The soul, sexual psychology and society

The purpose of life, to the best of my understanding, as elucidated by God's first commandment in Genesis, is raise up the consciousness of the world by filling it with human beings. We make the world more human, more conscious, more humane, through this prerogative - "Go forth and multiply". To change our amoral surroundings from a hostile jungle, where big beast eats little beast, into an environment where creatures care for one another and behave in a noble fashion aspiring to be worthy of the gifts God has given us.

As such, our reproductive nature is very important part of this. No individual human being, or any other individual animal which only reproduces sexually, can on its own scientifically be considered a life form. This is because reproduction is a qualification for being considered "alive". As an individual man or woman cannot reproduce without the gametes of a partner of the opposite gender, we can only become complete through joining with another human being - our other half, which is the social institution and religious sacrament of marriage.

This is the fundamental relationship in human life, and so the centre of our social psychology. This is where Freud really had it right, even if his interpretation of this fact sometimes seemed wrong and bizarre. It follows that there is a psychological feedback between our sexual instincts and the way we regard other people. Bapak Subuh described sex with one's spouse to be a kind of spiritual exercise in itself - a means by which the soul can be cleaned and healed, so it can grow and develop.

In their book, "Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children", F. Bush and J. McIlhaney describe the manner in which our brain's neuro-chemistry affects our socio-sexual behaviour, in particular the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in making us addicted to love and monogamy. These same instincts also bond parents to their children, and vice versa, cementing the family unit to care for one another.

Thus our human nature is powerfully focused towards the end of pairing for life to produce and care for our children. This then extends outwards, the manner in which we learn to love and care for each other in our family groups is mirrored outwardly to build social institutions to look after the communities, nations and world we live in.

But such an idyllic arrangement is not without its vulnerabilities. There are other parts of our brain not designed for human relationships. The parts of our brain which have evolved to sharpen sticks and stones, forage for food and hunt for prey are very important to survive in the world we live in. They give us the energy to work, eat and go about our material lives. But when they are wrongly applied to our family lives they make us unhelpfully aggressive, and sometimes overly selfish to the point of ruthlessness.

This is what the misuse of sex in today's world reflects. The way vulnerable women, often addicted to drugs or trafficked as children, are bought and sold for sex reflects the dominance of inhumane instincts in society. The way pornography encourages gender hatred and aggression totally inhibits the opportunity for our human nature to express itself. Thus instead of society looking after the vulnerable and weak, it exploits them, beats down the human spirit, and fosters a kind of hell on earth.

It is this kind of psychology that allows degenerate people to take political power and wage wars that destroy everything civilisation has striven to build for millennia. This viscous cycle can only be broken, and the soul healed, through God's grace and through the application of our true human intelligence, working to spread the truth and fix the social ills that harm us morally, psychologically, and sexually.

God created Adam in this world as a complete human soul. Thus, for us to return the heaven God as created for us, we must also be whole, having completed the work God has given us in a manner truly befitting both our unique individuality and the human nature we share in common with the rest of humankind.

Peace, truth and understanding.