Posted by araucaria
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Omni and Natalia, you are not disagreeing with me unless you also disagree with the following.
None of us getting on with our tiny lives have any leverage on great machinations in the outside world such as renegade governments or black ops. To focus on them from this position of powerlessness is therefore going to be a total waste of time. The way to focus on them from a position of power is to see these external effects as reflecting things occurring inside ourselves. I know, I am repeating that tired old expression ‘look within’, which tends to lose its meaning through repetition – the best I can do is to keep trying new formulations that may just get past the cliché and resonate with someone.
Finding such evil within oneself is a way of taming it. When I see its destructive effect, I am now in a position to say I’m not having this, this is not who I really am. It means not feeling a victim; granted, that is much easier said than done, but it is the condition for not feeling guilty either. To do this, you need to climb above the role of victim (or perpetrator) and tackle the entire victim/perpetrator scenario in order to clear both sides together. To avoid feeling guilt you have to be able to forgive yourself, forgive yourself for
everything up to and including the guilt that victims also feel (which is why many become perpetrators). Perpetrators are overwhelmed with guilt; they are unable to deal with it on the inside and so it takes on a life of its own, and becomes the enemy to be destroyed.
You see this split personality in literature with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A better example is perhaps Oscar Wilde’s
The Picture of Dorian Gray; the character remains young and handsome while deliberately projecting all his nastiness out into his portrait, which becomes ever more hideous over time. There comes a point when he stabs the picture, and an unknown old man is found dead – he has killed himself, while the picture has reverted to its original beauty. This is a very literal description of what I am talking about. We understand that the madman has a false picture of the outside world, we see how the only destruction that can be achieved is self-destruction, as there is nothing out there that can be destroyed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray
In French, we say “sage comme une image” (as good as a picture), meaning as good as gold. Sage of course also means wise, so being as wise as one’s picture is how we create a world in our own likeness, a world with contrasts of light and shade; but one of total darkness? Over my dead soul.
As an alternative formulation, I have a couple of Carl Jung quotes to hand working in the direction I am suggesting:
The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from those hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives, we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch.
Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is also in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow, he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved problems of our day.
[if the unconscious is] properly dealt with in one place only, it is influenced as a whole, i.e. simultaneously and everywhere.
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