Thanks for the recommendations, Arnie! These look interesting.....
Indeed... they will change your life...
Joost Meerloo's "Rape of the Mind" is recommended reading in the Kubark interrogation manual, because "it will help you to find out more about yourself"
Joost Meerloo caught much flak from his 'peers' for writing his books on human nature, psychology, in plain english so that anyone could read them... he was a psychiatrist who was detained by the Nazis and released with the help of the French Resistance'
He reflects on what he learned and wrote his books in an effort to help people to know themselves better, and his books were his life's effort to make this a better world, and to try to fix what ails us as a society..
I considered them so important, I found copies and purchased them and then scanned and webbed the text for all to see, because his work was out of print and the copies we bought were quite pricey...I also considered them so important that they reside in the directory on on Lermanet.com called /scientology/
You do not have to read them from the beginning, you can start anywhere and browse...
his short almost sonnet like stories illustrate the characteristics of human psychology, and you will never be the same again..
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Another guy that recovering scientologists MUST read is Carl Jung...
People will do anything no matter how absurd to stop from facing their souls. Carl Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. Carl Jung
The gigantic catastrophies that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics.
At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution, instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.
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The masses of men and women in the western world avoid true, authentic psychoanalytic investigation of their natures, particularly in regards the so called 'darker" aspects of the personality (the "shadow" Self). However, not dealing with the psyche at all proves systematically hazardous. A compromise is requires. hence, the proliferation of the the "New age" Philosophy and movement, together with its many permutations.
Riddled with
ego-customized shams and gimmicks, the application of its methods serve, for the most part merely to bolster the failing ego and its drives. Jung
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Western man has made himself bereft of the rites and rituals, the rites of passage, and the Shamanic methods for dealing with the build up of dark psychic content. As a result, he is patently pathologically arrested. His avoidance condemns mankind and the earth.
It engenders psychotic and sadistic leaders, who are able to play on his fears and lower instincts, ad infinitum.
If we do not autonomously cleanse our psyches, and strive to live morally..and if we we continue to violate the natural order because of our inner emotional and psychological toxicity, we will allow the ego to manifest surrogate channels to exorcise its repressions and other negative debris.
In short, if we give up this right-rulership of the self, we inevitably breed "Orwellian" political and religious tyrants to take over the job and turn us into Simmel's "Smiling Depressives," or worse...Jung
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The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering...
Carl Jung
