3. “better educated modern city folks who
think of these experiences as nothing
more than fraud,myths,superstitions or
imagination run wild typically of
gullible,uneducated minds.”
4. Results from investigations in
the three topic areas
1. The psychology of Filipino
medico-religious therapy and
counseling
5. The religious elements in
Samar-Leyte folk medicine
and the psychology of
various folk healers:
13. Filipino Religious Psychology –
To bind himself to God and God to
him,
To enter into a union with the infinite
and the Almighty
14. Bulatao states:
Fasting- change of consciousness in
religious meaning,to prepare for mystic
prayer and union but these are seen as
direct working of the Holy Spirit.
15. The psychological dynamics of certain
religious practices – the Holy Week
flagellantes, the cursillo experience
even spirit of the glass are discussed in
the light of ASC.
24. Quisimbing in her paper on the devotion to
the Senor Sto.Nino of Cebu explains:
Social function exercised in religious contexts
and situations enhanced social cohesiveness
and organizations.
28. Mass hypnosis by Ecleo
(founder and head of the
PBMA.
Supernatural powers by
Valentin de los
Santos(Lapiang Malaya)
29. Leadership is holistic
Leadership described as ascribing some sort of
supernatural powers.
Leaders benefited from the material return of
their “mission”.