[No data] by A critical review of positive psychology

Author:A critical review of positive psychology
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

I shall plough in it and I shall reap in it.

I shall have sex in it and I shall be content in it.

(Wilkinson, 2010, p. 142)

Of the various trials and tribulations that the deceased had to overcome, perhaps the one that most captures the imagination, and the one that influenced a number of religions, especially Christianity, is the idea of a last judgement. The early Egyptian text The Book of Two Ways describes the first stage of judgement as The Island of Fire, which only those who were good enough were allowed to pass through, whereas those who were evil were consumed in flames. There next occurred a ‘calculation of differences’, in which the person’s good deeds were weighed against bad deeds. This took place on a giant set of scales, a symbol still used to this day in the form of the scales of justice. Maat, the goddess of truth, weighed the deceased’s heart, in which the Egyptians believed that the mind, emotions and memories resided, against the feather of truth, a procedure later elaborated on in the Book of the Dead (e.g. Tyldesley, 2011). Because of the importance of the heart for the Egyptians, it was the only internal organ that was left inside the mummified body. In contrast, the brain was always removed because its function was not understood and therefore not thought to be needed in the afterlife. (It sounds like there must be some fairly numbskull pharaohs wandering around paradise not knowing where the hell they are.) Anyway, those who were judged to be sufficiently ‘light-hearted’ became the blessed dead and were allowed to pass into paradise, the Field of Reeds. In contrast, those who were ‘heavy-hearted’ were punished in the place of destruction, which, by the time of the New Kingdom had transformed into Ammit, the beast of destiny who fed on the damned.

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