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Why Psychology Damages You As A Person | Father Moses | YouTubeToText
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Hello friends of the interwebs.
I have presented to you this
state-of-the-art graph to break down the
problems with psychology and the answers
in holy orthodoxy. We are going to
answer these four questions in order to
understand what is fatally broken about
psychology and why if you follow it on a
long enough timeline, a person generally
speaking can actually become much worse
than they previously were. So let's talk
about the basics of how we understand
the human person in psychology versus
holy orthodoxy. Your center, what is the
core of yourself that is broken, that is
damaged, that needs to be repaired, that
needs to come together? In psychology,
the center of your person is your mind,
particularly the realm of thoughts and
how you've processed your past and
memories. This is why, and I've seen
this so many times, somebody will go to
psychology for something that's
traumatizing that happened in their
youth, and they'll begin to replay it to
the psychologist over and over and begin
to talk about it. In fact, I've had
people tell me, "I actually came out of
it more damage because I continued to
relive my past traumas through having to
continually speak about it." What are
the problems with the mind? Well, the
mind is gifted at solving problems. It's
gifted at math and driving and making
decisions based on analysis, right? It's
strategic. It has a purpose and a place,
but it's not the core. It's not the
center of our being. What are the
downsides and some of the fatal flaws of
the mind? Well, the mind can hold on to
memories much, much longer than is
healthy or normal for you to process
them. What else is the mind? Well, as
we've spoken in numerous videos, the
mind is susceptible to demonic
influence. You can have logus mi, which
are intrusive thoughts that come to you
from the demons. And sometimes those
logus mi have been been coming for so
many years. It's actually trained the
way that you think and you begin to
accept these thoughts as your own. Is
the mind bad? No, the mind is not bad.
It's in some sense not really per se
good although it has a good purpose but
it is not healthy and helpful to see the
center of your being in the mind. That
is not where we truly reside. This is a
more recent and abstract understanding.
This is not how people historically even
thought of themselves. Why? Because
every person has a heart.
Now we use this language
that the holy fathers use noose
noose. The noose is the eye of the soul
but it's the center of man's being and
it's and it's in his heart. There's some
strong correlation between the actual
physical heart and the knowetic heart.
This is why uh ancient practitioners of
prayer would focus their attention in
the area of the heart. Man is
psychosomatic. He is soul and body knit
together. And so it is that when we talk
about our center of our being,
everything is within our souls because
this is where we communicate and
encounter God. Man is not a kind of
two-dimensional worldly being. Man is
kind of like a sixthdimensional being
that can encounter the divine God. He
can actually have God dwelling within
him. God can dwell within the soul of a
human being.
So what does Christ say in the gospels?
He says, "Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God."
Many times when someone's heart, their
noose becomes darkened and blackened
with sin, the holy fathers of the church
tell us this this darkened noose
actually prevents them from seeing God.
It gives them a distorted view of God.
They're unable to communicate with God
because everything about God looks
distorted through the heart that has
been distorted and corrupted with sin.
And so it's not just the heart is good
or in this way. It's simply the fact
that the way that we were created was
for this interaction between the human
and the divine that we were meant to
make contact like you know kind of like
a satellite. You know we were supposed
to catch the the beams that were coming
from God. We were supposed to be able to
transmit back to him. The soul is in
this way this fantastic or has this
fantastic component that is able to
communicate in a way that is kind of
otherworldly. Hello friends, thank you
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But so what is your purpose? Well, in
psychology, the purpose is to kind of
reconcile the mind.
It is to make peace with your thoughts
or make peace with yourself. It is a way
of trying to get your mind
better acclimated to the world. This is
why we have a lot of talk therapy these
days where people can talk through their
problems and thinking that they can do
this in order to make peace with things
or this is even the reason why we such a
we see such a huge explosion of people
uh investing so much time and energy
into psychedelics. This idea that they
can open up or expand portions of their
mind and then in that way they can come
to peace with something or come to terms
with a problem. But everything is very
much up here. this is kind of broken and
we've kind of got to try to fix it in
some way and it's very distorted. It's
very distorted because the goals are to
become peaceful with what is the
problem. And and the thing is is that
isn't really man's goal at all. So the
purpose in orthodoxy
your heart.
What do we mean by that? Well, out of
the heart flows every temptation.
So, our desire to do something that we
should not be doing, it may start in our
head and in our mind, but as we begin to
accept the thought, it begins to travel
down into our heart. We begin to desire
it or crave it or long for it. It
becomes something that becomes a part of
us. Our desires are what the fathers
call passions or sins or the
inclinations towards things that are not
what God wants us to do and more
importantly not who God wants us to be.
Everything within our life as an
orthodox Christian is becoming into the
image of God. We were created in his
image but then we grow into his
likeness. And let me give you an
example. If you see one of my children
and you look at their face, you know who
their father is. They're made in my
image. But they're children. They have
to grow up. The question becomes, will
they become into my likeness? Will they
adopt my values, my character, my
lifestyle, the service, all of these
different things? Because if they're
just made in my image, but they don't
grow into my likeness, we become
distorted and separated.
See, we have to purify our heart. And
that's why when people say, "Well, I
just listen to my heart or my heart
guides me." Most of that is nonsense.
It's just emotions or fleeting thoughts
or other things. It's not that they have
really tapped in to the depths of their
soul and thereby encountered God. In the
true sense of Christian spirituality,
Orthodox spirituality, we see that the
heart first has to become purified by sin.
sin.
Somebody asked one of the church
fathers, "How do I see God's unccreated
glory?" And he said, "It's two steps,
very simple." He said, "The first step
is keep the commandments."
He said, "That will teach you about the
second step." See, we have to be
striving to acquire this purity within
ourselves that transcends merely not
just activities but in the depths of our
core actually hating the evil and loving
the good and the good being God himself.
So what is your goal within psychology? Well,
Well,
in a short way, the goal is just to kind
of create this happy life based on
however you define happiness. There is
nothing objective in psychology. There
is no objective morality or even
lifestyle. There is nothing that is a
greater purpose than you yourself which
creates a narcissism where a person is
obsessed only with themselves and their
own happiness and how to get there. They
don't understand sacrifice
or uh service. They don't understand the
under the idea that we find ourselves
truly in serving other people because
the whole notion is about becoming at
peace with your own life and in a sense
only serving yourself and not God. What
is the goal in the holy orthodox church?
Well, famously
St. Saraphim of Sarov he said the
acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
What does this mean? It means to create
such an environment within ourselves
that God dwells with us and inside of
us. This is who man was created to be.
See in psychology man is a standalone figure
figure
a a kind of void in the universe a small
void in the greater void. But not in
holy orthodoxy. Oh, God created us so
that we would enter into union with him.
That we would enter into deep levels of
intimacy with him and that we would be
able to communicate with him and he
communicate with us. This experience of
what the saints call deification.
St. Peter in his epistle he says we are
by grace
what he is by nature. Well, what is God
by nature? by God by nature is he's God.
So what are we by his grace? We become
lowercase G gods. We have the Holy
Spirit dwelling within us. Christ is
fully man and fully God knit together
100% of both. Whereas we are fully man
but God is always distinct but he's
dwelling within us. This is deification.
This is the true path of salvation.
So when it comes to your mission of
happiness, what is your mission? Well,
it's whatever.
It's whatever you want it to be. There
are no rules. There is no guidance.
There is whatever. It's just however you
think that you're going to get there.
And primarily, unfortunately, and sadly,
that becomes a process of seeking after
what you want to seek after for your own
happiness and enjoyment. This is why so
many marriages are ruined by this train
of thought because one person in the
marriage says, "Well, I'm not happy or I
don't like this or whatever else." And
then they just say, "Well, I'll just
divorce." That is what's going to bring
me happiness. It's a travesty. It's a lie.
lie.
What is your mission? Well, Christ says
it most succinctly.
Take up your cross and follow me.
The mission for the Christian is to die
to himself to becoming a living martyr.
St. John Chasm the church father he says
it that the Christian trades this life
for the next life. The life of martyrdom
is completely foreign to our society.
Our society has become absolutely
consumed with me me and my happiness and
what is best for me and how I want to do
things and I don't want to do anything
that inhibits me or causes me any
discomfort or pain or any of these other
things. And yet the reality is when
you're living the life of the cross it
is incredibly difficult and painful. The
true life of a Christian is like what
St. Paul says when he says, "Listen, I'm
alive and it's better for everybody
else, but it'd be better for me if I
died." The life of the Christian is
sacrificial service to love God and then
to take that love and to show love to
other people. To love them back to
health, to take care of them, to provide
for them, to provide for one's family,
to lay down your life. Christ says
there's no greater love than this, that
he give his life for another. We often
think of that in terms of like if
somebody is, you know, has a bunch of
hostages and you say, "I'm going to
volunteer myself to die." Well, in one
sense that's true. That is an ultimate
sacrifice of love. But the living
martyrdom of a Christian is even much
greater than that. That is a one-time
event and it's over with. the living
martyrdom of being a mother, of being a
father, of being a husband, being a
wife. All of these roles within life or
somebody takes on the monastic life. All
of these are martyr lives. People often
see an orthodox wedding service and we
put crowns on the husband and wife, the
bride and the groom, and people act as
though this is like a royal wedding.
That is not what is happening at all.
Those are the crowns of martyrdom. You
are saying at the moment of your
marriage that you will die for the other
person, not as a one-time event, but a
continual daily martyr offering for the
well-being of the other person. And if
you're equally yolked, they have the
same vision. And so, the two of you are
constantly dying for each other. You're
laying down your life. In fact, Paul
says very clearly, "Husbands, love your
wives like Christ loved the church and
gave himself up for her." That life is
sacrificial. That means anything that I
make, anything that I do, anything that
I can add, everything goes to my wife
and to my children, to my family, to strangers,
strangers,
to the community, to the church. I don't
live for myself. People think by
acquiring all kinds of means and goods,
they're somehow going to be finding
happiness. And that most unhappy people
in the world are people who have loads
of possessions and no love in their
hearts. They're empty and hollow and
vapid and shallow. Then you can go to a
house and find a family with next to
nothing and happy children and a wife
that loves them and a husband that loves
his wife and loves his children. And
that is the wealthiest family on earth.
We brothers and sisters are trying to
create this life to locate our heart to
purify it to invite God to dwell within
us through the reception of the Holy
Spirit when we are crisismated into the
church at at the moment of our baptism
to acquire more and more of that
presence of the Holy Spirit by
continually showing him I need you. and
then living that out as Christ was the
awesome example in his words, I came to
serve, not to be served. If we acquire
this, we become neurotic and
self-obsessed and narcissistic. We end
up becoming strange and weird people. If
we acquire this, we become saints. God bless.
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