Our Paradigm Shifting Theory

• Human beings have a dual consciousness which consists of a Bodily Ego governed and limited by the evolutionary neurology and biology of the Physical Unit and a powerful Spiritual Ego which is neither limited nor significantly impacted by material reality. Understanding human health, development, and potential—creating Eupsychia—requires an in-depth understanding of the spiritual ego, the bodily ego, and how they interact.
• The primary goal of Human Development is to develop a healthy Physical Unit capable of achieving a strong and persistent Connection between the Spiritual Ego and Bodily Ego.
• In order to develop a healthy Physical Unit with a strong and independent Bodily Ego, all Seven Essential Needs of the individual must be sufficiently met throughout an individual’s lifespan.
• When all of the seven essential needs are sufficiently met, the individual Bodily Ego enters Growth Mode. When in growth mode, the individual devotes time and energy towards creative, humanitarian, and spiritual pursuits.
• When any of the seven essential needs go unmet, the bodily ego incurs significant biological damage. For example, failing to meet a child’s need for nutritious food damages the neurology and physiology of the body, stunting growth and undermining development.
• When any of the seven essential needs are not met, the bodily ego, in an effort to meet them, enters Deficit Mode. While in Deficit Mode, the bodily ego directs energy towards meeting unmet needs.
• When the specific environmental need for a safe home and environment is thwarted, the bodily ego enters Defense Mode. While in defense mode, the bodily ego directs energy towards defending the body from psychological, emotional, physical, or spiritual assault.
• When bodily energy is directed towards overcoming deficits or defending assault, growth is attenuated or deactivated, and physiological, emotional, and psychological development suffers.
• Most currently identified psychopathologies are rooted in a neglected and/or traumatized bodily ego operating chronically in deficit mode, defense mode, or both.
• Being as that the primary motivation of an individual in deficit mode is to meet unmet needs, and being that the primary motivation of an individual in defense mode is to protect itself from assault, a physical unit operating in deficit or defense mode is easy to manipulate and control. Any individual or organization that promises the satisfaction of an essential need or protection from assault may gain control over an individual. By contrast, individuals whose essential needs are sufficiently satisfied and who are not constantly directing energy towards protection are independent, creative, and very difficult to manipulate.
• The goal of psychology is to heal damaged caused by chronic deficits and assaults to the bodily ego may exit deficit and defense mode and direct energy towards healing and growth.
  
  *See Psychological Theory – The SpiritWiki for the most up to date version

• Current political and economic realities are dominated by a predatorial Capitalist Regime of Accumulation (a.k.a. The System), a regime intentionally designed so that a small Accumulating Class can accumulate wealth at the expense of the health, well being, and physical prosperity of the ensorcelled masses.
• The Regime of accumulation consists of four key components, Mechanisms of Accumulation, Mechanisms of Compliance, Mechanisms of Force, and Mechanisms of Reproduction.
  • Mechanisms of Accumulation are the mechanisms and techniques the Accumulating Class uses to extract Labour Value from the Slave Class. These include things like plunder, tribute, rent, taxation, usury, the stock market, and unfair extract of Labour Value.
  • Mechanisms of Compliance are mechanisms by which the Accumulating Class asserts psychological and emotional control over the Slave Class. Under the extant Regime of Accumulation, this involves
    • Symbol Factories that create hegemonic Master Narratives which are then distributed into the consciousness of the [wikiSlave Class[/wiki] via Ideological Institutions.
    • System Agents who use elite master narratives to indoctrinate the Slave Class
    • The intentional disabling of the Slave Class via the application of a violent and neglectful system of Toxic Socialization, a system which undermines human health and well being, diminishes human intelligence and understanding, and places individuals into deficit and defense mode, which makes them compliant and easier to control.
    • According to Ruyle^[1]Ruyle, Eugene E. “Mode of Production and Mode of Exploitation: The Mechanical and the Dialectical.” Dialectical Anthropology 1, no. 1 (1975): 7–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00244565., are the violent means used by the Accumulating Class to physically coerce the Slave Class. Mechanisms of force facilitate the suppression of revolutionary forces, discipline the unruly Slave Class, and facilitate colonial and imperialist expansion.
  • Mechanisms of Force include military, para-military, mercenary, and police forces, as well as parents and teacher who use violence to discipline their students.
  • Mechanisms of Reproduction are mechanisms and techniques by which the Accumulating Class reproduces the Slave Class. This has traditionally involved the brutal enforcement of a Gender Binary which confines women a role as domestically bound reproducers.
• For obvious reasons, the existence of a Regime of Accumulation precludes human health and full human development.

Spirituality

• Spirituality is the process and practice of meeting one’s essential inner needs for aligned connection between the Spiritual Ego and the Bodily Ego.
• Since, as a consequence of the Toxic Socialization process implemented by agents of this planet’s Regime of Accumulation, the bodily ego incurs significant physiological and ideological damage, and since a damaged and indoctrinated bodily ego walking around in deficit and defense modes cannot handle the powerful flows that occur during connection, spirituality also involves a process of healing and aligning the bodily ego so it can properly attain and maintain pure a strong and aligned connection.
• It is the goal of advanced psychological practice to help heal, align, and reconnect the bodily ego to the spiritual ego.
• It is the goal of advanced sociological and political practice to help create new economic systems capable of meeting all seven essential needs.

Cosmology

Psychology

• Sosteric, M., & Ratkovic, G. (2020). Eupsychian Theory: Reclaiming Maslow and Rejecting The Pyramid The Seven Essential Needs. PsyArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fswk9
  Identifies the eurocentric and co-opted nature of Maslow’s motivation theory. Proposes an alternative motivation theory rooted not in Eurocentric hierarchical thinking but in holistic Indigenous thinking.
  
• Sosteric, M., & Ratkovic, G. (2022). It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work. https://www.academia.edu/61410417/
  An article that attempts to advance beyond the dated and Eurocentric theories of Maslow (motivation theory) and Bowlby (attachment theory). Provides a more comprehensive foundation for human health and well being rooted in the Seven Essential Needs.

Sociology

• Miller, D., & Dinan, W. (2008). A Century of Spin. Pluto Press. https://www.academia.edu/2914824/A_Century_of_Spin
  A book that examines the mechanisms of compliance and mechanisms of force the accumulating class uses to discipline and control the masses.
• Sosteric, M. (2016). Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Money and the Economy: Accumulation and Debt. Lightning Path Press.
  A complete expose of the Regime of Accumulating. Includes an enlightening discussion on the nature and purpose of money.
• Sosteric, M. (Director). (2017). Money Moksha. LP Studios. https://youtu.be/Ir0R7yAFiO8
  Companion video to the Rocket Scientists’ Guide to Money and the Economy.