Mauro Montanari

Psychologist & Author (Ph.D.). Fear, shame, trauma, identity, collective memory. Univ. Bologna (Italy) Ph.D. -Ruhr Bochum (Germany).

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Your soul speaks to you in riddles, just as the Sphinx spoke to Oedipus.
The answer is always YOU.
If you cannot guess it, it is because you speak the language of everyday life, which is different from that of the Sphinx.
You must listen to the Sphinx using your own heroic voice. @psychgeist52 @Psychiatry_Anti @TaniaAMarshall @DoctorPerin #Sphinx #Oedipus

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@JDaviesPhD I believe the decision has already been made: the universal pathologisation of experiences and the unlimited expansion of psychiatric hospitals.

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@DrMcFillin Yes. It starts with the universal pathologisation of experiences and ends with the universal expansion of psychiatric hospitals.

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@iamSubhamKewat Yes, this is a skill possessed by very few people

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The Myth of the Midrash

The soul of every child contains within it the entire knowledge of the world whilst it is in the womb.
At the moment of birth, the Angel of Forgetfulness intervenes, touching the newborn’s upper lip with his index finger to command silence.
From that moment on, the child forgets all universal knowledge, so that he may learn everything anew throughout his life, using his free will.
#Myth #Midrash #AngelOfForgetfulness @NTFabiano @RobertKennedyJr @PFTompkins

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@embram yes, I agreee

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Sex Among Angels.

In the Book of Enoch, the Watchers descend to earth because they desire human women. They sleep with them and father the Nephilim—beings that belong neither fully to heaven nor to earth.

At first glance, their sin appears to be sexual. It is not.

The sexual act is only the visible expression of a deeper transgression: crossing a boundary that was never meant to be crossed, throwing the entire order of creation out of balance.

The union between angels and women shatters the distinction between two different orders of being. The problem is not sexuality itself, but the collapse of an ontological boundary.

Once that boundary is broken, forbidden knowledge follows. The Watchers teach humanity metallurgy, astrology, enchantments, and hidden arts. Corruption spreads. Violence multiplies. The world becomes unrecognizable.

In ancient Jewish thought, sin is often understood not simply as disobedience but as illicit mixture. The laws of Leviticus reflect the same intuition: do not crossbreed animals, do not weave wool and linen together, do not sow two kinds of seed in the same field. Creation depends upon distinctions.

Sin, then, is more than the violation of a commandment.

It begins where the boundaries of creation dissolve. #Angel #Leviticus #Freud #Enoch @DoctorPerin @Psmithran @hubermanlab @karenmitchell__

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@LindaBerman4 I agree. That is why anyone with an open mind must get used to solitude

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@DrMcFillin You’re right, and this isn’t good news for anyone: neither for doctors nor for patients

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@Toribabieegirl The wicked are rewarded and the righteous are destroyed. This is the origin of all apocalyptic literature, which promises vengeance against the wicked. The Book of Enoch, the Apocalypse of John.

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PRAYER TO THE ANGEL

Every angel is terrifying. And yet—woe to me—I keep turning to you, mortal bird of the soul.
If the archangel, the most dangerous of them all, were to take a single step toward me now, from behind the stars, the beating of my own heart would be enough to kill me.
Who are you, then?
You are the first of the blessed. The beloved of Creation. The crest of dawn. You belong to the beginning.
I, instead, am fading away. I wear myself out simply by breathing. With every breath, my scent grows fainter. What use are the springs to me, when everything in me is already a farewell?
You, instead, are the warmth of bread. The surge of the heart. And perhaps, without intending it, you carry away something of me. Perhaps even a mortal leaves an imperceptible trace upon your passing.
For otherwise everything seems to conspire to erase me. Out of shame, perhaps. Or to protect a hope that does not dare speak its own name.
So, within your embrace, eternity ceases, for a single moment, to seem impossible.
(Freely inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Second Duino Elegy (1923)
#Angel #Rilke #Creation #SurgeOfTheHeart @JDaviesPhD @DrMcFillin @joannamoncrieff @jill_d35

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@raphaelamek People love success but don’t want to step outside their comfort zone, so they are content to identify with the success of others

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Most people don’t fight shame.
They manage it by becoming a character. And then wonder why they feel empty #Shame #Character @BasedPsychMD @psychgeist52 @Psychiatry_Anti

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Shame is not guilt for what you did.
It’s guilt for who you are. It forces you to become “the quiet one”, “the helpful one”, “the strong one”, “the funny one”… any role to avoid being seen as useless or weak. Your shame is the tool others use to rewrite your identity. What role did you have to play to not feel worthless? #Shame #Identity #TraumaTweet @CoachDanGo @NoMoreMKUltra

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Shame is the guilt of existing. It is not the guilt of having done something shameful.
Shame rewrites your identity. To avoid it, you become 'the quiet one,' 'the helpful one,' 'the strong one,' 'the funny one'… any role just to avoid being seen as useless, weak, or stupid.
Your shame is the tool others use to rewrite your identity. #Shame #Identity #TheStrongOne @CoachDanGo @NoMoreMKUltra @FeistyKittyPie

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THE ANGEL OF SILENCE
Plato says that your soul has a mission. It must choose a body that corresponds to the task assigned to it by Destiny (Lachos). Along with its mission, your soul receives a Guardian Angel (Daimon) to protect it and guide its way.
The angel reminds your soul that the fabric of life is irreversible, while pointing toward the Kleros—the ground upon which it must descend: the place, the family, the culture.
Before descending into the world, however, the Angel guides your soul across the Lethe, the river of Forgetfulness, so that it arrives at its Kleros having forgotten all past lives.
The Angel is the keeper of your silence. Once it has accompanied your soul into the world and settled it into your body, it slides its finger across your mouth, commanding you to be silent.
The proof lies in the indentation between your nose and your upper lip. That is where your Angel pressed its index finger. #Angel #Silence #Destinity #GuardianAngel @BasedPsychMD @psychgeist52 @theBrianaMills

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@Wisdom_HQ The secret to building self-confidence is knowing that there are no easy ways to build self-confidence.

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THE ANGEL IS REPLACED BY BATMAN.

The great Angel of the humanistic tradition, who once showed his strength and his tears, is today pointed out as an Illusion.
His corpse hangs from the sailors' belts, like Coleridge’s Albatross. It is the modern disease of psychology, which takes the commonplace as the measure of human affairs. #HumanAffairs #Psychology #HumanisticTradition #Angel @DeepPsycho_HQ @psy_oppa @psychoIogicaIly