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Radical Love as Antidote to the Pathology of the Corporate State
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With ever increasing economic inequality, Israel Gaza massacres, the U.S. bombing of Iraq in the ISIS crisis and police brutality and racism in Ferguson, the worlRadical Love as Antidote to the Pathology of the Corporate State
With ever increasing economic inequality, Israel Gaza massacres, the U.S. bombing of Iraq in the ISIS crisis and police brutality and racism in Ferguson, the world continues to descend into an abyss of darkness. Coincidentally in recent years, character disturbance seems to have become an epidemic in Western society. Narcissism, borderline sociopaths and trends of psychopathy have now come to pervade our everyday life. Is this larger pathology underlying much of the injustice and misery in the world?
The American Psychiatric Association identified these pervasive condition as dramatic, emotional erratic disorders and put them together as cluster B personality disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Categorized as an antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy is probably the most pathologized of all. In popular culture, it is portrayed with horrifying images of evil. When we hear the term psychopath, most people imagine someone like Hannibal Lecter in the movie Silence of the Lambs and notorious murders like Ted Bundy. But psychopathy is not all about those outlandish criminals.
In Psychopathy of Everyday Life, Martin Kantor (2006) argues how the majority of psychopaths are not lawbreakers or violent, but are living everywhere among us. Kantor gives a profile of those less serious and more common psychopaths, showing how they are blended in with our friends and families and argues that they are in some ways more dangerous to society than severe psychopaths.
Most of us naturally trust our fellow human beings and tend to think that people generally have good intentions. We can hardly imagine that there are people who deliberately try to destroy us. In fact, encountering a psychopath can turn our notion of humanity completely upside down. Psychopathy expert Robert Hare offered a profile of those psychopaths as people without conscience. Hare created a checklist of symptoms and pointed to their primary characteristics as lack of remorse or empathy along with pathological egocentricity, lying, callousness and superficial charm.
The term narcissism has become common nomenclature in our culture. It is often thought of as excessive self-love. It is defined with personality traits such as vanity and selfishness. Everyone possesses some narcissistic qualities and indeed we all need a healthy self-love. Yet distinctions need to be made. Some experts have pointed to narcissism as actually a disease of self-hatred. Pathological narcissism also causes destruction to those who are close to them.
Narcissism is different from psychopathy. For instance, psychologist Leon F. Seltzer points out how, while psychopaths know what they are doing, narcissists generally don't intend to harm others. Yet at the same time there is often overlap. In 1964, psychologist Erich Fromm put forward the term malignant narcissism as an excessive version of narcissism with distinct characteristics of grandiosity and selfishness and characterized it as the most severe pathology. George Simon, a recognized expert on manipulators, notes how this type of narcissism is at the core of psychopathy. He points to their overly inflated view of themselves as superior beings and how the need to feel superiority makes them act callously toward others, which is rooted in a marked lack of empathy.
Erosion of Empathy
Developmental psycho-pathologist Simon Baron-Cohen put forward the idea of empathy erosion, which one can use to more deeply examine various psychological types such as psychopathy and autism. We all lie somewhere from high to low on a scale, as aspects of psychopathy are to some degree in all of us. He suggests looking at how empathy deficit exists in a spectrum, and that a psychopathic condition indicates near zero empathy.
What is empathy? Empathy allows us to deeply connect with others at an emotional level, to imagine and even experience another person's pain, joy and sadness. Imagination awakens images in the body. These enlivened images make bridges between our world and others and bind us to concrete reality. Empathic impairment in psychopathy totally cuts people off from the force of imagination, disconnecting us from the underlying emotional reality. In the case of narcissistic personality disorder, it is more of their self-absorption that causes dissociation and leads to a failure of empathy.
Both types can intellectually understand other's perspectives, but are not able to put themselves into their shoes. Their grasp of emotions stays at a cognitive level and this reflective capacity enables them to mimic emotions to charm and manipulate people to their advantage. With their inability to step outside of themselves, they are also not able to see their own actions from other's perspectives. They are the masters of projection. They bend reality in favor of their own interests by means of lies, manipulation and deflection. They are only concerned about what is done to them and transfer responsibility of their own wrongdoing upon others.
Hungry Ghosts of Infinite Desire
Individuals affected by psychopathy are caught in their own immediate needs. They move from one fleeting pleasure to another, engaging in sensation-seeking behaviors. They lack insight that is informed by past experience and that also allows us to predict the future. This is manifested in their proneness to boredom, impulsiveness and failure to develop and execute long-term plans. Their psychological state often resembles that of addiction.
Gabor Maté, Canadian physician who works with a population of addicts, described them as inhabitants of a realm of hungry ghosts, or the Buddhist version of hell, saying how "they're always hungry, always empty, always seeking it from the outside".
Imagine for a moment being constantly flooded by insatiable desire without an ability to think of the consequences of one's actions upon others. Imagine having unlimited pursuit of unquenchable hungers without the burden of conscience. Nothing would stop us from getting what we want. There are no constraints in the quest for dominance and control.
Psychopaths are hollow, hungry ghosts dragging people into the underworld across the river Styx. Even though stories of serial killer psychopaths might be relatively rare, the deaths of women who have become a victim and a target of obsession, being raped, mutilated, or brutally murdered is a metaphor of what could happen to any of us who engage with these soulless individuals.
Psychologist Rafael López-Pedraza (1990) described a condition of lack of images as "a vacuum, a lacuna … out of which come excess and the madness of power" (p. 7). By being cut off from the life-force of imagination, psychopaths are always hungry. The beast within them smells victims and chases after them. With a beam-like intensity of focus, they idealize their prey by reflecting them in their narcissistic mirror. The seducers shower them with admiration, praise and declarations of undying love. Once they hunt down their targets, they become greedy. Those predators fixate a person who is spontaneous and constantly changing into their projection of idealized images. Those who have been conquered and caged into a psychopath's photo frame naturally cannot maintain the frozen image of this idealized perfect self.
A stage of devaluing and discard will follow as victims are relinquished of their emotional energy and slowly sucked dry by this parasitic being. It is this unlimited and unhinged desire of those with empathy deficit that turn the living being into an object, a faceless and nameless 'it'. Psychopathy is a force of deadening that deprives one's autonomy, where those who are ruled by the internal vacuum manipulate others into submission.
Corporations and the Pursuit of Power
Psychopathic oriented individuals often rise to the top of social hierarchy. Because of the lack of conscience and inability to feel the pain that they inflict on others, they can move faster up the ladder and seize power. After being uprooted from the communal ground of humanity, they hold themselves above their fellows with the view of having a superior intelligence. Psychopaths take flight from ultimate freedom and become defined by relations of control and power. They break the bond of humanity; a delicate kinship that connects all living beings. This subhuman force condemns emotions such as fear and jealously or uses them for their own ends and considers attributes like compassion and cooperation as weaknesses and a detriment to their success.
The giant corporation with its hierarchical structure and centralized control that rewards high risk behavior came to be a suitable entity for psychopathic human beings to work at. Their motives of executing their own selfish agenda at any cost perfectly represent the very operational ethics of corporations; namely the doctrine of profit at any cost. Indeed, law professor and the co-creator of the film "The Corporation", Joel Bakan (2004) describes the corporation as an "artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath", and notes how it is now "seeking to remake real people in its image" (p. 135).
Through incarnating into the artificial construct of corporate personhood, those darkened souls pull human reality into a fictional direction. Everything revolves around their self-centered orbit, sucking those around them into this toxic vortex of endless desire. They freeze all that moves and then devour and colonize them as an extension of themselves.
They have successfully machinated economic and political institutions into a corporate state where 1% of psychopathic leaders control the course of history on a global scale and define the narrative of who we are as a race. Scholar-activist David Graeber (2013) characterized the last thirty years as the age of neoliberalism and noted the enforcement of this contorted worldview as "a relentless campaign against the human imagination" (p. 281). With this economic and political ideology, the idea of human freedom has come to mean "free markets" of derisked capitalism, and democracy is serving mass production and consumption. Under their imposed narrative, our autonomy is denied and we are restricted from experiencing the full range of emotions and human potential.
Psychopathic Seduction
Psychopaths at the top of the hierarchy make all serve as their narcissistic supply. They pin humanity to their selfish desires. With sweatshop workers and child labor, they prey on the most vulnerable and innocent populations. Corporations' unlimited greed turns humanity into disposable resources. How do they do that? How did they manipulate us to such a degree and get away with it?
Psychopaths are caught in their own narcissistic mirror. They cannot see others as who they are. Because they are divorced from concrete reality where those with empathy naturally reside, their perception of events is twisted. They use "doublespeak"; words that are always split and that only convey half-truth. They deflect anything that contradicts their version of reality by projecting those traits onto others around them. Those psychopathic individuals believe their own lies and drive everyone to participate in their grand scheme of conceited illusion, where we are made into caricatures in their story, each assigned roles to serve for their ungrounded sense of entitlement.
They are in a sense like expert con artists. They eloquently package their fantasy and appeal. Like a chameleon, they can morph their personality, tailoring it perfectly for each target. With their charm and smooth sales pitch they hypnotize and disarm those around them.
It is a subtle emotional rape where we become open and vulnerable to their suggestions. We are conditioned to be dependent on outer validation and seek for positive feedback. Through sophisticated marketing combined with extreme surveillance, they gain access to private thoughts of everyday people and study our innermost wishes, needs and insecurities. With ads and glamorous celebrity images, corporations send subliminal messages 24 hours a day. They make us believe that we are not good or beautiful enough while offering 'perfect' solutions to remake ourselves. Chris Hedges (2009) described what he called the empire of illusion, saying "we live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception". He continued:
"Products and experiences—indeed, experience as a product—offered up for sale, sanctified by celebrities, are mirages. They promise us a new personality. They promise us success and fame. They promise to mend our brokenness." (pp. 52-53)
Allured into their narcissistic mirror, we are pulled into a false self pumped up by vanity. With unlimited lines of credit and consumer goods they stimulate insatiable desires and drive us to forever expand and inflate this unrealistic sense of a grandiose self.
Liberal Democracy as Consumer Fraud
The corporate state slowly erodes our sense of reality with eloquent seduction. We are stripped empty and transfer the source of legitimacy outside. Now the pathology of psychopathy has become the authority. We begin to distrust ourselves and internalize echoes of their critical voices that judge as measures of our worthiness. The impulse for action no longer comes from inside each person. We are told what is right, wrong or appropriate. We are compelled to conform, trying to prove that we are good enough and worthy of love.
Under the guise of authority, the corporate state gains its unaccounted power. Government secrecy and manipulation through PR and propaganda creates a perfect ground for deception which violates the fundamental idea of consent of the governed in a democracy.
Many ideas of progress and change are translated into choices offered in the electoral arena, which has become nothing but a grand spectacle of illusion. We blindly accept what is presented outside as a masked democracy where opposition and dissent are not welcomed. We become objects that adjust to a reality that is prescribed for us. Trapped in the mirror of the corporate state, we are relegated to mere reflections of its animalistic desires.
For so long it seemed that nothing could dissolve the growing corporate power. Then something disrupted this force of deception. The 2008 financial meltdown along with the WikiLeaks publication of massive troves of documents revealing the illegality and wrongdoings of governments, triggered the global awakening to a crisis of legitimacy. The façade of democracy has now begun to crumble. Liberal democracy has shown itself to be one big consumer fraud packaged with selfish desires of a few elites.
Around the world, people are coming to realize that they all bought into a fantasy of the American dream and that they have been duped. Representative democracy and governments with false promises have begun to peel off their veneer of legitimacy and show their true face. WikiLeaks exposure of their lies shuttered their one sided mirror that always reflects their impeccable image. It brought narcissistic injury to psychopathic conspirators. When the system is confronted with reality, it always reacts irrationally. In this way, the whistleblowing website was met by the rage of the corporate empire.
The U.S. government engaged in an unprecedented persecution of whistleblowers. Those in power deflect the truth by attacking people who defend free speech and the Constitution. They turn the tables, making it look like those who confront their hypocrisy for public good are the aggressors.
Corporate Power as Pathology
In the global struggles and efforts toward meaningful social change, we are confronted with the psychopathy that has severely skewed the balance of society. Corporate power is a manifestation of pathology. Our battle against the corporate state challenges us to understand this invasive illness that has spread around the globe. What is the root of psychopathy?
The cause of all those antisocial personality attributes is largely a mystery. The nature or nurture debate rages on. Some suggest genetic origin and others point to emotional trauma that occurs in child development, specifically pointing to a failure of attachment to mother in an early age; a product of neglect and lack of opportunity to experience security and consistent parental love.
Narcissists hold onto the image of their idealized fictional self as good, glorious and loving. They avoid real intimacy where they would become vulnerable. They do so in order to protect their perfect self-image from being affected by emotions that they judge as negative. By defending the fiction of their perfection they fail to empathize with others.
Nobody is sure what causes narcissistic personality disorder, yet some trace it to narcissistic parenting and argue how in many cases, one or both parents was narcissistic. In this a child is treated as an extension of a caretaker and his or her self is undeveloped or repressed. Beneath this sense of importance, there may be pain of feeling not loved for who they are. Deep inside, they carry shame and a feeling of unworthiness and envy of those who got what they didn't get. They repress these feelings and close down emotionally. They despise those who manifest authenticity and denounce those who display human virtues such as loyalty and empathy as weak and spoiled. Psychotherapist Joseph Burgo explains such narcissistic rage as a defense mechanism that they use to protect themselves against this shame. Their wound separates them from their true self and they create a falsely constructed self. They judge others as they were once judged and restrict others to act in a way that affirms the illusory image of perfection.
Psychopathy as Spiritual Malaise
Whatever the cause is, individuals who exhibit psychopathic characteristics are lost souls. They have exiled themselves from the heart and cling to the linear development of identity based solely on the intellect, denying their essential self that was deeply rooted in communion. Maté (2010) attributed the origin of hungry ghosts to "a spiritual void" (p. 83). He explained how:
"addiction floods in where self-knowledge — and therefore divine knowledge — are missing. To fill the unendurable void, we become attached to things of the world that cannot possibly compensate us for the loss of who we are." (p. 413)
In a sense, psychopathy is a spiritual malaise that alienates us from our higher humanity, reducing us to animalistic and materialistic beings. This loss of deep connection to one's core creates insatiable desire and internal emptiness. Cut off from the heart – a universal current of human emotions – they float on waves of sensations and short-lived emotions that are feigned by the head. They hover in their isolated boat without access to deep and rich human experience.
In their aloneness, their world never intersects with others in the sense of a true encounter in an exchange of being. Their morality becomes a rigid rationale and right or wrong is viewed from a narrow standpoint. It differs from a morality that is grounded in relationship. This morality is conscience. It calls for our constant engagement in determining what is right in each situation through putting ourselves in other's shoes to imagine and foresee the consequences of our own actions. This is moral imagination, expressed in the golden rule of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Without this empathic capacity, psychopaths lack conscience and they can play with human emotions without remorse, no matter the harm they may cause upon others.
Those who haven't experienced love cannot bond with others emotionally and cannot form any meaningful relationship. It is as if they never fully entered into this world crossing the threshold between life and death. They are afraid of the chaos and uncertainty that happened at the moment of conception. With their ethos of separation, they build certainty and safeguard themselves from reality that threatens their fictional self. By avoiding real intimacy with people, they suppress authentic emotions and deny the flow of life.
Battle of Our Time
Psychopathy is a spiritual illness of egotism. Fromm referred to malignant narcissism as an embodiment of pure evil. Psychologist Gustav M. Gilbert, who studied the mind of Nazi bystanders at the Nuremberg tribunals, pointed to a lack of empathy as one striking factor that is commonly found by all Nazi defenders. He named it the source of evil. Is this egocentricity and absence of empathy the cause of all evil, militarism, corporatism, and imperialism that brings so much misery and suffering to the world?
Maybe this pathological human condition is a counter-force in human evolution. When we construct one-sided goodness, the aspects of ourselves that we shun from our notion of morality emerges as an evil. This absence of empathy is a dark shadow of Western civilization that has crystallized and manifested in its extremity as antisocial personality disorder, with demonic self-interest and social divisiveness. If we take this view, we can perhaps begin to see how evil is not something out there that exists independently from ourselves but is something that we help create. Then we might be able to recognize our responsibility for taking part in its creation. If we tend to what has become so dark instead of avoiding facing it or even trying to eradicate it in the name of a cure, it might teach us.
Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1943/1977) elucidated the role of evil and how it helps educate us to freedom and love:
"Love would be impossible for man and freedom would be impossible for man without the possibility of sailing down into the abyss. A man unable of his own free decision to choose good or evil, would be a being only led on a leading string to a good which must be attained of necessity and who had no power to choose the good of his own fully purified will, by the love which springs from freedom". (p. 206)
The corporate state as an embodiment of psychopathy engages us with the hardest battle that we could ever imagine. It is a war declared against our own selves. Contrary to corporate values, innately we tend to be patient, kind and forgiving. When we are confronted with psychopathic aggression, we tend to be too trusting and may ask what is wrong with us. In their manipulative world, our good nature is turned against us and any slight reaction is exaggerated to create a drama. The psychopath uses what we share in confidence against us, takes advantage of kindness, exploits vulnerability and sympathy by playing pity and guilt trips. Protests and any attempts to hold them accountable for their wrongdoing will end in vain as they are without conscience or an ability to understand pain in the emotional sense. The more we fight, the more we lower ourselves to their level, betraying our own principles as we are challenged to hold ground defined by this narrow world view.
Radical Love
In a society run by psychopaths, we tend to lose our higher human nature. In a relationship with those dark wounded souls, we always lose because it is a game that is set out to make us go against ourselves. Yet, within this resistance lies a seed of redemption.
Our battle against the virus of psychopathy spreading through the world pushes us to the edge where we are faced with a loss of individuality. It challenges us to fortify our boundaries, watch our backs and act as if we matter, perhaps for the first time. It demands that we have empathy for ourselves and restore feelings that are uniquely our own. We declare adamant love for ourselves, and accept all that is within us; our insecurities, weaknesses and imperfections as well as attributes that we consider good and positive. This courage to love ourselves unconditionally frees us from psychopathic abuses. We overcome the urge to fight to defend our innocence and lay down the sword forever.
With this love that springs from freedom, we can forgive those who have wronged us and forgive ourselves for having betrayed our own heart by subjugating ourselves to the tyrannical rule of illegitimate authority. We can acknowledge psychopathic nature manifested outside, whether it is the State, corporations, or our own personal relations, without judgment. This is a state of equanimity where sympathy and antipathy are balanced and in this clarity of thoughts the untamable urge for power ceases to exist. With no fear or adulation, we can quietly observe and watch the manipulation and let go of the need to become a victim of pathology. We can simply walk away from the unhealthy relationship with the corporate state of mind that operates with the logic of domination and control.
Healing of the world requires knowledge and a deeper understanding of what has become so evil in the world. It also challenges us to have courage to confront the darkness and recognize it as a shadow that embodies the light. This is a radical love that recognizes the interconnection between good and evil. The awakening of this love within reconnects us to chaos – its unhindered autonomous force of imagination. This is, as psychologist and Jesuit priest Ignacio Martín-Baró (1994) witnessed, "an opening against all closure, flexibility against everything fixed, elasticity against all rigidity, a readiness to act against all stagnation" (p. 182). Images start to flow. We can move toward a decentralized future where all life is regarded as sacred, where we listen to one another in dialogue.
This is our battle, a revolution that happens inside each of us. Whether it is racism, Zionism and militarism, all illness of isms emanate from parts of us that seek for our recognition. Only with our uncompromising love can we can tend to and tame this internal hunger that creates the madness of power. In this revolution, we don't make demands of anyone but ourselves. We are challenged to remember how we are forgiven for all our sins and have courage to claim our own significance. This is a compassionate demand and the world depends on our will to respond.
Previously Published at counterpunch.org August 29, 2014
Nozomi Hayase, Ph.D., is a writer who has been covering issues of freedom of speech, transparency and decentralized movements. Her work is featured in many publications. Find her on twitter @nozomimagine
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The Metaphoric Meaning of Dreams
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Dreams symbolically represent underlying truths of which we are unaware. Dream events, like those in fairy tales, fables, myths and films have allegorical, metaphorical meanings. Rarely are they meant to be taken literally.
For example, in my early years of dreamwork I had many dreams about touring an unsuitable new house we were building. In waking reality I had designed the house we lived in and never wanted to leave, so I knew these dreams didn't mean we would move into a new house I would hate. Then what did they mean?
Houses are a common symbol for the psyche of the person who dreams about them. These dreams were showing me how I was feeling about my current psychological reality. I was living in a "place" that was unacceptable to me. In utter ignorance of who I really was and what was truly important to me, I had worked hard to design and build a profession for myself that was deeply unsatisfying at many levels.
The ego is very good at repressing uncomfortable truths. Despite numerous dreams that dramatized the same issue from a variety of perspectives, eight months after my first dream of an unsuitable new house I still didn't understand what was wrong with me. I didn't know because my ego didn't want to know. Then came the following dream:
#209: Running Out of Gas. It's a dark night and my car runs out of gas. An old woman pulls up behind me and pushes my car to a doctor's house. As she walks me to the door I ask her what kind of doctor it is. She says he is a psychiatrist. I was hoping she would say that. We go into the living room. In the center of the floor is a large open book. A young girl in a ballet costume flutters across the room on toe shoes as the doctor tells her how lovely she is. An intense young Russian man expresses a desire to stay in the United States. When the others tell him to stay, he says he can't disappoint his father; he has to go back to Russia to pay him back for his education. A woman in a cowboy hat sits quietly on the floor in front of me with her back to me.
This dream wasn't warning me to check my gas tank, see a psychiatrist, take ballet lessons, or travel to Russia. These would be literal interpretations. The metaphoric meaning was that I was "in the dark" (confused) about my life's journey, and "running out of gas" (energy), but had access to the guidance of a wise old woman (Sophia) who indwelt my psyche and wanted to help me. The people in the house (the inner world of my psyche) were unknown aspects of my personality gathered in the living room (the place where I was "living" my life.) The doctor was my wise inner healer who was helping me with my inner work. The lovely ballet dancer symbolized my desire and potential to return to the graceful, innocent state of my childhood when I felt free to pursue my real interests. The intense Russian (he came from an "alien land" far from my conscious awareness) was the unconscious part of me that felt indebted to the Father (the patriarchal system I grew up in) for its investment in my education.
The Russian student was the key to the meaning of my dream. Pursuing a job I disliked was sapping my energy. I longed for meaningful, creative work but my ego believed it would be wrong and ungrateful to disappoint the teachers, mentors and system which had supported my efforts to become a college professor. In truth, this was the rationalization of an ego which would rather be unhappy than leave a job that brought it the status and prestige it craved.
And the peaceful woman in the cowboy hat who was featured in the lysis, or last image of the dream? She was the me I was yet to become if I continued to pursue self-knowledge: a woman who would quit her unsuitable job, learn to meditate, write her own books, buy her own horse, and wear a cowboy hat with glee! Two months later I quit college teaching for good and stepped into my real life, the one for which I was born, the one I'm living now.
Do dreams really have meaning? You bet! But try telling that to a fearful and stubborn ego that thinks it runs the whole show and believes it knows best!
Can dreams really foretell your future? Absolutely! Next time I'll tell you a story about the unexpected way the woman in the cowboy hat showed up in my waking life many years later.
Ebook versions of The Bridge to Wholeness and Dream Theatres of the Soul are at Amazon, Kobo, Barnes And Noble and Smashwords. Healing the Sacred Divide can be found at Amazon and Larson Publications, Inc.
Previously published on Matrignosis: A Blog About Inner Wisdom on August 26, 2014
Dr. Jean Raffa is an author, speaker, and leader of workshops, dream groups, and study groups. She maintains a blog called "Matrignosis: A Blog About Inner Wisdom." Her job history includes teacher, television producer, college professor, and instructor at the Disney Institute in Orlando and The Jung Center in Winter Park, FL. She is the author of three books, a workbook, a chapter in a college text, numerous articles in professional journals, and a series of meditations and short stories for Augsburg Fortress Publisher.
Her most recent book is Healing the Sacred Divide. Her book The Bridge to Wholeness: A Feminine Alternative to the Hero Myth (LuraMedia, 1992) was nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award for best psychology book of 1992. Reviewed in several journals and featured on the reading lists of university courses, it was also picked by the Isabella catalogue as a must-read for seeking women.
Dream Theatres of the Soul: Empowering the Feminine Through Jungian Dreamwork (Innisfree Press, Inc., 1994) has been used in dreamwork courses throughout the country and is included in Amazon.com's list of the Top 100 Best Selling Dream Books, and TCM's book list of Human Resources for Organizational Development.
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The American Flag
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Global Police State Calls for Globalization of Dissent and Protest
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A report from The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations presents alarming case studies of protest suppression and criminalization of political and social dissent around the world. Ironically, the name of the report, "Take Back the Streets," came from an order from Toronto's police commander to his force in June 2010, when more than 100,000 Canadians took to the street to protest the G20 summit. Despite the fact that the anti-G20 summit were peaceful, within 36 hours, more than a 1,000 people — protesters and journalists alike — were arrested and detained. - See more
The report, which is the result of a collaboration between nine civil rights organizations, exposes disturbing worldwide governmental policies and law enforcement practices where the fundamental democratic right to protest publicly is viewed as a threat that requires a brutal police response. Countless cases of unnecessary legal restrictions, discriminatory responses, criminalization of leaders and unjustifiable use of force are documented. There are nine case studies from nine countries: Argentina, Canada, Egypt, Israel and the Occupy Territories, Kenya, Hungary, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. All of the cases reflect instances of repression of democratic rights through the legal system, criminalization of leaders, and excessive use of force by police resulting in injuries or deaths. "These cases collectively illustrate the use of lethal and deadly force in response to largely peaceful gatherings seeking to express social and political viewpoints," says the report. In most of the cases mentioned in the report, the deaths and injuries are caused by firearms with live ammunition: for example, against protesters in Egypt; but some are also caused by so-called non-lethal weapons such as tear gas or rubber bullets fired directly into crowds. - See more
In a case involving police brutality in Puerto Rico, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) mentions violent beating and low-flying helicopters spraying toxic chemicals over crowds of protesters. The Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) is huge: one of the largest police department in the US and second only to the NYPD. The PRPD regularly applies excessive force with pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, stinger rounds, sting-ball grenades, high-power Taser guns, and batons. According to the ACLU, police in Puerto Rico have routinely used 36-inch batons in riot control to jab, strike and beat protesters.
In the Israeli Occupied Territories of the West Bank, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel documents the persecution and arrest of leaders and organizers such as Bassem Tamimi who was jailed by Israel for more than 13 months for organizing peaceful protests. "These cases demonstrate how the justice system not only frequently fails to provide accountability for the illegal acts committed by law enforcement, but can also, at times, act as a repressive force towards demonstrators and social organizations," says the report. In Egypt, in November 2011, the police shot thousands of gas canisters directly into the crowds resulting in many deaths by asphyxiation in addition to deaths by live ammunition. In one instance, Egyptian police fired many gas canisters into a building where protesters had found refuge, then proceeded to seal the building. - See more
The document also points to 9/11/2001 as a turning point that allowed governments to crack down on social dissent using the subterfuge of broad anti-terrorist laws. There are alarming signs, perfectly illustrated by the nine case studies, that these "legal" structures concocted by most governments worldwide are, in effect, tools of repression and oppression. They manifest themselves in law enforcement actions such as arrests, random searches, detentions without probable cause or right to a trial, and have been already redirected to suppress peaceful political activities such as street protest and political dissent. Further, police forces are getting militarized globally, and global military organizations such as the UN "peacekeepers" can be used for police purposes when they come back home. Police organizations in Europe are being gathered into multinational military structures like the European Gendarmerie Force (EuroGenFor, or EGF). Brazil's favelas are undergoing a "pacification" process administered in large part by former UN "peacekeepers" who have been recalled from Haiti. In general, soldiers from all over the world return from occupation missions overseas, habituated to urban warfare, to serve at home in newly militarized police or private mercenary forces such as Xe (formerly Blackwater). - See more
The erosion of our civil and basic democratic rights, such as dissent and protest, is obvious and global. Despair is not an option, global solidarity is. Perhaps the only hope to stop the final rise, confirmed by this report, of an Orwellian world under the boots of a global police state where protest and dissent are virtually illegal, is for citizens of the world to unite in fighting to take back our streets. Some will pay a heavy price, but we must "take back the streets" from the police at any cost and without fear. Then we might regain control of our respective governments before it is too late. Power belongs to the people, but it must be regularly reclaimed. Historically troubled times, such as the rise of fascism in Europe during the 1930s, have proven that people must remain vigilant and watchful of basic human rights being swept away by tyranny. Globalization of policing calls for global vigilance about human-rights abuses and a massive and coordinated globalization of outrage and protest. - See more
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If you are in a dark room, you will turn on the light, then you will try to open your eyes because you think that you need light, but it hurts because your eyes cant accept this amount of light. That's me when I decide to give hope to my heart. I give my heart a big amount of hope.. And this is the perfect example for my heart and how I'm feeling now.
I lived in the dark for 17 years, then I decided to turn up some hope to give my heart strength. But this strength destroyed the rest of my heart and I back in the dark again, only this time I have no way to turn on the light. I know that I will never ever get out from this dark till my death comes.
But why?! Why are my dreams destroying my life? I thought dreams are supposed to be the most beautiful things in the world!
I wish I was a little bird, so I could travel any place in the world
I wish I was a little bird, so I could fly all the time
I wish, I only wish, but all my wishes will not be a wish (to come true)
18 years old, and I am thinking of my fate like I'm older than a 98 year old man.
Why, why did they steal my life like that? ...why can't I live freely and why can't I travel to any place ...
Why and why! There is no answer...
I don't want to live a perfect life, I don't want to travel everyday. I don't want to be a rich girl. All I want is to live a normal life; I want to live in my dreams.
Is it too much to live a normal life?
I will never ever ever forgive the world for destroying my life... I am dying all the time, I am tired of smiling all the time. I am a human. I have the right to cry, to do anything. I keep my feelings in my heart, cause I am trying to not give up, but I am tired of being like that all the time. That is enough...then what, tell me, when will I have the right to live like a human?
And my message for this world is .. everybody will live what I live one day , so remember these words cause you will one day feel what I feel now.
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PATRONS who took in Friday's concert at Redbones Blues Café in St Andrew were given a treat by trombonist Nambo Robinson, his I-dren Workshop band and influential roots group Mystic Revelation of Rastafari (MRR).
Dubbed Freedom Sounds: A Celebration of Jamaican Music, the event also featured two budding bands from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
First, it was Earth Cry followed by Therapy with vocalists Marcia Hurd and Nicolleen Brown who entertained with Want It Bad Enough, When The Rain Fall and Real Thing.
But it was the percussive legacy of noted Rastafarian drummer Oswald 'Count Ossie' Williams, founder of the MRR, that took pride of place.
The drummers from Rockfort in east Kingston kept the seminal sound established by the late 'Count' alive, with his son Count Ossie Junior, affectionately called Time, at the forefront.
"We come together for the preservation of the music from that time until now," Nambo, who got his start with the MRR, told the appreciative audience.
Doubling on vocals, he led the group on the StrangeJah Cole anthem Bangarang, his original Give Thanks and Praises and Jah Jah Children.
It is 55 years since Count Ossie and the MRR played on the Folkes Brothers big hit, Oh Carolina. Led by Count Ossie (who died in 1976), the group recorded two outstanding albums, Groundation and Tales of Mozambique.
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QUEBEC CITY – The mayors of Quebec's two largest cities want the provincial government to hurry up and pass legislation to restructure pension plans.
Mayors Denis Coderre and Régis Labeaume were in Quebec City on Tuesday for the first official meeting with the Premier and his Municipal Affairs Minister.
The mayors insisted pension plan deficits are the biggest problem currently facing municipalities.
"Clearly one of our main issues today is to talk about the pension plan, its future and we would like to see the bill we had in the past from Agnès Maltais to be tabled again," said the Montreal mayor.
City pension plans are more than $4 billion in the hole. Unless something is done, city officials are warning that taxpayers will be called on to foot the bill.
In February, the Parti Quebecois recommended that in the future, city workers would increase their contributions.
Now, the Liberals are promising even deeper changes.
"Just the fact that we're going to share with the workers, the unions, half of the past deficit, that's a big difference. In the law tabled by Mrs. Maltais, it wasn't there," said Labeaume.
The mayors told reporters discussing the issue with Premier Philippe Couillard was easy.
"It was a really good meeting, kudos to that government, the premier was very eloquent," said Coderre, as he exited the Premier's office.
They also obtained guarantees that the metropolis and the capital would get special status.
Both cities want more powers for culture, immigration and public transit.
"We're not just a provincial creature, we are an order of government of proximity, and we truly want to work together," Coderre added.
"The premier said this new status for Quebec and Montreal will be part of the legacy he'll give to this province. He said that," said Labeaume.
The mayors left the meeting happy and confident that many of their demands would be met before the year end.
The bill on pension plans is expected to be tabled in June.
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To distance itself from the Windows 8 snafu, Microsoft's next major update — Threshold — will reportedly skip Windows 8.2 and jump straight to Windows 9. Windows 9 is expected to arrive in April 2015, with internal sources saying that Windows 9 will make good on many of the Windows 8 features that caused such cruel and unusual distress to Desktop users. The Start menu is expected to make its illustrious return, and you should be able to run Metro apps on the Desktop in windows. Microsoft is still on schedule to release Windows Phone 8.1 and a service/feature pack for Windows 8.1 at the Build conference in April.
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Yesterday, Microsoft released the preview version of Windows 8.1. I've now been using it for almost 24 hours on my main desktop PC with two monitors (neither of them touchscreens), and I can safely say that Windows 8.1 drastically improves the experience for mouse-and-keyboard users, and users who do most of their work on the Desktop. SkyDrive integration is awesome, the Start button — despite the lack of Start menu — is surprisingly functional, and improved split-screening means Desktop users can now actually use Metro apps without being forced into full-screen mode.
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Despite an additional year of trying to get Windows RT right, the ARM version of Windows 8.1 remains sluggish on the Surface RT — and by association, any other Windows RT tablet powered by the Tegra 3 SoC. Despite its status as a vestigial stump, the Desktop remains — and you still can't run anything other than a handful of Microsoft-approved Desktop apps. Some changes, such as the ability to side-by-side apps and the beefed up Metro Control Panel, make Windows RT more usable — but in reality, these updates are meaningless until some updated, faster hardware arrives.
Windows 8.1 preview available to download June 26, 2013 at 12:32 pm
At the Build conference in San Francisco, Microsoft has unveiled Windows 8.1. The Windows 8.1 preview is available to download and install right away, and it will be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users when the final build is released in the fall. The overarching goal with Windows 8.1 is to make the operating system more usable on tablets, but also to improve the quality of life for mouse-and-keyboard users. To this end, Windows 8.1 sees the return of the Start button (but not the menu), the option to boot to the Desktop, and built-in search, SkyDrive cloud integration, and the Windows Store have been much improved.
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Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis
AbstractOur study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price effects that vary over time are confirmed, as also income/expenditure effects. Over and above these effects, more sedentary life styles and less strenuous activity patterns played a significant role in shaping dietary patterns. An important finding is slowing down of dietary transition in the more recent sub-period 2004-09. Clues relate to weakening or strengthening of food price, expenditure and life-style effects over time. Using an instrumented measure of FDI in the second stage, and all other exogenous variables, its effects on nutrients' intakes are analysed. A common finding that food diversity is associated with better quality diet and higher intakes of nutrients is not corroborated. While there is a reduction in calorie intake, there are increases in protein and fat intakes. A case is made for provision of public goods, nutrition labelling, regulation of food standards, consumer awareness of healthy diets, food fortification and supplementation, and active involvement of the private sector in adhering to the regulatory standards and nutritional norms.
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I don't know exactly how I imagined $40 million payouts went down, but it wasn't like this. I assumed there must be briefcases of bullion -- I don't even know quite what bullion is, I just like saying bullion: bullion -- stocks, bonds, record deals or some other such form of inscrutable rich-people currency. At the very least, I figured the payment had to be broken down into a series of regular checks, like when you win the lottery.
Nope. Floyd Mayweather earned $40,870,000 for that boxing match he won over the weekend, so someone from Golden Boy Promotions wrote that amount on a check and gave it to him, and I guess Mayweather will take that check to his bank and deposit it and the teller will be like "you forget to endorse this" and he'll be like "oh, damn, do you have a pen?" and she'll give him a pen and he'll endorse the check and then she'll be like "okay, cool, I will deposit that into your account, because it is a check" and maybe Mayweather will take a free lollipop for himself. Or maybe he'll cash it? Is that even possible? That seems like what he'd want to do if it were possible. Anyway, before I throw up, this is the check:
They don't call Floyd Mayweather "Money" for no reason. Case in point: Exhibit A. pic.twitter.com/8aKWLCsQEW— SportsNation (@SportsNation) September 19, 2013
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4.48/5 rDev +1.1%
How to grade this? It's a bit more moneyed and hip than the main location, and therefore the place's vibe didn't quite coincide with my own. It still felt friendly and all, just not as overwhelmingly friendly as the downtown pub.
They seemed to have a wider selection of guest taps but not quite as large a selection of Town Hall taps. There were no firkin beers when we stopped by, either. But, still, you could drink Masala Mama, and that's very important.
The food is even better than Town Hall's, which is to say it was frickin' amazing. Several veggie/pescetarian options, all of which actually had flavor. They were packed but the waitress, host, and bartender were all very friendly. And, really, there's not much to say about the tap that can't be said about the regular Town Hall. I'd still check out the main location first, but this place is pretty slick.
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4.2/5 rDev -5.2%
Visited on a Sunday night. Slow at 9:30. Looked just like regulars in the place. Sat at the bar.
Vibe - A townie bar if it wasn't known all over the US by BAs. Dark and worn inside. The place has windows and a garage door that open up the entire bar to the street/sidewalk and a small outdoor patio. This time of year it was wide open and inviting. Patio closes early though during the week – did not get to sit outside :-( Overall a great old fashion bar in an old fashion town but with a new twist. 4.25
Service - Friendly. Bartender was appropriately distant. 4
Selection - Good house beers and a good selection of guest beers. 4
Quality - Different glasses, temperature was good, three beer engines. 4.5
Food – I ate the Heidelberg burger. It was great! Fries were crispy - 4.25
Price - 20oz house beers for $5.50 fantastic compared to DC and NY. Two big beers and a burger and fries for about $20 (excluding tip) was excellent. - $
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ORGANISERS of the Wimmera's National Youth Week events have welcomed strong support for their initiatives.
About 50 young people attended a gathering by Horsham Nexus Youth Centre and Horsham FReeZA on Thursday.
The first instalment of a two-part holiday program, it featured live music by Wimmera bands Fade in Motion and Makeshift Believers, and DJs Cardiac Chaos and G-Mac.
Horsham Nexus and FReeZA member Brandon Farley, also known as DJ Cardiac Chaos, described the event atmosphere as great.
"Everyone got up and had a little dance," he said.
"Since some kids can't go out of town because their parents are working, it was a great way to chill and have fun.
"That's what youth week is all about - it's a celebration of being young."
The festivities will continue this week, with the second instalment of Thursday Live at Horsham Nexus' Pynsent Street premises.
Band Burning Essence will headline the free event, which runs from noon until 4pm on Thursday.
Meanwhile in Stawell and Ararat, Central Grampians Local Learning and Employment Network hosted a week-long series of activities.
Youth project officer Sarah Garton said feedback from participants and parents had been fantastic.
"Parents haven't had to think about organising anything for the holidays," she said. "They have just sent the kids to us, and we looked after them."
About 60 people attended an open mic night in Stawell on Monday.
On Tuesday, about 20 people made the most of a games day in Ararat.
"Wednesday was meant to be a skate park day in Stawell, but because of the weather we moved it to the stadium," Miss Garton said.
About 40 budding artists entered works in a youth art display, shown in Ararat on Thursday.
"On Friday, everyone who came to one of the events throughout the week cashed in their National Youth Week badge and, for a gold coin donation, saw The Lego Movie at the Astor Cinema in Ararat," Miss Garton said.
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