It has two principal definitions, the second of which has to do with being financially wealthy. The term AFFLUENT doesn’t seem to be used very much anymore. But he introduced the term not as the noun it later became, but as an adjective specifying a particular type of force among all kinds of forces. THE ORIGINAL CONCEPT OF PSYCHIC FORCE AS AFFLUENT SUBSTANCEĪs we have seen in chapter 9, during the 1870s, Edward William Cox introduced the potent term PSYCHIC into the languages of the world. This original concept now needs to be firmly recovered, not only for the purposes of this book, but on behalf of human energetics as a whole. One of the important factors that got covered over in all of this was that the original psychic concept had nothing to do with things mental, psychological or behavioristic. In seeking to escape this danger, they countered by indicating that psychic activity and phenomena were not abnormal, but PARAnormal-simply and innocently meaning beyond, above or outside of the normal. With this psycho-sociological development, parapsychologists of the time became concerned that their topics of study and research would be lumped into the abnormal category, and which indeed was soon the mainstream case. While it seemed easy enough to identify the abnormal, and then to condemn it as socially undesirable, it proved increasingly difficult to establish what the normal consisted of. This, of course, was a rather simplified and naive utopian concept within the then trendy Modern Progressive Era, and as such was supported in its early stages with extraordinary enthusiasm in science, sociology, and psychology.Īs it eventually turned out, however, the idea was quietly retired during the late 1950s. In a certain sense, this also called for the elimination, or at least the exclusion, of the abnormal. One of the widely stated motives behind this effort had to do with the idea that if normal behavior was identified and socially reinforced then more perfect societies could be constructed. It arose not in parapsychology, but in psychology proper when, during the 1920s psychologists and sociologists sought to identify and establish the characteristics of normal and abnormal behavior. It appeared during the late 1920s, and only during the 1940s did it take on broad usage. This is a psychological distinction which began to flourish rather late in the history we have been reviewing.
But it is quite likely that a large proportion of them hinge on the general concept of PARANORMAL mental activity and which is distinguished from normal mental activity.
Such ideas can be exceedingly different among individuals. THE PSYCHIC FORCE AS AFFLUENT SUBSTANCEīefore reading this book, almost everyone will already have some kind of idea about what the term PSYCHIC means. Psychic Sexuality - The Bio-Psychic "Anatomy" of Sexual Energies Chapter 12.