In the early fifties I read a book by Dr. Karl Menninger called "Love Against Hate". He said that babies were not bouncing bundles of joy but potential pounds of Dynamite that can grow up and destroy others and themselves. That was over 50 years ago. It appears that nobody paid to much attention to his warning.
This earth planet and society are very much like our human body and the mind. When the body has cancer it gives off symptoms that there is something wrong. I believe that society is giving off symptoms every day that something is terribly wrong.
In 1977 I became a clinical hypnotherapist. After working with a few thousand clients, I told a colleague that it was my opinion that the problems were going to grow up faster than we(society) could handle it. Be sides the obvious, emotionally disturbed parents, the majority of clients I had worked with came from what appears to be normal families. But inside the home there are all kinds of atrocities. Sexual, physical, but mostly emotional abuses and naturally in some cases a combination of the above. We see our neighbors go to work, take their
children to school own businesses, go to church and etc. They all look like normal constructive citizens. But when they come home and close the doors it starts. We're all suffering, in varying degrees, from the same kinds of emotional disturbances inflicted upon us by parents who for the most part don't even realize what they are doing. But the results are growing up before our eyes.
The vast majority of people turn their aggressions and anger inward and therefore suffer from all kinds of emotional self-destructive tendencies such as: suicide, drugs, alcohol, compulsions, obesity, anxiety, agoraphobia, relationship dysfunction, financial dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, needs to be the victim, Inferiority's, depression, nervous break downs, masochism, lack of self-esteem, run aways, self inflicted disease, and on and on, you get the picture. These illnesses are the ones that millions suffer from, that don't make the news. I have had great success in helping people over come many of the above problems but some have built up such strong defenses it is very difficult to break through.
The flip side, because we are a world of individuals and we all react very uniquely to our environment, is that there are those who turn their anger and aggression out on society. It is like Russian roulette as to which individuals will grow up to kill, rape, physically abuse, shoot people at school, shoot people at the work place, blow up buildings, kidnap become pedophiles (kidnap, rape and kill young children), serial killers, sadist, child molestation child beaters, snipers and on and on.
I once read a study that said; when a troubled young child is removed from its environment, it is easily treated by a professional. But when returned to its family (to the environment that created the problems) the problems returned. We as a society are constantly stressing education and this is great but how about emotional stability, self esteem self worth, self-confidence and so on.
We need to study at what age we can start teaching and training children that they are not the lies and misconceptions that they have accepted about themselves and society that have been planted in their minds by unstable environments. At what age they can accept these new positive ideas and not revert back. And we can't overlook the children that may be doing well in school. This has nothing to do with emotional stability. While this would take a major thrust, it is evident that the parents don’t have the skills or the emotional stability to do it on their own. We spend billions on all kinds programs and wars. It seems to me that at some point we could do the same on healing Societies Cancer.
The bottom line is; if we want a stable, healthy, society which in turn would give us a safe nation, it starts with a STABLE HEALTHY FOUNDATION.
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You hit on some very fundamental and important things here. There ae very clear that there is something seriously wrong. We have never had True Parents, ever, since the beginning of time. By True Parents I mean people who have embodied absolute unconditional love, people who are in touch with and even at one with the universal heart of goodness.
It is clear also that we must start to take responsibility for ourselves and each other and help each to find the best that is within. We must nurture each other so that our original nature that seeks truth and goodness can develop and each can have a decent shot and becoming the bundle of joy that we have the potential to be. We even have to love the loners of this world and try to help them find ways to become what Steven Covey calls "interdependant" and compassionate people. We all have goodness in us. It's up to each of us to bring it out in ourselves and out of each other. It's a tall order but so important. We need to develop and expand a culture of heart, the heart of True Parents. "Seek and ye shall find, ask and you shall receive, knock and the door shal be opened unto you" comes to mind. "Go tell it on the mountain over the hills and everywhere."
Unfortunately, 80% of society are media dependent and therefore more or less mindless.
A few people like Ted Turner, Rupert Murdock and very few others completely control
Food for the brains of the majority. Understanding the formations of these characters and their personalities, which dictate content, will show that the masses are going to continue to be fed the absolute worst of full color, graphic, sensational, depraved human behavior displays. Naturally, the mindless masses will replicate same. We, the public are to blame. We choose to be comfortably distracted in our moments, exercising no foresight or intelligence. The masses and markets are so powerful in senseless trends, therefore almost impossible to alter course.
The solution is simple. If only 10% of us realize and begin to move away from the almost exclusive dwelling place of almost obsolete “thinking” and get into AWARENESS, all things in all human and universe conditions will change for the better. You, who are reading this need only to take yourself into some STILLNESS in Your NOW. Experience Awareness. See, Feel, Know the Difference ! If only one of you Does It, out of the 6.5 billion, I will have accomplished Magnificent Purpose. And We Will Be One In Magnificent Universe. Existence is Benevolence and Benevolence is Existence. Let’s Be There. The reverberations will create new vibrations of Goodness in Society. I can hardly wait, but know that I will experience this New Goodness, Myself, Today. You ?
Thanks, Norm A.
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