Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Does the rooster crow because of the rising sun, or does the sun rise because the rooster crows?
Did the rooster crowed 3 times because of Peter's denial or did he thrice denied Christ every time the rooster crowed?
Much to think about.
You might have already realized that talk therapy almost never works & self-help stuff are mostly useless.
If you arrived at this place, you're ready to dive into the world of the body & nervous system. Real emotions & really feeling stuff. There's no other way out.
I find the Reich-Lowen-Pierrakos lineage to be highly, criminally underrated. First pic below is a good intro (getting denser from top to bottom) and the second pic is more experiential/actual stuff you can do. Theoria & praxis.
The main risk is going too fast or alone, which could actually cause real problems. I myself have always been not so cautious about these types of warnings, and went too fast, too deep & can honestly say, there's literally zero need to go too hard, too fast. It's just not smart. Don't do it. Take it easy. These are overpowered anyways, take your time & listen to your body.
Worst thing you could do would be to read/research these and not apply anything (or overindex on types/theory in general) - the whole point is to get out of your head & into the body! Terrifying, I know. Take it easy & focus on max enjoyment.
@cultarr Nuke your social media presence and go ghost. Youll soon realize there's more than 1 specific persons. Its just your suppressed soul is looking for an image to project onto.
I met ONE Boomer on this site who had managed to dig his way out of this emotional debt, and what he had to say was fascinating: Huge swaths of their generation felt severe resentment against their fathers because they all came back as war heroes in the biggest baddest most epic war in history, and young Timmy Boomer felt he could never ever live up to that, which turned out to be true as they never got their own great war making them all heroes. So instead, they declared war on everything they could, at home. "Injustice", drugs, the environment even. They're a generation who grew up in the shadows of Achilles and Odysseus and Hector and Ajax, and given no outlet for that whatsoever, and it drove them insane.
Stiamo sperimentando un’eclissi del senso di ciò che significa essere umani, come evidenziato dalla sfrenata implementazione di tecnologia a scapito della dignità umana. È necessario riacquistare una comprensione del vero significato e della vera grandezza dell’umanità come intesi da Dio. La sfida che stiamo attualmente affrontando non è tecnologica, ma antropologica, ed è mia speranza che la Lettera Enciclica che verrà pubblicata tra qualche giorno possa contribuire a rispondere a questa sfida.
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
People are clueless about our history because it’s been revised to paint Christianity in the worst possible light, when it was specifically the Church that preserved all the great ancient texts that illuminate the histories for us.
Why did the Dark Age happen? Not because of Christianity, but because of Islam. Aside from Constantinople, all the centers of Christian learning in the East were conquered by the Caliphate. And in particular, Egypt was the greatest loss, for two reasons: 1) the catechetical school at Alexandria was a brilliant light of Christendom for the 6 centuries prior to Islamic conquest, and 2) most importantly, the production and importation of paper (made from papyrus) to Europe ceased overnight, and Europe had to resort to enormously expensive parchment for its writing mode — and thus reading and writing became relegated to the wealthy nobility and to the clergy. No one else could afford the material necessary.
Couple that with the next thousand+ years of Islamic raiders plundering the coasts of southern Europe for Christian slaves, leading to most unfortified coastal areas to be abandoned for centuries, and you have a recipe for Christian Europe to be forced to draw in upon itself. This coincided with the so-called Islamic Golden Age, which occurred specifically because Islam violently conquered Christian lands and stole their knowledge for themselves.
The Christian West during this period nearly collapsed altogether, but it was their unifying Christian faith that helped them band together to defeat the pagan Germans in Saxony and Bavaria, the pagan Vikings raiding and conquering the British coasts, and Islamic rule in Iberia, southern France, Sicily, and southern Italy.
People like to treat “science” and “learning” as these linear progressions, but in reality the studies of the sciences, and in particular philosophy, had really begun to decline during the period leading up to the fall of Rome in 476. This era was marked by increasing decadence and a lack of moral and social cohesion in the empire, and as society decayed so too did the quality of its academic institutions and scholastic fervor. Some people try to blame this decay on Christianity, but in reality Christianity was a response to — not the cause of — this societal decay.
This same pattern is playing out today. The moral and societal decay of the modern secular West is leading the younger generations to reject modernity and embrace faith, and in particular the more traditional and liturgical faiths are surging with young adult converts.
History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme.