Here's a piece I just read this morning that to me, cuts thru most of the crap. David R. Hawkins, "Letting Go, the Pathway of Surrender" This is about the mechanism of repression, denial and projection. "They" then become the enemy, and the mind searches for and finds justification to reinforce the projection. Blame is placed on people, …
Here's a piece I just read this morning that to me, cuts thru most of the crap. David R. Hawkins, "Letting Go, the Pathway of Surrender" This is about the mechanism of repression, denial and projection. "They" then become the enemy, and the mind searches for and finds justification to reinforce the projection. Blame is placed on people, places, institutions, food, climate conditions, God, the devil, foreigners, political rivals etc. Projection is the main mechanism in use by the world today. It accounts for all wars, strife, and civil disorder. Hating the enemy is even encouraged in order to become a "good citizen." We maintain our own self-esteem at the expense of others and eventually, this results in social breakdown. The mechanism of projection underlies all attack, violence, aggression, and every form of social destruction." I think there is something to be contemplated here, and I am going to do more introspection on this!
Good one! - David Hawlkins!! Cutting to the chase and long resonant with this earthling here. Most excellent that you post this and things like it, even if it seems perhaps a tad too far forward for the many 'projectors' commenting here who depend on some 'other' or another as a principal way to define themselves in terms of what they are NOT - but we must not relent. Advertising knows that you must repeat the message at least six times to have any hope of getting it through.
I have been posting "another way to look at it" and most just seem to not want to let go of hatred, dislike (a milder version) fear of being taken over will allow just that. (being taken over) I am alternating with Byron Katie, and others that I have gleaned to have been awakened to wisdom.
More power to you brother. The challenge is to find ways to present such things in as neutral a way as possible, if not in their language - assuming they think and are capable of accepting another POV. But alas, I think Schopenhauer was right!:
"The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority."
Here's a piece I just read this morning that to me, cuts thru most of the crap. David R. Hawkins, "Letting Go, the Pathway of Surrender" This is about the mechanism of repression, denial and projection. "They" then become the enemy, and the mind searches for and finds justification to reinforce the projection. Blame is placed on people, places, institutions, food, climate conditions, God, the devil, foreigners, political rivals etc. Projection is the main mechanism in use by the world today. It accounts for all wars, strife, and civil disorder. Hating the enemy is even encouraged in order to become a "good citizen." We maintain our own self-esteem at the expense of others and eventually, this results in social breakdown. The mechanism of projection underlies all attack, violence, aggression, and every form of social destruction." I think there is something to be contemplated here, and I am going to do more introspection on this!
Divide and conquer!
Good one! - David Hawlkins!! Cutting to the chase and long resonant with this earthling here. Most excellent that you post this and things like it, even if it seems perhaps a tad too far forward for the many 'projectors' commenting here who depend on some 'other' or another as a principal way to define themselves in terms of what they are NOT - but we must not relent. Advertising knows that you must repeat the message at least six times to have any hope of getting it through.
I have been posting "another way to look at it" and most just seem to not want to let go of hatred, dislike (a milder version) fear of being taken over will allow just that. (being taken over) I am alternating with Byron Katie, and others that I have gleaned to have been awakened to wisdom.
More power to you brother. The challenge is to find ways to present such things in as neutral a way as possible, if not in their language - assuming they think and are capable of accepting another POV. But alas, I think Schopenhauer was right!:
"The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority."
- Arthur Schopenhauer