Forbidden psychology and its eight taboos: a conversation about soul, psyche, and the new physics

Prof. Jerry Kroth in “Forbidden psychology and its eight taboos,” discusses psyche, soul, and the new physics. Contemporary academic psychology is rooted in a paradigm deriving from the reductionistic Newtonian, clockwork universe that physics unwound over a century ago, but psychology remains obdurate in following this model well into the twenty-first century. The idea that the soul is to be reduced to the mind, the mind to the brain, the brain to neurological dribbles—and that all human psychological behavior ultimately reduces to neuroscience—has rarely been critically evaluated within the profession. Dr. Kroth discusses eight major taboos that fly in the face of these prejudices: near death experiences, psychic dreams, telepathy, synchronicity, premonitions, creative possession, archetypes, and xenoglossy. Such anomalies of psychology are then compared to the mysteries of the “new physics:” observer-created reality, entanglement, nonlocality, quantum teleportation, Schrodinger’s cat and the EPR paradox. How physics handled its contradictory data—that is, with openness and full disclosure—is a far cry from how academic psychology’s orthodoxy of ‘fundamentalist materialism’ views contradictions of its own ossified paradigm.