NARCISSISM IN PRAYER

Abstract

Prayer as a human endeavour may be described as an attempt of the human to get in touch with the Divine – the finite reaching out to the Infinite.    As such it can be analysed and understood from a psychological point of view, though the Divine itself transcends any psychological scrutiny.

From this perspective one can describe prayer as authentic and unauthentic.  If in this attempt that one describes as prayer, the human is reaching out to the really Divine, then prayer could be considered as authentic.  If, on the other hand, what is reached out by the finite consciousness is not the really Divine, but something else, that prayer becomes unauthentic.