Mental psychology is an everyday self-help tool for modifying our inherited hellish traits and acquiring heavenly traits.

Human beings are born with a temporary physical body and an immortal mental body. Our mind or mental organs are located in the mental body because mental events such as our sensations, our thoughts, and our feelings, are objects than can exist only in the mental world through our mental body. When we undergo the dying and resuscitation process, which takes about 33 hours to complete, we are separated from the physical world and are resuscitated in the mental world with our mental body. We then continue our immortal life in that world of eternity. It is then that we have to face our endless future, which consists of entering either of two worlds of existence, one called heaven, the other hell. No other option exists. It makes good sense therefore that each of us seriously examine the proposal of mental psychology in order to find out how we control this awesome outcome.

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Mental psychology is a rational description and explanation of the biology of our immortality. In order to control our eternal outcome we need to understand that this outcome is not a judgment, reward or punishment, that is imposed on each of us by stronger forces. The outcome is a medical necessity because it is a biological process. Just as the outcome of having a ripe fruit to pick, is determined by a large number of prior biochemical and physiological procedures performed by the cells and fibers of the plant. The outcome of heaven or hell after our resuscitation is determined by the loves we have acquired, and especially the ruling love that controls all other loves underneath itself. After resuscitation every individual goes through mental experiences by which one comes to recognize our ruling love, which often lays hidden beneath the view of our daily conscious mind. This ruling love determines our choice for heaven or for hell. No one chooses for us or judges our past deeds and life connected to a physical body. We choose, or more precisely, our ruling love chooses.

We are unwilling to do anything else but what conforms to our ruling love, choosing heaven if it is a heavenly love, or choosing hell, if it is a hellish love. There are no in-between loves. Every human love is sourced either in our mental heaven or in our mental hell. We choose where we want our consciousness to be, which is always according to our ruling love. Loves are biological operations of our mental organs. We need to understand the mental physiology of love and the biochemistry that creates our consciousness. We need to understand what role God plays in this process and how that affects the outcome. We need to understand that we are born with inherited mental traits that predispose us toward the enjoyment of hellish traits and the aversion of heavenly traits. This universal imbalance creates easy pathways towards hellish loves and requires greater motivation to maintain heavenly loves. Mental psychology provides the knowledge by which each of us can manage this process to
our ultimate and eternal advantage, avoiding being stuck forever in the atrocities of our hells.

Traditional and universal mental health sciences, programs and policies end at the death of the individual. The most important and critical phase following death is not dealt with. Hence the knowledge is lacking in both the professionals and the population. Mental psychology can restore this unfortunate attrition, providing a medical and psychological description and explanation of heaven and hell. Mental health knowledge can enlarge its scope by including mental psychology in its practice. Every individual needs mental health literacy that covers the period from birth to death, and from resuscitation to immortality when entering heaven or hell, which is called the second death.

Gaining a knowledge of how our mind works gives us the ability of rebuilding our character. Everyone possesses inherited mental traits that are positive, creative, and heavenly, as well as mental traits that are negative, destructive, and hellish. In their daily lives people uncontrollably oscillate between heavenly and hellish mental states. Observe some portions of your daily life and see how your mood changes from heavenly to hellish in an instant. For example, you’re relaxing, feeling in a good mood, thinking that everything is working out for you now. The phone rings at that moment and brings bad news. You react by going into shock, at first, then you start venting, then you start feeling bad, scared, confused as to what to do next. Your stomach starts spasming. Sweat breaks out all over your body. Etc. You went from heaven to hell in your mind from one moment to the next. This is typical, normal, and occurs throughout the life process for an adult.

One of the reasons that this knowledge has not been available is due to the scientific practices of the mental health sciences such as psychology and medicine. They employ a negative bias methodology that excludes from study anything that does not stop at death. The afterlife is excluded. God is excluded. If however the afterlife and God exist, this exclusion process is a bias that prevents mental psychology knowledge from becoming part of the explanations of human growth and development. Mental psychology is in the positive bias methodology, which assumes that God and the afterlife exist. Once this assumption is granted as a possibility, a wealth of new mental health knowledge becomes available to help people manage those character weaknesses that produce the list of everyday problems for the majority of people anywhere.

Mental psychology is based on mental anatomy and mental physiology. In the negative bias mode of scientific thinking the expression “mental anatomy” is viewed as a metaphor based on the anatomy of the body. But in the positive bias mode of scientific thinking, the word “mental” is a dualist concept that contrasts with “physical.” Those who think of “mental” in materialistic terms that are proper to the negative bias science, define it in relation to the physical brain. In other words, sensations, thoughts, and feelings are effects produced by the physical brain. In the positive bias mode, however, the “mental=brain” formula is called materialistic reductionism, and substitutes for it, substantive dualism, which refers to the existence two separate worlds, one physical, the other, mental.

The two-world perspective of dualism (this life and the afterlife), has been held by every human generations from the beginning to now. The development of mental psychology as a science is restoring dualism to the discourse of scientists. This is made possible by the fact that mental psychology brings forth for the first time a concrete proposal on mental anatomy and physiology, not as metaphors, but as actual structures of the mental organs. Knowledge of this anatomy gives us an entirely new collection of psychological principles and tools for dealing with human problems and development.

Mental psychology requires a theistic perspective because human anatomy and physiology follow spiritual cause-effect laws called correspondences. Once we allow for the possibility of God’s existence (positive bias science), we are bound by scientific thinking to specify in mechanistic detail the cause-effect operations by which an “omnipotent, omnipresent” God manages every detail in our mental organs, which give us the ability of integrating our sensing, thinking, and feeling into human consciousness and life. Mental psychology will have to specify the details of this relationship between God and every person. The idea of God’s omnipotence and omnipresence requires us to think about how God operates our mental life, and what is the specific purpose for which this is done. The concept of “self” and “human freedom” must be specified explicitly and rationally within the attributes that are given to God as omnipotent and omnipresent.

As a science, mental psychology is separate and independent of any other enterprise such as religion, philosophy, culture, belief system, etc. God is an accepted working idea in many places in society and culture, but mental psychology as science, cannot rely on or be associated with any of these non-scientific enterprises. Hence it is necessary in mental psychology to give a scientific meaning to God in both the physical and in the mental worlds.

Mental psychology is still a developing field, but its basis and foundation are now available to anyone who wishes to study it. At this point of development, mental psychology can give definitive and fairly precise answers to the following questions and issues.

**The anatomy of mental organs, their structure, their operations, their integrated interactions to produce activity in the physical body

**The relationship of correspondence between the anatomical systems in the physical body and the anatomical systems of the mental body that contains the mental organs

**The fairly precise description of the mental world of eternity that contains the mental body, how our life in it is immortal, and begins in conscious awareness immediately following our separation from the physical body by the dying and resuscitation process, which takes about 33 hours to complete

**A fairly precise description of the development of the natural mind, and how the spiritual mind is dependent for maturation upon this development

**A precise explanation of how God is involved in the process of regeneration, which is a lifelong process of facing daily temptations that involve us in choice-making between hellish and heavenly motives and enjoyments. Because God arranges the physical and social events for these temptations, God is known in mental psychology as the Divine Psychologist.

**A fairly precise description of how we experience life and consciousness in the mental world of eternity following death, including the mental state of unity called the conjoint self, which is the immortal life of heaven between soul mates in love with each other

**A fairly precise description of the vertical community, which shows how the entire human race is integrated, and specifically, how people already in eternity influence the mental development of people still connected to the physical world

**A research methodology called self-witnessing, which involves people in the daily practice of cooperating with the Divine Psychologist as they undergo regeneration of the three layers of the natural mind in sequence: first, the rational mind, next, the materialistic mind, and finally, the corporeal mind. We experience each of these three consciousness levels uncontrollably. Mental psychology gives us management control over this operation. The result is the gradual and progressive elimination of our hellish traits, and their replacement with heavenly traits. This allows us to live with less personal problems, and to achieve higher levels of human consciousness, productivity and usefulness to society, a more encompassing and fulfilling happiness, and a deeper capacity to love in relationships.

As you study this subject, I recommend that you share your cumulating thoughts and discoveries with your friends and acquaintances. Practice telling them what you understand. This will deepen your understanding and allow you to go on more easily with your study. Note what they are objecting to and what basis they have for the objections. See if you can come up with rational answers to their objections or confusions.

Dr. Leon James
Professor of Psychology
University of Hawaii
leon@hawaii.edu

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