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Paradigms, Domination, and Trance - Bringing It All Back Home - Part 13 - 1 (Summary: Transcending Paradigms)

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Blair Gelbond
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As Frankl wrote: "There were enough examples, often of an heroic nature [that man does have a choice]"Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even under such terrible conditions--

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Concentration camps are an extreme case of the control paradigm - naked and unrestrained. Yet our global control culture has continued to produce comparable dehumanizing trances.

Today:

- As David Korten documented in When Corporations Rule the World, corporations are creating concentration-type workplaces all over the southern hemisphere.

- Slavery, which stretched back to ancient Sumer 6.000 years ago, and was only made illegal in the United States less than 200 years ago.

- For centuries, brutal attempts have been made to suppress and convert indigenous peoples around the world. Native Americans, who lived and thrived all over America, whose population was decimated, now confined to "reservations."

[Native Americans were beset by new diseases - including weaponized diseases and biological warfare by European colonizers, wars, ethnic cleansing and enslavement. After its formation, the United States, as part of its policy of settler colonialism - continued to wage war and perpetrated massacres against many Native American peoples, removed them from their ancestral lands, and subjecting them to one-sided treaties and discriminatory government policies, later focused on forced assimilation, into the 20th century.

It is estimated that, prior to the European invasion, from 8-112 million Native Americans lived in the U.S. Today that number is approximately 5 million.]

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I work as a psychotherapist with an emphasis on transformational learning - a blend of psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches, and am the author of Self Actualization and Unselfish Love and co-author of Families Helping Families: Living with (more...)
 

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