The Psychology of Hidden Human Realities

By Andreas Mamet
© 2006

The Psychology of Meditation is intimately intertwined with the Psychology of Hidden Human Realities. Unless we place the mirror of self-reflection before us, and dive into our hidden realities, the ones that in actuality are vibrantly alive beneath the surface of our existence, we shall not find completion.

The Psychology of Hidden Human Realities in fact is a vast domain, comprised of many different compartments. However, what connects all those compartments is the truth that all our thought and behavior modalities are programmed.

These programs were installed at a very young age by parents, teachers and the media. Since the programming started early and the individual had no way of recognizing or deflecting what was done, by the time we are 20 years old, the programs are solidly in place and determine much of our behavior without us being able to track the origins. This is comparable to a hidden program running on a computer. It is active, yet we do not see it on the desktop.

The premise of Gurdjieff’s work is that the existence of all our programming is what keeps us in deep sleep (all the while believing to be awake, because of the movements of our minds and bodies) and that only by engaging in active effort to make conscious and then break, our behavioral programs, that we have a chance to take direct insight into the True Reality of Our Being. In a sense all true mystery schools are attempting to break our man-made programming, even though most of them would not even define the process in this particular manner.

Since the process of meditation is one of looking inward and cultivating awareness of whatever we come across, the process is bound to uncover the Hidden Human Realities.

Therefore, we shall traverse, within our own being, all the realms of heaven and hell. We carry inside the polarities of existence. We have access to light and darkness, to good and evil. There is inside a potential sage and also a potential, raging Genghis Khan.

Who gets activated and which direction we take is a question of whether we choose to awaken or not. The more we choose to remain unconscious as a soul and live without self-reflection, the closer we will remain in the lower realms of human behavior.

If we choose to awaken as a soul, we will ultimately transcend the lower expressions of humanity and begin to activate wisdom, compassion and kindness in action.

In doing so, we will accomplish our purpose in life, which is to experience the flowering of our soul and the infinite ways of expressing this flowering.