Not feeling any anger when looking at the pathology of society and the atrocities in the world is also a sign of numbness and disassociating. Many well-intentioned spiritual practitioners suppress it because it is seen as “unspiritual” and so they side-step these “negative” emotions trying to reach something “higher” without integrating emotions consciously they don’t feel comfortable with, falling into the the trap of the “make nice” program where niceness is mistaken as a sign of spiritual awareness. This also relates to cognitive dissonance when people reject information because it makes them uncomfortable. Feeling our collective guilt and emerging righteous anger in a full-embodied way and use this energy constructively to act on our conscience is part of the work towards wholeness and making this world a better place. If we don’t, we only fuel “evil” in the world as our personal and collective shadow grows bigger and stronger. ---------------------------- “To the extent that we are unwilling and/or unable to consciously experience our feelings of guilt, we are guilty of unconsciously enacting something to feel guilty about. Like Shakespeares Macbeth, in order to live with this guilt we are compelled to repeat the very thing about which we feel guilty, increasing its scope each time, as if this would magically undo the original error. This process continues until we are no longer troubled by it consciously, which is to say the guilt is then sealed away in the crypt of our deepest unconscious and we have become psychically deadened to feeling…. When we consciously experience our feelings of guilt in a real, full-bodied way (compared to an intellectual way, in I which we only experience the idea of our guilt), the underlying guilt, as if released from being stuck in a frozen block of ice, begins to melt, move, and transform…. To the extent that were not awake, we are all complicit in what is being dreamed up in our world, which is to say we all share a collective guilt. Paradoxically, the tragic fate of consciously experiencing our guilt, shame and sin, and thereby experiencing a genuinely remorseful conscience, introduces us to the part of ourselves that is innocent. We have to feel our guilt as our possession before we can offer it; we cant surrender if theres nothing to let go of. […] Our resulting complacency and inaction in the face of our species self-extinction is, in fact, an expression of our lack of compassion. If our state of psychic blindness is reflected back to us, we will undoubtedly feel not seen, which likewise induces in the one offering the reflection the experience of feeling unseen too. It is then as if the quality of not seeing, of blindness, of unconsciousness has entered the field. If we do not face reality however, we have no chance of transforming it. Evil can only happen in the global body politic when good people, looking away, remain silent and do nothing. Just as in a family system, the perpetrator does everything in their power to promote forgetting. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing and remain indifferent, appealing to the near-universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. And yet, as Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us, He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. - Paul Levy
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