The symptoms of our psycho-spiritual illness are the wars, terrorist attacks, artificial or man-made disasters and leader figures. As long as the people remain oblivious to their inner drives and inner nature they will always fail to recognize why this events take place and why these figures rise to such powerful positions. The reason why we have failed for thousands of years to conquer these archetypal rulers permanently is because for thousands of years we have been fighting the symptoms of an illness and not the root cause.
"To develop a more or less accurate self-image is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't know existed. And these facets are easily spotted because they show up as your symptoms." –Ken Wilber
For every corrupt government that falls at the hands of a revolutionary oppressed people, two more will arise in its place every time. Because the root cause of a corrupt government does not exist in the individual leading that government. It exists within the psyche of every individual.
An unaware host to a deadly parasite will do anything to avoid accepting his own incapacity for freedom.
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul." –Carl Jung
We are so bereft of sanity in this world, that those few who simply stop projecting on to others and begin facing their own demons, are seen as neurotic.
An article written in the 1950s states that studies showed that individuals who had been isolated from their familiar social and cultural environment, became neurotic. This shows that when those individuals had no object to identify their darker motions with, they began to see these things in themselves that which they refused to recognize before, and were unaware of why they appeared and how to cope. [source]
Facing our true inner self is virtually unknown in our world today. This is why no matter how many civilizations rise and fall, it is our collective consciousness that creates our governing apparatus, not individual people.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” –Albert Einstein
And after countless attempts you would imagine that people would realize that a physical retaliation may not be the solution. Yet here we are thousands of years later, with technology that can clone DNA, vehicles that can break the sound barrier and probe the depths of space, and science that can overcome almost any sickness, yet we still fail to take notice to the importance of thoughts and consciousness. This is the very definitions of insanity. And every single one of us is responsible for this psychic epidemic.
Because we're killing the messenger and paying no attention to the message.
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