Adults With Imaginary Friends Who Believe Demons Are In The Room Are Mentally Ill

The psychological science has said this for a long time. Disordered culture is getting in the way.

There is no reason to take any religious cult belief seriously except as a symptom of serious mental illness when it involves imaginary powerful friends and beliefs that demons are in the room with people.

Cultural narratives do not ‘save the phenomenon’ in favour of cult doctrines and beliefs. Instead — cultural psychiatry and cultural psychology properly interpreted and deployed tell us that given the availability of the scientific episteme and science education since at least the early 1900s, no sane peson should be entertaining the idea that there are actual demons or demonic forces in the room with people.

In other words, according to properly appraised and applied cultural psychology and psychiatry such beliefs are clearly deranged and delusional. Mentally well people do not use such explanations for outcomes in real life situations.

Only mental patients with serious personality disorders and mental disorders should be claiming that demons and gods did causal things in their lives or anyone else’s life — let alone that other people should consequently adjust their values, beliefs, and behaviour.

To do such is the very definition of deranged, delusional ideation and disordered thinking.

Put simply — such beliefs are the unequivocal sign that the persons having them are mad, and are mental patients who should be receiving treatment.

Again — cultural psychology points in this direction, not to the opposite conclusion. To claim otherwise is irrational and irresponsible, if not just insane. A prevailing cultural narrative by modern and contemporary standards must have the unequivocal and publicly demonstrable support of replicable scientific experiments with repeatable results.

If something — anything — causes effects in the material or physical world, then — no matter what one’s definition of ‘the physical’ is — that thing must be capable of causally interacting with quantum fields. Quantum fields are unequivocally physical, and subject to physical experimentation (just as quantum systems can be physically interacted with in a bubble chamber). Therefore anything that causally interacts with them is also necessarily physical, and should be in-principle subject to physical experimentation.

Anything else is not real according to science. Science delivered our laptops, smartphones, microwaves, vehicles, airliners, vaccines, surgeries, and computer networks. Nothing else did this. Materialistic, physicalist science did this.

The same science — which is more reliable in every factual way than anything cults like Christianity and Islam and their narratives have ever offered — unequivocally tells us that demons are fictions. If such allegedly active entities existed science would necessarily have detected them long ago.

It hasn’t. They’re imaginary.

The point it that every sane person knows this. The only people that don’t know it are either ignorant of publicly available science and scientific narratives, or are mentally disordered.

Every person who has been through primary or secondary school in every first world nation knows the basic scientific explanatory narratives and has a smartphone and The Internet in their hand. They cannot reconcile such knowledge with belief in demons without mental illness being a factor.

Moreover, every minimally educated person in the first world has access to adequate sound narratives about mental health and psychological science. Even adolescents are able to discern that one doesn’t use an explanation based on magic or the supernatural when there are multiple, rational explanations based on natural science laid out before them. Certainly for adults to do otherwise is an unequivocal demonstration of either mischief, or else epistemic irrationality pertaining unequivocally to mental disorder.

Demons are not in the room with us now. To claim otherwise is clearly to be insane.

The problem with psychiatric and psychological science at the moment is that it — well — has problems:

I don’t have much argument with rejecting 1), 2), 4), 5), and 6).

As for 3) — unless De La Hara is referring to the philosopher’s god (which is a useful fiction like perfect spheres, centers of gravity, and frictionless surfaces) then either he’s got an agenda, or else he’s as nutty as a fruitcake and completely epistemically irrational.

It is only a tweet, and he does say ‘philosophical theism’, but he seems to be including theist philosophers who think demons are in the room with them.

If so — then frankly — he shouldn’t be a practicing psychiatrist. At all.

Adults who think demons are in the room with them and causally influencing people are mentally ill adults. There is simply no way out of this. Certainly not via cultural psychology.

Prevailing normative explanatory cultural narratives are scientific. Not magical. Not supernatural. Scientific. There are good reasons for this as mentioned above. Your laptop — for example.

There are no demons in your laptop. That’s a scientifically reliable statement. If I had made the opposite statement — you could justifiably have me committed.

Adults who insist that they’re personal friends with some god of the universe, that we all should follow suit (or else the demons will get us!) and that the god being is causally interacting with them either directly or from a distance: also mentally unstable people.

However, De La Hara is one of these (Freemasonic?) guys who insists on looking good for the world cameras. (Maybe he’s not a Mason and just has a lot of religious relatives — some of whom he stands to get an inheritance from — whom he doesn’t want to annoy or offend!)

(What has this got to do with Freemasons?? Read the following article:)

Yet — no matter what list De La Hara makes — adults who believe in demons and have imaginary power friends are exhibiting clear signs of epistemic irrationality and delusional disorder. It doesn’t matter how much one stands on one’s credentials — this will still be objectively true.

Psychiatry and psychology have had serious systemic problems as recently as 2010s with the striking reproducibility crisis. Yet there is a far bigger problem with them. It is the ridiculous and unscientific deployment of cultural psychiatry to mis-frame religious schizophrenia as mentally healthy.

That situation won’t last even with Freemasons and other social engineers protecting it for the purposes of keeping the masses happy with children’s fairytales and horror movie narratives. There are no demons or demonic forces, and those who believe in them are deranged.

It’s the information age we’re living in. Not the Dark Ages. Get with the scientific narratives and the epistemically rational program.

Especially if you’re a practicing psychiatrist.

Jung was a nut. He might have been brilliant, but he was either delusional or else having a piece of everyone. Most of his contemporaries — and certainly Freud — were atheist and had the exact view I am espousing here.

Remember —scientists Godel and Nash were also brilliant, but they were schizophrenics with deranged ideation and delusions. Jung was either having people on for career benefit and the sake of variety, or he was insane.

De La Hara is not to be taken seriously except as a candidate for professional psychiatric board review. (Of course — the abovementioned problems with contemporary psychiatry being defective must be factored in!)