Dogma: The Deconstruction and Evolution of Our Psyche

By John V. Patrick

Dogma is based on beliefs that have established the state of mental evolution of man and is based on his history of mental consciousness. It establishes factors which influenced our present psyche and its progression leading to our present dismal state of affairs. It outlines, projects and recommends future changes in attitudes and conditions which may have profound influences of the future of our planet. More specifically, it recommends changes dictated by a more diverse America, with equally diverse attitudes towards each other, coupled with needed changes in competitive relationships and Christian attitudes of how we relate to each other.

Dogma explores the most reflective changes in the path to our future quality of life, liberty and happiness which are reflected by our education system where the whys, whose and whats of how we educate our people, must be in prime focus to augment realistic progress towards our desired goals. Because of complexities dictated by the psychological research involving diverse people, Dogma recommends that our educational system be changed to a more technically based system capable of better analytical analysis involving multiple and more complicated interactions characteristic of problems of the mind.

The contentions of Dogma lay heavily with unexplained life observations and studies coupled with diligent applications of scientific methods to answer the complex questions posed future trends. For example, Why do poorer nations display increased dogmatic attitudes than more developed nations? And, why do more developed nations acquiesces to and accepts things that are obviously not correct? What are the causes of mass murders, and poor academic performances of minority groups? Why is compromise such a dirty word? The answers cannot be in more incarcerations or more wars. The recommended corrections in dogma are based on solid scientific rational and real life experiences. Therefore, the contentions and recommendations of Dogma are alive and well. And, so is the fact that additional researches on these subjects are necessary and valid for our effective continued evolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483659190

John V. Patrick

John V. Patrick was born in Galveston Texas, the fifth of six children born to Ollie and Virginia Patrick. He attended a segregated high school and college, receiving a BS degree in chemistry, minor in mathematics, and a commission in the U.S. Army from Prairie View A&M University. His interest in teaching children begin while serving in the army where he gained special recognition for his contribution in producing the company with the highest proficiency score ever for an advanced infantry basic training company. After the army, he taught mathematics and science at a regional New Jersey Junior and Senior high School. After a short stint, the lure of money led him to an extensive career as a research chemist in industry where he rose through senior chemist, technical director, and manager of manufacturing. While working in industry, he developed his skills from graduate courses in management, finance, psychology, experimental design, and analysis of variance. He later became a Rhode Island certified teacher of chemistry where he practiced for twelve years before retiring. His interest in education was jolted when he returned to teaching from industry after a thirty-five-year hiatus and noticed the quality of education had changed and was being hampered by an agglomeration of issues. Using his background in research and development, coupled with his background with young people in the military in the classroom thirty-five years ago in manufacturing and, more recently, again in the classroom—he rapidly developed theories and, more importantly, new rationale about the big dilemma of failing schools—their causes and solutions.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I   Self-Actualization And Denied Self-Actualization

Chapter II   Dogma

Chapter III   The Relationship Of Dogma To Self-Actualization And Denied Self-Actualization

Chapter IV   Marketing And Dogma

Chapter V   Dogma And Our Evolution

Chapter VI   Why We Must Change

Chapter VII   The Approach To Change—The Eradication Of The Dogmatic Mentality

Chapter VIII   Teaching Of Morality And A Change In Our Evolution

Summary And The Implications

Appendix I   Basic Timeline Of Human Development

Appendix II   Questions For Citizenship

About The Author

INTRODUCTION

T HROUGHOUT MOST OF history as modern men, we have studied our evolution as humans with emphasis on the physical evolution. There are several rationales for writing this book. The first involves the evolution of man based on his mental psyche. There is no organized history of the modern-day man relating to the evolution of human thought patterns or the progression of his psyche. Although not commonly accepted as a documentation of the progression of human thought patterns, the Christian Bibles are the most profound historical documents on the mentality of man and yet, is open to interpretation as it is a product of the elites, the so-called most educated of mankind—a select group of men dictating and managing the trends of thoughts of others. Most of America has accepted this contention and the author of Dogma has set out to examine and shed new light on the progression of man’s mentality from the first documented to the present state of evolution. Changes in circumstances, which have never before influenced our human psyche, are presently altering our mental evolution. The second reason for Dogma is to present, recommend, and inject needed corrections to the present trends and state of our mental evolution.

At present, our world is in an unprecedented state of disorganization, all based on what appears to be a breakdown in the relationship of man’s relation to each other. Most historians will argue that man’s basic instinct is to survive and his thought patterns, based on survival, have not changed over time. But what are the ramifications of survival as related to the evolution, psyche, and thought patterns of men of yesteryear versus that of the modern-day man whose interactions have become more complex?

Dogma examines these patterns, realizing that most books written on such philosophical and historical subjects were written by wealthy, scholarly rulers and authors with their own motives and representations and who, historically, have injected influence on the psyche of all classes of a basically diverse and yet changing people. Modern-day technology is changing this pattern of influence and affluence and is thus changing the progression and evolution of man toward uncharted waters.

We, as people, are becoming better educated. Our nations are becoming more diverse within each entity, and each entity is becoming larger, and with better education, we are becoming people of more diverse thoughts and people with different ambitions and different ideas about how—to obtain the life, liberty, and happiness we all desire.

New interpretations of traditional biblical passages are shedding new light on the evolution of man. Modern history suggests that the internal struggles of man have influenced his history and evolution, more so than the mere existence of man and more so than the fashionable thoughts of evolution have led us to believe. Recent discovery of artifacts related to the physical evolution of man have changed our concept of who we are as a people are (Jones 2013) and where we came from, how we learn and create as we evolve. The author has set out to define the factors that have influenced our present state of mental tenets and provide direction and new thought that may define and regulate our future.

CHAPTER I

Self-Actualization and Denied Self-Actualization

T HE CONTEMPORARY VIEW of self-actualization is that it is a drive for excellence through self-improvement and other motivational-type relations from within the individual but controlled by factors outside the individual. The contention of this book is that self-actualization has evolved into a psychological phenomenon more related to the complexity between individuals; with each entity striving for that utopia of self-fulfillment based on comparisons with others, and from this development and our competitive psyche, our modern society and how we relate to each other is evolving.

Self-actualization is one of the most misunderstood concepts in modern psychology, mostly because it has been studied by numerous theorists over a wide period of time with emphasis on different targets within the overall concept. The struggle to become self-actualized is considered an innate human characteristic. As such, its denial, which creates an effect often neglected in modern psychological studies, is exerting a deeper influence on our society than the struggle for the prime effect—the struggle for self-actualization—to reap the personal satisfaction of self-fulfillment.

Following is what Wikipedia says about self-actualization:

The term, self-actualization, has been used by the organismic theorist Kurt Goldstein for the motive to realize one’s full potential. In his view, it was the organism’s master motive, the only real motive: "the tendency to actualize itself as fully as possible purported as the basic drive… the drive of self-actualization. Carl Rogers similarly wrote of the curative force in psychotherapy—man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities… to express