A decade ago, the\u00a0Royal Society of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0posited that psychiatry had become \u201cthe new religion,\u201d replacing priests with psychiatrists, confessionals with clinics, and prayers with pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n The article concludes that psychiatry is aping religion and is on its way to supplant religion, as Karl Marx said, in becoming \u201cthe opium of the people.\u201d And while Americans sleep in on the Sabbath and their children take psychoactive medications, religion is barred from public school but mental health screenings and evaluations are increasingly common and even mandated. And when someone on psychiatric medication shoots schoolchildren in their classrooms, psychologists and psychiatrists flood in eager to minister. They find the\u00a0Diagnostic and Statistical Manual<\/i>\u00a0their scripture\u2019s lucrative billing code, and place their pharmaceutical host upon the tongues of the afflicted.<\/p>\n This shift is not merely the result of scientific progress or the march of time moving ever further from the founding scriptures of most major religions. The shift from religion to psychiatry is no accident, but a plan carefully orchestrated in the confusion of two great World Wars.<\/p>\n In the 1940s, psychiatrists J.R. Rees and G. Brock Chisholm, cofounders of the World Federation for Mental Health,\u00a0outlined their plans for society<\/a>. \u201cWe have made a useful attack upon a number of professions,\u201d said Rees in 1940. \u201cThe two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo achieve world government,\u201d\u00a0said Chisholm<\/a>, \u201cit is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.\u201d<\/p>\n World War II was a godsend for psychiatrists who\u2014through the armed forces\u2014began to insinuate themselves into government. Rees was appointed to the British War Office and by the end of the war was training the U.S. Office of Strategic Services\u2014which later became the CIA\u2014in psychological warfare.<\/p>\n U.S.\u00a0psychiatrists and the military began experimenting on veterans suffering from \u201cbattle fatigue,\u201d with mind control techniques secretly funded by the government. Flowing from this connection of psychiatry, the military and covert government funding were such abominations as\u00a0MK ULTRA<\/a>,\u00a0Project Artichoke<\/a>, and others that abused the rights of thousands of American citizens by subjecting them to the effects of drugs without their knowledge.<\/p>\n G. Brock Chisholm\u2014who saw individualism, family loyalty, patriotism and religion as obstacles to psychiatric heaven\u2014was appointed to the Canadian Army\u2019s most senior medical position, the director general of medical services. And once entrenched in government and allied with the huge pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry spread.<\/p>\n Such a massive change\u2014from Man the child of God, to Man the animal\u2014does not occur without repercussions. One\u2019s stability is shaken in such a change, and the supplanting of religion by a so-called \u201cmental health\u201d worldview\u2014in which everyone is supposedly mentally unhealthy and in need of psychiatric ministrations\u2014goes much deeper and is much more profound in its confusions.<\/p>\n With unbounded arrogance, psychiatrists began to redefine humanity in their own image as flawed and morally vacant animals, needing drugs, electric shocks, incarceration, rewards and penalties to make them obey and cooperate. According to psychiatry\u2019s worldview, man is not body, mind and spirit. Man is body and mind only and, according to the canons of the profession, the body is the purview of medicine and the mind belongs to the psychiatrist.<\/p>\n In this new psychiatric order, you are not a spiritual entity but a collection of stimulus-response programs running a body through neurons moderated by environmental conditioning and genetic inheritance. By that same reckoning, there is no spirit, no higher power, no innate ethical sense, no right and wrong. God is not only dead, you\u2014the being, soul or spirit\u2014do not exist.<\/p>\n By that same reckoning, a company\u2019s intelligence resides in its telephone system, a video game runs without players, and great acts of charity and compassion are merely conditioned responses to environmental stimuli in hopes of reward. If you love to help others it\u2019s because at some time in the past, you got a treat each time you did. If this sounds like dog training, you\u2019re tuning in to psychiatric reality.<\/p>\n You have no responsibility for your condition or actions. If you kill someone, you are innocent by reason of insanity. There is no good or evil, only chemicals, genetic endowment and the pressures of the environment. Instead of the body and blood of the divine, communion is provided by the now $1 trillion pharmaceutical industry. But unlike oil on troubled waters, the more psychiatry spreads, the more chaos and addiction it brings in the name of its holy of holies: profit and control.<\/p>\n Psychiatry has done much to undermine religious faith.\u00a0Freud thought God a delusion, a sort of crutch for the weak-minded<\/a>. He thought cocaine worked better. And while psychiatry usually avoids a direct attack on religious faith, it has consistently sought to erode it. For example, the\u00a0Diagnostic and Statistical<\/i>\u00a0Manual V<\/i>\u00a0helpfully\u00a0guides the practitioner in differentiating between religious belief and \u201cpsychopathology\u201d<\/a>\u00a0as if psychiatrists had the knowledge or authority to do so.<\/p>\n To bring order to a confusion, one needs a stable datum, a principle around which life can be brought into focus.\u00a0The Constitution<\/a>, the\u00a0Bill of Rights<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0are examples. When an existing stable datum is invalidated, confusion returns. For millennia, even the most primitive of humans believed in a higher power, and in Mankind\u2019s connection to that higher power.<\/p>\n In invalidating religion and attempting to replace the stable datum that \u201cMan is a spiritual being\u201d with \u201cMan is an animal,\u201d psychiatry invalidated a stable datum that travels far down the timeline of Man. And so now, with hydrogen bombs in unstable hands, and populations full of psychiatric medications that create aggression, suicidal ideation and murder, the stage is set for the ultimate confusion: the extinction of the entire human race.<\/p>\n Psychiatry pretends to have answers, but deals exclusively in degradation. Man\u2019s best hope is in religion and the recognition of our spiritual nature.<\/p>\n Today, while religions are learning to live and work together,\u00a0psychiatry has attempted to attack faith and wrest from Man his most basic and profound spiritual nature<\/a>. Who hasn\u2019t looked around and wondered, \u201cWhat is this all about?\u201d<\/p>\n To the psychiatrist, it is as\u00a0Macbeth<\/a>\u00a0said: \u201cLife\u2019s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n Each religious faith has an answer to the questions of life. In my faith of\u00a0Scientology<\/a>, I\u00a0particularly love this quote from our\u00a0Founder, L. Ron Hubbard<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cYou are a spirit. You are your own soul. You are not mortal. You can be free.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scientologist Wayne Hanson\u2019s blog on STAND (Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination) on Psychiatry\u2019s undermining of spirituality: its frontal attack on religion. A decade ago, the\u00a0Royal Society of Medicine\u00a0posited that psychiatry had become \u201cthe new religion,\u201d replacing priests with psychiatrists, confessionals with clinics, and prayers with pharmaceuticals. 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