THE ROOTS OF HORROR: The Suicide Taboo by Arthur Silber

 "Alice Miller's writings explain a great deal that otherwise remains mystifying. In particular, her identification of the precise mechanism by means of which an authentic self is prevented from being formed allows us to see that, in the deepest sense, a genuine soul -- an "I," if you will -- never has a chance to exist in far too many instances. And crucially related to this absence is an inability to remember in a meaningful way, or often even to acknowledge, the pain that we ourselves have experienced -- and this denial then prevents us from realizing the pain of others. This lack of a self, and the obedience to authority to which that lack is tied -- since we must find guidance from some source, and if it is not ourselves, it will be some external authority -- also lets us see why people desperately hold onto ideas which they otherwise would easily see to be nonsense, whether it is an incomprehensible, contradictory, unintelligible supernatural being, or some kind of totalitarian ideology." -- Arthur Silber

Above excerpt from the article THE ROOTS OF HORROR:

The Suicide Taboo by Arthur Silber

https://thesacredmoment.blogspot.com/search?q=THE+ROOTS+OF+HORROR%3A+The+Suicide+Taboo

'Don't bring kids into this world now': AI expert issues chilling warning over new tech

"An AI expert who once worked for Google has said prospective parents should hold off having kids until the tech is controlled - because of the potentially catastrophic effect it could have.

Speaking on an episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast, Mo Gawdat, an ex-chief business officer at Google X, warned risks caused by artificial intelligence in the immediate future outweigh even the potential devastation which could be caused by climate change.

...The whizz said that AI is part of a “perfect storm” of significant threats entire societies are facing.

He added: "The risks are so bad, in fact, that when considering all the other threats to humanity, you should hold off from having kids if you are yet to become a parent".

When podcast host Steven Bartlett asked if he would “seriously consider” this, Gawdat replied that “I would wait a couple of years”, adding that it is “bigger than artificial intelligence”.

Gawdat continued: “There has never been such a perfect storm in the history of humanity. Economic, geopolitical, global warming, climate change, the whole idea of AI, this is a perfect storm, the depth of uncertainty…it has never been more intense.

“If you really loved your kids would you really want to expose them to all this?”

The latest message of caution comes after a dire warning by several AI pioneers in an open letter asking developers to pause for six months in order to allow for regulations to catch up." Read more Here https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1777980/ai-expert-warns-against-having-kids

I have been saying for a very long time that humanity is insane and with the aid of technology is going to destroy itself much faster. I don't see a positive outcome at all.

Not having children that's what I'm most proud of! I was a very young child when I realized this world is messed up and I made a conscious decision to not bring children to this crazy world. I promised myself that the pain would stop with me. 

The great malady of our society, implicated in all our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is the idealization of our parents and childhood and the denial of childhood suffering.

When we idealize our parents and childhood and deny childhood suffering, it does not go away. It appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, greed, deceit, and loss of meaning. Our temptation is to isolate these symptoms or try to eradicate them one by one, but the root problem is the idealization of our parents and childhood and the denial of childhood suffering. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-great-malady-of-our-society.html

The conversation about the effects of childhood repression in our society needs to start happening in the stage of the world, sooner rather than later, if we want to save ourselves and humanity from falling off the cliff and committing mass suicide. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-conversation-about-effects-of.html

I did my part to help heal the world by healing myself and publishing my book A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions sharing my life experiences and psychological discoveries. 

So other people can also heal themselves.  As long as people's childhood repression goes unresolved -- they will be shackled into the chains of compulsion repetition -- and it doesn't matter how well anyone articulates very nice ideas... 

The problem is not a lack of knowledge and educated people, there are plenty of educated people with intellectual knowledge, the problem is an emotional blockage with the so-called “professionals” or “educated people” hiding behind their rationalizations and seductive theories to protect themselves from having to face and feel their own emotional pain.  It takes courage to see, face, and feel our painful truths. Intelligence alone is not enough; it rather helps create seductively, rationalizations, theories, illusions, and lies.

Education alone is just another illusion. Resolving childhood repression is the only long-term solution for people to stop following blindly political leaders. And that is a lot more difficult!!! 

"I wonder how the high colleges managed to produce so many high asses." Paracelsus

Alice Miller explains beautifully in her book For Your Own Good: hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the Roots of Violence page 42 and 43: "Just as in the symbiosis of the "diaper stage," there is no separation here of subject and object. If the child learns to view corporal punishment as "a necessary measure" against "wrongdoers," then as an adult he will attempt to protect himself from punishment by being obedient and will not hesitate to cooperate with the penal system. 

In a totalitarian state, which is a mirror of his upbringing, this citizen can also carry out any form of torture or persecution without having a guilty conscience. 

His "will" is completely identical to that of the government. Now that we have seen how easy it is for intellectuals in a dictatorship to be corrupted, it would be a vestige of aristocratic snobbery to think that only "the uneducated masses" are susceptible to propaganda. Both Hitler and Stalin had a surprisingly large number of enthusiastic followers among intellectuals. Our capacity to resist has nothing to do with our intelligence but with the degree of access to our true selves. Indeed, intelligence is capable of innumerable rationalizations when it comes to the matter of adaptation. 

Educators have always known this and have exploited it for their own purposes, as the following proverb suggests: "The clever person gives in, the stupid one balks." 

For example, we read in a work on child raising by Grünwald (1899): "I have never yet found willfulness in an intellectually advanced or exceptionally gifted child" (quoted in Rutschky). Such a child can, in later life, exhibit extraordinary acuity in criticizing the ideologies of his opponents--and in puberty even the views of his own parents-- because in these cases his intellectual powers can function without impairment. 

Only within a group--such as one consisting of adherents of an ideology or a theoretical school--that represents the early family situation will this person on occasion still display a naïve submissiveness and uncritical attitude that completely believe his brilliance in other situations. Here, tragically, his early dependence upon tyrannical parents is preserved, a dependence that--in keeping with the program of "poisonous pedagogy"--goes undetected. This explains why Martin Heidegger, for example, who had no trouble in breaking with traditional philosophy and leaving behind the teachers of his adolescence, was not able to see the contradictions in Hitler's ideology that should have been obvious to someone of his intelligence. He responded to this ideology with an infantile fascination and devotion that brooked no criticism.” Having special talents is wonderful and it’s okay to cash in your talents for a living, but when people hide behind their talents, fame, and money to hide their own personal truth and keep themselves and others distracted from the truth and facts -- then you are misusing your talents -- and contributing for the lies to spread and silently or covertly you are part of all the violence and atrocities we are witnessing in our world. So if people think they are better than others, because they have special talents, they are being delusional.

Humanity is on the Path to Destroy Itself

To me, humanity has passed the point of no return

Go down trying to wake up humanity from the dangers of childhood repression in our society,  It's the stage I'm in also. but only when I don't have anything else I like to do, because I think it's too late, but if it helps one lost soul find freedom my work will not be a total waste. 

I lost hope for humanity in 2014 after I published my book sharing my life experiences and psychological discoveries. 

After that, I became the target of very bad actors in the workplace. 

I know a few young people very close to me who are in the tech world and believe me, I know they had a horrific childhood and are dangerously repressed.

Many people with unresolved childhood repression have grown into full-blown sociopaths, malignant narcissists, psychopaths, bad actors, or whatever you like to call them.

These "bad actors" are secretly suicidal and homicidal, but they don’t have the courage to do it themselves, so they play mind games trying to manipulate others to do their evil acts, so they can go out playing the ultimate victim role and they don’t care if innocent victims are hurt or killed in the process also, it’s all collateral damage in their eyes, they only care that they themselves to be seen in the public eye as the victim and their real victim to be seen as the abuser, so the more we try to educate the public about the malignant narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths' games and how they are wolves in sheep’s clothing, we will never know if we are preventing one more tragedy from happening in our world. Keeping silent can destroy lives and can kill. 

People in the tech world create IA to eventually destroy us all so they can unconsciously or consciously blame IA for it
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2015/09/narcissists-are-secretly-suicidal-and.html?m=1

Why the Narcissistic Discard Might Be Permanent

https://youtube.com/shorts/bWMsMr08wnU?feature=share4

https://youtube.com/shorts/LVTq7B_tvY0?feature=share4

Been there done that. I wrote my memoir sharing my life experiences and psychological discoveries.

Now, the only place narcissists can get close to me is in the workplace, but I'm now 64 years old, and I will be leaving the workplace soon for good.

Once the narcissist knows that you know their true nature, you will get a target on your back. Because of my book, eventually, the narcissists in the workplace find out, and since I published my book, I have become the target of three psychological warfare in the workplace and I had to change jobs 3 times!

At my job of nine and a half years right after I published my book I became the target of a mob of narcissistics that with their very well-orchestrated psychological warfare were hoping I would lose my mind. They wanted me dead, in jail or a mental hospital.

But when was one of them to lose his mind and commit a crime all became silent.

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2015/02/emotional-abuse-in-workplace.html

All malignant narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths love to play the victim card and make appear their real victims to be the abusers, but when their targets are able to see clearly the games they play and articulate the real situation of what really is taking place; the targets of the malignant narcissists cease of becoming a victim.

If it was me, the little woman to commit a crime my name and face would have been splashed all over the news stations! And then all probably go on TV talking about how disturbed the little woman was -- to discredit me and my book --and make a name for themselves by standing on my head. 

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-silence-from-media-is-deafening.html

And all probably say that you need God in your life, my ex-boss was a Mormon, a man of God, but he was the one to lose his mind, but now is a big cover-up. I could see their games and traps so clearly.

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2023/03/hard-evidence-of-my-ex-boss-being.html?m=1

 

Carl Jung Quotes

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. 

Carl Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Carl Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung

The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. Carl Jung

Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. Carl Jung

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. Carl Jung

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Jung

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Jung

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them. Carl Jung

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. 

Carl Jung

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music. Carl Jung

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Carl Jung

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine, or idealism. Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung

There is no birth of consciousness without pain. Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. Carl Jung

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Jung

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Carl Jung

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. Carl Jung

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Carl Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. Carl Jung

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. Carl Jung

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Carl Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. Carl Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. Carl Jung

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. Carl Jung

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. Carl Jung

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. Carl Jung

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Carl Jung

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. Carl Jung

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. Carl Jung

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.Carl Jung

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. Carl Jun

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. 

Carl Jung

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. Carl Jung

Early glimpse of the dangers of AI: Fake image showing an explosion at the Pentagon goes viral on Twitter

We live in a world of lies and we couldn't believe anything we heard and now we can't believe anything we see either!

"A suspected AI-generated image claiming to show an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter Monday, sending markets crashing. Dozens of verified accounts - including national news organizations - reshared what shows black smoke billowing up from the ground next to a white building. The image appears so realistic that people became frantic as it circulated the platform around 10 am ET, which caused the S&P 500 to drop 10 points in five minutes as the image went viral."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12112413/Fake-image-showing-explosion-Pentagon-goes-viral-Twitter-sending-markets-plummeting.html

 AI and the future of humanity | Yuval Noah Harari at the Frontiers Forum

In a World of Lies, the Truth is Treated as Committing a Crime

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/03/in-world-of-lies-truth-is-treated-as.html

Eliezer Yudkowsky on if Humanity can Survive AI

I don't have formal education either and I do agree with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Humanity is insane and with the aid of technology is going to destroy itself much faster. 

The biggest threat to humanity --  is people's repressed emotions of the child they once were -- and as long as people's repressed emotions are unresolved, they will be blinded by them and driven by them into the state of compulsion repetition to hurt and exploit others the same way they were hurt and exploited as defenseless little children. If people were not emotionally blind, they would be able to see the lies, illusions, and all the traps society constantly puts in front of them. And yes, an emotionally blind humanity with the aid of technology will destroy itself much faster.  

the conversation about the effects of childhood repression in our society needs to start happening in the stage of the world, sooner rather than later, if we want to save ourselves and humanity from falling off the cliff and committing mass suicide. 

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-conversation-about-effects-of.html

Education alone is just another illusion. Resolving childhood repression is the only long-term solution for people to stop following blindly political leaders. And that is a lot more difficult!

"I wonder how the high colleges managed to produce so many high asses." Paracelsus

As long people's childhood repression goes unresolved -- they will be shackled into the chains of compulsion  repetition -- and it doesn't matter how well anyone articulates very nice ideas... The problem is not lack of knowledge and educated people, there are plenty of educated people with intellectual knowledge, the problem is an emotional blockage with the so-called “professionals” or “educated people” hiding behind their rationalizations and seductive theories to protect themselves from having to face and feel their own emotional pain.  It takes courage to see, face, and feel our painful truths, intelligence alone is not enough; but it rather helps create seductive, rationalizations, theories, illusions, and lies. 

Alice Miller explains beautifully in her book For Your Own Good: hidden cruelty in child-rearing and the Roots of Violence page 42 and 43: "Just as in the symbiosis of the "diaper stage," there is no separation here of subject and object. If the child learns to view corporal punishment as "a necessary measure" against "wrongdoers," then as an adult he will attempt to protect himself from punishment by being obedient and will not hesitate to cooperate with the penal system. In a totalitarian state, which is a mirror of his upbringing, this citizen can also carry out any form of torture or persecution without having a guilty conscience. His "will" is completely identical with that of the government.

Now that we have seen how easy it is for intellectuals in a dictatorship to be corrupted, it would be a vestige of aristocratic snobbery to think that only "the uneducated masses" are susceptible to propaganda. Both Hitler and Stalin had a surprisingly large number of enthusiastic followers among intellectuals. Our capacity to resist has nothing to do with our intelligence but with the degree of access to our true self. Indeed, intelligence is capable of innumerable rationalizations when it comes to the matter of adaptation. Educators have always known this and have exploited it for their own purposes, as the following proverb suggests: "The clever person gives in, the stupid one balks." For example, we read in a work on child raising by Grünwald (1899): "I have never yet found willfulness in an intellectually advanced or exceptionally gifted child" (quoted in Rutschky). Such a child can, in later life, exhibit extraordinary acuity in criticizing the ideologies of his opponents--and in puberty even the views by his own parents-- because in these cases his intellectual powers can function without impairment. Only within a group--such as one consisting of adherents of an ideology or a theoretical school--that represents the early family situation will this person on occasion still display a naïve submissiveness and uncritical attitude that completely believe his brilliance in other situations. Here, tragically, his early dependence upon tyrannical parents is preserved, a dependence that--in keeping with the program of "poisonous pedagogy"--goes undetected. This explains why Martin Heidegger, for example, who had no trouble in breaking with traditional philosophy and leaving behind the teachers of his adolescence, was not able to see the contradictions in Hitler's ideology that should have been obvious to someone of his intelligence. He responded to this ideology with an infantile fascination and devotion that brooked no criticism.”

Having special talents is wonderful and it’s okay to cash in your talents for a living, but when people hide behind their talents, fame, and money to hide their own personal truth and keep themselves and others distracted from the truth and facts -- then you are misusing your talents -- and contributing for the lies to spread and silently or covertly you are part of all the violence and atrocities we are witnessing in our world. So if people think they are better than others, because they have special talents, they are being delusional.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2014/12/having-special-talents-doesnt-make-you.html 

It's sad to witness all the time people falling for the illusions that formal education, talents, money, and fame are the path to freedom. Formal education, talents, money, and fame alone just reinforce the walls of people's emotional prisons.

People in the tech world create IA to eventually destroy us all so they can unconsciously or consciously blame IA for it
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2015/09/narcissists-are-secretly-suicidal-and.html?m=1

People in the tech world create IA to eventually destroy us all so they can unconsciously or consciously blame IA for it

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2015/09/narcissists-are-secretly-suicidal-and.html?m=1