Jeane Dixon Confessions
Our new religion named The Gloryers, which means Jeane Dixon, will help us to survive when the Armageddon comes and brings the glory to all our practitioners.
Background of The Gloryers
Jeane Dixon who was a famous American astrologer of the 20th century has accurately predicted the futures (Dixon, & Noorbergen, 1971). She prophesied that the Armageddon will come within 100 years, and her prediction is based on what Jesus told her in her dreams. Jesus told Jeane Dixon that only kindness people could survive after Armageddon. However, in the Bible, they did not tell us what means kindness and who can survive. So Dixon is the only one can say who can survive. The Gloryers believes what Dixon said and aimed to make practitioners become kind …show more content…
and immortal.
People tend to believe prophecies because the predictions can feed the desire of human to know the unknown future and people are looking for the answer of how life is the way it is (Lawrence, 1991). Dixon’s prophecy of the doomsdays plus the Armageddon is the combination of a world view which explained time and human existence, although it is not science, it doses explain what human want to know: the future.
People enjoy Self-fulfilling prophecy
The concept of apocalypse evokes an ancient bias and innate in people (Britton, Lissek, Grillon, Norcross, & Pine, 2010). People enjoying this fearful response because some of the apocalyptic believers think that the end is near to be validated. Such as an individual with a traumatic experiences history may because of fatalistic, for these kinds of people, looking for a group of people like-minded fatalists is reassured. For example, the Mayan prophecy (Bradley, 2011), people became comfort in being able to attribute in this event and remove the sense of individual responsibility. The believe of apocalyptic makes the fear of the mortality become predictable (Landes, 2000), such as when a painful experience is predictable, we will become relax and the anxiety produced by uncertainty will not exist. So when people know the apocalypse is predictable and avoidable, they will stop worrying.
The power of knowledge
Karen Douglas (2014) who studied conspiracy theory and suspects that her study subjects share attributes with the people who believe in apocalypse. She pointed out that the feeling of powerlessness is connected to a mistrust in authority, this conviction of mistrust make the conspiracies more real and precious because people will feel like they have the knowledge that other people do not have. Douglas (2010) also pointed out that the research of persuasion psychology has found that the people who believe apocalypse most are more motivated to share and broadcast theirs believes. That’s one of the reasons why people do believe in Mayan apocalypse in 2012, and we hope that the same thing can happen on The Gloryers.
The fear of death
Ellis, Wahab, & Ratnasingan (2013) found that religiosity has a negatively correlated with the decreased fear of death, meaning that religious fear death less. Although that is no association between religiosity and the anxiety of death, another study (Krause, & Bastida, 2012) has found that people who have a strong sense of religion will have a lower sense of anxiety about death. So the Gloryers provide a change to help the previously non-religiosity people to join our new religion to reduce the fear of death and try to avoid death when the apocalypse comes by uniting the same believe practitioners together.
The rituals and practices of religion mean the religious people perform the collection of behaviours as part of the conduction (Bell, Catherine,1997). The rituals can result in religion ecstasy and the religion experiences of spirit possession (Lambek, Behrend, & Luig, 2001). The Gloryers’ rituals involved a weekly worship ceremony. The worship ceremony is a time for practitioners to do confessional, chanting, sacrifice, meditation and yoga.
Having rituals can maintain the regular contact with social contingencies (Guerin, 1992) and also provide the opportunity to monitor the social control maintenance. The social contingency analysis suggested that the function of the ritual is to influence, shape and organize the people in the society (Banks, 1995; Barth, 1987; Bloch, 1992), and the already-valuable objects sever to monitor and shape the behaviour by making them contingent on the other behaviour (Guerin, 1997).
Confession
Confession is the way that practitioners coming clean and sharing unethical acts in order to reduce negative emotions such as guilt (Peer, Acquisti, & Shalvi, 2014).
Previous studies (Gneezy, 2005; Hilbig & Hessler, 2013; Lundquist et al., 2009) had shown that people feel good while doing bad things by limited the amount of cheating (Mazar et al., 2008). The current study also showed that when some people involved in unethical behaviour, they may seek to regain their credibility by doing confessions. Confession always benefits the confessor, Paul Wilkes (2012) suggested that confession has the ability to relieve anxieties while keeping it secret. Confessor may undertake the social confession to relieve guilt and seek forgiveness from a wronged party, but confession may create social bonds between confessor and the person they are speaking to, so The Gloryers’ confession format will be confessor speaking to the statue of Dixon in order to reduce the problem of social bonds, also The Gloryers create a chance for practitioners to reduce the feeling of guilt and a rehabilitation chance in order to become …show more content…
kindness.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the practice of offering food and object or lives animals (Briggs, 2011).
A psychological explanation of doing sacrifice is about the unconscious and conscious motivations which mean the desire to maintain or restore a constructive relationship leads people to do sacrifice. James suggested that if the pattern of the relationship is broken, then something must be done to wipe out the offence in order to re-establish the vital union upon, which the welfare of the group an the individual depends on (James, 1962). James also said that if the relationship is breaded because of the nature of human, the evil had to be purged; confessions can transfer the sin to the animals (Girard, Pattillo, & Dawson, 2011). However in The Gloryers, as one of our belief is animatism which means no killing so we will use paper food and animal instead of the real one in order to rebuild the broken
relationship.
Meditation
Meditation is a religion practice in which the practitioner trains their mind and induces the mode of consciousness (Ozaniec, 2006). The goal of it is to quiet and focus an individual mind and help them to reach a higher level of awareness. B.L. Fredrickson’s (2013) suggested the broaden-and-build theory, which is about the positive emotions asserts that human’s experience of positive emotion compounded to build a consequential personal resource. The experience of his hypothesis showed the result that the meditation practice can provide positive emotions and increase personal resources such as the increased mindfulness, social support, purpose in life etc, and the increase of the personal resource can increase the life satisfaction and reduced the feeling of depression and guilt.
Taboo
In The Gloryers, our taboo is no killing because we believe in animatism; therefore we promote the concept of vegetarianism, which means abstaining from the consumption of meat (Dyczewska, 2008). We also believe that killing an animal is like killing a human, eating meat is not necessary. Taboo can provide the escape from the killing activities associated with anxiety activities (Homans, 1941). The activity of taboo is useful in the socially contingent arrangement because it seems to need some regular maintenance of the aversion. However those groups should promote aversion of eating meat rather than promoting the taboo can reduce anxiety because the social consequences of social control though the probability behaviour may be lost (Peer, Acquisti, & Shalvi, 2014). Therefore in our religion, we will promote the aversion of eating meat by saying meat is dirty.
Volunteering and Donation
In The Gloryers, we required our practitioners to do some volunteer works in order to become kindness because it can extend far beyond the sense of accomplishment and a warm heart. Nevertheless, volunteering have a strong correlation between mental health and volunteering, in addition, to have a strong social connections and lower stress. Mark Snyder and E. Gil Clary (1999) suggested that volunteering can help people to strengthen social ties and reduce guilt. Also, the behaviour of helping may do with self-categorization as a group member.
Conclusion
The creation of The Gloryers is based on the history of Armageddon in the bible and the prediction of Jeane Dixon who said that the Armageddon will come within 100 years. One of the believes of The Gloryers is that Dixon is the only one people who can say who can survive from the Armageddon, another believe of our religion is about the practitioners need to become kindness, therefore, survive from the doomsday. Our rituals and practices are mainly focused on reducing the feeling of guilt of our practitioners by doing confession, sacrifice and meditation. For our practitioner's behaviour, as only people can survive, we required our practitioners need to do something that contributes the society.
Background of The Gloryers
Jeane Dixon who was a famous American astrologer of the 20th century has accurately predicted the futures (Dixon, & Noorbergen, 1971). She prophesied that the Armageddon will come within 100 years, and her prediction is based on what Jesus told her in her dreams. Jesus told Jeane Dixon that only kindness people could survive after Armageddon. However, in the Bible, they did not tell us what means kindness and who can survive. So Dixon is the only one can say who can survive. The Gloryers believes what Dixon said and aimed to make practitioners become kind …show more content…
and immortal.
People tend to believe prophecies because the predictions can feed the desire of human to know the unknown future and people are looking for the answer of how life is the way it is (Lawrence, 1991). Dixon’s prophecy of the doomsdays plus the Armageddon is the combination of a world view which explained time and human existence, although it is not science, it doses explain what human want to know: the future.
People enjoy Self-fulfilling prophecy
The concept of apocalypse evokes an ancient bias and innate in people (Britton, Lissek, Grillon, Norcross, & Pine, 2010). People enjoying this fearful response because some of the apocalyptic believers think that the end is near to be validated. Such as an individual with a traumatic experiences history may because of fatalistic, for these kinds of people, looking for a group of people like-minded fatalists is reassured. For example, the Mayan prophecy (Bradley, 2011), people became comfort in being able to attribute in this event and remove the sense of individual responsibility. The believe of apocalyptic makes the fear of the mortality become predictable (Landes, 2000), such as when a painful experience is predictable, we will become relax and the anxiety produced by uncertainty will not exist. So when people know the apocalypse is predictable and avoidable, they will stop worrying.
The power of knowledge
Karen Douglas (2014) who studied conspiracy theory and suspects that her study subjects share attributes with the people who believe in apocalypse. She pointed out that the feeling of powerlessness is connected to a mistrust in authority, this conviction of mistrust make the conspiracies more real and precious because people will feel like they have the knowledge that other people do not have. Douglas (2010) also pointed out that the research of persuasion psychology has found that the people who believe apocalypse most are more motivated to share and broadcast theirs believes. That’s one of the reasons why people do believe in Mayan apocalypse in 2012, and we hope that the same thing can happen on The Gloryers.
The fear of death
Ellis, Wahab, & Ratnasingan (2013) found that religiosity has a negatively correlated with the decreased fear of death, meaning that religious fear death less. Although that is no association between religiosity and the anxiety of death, another study (Krause, & Bastida, 2012) has found that people who have a strong sense of religion will have a lower sense of anxiety about death. So the Gloryers provide a change to help the previously non-religiosity people to join our new religion to reduce the fear of death and try to avoid death when the apocalypse comes by uniting the same believe practitioners together.
The rituals and practices of religion mean the religious people perform the collection of behaviours as part of the conduction (Bell, Catherine,1997). The rituals can result in religion ecstasy and the religion experiences of spirit possession (Lambek, Behrend, & Luig, 2001). The Gloryers’ rituals involved a weekly worship ceremony. The worship ceremony is a time for practitioners to do confessional, chanting, sacrifice, meditation and yoga.
Having rituals can maintain the regular contact with social contingencies (Guerin, 1992) and also provide the opportunity to monitor the social control maintenance. The social contingency analysis suggested that the function of the ritual is to influence, shape and organize the people in the society (Banks, 1995; Barth, 1987; Bloch, 1992), and the already-valuable objects sever to monitor and shape the behaviour by making them contingent on the other behaviour (Guerin, 1997).
Confession
Confession is the way that practitioners coming clean and sharing unethical acts in order to reduce negative emotions such as guilt (Peer, Acquisti, & Shalvi, 2014).
Previous studies (Gneezy, 2005; Hilbig & Hessler, 2013; Lundquist et al., 2009) had shown that people feel good while doing bad things by limited the amount of cheating (Mazar et al., 2008). The current study also showed that when some people involved in unethical behaviour, they may seek to regain their credibility by doing confessions. Confession always benefits the confessor, Paul Wilkes (2012) suggested that confession has the ability to relieve anxieties while keeping it secret. Confessor may undertake the social confession to relieve guilt and seek forgiveness from a wronged party, but confession may create social bonds between confessor and the person they are speaking to, so The Gloryers’ confession format will be confessor speaking to the statue of Dixon in order to reduce the problem of social bonds, also The Gloryers create a chance for practitioners to reduce the feeling of guilt and a rehabilitation chance in order to become …show more content…
kindness.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the practice of offering food and object or lives animals (Briggs, 2011).
A psychological explanation of doing sacrifice is about the unconscious and conscious motivations which mean the desire to maintain or restore a constructive relationship leads people to do sacrifice. James suggested that if the pattern of the relationship is broken, then something must be done to wipe out the offence in order to re-establish the vital union upon, which the welfare of the group an the individual depends on (James, 1962). James also said that if the relationship is breaded because of the nature of human, the evil had to be purged; confessions can transfer the sin to the animals (Girard, Pattillo, & Dawson, 2011). However in The Gloryers, as one of our belief is animatism which means no killing so we will use paper food and animal instead of the real one in order to rebuild the broken
relationship.
Meditation
Meditation is a religion practice in which the practitioner trains their mind and induces the mode of consciousness (Ozaniec, 2006). The goal of it is to quiet and focus an individual mind and help them to reach a higher level of awareness. B.L. Fredrickson’s (2013) suggested the broaden-and-build theory, which is about the positive emotions asserts that human’s experience of positive emotion compounded to build a consequential personal resource. The experience of his hypothesis showed the result that the meditation practice can provide positive emotions and increase personal resources such as the increased mindfulness, social support, purpose in life etc, and the increase of the personal resource can increase the life satisfaction and reduced the feeling of depression and guilt.
Taboo
In The Gloryers, our taboo is no killing because we believe in animatism; therefore we promote the concept of vegetarianism, which means abstaining from the consumption of meat (Dyczewska, 2008). We also believe that killing an animal is like killing a human, eating meat is not necessary. Taboo can provide the escape from the killing activities associated with anxiety activities (Homans, 1941). The activity of taboo is useful in the socially contingent arrangement because it seems to need some regular maintenance of the aversion. However those groups should promote aversion of eating meat rather than promoting the taboo can reduce anxiety because the social consequences of social control though the probability behaviour may be lost (Peer, Acquisti, & Shalvi, 2014). Therefore in our religion, we will promote the aversion of eating meat by saying meat is dirty.
Volunteering and Donation
In The Gloryers, we required our practitioners to do some volunteer works in order to become kindness because it can extend far beyond the sense of accomplishment and a warm heart. Nevertheless, volunteering have a strong correlation between mental health and volunteering, in addition, to have a strong social connections and lower stress. Mark Snyder and E. Gil Clary (1999) suggested that volunteering can help people to strengthen social ties and reduce guilt. Also, the behaviour of helping may do with self-categorization as a group member.
Conclusion
The creation of The Gloryers is based on the history of Armageddon in the bible and the prediction of Jeane Dixon who said that the Armageddon will come within 100 years. One of the believes of The Gloryers is that Dixon is the only one people who can say who can survive from the Armageddon, another believe of our religion is about the practitioners need to become kindness, therefore, survive from the doomsday. Our rituals and practices are mainly focused on reducing the feeling of guilt of our practitioners by doing confession, sacrifice and meditation. For our practitioner's behaviour, as only people can survive, we required our practitioners need to do something that contributes the society.