It cannot be denied that the sin and the problems of the Catholic Church can be placed at the feet of humanistic psychology and the sexual revolution... They were Carl Rogers, and Abraham Maslow, together with their new and rising star William R. Coulson, changed the world. Rogers and Maslow are dead but their ideas live on.
We are watching a worldly conclusion, fingerprinting, Santa Rosa Diocese checking fingerprints of priests.
Policy now urges public to report abuse directly to police.
What in the world will this action solve?
We have the "Wizards of the Mind" who realized the folly of their deeds, too late. They discovered that their ideas would continue to destroy not only the Catholic Church, but also the Protestants as well.
They were Carl Rogers, and Abraham Maslow, together with their new and rising star William R. Coulson, changed the world. Rogers and Maslow are dead but their ideas live on … Unfortunately in the lives of priests, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggert, and the rest of us.
William R. Coulson reflects on the ominous words of Carl Rogers, in an interview, Reflections on the Human Potential Movement: An Interview with William Coulson by
Linda Nicolosi.
And she asked this question:
"Did Rogers fulfill the original mission of the human potential movement?"
Coulson answers, "he fulfilled the lower part of the mission, but he betrayed the higher part.
Rogers did have some serious doubts. He wrote one very telling chapter in the l983 revision of his earlier l969 book, Freedom to Learn. This was four years before he died. He called this chapter, "A Pattern of Failure." In it he described disastrous projects like the breakup--through misguided encounter groups--of the Catholic community of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Rogers wrote honestly about those tragedies, although he did blame much of those failures on other people.
That revision of Freedom to Learn didn't sell very well, and when the book was published again after Rogers' death, the self-reflective chapter was removed--tragically, I think--by the editors."
We can only look on with horror, and I can only imagine the pain that Catholics must be going through.
The story in The Press Democrat, on the diocese of Santa Rosa, fingerprinting priests as if this was going to handle future incidents of child molesting… Where in all of the news accounts has anyone looked at the role of psychology in this mess? No ink, no video, zip!
You have only seen it here at Culture Shock and from the lips of William Coulson. And it is a first hand account of the events that started it all. The journals and the power of the written word is compelling. You cannot just sit there when Coulson says, here is what Carl Rogers said about his work, "I started this damn thing and look where it's taking us, I don't know where it is taking me ... places that we may regret", and Coulson adds, " I'm sorry to say that it has."
I must say there is another voice, Diane Alden in her commentary at Newsmax.com, Disassembling the Catholic Church, Public Education and the U.S. Navy,
May 1, 2002, "Over the years our home-grown mind terrorists have done a better job at destroying this nation than the terrorists have.
The front-line troops for the new totalitarians call themselves facilitators and agents of change. In reality they are battery acid, corrupting and corroding everything they touch." Alden goes on, "They call it "ethics" but in reality it is sensitivity training, which evolved out of a weird brand of psychology."
"Weird brand of psychology, mind terrorists" indeed ... Diane take a Newsmax, Culture Shock bow!
You must read her commentary, so thought provoking, it should bring you to your knees in forgiveness.
Mother Angelica, EWTN, once said, "In order for God to do something Miraculous ... you must do something ridiculous, She was speaking of faith in Him to do the miracle."
Getting on our knees would be ridiculous to many these days, even those who considered themselves believers. However, looking at how far the world has taken us, and how deep into self we've gone, the time has come to look up.
Coulson says, "this movement to teach therapeutic methods everywhere — this Too Much Psychology — is not the only cause of the churches present distress; but
as a largely unnoticed cause, it deserves now to be addressed.
Fingerprinting priests strikes down his respect and trust. How can they recover from this terrible blight on the church when they are taking the kinds of measures only the world understands.
Original posting:
Sat Jun 1 11:12:29 2002
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