ABSTRACT
The resurrection of the body was promised for the non-mummified. And the effect of ritual and other practices was not to avoid death, but eternal torment. However, this doctrine has proved hard to accept, and for one Christian who believes firmly in the resurrection of the body, probably five believe in the immortality of the soul. The consequence of these religious theories has been disastrous for psychology. The soul has been regarded by philosophers sometimes as a unity, sometimes as a plurality. Philosophers have generally framed their theories of the mind in such a way as to be compatible with the religion of their time; and observed facts have played a subordinate part in framing them. The psychological theory and practice of left-wing Protestantism is based on the fact of conversion. The theories are enormously complicated by the fact that the mind is commonly identified with that aspect or portion of the individual which is believed to survive death.
