Problems of Faith
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Like science. And Catholic church.
You see, science was prodded forward by the Catholic church during/past Renaissance. Renaissance of what? Turns out the Catholic church tried to "resurrect" the original European culture. You can read more about it at http://www.adji.ru/books_en.html
Thing is, science is stupid. Scientific method only examines that which is visible, or otherwise detectable with tools, and treats it as non-existing until it is proven to be. But this means it's effectively blind and distances itself from everything until it's "proven". It ignores life. But science is worshipped. And its ways, too.
This is a pattern of spoil that then makes people suffer, as worship of science is already there in the culture, and it misshapes conscience. Science takes place of religion. "Religion" in Latin means simply "re-link". Re-link with nature, with the gods, with divinity, the world, etc. etc. There was a US teenager (Russian-born, BTW) who spent something like half an hour trying to "prove" that stuff he doesn't perceive immediately doesn't exist. "What he didn't see couldn't exist", literally. Combined with the "perception of reality=reality" nonsense, it all says "swindle me".
The Catholic church always competed with lots of local pagan religions everywhere. And they tried to push them out. Extinguish by politics, deceit, etc. So eventually they corrupted themselves and went on to corrupt life in Europe.
Like, say, there's a Catholic dogmate that God can be understood through reason and reason alone (if that starts to look like current misbelief, it rings bells, doesn't it). That was one of the causes of the split between Byzantine Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. The Orthodox church is no saints either, of course, but they followed apostle St. John's faith that God (and hence the world, and nature - remember back then there was little separation between the terms) can be understood through reason and love, irrational creation, care, work, etc.
This is what the current cruel perversion that everything must be understood through reason and reason alone owes its origin to. Makes people cranky and leaves a very narrow vision of the world.
Another dogmate was that whichever belief was being upheld by the Pope, was the only correct belief; and dogmas changed, of course (if that looks like current instability of faith and swinging between different points of view, it's because that's the original spoil) - and it's another cause for the great Schism, the split between the two Christian churches, Oriental and Western Roman.
Sexual problems have to do with perversions launched by two Catholic dogmates - one that sex was the original sin (it isn't; the Original Sin myth refers to something else entirely - the exode of the ancestors from Altai, and the corruption with ability to do evil and do good to others, which the ancestors used to enslave and threaten and kill other peoples, among other things), another that Christ was somehow a scapegoat for this "original sin".
The Catholic church also persecuted Pan/Cernunnos. Pan was the negative aspect of Cernunnos, Pan was the god of free music, sex, unrestrained, unshaped psychic energy - panic; Cernunnos was the gaelic god of life. You have to understand that a god is a pointer to an essence. E. g. Pan personified music, male erotism, and less conscious, more careless being. So by suppressing a faith in a certain god, the essence he's pointing at will be ignored (and therefore suppressed). Cernunnos was the noble, conscious god of life. But the trick is that the two are really one, just two different aspects. E. g. Pan with his lust and sexual power is the flip side of Cernunnos with his love and devotion (also sexual) to the mother goddess. Cernunnos' awareness and mastery of all that has to be wished, including fears, is the flip side of panic (named after Pan - the state of unshaped psychic energy, NOT fear, though it's related). And a human being goes through the two aspects as well, eventually coming to Cernunnos through Pan.
Both gods were very popular.
To suppress the two faces of the god of life (noble and careless), the Catholic church supplied demons and devils with attributes of the two gods (goat legs - Pan, horns - Cernunnos) and declared lust devilish. The gods of life were arrested and declared foul. There you have the source of doubts and sexual suppression and certain disdain for music (people are difficult to be lead by music - go to the streets and they won't dance to a band like they did centuries ago) and the imposition of "reasonable" behaviour. By the way of which: why "reason"? Simple, because by controlling what's declated "reasonable" and what isn't, everyone can be controlled. It's the "faith", God (and the world) can only be understood through "reason", hence control what's declared "reasonable". And in the meanwhile push love and irrational understanding (like art) to the side. And make everything "heavy" with intellect and conformism.
Remember that culture is the memory of a society. So all the wrongdoings, deceit, illusions, misformation, etc. are kept in the culture. A lot in the shape of traditional behaviour patterns, unrealised, with whichever deceit was imprinted. And many people "pick up" behaviour patterns from the culture. Typical European behaviour is to run away from tradition and ignore it, but remember that that only makes it unconscious! This is what happens when spoil is ignored, same as with parents' spoil. It's there, waiting to play those who ignored to make them unignore reality and respect the damage.
All of this creates a lot of crazy behaviour like martyrdom and self-suppression. And the patterns surface everywhere - especially painful in Russia, but there at least people realise easily how stupid it is. But the source is always there, and until all of this damage comes to light and the culture has resolved doubts and behavioural memories, it's always going to be a threatening shadow of sorts. Shadow which can drive insane.
There's more damage like this, like treating madness as something unsolvable (madness has to be *understood* to make it go away) and everyone automatically sane. You know, when the French invented the first looney bins, it was said about them that "the French locked their madmen and now think they're all sane". And of course, everyone's always a bit crazy. You can't be sane without being a bit crazy.
You see, the trap is exactly the division between psychology, theology, and philosophy. The division between different sciences only locks everyone into their narrow areas of research, denying the whole. It's the same old Roman "divide and conquer" applied to thought.
The problem with European philosophy is, it's a science. It's not a faith at its core like, say, traditional Chinese philosophy. Faith is what links conscience with reality. European philosophy no longer does that (well yeah, it does, but it's always through thorns somehow). So it's rather detached from nature/reality. European philosophy tends to deal with what the human being has created, instead of the human being himself. Instead of nature. Which is a lot simpler.
Anyway, a detailed explanation of all the damage should heal just by itself. What happens with most people is that they "take in" the fears/doubts and play them out later in life. They pollute their own souls with unholiness, in classical terms. It will require more work for a psychotherapist, say, but them having the clues they can just act like the priests/priestesses they are and restore the influence of the essences. Of course, it's still detection work, but everything's clear now, rather than the detached guesses and terms for trouble psychology used to have before. Everything comes together as a whole again.
And, there's a lot that needs cleanup. Like the notions of fear as negative wish (not something that has to be "cut out" from one's life, but rather recognised as one's desires of what shouldn't be), sin being something that isn't (absence of being) rather than something that one does, etc.
You see, part of the problem is that psychological terms tend to be cumbersome and detached; in some cases they can even make the psychologists themselves confused and with heavy heads (and some are already slightly barmy and vulnerable to projections from work themselves). Try to read a construction describing a simple ailment (ex. the description of self-aggressiveness and the short common lore "self-punishment"). This, by contrast, is just clean and clear. Shows all the influences at work. It'll probably take a whole book for this to be exposed fully, but hey, everyone's always pestered about writing a book.
Like science. And Catholic church.
You see, science was prodded forward by the Catholic church during/past Renaissance. Renaissance of what? Turns out the Catholic church tried to "resurrect" the original European culture. You can read more about it at http://www.adji.ru/books_en.html
Thing is, science is stupid. Scientific method only examines that which is visible, or otherwise detectable with tools, and treats it as non-existing until it is proven to be. But this means it's effectively blind and distances itself from everything until it's "proven". It ignores life. But science is worshipped. And its ways, too.
This is a pattern of spoil that then makes people suffer, as worship of science is already there in the culture, and it misshapes conscience. Science takes place of religion. "Religion" in Latin means simply "re-link". Re-link with nature, with the gods, with divinity, the world, etc. etc. There was a US teenager (Russian-born, BTW) who spent something like half an hour trying to "prove" that stuff he doesn't perceive immediately doesn't exist. "What he didn't see couldn't exist", literally. Combined with the "perception of reality=reality" nonsense, it all says "swindle me".
The Catholic church always competed with lots of local pagan religions everywhere. And they tried to push them out. Extinguish by politics, deceit, etc. So eventually they corrupted themselves and went on to corrupt life in Europe.
Like, say, there's a Catholic dogmate that God can be understood through reason and reason alone (if that starts to look like current misbelief, it rings bells, doesn't it). That was one of the causes of the split between Byzantine Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. The Orthodox church is no saints either, of course, but they followed apostle St. John's faith that God (and hence the world, and nature - remember back then there was little separation between the terms) can be understood through reason and love, irrational creation, care, work, etc.
This is what the current cruel perversion that everything must be understood through reason and reason alone owes its origin to. Makes people cranky and leaves a very narrow vision of the world.
Another dogmate was that whichever belief was being upheld by the Pope, was the only correct belief; and dogmas changed, of course (if that looks like current instability of faith and swinging between different points of view, it's because that's the original spoil) - and it's another cause for the great Schism, the split between the two Christian churches, Oriental and Western Roman.
Sexual problems have to do with perversions launched by two Catholic dogmates - one that sex was the original sin (it isn't; the Original Sin myth refers to something else entirely - the exode of the ancestors from Altai, and the corruption with ability to do evil and do good to others, which the ancestors used to enslave and threaten and kill other peoples, among other things), another that Christ was somehow a scapegoat for this "original sin".
The Catholic church also persecuted Pan/Cernunnos. Pan was the negative aspect of Cernunnos, Pan was the god of free music, sex, unrestrained, unshaped psychic energy - panic; Cernunnos was the gaelic god of life. You have to understand that a god is a pointer to an essence. E. g. Pan personified music, male erotism, and less conscious, more careless being. So by suppressing a faith in a certain god, the essence he's pointing at will be ignored (and therefore suppressed). Cernunnos was the noble, conscious god of life. But the trick is that the two are really one, just two different aspects. E. g. Pan with his lust and sexual power is the flip side of Cernunnos with his love and devotion (also sexual) to the mother goddess. Cernunnos' awareness and mastery of all that has to be wished, including fears, is the flip side of panic (named after Pan - the state of unshaped psychic energy, NOT fear, though it's related). And a human being goes through the two aspects as well, eventually coming to Cernunnos through Pan.
Both gods were very popular.
To suppress the two faces of the god of life (noble and careless), the Catholic church supplied demons and devils with attributes of the two gods (goat legs - Pan, horns - Cernunnos) and declared lust devilish. The gods of life were arrested and declared foul. There you have the source of doubts and sexual suppression and certain disdain for music (people are difficult to be lead by music - go to the streets and they won't dance to a band like they did centuries ago) and the imposition of "reasonable" behaviour. By the way of which: why "reason"? Simple, because by controlling what's declated "reasonable" and what isn't, everyone can be controlled. It's the "faith", God (and the world) can only be understood through "reason", hence control what's declared "reasonable". And in the meanwhile push love and irrational understanding (like art) to the side. And make everything "heavy" with intellect and conformism.
Remember that culture is the memory of a society. So all the wrongdoings, deceit, illusions, misformation, etc. are kept in the culture. A lot in the shape of traditional behaviour patterns, unrealised, with whichever deceit was imprinted. And many people "pick up" behaviour patterns from the culture. Typical European behaviour is to run away from tradition and ignore it, but remember that that only makes it unconscious! This is what happens when spoil is ignored, same as with parents' spoil. It's there, waiting to play those who ignored to make them unignore reality and respect the damage.
All of this creates a lot of crazy behaviour like martyrdom and self-suppression. And the patterns surface everywhere - especially painful in Russia, but there at least people realise easily how stupid it is. But the source is always there, and until all of this damage comes to light and the culture has resolved doubts and behavioural memories, it's always going to be a threatening shadow of sorts. Shadow which can drive insane.
There's more damage like this, like treating madness as something unsolvable (madness has to be *understood* to make it go away) and everyone automatically sane. You know, when the French invented the first looney bins, it was said about them that "the French locked their madmen and now think they're all sane". And of course, everyone's always a bit crazy. You can't be sane without being a bit crazy.
You see, the trap is exactly the division between psychology, theology, and philosophy. The division between different sciences only locks everyone into their narrow areas of research, denying the whole. It's the same old Roman "divide and conquer" applied to thought.
The problem with European philosophy is, it's a science. It's not a faith at its core like, say, traditional Chinese philosophy. Faith is what links conscience with reality. European philosophy no longer does that (well yeah, it does, but it's always through thorns somehow). So it's rather detached from nature/reality. European philosophy tends to deal with what the human being has created, instead of the human being himself. Instead of nature. Which is a lot simpler.
Anyway, a detailed explanation of all the damage should heal just by itself. What happens with most people is that they "take in" the fears/doubts and play them out later in life. They pollute their own souls with unholiness, in classical terms. It will require more work for a psychotherapist, say, but them having the clues they can just act like the priests/priestesses they are and restore the influence of the essences. Of course, it's still detection work, but everything's clear now, rather than the detached guesses and terms for trouble psychology used to have before. Everything comes together as a whole again.
And, there's a lot that needs cleanup. Like the notions of fear as negative wish (not something that has to be "cut out" from one's life, but rather recognised as one's desires of what shouldn't be), sin being something that isn't (absence of being) rather than something that one does, etc.
You see, part of the problem is that psychological terms tend to be cumbersome and detached; in some cases they can even make the psychologists themselves confused and with heavy heads (and some are already slightly barmy and vulnerable to projections from work themselves). Try to read a construction describing a simple ailment (ex. the description of self-aggressiveness and the short common lore "self-punishment"). This, by contrast, is just clean and clear. Shows all the influences at work. It'll probably take a whole book for this to be exposed fully, but hey, everyone's always pestered about writing a book.