Higher power

Higher powers are the powers of the magical world, that which is higher (stronger) than ordinary earthly (physical and social) laws and regulations and to which earthly life invisibly obeys. Higher forces distribute Destinations to people, insert a Mission, prepare Lessons for a person, arrange Retribution, create obstacles and leave Signs in life that only a person who is attentive to them or an initiate can see.

Alternatively, the Higher powers talk to us through our feelings and intuition. If we felt something without justification, we either have stupidity and glitches, or our intuition whispers something to us. “A person really does not want to get on a plane (provided that there is no phobia and this usually does not happen!), But you really need to fly. He gritting his teeth still remains on the ground, and later finds out that the plane is crashing.

Belief in the Higher Powers is typical for people with an irrational picture of the world, and first of all, these are children and people of primitive cultures. Among adults of Western civilization, belief in the Higher powers is more common among women and less often among men; it increases closer to old age and in situations where death is near. Like any faith, faith in the Higher Powers is largely rooted in family upbringing and is often broadcast through literature of religious or mystical content.

Higher powers are not always bad. Parents for a child are also Higher powers, but they tell him that it’s time to get up, they cook breakfast for him, take care of him, protect him from the terrible neighbor’s dog and send him to school. These are the Higher forces that raise him as a future adult, help him grow up. But if parents, as the Higher powers, form a feeling of weakness in the child, accustom him to the fact that he himself cannot do his own homework, cook breakfast, or stroke the u.e.shki, develop in him a feeling of dependence: “Mom, don’t leave, I’m scared without you!”, such Higher powers stand in the way of the formation of a healthy and independent personality. Such a child will grow into an infantile, a man-child.

Remember who the infantiles are: these are adults with childish self-awareness. This is a man who cannot lift himself off the couch, because it is very difficult and above him. This is a girl who can not decide to go to the dentist, because it is terribly scary, because it can be painful. These are students who do not study anything during the semester, hoping that some miracle will happen during the session and they will be lucky … And if they are not lucky, then you can get upset, cry, then you will be pitied — and everything is fine again. You can even eat cake. These are infantiles.

What Higher Forces are widespread in today’s practical psychology?

• The unconscious is bigger and stronger than our tiny consciousness. How our unconscious is friends with us, read Freud … No, not friends.
• If you go against your own desires, you will get the hardest internal conflict and inevitably lose. You are small, you will lose.
• Whatever your feelings are, they must be accepted, otherwise you will not be able to do anything with them. If your feelings lead you to death, you will go to death.
• Love is a great mysterious force that cannot be avoided and with which nothing can be done. And don’t you dare think.
• Everyone has his Destiny. The one who is friends with her, Fate leads, and drags all the others.
• Nothing in our life happens just like that: the world gives it to you for some reason. If you guess — well done, if you don’t guess — it’s worse for you.
• Be attentive to the signs of Peace. Going against the signs is like writing against the wind.
• Only by guessing and finding your Destiny (what the Higher powers have conceived you for), you can find your happiness. Believe and hope. Some are lucky. (see I’m small, the world is big)

If the Higher Powers tell a person that he can handle it, he will be able to — these are the Higher Powers supporting the person. With their authority, they raise my self-esteem, give me confidence, make me go forward and not lose heart in front of obstacles. And for a mass personality, for a person who is not strong, probably, faith in such Higher powers is good. “The universe is friendly”, “Our unconscious takes care of us”, “Love will suddenly come / When you don’t expect it at all / And every evening will immediately become / So amazingly good, and you will sing …”, “A person who feels his Destiny will cope with any difficulties” — all these attitudes and suggestions about the Higher powers can someday carry a completely positive content. However, we must not forget about something else: all these attitudes, so common in modern practical psychology and psychotherapy, are the consequences of a betrayal of the scientific position. These are consequences of the fact that practical psychology has not yet decided to orient itself towards science.

Science, like a good mother, protects us from mistakes. Science, like a demanding dad, makes us think about what we say and do. We need science just as each of us needs childhood. An adult, developed, wise person can go beyond the limits of scientificity, he will use his freedom from scientificity for good. He, advising an insecure child, will come up with something completely unscientific, but the child will flourish and straighten his shoulders from this. Everything is possible for a great specialist, a conscious master. Is everything possible for everyone else?

No. All the rest are shown only scientific.

Higher powers and the supernatural

Higher powers are often referred to as supernatural powers. When an inexperienced person sees an unusual phenomenon, he is usually unable to explain how this is possible. Here we admired, reading S. Holmes, how he could dissect the completely incomprehensible, and after “elementary, Watson”, all that remained was to smile. This is what most often happens with the supernatural. For clues to the supernatural, see →