I don’t usually spend much time or energy on forums, but recently I posted something somewhere about the official psychiatry’s lack of interest in deeper dimensions of the human soul. I also said that the psychiatric industry is concentrating its effort on the search for and implementation of the easy-to-do “quick-fixes”, whereas what therapeutic work is supposed to be about is the more complex and gradual process of self-exploration and spiritual growth. To this somebody responded with the phrase that I’ve heard a lot of times before: “You can only care about the things you can control.”

Suddenly the stupidity of the saying dawned on me. If you think about it, this motto of the modern science, when applied to the matters of the soul, becomes most arrogant, narrow-minded and barbaric. Out of the immensely complicated system of the human mind which we don’t understand, where everything is interconnected with everything else, we arbitrarily choose one or two buttons that we are evolved enough to be able to press, and decide to disregard everything else because we can’t control it anyway.  We behave like a child or a monkey inside the cockpit of a 747, who thinks that you fly the aircraft with the yoke and the pedals, and all those blinking lights are there for illumination. Well, maybe this plane will fly… for some time.