We are more than what we realize.

2005

The point is that we are more than what we realize. It is not that we have an external or internal locus of control. It is a matter of owning ourselves. Actively discovering as well as accepting our full powers and abilities as they come to us while cultivating them as fully as possible. As well as discovering and extricating ourselves from the forces that hinder us. Actively examining our selves so that we are not unknowingly the means for which ignorance and outdated ways of being are not transmitted to the next generation and others through us. There is a psychologist, Alice Miller for those who are not familiar with her, for over twenty years she has had the courage to share her ingenious observations openly, especially in her writings that deal with how and the ways in which our western culture is very hostel towards children and infants. At present she acknowledges that our culture has made some strivings in the last twenty years towards respecting children and infants as human beings with rights, especially with the right not to be abused in any way, especially not to be abused with the rationalization that the abuse was for the child's own good, but we still have a long way to go.

She was one of the insightful leaders who realized even before it was scientifically proven that emotional abuse of any kind causes real and Permanente brain damage in children that thwarts their emotional development. She also described how a child's body stores the abuse inflicted on him or her. How the trauma of the abuse is stored in the body of the adult who was abused as a child and how such of a person is always charge with the trauma of the abuse as long as the abuse remains concealed from them. Such people are analogous to highly charged atmospheric conditions, and a person that is weaker and or more vulnerable is a lightening rod; this is the way to keep the memories of the real abuse down, to do the same thing to someone else, abuse someone weaker than you in an socially acceptable way, and rationalize it to yourself and to the child or person you are abusing as being for their own good.