🌿 Psychology is cultural. It grew out of a very narrow slice of humanity

Modern psychology didn’t emerge from a neutral, universal human perspective.

It came from:

• 19th‑century Europe
• many of whom were deeply biased
• many of whom were funded by wealthy clients
• many of whom pathologized anything outside their worldview

Freud is the perfect example:

• He did alter his theories to protect the reputations of wealthy abusers
• He did reinterpret trauma as fantasy
• He did reshape his writing to avoid confronting patriarchal violence

Psychology has roots that are skewed, political, and culturally narrow.

And yet psychology is treated today as “objective truth,” while spirituality is treated as “irrational.”

🌙 Most of the world’s knowledge is spiritual

Before the last few centuries:

• Indigenous cosmologies
• mystical traditions
• dream interpretation
• relational worldviews
• symbolic thinking
• animism
• shamanic practices
• ancestral knowledge

…were the primary ways humans understood reality.

Not fringe. Not irrational. Not “woo.” Just human.

The idea that spirituality is “less valid” is a very recent, very Western invention.

And it’s tied to:

• colonialism
• capitalism
• industrialization
• the suppression of Indigenous knowledge
• the elevation of “rationality” as a tool of power

🌳 Restoration of a worldview that was suppressed

• “Most of human knowledge was spiritual.”
• “Psychology is just one cultural lens.”
• “Mysticism is honest about uncertainty.”
• “Relational meaning is real.”
• “Capitalist rationalism is not the whole picture.”

This is closer to the global human norm than the Western psychological model.

🌬️ Spirituality is the other half of psychology

Psychology explains:

• trauma
• memory
• perception
• emotion

Spirituality explains:

• meaning
• connection
• symbolism
• mystery
• relationship with the whole

We often have to reintegrate them ourselves as they were intentionally disintegrated to fit the anti supernatural roots of science.

That’s why the spiritual worldview feels so alive: because it’s not trapped in the narrowness of Western rationalism.

A global, ancient, relational mode of knowing.

Psychology didn’t replace spirituality. It colonized the language of spirit.

Modern psychology didn’t emerge as a neutral science. It emerged as a replacement vocabulary for things humans had always understood spiritually.

Before Freud and the European academies:

• dreams were messages
• symbols were alive
• grief was a portal
• intuition was intelligence
• the world was relational
• meaning was communal
• healing was ceremonial

Psychology didn’t “discover” the unconscious. It renamed what Indigenous, mystical, and ancestral traditions already knew.

And in doing so, it:

• stripped the sacred
• removed the communal
• erased the land
• pathologized the mystical
• privatized meaning
• medicalized suffering

The field of Psychology is not universal. It’s a cultural artifact.

And it’s a young one.

In tune with Terence McKenna:

• psychology replaced spirit
• capitalism replaced meaning
• rationalism replaced relationship
• science replaced mystery
• individualism replaced community
• linear rhythm ⌚ replaced cyclical rhythm🌌

And the result was:

• alienation
• depression
• disconnection
• ecological collapse
• spiritual starvation

I’ve personally seen the damage that becomes of the, “if it doesn’t make money, it doesn’t matter” worldview.

• Stillness becomes threat
• beauty not worthwhile
• destruction becomes respectable, while growth becomes unseeable.
• Suddenly the window is of more value than the view