911:Mass neurosis

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“When an inner process can not be integrated it is often projected outward. The notion of a materialized psychism opens a bottomless void beneath our feet.” - Carl Jung
“As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities” - Voltaire
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.” - Hippocrates

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[edit] Intro

This is about the psychology and physiology behind the chronic obstruction of reason and emotion. The psychological, social, religious, scientific and political tragedies throughout Human time, and ways to learn from our troubled history to overcome the neurosis and its behavioral and social symptoms.

The neurosis rippling out from a person into society, then reflecting back and be repeated and amplified by culture. Our "Emotional Plague". Leading to the loss of health, honesty, beauty, love and sovereignty at the personal and social level.

[edit] General observations

“Nothing is as difficult as not deceiving oneself” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

A large part of humanity has failed to live in harmony with the practicality and spirituality of nature, including their own awareness and its cultural expressions, such as the ever faster evolving technologies. This vital relationship has been neglected and turned sour on a massive scale. Many people have a strongly diminished contact with their natural self, their food intake, their family, their friends, their local community, their deep cultural history, and the mysterious and beautiful cosmos around them on which their lives fully depend.

All this has given rise to the mass neurosis, from which we get so many 'unnatural' human beings, "Plastic People" who are sick on many levels, think superficially and act highly insecure. The awareness of these Plastic People does not flower naturally, instead it is aggressively constrained into a socially dictated and accepted form of stressful living. This social process could be called human-domestication or dehumanization. Out of this social disease have grown many neurotic, male dominated fascistic structures, which in turn use these social problems to further their own agenda.

"Plastic People" struggle with managing their own reality and feel a strong need create ideological and artificial securities. To hold on to and defend their dogmatic beliefs and/or want to escape the sensation of natural living (religions, drug abuse, TV, obesity, consumerism, etc.). These people do this even against a tide of evidence that they are misguided on important issues. The ultimate reason for this state of denial and confusion is a set of primal, mainly subconscious psycho-emotional fears. Most importantly the fear of rejection by the mother, family, friends, school, their partner and other parts of society. This is the fear of not belonging and of not experiencing truly loving relationships. The 'below-the-radar' fear management causes chronic forms of psychosomatic stress and holds back a persons true natural flowering potential. (todo: trauma healing methods, embracing your natural self, acquiring self-knowledge through feedback loops between experience and centered awareness)

The often used dualistic concepts (god/devil, good/evil, light/darkness, angel/deamon, etc.) should really be seen in the sphere of health versus sickness - both mentally and physically, individually and socially. Life's energy is optimal in whole health.

Evil/darkness/rigidness/fascism/... are often our social conventions to express the underlying disease, using our common language and neurotic behavior patterns. Collectively this becomes the mass neurosis. This consensus reality talk simply distorts our perception of the true nature of our social diseases.

The future is very uncertain but full of struggle. Most of all this is an awareness struggle. People have to re-establish a grounding connection to their natural perception of reality. This means a full awareness of - and a breaking away from - the ongoing mass-neurotic cultural conditioning going on all over the world. Then people can see the deep web of lies and organize themselves according to their own 'chosen' values (the souls pre-programmed intentions and their resonance in this life), priorities and responsibilities. Its a conundrum of immense complexity.

Over time this psychosomatic friction crystallizes into ever grander and more rigid structures - externalized and materialized forms of the psychosis. The fascists - the pseudo alpha-males - who also struggle with their own reality and fear true love because of their own deep traumatic disconnect, just try to make this re-connection even harder for others too. Nothing makes people more jealous and eventually bitter, than seeing the love they never fully received - and even ignored/rejected/ridiculed/killed - being experienced by others.

All in the cosmos comes from the same mind and is ultimately driven by the same mind. Making wrong choices can lead to friction, which can lead to suffering, but from this we can learn a lot. Hippocrates said: "A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

The suffering can not be eliminated completely. Never. It is a part of the ever evolving cosmos. However, the suffering does not have to as great as it is now, if we learn how to deal better with it. Meaning: less ego (structures), more awareness of your environment (past and present), a better food intake, etc. Ultimately only true love and its honest extensions - such as the balanced persuit of health, beauty, inner truths, knowledge, social relations and other life experiences - are the aspects of life that give us real peace of mind.

[edit] Neurosis psychology

[edit] Psychosomatic stress

[edit] Cognitive dissonance

  • Todo: describe the non-integrative process of cognitive dissonances, and the psycho-somatic stress build-up from this mental friction which can lead to psychological trauma's.

[edit] Suffering

  • On a social level: "What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons. This is something, culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture. Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines - meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood..." - Terrence McKenna
  • On a personal level this is the feedback from the body that something is wrong and that attention needs to be directed towards the underlying 'problem(s)'. Note that after chronic hardening there can be cascades of various body malfunctions - either mental or physical distress symptoms.

[edit] Social rejection

[edit] Child neglect

“The mother prevails in her despair. The father withdraws to his shell. The child turns inward. In impotent revolt. And the wound. The ancient wound. Silently bleeds.” [1]

Children are not allowed to be children for too long. Once they enter a public primary school, their life is drastically changed forever. A new way of 'order and communication' now needs to be taught, often in the context of a few dozen of other 'shocked' children.

Important things which make up a child's world before entering school, such as: personal creativity, curiousness, day-dreaming, body emotions, sleeping, nature exploration, are now being suppressed to a large extend. The child's focus should now be: listening (meaning: obeying!), learning to read, handwriting, word spelling, and calculations. The rich pre-verbal communication experiences of the child are quickly driven out. All this is done in a noisy and often sterile environment, and goes on for many hours per day, 5 days a week. All the while their parents are busy with their own social life.

[edit] Loneliness

  • todo: degraded social interactions, the taboo and masking of loneliness, mental loneliness, surrogate life purposes.

[edit] Social noise

(todo)

  • "I don't like to be interrupted by all sorts of things - or just the feeling of it. I don't really like web chat, mobile phones, etc. I prefer face-to-face conversations and (somewhat) slower communication forms such as email. Society these days is too fast and insensitive for me personally and probably many others. I need my illusory sanctum in the storming sea of chemicals, radiation and neurosis. Slow talk is more talk!" - Walden

[edit] Defence mechanisms

“Culture is a simplification and a lie. It’s the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.” - Terence McKenna
“If you aren’t ‘cool’ then you go to incredible lengths to achieve it by ersatz means, by buying $3,500 sunglasses and getting tattooed. But it can’t really be faked. But the whole engine of marketing is designed to make you think that it can be faked. I don’t know if I’m cool or not, but I am incredibly resistant to any effort to make me think I’m uncool.” - Terence McKenna
  • Defense mechanisms are psychological strategies, brought into play by various (internal and external) elements, to cope with your inner and outer reality perception and to maintain a culturally 'safe' self-image.

[edit] Dissociation

  • "Dissociation is a mental process that severs a connection to a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociation is a normal response to trauma, and allows the mind to distance itself from experiences that are too much for the psyche to process at that time." ... "Due to their unexpected and largely inexplicable nature, they tend to be quite unsettling. Dissociation is often a coping mechanism for survivors of trauma." ... "Pierre Janet claimed that dissociation occurred only in persons who had a constitutional weakness of mental functioning that led to hysteria when they were stressed.

[edit] Denial

  • "a defense mechanism, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence."
  • Psychological projection: "The unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to the weather, the government, a tool, or to other people. Thus, it involves imagining or projecting that others have the same feelings or motives, rather than what they really think. Projection is considered one of the most profound and subtle of human psychological processes, and extremely difficult to work with, because by its nature it is hidden. It is the fundamental mechanism by which we keep ourselves uninformed about ourselves."

[edit] Displacement

  • "displacement is an subconscious defense mechanism whereby the mind redirects effects from an object felt to be dangerous or unacceptable to an object felt to be safe or acceptable." (edited)

[edit] Delusion

(todo)

[edit] Sublimation

  • "Any redirection of energy from the socially unacceptable to the acceptable." [3]

[edit] Rationalization

  • "The process of constructing a mental justification for a non-rational belief, decision, action or lack thereof."

[edit] Escapism

  • Todo: Mental diversions as an 'escape' from the perceived unpleasant aspects of stress.

[edit] Egotism

  • Note the dangerous potentials for mind-control programming abuse by inserting the desire and establishment of a corrupted form of "Oneness through various consensus trance 'realities'".
  • "The rigid ego in humanity, individually and collectively, is a possessing entity which is an illusion in itself. It was born in fear, feeds on fear, and is manipulated in fear; fear in all it’s branches and manifesting archetypes. Therefore the pain and dysfunction on the planet is rooted in fear and all of it’s fractions. The science of manipulation is a well studied art amongst the “elite”, and is applied through the subversive use of the occult, to subliminally influence the sub-conscious fears the ego is rooted in. Through the hegelian dialectic" ... "If people would cease to be lulled into this game by the manipulating subconscious agent within themselves(the ego), this social engineering could not take place. The content is numerous the method is not, but there are so many ego identities tailored and sold to the people that it in-turn creates a compartmentalized society that is very easily manipulated." ... "All life is interconnected, but because people have been fooled into believing otherwise, the compartmentalization of society has occurred, the 'elite' being well aware of this phenomena at work within human beings. That is why everything that has to do with a holistic approach is suppressed, from science to technology to health. Because it threatens the monopoly of control that the 'elite' have held for so long and the only way it continues is because people continue to play along." [4] (edited)

[edit] Chronic hardening

  • Todo: describe chronic hardening from structural/internalized defence mechanisms.

[edit] Desensitization

[edit] Neurosis

  • Socially acceptable hardening.
  • Expressions of the neurosis (form and types):
    • Inflated ego (performing a role for acceptance)
    • Crushed ego (silently hiding from hurt)

[edit] Psychosis

  • Chronic stress - mentally and physically - which is not properly addressed by the individual, can lead to an extreme degree of neurosis called psychosis. A psychotic person embodies a socially unacceptable form of hardening.

[edit] Research

[edit] Researchers

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[edit] Literature

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[edit] Links

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