Vague religious feeling. Fig. 14 shows us another shapeless rotating cloud, but this time it is blue instead of raspberry. It indicates a vaguely experienced religious feeling - more likely the piousness than faith. In many churches, you can see a huge cloud of dim blue, soaring over the heads of the meeting - indefinitely in their outlines due to the inochabitant nature of the thoughts and the feelings that cause it. Very often, it is covered with brown and gray stains, since ignorant faith with a deplorable ease absorbs the oppressive mixture of stak and egoism; But large potential prospects for the future are also identified and the first weak fluttering of one of the pair of wings - faith and wisdom, by whom the soul rises to God, from which came.
Elevated impulse of faith. Form in Fig. 15 B is in the same respect to form in Fig. 14, in which clearly outlined rapid form in Fig. 10 - to an indefinite cloud in fig. 8. It's hard to find a more striking contrast than between the Fig. 14 and the courageous energy of the magnificent island of a highly developed religious feeling that appears in front of us in Fig. 15. This is not a vague half-form feeling, it is a throw in the manifestation of majestic emotions, deeply rooted in knowledge of the fact. A person who worries such a feeling is the one who knows who he believes; Creating such a thinking is the one who learned to think. The definition of a gust pointing points to courage, as well as on the conviction of its creator, while the shelter of lines shows the clarity of the concept, and the impeccable purity of the color testifies to its extreme intense.
Reply to religious feeling. In fig. 17 We are seeing the result of the previous thought - the response of the Logos into directed by him, is the truth on which the highest and better part of stubbornly existing belief in response to prayer. This requires several words of explanation. On each plan solar system Logos pours its light, its strength, his life, and naturally, on the higher planes, the divine power can be given most fully. Each lower on the next bottom plan means an almost paralyzing limitation - a restriction, absolutely not perceived, except those who have experienced the highest possibilities of human consciousness. Thus, divine life stems with incomparably greater fullness on mental plan compared to astral; And the magnificence of the mental level is extremely superior to the magnificence of the Buddhic Plan. Usually, each of these powerful waves of influence applies to the plan corresponding to it horizontally, but does not go into the darkness of the plan, the lowest than the one for which it was originally intended.
However, there are conditions under which grace and strength peculiar to the highest plan can be to some extent brought to the lowest and widely spread there with an amazing effect. It seems possible only when a special channel opens, and this work should be done below the person's efforts. Earlier it was explained that always when the thought or sense of a person is selfish, the energy that produces them moves along a closed curve, and thus inevitably returns and spent at its own level; But when the thought or feeling is absolutely disinterested, the energy is pulled over the opened curve and is thus not refunded in the usual understanding, but he penetrates the plan, which is above, because only in these higher conditions, with its additional measurement, may it find space for its distribution . But at this breakthrough, such a thought or feeling, figuratively, leaves an open door of the size of the corresponding to its own diameter, thus providing the required channel for which the Divine force corresponding to the highest plan can spill on the lowest with amazing results, not only for a thinker, but And for others. In fig. 17 Attempting to express it and specify the Great Truth that the endless stream of the highest type of force is always ready and waiting for the opportunity to shed through the channel provided, it can be said, like water waiting for the opportunity to flow through the first open pipe.
The result of the descent of Divine Life causes the influx of strength and spiritual rise from the created channel and distribution everywhere around him the most powerful and beneficial effects. This effect is often called a reply to prayer and consider "special through providence" instead of the indispensable effect of the Great and unshakable divine law.
Self-denial. Fig. 16 represents us another kind of religious feelings producing a refined and beautiful thought form of the type, completely new for us - in which you can take these graceful outlines at first glance for imitation of wildlife. For example, fig. 16 somewhat resembles a semi-walled flower bud, while other forms may be similar to shells, leaves or outlines of trees. However, in fact, they are not and cannot be copies of plant or animal forms, and it seems likely that the explanation of this similarity lies much deeper. A similar and even more noteworthy fact is that some very complex thinking can be simulated by the action of certain mechanical forces, as mentioned above. While with our present knowledge, it would be nomudro to try to find a solution to this very exciting problem, represented by this remarkable similarity, it seems likely that we get a glimpse from the threshold of a great riddle - after all, if we produce forms that are also created using certain thoughts Natural processes, then at least we can make the assumption that these forces of nature act on the lines, in some ways like this thoughts. Since the Universe itself is a mighty thoughthorm, caused by the Logos, it may well be that its small parts are also the thinking of smaller beings engaged in the same work; Thus, probably, we can move to an understanding of what three hundred and thirty million will be known to the Hindus.
This thought form of a beautiful light azure color, with the magnificence of white light shining through it, demanded all the skill of the tireless artist, who worked hard to grab it as much as possible. This is what Catholics are called a definite "act of faith", or better - act of extreme selflessness and self-denial.
Intelligence
Fig. 18 and 18A.
Vague mental pleasure. Fig. 18 represents an indefinite cloud of the same order as those observed in Figures 8 and 14, but in this case a yellow color, instead of raspberry or blue. Yellow in each of the bodies of man always points to intellectual abilities, but its shades differ and this can be complicated by an admixture of other tones. Generally speaking, the darker and dim tint, the more directed by the intelligence in the lower channels, and more objects of intelligence are selfish. In the astral and mental bodies of the middle man, this is manifested as the color of the yellow ocher, while a clean intelligence dedicated to the study of philosophy or mathematics is often gold and rises gradually to a beautiful clear and luminous lemon or shade of yellow primrose when a powerful mind is completely disinterestedly working. For the benefit of mankind. Most yellow thoughtforms have clear outlines, and the vague clouds of this color are relatively rare. They mean intellectual pleasure - a high assessment of ingenuity, or joy felt in mental work. Such a pleasure as received simple person In contemplation of the picture, usually depends mainly from the senses of admiration, love or pity, which it causes in it; Or sometimes, if she depicts a scene familiar to him, her charm is the ability to awaken the memories of the oldest pleasures. The artist, however, can receive the pleasure of a completely different nature from the picture, based on his recognition of perfectly performed work and the subtle mind, manifested in achieving such results. Such pure intellectual satisfaction shows itself a yellow cloud; The same effect can be perfectly made from the musical design or the insight of the above argument. The cloud of such nature indicates the complete absence of any personal emotions, because if they were present, it would be inevitably littered with a yellow-invented color.
Intention to find out. Fig. 19 Interesting, as telling us something about the growth of thoughtformes. Early stagewhich is shown the upper form, not uncommon, and indicates the intention to solve some problem - the desire to learn and understand. The thinking of this species often accompanies the question, and if, as it sometimes happens to unfortunately, the question is asked not how much with a sincere desire to find out how much to show the insightfulness of the asking, the form is very painted deeply orange, which indicates self-conceit. This special form was noticed at the meeting and was accompanied by a question that showed deep thought and insight. This first answer was not quite satisfactory for the asked, which seemed to have the impression that the lecturer tries to bypass this problem. His decision to get a full and comprehensive response to his question was even more definite and the thought form acquired a more rich color and changed to the second type, much stronger than the previously resembling a corkscrew. The forms similar to these are constantly created by idle and frivolous curiosity, but since in this case the intellect is not attracted, the color is no longer yellow, but it resembles something like shown in Fig. 29, expressing the desire for alcohol.
High ambition. Fig. 20 gives us another manifestation of desire - the desires of office or power. This ambitious quality is shown rich and deep orange, and the desire is a hook-shaped process, which are in front of the thinking, when it moves. This thought is one of the good and clean thoughts of this species, since if it was based on something low or selfishly lay, it would inevitably show itself the darkening of clear orange dull tones of red, brown or gray. If this person wanted a high position or power, then not with the goal of his own benefit, but from the belief that he could well and honestly do work for the benefit of his fellow.
Egoistic ambition. The ambition of the lowest type is represented in Fig. 21. We have here not only a big dimly brown-gray stain of egoism, but also a significant difference in the form, although it has the same certainty in the outlines. In fig. 20 The form is constantly rising in the direction of a specific object, since it can be noted that the central part of it definitely resembles a projectile, as in Fig. 10. In fig. 21, on the other hand, a floating form, and a well-expressing usual tendency to capture - the desire to capture everything within visibility for themselves.
Anger
Fig. 23 and 22.
Migrating rage and long anger. In fig. 22 and 23 We have two terrible example of the terrible effect of anger. The dark outbreak of dark clouds (Fig. 22) was taken from the aura of a coarse and partially drunk man in the London East End district, when he knocked down a woman with his feet; The outbreak darted in her direction at the moment before he had a hand and caused such a feeling of trembling from horror, as if he could kill. The exactly directed stale-shaped dart (Fig. 23) was the thought of constant malice, the strong desire of revenge, bevented years, and directed towards a person who caused severe injury to sending it. It should be noted that both thoughts acquire a lightning form, but the upper is incomprehensible in his appearance, while the lower represents the constancy of the urgement, which is much more dangerous. The basis of extreme egoism, from which the upper form originates is very characteristic and instructive. The difference in color between them is also worth noting. In the upper dirty-brown color of egoism so much noticeable that he paints even the emission of anger; At the same time, in the second case, although selfishness was also at the root, the initial thought was forgotten in a constant and concentrated anger. Studying xiii in will be able to imagine the state of the astral body, from which these thoughtforms speak, and probably even a simple look at these pictures, even without studying them, will give visual lesson What kind of evil brings the feeling of anger.
Explosion anger. In fig. 24 We see how anger is a completely different character. There is no permanent hatred, but just an energetic explosion of irritation. It is immediately clear that while each of the creators of the forms shown in Fig. 22 and 23, directed his anger against a specific person, a person responsible for the explosion in Fig. 24, temporarily in war with the whole world.
Instructive compare radiation with this illustration with depicted in Fig. 11. Here we see a real explosion, instant in their passage and disorderly in their homewares; A blank center shows that the feeling that led to him is the matter of the past, and the force is no longer generated. In Figure 11, on the contrary, the center is the strongest part of the thought form, showing that it is not the result of a temporary flash of feeling, but there is a constant influx of energy, while the rays demonstrate their quality, long and uniformity of its distribution constantly supported by their effort.
Vigilant and angry jealousy. In fig. 25 We see an interesting, albeit unpleasant thinking. Its special brownish-green color immediately indicates an experienced clairvoyant that this is an expression of jealousy, and her curious appearance demonstrates the dust with which a person considers her object. Remarkable resemblance to the snake raised the head is suitable symbolizing the stupid approach of this man, speakingly trying to discover signs that he least would like to see. At the moment when he sees it, or imagines that he sees, the form varies in a much more common shown in Fig. 26, where jealousy is already mixed with anger. It should be noted that jealousy is usually a vague cloud, but the wrath of anger made by very clearly, ready to hit those who allegedly wounded a person, while in fig. 25, where there is no anger, the jealousy itself has completely defined and very expressive contours.
Sympathy
Vague sympathy. In fig. 18a have one more of the uncertain clouds, but this time his green color shows us that this is a manifestation of sympathy. We can conclude from an indefinable nature of its outlines, that this is not a clear and active sympathy that can immediately turn from the thought of the case; This is soon the usual sense of condolence, which can survive a person who has read the accident message, or standing in the doorway of the Hospital Chamber and Looking on Patients.
Fear
Sudden fright. One of the most miserable objects in nature is a person or an animal in a state of humiliated fear, and the study of the XIV illustration in "Man visible and invisible" shows that in such circumstances the astral body does not produce best impressionthan physical. Thus, when a person's astral body is in a state of mad tremor, its natural tendency is to throw out the shapeless explosive particles, similar to the rock mass, thrown by an explosion, as can be seen from fig. thirty; But when a person is not in a state of horror, but seriously frightened, often the effect is often similar to that shown in Figure 27. It is noteworthy here that all crescents on the right side, which were obviously released earlier than others, do not demonstrate anything except the journey-gray fear But the moment later a person has already partially recovered from shock and begins to feel the anger, which allowed himself to be frightened. This is indicated by the fact that the later crescents are covered with a crimson, testifying to the mixture of wrath and fear, while the crescent is a purely crimson, which speaks us that fear is completely overcome and only irritation remains.
Greed
Egoistic greed. Fig. 28 gives us an example of selfish greed - a much lower variety than rice. 21. It should be noted that there is nothing even so sublime as ambition, and the shade of dirty-green testifies that the person in which this unpleasant thought was born is ready to use deception in order to get the subject of his desire. While ambition in Fig. 21 was common, desire for fig. 28 is directed to a specific object to which it stretches; After all, it is necessary to understand that this thought form, like the one that in fig. 13, remains attached to the Astral body, which can be assumed to the left of the drawing. Such thoughtforms can range in color according to the exact amount of envy or jealousy, which is mixed with thirst for possession, but the appearance, very close to the shown in our illustration, will be detected in all cases.
Thirst for drinking. In fig. 29 We have another option of the same feeling, perhaps even greater degradation. Once again, hooked outgrowths show greed, while the color and coarse texture indicate a low and sensual nature of desire. Sexual desires often show themselves in exactly the same manner. As people rise on the evolution scale, the place of this thought form will gradually resemble what is shown in Fig. 13 And very slowly, as it is development, in turn will pass through the steps shown in Fig. 9 and 8, as long as all egoism will not be discarded, and the desire to have transmuts into a desire to give, and we will achieve excellent results shown in Fig. 11 and 10.
Various emotions
With shipwreck. Very serious panic served as the appearance of a very interesting group of thoughtforms, which are shown in Fig. 30. They were seen at the same time, located in the same way as shown. Although their relative positions were preserved among the indescribable disorder, they still will be more appropriate to accept them in reverse order. They were caused by a terrible case, and they are instructive, showing how in different ways there is a sudden and serious danger. One of them does not show anything other than the rash gray-gray fear arising against the background of extreme egoism, and unfortunately, such as this was a lot. The scattered character of the thinking shows the strength and completion of the explosion, which in turn indicates that the whole soul of this person was covered with blind, mad horror, and that the insurmountable sense of personal danger excluded any higher feelings.
The second thought form represents at least the attempt of self-control and shows the ratio learned by a special, having a certain amount of religious feeling. She is looking for consolation in prayer, trying to overcome their fear thus. This is evidenced by the point of a grayish blue, which, hesitating, rises up; Color indicates however, the attempt is successful only in part, and we also see from the bottom of the thought form, with its uneven outlines and falling fragments, which is actually almost as much frightened, as in the previous case. But at least this woman had enough presence of the spirit to remember that she had to pray, and she tries to imagine that she was not so afraid at all, while in another case there was absolutely no thought for selfish horror. One retains the possibility of restoring self-control, the other slave of child emotions.
The striking contrast of weakness shown in these two forms represents the magnificent strength and determination of the third. Here, the eaten is not a formless mass with trembling contours and explosive fragments, and a powerful, clearly defined and definite thought, obviously full strength and determination. Because this is the thought of an officer who is in the service - a person responsible for the life of the security of passengers, he meets the danger of the most satisfactory way. Even the shadow of the fright did not show him - he had no time for it. However, the crimson of the island of his such arms of thoughtophone shows his angry the fact that the accident occurred, the orange bold curve directly speaks of complete self-confidence and conviction in his ability to cope with difficulties. Brilliant yellow makes it clear that his intelligence is already working on a problem, while the green, running nearby, refers to the sympathy that he is experiencing to those whom he intends to save. Very impressive and instructive group of thinking.
At the premiere. Fig. 31 also represents an interesting sample - it is possible unique, since it represents a tolerant form of an actor, waiting for the scene to the scene for the premiere. The wide strip of orange in the center is very clearly defined, and this expression of substantiated self-confidence is the result of many previous success, and a reasonable wait that in this case their list will be replenished with another one. Despite this, there is a fair share of inevitable insecurity in what the impression will produce this new play in the public; And in general, doubt and fear outweigh confidence and pride, since the pale gray is greater than orange, and all the thinking fluctuates like a flag that clams on the stormy vest. It should be noted that while the outlines of orange - excellent clarity, the contours of gray is much foggy.
Players. Forms shown in Fig. 32, was observed simultaneously in a huge gambling house. Both represent some of the worst human passions, and choose between them almost no worth it, despite the fact that they represent the feelings of a successful and unlucky player. The form that from below has a strong similarity with a gloomy shimmering eye, but it should be just a coincidence, since after its analysis we will find that it will not be difficult to understand the value of its parts and colors. The background of all thoughts represents an uneven cloud of deep depression, significantly marked with dim brown and gray color of egoism and the SIZY Tint of Fear. In the center we find a brightly designated bugger ring showing deep anger and indignation to hostile destiny, and within it there is a clearly defined black circle, expressing the hatred of a ruined person to those who won his money. A person who can send such a thought is undoubtedly in an imminent danger, since it is clear that he desisted to such depths of despair, which is not excluded that he will look for imaginary refuge in suicide, only to detect when awakening in astral life, which he only changed Its position on the worst instead of the best, as always happens with suicide, since his action cut off his happiness and peace, which is usually followed by death.
The upper form represents the state of mind, which is perhaps even more harmful in its consequences, since this is the recovery of a lucky player. Here the contours are completely defined, and the decision of a person continue its behavior line undoubtedly. The wide strip of orange in the center shows very clearly, despite the fact that when a person loses, he attributes this to the impermanence of fate, winning, he completely connects this success with his own genius. Perhaps he invented some system on which his faith holds, and which he is unusually proud. But it should be noted that on each side of the orange, the solid line of egoism passes, and we see how it will in turn dissolve into the misfortune and becomes the usual animal greed of possession, which is also very clearly expressed by clawing endings of the thinking.
With a street occurrence. Fig. 33 instructive as showing various formswhich the same feelings can cause different individuals. These two evidence of emotions were seen at the same time among those who observed a street occasion - the case when someone was shot down by a carriage of the crew and received small damage. Both of those who created these thoughtformes with a living interest and deep sympathy reacted to the victim of the incident, and therefore their thoughtforms show exactly the same colors, although their contours are completely unlike. The one who floates the vague spherical cloud, thinks "poor guy, as a pity," while the one who creates this clearly outlined disk, has already rushed forward to see how he can help. One is a dreamer, although with acute sensitivity, the other is a person action.
On funeral. In fig. 34 We have an extremely impressive example of the advantages given by knowledge and fundamental human relationship changes that occurred as a result of a clear understanding of the great laws of nature, manage our lives. Extremely different in all respects in color, form and meaning, these two thoughtforms were seen at the same time, and they represent two points of view regarding the same case. They were observed at the funeral and show feelings caused in the minds of two participants funeral procession thinking about death. Both were associated with the dead of the same relationship, but while one stayed in ignorance relative to superfysical life, the other had the advantages of theosophy. In the thoughts of the first we do not see the expression of something other than the deep depression, fear and egoism. The fact that death moved so closely, clearly called the thought in his mind that one day she could also come to him and anticipating this terribly for him; But since he does not know what is the fact that he is so afraid of, the clouds in which his feeling is manifested, very uncertain. The only of his certain feelings are despair and sense of personal loss, they show themselves as regular bands of brown-gray and lead-gray, while a very curious increase in the lower side, actually descending into the grave and a lifting coffin - the expression of strong selfish The desire to return the deceased in physical life.
A very refreshing will be the transition from this gloomy picture to surprisingly an excellent effect produced by the same circumstances in a man's mind that understands the essence of what happened. It can be noted that these two there was not a single general emotion at all; In the previous case, everything was horror and despondency, while in this case we do not find anything but the highest and beautiful feelings. At the base of the thought form, we discover the full expression of deep sympathy; The light green shows an understanding of the suffering of participants of the funeral and condolences to them, and the strip of deeper green shows the attitude towards the deceased. Deep pink shows love and to the deceased, and to the living, while the upper part, consisting of a cone and stars rising from him, testifies to the feeling that arose when reflected on the end of death - the blue expresses its religious aspect, while Purple shows the idea of \u200b\u200ba noble ideal and the ability to match him, and the golden stars reflect the spiritual aspirations that these reflections cause. A strip of clear yellow, which is visible in the center of this thought form, is very significant as showing the entire attitude of a person based on the intellectual perception of the situation, it also shows the regularity of the color of the colors and the definition of separation lines between them.
Comparison of the two illustrations shown in this picture is of course a very impressive certificate of value of knowledge given theosophical teaching. Undoubtedly, this knowledge eliminates all fear of death and makes life easier, as we understand her goal and her end and realize that death is a completely natural incident in its course, the necessary step in our evolution. There is no gloomy impenetrable abyss behind the grave, but instead of this world of life and light, which can be known to us as clearly, fully and in detail, like this physical world in which we live now. We created darkness and horror for themselves, like children, intimidating themselves with scary stories, and we only need to explore the facts of the phenomenon, and all these artificial clouds will diverge at the time. For us an evil inheritance associated with this, since we inherited all kinds of funeral horrors from our ancestors, and since we are accustomed to them, we do not see their absurdity and monstortion. The ancients were in this regard to the wiser of us, as they did not associate with the death of the body all this filombism of the darkness - partly probably because their method get rid of the body was more rational - a method that is not only infinitely better for the dead man and healthier for living, but Also free from the disgusting assumptions associated with slow extinction. They knew much more about death in those days, and since they knew more, then less mourned.
Meeting a friend. Fig. 35 gives us an example of a good, clearly defined and expressive thinking, where each color is well separated from others. She represents a sense of a person when a meeting with a friend with whom he was solved long. The convex surface of the crescent is closer to thinking, and the two ends are pulled out to the approaching friend, as if trying to hug it. Pink color, naturally, speaks of the experienced love, light green shows the depth of sympathy to it, and pure yellow - the sign of intellectual pleasure with which the creator of this thought is anticipating the revival of delicious memories of the long-lasting day.
Evaluation of the picture. In fig. 36 We have a rather complicated tolerant, representing the admiration of a beautiful painting on a religious topic. Strong pure-yellow notes enthusiastic recognition of the technical skill of a lukey, while all other colors - expressions of various emotions caused in it to study this magnificent artwork. Green shows his sympathy for the central figure of the paintings, deep religious feelings are manifested not only in the wide band of the blue, but also in the circuits of the whole figure, while Purple tells us that the picture caused the viewer to think about a high ideal from the viewer, although would have happening to him for a time. We have here the first example of an interesting class of thoughtforms, numerous examples of which we will find later - those where the light of one color shines through a network of lines of a completely different shade. It should be noted that in this case, numerous wavy lines are raised from the purple mass, which is currently listed, similar to the crushes on the golden plain; It is clear that the high aspirations are not at all vague, but firmly based on intellectual perception of the situation and a clear understanding of the method that they can be implemented.
Let's go back to the problem that was declared before. I have already said that we are still unknown relationships (if they exist at all) between mental health and religious feelings of a particular person. In my opinion, this is one of the two most urgent problems requiring study. The second problem concerns the assessment of the psychiatry itself, all its types. No one can know for sure that psychiatric intervention will have long-term favorable consequences. But we also have no evidence that religion plays a healing or preventive role.
I would like to submit to your court one hypothesis deserving checks. I am convinced that the concept of "religion" is too widely to possess sufficient prognostic force. In fact, the religious feeling is extremely different from different people. In some it is fragmentary, superficial, even routine, others are deep and all-pervading, woven in the vitality itself. Religious feeling differs not only in depth and latitude, but also by maintenance and image of functioning. Indeed, since each person is unique, I am convinced (and spoke about it in one of my works) that the religious sense of personality should also take a unique form (6).
In research purposes it makes sense to choose one important dimension or variable. Measurement that I mean, this is some continuum, on one pole of which is a religious feeling that represents only instrumental or external significance, and on the other - the feeling itself, in itself the basic motive and therefore having internal value. The sense of the second type is primary, it does not subordinate to any other motive. If we can attribute to people some values \u200b\u200bfrom this continuum and identify adequate mental health criteria, then we will be able to find an answer to our question about whether some forms of religious feelings have greater therapeutic and preventive strength than others.
Brevity for the sake of us we will talk about exterior and internal religiosity. My hypothesis is that smaller therapeutic and prophylactic force than the internal one is inherent in external religiosity.
External religiosity. For many people, religion is a habit of or generic invention used for ceremonies for convenience in the family, for personal comfort. It is something necessary for his use, A. not to for sake live. It can be used in a different way: to improve its status, to support self-confidence, to increase income, in order to acquire friends, power or influence. It can be a means of protection against reality, and, above all, can be considered as approval of over my life credo. Such a feeling gives me confidence that God shares my opinion about reality that MS is an idea of \u200b\u200bjustice Identically to his opinion on this. I look at the nature of it from the point of view of my private being. Two pious elderly sisters quarreled each other. One of them strictly said another: "Your problem is, Jane that the Lord is not having gracious to you." The mercy of the Lord, as it seems to be addressed to her, and not to Jane.
One of the hypotheses relating to religious orientation has already received empirical confirmation. External religiosity is positively correlated with racial and ethnic intolerance, which, unfortunately, is so common among people visiting the church (7). I do not see the reasons why the criteria used in the study of religiosity and prejudice cannot be applied to the study of religious orientation in its connection with mental health.
In theological terms, the personality with the external religious orientation is facing God, but not removed from himself. For this reason, religion serves mainly shield for centrality on himself. If Freud was more insulting, he would noted that this type of religiosity resembles neurosis. It represents protection against anxiety. As with a cave person, religious performances provide only personal benefits.
As for motivation, the external religious feeling is not a leading or integral motive. It serves to implement other needs, such as safety, in status, self-esteem. From the point of view of the psychology of development, this is an immature education. Like children in the research of Piaget, a person with such a type of religious orientation has a egocentricistic of the universe. Habit, ritual, family traditions are not subject to critical revaluation and decentralization in his worldview.
If you ask: "But isn't Religion is a source of consolation?", I will answer you like this: "Yes, of course. But then the consolation that it provides, can never be on our conditions - only on her Own. The burden of worries cannot be avoided and consolation comes only with the selfless acceptance of this burden. "
Like all other protection, and as all the other instrumental habits, external religiosity is at risk of destruction if life circumstances become too contradictory. It is for this reason that I put forward the assumption that external religiosity cannot be a long-term therapeutic or prophylactic force, since life can break through the protective fence with its sharp arrows.
Internal religiosity. Our hypothesis involves the following. External religiosity can disrupt mental health, its internal religiosity supports it. Each of us met people who remain calm, despite the internal conflicts, and courageous, despite the brutal blows of fate. We also encountered religious people who, despite the life events that can lead to neurosis, somehow manage to keep control over their mental health, is obviously due to the general, comprehensive and guiding religious motive.
Internal religiosity is not instrumental education. In other words, its basic function is not to cope with fears, to show conformity, to sublimate sexuality or implement desires. Once before, perhaps she was just like that. But now these private needs are minor towards the main motive. Difficulties, conflicts, wines, adversity - all this is managed by a comprehensive commitment. This commitment is partially intellectual, but mainly motivational. It integrally, it covers all the experience and everything that lies outside the experience, it has a place for both scientific facts and emotional events. This is a strong desire to achieve perfect vital unity, which is always determined by the integral concept of the nature of all things.
It is important to note that the concept of internal religiosity has nothing to do with the formal structure of religion. Both types of religious orientation are equally distributed to representatives of all denominations - Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus. For this reason, I am far from the idea that belonging to a particular religious area can be a factor in the risk of mental illness. In my arguments, it's more like that the mental health of the adherent of any confession will depend on what orientation, external or internal, it adheres to.
It should be noted that internal religiousness, in accordance with my hypothesis, cannot exist in order to play a therapeutic or preventive role. Internal religiosity is not a mustard plaster. The suffering can strive only to religion, and not to treatment. If his religion is deeply interior, mental health and calm will be accompanied by her.
I have already mentioned the fact that some religions are inherent in such pathogenic characteristics such as excessive intimidation, superstition, hostile attitude to science or palliative protection. But these pathogenic properties are not laid in the very nature of world religions, rather, these are external, applied attributes that lead to some people from the internal potentials of their faith. If I am not mistaken, the greatest harm, brought by religion, and the main criticism in its address is mainly to these side attributes that are completely disadvantaged in order to form a holistic religious worldview.
- This is the emotional attitude of believers to recognized objective creatures, properties, relations, personnel, places, actions, to each other and to themselves, as well as religiously interpreted individual phenomena in the world and to the world as a whole.
Not all sorts of experience can be considered religious, but only those that are soldered with religious ideas, ideas, myths and by virtue of this acquired the appropriate focus, meaning, and meaning. Arriving, religious feelings become the object of need - gravity to their experiences, to religious-emotional saturation.
With religious performances can be melted and obtaining the appropriate focus, meaning and meaning of a variety of human emotions - fear, love, admiration, reverence, joy, hope, waiting, ram and asthenic, altruistic and egoistic, moral and aesthetic; In this case, "Fear of the Lord", "Love for God", "The feeling of sinfulness, humility, humility", "the joy of God-edition", "Templement of the Icon of Our Lady", "Compassion to the Middle", "The reverence of the beauty and harmony of the created nature" , "Waiting for a miracle", "Hope on otherworldly reward."
It should be noted that the emotional processes of believers from the point of view of their physiological basis and the main psychological content do not contain any specific in themselves. Conventional human feelings are connected with religious beliefs: fear, love, anger, joy, hope, reverence, admiration, etc. In believers, they have the appropriate object-shaped design and meaning, i.e. They are experienced by believers as "fear of the Lord", "Love for God", "Feeling of humility", "feeling of sinfulness", "the joy of communicating with God", "Defeating the Icon of Our Lady", "Compassion to the Middle", "Love for the Middle ,.; Fear before God is more than love, the believer remembers all the time that if he does not fulfill the commandments, God will punish him. In this regard, the American researcher of religion U.James writes: "If we agree to understand the term" religious feeling "as a collective name for those feelings that are generated in different cases with religious objects, we recognize the likelihood that this term does not conclude, In itself, such an element that would have a specific nature from a psychological point of view. There is religious love, religious fear, religious feeling of sublime, religious joy, etc.
But religious love is only a common sense of love, facing a religious object. Religious fear is the usual thrill of the human heart, but associated with the idea of \u200b\u200bDivine Kara "Thus, from this conclusion and points of view of other researchers of religious and psychological phenomena, it can be concluded that the specificity of religious feelings is not in their psychological content, but in their direction , in subjects to which they are directed. As for the objects of religious feelings, they may be of various kinds religious images, ideas and ideas. In the same cases, when religious feelings seem to be aimed at a really existing object, for example, on any person ("saint", "righteous", etc.) or the material subject ("Miraculous Icon "," Holy source ", etc.), they actually are always connected with the object itself as such, but only with the supernatural properties that he supposedly has.
Feelings in the sphere of religion play a crucial, primary role. The problem of the specifics of religious feelings was repeatedly discussed in the overseas psychology of religion. Numerous attempts were made to characterize religious feelings from the point of view of their specific psychological content. Some psychologists following the German Protestant theologian F. Shleiermacher (1768-1834), qualified a religious feeling as a "sense of dependence." Others share the point of view of the German their and philosopher R.hotto on a religious feeling as a specific unity of "sacred horror and admiration" 176. Third (G.Vobbermin) believed that religions are most characteristic of the sense of "security and passionate expectations". Even in the middle of the XX century. The opinions were expressed that "a distinctive feature of a religious feeling is reverence, not fear, love, sorrow or disappointment." A set of feelings and experiences inherent in religious people in various epochs has historically changed. The general trend of changes in the field of religious emotions consisted of displacing negative experiences, primarily fear that prevailed in primitive people, feelings positive: love, reverence, admiration, thanks. Although religious fear remains one of the important components of the experiences of modern believers.
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The first starting point in this matter - peaceful need in religious. In a person, in the very core of His nature, the spontaneous desire to be rooted to be rented superior to his strength, some entity, incomparably more powerful than his own. Perhaps this desire stems from a feeling of fear of the formidable forces of nature, melting in itself a deadly danger. Trying to die the natural elements and thus achieving the establishment of a certain equilibrium between them, the person simultaneously overcomes its own fear. At the same time, various phenomena of nature is attributed to the possession of the reason, the ability to hear and understand people and accept the sacrifice of the gift. So a person meets face to face with some impersonal, but reasonable essence, immeasurably superior to him; With the mysterious something that the ocean waves take up, shakes the earthly subsoil and collapses from heaven an increasing thunderstorm fire, but at the same time is a fertility in the source of life. This power is man and calls God. However, the unified concept of the deity is crushed into a lot of fragments: people see so many gods in the world how much more or less significant for their existence of natural phenomena.
It is difficult to say whether this need for the supreme strength is based on the earliest religious representations, but it is undoubted that even in our time a similar level of religiosity is found quite often. We are talking about the complex of anthropocentric beliefs, designed to expel the human fears, inspire and strengthen the person - the powerless sacrifice of their own weakness. Such a religion is not limited to simple faith in the existence of higher forces, but provides its adherents a set of specific practical measures. psychological protectionThe purpose of which is to ensure the existence of each person a well-known sustainability and safety, understood by egocentrically. Religion of this type offers believers cult As a system of rigidly given norms, guaranteeing a kind of property relationship with Divine. On the other hand, they are imposed morality - A certain code consisting of a system of prohibitions and prescriptions indicating for a good or non-annual image of actions and thoughts.
When a person consistently and strictly performs all the cult and moral establishments of such religion, it feels quite satisfied; Relations with the highest strength ensured durability and stability, and we can assume that "God is in his pocket." Having got rid of the fear of punishment thus expects from the deity of only services and remuneration for righteousness. People belonging to this type Religiousness, often full of self-conceived in terms of their own piety and virtue. But they show the striking severity to the fellows that can not boast, like them, religious and moral impeccability.
Searches for truth
The second source of human judgments about the existence of God are the tireless search for truth, the thirst for knowledge.
Within all famous stories Great civilizations The desire of the human mind to find answers to the main philosophical questions led to the emergence theology - Theology, that is, "reasoning about God." The most characteristic I. perfect example Such a way from philosophy to theology gives us ancient Greece.
For ancient Ellinov, the idea of \u200b\u200bGod was a logical conclusion, consequence of contemplation of nature. Looking at the world around us, we notice that all existing in it is subordinated to a certain pattern and reasonable order. Nothing in nature is neither random nor arbitrary. Thus, we are forced to admit that the origin of the world is the result of a logical sequence: the world exists as a consequence of some particular reason. This root cause, the "peppercip" of the world, and receives the name of God.
We do not possess exact knowledge of what is essentially the root cause of the universe. Nevertheless, by logical reasoning, you can identify some properties that god-priming should have. Thus, the source of his being cannot be in anyone preceding him; Consequently, he is a "cause-in-myself", that is, the cause of the existence of not only the world, but also himself.
Since, thanks to its "self-recognition", the primal principle does not depend on anything else, it should be considered as fully involved in itself, as completely free from any external coercion. Consequently, he is needed by eternal, almighty, infinite. In it, the beginning of that movement, through which the formation of the world is carried out, and which we call time. At the same time, God, being the principle of any movement, itself is absolutely immovable, for there is nothing preceding him that it might lead him into motion. Since it is still, it is not subject to any change, which means that there is an impassive and absolutely blessing.
All these conclusions, as well as many others that we could withdraw through logical reasoning, do not bring us at all bring us to the knowledge of God; They just forcing our mind to admit as a kind of reality, the hypothesis about the existence of God. So, for example, if we were traveled through the desert and in her heart very much I would suddenly stumble upon the house standing among the sands, they would have to recognize that someone would have built it, because at home in the deserts themselves, as you know, do not arise. But who exactly built this house remains a mystery. Of course, we are able, based on the features of the construction, make some conclusions about individual qualities or distinctive features Builder - for example, does it have a taste whether it is capable of harmoniously distribute the volume of the building. We can also determine what purpose he intended his creation. But his personality will remain unknown for us. If we do not bring to meet him face to face, we will never know him so much. Although the builder undoubtedly exists, direct knowledge it is completely unavailable.
Personal attitude
The third most important source of God's idea is powered by a unique historical tradition - the tradition of the Jewish people.
Jews begin to talk about God in connection with a specific historical event; Approximately a thousand nine hundred and years before the start of Christian Churching in the country of Haldeev ( south part Mesopotamia, not far from the shores of the Persian Gulf) God reveals himself a specific person named Abraham. Abraham meets face to face with God as with a person, as we meet with the human being, with which you can talk directly to communicate. God calls Abraham to leave his country and move to Canaan, the land intended for the descendants of Abraham and his wife Sarra, before that time is fruitless.
The knowledge of God, arising from the Personal Meeting with Him Abraham, has nothing to do with speculative hypothesis, deductive arguments and logical evidence. In this case, we are talking about personal experience, about that faith - trust, which is born between two people close to each other. God is Abraham through the irrelevant loyalty to his promises; Abraham, in turn, hesifies himself in the hands of God to such an extent that she is ready to sacrifice the son, born, finally, Sarah in old age, - a son through which divine promises should be used.
Isaac and Jacob, the son and grandson of Abraham, acquire an equally direct knowledge of God in the experience of direct personal communication with him. Thus, for the descendants of this family, the ancestor of the people of Israel - God is neither an abstract concept nor an impersonal force. When the Jewish tradition speaks about God, we are talking about the "God of our fathers", "God Abraham, Isaac and James" - a particular person with which the forefathers could talk directly to communicate. Consequently, the knowledge of God is based on the faith - confidence in the experience of ancestors, on the reliability of their personal testimony.
Choosing a goal and path
The three sources considered by us do not belong to the past exclusively. They remain real opportunity Selection regardless of time and place in which this choice is carried out. There are always people who accept the existence of God is not because they cares about its truth, or they are worried about such an assumption of a speculative problem. Simply, these people experience a psychological need to intimidate any "transcendental" strength, the need to gain confidence in the face of unknownness, as well as the need to establish and maintain moral order in the world.
At the same time, there are always people who take the existence of God only inspired, because they are forced to the logic of reasoning. They believe in what is called the "highest mind", the "Supreme Being", which is the principle of the emergence and existence of all things. They are not given to know - yes they are not too much to see, in truth, - what is this "highest mind" and "Supreme Being". Even when they connect their simple reasonable confidence in the existence of God with the following religious practice - religious and moral regulations adopted in their social environment - even then their attitude towards the secret of the Divine was noted by the deepest agnosticism, satisfying only the most common and abstract idea of \u200b\u200bthe "Supreme Being "
Finally, there is a third way to attribute to the problem of God: Faith-trust in historical experience Revelation. "Children of Abrahamov", the people of Israel, for centuries keep unshakable confidence in the truth of God, based on the emotional and not on logical factors, but on simple conviction in the reliability of the planic experience. God is herself through the intervention in the course of historical events; He confirms his presence in the world as part of a revelation, which always has a personal relationship with one or another person. He is Moses and speaks with him
"Face to face, as if he said who is with his friend"
"Face to face, as if he said who is with his friend"
(Ex. 33, 11). He encourages the prophets to remind the people of Israel about the prisoner of the Union, to whom God himself keeps unrealistic loyalty.
Those who confidence belong to the historical experience of ancestors against Divine Revelation, no longer makes great efforts to take, for their part, the new phenomenon of the Divine in human life, this time "in the flesh", represented by Jesus Christ. Indeed, for rationalistic thinking, the concept of "deity" and "embodiment" are mutually exclusive: how God, by the very nature of his infinite, unlimited, almighty, etc., can be embodied in a separate person, in this final, imperfect, limited in time And the space of the exodium of being? Therefore, for Ellinov, even late era, the era of Christ, the proclamation of the "divine incarnation" - truly "madness" (1 Kop. 1, 23).
Nevertheless, to accept or deny this "madness", it is necessary to answer first to several fundamental issues defining in the most general features The meaning and content that we invest in our lives are whether the world works under the laws of formal logic? Is its existence specified in the categories of the human mind? Or the essence of things can not find a complete expression in any pre-design schemes and reasonable buildings, and therefore to really know her, we need direct live experience? Which possesses a genuine being - only the fact that we perceive the senses; What comes confirmation from our mind? Or there are such reality that we learn through the experience of a personal relationship, most directly and at the same time most comprehensive; The relationship, by virtue of which we are able, for example, perceive the meaning of the poem hidden behind the direct value of words? If we are able to understand the language of characters, feel the unique uniqueness of every human person, catch the deep meaning of the statements of modern physics about the "four-dimensional continuum" or the dual nature of the light - do not we know all this by the same direct relationship?
All these questions deserve a long study and detailed analysis, but as a result, we would be too far away from the main topic that occupies us at the moment. First of all, we must clarify the means and the paths that we use in order to talk about God's knowledge. If we are interested in the abstract concept of a deity, which is the result of a logical conclusion, then in the process of in-depth study of this concept, it is necessary to follow the laws of human thinking. If we strive to get closer to the god of psychology and religious feeling, it is necessary to cultivate certain mental properties and religious experiences that open access to this type of knowledge. Finally, in the event that we want to gain the knowledge of the god of the Judeo-Christian tradition, our way is the path of personal experience and relationship, the path of faith. Make a lot between one or another by the sciencenicness, mixing various types of its views, - a faithful way to get down from the road and be in a dead end.
VERA
In the consciousness of most modern people, the word "faith" has a completely specific meaning: to believe - it means to undertake to take any principles and provisions, to join this or that system of views is essentially unoccupied. To say "I believe it" - in fact, it means that I agree with this statement, even if I do not understand it. I tend to the authority - not necessarily religious, he "may have a different nature - say, ideological or political. In general, under the word "faith" with equal success can be understood as a religious belief, and any ideological doctrine or unconditional devotion of their political party. Thus, many tend to perceive this duty word with an uncertain circle of values \u200b\u200bas something sacred and expresses the very essence of metaphysics, while in the above cases it only focuses on the basic principle of all totalitarian thinking: "Take the faith and not asking questions! "
It is necessary to say that such an understanding of faith has nothing to do with the meaning that this word received in the Judeo-Christian tradition. For Jews and Christians, "Vera" expresses not the concept that the militant ideologues are trying to attribute to her, but it is rather something like a "loan", in the sense, in what else today is a loan in business circles today.
In fact, when we say that such a businessman enjoys a loan, then you mean that this person inspires his companions confidence. He all knows: they know his way and the style of doing business, its sequence in the fulfillment of obligations assumed. If one day it will suddenly need financial assistance, there will always be people who are ready to provide him with a loan, and at the same time may not even require receipts from it, as they will find a sufficient guarantee of the word and the identity of a business person with a flawless reputation.
It was always such an understanding of faith that existed in the field of commerce and entrepreneurship, always lived in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The object of faith in this case is not a set of abstract ideas at all, the source of the reliability of which is in someone's irreclined authority. The facility is people; Live and specific human personalities, causing our trust in the extent, because it is based on our direct experience of communicating with them.
We will express it even more definitely: if we believe in God, then the reason for this is not the fact that we are forced to faith any speculative judgment, and not that some particular institution gives us undeniable guarantees of the existence of a deity. We believe in it because his personality, his personal existence causes us a sense of trust. The acts of God, his "manifestations" in human history make us strive to communicate with him.
Of course, the attitude lies at the base of faith can be both direct and indirect - just as this happens in our relations with people. I believe such a person, I completely trust him, because I know him well, I communicate with him. But sometimes I feel no less confidence and to a person personally not familiar to me, because people who I rely entirely, can witness his impeccable decency. I am equally able to treat an artist or a writer who has never seen, but whose works inspire me to be faith in his human advantages and admiration for his personality.
So, there are different levels of faith; We can move from the faith of superficial to faith deeper and more unconditional. This movement does not know the end point. When sometimes it seems to us that we have already reached high limits Faith, she suddenly for us increases even more or suddenly dying, disappears without a trace. What is faith, as not a dynamic and continuous desire for "unattainable perfection"? In general, the life of faith can be imagined as: it begins with confidence in doball name Human, strengthened and grows as closest acquaintance with his affairs and actions and, finally, turns into confidence in a personal meeting, direct communication and establishing direct human relations. Covering all our being, faith becomes complete self-dedication. When love arises between people and the irrepressible desire for unity, then what was at the beginning of no more than confidence-looking sympathy is transformed into a sense of selfless self-sacrifice. In genuine love burning than stronger man Loves, the closer learns the other, the more he believes him and gives love. Faith born in real love is inexhaustible; She supports in a loving state of enthusiastic surprise all new and new discoveries in a loved one. Vera is an eternal gust, the unfortunate thirst for mergering personality with a person.
All of the above can be attributed to the religious faith. It begins with a simple trust in the testimony of those who lived God who lived in unity with him and awarded the vision of his face of people - with confidence in the testimony of the forefathers, the saints, the prophets, the apostles. Then faith increases, discovering the Divine Love, manifested in his creation, his action in human history, his word, entering us into the kingdom of truth. Gradually, we feel that the relationship between our personality and God is becoming more closely. His irrelevant beauty and dazzling light of his glory are increasingly apparent for spiritual vision. Divine Eros, born in the shower transforms our faith
"From glory to glory"
"From glory to glory"
(2 Cor. 3, 18), gives us a feeling of incredit amazement before the secrets of revelation, beyond the time.
At any stage, any step of its development faith remains with the birth, the experience of a personal relationship. As far from this path from a simple consent of intelligence with logical conclusions, from the path of "objective" knowledge! In search of the biblical god, God of the Church, we must follow the appropriate to our aspirations by faith. Evidence of the existence of God, "objective" arguments of apologetics, confirmation of the historical authenticity of the sources of the Christian tradition - all this can play an important supporting role in awaken in us the need for religious faith. But by themselves such things are not able to replace faith or lead to her.
When the church calls us to accept the truth stored by it, we are not talking about the theoretical provisions with which we must agree a priori, without any reasoning. What we offer is a personal attitude, this defined image Life based on personal communications with God or consistently leading to the establishment of such a livelihood. As a result of changing the very modus She ceases to be an individualistic struggle for the "place under the sun" and acquires the highest meaning in communicating, in involvement to other Being. The church is body communication memberswhich is not living for the sake of themselves, but in the inseparal unity of love with other members of the same body and its head. - Christ. Believe in the truth of the church means becoming an integral part of the forming church "Ultrasound of Love"; It is entirely to surrender to the love of God and the Saints, which, in turn, take me with the same confidence.
So, we come to God not through a certain image of thoughts, but through a certain way of life. Any natural process of growth and ripening always represents nothing more than a lifestyle. How does our affection for the Father and Mother arise? From birth, with breastfeeding, from the first sensation of parental caresses and worries before the informed acceptance of their love in the soul of a child, the faith in the father and mother will be imperceptible. Love, binding parents and child, do not need logical arguments nor any other guarantees. Only when this connection is undermined, there is a need for evidence, and then the arguments of the reason are listens to replace the life reality.
Noting the general moments, peculiar to religions and art, it is impossible not to say about the special role of emotional processes in these forms of public consciousness. Both aesthetic and religious attitude towards myth, it is necessary to include certain feelings and experiences. In this case, the general is not only the presence of emotional processes, without which neither art or religion is impossible, but some psychological mechanisms their flows.
Aristotle noted that the person present in the performance of the ancient Greek tragedy in the theater is experiencing a complex set of experiences, which Greek philosopher laid the term "catharsis" (literally "cleansing"). Sometimes there were no heavy and tragic events about which in the tragedy, the viewer ultimately experiences a kind of emotional discharge, accompanied by feelings of enlightenment, liberation. As a result, the catharsis is contradictory, sometimes heavy, painful experiences, according to the expression of the Soviet psychologist L.S. Vygotsky, as if finding their discharge and "short-circuit". This mechanism for the flow of aesthetic feelings is peculiar not only to people who perceive the tragedy in the theater. If there are identity in each individual case, catharsis is typical in general for aesthetic experiences that are present as in the artistic process. Creativity and act of perception of works of art.
Religious experiences experienced by believers in the process of collective "or individual prayer, to a certain extent similar to catharsis. Prayer from the point of view of emotionally psychological is a means of" withdrawing "negative experiences with the help of emotional discharge. The believer appeals to God in the hope that the latter will deliver Its from suffering and failures, will satisfy the plea and desire. And since he believes in the reality of God and his omnipotence, then prayer brings him psychological relief and consolation. We should not only forget that psychological relief, which gives prayer and religion in general, in essence Cases, is self-deception. It is based on false prerequisites, on faith in the reality of the supernatural, God. Instead of directing the energy and will of a person to change the conditions of his life, on the true decision of his problems and difficulties, religious faith draws all his thoughts and hopes in The side of the divine fishery, i.e. it is circumscribed by passivity, Submortion and humility.
The similarity between aesthetic and religious feelings affects basically the form of emotional processes. As for their content, their focus, there are indigenous, fundamental differences between the aesthetic and religious experiences.
Aesthetic feelings are aimed at real objects: the phenomena of nature, objects of labor and everyday help, people, finally, works of art - paintings, statues, novels, poems, poems, movies, etc. In all these cases, aesthetic feeling occurs in the process of aesthetic development Man of the objective world. And contributes to the deeper knowledge of objective peace, people, human relationships and characters.
Religious experience has a different content, other orientation. Religious feelings are always aimed at supernatural, i.e., illusory, really not existing objects: God, spirit, etc. In some cases, the object of religious feelings can be a real object or person (for example, "miraculous icon" or "saint" At the Orthodox, Roman dad in Catholics, etc.). But at the same time, religious feelings are aimed at the supernatural properties of this object (the ability to "create wonders") either for his connection with supernatural, God. Thus, and here the immediate object of religious feelings is illusant. Therefore, the feelings associated with faith in the supernatural, Directed, in fact, into the emptiness, are a barren spending of the mental and physical energy of people. Aesthetic feelings tear the person, develop its horizons, enrich it spiritual world. The religious feelings, on the contrary, are detaining a person, distract him from reality, lead to the world of illusions, i.e., impede its social activity, his creative creative activity.
