INFERIOR PEAS IN A SUPERIOR SOCIAL POD

Talent is a successful romantic relationship with the self. This is a book about the primacy of self-learning; both as the core of education, and as the transformative path toward finding, and building a truer democracy. It celebrates individuality, its creative and nurturing power, over society and its bureaucratic machinations – devoid of spiritual or emotional vitality…except what we give it in pretence.

PREFACE
The human heart has been much maligned as impulsive, too changeable, irrational, disruptive and much more. When deep psychotherapy has vividly revealed that the heart is more intelligent than the mind; that is if we let it speak for itself on its own terms. We discover that the heart is rational, has its own logic, is brilliantly in touch with far more than the mind can grasp, among other things memory and the unconscious. The heart possesses a plethora of talents that far outweigh the mind’s rational logic in psychic power.

In a like manner human individuality has also been much maligned over the centuries, as it is presently in social discourse. The emphasis is upon staying connected to each other. And yet, like the heart, individuality possesses far more potential power than society.

Indeed every new thing we’ve learned over the centuries has been accomplished by individuals. Until society took control of that knowledge as if it was the creator. When society has not one creative bone in its fictional nature. Individuality is potentially far more powerful than society – that is if we stop abusing it in the interests of conflict-avoidant conformity; instead providing support and encouragement to the psych of every single human on this planet as a first priority.

Society is just another form of religion; the secular form of sacred, in relationship to which each one of us is inferior, and generally treated as servants of the State. Things taken from us, occasionally returned, but most often, most of us pay the piper when we can ill afford to do so.

While the rich and powerful, who need society as a front for their secret shenanigans, spend billions (advertising and political contributions) protecting their huge assets. While trying to convince us that this gross inequity isn’t really happening – that they’re good robber-baron parents taking excellent care of their children (us). Like all bad parents who won’t let go, they hide their oppressive dominance behind appearances designed to deceive – in present tense by the symbol of an irresistibly devouring woman offering everything by taking it.

Sex has become a power tool – popular men a little boy. All of which drains away our spiritual energy as if fucking is the best there is, distracting us from what’s really happening, and from the realization of what a small subservient part we’re playing in it.

The best excuse for control and power-addicts is that they didn’t build society and how it works; they were dropped into it at birth like all of us. They’re just cleverer at getting money and power. Yet when are we going to open our eyes to see how primitive and useless it is to spend a lifetime hoarding money and power over others? All the while pretending this practice is both democratic and harmless.

Has it ever occurred to us that electing a better big shot is just repeating more of the same? The alternative, growing up by taking charge of our own lives … together … has much more promise. But that means to be far more of an individual, not primarily a joiner. And we all know how unpopular that option is.

Science has liberated us from the deceptions of sacredness by rendering the operational codes of visible objects, producing the math that makes techs. But what science is incapable of deciphering is the intangible, un-seeable, untouchable realm of the human spirit/psyche. The roots of our spiritual core are accessed where science fears to go – to emotional and unconscious sources.

Yet instead of owning that power, we give it – turn it over – as we always have to gods, God, society, culture, nation, family, romance etc. Truth is we’ve always wanted to remain children, where someone else takes care of the important things like safety, hunger and thoughtful caring. So we don’t have to learn how to care for ourselves, and each other. That’s why hierarchy was invented, to make our spending a lifetime as children at least appear to be possible; by rendering Big People like Kings and God, who are supposed to take care of that stuff. Relieved of responsibility, basking in our perpetual orgasm; we have very little idea of how powerful the human psyche/spirit is capable of becoming. We confine feeling to the personal realm. When it wants instead to be ontological.

Enter deep indefinite psychotherapy – rendering a permanent study of the self that lasts a lifetime. The empowerment of that path is known only to the few who are so desperate/determined/dedicated that they’re willing to undergo the upside-down transformations of self-learning. Facilitating the reprogramming of their character-habits to render the parts of their psyche/spirit to be far more consistent with each other – and in that collaboration becoming empowered. Every human lives with contradictory internal instructions; the consequence, in childhood, of adapting to others by sacrificing parts of the self … creating permanent structural dysfunction – observable when our lives get screwed up sometimes. The continuing presence of hierarchy in human affairs is ample evidence that oppression has not left us.

The assertions of this book may appear infinitely convoluted, forever spinning off in strange directions. Yet that’s the language of the matrix/emotional thinking, designed to render all the pieces of one human’s assumptions, feelings, thoughts and behaviors cooperative with each other.

Nietzsche discovered and wrote about the power of ‘I’; and then went off in a crazy direction making it powerful over others, instead of powerful in itself. The human psyche-as-spirit is power derived entirely from how we search, study, understand, challenge and manage our internal experience … or fail to do so.
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