Psychology

Faculties

See Some Answered Questions, Chapter 56

5 "physical" senses

• smell (also emotion as basic sense?), sound/language, visual, taste, feeling

What Bahá'u'lláh Means by Faculty of Sight and Hearing

"What Bahá'u'lláh means by the faculty of sight and hearing is the physical faculty, not a spiritual abstraction. He means that we have been given eyes and ears to appreciate what goes on in this world, by Almighty God; in other words, we can read the Teachings and listen to the Message of the Prophet. This is to be taken literally."

(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, April 22, 1954, in a letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Monaco, August 5, 1969; in Lights of Guidance, no. 1825)

5 "inner" senses

• (common faculty), imagination, thought, comprehension, memory (Some Answered Questions, Chapter 56, par. 4)

Central topics

(Could discuss here from the perspective of the Bahá'í Writings the processes and motivations underlying social and economic fields, their interaction with the spiritual domain, etc.)

• Bahá'í life
• ego/self
• motivation
• emotions
• dreams
• learning

Other topics

• meditation
• memorization
• metacognition
• study skills

Pseudo-sciences examined by

• psychic
• telepathy

See also

• Applied Psychology