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Corruption of Reality - A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
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Corruption of Reality - A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (Hardcover)
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This groundbreaking volume examines our sometimes strained grasp of
reality and sheds new light on three subject areas that continue to
fascinate researchers, namely, religion, hypnosis, and
psychopathology. In The Corruption of Reality, noted psychologist
John F. Schumaker argues that, despite their superficial
differences, religion, hypnosis, and psychopathology are all
expressions of the unique human ability to modify and regulate
reality in ways that serve the individual and society. In turn,
these same behaviors can be traced to the the brain's remarkable
capacity to process information along multiple pathways, thus
allowing us to distort reality in strategic ways that enhance
coping. This trance-related brain faculty, known as dissociation,
is revealed as a crucial determinant of what we come to experience
as human reality. Taking a broad multidisciplinary approach,
Schumaker demonstrates that reality is usually orchestrated at the
level of culture in the form of traditional religion, with religion
having been a total way of life in premodern times. In order to
function optimally, religions (with the exception of most Western
ones) employ dissociative trance-induction techniques that take
advantage of drugs, music, dance, and other sources of repetitive
monotony. Many of these closely resemble hypnotic induction
techniques as they exist in Western culture. They also operate
similarly to the cognitive rituals that establish and maintain
nonreligious abnormal behavior, better known as psychopathology or
mental illness. In this last area, special attention is given to
drug abuse, eating disorders, phobias, obsessive-compulsive
disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and responsesto trauma.
Many of these disorders, Schumaker argues, are the direct result of
the inability of Western culture, with its severely eroded
religious systems, to function adequately in its role as regulator
of reality. Schumaker proposes ways to revitalize our sick Western
culture, including the controversial prospect of constructing a new
religion incorporating our current knowledge about our peculiar
relationship to ourselves and the world. Along these lines, he
offers innovative solutions to such pressing global problems as
over-population and ecological destruction. Rigorously argued yet
written in a style accessible to all readers, The Corruption of
Reality challenges traditional ideas and paves the way for a
far-reaching unified theory of conscious and unconscious behavior.
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