ABSTRACT
In defence of spirituality, mysticism and madness It is not so much the cognition that is important but the music to the cognition that is important. People do not follow logic, they follow magic. In the early 1960s, when I first started reading psychology and thinking psychologically, I’d be about 16 at the time, it really did look as if psychology could change the world. In those days Skinner, Eysenck, Broadbent and Rogers were soaring to prominence. The ambience was upbeat and bullish. We genuinely felt that we could ‘crack the code’ of the human mind, shape human behaviour, understand people’s deepest fears and aspirations and bring harmony and peace to the planet. The future was not physics, it was psychology!
