The Emotional Life of America Today (9.23.10)
THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF AMERICA
9.23.'10 f => 24 Friday => 26 Saturnsday
Beyond deMause -- Demon Unborn (Aleister Crowley's narrative)
Lloyd deMause's work gives academics, especially philosophers, the heebejeebies.
Basic to the criticism is its pretentious sign-use -- predicating on what individuals personally experience and remember in different ways, as if there were one "we", and here was a spokesperson for it as a totality. His dismissal of the term "soul", for instance, as "parents via placenta, not God". This leaves intact the hypothesis that advanced members of the human species arrived at translations of this term -- a token -- for communicating the inner site of evolutionary mammalian brain development. Which, together w/ amygdalan memory, would contain earliest engravings on fetal nervous systems. Which, as a well-formed functional site in the anatomy, would be necessary for deep "We"-bonding in conversation with others: first, as performance (hence the importance of sound; 'clicks' don't sound like soul-talk); second, as discourse (projective nominative text --"how's your soul, bro?". Its textual use as a nominative sustains its projective force.
The grammar of Christianity's use of "soul" has never been laid out, in my view, in a way today's intellectual community-at-large-can understand and relate to. I want to remedy that, here, using the device of quotation marks and asterisks (according to rules explained elsewhere) to sententially thread very condensed content. The content is linked through them to an analysis of communication formalized in psychosemiotics. Until it is stated, so that consciousness can survey it and thought comment on it, the distinction between whether to take it metaphysically, or dismiss it psychohistorically, cannot arise.
"THE soul", predicated on as an entity, converts an expressive sound to something 'real', mysteriously all-pervasive,
undeniable-without-negating one's consciousness of themselves as essentially inner, not outer/body, beings visible to the eye. 'Created by God The Father', according to the historical canon. Attracted to the visible Sky -- Sun-Moon, Day-Night, sleep-waking states -- by 'knowledge': carnal and cognitive. In the projected narrative, Union of the Soul with its Creator (origin of merger fantasies), driven by Love of The Father (as rational completion of textual Intention in perception), completes the first stage of soul totality. That having been established as an individual given, as opposed to being given away, a second stage of development opens up, evolutionally, by theological language* stabilizing religious truth. "Belief" in that (<=acceptance of it* as transcendental unity of apperception) as story of "my rebirth (of the ego)", "saves the soul". That's Christianity. The theological "it*" for Christians is the Incarnation, taken as Father-Sacrificing-Sacrifice-to-Himself through "His Only Begotton Son". This is the objective Archetypal completion of soul-talk addressing humanity from that source (New Testament, 0 a.d.) Child sacrifice, aka "war", in political discourse, is ended for all time by the symbolic act of voluntary crucifixion of the Son, at the hands of humanity, Biblical "Jews", in obedience to The Will of the Father ("If that's what you want ..."). Jesus' act was not (just) completion of the spiritual legacy of "faith" of Old Testament patriarchs (cf. The Book of Hebrews), It was the next evolutionary step in Squaring the history of human birth with (later) birth of consciousness as "Rebirth of soul." "Belief" in that -- i.e., recognition of the moment as metaphysical (narrative of second stage of inner human development) -- (self-) defines the position of consciousness predicating, and predicated on,
deMause invariably addresses audiences as "We", without tagging the "me") (<= as if speaking at a universal level of truth about common experience as opposed to psychohistorically sited NOW). This follows the epistemic academic paradigm which his work, in fact, breaks down. "New truth" poured into old wine-bottles. ;
FOOTNOTES TO "The Emotional Life of Nations" - Lloyd deMause'slatest
The Emotional Life of America. 9.23.'10
by Sid Thomas
The gap between theory and application makes the corpus of the Institute increasingly irrelevant, unless and until deMause addresses a particular flaw in aplications currently (not being) made. The flaw is extrapolating from this generation's 'progressivism' as the evolutionary history of childhood, as if today's Gen Z psychoclass culminated it. Whereas, in fact, due to 3 recalcitrant issues absorbed into the grammar of politics -- abortion, homosexuality, Zionism -- a "4th turning" psychohistorical moment* is upon us, prefigured in Carl Jung's Archetypal psychology as "enantiodromia", or reversal of psychological processes into their opposites when carried to extremes. Nowhere is this mor visually/viscerally evident than in the 4-letter dyad NAZI-ZION, a matched token conjunction condensed on blogs to ZIONAZI on blogs, and used for ISRAEL.
deMause's psychohistory, epochally ground breaking as it is, has a blind spot when it comes to the arcane details of what is experienced by each of us, each day, processed in ways that can be diagrammed and systematically mapped as on a single hypothetical slate, as it were; e.g., TokenSpace, the world where minds meet in communication. It's empirical content are objects, S*, typically appearing, when written, on two dimensional surfaces in three dimensional
space. Ex. pages in a book, computer monitor. This blind spot of his, and psychohistory, is filled in Dasein by soul-talk, or religion.
RELIGIONS ARE NOT THE SAME
-The concept of Religous Truth
When S*5.7 (*completion of the S*5 totality of conscious content under sign-use: S*5.5 = "I" sentences ( <-presupposing S*6, S*7 for completion on the textual side) SQUARES S*7.5 (assumptions about the completing totality) and S*3.5 (actual body-energy available to the Ego's disposal by will*). Whether it SQUARES with S*5.4 (<-experience under moral judgment) depends on the act of will, whether it is in accord with, or opposed to, the rule of law and reason. This is as it should be on a metaphysics that retains free will. If S*5.5 does not SQUARE with its antecedents and consequents in the token hierarchy it does not square with itself, one '5' pulling one way, the other another. Thus Religious Truth can be defined as "I" talk which SQUAREs text of conscious content with tokens of the completing totality. Text, after all, brings trans-temporal, logical relatedness of propositions. Tokens, as actual particulars, are always tied to quality, cathexis and non-self-contained psychodynamic causes. Each successful SQUARE communication S* is 'religiously true'. => as actual occurrence, S* SQUARES WITH the completing totality of S* in TokenSpace.
Religious discourse may be said to express "Soul-thought", when
"soul" is used for the collective totality to which an "I" belongs. It is "I" under Moral judgment when the will is Holy. It's deepest, earliest psychodynamic motivation derives from the fetal origins of experience, the 'drive' to get out of the birth canal, Be Born, and live on the other side of the present trauma. That is why people merge unconscious delegate identities in "We" groups and come together -- to purge fantasies of poison blood by sacrificing Fetal Heros/Fertile Youth in war. Through this mechanism, dream-thoughts that are hideously insane in themselves are happily acted out as Celebration of Renewal (overcoming birth trauma, to be REBORN) .
Religious truth is when Collective soul-thoughts Square with Reality. Second-birth hristianity is religiously true, since it Squares, and releases from, birth trauma.
Post-Incarnation soul thinking ("religion"), as a historical datum to which the vast array of artefacts produced under its name testify, is not the same as (what is called) Monotheism (which as a general conception of God of All Gods, claimed in the Pentateuch for YHWH (<=Elohim), originated with Babylonioan Marduk. The One God Nation-State is a regressive psycho-social regime, compared with one based on internalized relation to themselves as individuals, "I" vs. "We". "People of the incarnation" think from a different position of consciousness than Old Testament Zionists, whose soul-thinking centres on "Israel. In this, they agree with most so-called 'diaspora' Jews, and America's political regime was founded on the later position of consciousness that accomodate that confluence. The Cross marks the point at which pre- and posr-incarnation consciousness divide. Today's Israel, as a Zionist state, should be regarded as idolatry by Christians. (Benjamin Netanyahu is its Birth Messiah, part of the asymptote looming large.)
OLD TOKENS/ / NEW TEXT
There is enormous pressure* on Obama to get tough** with Ahmadinejad and BOMB IRAN. One more mass slaughter rivaling the Holocaust For The Gipper
Two levels of trauma overlap in this mostly repressed (<- denied, if confronted with) unconscious group-fantasy.
** => Oedipal: (dream-thought => "act like a Warrior Father capable of protecting 'us'!"
* <= fetal: (deeper dream-thought => "..to Rescue 'Us' /grammatical shift to personalized 'We'/ suffering siblings pressured* in the Great Womb Surround, blood de-oxygenated by the Poisonous Placenta ("America is the Great Satan" - Ayotalla Khomenei; subtext of Mulla ideology).
***1. + 2. = > conjunctive subtext: Obama will demonstrate Sacrificial Priest cahones to Zionists by Bombing Iran; attaining "DELIVERANCE FROM FETAL RAGE IN THE BIRTH CANAL + REVALORIZING LIBERAL MASCULINITY.
THE MSM MESSAGES* HAVE BEEN THAT THIS IS ANOTHER DOA MIS-CONCEPTION (like the latest 'Mid-East peace process', stopped from the time they were announced by Netanyahu/Zionist intransigence.).
This is where Sarah Palin comes in. "ABORT THIS ALIEN MONSTROSITY IN AMERICA'S BELLY " is the unconscious psychodynamic dream-thought reaction to the inescapable depth-psychological situation "We" are in. 'Rip the guts out of the little bastard in there (or rip IT*, the Holy Object 'US", out of the Killer Mommy's belly in order to Save It!)
. But up-skirt (Oedipal level fantasy) Mom Who Wouldn't! represses this thought, replacing it with images of Downs Syndrom fetus, 'Trig', in there. Heroically carried For All The Unborn, until her water broke on stage while delivering a political speech. One prominent MSM picture had Palin on one side, Obama on the other, in one MSM picture; Sept. 20 TIME cover showing Obama's face split white-black, the dream-thought is: "DELIVER IT* (<-the offspring of this 'marriage') NO MATTER WHAT". Fetal rage (level 3) merged, by retrojective memory loops, with childhood rape-victim's impotent hate: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.shallownation.com/images/barack_obama_time_magazine_cover_2008_
9.23.'10 f => 24 Friday => 26 Saturnsday
Beyond deMause -- Demon Unborn (Aleister Crowley's narrative)
SON OF YHWH-OBAMA: D O A
Lloyd deMause's work gives academics, especially philosophers, the heebejeebies.
Basic to the criticism is its pretentious sign-use -- predicating on what individuals personally experience and remember in different ways, as if there were one "we", and here was a spokesperson for it as a totality. His dismissal of the term "soul", for instance, as "parents via placenta, not God". This leaves intact the hypothesis that advanced members of the human species arrived at translations of this term -- a token -- for communicating the inner site of evolutionary mammalian brain development. Which, together w/ amygdalan memory, would contain earliest engravings on fetal nervous systems. Which, as a well-formed functional site in the anatomy, would be necessary for deep "We"-bonding in conversation with others: first, as performance (hence the importance of sound; 'clicks' don't sound like soul-talk); second, as discourse (projective nominative text --"how's your soul, bro?". Its textual use as a nominative sustains its projective force.
The grammar of Christianity's use of "soul" has never been laid out, in my view, in a way today's intellectual community-at-large-can understand and relate to. I want to remedy that, here, using the device of quotation marks and asterisks (according to rules explained elsewhere) to sententially thread very condensed content. The content is linked through them to an analysis of communication formalized in psychosemiotics. Until it is stated, so that consciousness can survey it and thought comment on it, the distinction between whether to take it metaphysically, or dismiss it psychohistorically, cannot arise.
"THE soul", predicated on as an entity, converts an expressive sound to something 'real', mysteriously all-pervasive,
undeniable-without-negating one's consciousness of themselves as essentially inner, not outer/body, beings visible to the eye. 'Created by God The Father', according to the historical canon. Attracted to the visible Sky -- Sun-Moon, Day-Night, sleep-waking states -- by 'knowledge': carnal and cognitive. In the projected narrative, Union of the Soul with its Creator (origin of merger fantasies), driven by Love of The Father (as rational completion of textual Intention in perception), completes the first stage of soul totality. That having been established as an individual given, as opposed to being given away, a second stage of development opens up, evolutionally, by theological language* stabilizing religious truth. "Belief" in that (<=acceptance of it* as transcendental unity of apperception) as story of "my rebirth (of the ego)", "saves the soul". That's Christianity. The theological "it*" for Christians is the Incarnation, taken as Father-Sacrificing-Sacrifice-to-Himself through "His Only Begotton Son". This is the objective Archetypal completion of soul-talk addressing humanity from that source (New Testament, 0 a.d.) Child sacrifice, aka "war", in political discourse, is ended for all time by the symbolic act of voluntary crucifixion of the Son, at the hands of humanity, Biblical "Jews", in obedience to The Will of the Father ("If that's what you want ..."). Jesus' act was not (just) completion of the spiritual legacy of "faith" of Old Testament patriarchs (cf. The Book of Hebrews), It was the next evolutionary step in Squaring the history of human birth with (later) birth of consciousness as "Rebirth of soul." "Belief" in that -- i.e., recognition of the moment as metaphysical (narrative of second stage of inner human development) -- (self-) defines the position of consciousness predicating, and predicated on,
deMause invariably addresses audiences as "We", without tagging the "me") (<= as if speaking at a universal level of truth about common experience as opposed to psychohistorically sited NOW). This follows the epistemic academic paradigm which his work, in fact, breaks down. "New truth" poured into old wine-bottles. ;
FOOTNOTES TO "The Emotional Life of Nations" - Lloyd deMause'slatest
The Emotional Life of America. 9.23.'10
by Sid Thomas
The gap between theory and application makes the corpus of the Institute increasingly irrelevant, unless and until deMause addresses a particular flaw in aplications currently (not being) made. The flaw is extrapolating from this generation's 'progressivism' as the evolutionary history of childhood, as if today's Gen Z psychoclass culminated it. Whereas, in fact, due to 3 recalcitrant issues absorbed into the grammar of politics -- abortion, homosexuality, Zionism -- a "4th turning" psychohistorical moment* is upon us, prefigured in Carl Jung's Archetypal psychology as "enantiodromia", or reversal of psychological processes into their opposites when carried to extremes. Nowhere is this mor visually/viscerally evident than in the 4-letter dyad NAZI-ZION, a matched token conjunction condensed on blogs to ZIONAZI on blogs, and used for ISRAEL.
deMause's psychohistory, epochally ground breaking as it is, has a blind spot when it comes to the arcane details of what is experienced by each of us, each day, processed in ways that can be diagrammed and systematically mapped as on a single hypothetical slate, as it were; e.g., TokenSpace, the world where minds meet in communication. It's empirical content are objects, S*, typically appearing, when written, on two dimensional surfaces in three dimensional
space. Ex. pages in a book, computer monitor. This blind spot of his, and psychohistory, is filled in Dasein by soul-talk, or religion.
RELIGIONS ARE NOT THE SAME
-The concept of Religous Truth
When S*5.7 (*completion of the S*5 totality of conscious content under sign-use: S*5.5 = "I" sentences ( <-presupposing S*6, S*7 for completion on the textual side) SQUARES S*7.5 (assumptions about the completing totality) and S*3.5 (actual body-energy available to the Ego's disposal by will*). Whether it SQUARES with S*5.4 (<-experience under moral judgment) depends on the act of will, whether it is in accord with, or opposed to, the rule of law and reason. This is as it should be on a metaphysics that retains free will. If S*5.5 does not SQUARE with its antecedents and consequents in the token hierarchy it does not square with itself, one '5' pulling one way, the other another. Thus Religious Truth can be defined as "I" talk which SQUAREs text of conscious content with tokens of the completing totality. Text, after all, brings trans-temporal, logical relatedness of propositions. Tokens, as actual particulars, are always tied to quality, cathexis and non-self-contained psychodynamic causes. Each successful SQUARE communication S* is 'religiously true'. => as actual occurrence, S* SQUARES WITH the completing totality of S* in TokenSpace.
Religious discourse may be said to express "Soul-thought", when
"soul" is used for the collective totality to which an "I" belongs. It is "I" under Moral judgment when the will is Holy. It's deepest, earliest psychodynamic motivation derives from the fetal origins of experience, the 'drive' to get out of the birth canal, Be Born, and live on the other side of the present trauma. That is why people merge unconscious delegate identities in "We" groups and come together -- to purge fantasies of poison blood by sacrificing Fetal Heros/Fertile Youth in war. Through this mechanism, dream-thoughts that are hideously insane in themselves are happily acted out as Celebration of Renewal (overcoming birth trauma, to be REBORN) .
Religious truth is when Collective soul-thoughts Square with Reality. Second-birth hristianity is religiously true, since it Squares, and releases from, birth trauma.
Post-Incarnation soul thinking ("religion"), as a historical datum to which the vast array of artefacts produced under its name testify, is not the same as (what is called) Monotheism (which as a general conception of God of All Gods, claimed in the Pentateuch for YHWH (<=Elohim), originated with Babylonioan Marduk. The One God Nation-State is a regressive psycho-social regime, compared with one based on internalized relation to themselves as individuals, "I" vs. "We". "People of the incarnation" think from a different position of consciousness than Old Testament Zionists, whose soul-thinking centres on "Israel. In this, they agree with most so-called 'diaspora' Jews, and America's political regime was founded on the later position of consciousness that accomodate that confluence. The Cross marks the point at which pre- and posr-incarnation consciousness divide. Today's Israel, as a Zionist state, should be regarded as idolatry by Christians. (Benjamin Netanyahu is its Birth Messiah, part of the asymptote looming large.)
OLD TOKENS/ / NEW TEXT
There is enormous pressure* on Obama to get tough** with Ahmadinejad and BOMB IRAN. One more mass slaughter rivaling the Holocaust For The Gipper
Two levels of trauma overlap in this mostly repressed (<- denied, if confronted with) unconscious group-fantasy.
** => Oedipal: (dream-thought => "act like a Warrior Father capable of protecting 'us'!"
* <= fetal: (deeper dream-thought => "..to Rescue 'Us' /grammatical shift to personalized 'We'/ suffering siblings pressured* in the Great Womb Surround, blood de-oxygenated by the Poisonous Placenta ("America is the Great Satan" - Ayotalla Khomenei; subtext of Mulla ideology).
***1. + 2. = > conjunctive subtext: Obama will demonstrate Sacrificial Priest cahones to Zionists by Bombing Iran; attaining "DELIVERANCE FROM FETAL RAGE IN THE BIRTH CANAL + REVALORIZING LIBERAL MASCULINITY.
THE MSM MESSAGES* HAVE BEEN THAT THIS IS ANOTHER DOA MIS-CONCEPTION (like the latest 'Mid-East peace process', stopped from the time they were announced by Netanyahu/Zionist intransigence.).
This is where Sarah Palin comes in. "ABORT THIS ALIEN MONSTROSITY IN AMERICA'S BELLY " is the unconscious psychodynamic dream-thought reaction to the inescapable depth-psychological situation "We" are in. 'Rip the guts out of the little bastard in there (or rip IT*, the Holy Object 'US", out of the Killer Mommy's belly in order to Save It!)
. But up-skirt (Oedipal level fantasy) Mom Who Wouldn't! represses this thought, replacing it with images of Downs Syndrom fetus, 'Trig', in there. Heroically carried For All The Unborn, until her water broke on stage while delivering a political speech. One prominent MSM picture had Palin on one side, Obama on the other, in one MSM picture; Sept. 20 TIME cover showing Obama's face split white-black, the dream-thought is: "DELIVER IT* (<-the offspring of this 'marriage') NO MATTER WHAT". Fetal rage (level 3) merged, by retrojective memory loops, with childhood rape-victim's impotent hate: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.shallownation.com/images/barack_obama_time_magazine_cover_2008_
DREAM-THOUGHT: AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL ... MARRIED TO BLACK MAN SPEAKING AS WHITE MAN => BOMB IRAN => Re-birth of "The Demon Unborn" <= "WE" = children of interracial black/white marriage born with male genital mutilation.
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