Perpetrator
If we do not understand the Other, they will threaten us with their difference and their similarity.While we circle and spiral around the hierarchy, the Other competes with us for resources.
Viewed from this position, the Other is either above us or below us, challenging our environment.
When we see the Other in the mirror, they are our own distorted image.
When we love or hate the Other, we are only reacting to our own appetite for a friend or an enemy.
While we fear the Other, we are slaves to distortion and fear.
As long as we give ourselves permission, we can glare at the Other to forgive ourselves.
As long as we live in the hierarchy, we can react to the Other to explain ourselves.
As long as we are diseased, we can speak of the Other to justify ourselves.
As long as we are traumatised, we can blame the Other as we exonerate ourselves.
As long as we believe we are alone, we can fear the Other because they are separate from us.
Coming together is always that close.
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.
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