Citizens of authentic good will decry, denounce, condemn and counter delusional MAGA-magpies, the dark side of Power has seized them, an ancient yet very alive and active archetype insisting
POWER OVER ALL/UBER ALLES (armed wth guns and Bibles - chapters and verses used to further the delusions of grandeur.
They are seized by a destructive, vengeful, blood-thirsty Force that convinces and confirms to their simple minds that they are the army of "the one and only TRUE God
(but let's face it,
ALL DEITIES ARE LOCAL.
Just read the history of religions, the big ones and the regional ones.
Boring, you say?
Then go play the consumer ADD/ADHD game and be Entertained to Death (aka Roger Waters). Go TIK TOK, go binge watch all the zillions of ways to remain "comfortably numb" all of which is, amounts to
post modern fiddling while all our Romes burn, Rome, Georgia, Rome, Italy, et. al.
So you follow God, is it?
But which God is it, Delusional Crusaders?
Ah, though dressed up in 2024 drag it is the too very familiar, all too violent, psychopathic deity especially found in Western Religions though such deity is an equal opportunity Crazy the world over, - land hungry, blood thirsty, fear/terror mongering bully, a mind-fucker conveying both sides of the primitive mouth (dripping blood and cruelty)
"I love you/I destroy you".
A VERY SICK DEITY
and as goes the deity so goes its followers.
Thusly, and to be Biblical,
"And it came to pass" that
Roger Waters lays it, all the absurdity of Western theology and culture, all out:
"What God wants, God gets - God help us all"...
Just this refrain reveals the crazy making that comes with such a God/Religion, the tri-invecta here -
The quelled human appealing ("nice doggie, nice doggie) to "What God demands, God gets"
but still, human fear prays for that God's help from WHO? that GOD very same FICKEL, that SCHIZOID, THAT CRUEL, and crazy making psychosis inducing Overwhelm.
Just look at its Castrati acting just like that ID they follow.
Here's Waters' "What God Wants" - lyrics posted in comment section below this post:
https://genius.com/Roger-waters-what-god-wants-part-ii-lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtcY8iY6jO4
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SO -
Dear (rhymes with Fear) America,
... The trick is to find heaven and ever let it go...'
... A problem with heaven is that others pay for it. My heaven over yours. Heavens differ and wars are fought over them. How many people spend time supporting another's heaven? Heaven becomes a hot potato one tries to hold and others try to get rid of it. Everyone's angry at everyone else for not supporting the same heaven...The trick is to find heaven and ever let it go.' - Michael Eigen, from The Sensitive Self
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"We see massive traumas in the policial world, as well as in lives of individuals. Links between character and cataclysm spread through the social body, families, individuals, culture. Massive traumas are created in all parts of the world that mimic, reflect, look like the kinds of trauma inflicted on the basic support of an individual. The traumas inflicted on the support to individuals have a cumulative impact on the kinds of trauma that societies suffer. One mirrors the other."- p 22/23
Excerpts just above, and this below, are from an interview with Michael Eigen about psychopathy in our time:
"It sounds insane. The United States is a powerful country and has a momentous impact on the world when it goes mad. And it does go mad."
Michael Eigen: "I think one thing in our age that's growing more and more prevalent is what used to be called psychopathy. A kind of hardening of personality to survive, to win where only winning and triumph matters, where survival matters and where integrity or quality of survival matters very little. Psychopathy used to be defined as a defect of conscience, someone who didn't feel another person's pain, or if aware of another's pain, would be mainly interested in how to use it for one's own benefit. It's possible to terrorize a whole population. For example, the [W] Bush group managed to make some portion of the American population afraid that Saddam Husein was going to destroy or badly damage America with weapons of mass destruction. It sounds insane. The United States is a powerful country and has a momentous impact on the world when it goes mad. And it does go mad.
For years the Bush group manipulated psychotic anxieties of the population. They played on catastrophic fears. They manipulated the country to go to war in Iraq and kill defenseless people. For what reason? I can't tell you for what reason, but one can't help thinking of power, position, oil, momey. Some people got rich doing this. The munitions and construction and oil companies lit up. Aspects of the financial world went through the roof. Things like this can't go on forever. A price is going to be paid. The air's going to go out of the balloon. It's going to happen and may already be happening. Meanwhile, mind-boggling wealth is at stake. The last statistic I heard on this [2011] was that one percent of the population controls approximately 25 persent of the nation's wealth. We have governments, in effect, engaged in manipulating catastrophic fear to increase private gain.
This attitude carries over, stains the social fabric, big and small. The model of those at the "top" seeps "down". A psychopathic attitude trickles down. A model of being insensitive to the pain of others [such as Iraqis, Iranians, immigrants at the US border], manipulating the suffering of others for one's own purposes . . .the psychopath has a defective capacity for concern. Ruthlessness is more dominent than it should be. In a more balanced personality the two tendencies, ruthlessness and concern balance each other...so our big job as a society, and as a psychotherapist, is that we must learn how to work with psychosis. We have learned, to a great extent, how to work with borderline personalities. And yet we have not learned how to work with psychopaths as a society and as individual therapists. p 31-33
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Quotes by Michael Eigen from his book,
Eigen In Seoul: Volume Two, Faith and Transformation. Karnac Press. 2011
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Post Script before the Fall of America being utterly seized/mugged by Donald J. Trump. This from a Medium online essay [click here to read it in full]:
It would be more than wise, it would be massively prudent in insert the name Trump (along with ITs mini-me Castrati in the once was GOP, now referred to me forever as the GOPathic Party or the G(oon)OPeePees.
"Jung is trying to get to the core of the Germany psyche. He refers to other German writers, including Goethe, Heine, and Nietzsche, who have been struck by the inferiority of the Germans and how this state manifests itself in dissociation of personality, ignoring one’s shadow, and looking for the darkness in others. He summarizes this condition:
“All these pathological features — complete lack of insight into one’s own character, auto-erotic self-admiration, denigration and terrorization of one’s fellow man (how contemptuously Hitler spoke of his own people!), projection of the shadow, lying, falsification of reality, determination to impress by fair means or foul, bluffing and double-crossing — all these were united in the man who was diagnosed clinically as an hysteric, and whom a strange fate chose to be the political, moral, and religious spokesman of Germany for twelve years. Is this pure chance?”
Jung suggests a more accurate diagnosis of Hitler’s condition “would be ‘pseudologia phantastica’ which is characterized by a peculiar talent for believing one’s own lies.” For a short time, such people can meet with remarkable success, and are therefore dangerous. Jung writes that Hitler’s theatrical, hysterical gestures struck most foreigners as ridiculous. He adds a personal observation:
“When I saw him with my own eyes, he suggested a psychic scarecrow (with a broomstick for an outstretched arm) rather than a human being. It is also difficult to understand how his ranting speeches, delivered in shrill, grating tones, could have made such an impression. But the German people would never have been taken in and carried away so completely if this figure had not been a reflected image of the collective German hysteria. It is not without serious misgiving that one ventures to pin the label of ‘psychopathic inferiority’ on to a whole nation and yet, heaven knows, it is the only explanation which could any way account for the effect this scarecrow had on the masses. A sorry lack of education, conceit that bordered on madness, a very mediocre intelligence combined with the hysteric’s cunning and the power fantasies of an adolescent, were written all over this demagogue’s face. His gesticulations were all put on, devised by a hysterical mind intent on only making an impression. He behaved in public like a man living in his own biography, in this case as the somber, demonic ‘man of iron’ of popular fiction, the ideal of an infantile public whose knowledge of the world is derived from the deified heroes of trashy films.
“These personal observations led me to conclude at the time (1937), when the final catastrophe came, it would be far greater and bloodier than I had previously supposed. For this theatrical and transparent impostor was not strutting about on a small stage but was riding the armored divisions of the Wehrmacht, with all the weight of the German heavy industry behind him.”
Jung concludes this thread with this somber assessment: Eighty million people crowded into the circus to witness its own destruction at the hands of a narcissist.
(Jung could not have known that Hitler apparently received psychological help when he was in the Landsberg prison in 1924. His doctor Alois Maria Ott revealed in 1990, at age ninety-eight, that Hitler displayed magical, mysterious thinking.)
Jung continues to probe and to wonder why no one intervened. He refers to Göring as a good fellow and a cheat; and Goebbels as a dangerous character. The psychologist joins these men with Hitler in an unholy trinity. All were united in pathology. Hitler was exalted to the skies. Some theologians saw him as the Savior, a precursor of the Second Coming.
The psychologist wonders why army commanders didn’t intervene when Hitler’s intentions were clear. He wonders why there is no evidence of any such action. He concludes that this lack of action can only be described as the outcome of a particular state of mind, a chronic disposition which, in an individual, we call hysteria. He suggests that this condition influences mind set, character and will. Jung concludes that this state produces great energy and tension as well as inner contradiction, such as conflict of conscience, disharmonies of character; in short, everything we see in Goethe’s Faust, who sinks to the level of charlatan and mass murderer. Faust, like Hitler, seems to have no real insight and suffers no remorse.
“After the Catastrophe” seems prescient, even though written right after World War II. For Jung, the devil stole a march on the Germans, dangling in front of them the bait of power, aggrandizement, and national arrogance. They were led to imitate their prophets and to take their words literally, without understanding them. Germans allowed themselves to be deluded by their disastrous fantasies.
Jung writes that we must open our eyes to the shadow that looms behind contemporary man. “We have no need to hold up the devil’s mask before the Germans.” Individuals as well as nations have individual and collective shadows that keep us from consciousness. Jung warns against science and technology as dangerous playthings in the hands of people not psychologically equipped to handle them.
— excerpts from "Jung on Hitler and the Archetype of the Madman by Charles McCullaug"
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