SCIENTIFIC FACE OF NEW AGE - MODERN PSYCHOLOGY IN THE IMAGE OF NEW AGE RELIGION. MIRACLES OF GOD ARE REJECTED AND MIRACLES OF DEVIL ARE ACCEPTED. Many of the contemporary manifestations of psychology are extremely dangerous to the spiritual development of man, and will bring him under the slavery of demonic spirits. Psychology is not a science but a faith system. Psychology pretends to be science. Psychology is an anti-god, anti-biblical and anti-Christian religion. Atheism and evolution do form the basis for the religion of psychology. Major psychologists were atheists. Psychology is a dangerous branch of the New Age religion. Psychology is more dangerous, and less beneficial. It is time for the wise to take the wisest and the safest position.

PSYCHOLOGY IS NOT A SCIENCE BUT A FAITH SYSTEM. There is a growing fascination towards psychology today. Some come to it for knowing oneself, some to solve some problems and yet others extend one’s own potentialities etc. But the fact is that many of the contemporary manifestations of psychology are extremely dangerous to the spiritual development of man, and will bring him under the slavery of demonic spirits.

DEFINITION OF SCIENCE. Science is the systematic knowledge about the material world acquired through: observation of the phenomena, collection of data, developing a theory by inductive reasoning, and testing and proving the theory through verifiable experiments. It should be noted that science can provide ONLY PROBABILITY, NOT CERTAINTY or tested and proved universals. Certainty comes only with FAITH.

PSYCHOLOGISTS DISAGREE ON BASIC ISSUES. Unlimited fragmentation of opinions amounting to be mutually contradictory existing in the field discounts its credibility. There are NUMEROUS APPROACHES IN PSYCHOLOGY OF WHICH SOME ARE EVEN CONTRADICTORY. Previous claims of scientific findings were contradicted and discredited by later findings. Such doubletalk proves that some become fools by claiming to be wise (Rom 1:22). Using many remedies for a disease is the evidence that they do not know much about the disease. They do not have a uniform definition of mind. Nobody has X-rayed or scanned mind or soul.  Hence PSYCHOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF SOMETHING THAT CANNOT BE DEFINED (HUMAN MIND). Hence psychology is not a science.

PSYCHOLGY IS NOT A SCIENCE. Psychology claims to deal with the MIND AND HEART OF MAN. By claiming to be a science it attempts to put the complex scope and dimensions of the heart and mind of man into certain principles of psychology. They are trying to push the camel through the needle hole of psychology. By the very nature of its claims it ceases to be a science. Moreover, it claims to solve problems which even if it were science would not be able to solve. Psychological theories CANNOT BE SUBJECTED TO SCIENTIFIC VERIFICATION with rational impartiality. Psychoanalytic theories have assumptions and preconceptions which do not allow for repetition of observation. Human behavior cannot be studied in a strict scientific manner. Because each person is unique his response to events and situations cannot be predicted accurately using the scientific method. Many of the psychological theories like Oedipus complex, id, ego, superego etc cannot be scientifically tested and verified. Emotions, unconscious motivations, beliefs, values, hope, love, faith etc cannot be measured and tested. What is involved in psychology is interaction between free wills and their SUBJECTIVE INTERPRETATION by the researchers. In psychology it is not possible to have consistent, objective, verifiable interaction of chemicals in the controlled situations of the laboratory. Hence psychology is not a science.

PSYCHOLOGY IS NOT EMPIRICAL. The psychological functions cannot be controlled and studied through experimentation to determine their causes. The claim that the complex human mind can be studied and understood fully in laboratory was nothing but reductionism. Satisfactory explanation, predictability and control over psychological events are not possible. Operationalization of the results of experiments with repeatability is also lacking in it. It also lacks objectivity. The so-called SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY attempted to apply the canons of natural science such as – reductionism, experimentation, explanation, operationalization, quantification and objectivity. This positivistic orientation of psychology is manifested in BEHAVIORISM. They tried to study man based on the observable human behavior – understanding human behavior from the movement of muscles measured by instruments. But applying a method that was developed to apply to the non-human and physical aspects of nature to the mental and spiritual aspects of man was highly REDUCTIONISTIC. The person in a case can easily COUNTER MANIPULATE and stand beside the framework developed by the researchers. The PREDICTABILITY of the experimental findings of psychology is very limited. Thus psychology is not a science.

PSYCHOLOGY PRETENDS TO BE SCIENCE. By the CLEVER USE OF STATISTICS it is possible for anyone to create the illusion that their research is scientific. When mathematical figures are attached to statements people generally think that what is said is scientific and trustworthy. But often times this can be deceptive. They try to promote the alleged scientific nature of their profession by USING SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RHETORIC. Terms often used for impressing the public include: clinical research, statistical indications, diagnosis, treatment, patients, cure, therapy, identity crisis, self-actualization, Oedipus complex, paranoia, schizophrenia, transference, sublimation, coprolalia, buffoonery psychosis, ergasiomania, etc. As the PSYCHIATRISTS ARE MEDICAL DOCTORS people are UNABLE TO DOUBT.  Not only the common people but even the media people also become impressive by the psychological labels and render infallibility status to the so called ‘scientific’ findings of psychotherapists. People have come to have unwarranted confidence in those who claim to be experts (Ed Burkley, Why Christians can’t Trust Psychology, Harvest House publishers, Oregon, 1993. pp55-56). Psychological studies are conducted on a small group of people and then the researchers make their subjective interpretation of the data and apply, impose and project the result upon the whole people. Thus, the fallacy of hasty generalization is committed. JUST AS THE FALSE SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION HAS SUCCEEDED IN MAKING THE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IT IS REAL SCIENCE, psychology also is doing the same thing by the pseudo-scientific rhetoric of many in the profession. Specialization is really narrowing down the truth view of the scientists to the extent of being blind to truth as a whole. They are losing sight of the totality. Thus, psychology is not a science.

PSYCHOLOGY PARROTING NATURAL SCIENCES. Natural sciences claimed to understand and control inanimate objects and non-human organisms. Psychology borrowed the methods of natural sciences and claimed that it can understand and control humans completely. With the HELP OF PHYSIOLOGY, psychology got separated from philosophy and was recognized as a natural science. There is FALSE DIAGNOSIS. Psychologists falsely conclude that alcoholism, drug abuse, violence mental illness etc are due to lack of self-love or self-esteem.

SCIENTIFICALIZING AND MEDICALIZING THE PSYCHOLOGY RELIGION. Mesmer made PSYCHOTHERAPY A MODERN MEDICAL TECHNIQUE. Freud and Jung developed on it. With lot of SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL METAPHORS AND RHETORIC the high priests of psychotherapy hailed it as a panacea for all the ills of mankind. There have been HUNDREDS of schools of thought in the battleground of psychotherapy all claiming to be scientific, OFTEN CONTRADICTORY, BUT ALWAYS DISAGREEING. When they disagree who will arbitrate who is right or wrong? They ALL CAN BE WRONG. Their claims to be scientific are actually reductionistic and contradictory. Because, on the one hand they claim man has infinite potentialities inherent in him. Though not infinite, the mind of man is so complex to subject it to any valid scientific verification through laboratory experiments. The thought and environmental variations to which man is subject to are so vast that it is difficult to subject them to any systematic verification. Thus the functioning of human mind is BEYOND THE SCOPE OF SCIENCE. Thus psychology is not a science.