Psychological Problem and Psychological Disorder

[This is an excerpt of a part of the book The Theory of Mimind that I published.]

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 Psychological Problem and Psychological Disorder

Every human being has psychological problems and they occur during the process of dealing with emotions with the conscious and the unconscious. When they are not properly handled in the conscious and the unconscious, one of the psychologies of perception, memory and expression becomes dysfunctional, and emotions are processed again in the conscious and the unconscious. When psychology of perception becomes dysfunctional, one may have perception disorder, when it is psychology of memory, the disorder of memory of emotion, and when it is expression, it is expression disorder. These are commonly known as psychological disorders.

             Psychological disorders occur when one’s positive and negative emotions do not meet the psychological standard of the pursuit of happiness, and when one’s conscious and unconscious cannot process emotions properly. Psychological disorders are diagnosed in the physiological and psychiatric study of human anatomy such as Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is the outcome of the study of psychological disorders from the viewpoint of medical science, science, physiology and neuroscience. Their studies of psychology are based on the function of the brain, hormones, blood and other bodily functions. Such studies are tangible, measurable, and verifiable, but the human psychology cannot be seen, calculated, or verified. It analyzes and diagnoses psychology from the perspective of physiology, not from psychology.

             That is why the fields of medicine and science have been developed immensely but that of psychology has come to a standstill. Also, medicine and science have the physiological standard, but psychology has no psychological standard, so it has been subjected to the influence of medicine and science.

             The field of psychiatry researches human psychology according to the physiological standard. They look into the correlations among the brain, nerves, hormones and emotions, and then develop the methods of treatment. The field of psychology studies the connection of human conscious and unconscious based on researches of psychiatry. It means both psychiatry and psychology use the physiological standard. The physiological standard becomes the core of all perspectives, so they could not discover the psychological standard.

             The phenomenon of somatisation is studied in psychiatry, which defines it as an issue of the brain, nerves, and hormones, instead of a psychological problem. And the phenomenon of physiogenic illnesses is rarely studied in psychiatry. This concept of physiogenic phenomena does not exist in the traditional psychiatry, and it is a newly defined concept in the Theory of Mimind. The brain, nerves, and hormones can be problematic and such problems are manifested through emotional problems. Physiogenic phenomena have not been studied in psychiatry since they can only be analyzed from the psychological perspective. After systemizing the Theory of Mimind, we established the psychological standard, rules, and principles, thereby being able to deal with both psychogenic and physiogenic phenomena.

             The psychogenic phenomenon, a psychological problem manifested as a physiological issue, and the physiogenic phenomenon, a physiological problem surfaced as a psychological issue cannot be diagnosed or treated through the assessment of the body – the brain, nerves, or hormones. They can only be cured as a psychological concept. Medical science is for curing human body and psychology is for curing human mind.

             Physical problems are diagnosed and treated by medical doctors. Psychological problems are diagnosed and treated by psychological experts. Medical doctors and psychological experts can be in complementary relationship. Co-research between physiology and psychology will enhance future medical service for the betterment of human life. It is also problematic that medical doctors tend to underestimate psychology and psychologists themselves underestimate psychology thinking that the operation of psychology works as a sub-system based on the bodily operations.

             We will never understand human mind solely based on the physiological researches and the psychological studies without its own standard and criterion. Psychological study must establish its own standard and criterion. The Theory of Mimind has established the psychological standards and criteria which can be verified and used for the analysis of human psychology and the treatment of psychological disorders.

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Trauma

[This is an excerpt of a part of the book The Theory of Mimind that I published.]

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Trauma

             Trauma is a mental injury or wound generated by negative emotions. Psychology functions by managing and controlling emotional flows, and psychology and emotions are directly linked. Most psychological disorders are caused by negative emotions, so studies on trauma are a necessity. When trauma affects human psychology, the defense mechanism in human mind initiates its work in an effort to meet the standard of happiness. Negative emotions have a huge impact on human psychology and often become the cause of psychological disorders.

             The traditional psychological theories have their focuses on trauma with explanations from psychopathology and counseling psychological point of views. Researchers have endeavored to develop treatment methods for trauma. But many treatments for trauma have uniform methods for both man and woman, and have revealed their limitations in providing counseling with the absence of knowledge on the working principles of trauma. Even if man and woman have the same cause of their trauma, the techniques of counseling and method of cure should be different since their defense mechanisms are utterly different.

             With the development of the Theory of Mimind, we have discovered that trauma affects man and woman differently in their memory of emotions due to their different defense mechanisms. So we have defined man’s trauma as progressive and woman’s trauma as resultant. We divided trauma in this categorization, and when we applied this principle in our actual treatment sessions, we witnessed such significant treatment efficacy for psychological disorders.

             Trauma can be divided as ‘progressive’ and ‘resultant.’ In the occurrence and operation of trauma, it is seen as progressive trauma when the occurrence of trauma is continuing at present. It is resultant trauma if the occurrence of trauma came to a full stop, and its consequences are happening. Progressive trauma is caused by stress and resultant trauma is caused by wounds.

             Human beings regardless of age and gender all suffer from trauma. Trauma takes place when it goes against human psychological standard of pursuit of happiness. Stress is induced by negative moods, and stress can be transformed into wounds and trauma develops when wounds continue. When man’s standard of pursuit of future happiness is not met, stress may occur. When woman’s standard of present happiness is not met, wounds may develop.

             Trauma can occur under three major circumstances. First, it can happen due to external shock. External shock has nothing to do with oneself. A particular incident or phenomenon can cause negative emotions. For example, Sewol Ferry sank into a deep sea back in 2014. This is an example of external shock that the victim is not directly involved at all. We can be stressed and hurt even through such incidents or accidents.

             Second, trauma can also take place due to one’s own psychology that remembers negative emotions. This is self-inflicted trauma due to one’s own memory of negative emotions. This kind of trauma happens only individually. Recollection of negative memories causes trauma. Since only woman can remember negative feelings, this only applies to woman. Man cannot remember negative moods, and this type does not apply to man.

             The third type of trauma occurs through psychological interactions. Emotions are generated in the process of perception and expression of each others’ psychology in the formation of human relations. When negative emotions are generated, trauma may develop through simultaneous psychological operations in both parties. Recognizing the other’s unconscious speech, actions, and facial expressions with conscious awareness may induce negative emotions, and then trauma may follow.

        To sum up, the three types of trauma are the following: one by external shock, another by one's memory of emotions, and the last by psychological interactions between one and the other. Looking into all these three kinds of trauma, we can say trauma develops within one’s own psychology, and it comes from stress or wounds. Since it happens due to one’s emotions, one may try to find the cause of trauma and understand it, thinking one can remove its cause, and then will feel normal, which is a total misunderstanding. Even if one removes the cause of trauma, trauma remains since it has already developed within one’s psychology. Also, one might think the past experiences are the cause of trauma since it has resulted from the wounds of the past. This idea only makes trauma persist. Trauma will continue to operate due to circumstances and situations regardless of its cause.

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The Psychology of Expression

[This is an excerpt of a part of the book The Theory of Mimind that I published.]

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 The Psychology of Expression

             The psychology of expression is at work when one thinks of information and emotion, and expresses them externally through speech, actions and facial expressions. This psychology of expression is based on unconscious habits, meaning it works unconsciously. Emotions are expressed through speech, actions, facial expressions and thoughts. Unconscious habits have four components – the habits of perception working in the psychology of perception, the habits of memory working in the psychology of memory, the habits of expression working in the psychology of expression, and the habits of thought working when expressing into the conscious from the unconscious.

             Since habits are formed based on repeated working of the conscious, the more experiences, the more habits. Habits contain certain patterns and they do not hold any contents of the conscious, speech, actions, or facial expressions, and therefore, they are the unconscious. If expressed based on the conscious, it will be conscious speech, actions and facial expressions that one is aware of, and then they accompany stress and only one thought can be expressed at a time. When one tries to express emotion intentionally, one’s speech, actions, and facial expressions, are not rooted in the unconscious, but they are derived from the unconscious habits that are not recognized by the conscious.

             The four different habits operate together at the same time. When the habits of expression begin to work, the habits of perception, the habits of memory, and the habits of thought are at work too. The psychology of expression causes the habits of expression to display one’s speech, actions, and facial expressions. We display only one intentional expression through the conscious, but the rest of the unrecognized expressions are displayed through the unconscious. The habits of expression will be the main source of one’s speech, actions, and facial expressions. With the habits of expression operating, the psychology of perception operates through the habits of perception, the conscious recognize facts and emotions through the habits of thought, and the psychology of memory makes us remember facts and emotions. Habits make us perceive, recognize, remember, and express.

             Therefore, human beings' speech, actions, and facial expressions are manifested through the habits of expression by the unconscious; it is unintentional. So, changing these habits means changing one's personality and mind. To change personality or mind requires the change of habits.

             When the unconscious processes either the perception of the external information or stored memories, it does the function of expression as its priority. And it is done through speech, actions, and facial expressions. Whereas perception and memory are crucial in humans' survival, expression is important in that the unconscious generates and expresses emotions to protect mind. Thus, in case of positive emotion, expression takes place first, and then the conscious becomes aware of the emotion that is somewhat decreased; 80 % of mind energy is already consumed expressing the emotion, and only 20 % of mind energy is left for the awareness within the conscious. The conscious senses and consumes the residue of mind energy,

             Let’s say there is 100 % of mind energy.  80 % of mind energy is consumed when expressing outwardly and 20 % of mind energy is used for conscious awareness. This is done for the sake of protecting one’s mind. If the conscious becomes aware of everything and processes all of them, one will have disorders within the conscious. Thus, the unconscious generates mind energy and also reduces its mind energy by expressing it to protect one’ own mind. The conscious is not capable of consuming the whole of mind energy.

             Stress and wounds will occur if the negative mind energy is produced in the unconscious. In that case, man uses the unconscious to remove stress, and woman to treat her wounds. This is for the unconscious to protect mind. If we feel tired and exhausted, it means we have consumed most of the energy – four times more energy spent in expression than in awareness. If we are not allowed to express 80% of mind energy through the unconscious, then our conscious will have to be aware of 100 % of mind energy. Thus, the person that suppresses his or her pain without expressing it has more problems and difficulties than those who express it.

             In this way, expressions, positive or negative, consume mind energy to protect our mind so that the mind does not work endlessly and give too much pain to psychology. Perception exists for survival and expression plays the role of consuming mind energy to prevent problems in mind.

The Psychology of Memory

[This is an excerpt of a part of the book The Theory of Mimind that I published.]

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 The Psychology of Memory

             Human memory is divided into facts and emotions.  Memory is generally perceived as the combination of facts and emotions. But, we normally remember facts. Emotions work independently and is integrated with facts during the perception process. Thus, we need to separate facts and emotions to clarify human memory.

             A fact is a continuous process of a certain incident. It is the same as a video clip. Let’s say there was a car accident. The car accident includes certain facts about the car accident from beginning to end. A phenomenon is like one scene that is part of the whole fact and is similar to a photo. These related phenomena are accumulated and become a fact. In such a way, the whole process of a car accident is a fact. Our five sensory organs perceive a car accident, and then emotion gets stirred up and this emotion is related to this certain fact. When a car accident is recalled, one remembers facts and emotions together, but in reality one remembers facts, and emotion is generated in one’s unconsciousness.

             Man and woman remember facts in the same way. This is already proved by the neuroscience by verifying that they are stored in the brain. Forgetfulness or losing memory is based on the work of brain cells. Thus, they will either remember or forget facts. If they do remember facts, we call this the memory of facts and it is applied to man and woman in the same way.

             The memory of facts works with the memory of emotions. This emotion is created by a fact within one’s psychology. For a car accident, the facts of a car accident and the emotion regarding that car accident operate together. So, facts and emotions can be separated, but people think that they are perceived and remembered simultaneously.

             If we separate emotions from facts, we can see that they work differently. Therefore, emotion comes from the awareness of thoughts about certain external information or stored memory, and it is not a perceived emotion with the external information or stored information recognized by one’s own psychology. Hence, emotion is created in one's own psychology.

             The psychology of man and woman operate differently. Emotion is created by the working of migenes. The migenes of man and woman are different, so the emotions that man and woman remember are very different. Facts are remembered or not in the same way for all human beings, but when it comes to emotion, man and woman remember it quite differently.

             Woman remembers negative feelings and cannot remember positive feelings whereas man can remember positive moods and cannot remember negative moods. This is all due to the different working of migenes of man and woman.

             If man remembers negative moods and cannot remember positive moods, what happens actually is not that he remembers negative moods, but that he mistakenly thinks that he remembers negative moods, which will lead to a psychological disorder. This psychological disorder of delusion will continue the state of negative moods without removing it.

             This kind of delusion of negative moods is a wrong perception and not an actual memory of moods.  This is called, ‘the error of memory of emotion.’ In other word, there is a problem in remembering emotion. There are ‘the error of man’s memory of moods^[1],’ ‘the error of man’s memory of negative moods^[2],’ ‘the error of man’s memory of positive moods^[3],’ ‘the error of woman’s memory of feelings^[4],’ ‘the error of woman’s memory of negative feelings^[5],’ and ‘the error of woman’s memory of positive feelings^[6]’

             Human beings only remember emotions based on their experience, so experience influences one’s psychology. Experience is divided into direct and indirect experience. Direct experience is one’s own personal experience and indirect experience is obtained through conversations with others, reading books, or watching movies. These indirect experiences have nothing to do with oneself, but certain emotion is created within one’s psychology.

             When it comes to study, when emotion is created based on circumstances and environments, the academic capacity is varied between man and woman depending on whether it is direct experience or non-direct experience. In case of a car accident, the way one experiences it impacts one’s psychology differently depending on the gender and on whether is direct experience or indirect experience.

             Even if it is not direct experience, it affects one as if it was one’s own experience. We call this external impact and this is also indirect experience. In 2014, when the ship Saewol sank, the whole nation experienced it indirectly and was wounded as if they were involved in the accident. Here, the people rescued from the ship, family members, people involved at the scene, and volunteers had their direct experience.

             Also, in case of violence, if one is the victim of violence, it can be a direct experience, and if one witnesses violence and as a result acquire the same emotion as the victim, then it is an indirect experience of violence. One’s own sexual experience can be a direct experience, but witnessing other’s sexual behaviour is an indirect experience. The prohibition of exposure to violence and sexuality to minors is to protect them from the detrimental impact through indirect experience. 

             Indirect experience can also create the same degree of emotion as direct experience does, and it can cause psychological disorders. In this process, woman remembers negative feelings, but man does not remember it, and therefore woman tends to have psychological problems but man tends to forget about it with indifference as time passes, and replaces it with other objects of fun and pleasure. Woman will suffer from the same impact through her indirect experience as through her direct experience. But, man remembers only the facts of his indirect experience and the sense of fun and pleasure from other objects, so as a result, man may identify violence and sexuality as fun and pleasure. The same psychological reaction takes place when applying it to crimes. Therefore, we can see the serious problems of current sex education and prevention education.

             The major cause behind this phenomenon is that the memory of facts and the memory of emotion are generated separately, and that man and woman have different memory of emotion. This principle of different memory of emotion between man and woman can be easily proved with its application to our daily life.

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^[1] The error of man’s memory of moods is a phenomenon where man cannot remember negative moods but remembers positive moods.

^[2] The error of man’s memory of negative moods is a phenomenon where once man remembers negative emotion, all information is processed as negative moods.

^[3] The error of man’s memory of positive moods is when he remembers positive moods and even though there are many positive moods, only one positive mood operates in his psychology.

^[4] The error of woman’s memory of feelings is a phenomenon where woman does not remember positive feelings but remembers negative feelings.

^[5] The error of woman’s memory of negative feelings is when woman remembers negative feelings, and even if there are plenty of negative feelings,  only one negative mood operates in her psychology.

^[6] The error of woman’s memory of positive feelings is a phenomenon when woman remembers positive feelings, all information she perceives is processed as positive feelings.

The Psychology of Perception

[This is an excerpt of a part of the book The Theory of Mimind that I published.]

Reference Korea Institute of Psycho-education (Psychology Forum) : http://cafe.daum.net/mindforum

The Psychology of Perception

The human body and mind are one. Humans' sensory organs act as a bridge between the human body and the psychology of perception. The external information received through sensory organs are sensed and stored, and the human psychology operates to process emotions. Sensory organs receive the external information through the eyes, the ears, the skin, the nose, and the mouth (and the tongue).

             We call the information received through the eyes 'sight', through the ears 'hearing', through the skin 'touch', through the nose 'smell', and through the mouth 'taste'. They are called the sensory information. These five organs turn the external information to sensory information.

     The external objects and phenomena go through the five sensory organs, and then they become sensory information, which can be sensed as psychology. The information of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste go through the synthetic process, and then they are combined to form a single sensory information. This information of sensation contains feeling and the conscious becomes aware of this information which we call emotion if it is sustained. Thus, emotion is sustained thoughts and feelings.

             This process is called the psychology of perception in which five sensory organs receive the external information and the unconscious generates emotion and acknowledge it as the emotion for the perceived external information. The information received on your skin is combined with feelings, and then your skin can sense it as good or bad feelings.

             The constant input of the external information will maintain sensory information and the information of sensation, and then one can sense emotions consciously. But, if there is no sensory information without the input of the external information, the generation of the information of sensation will come to a halt, and one cannot sense emotions. When the input of the external information is stopped, it leads to the incapacity to sense emotions; this state of temporary emotion is called mood. However, when you still feel mood even though both the input of external information and the information of sensation have stopped, we call it feelings. This is possible due to the unconscious operation of habits associated with the stored information.

             Migenes (The gene of mind) turn the external information, received through sensory organs, into sensory information. The way this sensory information can be recognized as the information of sensation within one’s thought results from the work of unconscious habits dealing with the result of migenes. When man and woman receive the external information and process them into sensory information, their migenes work differently. Thus, man and woman recognize the external information as different sensory information and have different awareness.

             For man, if sensory information fits his standard of future happiness, then it will create positive mood within him. If not, it will simply be removed and won't be transformed into the information of feeling. Thus, man is sensitive to sensory information, and he will try to have fun and pleasure, which will bring about the moods of passion and happiness by the operation of his sensory organs.

             On the other hand, for woman, the information of sensation has to fit her standard of present happiness. The information of sensation is decided by the unconscious habits while processing the input of sensory information by Migenes. Negative feelings are healed to create a void of feelings so that this information of sensation can help the pursuit of the present happiness and create positive feelings. So, woman is sensitive to the information of feeling and wants to maintain the feelings of love and happiness.

             For woman, it continues as the information of feeling and for man it stays as sensory information. Man can generate passion of mind energy through sensory information and woman can generate love of mind energy through the information of feeling. They both have sensory information and the information of feeling. However, I say that man doesn't have the information of feeling since there is an uncomparable difference between man and woman's information of feeling.

             Both man and woman receive the external information through sensory organs in the same way. But, when the information of each sensory organ is combined to form one sensory information, man and woman function differently and they also feel different as well. This is because migenes of man and woman operate differently toward the information of sensation. It is also different for each individual, for distortion takes place when sensory information is colligated. It is also varied depending on how many sensory organs function at a time.

             For example, if you drink the juice of onion, you are aware that it is onion juice from the visual information through your eyes, its smell through your nose, and from the taste in your mouth and tongue. If you blindfold your eyes and block your nose, you are unable to receive the information of sight and smell. When you drink it, you will get the information of taste through the mouth and the tongue. You will then taste something different rather than an onion. The fact became distorted and then recognized.

             How many sensory organs are used to receive information will determine how the external information is recognized. The more sensory organs are used, the more accurate the recognition of the information will be. Thus, if one has problems with sensory organs, one cannot recognize the external information accurately, and may even distort the fact. This will generate different information of sensation and feeling.

             For the amount of information received and interpreted through each sensory organ, the information of sight is the largest, then hearing, touching, smelling, and the taste comes last. The amount of the distortion of external information also differs in the order of the disorder of sight being the largest, then hearing, touching, smelling, and taste.

             When distorting the external information, feelings and emotions will be manifested in different ways. Distorted recognition of external information will lead to the distortion of one’s own sensory information and the information of sensation. Then, at the point of turning them to the information of emotion, it can also be distorted. Thus, one should consider these two cases of distortions and keep in mind that the perceived information can be different from the actual fact. In such a way, it is called ‘the error of perception' when the external information becomes distorted.

             This error of perception happens more frequently among women than men. Since woman processes information further than man does, the possibility of distortion is highly likely for woman. This is because man is more sensitive to sensory information and feelings whereas woman is more sensitive to emotions based on the information of feeling.

             There are more male experts in jobs that require sensitivity to sensory information and female experts in jobs that require sensitivity to the information of emotion. Man takes up more positions in the jobs which utilize sight, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. If woman becomes an expert in this kind of job, psychological disorder may occur in her since she has to be very sensitive to sensory information, and vice versa. 

             However, the proof of the existence of psychological disorder does not mean that there are mental problems. It simply means the disorder occurred within one’s psychology. If one has the capability of harmonizing sensory information and emotion, or habits of solving problems, the psychological disorders do not necessarily need to be treated since he or she can still pursue the happiness for him or her and others. Thus, psychological disorders are not all problematic, but only the ones that cause troubles and damage in one's life and relationships are. 

             Some successful experts have psychological disorders since they have maximized their psychological capacity, so their capacity for concentration and memorizing have been maximized, and all these can lead to psychological disorders. In other words, without psychological disorders, human civilization would not have evolved, let alone any invention of new things.

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Mind and Psychology

[This is an excerpt of a part of the book The Theory of Mimind that I published.]

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Mind and Psychology

The standard and principle of human psychology are not complicated. Human psychology always works in everyone, but we simply cannot realize the standard and principle of its working.

             Human psychology comprises the psychology of perception, memory and expression. Human mind is made up of consciousness and unconsciousness. The psychology of perception causes consciousness to be aware of the external information, the psychology of memory causes consciousness and unconsciousness to remember and process the stored memory, and the psychology of expression causes unconsciousness to express externally.

             Everyone has these three operations of human psychology, and it is easy to understand. We can analyze and treat psychological disorders and verify the psychology of human relationship with this understanding of the operation of human psychology. The studies of humanity, ideology, philosophy, religion, science, humanities, society, politics, economics, culture, art, and the theories and principles of human relationship, are embedded within psychology. Thus, if one can interpret human mind precisely, it is not difficult to interpret the Scripture, Sutra, Koran and other scriptures, and we can learn that human psychology is the very reason behind all things.

             We will be able to discover the interrelation between psychological disorders and physical illnesses and carry out the further study on human happiness by associating physiological phenomena already proven by medical science and human psychology. Each person can achieve self-actualization and happiness and can contribute to progress, peace, harmony, order, freedom and equality of the human race. Thus, defining the psychology of perception, memory and expression, and discovering the standard and principle of human psychology are indispensable.  

             Human psychology from its early development of shamanism^[1] and exorcism^[2] to contemporary Sigmund Freud’s Libido and psychoanalysis, has been continuously researched along with the formation of a variety of psychological theories. All these psychological theories are the theories for counselling and psychotherapy for dealing with human psychology. They are not the theories of human psychology itself, but rather the theories of methods and techniques of how to cure various psychological disorders. Thus, there is no theory of the standard of psychology. There has been continuous progress in developing the methods of treatment in dealing with disorders, but the cause and cure of psychological disorders are not executed accurately. With every new disorder, a new treatment is studied and a new theory is established. I was lucky enough to eventually develop the standard of human psychology, the Theory of Mimind with the purpose of developing a psychology theory that could be the standard for human psychology. The Theory of Mimind as the standard of human psychology will hopefully shed new light on many existing contemporary psychotherapies and be a foundational theory that enables us to define the cause and cure of many psychological disorders.

             Human psychology is a set of rules controlling the flow and condition of emotions, and the whole process of recognizing the external information, generating emotions, remembering, thinking, and expressing outwardly.

             To understand human psychology, one must understand the rules of the mutual interactions between the human body and mind. The human body has the internal and external organs. The internal organs work for the preservation of life while the external organs work for the psychological operations. The sensory organs such as eyes, ears, the skin, the nose, and the mouth receive the external information into human mind, and then express emotions in mind through the movements of the mouth, arms, legs and facial expressions. The psychology of perception is at work to sense emotions, the psychology of expression to display emotions outwardly, and the psychology of memory to remember facts within consciousness and emotions within unconsciousness. In this way, all these three psychologies of human mind are the standard of human psychology, and control emotion with certain rules and patterns.

             Amongst human sensory organs, one particular organ has the function of receiving external information and expressing emotions simultaneously. Our skin is the receptor of the external information and also the medium to express our feelings at the same time. A good example is a man’s penis, a part of the skin, which recognizes the sense and expresses feelings at the same time. Thus, the skin and sexual organs can be the point of intersection of human psychology. It can be also the crux of the communion between woman’s present happiness and man’s future happiness.

             Thus, the physical contact and the sexual actions can be the core activity in producing man’s passion and woman’s love, and the source of wounds and happiness. Also, the mouth and the parts connected to it perceive taste through the tongue and express outwardly by speech through the vocal cords. Although the tongue and the vocal cords are two separate organs, the mouth may be classified as a sensory organ that is employed in both perception and expression simultaneously.

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^[1] Shamanism means religious phenomena centered on shaman, meaning “person that knows,” according to Tungus language. Shamans were able to heal the sick and communicate with the other world amongst Siberians and the Turanian religions.

^[2] Exorcism is an activity of casting out demons. Those who cast out demons are called exorcists. It is one of the main sources for horror movies. Casting out demons among the catholic is exorcism and also it is conducted in many other religions too.

Why do I live?

[This is an excerpt of a part of the book The Theory of Mimind that I published.]

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Why do I live?

             Let’s think for a moment: Why do I live? There must be reasons why we live as a person or a PIR. What is it ‘to live’? If you are dead, you are a corpse, and if you are alive, then you are a living being. The living body exists and the corpse doesn’t.

             Why do you exist? ‘Living’ is the most important fact here. I am myself living presently who have the memories of past experiences and knowledge. ‘Why do I exist?’, ‘Why do I live this way?’

             Existence has nothing to do with how well you live. Living itself is the first priority. Then, one can purse the life of meaning and value.  When you ask the above questions, some might say they live to eat, or eat to live. Eating to live and living to eat are two different matters. The former means pursuing meaning and value of existence, and the latter, living an animalistic life. Living is basic preliminary for self-actualization. Eating is necessary for existing, so eating should be for living.

             Living to eat involves only the basic survival and eating to live involves pursuing meaning and value in existence. Living to eat is no different from the life of animals. You can be kept like livestock animals, being fed and offered a place to sleep.

             Then, why do you want to live, become successful in your own society, or become famous? Why do you want to be rich and hold higher social status? Why do you study? Why do you live this way?

             The pursuit of self-actualization is the reason why we exist as human beings. Having remembered the past experiences and knowledge, we still live and think today. As human beings, we all want to live meaningfully with value. It is not that important whether we pursue economic value, relational value or social value. One wants to live meaningfully with one’s own value. That is what everybody wants.

             Woman needs meaning in her life, and then, she can pursue value. Man lives to pursue value. Human beings will continue to pursue their self-actualiztion until they die. When they stop pursing meaning and value, they do not need to exist anymore. When they lose the answer to 'Why do you live?’, it is called retirement. When you retire, you will stop pursuing self-actualization within human relationships, meaning you have been pursuing self-actualization as a PIR so far, but you will live as a person from now on until death.

             You have to be able to answer this question, 'Why do you live?’ You should be able to say, ‘I live to pursue meaning and value in my own life'. This is to achieve self-actualization. I have been pursuing self-actualization and this is the life of a PIR. Even if one only seeks after wealth, one has lived a life of his or her own value. You should not criticize him or her for it. Someone else may have dedicated his or her life to the society rather than making money. It is also worthwhile. You can’t really measure or judge other people's lives. The answer to ‘Why do you live?’ only lies within you.

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