The future of psychology is going to be altogether different to what it has been up to now: a great change is going to take over -- almost a new birth for psychology.
There are in the East many trends developed down the centuries. Just be an open mind and find out as many things and absorb them. And don't be worried whether two things are consistent or not -- just go on absorbing. Out of the criss-crossing of many things, a synthesis arises on its own accord... not a synthesis made by you but it comes out of the meeting, the cross-breeding of many many trends.
India has worked down the centuries for at least five thousand years and has worked out a totally different outlook -- a totally different image of man through yoga, tantra. In the far east, taoists have developed a totally different image of man... zen has evolved many things. And these techniques -- T'ai Chi Chuan, Aikido, Karate -- all have fragments.
Just go and absorb all of them, and soon you will start feeling new glimpses of new things fitting together. That will be very very satisfying to you. Rather than borrowing a ready-made branch of psychology from somewhere, why not evolve one? That is more satisfying... and whenever a person evolves something on his own, it works miracles. In fact it is the man who works miracles, not the science.
My suggestion is -- and this is my suggestion for everybody -- always work a way out for yourself, and when you have found something on your own you will have tremendous power, and through that power you can help many people. So rather than borrowing, why not invent?
And these days are very pregnant... very few people are fortunate enough to live in such pregnant times. When a science settles then there is no scope for invention.
For example, it is very difficult to invent anything in mathematics: now the science is almost settling. Only once in a century will a person be able to invent something -- it cannot be a day to day thing: once in a century, Albert Einstein. Now after Albert Einstein it will take a hundred years for another man of such genius to come to invent something that becomes an addition, a contribution.
To invent something in physics is more difficult -- the science is settling -- but with psychology the scope is infinite; nothing is settled yet. In fact psychology is still in the womb, the child is not born yet. There is great scope and great freedom.
So rather than looking for a settled thing somewhere, a ready-made formula, roam around the world... and the east has many things to teach. Remain acquainted with the western methodology and the eastern insight -- eastern insight and western methodology, eastern heart and western reason. If they just criss-cross something very beautiful can come out of it... and that will be very satisfying, it will be a great contentment.