How can we understand the existence of 'God' if we take it from a purely psychological perspective?

Some of you might be 'turned off' or skeptical because I use phrases like 'God's will' or 'written by the hand of God'.

Since this is a good opportunity, I would like to explain that, in fact, the existence of 'God', or more precisely, the experience of a 'God-like' entity that exists apart from one's own will and thoughts, monitoring and controlling oneself, can be properly explained at the level of psychology.

Are you familiar with the concept of 'dissociation' within defense mechanisms?

To put it simply, it means there is a 'sub-personality' within a person that is separate from the 'primary personality'.

What if these two personalities switched without any warning?

It means that the person cannot recognize 'a certain part of a certain period' of what they have done as their own actions.

Think about when you misplace something.

Until the moment they misplace the item, the person has unconsciously placed it somewhere.

In other words, there is no continuity between the personality that 'made' them misplace the item and the personality that 'realizes they didn't realize' it was misplaced.

It can be thought that the personality suddenly switches, and the original personality has entered something like a siding track.

In this way, the perception that 'God' gave a 'punishment' because there was a problem with one's own actions in 'making' them misplace the item is established.

Do you understand now?

This kind of 'God' is technically called a 'higher self' (an existence of a higher-dimensional self).

As that person becomes aware of the existence of the 'higher self,' what was initially a 'switched personality' gradually becomes an existence with which one can 'dialogue'.

However, if you do not treat it with a sufficiently reverent attitude as an awe-inspiring existence, a troublesome phenomenon of 'degradation' of the higher existence itself will occur.

In other words, it becomes a 'fake savior,' a mere 'fortune-telling guardian deity,' a deceiving 'fox spirit,' or at worst, the whispers of a 'witch' or 'demon'.

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If we look at it this way, in the past, didn't people naturally 'actually' hear the voices of 'God' or 'demons,' and didn't virtuous people 'dialogue' with them?

Don't you think that the majority of modern people who can no longer experience such existences are lonely and in a precarious state?