The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

I did a bit more research and found this on the Ananda Marga Gurukula website.

Psychology

excerpts from the writings Shrii P. R. Sarkar

The study of psychology may be divided into the following main branches:
General Psychology
Bio-Psychology
Parapsychology
Apexed or Pinnacled Psychology

A few quotes from each of the sections other than parapsychology.

1) General Psychology

It has four mental states — ja’grat (wakeful), svapna (dream), sus’upti (sleep) and turiya (transcendental). From a practical point of view, the mind is divided into conscious, subconscious and unconscious portions.

2: Bio-Psychology

Bio-psychology may be divided into several classes

• human psychology;
• psychology of creatures which stand upon two legs, for example, orang-utans;
• psychology of other beings [including monkeys, quadrupeds and other developed animals];
• psychology of reptiles which move through the pressure of the chest but cannot fly;
• psychology of flying creatures, that is, birds;
• psychology of multicellular protozoa, unicellular protozoa, multicellular metazoa and uni-cellular metazoa.

You should all learn the various psychologies of the different groups. You should learn about human psychology in particular, and about non-human animate psychologies.

4) Apexed or Pinnacled Psychology

When the movement of the human mind is not in many lateral directions — north, south, east and west — but towards the Supreme Entity, then the mind becomes apexed, pinnacled. This pointed mind either merges in the Macrocosm, or gives up its individual existence in the Supreme Cognitive Faculty.

Number 4 sounds very much like what others call psycho-spiritual/transcendental psychology.

If classifying all the different aspects of yoga as various forms of psychology was good enough for P .R .Sarkar it should be good enough for anyone following the Ananda Marga spiritual path.