Is Alternative Media a form of Group Therapy?

[ExomatrixTV]

• Is Alternative Media a form of "Group Therapy"?

DISCLAIMER: The following are just my personal conceptional insights similar to "brainstorming" that are open for improvement & suggestions for corrections and all is for consideration purpose only.

Okay, now that is explained, let's begin ...

In my view, nobody is 100% free from certain (self)-conditioning in this "Physical 3D World" ... Belief patterns, imposing beliefs, (partly) false projections, traumas creating having blind spots, mental reflex defense mechanism, creating "triggers" to others without realizing it and the other may react in a certain "automated way" that will trigger you too and on and on and on it goes.

• Group Psychology aka "Hive Mind" aka Collectivism versus "Egotistical" Individualism >>> both have their flaws ... and some of it are harrowing dangerous!

Seeking balance is not easy as you have to face endless "expectations" others project on youand vice versa, often withoutquestioning WHERE it is coming from and why!

To question all the above is for most (common) people "way too much" ... Many tend to feel: "incompetent and/or powerless" facing complex psychological mechanism & challenges.

• Yes, many can be hypocrites in the Alternative Media World and do things that contradict what they preach! ... Same goes for Mainstream Media (but worse!).

Sometimes I feel that producing Alternative Media is not done "to change the other" but much more a "form of therapy" to coach your "better self" to come out and DO IT ... Like "life-coaching" meant for yourself because the darker "programmed self" having all kinds of self-destructive habits of many kinds is FED UP with that having.



So you think you FEEL MUCH BETTER to focus on "THE GOOD" without doing it completely (yet!) ... You want to change, but you are not there yet, as you KNOW so much can be done differently.

Maybe something happened in your life that activated your "Higher Self" to see the "real you" and you did not like what you see >>> to compensate that bad feeling, you may choose to produce "Alternative Media" tofind like-minded spirits having the same issues ... thus, it becomes like a "group therapy".

What I have learned from actually experiencing professional "group therapy" sessions for 2 years myself is, that people see their own flaws (especially bad self-sabotaging habits) "better in others" and vice versa ... But not everything is what it seems ... sometimes we see things in others that are pure projected FEARS we know are flaws humans can have ... does not mean it is always the case!

The idea of a "possibility" is for some enough to get overemotional and react "as if it is the case" ... and you might say: "That is stupid !!!" ... But for others it may be very rare to feel anything that way for a long time because they were conditioned to suppress their true feelings & emotions for so long ... How do you deal with that? ... I forgive them, stay calm and explain what is going on and KNOW they easily feel "attacked" or feel "ignored" or feel "misunderstood" very fast (due to past traumatic experiences) ... Some are still seeking/finding out who they really are AFTER realizing how much of their lives was actually based upon so many lies!

To make a complex story short:

The answer is not to be found in collectivism nor "egotistical" individualism, but rather people becoming aware of who they really are WITH their flaws & (self-destructive / self-sabotaging) habits & projections of fear no matter who you are ... you could be a "successful" millionaire and still stuckin old patterns of behavior you do not like having.

100% related:

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• The Alternative Truth about the Truth Alternatives
• Whitewashed Lies
• When an Accusation like 'Controlled Opposition' Loses its Value!

cheers,
John Kuhles aka 'ExomatrixTV'
October 4th, 2023 🦜🦋🌳

• and @Demetrios happy birthday!

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[ExomatrixTV]

What do you do if you have friends and/or family who are spreading whitewashed lies?

• A. ignore them.
• B. try to educate them.
• C. no idea.
• D. getting frustrated (especially when the imposing stuff is involved).
• E. laugh about it.
• F. seeking ways to give them quality questions without pushing them.
• G. let it be.
• H. challenge them to debate the issue.
• I. giving them a hug.
• J. sharing this Project Avalon Forum Thread and ask what they think of it.
• K. condemn them.
• L. forgive them.
• M. ask them to seek professional help who are not part of the corrupt system, which seems an impossible task nowadays.
• N. share a very special documentary or lecture that hopefully wakes them up.
• O. become angry and upset (because you care!).
• P. do not care whatsoever.
• Q. feeling helpless, powerless and incompetent.
• R. not my problem.
• S. seeking more like-minded people and making new friends.
• T. sleep over it ... and wait what comes to mind with a fresh attitude, go with the internal flow.
• U. love them anyway.
• V. write an article about it.
• W. trying to use NLP techniques to counter their brainwashed minds.
• X. making memes about it (satire/parody/sarcasm).
• Z. meditate on it and/or pray for them.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[thepainterdoug]

WOW jOHN

Im on this wavelength and ready to create a post in concert with this. Ill be back

[Michel Leclerc]

Thank you John, interesting thoughts.

A question: is the “group therapy” you are referring to:

(1) individual therapy done in a group setting (in principle with strangers, and focusing on individual action in the ad hoc group), or

(2) therapy of a group (in principle with the members of the group, and focusing on group interaction)

?

[ExomatrixTV]

Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
Thank you John, interesting thoughts.

A question: is the “group therapy” you are referring to:

(1) individual therapy done in a group setting (in principle with strangers, and focusing on individual action in the ad hoc group), or

(2) therapy of a group (in principle with the members of the group, and focusing on group interaction)

?

Group Therapy has many layers when done in the right setting with basic rules ... most "group therapies" are done with people having similar traumas, similar issues in their lives, similar psychological "disorders" ... and everybody has his or her OWN PACE how to cope & deal with it.

By sharing your struggle with others you feel not alone anymore the moment you get sincere feedback from people having similar problems in their lives ... and the "fun part" is that every time when someone gives you a suggestion or advice or tells how he or she solved a problem (or is still working on it) you will see that almost everybody has a "wiser" part of themselves speaking out towards somebody else, but the same wisdom will eventually come back at you later on when you share personal experiences months later ... then you are reminded of your "wiser self" had spoken before on the same topic/issue/problem.

The question arises, WHY DO WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE TO DO ... and still not do it? ... Why? ... To me, this is a fascinating psychological reoccurring process ... Some do not even see it until somebody point it out to you ... That is why Group Therapy is different from having a "one on one" talk with a psychologist/psychiatrist.

Thanks to Group Therapy, you are able to look better "in the mirror of your Soul" ... if you allow yourself to be 100% frank (honest) and allow yourself to be vulnerable to those people who you feel you can trust and vice versa.

The more you see self-sabotaging patterns of behavior, the faster you are able to transform these (often destructive) habits with help from like-minded people who know what you are going through and why.

When you "expose" your "inner dialogue" to others, you become more human again and less rigged and less robotic ...having inner conflicts are not weird to have nor is it "dangerous" as it actually helps you to reassess things in life and mostly for good reasons ... So many people assume you have to "fit in" whatever the "norm" is without questioning WHY ... Making us become strangers to who we suppose to be. Losing your true self ... In my view, it is like "spiritual suicide".

Group Therapy NEVER claims to have the "best" answer nor "best" solution, but you just share things to see how others deal with it and vice versa ... Sometimes you feel that most are ahead of you and there are times that you are ahead of the group ... all depends on how much do you live in self-honesty ... What excuses (seeking endless convenient distractions) do you use not to see what is really happening to you.

Group Therapy is not for just "one day with strangers" ... you do it at least 1 year and get to know everybody and everybody is getting to know you too!

And of course there are bad days and good days ... there are days you feel you "accomplished nothing" and there are days you see so many things in life differently affecting your choices in your life in much positive uplifting way.

• I can talk for hours on this topic alone, but I think I shared just enough for you to get it why I bring it up!

And thank you, @Michel Leclerc for showing sincere interest

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Michel Leclerc]

Thank you John. What you describe is the classical individual therapy in groups.

From my contacts with professional therapists who help individuals in group settings I have come to understand that it often and over time evolves into “group therapy” in the other meaning, i.e. helping the group as such by means of the individual participants. Or in other words: a dependency on whatever is the neurotic symptom one wishes to get rid of (phobias, alcohol, etc.) gradually transforms itself into a dependency on group interaction dealing with the symptom.

In part tangentially the following:

I have a profound suspicion of therapies depending on language (necessary for verbalising whatever one wishes to express through verbal exchanges, “conversation“, “personal statements” etc.), and that comes from my vocation as a writer, and education as a linguist and a language philosopher: whatever is expressed in language is heavily dependent on what the language itself is able to express and how it does so: what I am writing here constrains my possibility of “explaining myself” because of the choice of English average vocabulary and syntax – hence that limits the power of discussion (and is also, in parallel, the main reason behind the limited stimulation of agency provided by on-line forums (this leading to a different topic of course) and ultimately leads to circuitous reasoning, tautology and “expressing the same” (?) “thing in different” (?) “words..;

applying this to the world of therapy: even the most personalised forms of therapy using language such as psychoanalysis ultimately reduce the “knot to be untied” to something which can be expressed with English, or French, or Dutch, etc. words..; interesting issues popping up once one starts to leave the civilisations that use verbal psychotherapies: what interfaces exist between psychoanalysis and Islam for instance?

is this important? I think so. typically, the Anglosaxonian world will address the issue (supposing that it understands it, which is not certain) by stating: “another fact that proves that everything would be simpler if everybody spoke English”; which in itself starts the tautological merry-go-round, of course;

an example: the world of academic psychologists used to believe in the validity of value-system studies: research projects studying what groups in a given society would prioritise which set of values chosen from an overall set of values; within a culture, or even narrower, within a group off speakers of the same language, that more or less worked, but as soon as similar studies were set up where the set of values were translations of the original set (which might have been in English but not necessarily so) the fact that “translations” do not translate exactly the field of associations a culture or a speaker of any given language has with a given word led to "unexplainable" discrepancies. (I myself have spoken publicly about key concepts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and no, “peace/paz/paix” does NOT mean exactly the same thing as “salām” in Arabic, “mir” in Russian or “hé-ping” in Chinese – or “vrede” in Dutch, for that matter.., and realising that, the audience at least started to believe that "communication" is not as easy as they thought it was.)

so – (and this for the last time on a side-line but I will be coming to my point : when Jordan Peterson, as a typical psychologist, claims that "the same test result has been found everywhere in the world” he typically jumps over the entire language issue – it may very well be that his test results are only valid for the English speaking world, and not for the Arabic, or Japanese, or Hindi speaking world; and of course: the same issue can be raised about Cliff High’s bots etc.: does his software have a Russian version? and if it has, what about the lack of congruence of word meanings?)

John, I am – from personal experience – convinced that only non-verbal therapies really work: and non-verbal may mean then: physical – but also: psychic – or “pneumatic”. Because then lying is not possible: lying needs language to exist. My body knows, my soul knows, my spirit knows when the other person, or the other persons, “is/are with” me: my spirit, my soul, my body.

We are neurotic because we hide behind language.

[Michel Leclerc]

Hence, John – yes, Alternative Media may be compared to “Group therapy”..

but...

(etc. etc.)