My personal takeaway was understanding observable characteristics of psychopaths and narcissists - they are never wrong, never do wrong and if you criticize them then the only explanation for them is that there must be something wrong with you -- "you are an antisemite!", for example.
Also, the collective unconscious or as the author expresses it, "ancestral subconscious",
is a 'reach' for some people to buy into. For others they can palpably sense it.
It explains so much and I believe it is a mistake to ignore it. One need not be religiously observant to connect with a given collective unconscious. Watch a clip or two from "Triumph of the Will" if you want to observe the collective unconscious in action...warning!, you will feel the hair come up on the back of your own neck!
I note that you began your comment reflexively expressing, as I see it, your fear of being labeled an "antisemite". A definite fear factor that has been ingrained widely through years of education, indoctrination, guilting and repetition. You are not alone.
That slur, "anti-semite", has been used **to enable Genocide** through intimidation and silencing. ***You unintentionally reinforced the power of that slur. **
Definitely the understanding of psychopathy/narcissism can help explain what is happening. However there was no Abrahamic faith or biblical virus involved in the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide, yet much of what is happening in Palestine is indistinguishable from that event. I don't take hardly any stock in the theory that the middle east is torn apart by simply a battle of faiths - it's woefully insufficient, on par with "they hate us for our freedom".
My fear and the reason I began my comment that way is more of actually engaging in antisemitism than the smear of having done so.
I understand.
My personal takeaway was understanding observable characteristics of psychopaths and narcissists - they are never wrong, never do wrong and if you criticize them then the only explanation for them is that there must be something wrong with you -- "you are an antisemite!", for example.
Also, the collective unconscious or as the author expresses it, "ancestral subconscious",
is a 'reach' for some people to buy into. For others they can palpably sense it.
It explains so much and I believe it is a mistake to ignore it. One need not be religiously observant to connect with a given collective unconscious. Watch a clip or two from "Triumph of the Will" if you want to observe the collective unconscious in action...warning!, you will feel the hair come up on the back of your own neck!
I note that you began your comment reflexively expressing, as I see it, your fear of being labeled an "antisemite". A definite fear factor that has been ingrained widely through years of education, indoctrination, guilting and repetition. You are not alone.
That slur, "anti-semite", has been used **to enable Genocide** through intimidation and silencing. ***You unintentionally reinforced the power of that slur. **
Definitely the understanding of psychopathy/narcissism can help explain what is happening. However there was no Abrahamic faith or biblical virus involved in the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide, yet much of what is happening in Palestine is indistinguishable from that event. I don't take hardly any stock in the theory that the middle east is torn apart by simply a battle of faiths - it's woefully insufficient, on par with "they hate us for our freedom".
My fear and the reason I began my comment that way is more of actually engaging in antisemitism than the smear of having done so.