Ethically, one must be careful of what is said concerning real psychology in such an environment as this, but I would like to propose a concrete analogy between particle physics and the far more vague field of psychology. Understand that this is not about what professional psychologists understand, but rather a completely new ontology of psychology from which the entire subject of psychology can be founded (or rebuilt).
In the field of physics there are fundamentally only two concerns, although combinations are often considered separate. Those concerns are known as gravitation and electromagnetic interaction. As it turns out, gravitation is actually made of the electromagnetic interactions (as well as the often mentioned “Strong and Weak forces”). Thus in reality, there is actually only one fundamental concern that leads to all of the more complex concerns in physics. And that is the electromagnetic interaction, positive and negative charge interaction.
In physics, the electromagnetic interaction refers to positive and negative inanimate objects interacting - positive and negative particles (e.g. “electrons, positrons, protons, anti-protons”) attracting and/or repelling, creating motion or waves of charge. In psychology, we have positive and negative urges creating motion, “emotions”. The similarity and analogy between these two fields of science is what I would like to briefly discuss.
Perception of Hope and/or Threat: Emotional Charge
A mind has a perception of hope and of threat, PHT, the positive and negative evaluations of its situation. Its perception might not be at all accurate with objective reality, but the effect on the mind, the “charge”, is the same either way. And from this fundamental understanding, literally ALL psychology effects can be understood … and then of course used for whatever heinous purposes Man endeavors to enact upon himself and other creatures.
In physics, when the positive and negative electromagnetic interactions become furiously fused, “confused”, a cloud or cluster of what we call “mass” is formed. The interactions that require both space and time to occur form our physical reality of subatomic particles. And when the confusion is dense enough, the effect that we call “gravitation” occurs between the clumps or clouds of electromagnetic confusion such as to cause such “particles of mass” to migrate toward each other, forming clumps of “matter”. And the emotional mind has a similar construct deep within, “mass particles of emotion”.
It is easy to realize that there are thoughts that inspire positive or negative urges, feelings, or emotions, the notions often called “good or evil”. Analytically, such thoughts constitute a perception of hope or threat, PHT. And concerning most perceptions, both hope and threat (usefulness or danger) are fused such as to yield a neutral emotional response. A kitchen knife can be used as a threat or as a tool. By in large, the objects and situations that a mind finds itself surrounded by inspire very little emotion because both the perceived positive and negative potential are sufficiently equal. These perceptions constitute the “mass particles” of the spirit, neither good nor bad, merely what is, objects or situations. And interestingly within the mind, they gravitate together to form what “matters” to the mind.
The thought of your newborn baby and the thought of the smelly rat in the basement constitute positive and negatively charged particles of emotion within the mind. The far more prevalent less charged perceptions constitute the neutral mass particles with which the mind must deal while handling the charged issues.
And the extremely complex combination of the many charged and great many more neutral perceptions within the mind form the entirety of one’s perception of reality and dictate the entirely of one’s behavior, one’s “spirit”, one’s psychology.
There is of course, a great, great deal more detail concerning what comes of these mental subatomic charged particles (literally the “why” to every urge, dream, fantasy, or impulse that you have ever had), but a little at a time.