I look out the window, sunlight pouring in like an invisible waterfall, sitting on the couch trying to figure out what psychology was to an ancient Egyptian- if ‘psychology’ even existed.

As I am sure we all know, the ancient Egyptians loved ripping up the dead the same way I loved tucking into my dinner tonight, but what were they really looking for by doing it? To understand the body? To understand the mind? Well, if they were hoping to do the latter, they were looking in the wrong place.

They believed that, instead of the brain being the center of human thought, the heart was. In fact, they believed the brain was so unimportant that, when they mummified bodies, they discarded the brain altogether! Pulling it through the nostrils like a game of tug of war. To them, the heart was home to the soul and all intelligence.

The Egyptians did hold great value to their own consciousness, although not in the same way we do. They believed in ‘Ren, Ba, Sheut, Ka and Ib’. These were the foundation of ancient Egyptians’ life and represented your name, soul, energy, hidden thoughts and the mind.

So, although the Egyptians were looking completely in the opposite direction, they were able to see the physical and spiritual values the mind can encompass and were able to generate philosophies from it.