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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:13 PM
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Death Is On Everyone's Mind. Woe Be The Consequences
Just commenting on the enormous mass psychic energy that is building.

Death is on everyone's mind. And for a sustained period of time.

Just sitting here shuttering when I consider in what manner this mass of energy will eventually manifest itself.

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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:16 PM
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1. Some will grow. Some will regress.
The normal distribution (if we were able to make use of research) would say about equal numbers of each, with a few growing a lot, a few regressing a lot, and most cancelling out their growth with about equal regression.
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libhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:18 PM
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4. And some
thinking it's all a scam by the Rethugs to distract simple minded America from the sorry mess they have gotten our country, and the world, into -
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:17 PM
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2. Rid the world of all these fevered egos
"All I'm trying to do folks, is rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious and making us pay a higher psychic price than we can imagine." - Bill Hicks

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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:17 PM
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3. you're right, it is building
and when it reaches a watershed moment, my guess is it's going to be very ugly, indeed. :hide:

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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:23 PM
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9. What troubles me is wondering what is our collective unconscious
is being prepared for. Even if it's not being intentionally manipulated, a mass of psychic energy is being generated and it seems to me it's got to go somewhere, or manifest itself somehow.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 05:10 PM
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15. I, too, have been obsessed...
Where the FUCK is the "tipping point?" Stupid me, I thought Enron would do it. 8.2 in Indonesia??? :shrug:
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:38 PM
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11. It can only mean the Rapture is close at hand.
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libhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 05:01 PM
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13. Please don't
Leave me behind with the Rethug fundies - maybe that's what hell is! A liberal in a world full of wing nut repukes - I'm sorry, Jesus----
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 05:49 PM
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16. I've been thinking the same things.
Wouldn't Jerry Falwell shit his pants to be left behind.
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libhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 05:01 PM
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14. Please don't
Leave me behind with the Rethug fundies - maybe that's what hell is! A liberal in a world full of wing nut repukes - I'm sorry, Jesus----
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:19 PM
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5. "erring on the side of life"
the gall of these bastards, who support immoral, illegal wars, the death penalty, limitless guns on the streets, slashing aid for the poor, sick and disabled.....now they are using a severely brain-damaged woman to make us think about death and the "culture of life"? How dare they? How f***ing DARE they? :puke:
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:20 PM
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6. Been thinkin the very same thing. It's a bad storm brewing up.
How is the irritability level of everyone around you? How is everyone responding to stimulus? Overreactions or modulated? Somebody is working pretty hard to get people to move from reason to just plain reaction.

More signs of the primitive brain at work? Efforts to override the cerebral cortex of the masses? Bad business when that happens.

The good news came in that post with pictures of the protesters at the hospice. They really are a very small group.

The powerful know the masses need outlets for their emotions. It is why the Romans had gladiators and why the neocons have Rush. Left to their own devices, people might stop and notice what is REALLY wrong and start fixing it.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:23 PM
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8. Irritability Level?
LOL. Pretty damn high.

Even on DU.
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distantearlywarning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:22 PM
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7. Terror Management Theory.
Look it up.

Mortality salience leads to all kinds of dysfunctional behavior, including intergroup conflict, rejection of deviants, closemindedness, clinging to unhealthy behaviors, etc...

I think this whole country's been in a state of "death awareness" since 2001, and some of the crazy crazy shit that people are advocating these days is a result of that.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:28 PM
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10. Come to think of it. Easter was quite strange this year with my fundie
family. For the first time, they were quiet. They weren't talking about anything. It was strange. Eventually we had a brief conversation about Schiavo, but there was no digging into position and whatnot. Every statement subdued. It was strange.
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 04:41 PM
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12. My Sunday was the same way with the in-laws. It's been like that for a
while too.

We didn't discuss anything of any importance - not even their weekly review of Survivor. I'm not sure if they've finally written me off or the insane amount of Bible study has driven them completely off the deepend - it was enjoyable, yet unnerving.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 05:51 PM
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17. We didn't "do" Easter...
I'm afraid I didn't even make Easter baskets for my grandsons. But I did call each of my daughters and tell them I love them, which seemed like enough.
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SpaceBuddy008 Donating Member (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-28-05 09:54 PM
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18. ...can therefore manifest anywhere, through anyone and at any moment.
disregard for laws & life definately filters down to the man or 'teenager' on the street....

THE DISEASE IS NON-LOCAL

Being a field phenomenon, malignant egophrenia is non-local in nature, which means that it is not bound by the limitations of time or space. Being non-local, this disease pervades and underlies the entire field and can therefore manifest anywhere, through anyone and at any moment. The disease's non-local nature makes the question of who has the disease irrelevant, as we all have it in potential. It is more a question of whether or not we are aware of our susceptibility to fall prey to the disease. This awareness itself serves as an immunization that protects us from the pernicious effects of the illness, thereby allowing us to be of genuine help to others.

Bush, like all of us, is both a manifestation of this deeper field and simultaneously an agent effecting this field. He’s become so fully taken over by the disease, all the while not suspecting a thing, that he’s become a "carrier" for this deadly disease, thus infecting the field around him. He’s become a portal through which the field around him "warps" in such a way as to feed and support his pathogenic process. A non-local, reciprocally co-arising and interdependent field of unconscious denial and cover-up gets constellated around Bush to enable and protect his pathology. People who support Bush are actually complicit with and enabling Bush’s madness in a co-dependent, self-reinforcing feedback loop that is ‘closed,’ which is to say it is insular and not open to any feedback from the ‘real’ world.

Bush supporters are not merely disinterested in seeing that they are in denial of reality; on the contrary, they actively don’t want to look at this, which is to say they resist self-reflection at all costs. Bush and his supporters perversely interpret any feedback from the real world which reflects back their unconsciousness as itself evidence that proves the rightness of their viewpoint. All of Bush’s supporters mutually reinforce each other’s unconscious resistance to such a degree that a collective, interdependent field of impenetrability gets collectively conjured up by them that literally resists consciousness.

People who don't recognize Bush's illness and support him are unconsciously colluding with and enabling in the co-creation of the pathological field that is incarnating itself into the human family. People who support Bush become unwitting agents through which this non-local disease feeds and replicates itself. By supporting Bush they are collaborating with and becoming parts of the greater, interconnected and self-organizing field of the disease.

ANALAGOUS TO GERMANS IN THE TIME OF HITLER

A COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS

It is a very dangerous situation we are in--because of the position of power Bush and the religious right find themselves in, they can literally dream up and create the very apocalypse that they are imagining is prophesized, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. In a perversely self-reinforcing feedback-loop, the more death and destruction happens, the more this confirms to them the truth that their deluded end-time scenario is actually happening as prophesized. In a diabolical self-validating vicious cycle, Bush and the religious right are ignoring the role they are playing in creating exactly what they are using as evidence to prove the rightness of their viewpoint. ME disease is a world where up is down, as its flawless illogic is convoluted and inverted at its core.

Malignant egophrenia is crazy-making. It induces a very hard-to-recognize form of insanity. When we fall prey to egophrenia, we are unable to recognize that we are taken over, as we become bewitched by our own projections, accusing other people of doing what we ourselves are doing. For example, Bush is talking about himself when he accuses Saddam Hussein of being “a man who has defied the world,” and “a man who has made the United Nations look foolish.” Part of the disease is that when we point at it and call it by its true name--as being a form of insanity called ignorance--people who are stricken with the disease will see us as the ones who are crazy. Unless we recognize the insidious nature of this disease, there is a crazy-making field around it that will make us a part of itself. Collective psychosis is like that.

It's a gesture from the universe, beckoning us, demanding us to integrate it and thereby receive its blessing. By prompting, pressuring and challenging us to come to terms with it and receive its gifts, malignant egophrenia has the potential to awaken us, thereby furthering the evolution of the species.

The fact that malignant egophrenia is manifesting in fully visible form in our world right now is an expression that this particular energy is available for assimilation in a way un-imaginable until now. When an unconscious content is ready to be integrated, it always gets dreamed up into fully materialized form. This is the dimension in which the energy bound up in the infinitely regressing feedback loop of the disease can be accessed and redeemed.

BUT...... If we solidify Bush as being evil and react with righteous indignation, we are guilty of the very same thing we’re accusing Bush of (i.e, projecting the shadow). We then become a conduit for the very evil we’re reacting to. Who among us has not been guilty of being a channel for ME disease at one time or another? If, when we see this virulent pathogen, we contract against it and react in any way, be it in judgment, hatred, anger or revulsion, we’re helping to perpetuate the diabolical polarization that is the signature of the disease. Our reacting in this way, which is typical of many political activists, is itself an expression that we ourselves have the disease, or to say it more clearly, the disease has us.


If Bush and Co. weren’t around, there would be someone else sent by ‘central casting’ to pick up and play out these very same archetypal roles. Compassion spontaneously arises when we truly recognize these fear-ridden parts of ourselves.

The Madness of George W. Bush

A reflection of our collective psychosis: Bush’s sickness is our own





January 15, 2005

By Paul Levy, Baltimore Chronicle

http://www.yuricareport.com/Bush'sBody/TheMadnessOfGeorgeWBush.html

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