Psyche's Exile: an empirical odyssey in search of the soul

Jerry Kroth

Jan 2011 · Genotype

About this ebook

Psyche’s Exile: an empirical odyssey in search 

of the soul. 

“Psyche” means “soul” in Greek, and “psychology” literally means ‘the study of the soul.’  For over a century American psychology has gone in precisely the opposite direction. Soul = mind, and mind = brain with no exceptions! This reductionist paradigm is challenged in this book as Professor Kroth reviews eight politically incorrect, ‘forbidden’ databases in his empirical pursuit of the immortal soul of the ages: near-death experiences, deathbed visions, precognitive dreams, premonitions, synchronicity, telepathy, states of possession, just to name a few. The journey leads to a fascinating rediscovery of the soul.

Reviews

“Psyche’s Exile . . is an absolute treasure trove of carefully collected experiential and experimental data spanning the research areas of anthropology, sociology, religion, spirituality, psychology, and physics. Although we are still some human evolutionary time away from experimentally proving the existence of the human soul, there is certainly enough good data available at present to make it a viable working hypothesis. Dr. Kroth is dedicated to his craft as a professional explorer of nature in its many forms. For myself, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this book to my scientific colleagues and my friends.”

—William A. Tiller, Ph.D., professor of physics: Stanford University;

Author of Science and Human Transformation 

 

Ratings and reviews

Very comprehensive and insightful presentation. Dr. Kroth makes his argument slowly building on psychic dreams, premonitions, telepathy, near death experiences, until he takes you gently to the inevitable conclusion. Masterful. Five stars! R Greenspan

I would suggest this to ANYONE, ever, period. There may be a handful of spelling errors throughtout, but do not let that tarnish the whole of the message within and without of this ~ 400 page text.

Psyche’s Exile . . is an absolute treasure trove of carefully collected experiential and experimental data spanning the research areas of anthropology, sociology, religion, spirituality, psychology, and physics. Although we are still some human evolutionary time away from experimentally proving the existence of the human soul, there is certainly enough good data available at present to make it a viable working hypothesis. Dr. Kroth is dedicated to his craft as a professional explorer of nature in its many forms. For myself, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this book to my scientific colleagues and my friends. —William A. Tiller, Ph.D., professor of physics: Stanford University; Author of Science and Human Transformation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whether atheist, agnostic, or believer, only a rigidly closed-minded person, could ever find this book anything but fascinating. It is the most intellectually exciting, page-turning voyage of discovery I have been on for a very long time. — Jeff Kisling, Ph.D., psychotherapist, Palo Alto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am enthralled! This is a refreshing leap from the encrusted time-worn answers we were all raised to believe. I particularly loved the objectivity, depth of knowledge, and the understandings of images and symbols. I have no doubt this book will be greeted as a significant contribution. —William Yabroff, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Pacifica Graduate School Author of The Inner Image ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A well written, erudite book, easily available to the average reader, with or without a scientific background. Whether one recognizes the soul or not, the book is a huge help in understanding our world and will provide the iconoclastic reader with a new birth of freedom and hope. After reading Psyche’s Exile, I expect my death will lead to “the best of times.” —Robert McFarland, M.D., psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for Psychohistory: Boulder, Colorado ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This work has the potential to remind us that all of our most sophisticated and elaborate scientific procedures are, after all, limited only to what the senses—or their extensions—can access. This work. . . could very well be on the leading edge of a “paradigm shift” in the study of psychology.  Professor Kroth brings both a depth and a breadth of scholarship to the task of expanding the boundaries of psychological thought beyond its usual attempts to imitate the so-called “hard sciences.” —Walter Moretz, M.Div., Ph.D, Professor Emeritus, Pastoral Psychology, George Mason University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Robert Waller, MD, psychiatry: A helpful historical overview of how the soul has been replaced with political (Marxist) and physiological (reductionist) theories. . . Jungian ideas about archetypes and universal consciousness are often used. . . . . The destination. . . that of a transpersonal psyche, or interconnectedness, is something that people of faith will easily identify with.

About the author

Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the graduate counseling psychology program at Santa Clara University in California.  His academic assignments have included courses in psychotherapy and personality theory, dreamwork, and research methods.  Dr. Kroth has an abiding therapeutic interest in working with dreams, personal oracles, and the applications of dream theory to psychohistory and collective psychology.  Jerry has been a member of the International Psychohistorical Association since 1983.

  

Dr. Kroth’s twelve prior books were in the areas of counseling psychology, child sexual abuse, learning disorders, metapsychology, transpersonal psychology, and research methodology. In addition he has written and presented over seventy-five papers on anxiety, child development, mass psychology, synchronicity, experimental studies of the dream process, the psychology of propaganda and collective psychology. Professor Kroth lives in California with his wife and two daughters. He maintains a website: collectivepsych.com

His most recent books are listed below:

• Conspiracy in Camelot: the complete history of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

• Psyche’s Exile: an empirical odyssey in search of the soul. 

• Duped! Delusion, denial, and the end of the American dream 

• The Lindbergh kidnapping: mobs, mass psychology, and myth. 

• Aliens and Man: a synopsis of facts and beliefs. 

• Omens and Oracles: collective psychology in the nuclear age.