition is instinct
OF higher growth. / think there 10 a
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 medulIa oblongata, or
the solar plexus; the intuition, soul
| faculty