Why so Few

 Today there are so few people who do not take pills, smoke cigarettes, or drink alcohol. Most of them resort to these things to achieve an artificial state of well-being that can divert their attention from unpleasant thoughts, rather than prompting them to try to understand them.

So how can they appreciate their true meaning or even try to? How can they realize that these feelings are their true friends, attempting to put them on track that would lead to self-knowledge?

Experience is the only thing that can bring this home to them. You have this experience, and now, to your astonishment, you find that the quality of your life has definitely changed for the better.

But you will not be able to explain this to someone in the grip of the products manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry.

They will not be able to listen to you. They will carry on “loving” their parents until they run into a crisis and suffer from depression or attacks of panic fear or both.

But there are allegedly ‘effective” remedies for that as well. Extreme intelligence is no safeguard. These people will use those remedies as a drug to help them deny their own truth.

Why do they do this? Because they are driven by the panic fear felt by the children they once were at the prospect of more beating if they should dare to see the truth or speak out about it.

So all I can say in response to your question about why so few people want to uncover their own histories is that the overwhelming majority of people in the world were beaten in early childhood.

From the book: “Free From Lies: Discovering Your True Needs” by Alice Miller

"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears.

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection.

And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt — and there is the story of mankind." John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952