RELATING TO OUR PORTION OF SUFFERING...July 17, 2021

 

But our inclination, due to our inherited cultural attitudes, encourages us to try to ignore, make light of, outdo and deny our actual portion of real human suffering. This is not healthy or healing. Suffering comes in many ways: physical/material/relationship losses, health decline, family stresses, poverty or threat of it ....to name a few. It can be felt in body and mind as physical, emotional and/or psychological pain. 

To deny our own suffering is to deny caring for ourself. It separates us from our self. It's a failing effort to escape our personal humanity.  

It must be no accident that the gospel  refers to Jesus not only as one "following his discovered joy' but at the same time a 'person of many sorrows'. These opposing realities must paradoxically go together and mark us, perhaps more than anything else, as a maturing human adult; not pretending life to be what it is not or denying our own incarnate real personal  experience. 

Often denying our personal suffering runs along with denying the suffering of others and of the world. So denying the reality that we do personally suffer as human beings is not a winning attitude toward this mystery of human life and our individually unique suffering consciousness.

THE USA HAS SUFFERED A STAGGERING MASS DECEPTION.. July 16, 2021

In most common language what the quote below describes is really this awful and simple. 

A significant part of our nation has got caught up in a mass psychological deception.( I'm of the uncertain opinion that Trump actually believes  his own deception, that he won the election. That is not hard to psychologically explain given his demonstrated extreme truth 

-avoiding temperament. But we should avoid the temptation to think Trump or any individual can cause such a phenomenon. It is much more deeply anchored than that.)

Before any of us say this means others are crazy while we are sain, we should know such a fully believed deception, given just the right balance of inner needs and fears and outer enticements, can happen to ANY of us. Because such invasions into our overly trusted conscious minds have their origins in the deep more powerful, creative and destructive, levels of our common Collective Unconscious. It is from this deep, real yet unconscious to us all, level that our more delicate human ego consciousness (which we generally feel  can keep us safely anchored in reality) has only recently evolved. A diverse nation finding intellectual/emotional balance has at times very narrow dangerous passages.

NO ONE is so strong of mind that she is above being deceived by such a dark collective psychological storm. It has surely happened numerous times before to otherwise smart persons such as in advanced Germany only eighty years ago. Then six million persons were murdered at the consent of  a majority of 'respected' citizens.

CG Jung, founder of analytical psychology, in Switzerland  took great pains in the first half of the 1900's to learn and to explain how mass deception happens in world history.  He also indicated  it was likely to happen in the amazing and youthful America. And he understood no one can know, including himself,  just how destructive such a phenomenon  once begun will turn out to be in the world. 

But, for whatever reasons, those who are not swept up this time by it must do their all to not deny what is happening, to resist its growth and call it what it is, a mass public deception involving  complicated psychological/political/religious factors combining.  And it can undo any nation if enough clearer eyed  persons are not present and in fact do strongly, calmly and openly resist it. 

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