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05. ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY (1)

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Is  psychology more practical than spirituality? Nothing is more practical than spirituality. What can the poor psychologist do? He can only relieve the pressure. I'm a psychologist myself, and I practice psychotherapy, but you know I have this great conflict within me when I have to choose sometimes between psychology and spirituality. I wonder if that makes sense to anybody here. It didn't make sense to me for many years.

All right, I'll explain that. I'll explain that. You know, it didn't make sense to me for many years until I suddenly discovered that people have to suffer enough emotionally before they’re ready to wake up; and what I was doing as a psycchotherapist was easing the suffering. People have to suffer enough in a relationship so that they get disillusioned with all relationships. Isn't that a terrible thing to think? They've got to suffer enough in a relationship before they wake up and say, "I'm sick of it! There must be another way of living than depending on another human being." And what was I doing as a psychotherapist? They were coming to me with their relationship problems, with their communication problems, etc., and sometimes that was a help. And sometimes, I'm sorry to say, it wasn't, because it kept them asleep. Maybe they should suffered a little more. Maybe they ought to touch rock bottom before they say, "I'm sick of it all. " It's only when you're sick of your sickness that you'll get out of it. Most people, they go to a psychiatrist or a psychologist to get relief. To get belief.

Now's the story of little Johnny who was mentelly... they said he was mentally retarded. The poor kid. But evidently he wasn't, as you'll learn from this story I’m going to tell you. Because he goes to modeling class in his school for special children and he gets clastocin (? piece of putty) and he's modeling it. He takes a little lump of clastocin and goes to a corner of the room and he's playing with it. So the teacher goes up to him and says, "Hi, Johnny." And Johnny says, "Hi." And she says, "What's you've got in your hand?" And Johnny says, "This is a lump of cow dung." She says "What are you making out of it?" He says, "I'm making a teacher."

The teacher thought, "Little Johnny has regressed." She saw the principal, who was passing by the corridor, and she says, "Johnny has regressed."

So the principal goes up to Johnny and says, "Hi, son." And Johnny says, "Hi." "What do you have in your hand?" And he says, "A lump of cow dung." "So what are you making out of it?" And he says, "A principal."

Well, the principal thinks that this is a case for the school psychologist. "Send for the psychologist!"

The psychologist is a clever guy. He goes up and says, "Hi." And Johnny says, "Hi." He says, "I know what you've got in your hand." "What?" "A lump cow dung." He says "Right." "And I know what you're making out of it." "What?" "You're making a psychologist." "No. Not enough cow dung!" And they called him mentally retarded!