Section 3
worlds: the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual; and because man is of three different parts, he is able to contact these three differ ent realms. First of all, there is the physical world, with so many material things. We contact the physical world through the five senses of our phys ical body: hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. Then there is the spiritual world. Is it possible for us to contact the spiritual world by the five senses of our body? Of course not. The spiritual world can only be contacted by our spirit. In our spirit we have the spiritual sense by which we can sense God.
There is also a psychological world, a world which is neither physical nor spiritual. Suppose someone gives you a large sum of money and you are very happy. Does this happiness belong to the physical or to the spiritual world? Happiness, joy, and even sorrow belong to the psychological world. The English word psychology comes from the Greek word psuche translated as soul in the New Testament. Psychology simply means "the study of the soul." So there is the psychological or soulish world, in which there is sorrow and joy. Man has been created in three parts—the spirit (Zech. 12:1), the soul (Jer. 38:16), and the body (Gen. 2:7)—in order that he might contact three