ABSTRACT

An hallucination comes about through a discharge of a hated element from within onto the outer, whereas a true perception comes about through an inner element that is embraced or loved. So what distinguishes the real from the false is whether inner elements are loved or hated. Concepts that are appropriate for the study of the natural world have been imported into the scientific study of the human world. The positivist approach to reality is meaningful if applied to the inanimate world, but it fails utterly when the same principles are applied to the intentional activity of human beings. It was a very exciting discovery that the difference between reality and unreality is based on two different inner emotional activities that attract the judgements of good and the bad. Consequently a natural science of men treated as purely natural entities, on a par with rivers and plants and stones rested on a cardinal error.