I can testify to that!
This blog is about learning to understand all of our feelings and learning to consciously face, feel, and experience all of our feelings within the context of our own childhood. Everything we become and everything that happens to us is connected to childhood. Not every victim becomes an abuser, but every abuser was once a victim of abuse. These are facts. Violence is not genetic; it’s learned. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-dance-to-freedom-book-reviews.html
Friday, September 22, 2023
Evil is born anew with every new generation
.Evil is born anew with every new generation. Humanity is insane and this insanity will end only when humanity is wiped off the face of the Earth. Maybe, that's why they are creating AI to wipe off most of humanity...
Humanity is unconsciously and compulsively shackled into the chains of compulsion repetition...
Human beings are great at creating illusions. And the sharper their intellect is, the bigger the illusions they create. When it comes to humanity, nothing ever is what it seems.
Alice Miller: You write: “My main point in the allegory is that by necessity none of us are passengers anymore. Everybody’s crew.” I agree with you. But to become aware of the fact that our obedience learned in childhood doesn’t allow us to think freely needs probably more than many hundred years. I am not sure if the tortured planet leaves us the necessary time to understand this fact, to protest against it, and to become a conscious, responsible member of the crew."
No one can ever accuse me of being an obedient child! Thank goodness I had the courage to rebel against the system from a young age.Adolf Hitler
Having formal education or not has nothing to do with being a conscious person.
Adolf Hitler was emotionally blinded by the repressed emotions of the child he once was; just like the masses that followed him.
Society has not changed since then, and people still are emotionally blinded by the repressed emotions of the child they once were to follow dangerously repressed leaders into an abyss. Humanity is doomed.
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.”
" . . . the anger felt by every individual person stems from the primary justified anger of the small child at the blows inflicted on it by the parents. The immediate expression of that anger is suppressed, but at a later stage this suppressed fury will be directed at innocent victims with uninhibited savagery." -- Alice Miller, "Free From Lies"
“If we hate hypocrisy, insincerity, and mendacity, then we grant ourselves the right to fight them wherever we can, or to withdraw from people who only trust in lies. But if we pretend that we are impervious to these things, then we are betraying ourselves.” Alice Miller Free from Lies: Discovering Your True Needs page 55
and perversion inevitably form part of
human existence, no matter how often this
is maintained. But it is true that we are
daily producing more evil and, with it, an
ocean of suffering for millions that is
absolutely avoidable. When one day the
ignorance arising from childhood
repression is eliminated and humanity
has awakened, an end can be put to the
production of evil.”
— Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge, p. 143
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Russell Brand is in the Hot Seat
"The emperor's new clothes" is a fairy tale. In reality, the kid that points out that the emperor is naked will get murdered.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-emperors-new-clothes.html
This is why I have been harassed, prosecuted, and ostracized by very bad players most of my life, starting with my first-grade teacher and especially in the workplace, since I published my book because with my book I point out that the emperors of the world are naked. In this world seeing and feeling people are the most discriminated against, no matter what color or background. I have been the target of bad players in every color and background.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/08/i-will-no-longer-be-on-social-media.html
Friday, August 11, 2023
We are all Prisoners of our Childhood
"We are all prisoners of our childhood, whether we know it, suspect it, deny it, or have never even heard about the possibility. The realization that we can free ourselves from the consequences of old wounds will gain ground as more people prove it can be done. Inevitably, resistance to following this path is great, as we all fear our repressed past and the experience of how helpless we once were. We have had good reason to be afraid; if we did not, there would have been no need for repression. Yet the more we encounter our fear and dare to see its causes, the more it decreases."
http://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2012/08/introduction-to-revised-edition-1995.html
In my book A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions, I prove it can be done. And once you break free from the emotional prison of your childhood, not even a mob of sociopaths conspiring together for your demise, as I had at my job of nine and half years, can trap you and take you back to the emotional prison of your childhood.
In the workplace, I can be reminded every day of the emotional prison of my childhood by people standing in symbolizing my childhood caregivers but they can't take me back. The beauty of being a true free autonomous adult is that we can change jobs if necessary. As defenseless little children, we could not leave abusive and toxic environments, but as free-conscious adults, we can. A mind that is truly free cannot ever be captured again.
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2015/08/it-was-attempt-of-psychological-lynch.html
https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2016/06/for-sociopath-winning-is-all.html
Monday, August 7, 2023
Climate Change
Climate change is a reminder that the human mind is not in charge no matter how sharp your intellect is.
Just like if our body is deceived by the mind, the body sooner or later will have the last word and it will present its bill. https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/search?q=The+body+never+lies
The planet Earth will do the same, it will have the last word, it will present its bill and we will have to pay in one form or another like it or not!
These words by Alice Miller come to mind: “Inability to face up to the suffering undergone in childhood can be observed both in the form of religious obedience and in cynicism, irony, and other forms of self-alienation frequently masquerading as philosophy or literature. But ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, nicotine, or medicine, it usually has the last word, because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind, particularly if the mind has been trained to function as an alienated self. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.” From the book, “The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting”
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Drugs and the Deception of the Body
Excerpt from the book The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller
From Chapter 13, Drugs and the Deception of the Body:
As a child, I had to learn to suppress my entirely natural responses to the injuries inflicted on me, responses like rage, anger, pain, and fear. Otherwise, I would have been punished. Later, at school, I was proud of the skill I had developed in controlling and restraining these feelings. I considered this ability a virtue, and I also expected my first child to achieve the same kind of discipline. Only after I succeeded in freeing myself of this attitude was I able to understand the suffering of children who have been forbidden to respond to injuries in an appropriate way and to engage with their emotions in a benevolent environment, so that in later life they can take their bearings from the feelings they actually have, rather than fearing them.
Unfortunately, there are many people who have been through the same thing as I have. Unable to display their strong feelings as children, they have no real experience of them, and later they sorely miss this experience. In therapy, some of them succeed in locating and experiencing their repressed emotions. Then they are able to turn them into conscious feelings they can understand on the basis of their own life history and that they no longer need to fear. But others reject this course because they cannot or will not confide their tragic experiences to others. In our present-day consumer society, such an attitude is widespread. It is considered the done thing not to display one's feelings, or only in exceptional cases, after the consumption of drugs or alcohol. Aside from that, feelings (one's own and those of others) are something to be jeered at. In show business and journalism the art of irony is a well-paid commodity, so it is possible to make a great deal of money with the suppression of one's feelings. Even if one ultimately risks losing all contact with oneself and merely functioning as a mask, an "as if" personality, there are always drugs, alcohol, and other substances to fall back on. Derision pays well;
money is no object. Alcohol helps to keep us in a good mood, and stronger drugs do so even more effectively. But because these emotions are not genuine, not linked up with the true story of the body, the effect is bound to wear off after a time. Higher and higher doses are required to fill up the void left by childhood. page 139.
Drugs do not always have the function of freeing people from dependency and maternal constraints. Sometimes legal drugs (alcohol, nicotine, prescribed medications) are used in an attempt to fill the void left by the mother. The child was not given the nourishment needed from her and has found no substitute for this in later life. Without drugs, this gap can literally express itself as a feeling of physical hunger, gnawing away at the stomach, which contracts in response. Probably the foundations for addiction are laid at the very beginning of life, as is the case with bulimia and other eating disorders. The body makes it clear that in the past it urgently needed something, something withheld from it when it was a tiny baby. But this message is misunderstood as long as the emotions are ignored. Accordingly, the distress of the small child is erroneously registered as present distress, and all attempts to combat that distress in the present are doomed to failure. As adults we have different needs, and we can satisfy them only if they are no longer coupled with the old needs in our unconscious minds. pages 145-146.