Activism

Psychiatry vs. Spiritual Beliefs & Experiences

Hello, my name is Mark D. English (aka Arjuna D. Ghose), and I am an activist and a spiritual monk of 28 years.

I am protesting the current quality of mental health services and the lack of understanding of consciousness (as well as their propagation that they do) on the part of psychiatrists.

Consciousness is the expertise of spiritual Masters—not scientists or psychiatrists.

“Science does not deal with planes of consciousness; it deals only with the facts that it gets from the physical world. Consciousness is something which science is not approaching and cannot approach.” — Sri Chinmoy, Spiritual Master

Some of my beliefs:

• The pharmaceutical companies are misleading people so that they can make large sums of money, often at the expense of others. For example, they suppress any notion of cures.
• Psychiatrists are misleading society and posing as experts on things they know very little about. People believe them, and as a result, stunt humanity’s progress and cause stigma.
• Many people in society believe psychiatrists have some kind of special insight. This is not true. Most psychiatrists have no greater insight than random people off the street.
• Psychiatrists confuse consciousness as coming solely from physical brain chemistry or genetics. This is not a scientific fact or a spiritual fact.

“While posing as ‘authorities’ on the mind and mental health, psychiatry has no scientific basis for any of its treatments or methods.” — Citizens Commission on Human Rights

More of my beliefs:

• Psychiatry is not a science. Even if it were a science, science will never have the capacity to grasp and examine consciousness.
• In many cases, psychiatry is a backwards “solution” to societal problems. Whereas government funding and legislation should increase focus on preventative measures such as improving love and respect for the children being raised in our society, it often fails to do so, leading to unofficially sanctioned neglect and punishment. Although governmental support is not a quick-fix solution, this should not deter governments from making these investments and improvements.
• Things like Risperidone, Sertraline, Olanzapine, Clozapine, etc. should not be called medicine. They should be called prescription drugs or prescriptives or psychiatric drugs. Although they sometimes help to a limited degree, their primary purpose is to help pharmaceutical companies make money. Real medicines are things like laughter and meditation and spirituality. These are medicines because they actually cure certain mental health issues, whereas prescriptives do not cure—they alleviate or suppress, at best. And there is no limit to the amount of progress you can make with real medicine, which one must understand is a long-term process.

Some of my goals:

• Education and raising awareness
• Psychiatrists (as well as judges and members of a jury) should pray soulfully to the Supreme and meditate on the Light of the Supreme before reaching a diagnosis or verdict.
• Psychiatrists need to recognize that they don’t know what they don’t know and stop masquerading to have knowledge they don’t have.
• In order to gain a better understanding of human consciousness and how to improve mental and spiritual health, psychiatrists should study the writings and words of Spiritual Masters, including Jesus Christ, Mother Meera, Paramahansa Yogananda, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Chinmoy, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Vivekananda, or others.
• Prescribing medication (i.e., prescriptives/psychiatric drugs) should be part of a holistic approach. However, most psychiatrists just focus on prescription medication as though it were the entire solution.

In addition to being an activist, I am also a (Sri Chinmoy disciple) monk. I’ve experienced my own personalized version of Sri Chinmoy Yoga.

You can read about how I got started with my causes in a blog article I wrote here. This blog article talks about:

• A spiritual encounter during which I experienced conscious oneness with the Supreme. I was aware of His presence and intoxicated by Him, which caused some people to wrongly claim I was committing a crime, on drugs, or schizophrenic.

Blog posts such as this will soon be part of my multi-volume memoir, The Struggle Within

“In spiritual communication,
Mental telepathy
Is the beginner’s course.”
~ Sri Chinmoy

You can help by:

• Following me on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram:
  • @burnedactivist
• Checking out my blog article that describes how I was burned:
  • tswbook.net/burn
• Purchasing a product from my shop page
• Telling a friend
• Or simply start with the man in the mirror by practicing daily prayer and meditation, or some sort of increased sincerity.

“Psychiatry makes unproven claims that depression, bipolar illness, anxiety, alcoholism and a host of other disorders are in fact primarily biologic and probably genetic in origin…This kind of faith in science and progress is staggering, not to mention naïve and perhaps delusional.” — Dr. David Kaiser, psychiatrist

As far as I’m concerned, psychiatry as a viable diagnoser and effective helper of mental health is one of the biggest specious arguments on the planet.

(specious [adjective] [spē-shəs]: superficially plausible but actually wrong)