Questioning the Basics of Psychology and Leadership

The global economy has been exploited by commerce, trade liberalization, and economic growth for the purpose of narrow corporate interests, which has neglected the production and distribution of resources essential to life. The exploitation and negligence has occurred despite the fact that businesses are being closely monitored for transparency, fair and dignified treatment of employees, and other acts of social responsibility. The result is social worthlessness, fundamental mutual distrust in and among businesses and related organizations, job stress and, consequently, mental-health complaints.

In order to disentangle the underlying paradigm that upholds the present status quo, promote self-management and create work-life synergy, the following common interactive faculties are outlined and substantiated as separate, integrative and culturally unbiased: (a) awareness, (b) ego or inner �I,� (c) intuition, (d) sleep-dream, (e) Unconsciousness, (f) death, (g) spirituality�I-awareness � holistic awareness � pure awareness�soul.   This angle and approach can be corroborated by considering several observations. Memories and awareness are not localized in the brain. After near-death experiences, some patients reported clarity of consciousness from a position out and above their dead body, in which memory from early childhood occurred independently from the normal body-linked waking consciousness. They noted reviewing every thought and deed in their lives, and how they made others feel. These are not fragmented and random memories, but they come in sequential order, heightening empathy and intuition overtime. This ghost in near-death experiences learns how vital proper self-management is to integrate our self for inner growth.

Consequently, the free, self-conscious, and willful integrative function of the ego is of vital importance to stimulating self-management, including emotional integration. During this cognitive process, seven strategic principles of self-actualization can be inferred (to fulfill our potential). This reflective journey takes us from the gross surface through the depths of the mind and occurs in four major phases�(1) self-awareness growing into self-knowledge and self-esteem, followed by (2) personal, (3) transpersonal and (4) spiritual psycho-synthesis (i.e., experiencing past and present as continuous, meaningfully building on each other, and benefiting inner growth).

Connecting the conclusions to businesses, 11 main lessons in managing business demands can be validated to advance corporate psycho-synthesis and create work-life synergy; after all, only people are capable of acting, indicating that a business should operate like a living organism.  Work-life synergy integrates nonmaterial and material needs, aspirations, and encounters. This creates a free spirit, or inner freedom, to realize our vocation or calling in developing the skills, talents and passion in order to fulfill our potential, increase productivity, and acquire a sound paradigm that adds meaning and joy to work, life and society, including enabling graceful detachment when the time comes. Productivity specifically covers competency (skills, preferences and attitude) development and consumer/societal trust (soft economic aspects) and profitability (the hard economic aspect).  

Without the ability to change past events or situations, this trajectory of advancing personal and corporate psycho-synthesis also enables us to review and rewrite our biography, if necessary, as a matter of free perceptual choice and give more meaning and purpose to life. As far as can be verified, these approaches are not previously employed.

In the light of spiritual psycho-synthesis, the traditional concept of personal karma as a law of cause and effect is redefined and validated as a self-regulating living-principle, pressing for self-fulfillment while experiencing the transience of earthbound pleasures. Experiencing the transience of sensory pleasures during this process, we gradually can learn to detach from them, gracefully leaving all earthbound matters behind.  According to the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, the Truth is ever-present and can only be experienced in the absence of the self. The quantum physicist David Bohm agreed with Krishnamurti that the Truth is not subjected to conditioning and therefore cannot be comprehended by the personal consciousness; it can only be experienced in a state of thoughtlessness, when the thinker becomes the thought, or when the observer becomes the observed, roughly by analogy with the observation in quantum physics that reality involves both, the observer and the observed. 

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