People increasingly fight about everything, believe bizarre things, and are unhappy!
What causes this?
We do!
How?
We treat people like machines instead of competent, moral, self-driven, loving, and honorable creatures!
Every life has an identity!
Also instincts, and awareness of its own needs!
As we ignore and override these things, each life feels more and more powerless!
We believe we can safely ignore this part of life!
Well, how’s that working out?
As we make others feel small and helpless, they lose self-respect. Their behavior no longer feels important!
People are naturally loving, moral, and kind.
As we treat them with contempt, it becomes very difficult for them to see themselves as wonderful.
We begin our damage at every person’s most vulnerable time.
Early childhood!
We are not respecting the independent self-driven identity of our children!
We thought, let’s teach our children our wishes instead of helping them develop along their own instinctive path!
What could go wrong?
BINGO!
By now, we should be realizing what could go wrong!
Why don’t we see that what is happening to people is the consequence of our own actions?
No life’s inner world can survive being driven from the outside!
Predictably, our inner worlds aren’t surviving! Can we feel our own needs? Our feelings? Our instincts?
Do we feel respected?
How much of our inner reality are we ashamed of?
It would be a miracle if people could proudly behave well, considering how disrespectfully we treat them!
Unfortunately, overpowering the identity of a person causes actual damage, in the form of disassociation.
Life is self-driven, and we must accept that!
Damage sets up further damage!
If we could feel our own instincts, we would support the power of our children!
That’s nurture! Nurture means to support the independent efforts of the young.
Do we do that?
We should not be opposing and destroying the self-drive of people!
We have removed the instinctive morality of our population!
How’s that for a giant boo-boo?
Thanks for listening!
This post is part of https://clarity-of-innocence.com It is not yet complete.
Good luck on your own journey.
Take care,
Norm Cormier
I welcome considering other thoughts.