Operational definitions are given for key terms that will be discussed throughout the text: mental healthMental health, behaviorBehaviors, mindMind, self, and consciousnessConsciousness. A discussion on the irreducibility of first-person and third-personThird person information is also provided for the purpose of showing how spiritual and scientific approaches both have unique perspectives to contribute regarding how information relevant to psychologyPsychology and mental healthMental health is understood. PragmatismPragmatism, empiricismEmpiricism, and various philosophical approaches for understanding reality are also discussed. Conventional, objective, and ultimate reality are given operational definitions. The argument that realization of ultimate reality requires letting go of attachmentAttachment to all conventional/objective realitiesObjective realities, the intellect, and strict philosophical stances is made. What awakening is (a term used to denote someone who has realized the ultimate reality that they truly are; literally, they have awoken from the illusions of conventional/objective realityObjective realities) and the psychologyPsychology of awakening (the psychological/neuropsychological mechanisms of action that are at play) are also defined.

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Philosophical Stances, the Architecture of Psychological Functioning, and Scientific and Spiritual Approaches to Understanding Reality

  • Keith Happawana

摘要

Operational definitions are given for key terms that will be discussed throughout the text: mental healthMental health, behaviorBehaviors, mindMind, self, and consciousnessConsciousness. A discussion on the irreducibility of first-person and third-personThird person information is also provided for the purpose of showing how spiritual and scientific approaches both have unique perspectives to contribute regarding how information relevant to psychologyPsychology and mental healthMental health is understood. PragmatismPragmatism, empiricismEmpiricism, and various philosophical approaches for understanding reality are also discussed. Conventional, objective, and ultimate reality are given operational definitions. The argument that realization of ultimate reality requires letting go of attachmentAttachment to all conventional/objective realitiesObjective realities, the intellect, and strict philosophical stances is made. What awakening is (a term used to denote someone who has realized the ultimate reality that they truly are; literally, they have awoken from the illusions of conventional/objective realityObjective realities) and the psychologyPsychology of awakening (the psychological/neuropsychological mechanisms of action that are at play) are also defined.