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The Loss of Self Empathy and the Urge To Power.
The disruption of the naturally mandated child-mother bonding process sets up a chain of events, leading to emergent violence.
The flow is as follows : if the child is not related to in ways that nurture self-empathy, then the development of a loss of empathy occurs.
With that loss, a sense of disconnection is felt and with that comes fear.
The fear leads directly to a perceived need to control others and to control the environment.
As all natural organisms are autonomous, self directing growing beings so too they will resist, to one degree or another, efforts to control them.
That resistance generates violence to impose or retain that control.
In human family or society, if this pattern starts, and is not resolved, then each successive generation will impose that control, and their children too will grow up in an environment that they will 'adapt' to the situation, internalising that psychological need to control.
What baby would not be angry at not being met with the experientials our biology has mandated? Think of the child left to cry himself to sleep in another room, to scream and cry until exhaustion brings sleep. Is this not a common practice in our culture? What of the resignation, the suppression of that rage, the loss of self empathy which ensues from that suppression which is the outcome of such a practice?
That need to control then gets transmitted into the structure of that family or society and over time becomes codified, normalised, embedded.......
Not all children respond or react to the situation in the same way, thus variations arise in the need to control and the levels of violence used to retain control will emerge, with some retaining their basic empathy.
Some will resist the controls. They will be subject to the efforts of others, by violence or by other means, to control them. This resistance leads directly to violence on the part of the controlling parties, because the fear is that if they are not controlled at all costs, then the safety of the controllers is at risk. This is of course unnecessary.
If the issue of empathy is resolved, nurturant co-operation is the natural outcome. We are at our happiest when we meet each others genuine living needs.
The flow is as follows : if the child is not related to in ways that nurture self-empathy, then the development of a loss of empathy occurs.
With that loss, a sense of disconnection is felt and with that comes fear.
The fear leads directly to a perceived need to control others and to control the environment.
As all natural organisms are autonomous, self directing growing beings so too they will resist, to one degree or another, efforts to control them.
That resistance generates violence to impose or retain that control.
In human family or society, if this pattern starts, and is not resolved, then each successive generation will impose that control, and their children too will grow up in an environment that they will 'adapt' to the situation, internalising that psychological need to control.
What baby would not be angry at not being met with the experientials our biology has mandated? Think of the child left to cry himself to sleep in another room, to scream and cry until exhaustion brings sleep. Is this not a common practice in our culture? What of the resignation, the suppression of that rage, the loss of self empathy which ensues from that suppression which is the outcome of such a practice?
That need to control then gets transmitted into the structure of that family or society and over time becomes codified, normalised, embedded.......
Not all children respond or react to the situation in the same way, thus variations arise in the need to control and the levels of violence used to retain control will emerge, with some retaining their basic empathy.
Some will resist the controls. They will be subject to the efforts of others, by violence or by other means, to control them. This resistance leads directly to violence on the part of the controlling parties, because the fear is that if they are not controlled at all costs, then the safety of the controllers is at risk. This is of course unnecessary.
If the issue of empathy is resolved, nurturant co-operation is the natural outcome. We are at our happiest when we meet each others genuine living needs.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe
DIRT : The Movie. A Nurturant Society...
Previously I have written a piece on the Nurturant Society, and coined the word THRIVIVAL. I have used this word in a few essays to describe a reality that I see in nature all the time. I have used it to make a distinction between the sense of 'survival' which is less than abundant, is fear based and generates unnecessary need to over control things that actually reduces the likelihood of Thriving.
A Nurturant Society is the emergent Society that by it's action nurtures life for all life, that by it's action takes an equal part in the biology of life, that by it's action enjoys the life it expresses and returns the gifts that life has bestowed upon it. Thrivival is the state of such a Society.
The movie DIRT is a stunning documentary, a profoundly nurturing expression of what is truly possible, what is within our ability to bring into being. It's about the living soil and our relationship to that living soil. It's not an ideological movie. It's a natural logic movie.
Watch it. It's amazing. See the effect working with plants and soil has on incarcerated people. See the rapidity with which soil and humans can remediate damaged lands.
DIRT : THE MOVIE
Get yer hands in the soil and help plants do what they love doing, gifting you and universe in the process.
We REALLY NEED to focus on the creation of a Nurturant Society, at every level of our Culture, starting with our own lives, and extending outwards into our communities, and we need to look at EVERY process and activity we are engaged in and really understand that if it is NOT Nurturing more life for all life, then it HAS TO GO!
It really is THAT SIMPLE. We are either nurturing life or we are not. And when we look at what we do, we have to take into consideration ALL the outcomes..... no 'externalisation' of costs. No justifying adverse 'collateral' damage because of one or two perceived benefits.
And we need to start NOW!
ALL LIFE MATTERS. There exists a viewpoint that is an expression of resignation, extreme low self esteem and profound selfishness.
It runs a bit like this :
"Nothing really matters, at the end of the day. We all live for a bit, have a few good times then die."
When we die, the materials our bodies are made of are released back to feed more life.
We give back what we have been given as a gift to those who have yet to come. We do this, and we gift life. That is the bare minimum.
It's a choice as to whether or not we take action in our day to day life to bring that gift or not, before we die and release the materials of our bodies.
Your materials will be released whether or not you like it or get it. That much is assured. Death assures us all of that.
What is not assured, and what is down to OUR CHOICE, is whether or not our actions nurture more life for all life and return the gift. It's your choice, it's my choice and yet I ask that each of us bears in mind that our choice has an affect on others, and if you chose not to, if I chose not to, then we deprive others yet to come of their access to that gift, by defaulting on the action possible in our lives.
I am not trying to lay a guilt trip on you. The Dominant Society is a pretty grim place to have been born into, and I wouldn't say to anyone DO NOT ENJOY BEING ALIVE.
I am just pointing out the REALITY. And the possibility.
When I confront the Church, the Government, the Corporations I do it to bring that gift through, and not to get revenge or to become the judge and punisher. That's not saying that I intend to let those Institutions of the hook, or that I give them an excuse or that I am going to be all soft and fluffy. It's to make it abundantly clear where I stand and what I intend. I will not back down, and neither should you!
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe
Corneilius speaks at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse 2010
This video speaks for itself......
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Do what you love, it's your gift to universe
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Do what you love, it's your gift to universe
Permaculture and Food-Oil Dependency.
This is a great documentary on how permaculture can effectively replace current food production practices founded on agro-chemicals (the same chemicals that make explosives!) It is the story of Cuba's recovery from near collapse in the late 80s as the USSR imploded. The Cuban food production was dependent on imports from the USSR for agro-chemicals, industrial farming tools and oil.
Here's the direct link...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil/
The effect of this on Cuba was akin to a decline in oil as a resource, a post-peak oil situation, one we are facing now.
Watch this video and be inspired, be very inspired. Growing food in communities has also other 'side effects' as people trade or exchange food and food growing tips.
In Robert Blums book "Rogue State" he writes about the United Nations and how it is controlled by the security council. That is to say controlled by China, UK, USA, USSR and France. The Nuclear Powers....
One example he gives, which is related to food, goes as follows.
The United Nations General Assembly had been hosting conferences and discussions centered on drafting a legally binding resolution determining food as a fundamental human right.
This resolution would have protected all those who live as hunter gatherers, or who live on land they grow food on as well as made it the responsibility of all governments to ensure that their populations were properly fed and had access to food.
The vast majority of the General Assembly was in favour of this draft resolution and in 1986 held a vote on the issue.
The USA and UK rejected this and veto'ed the resolution, after first offering instead their amendment which read that it was a human right to buy food. This would have allowed Governments to force people of the land, as long as they were given food aid or cash to buy foods (GMO soy, US pesticide rice, hormone laden milk and meat products etc etc).
The General Assembly decided that this was not acceptable, and ditched the entire project on food as a human right. And at the same time called for a profound change to the way the Security Council Veto works, claiming correctly that it's very presence was anti-democratic and thus runs counter to the principles and aims of the UN Charter. Which is true.
Now very few people know about this story. The world-wide mainstream media made sure it never received any attention.
Another pertinent fact is that by law, under the UN Charter, all ratifying member states have to teach their school children about the UN, about the legal status of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how the UN works. The reason being that informed people can make informed choices. Human Rights awareness was seen as a tool to thwart future totalitarian tendencies.
Very few of the Western Governments actually include this in their school curricula to the degree that students emerge from schooling with an understanding of the UN and how it works. None of those Governments who are the permanent members on the UN Security Council include these subjects as part of the school curricula.
The reason behind this failing is that people, if they knew the details, could be mobilised to make the changes required, not in the UN per se, but by electing parties or individuals to National Governments that would then make the drive to push for the changes required in the UN to make it truly democratic, and thus functional as an international legal body with the power to disarm nuclear powers and uphold human rights.
Something the UN Security Council Permanent Members wish to avoid at all costs!
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Do what you love, it's your gift to universe
Here's the direct link...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/the-power-of-community-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil/
The effect of this on Cuba was akin to a decline in oil as a resource, a post-peak oil situation, one we are facing now.
Watch this video and be inspired, be very inspired. Growing food in communities has also other 'side effects' as people trade or exchange food and food growing tips.
In Robert Blums book "Rogue State" he writes about the United Nations and how it is controlled by the security council. That is to say controlled by China, UK, USA, USSR and France. The Nuclear Powers....
One example he gives, which is related to food, goes as follows.
The United Nations General Assembly had been hosting conferences and discussions centered on drafting a legally binding resolution determining food as a fundamental human right.
This resolution would have protected all those who live as hunter gatherers, or who live on land they grow food on as well as made it the responsibility of all governments to ensure that their populations were properly fed and had access to food.
The vast majority of the General Assembly was in favour of this draft resolution and in 1986 held a vote on the issue.
The USA and UK rejected this and veto'ed the resolution, after first offering instead their amendment which read that it was a human right to buy food. This would have allowed Governments to force people of the land, as long as they were given food aid or cash to buy foods (GMO soy, US pesticide rice, hormone laden milk and meat products etc etc).
The General Assembly decided that this was not acceptable, and ditched the entire project on food as a human right. And at the same time called for a profound change to the way the Security Council Veto works, claiming correctly that it's very presence was anti-democratic and thus runs counter to the principles and aims of the UN Charter. Which is true.
Now very few people know about this story. The world-wide mainstream media made sure it never received any attention.
Another pertinent fact is that by law, under the UN Charter, all ratifying member states have to teach their school children about the UN, about the legal status of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how the UN works. The reason being that informed people can make informed choices. Human Rights awareness was seen as a tool to thwart future totalitarian tendencies.
Very few of the Western Governments actually include this in their school curricula to the degree that students emerge from schooling with an understanding of the UN and how it works. None of those Governments who are the permanent members on the UN Security Council include these subjects as part of the school curricula.
The reason behind this failing is that people, if they knew the details, could be mobilised to make the changes required, not in the UN per se, but by electing parties or individuals to National Governments that would then make the drive to push for the changes required in the UN to make it truly democratic, and thus functional as an international legal body with the power to disarm nuclear powers and uphold human rights.
Something the UN Security Council Permanent Members wish to avoid at all costs!
Kindest regards
Corneilius
Do what you love, it's your gift to universe
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