Enemy
The enemy is different from the Other:
The Other is just different from us, and only becomes an enemy when we see our own distorted image in the mirror. Things may be real of imagined, but they will trigger an automatic reaction from us.
Initially, we have a trauma that we need to process.
So we look in the mirror and project our disease onto an Other.
We identify our scapegoat through magetic attraction triggered by the similarity between the Other and ourselves.
This can then be perceived as the origin of the original trauma.
The circle turns.
Electric energy shimmers around the scene as we project our distortion out into the environment.
Thus we become our own enemy and the enemy of Others.
Reflected back through the mirror, our actions become our fate.
By allowing ourselves permission to distort the image of an Other, we express our own trauma and indulge in cruelty to ease our fear.
This is an aggressive act.
This is the first step in the construction of an hierarchy.
This is a building block of disease.
This is the cornerstone of death.
Sue Young The Three Lost Books of Healing
20.8.07 - See also Peter Chappell on Trauma “Personally I think emotional literacy, alongside spiritual literacy, is the most important form of intelligence and that it’s opposite, the consequence of emotional illiteracy, man made trauma in all its forms, which at worst manifests in genocide and war, are the greatest source of ignorance and suffering. I think emotional intelligence is second in intelligence to spiritual intelligence and both are critically important today.â€
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