Cosmic Motivational Psychology: Guṇas Affect Cognition

Abstract

Considerable attention by scholars and scientists has been given to the differences  between science and spirituality. However, could there be a cause or a substratum between these two subjects that is shared? Little attention has been directed to the possibility of cosmic energetics being responsible for the creation of the universe. This includes our world of time, space, forms, creatures, processes, cycles, science, humankind, ideas, and thought processes. This paper aims to delve behind the created universe and into a cosmological dimension that existed prior. During the earliest period of creation, there may have been cosmic forces responsible for the first micro-organisms, processes, stages, elements, and all creation. Some people claim that creation was performed by a divine being or God; others claim that the creation of the universe was a natural process of cosmic intelligence. Either due to a divine cosmic being orchestrating a substratum of cosmic forces or due to a phenomenon of cosmic intelligence, the entire creation occurred. Science, philosophy, spirituality, and psychology all have an interest in what exists beyond materiality. Perhaps the concept of consciousness used by scientists, the concept of transcendence used by religions, and transformation used by psychology have a common denominator for transpersonal change.