Stop the Destruction of the World
Helping Young People Cope
We think most of the time that it's damn difficult to get old. But from everything I see in the world today, it's no picnic being young either.Getting lost in Internet chatrooms and games. School violence. Diagnosis for psychological conditions I never even heard of when I was in school. It's a complicated world for teens and kids these days. And we haven't even mentioned the looming environmental disasters that face them as they enter the adult world.How can they make sense of this? Today on STOP the Destruction of the World, psychoanalyst and author, Claudia Pacheco, addresses many issues facing kids today. As always, this program is looking at human problems and solutions through Norberto Keppe's science of Analytical Trilogy (Integral Psychoanalysis) and this offers a perspective on the world that is offered nowhere else in the world. Keppe is light years ahead of any other psychological school of thought you care to name, which makes his work provocative and essential.You can receive a free copy of his landmark book, Liberation of the People: The Pathology of Power, just by writing me at rich@richjonesvoice.com. And you can also learn more about his work on my Podcast, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.Now, let's find out how to help young people cope in today's increasingly complex and troubling world.
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terça-feira, 16 de outubro de 2007
WHAT'S WRONG?...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU IS THE STARTING POINT
By Richard Jones
In 1986, I began teaching radio broadcasting in Vancouver, Canada. I came to the profession believing that the most important thing was to believe all students were able and competent, willing to learn and improve. I spent time empowering and encouraging them, validating their strengths, assuring them that they too could become successful if they only applied themselves and worked hard. I gave pep talks and filled my teaching sessions with positive thinking and optimism.
And it totally stunned me when a number of them sabotaged themselves in the face of all my cheerleading. Oh, they wanted to succeed. They said they did and they consciously tried to meet the course requirements, but still they failed. Some other process was going on deep inside them that over-rode their desires for success. I think it’s important to speak about this, because I have come to see that it has been running for years like wild dogs through my life and the lives of those I know.
…
A lot of people today would say they are on a spiritual quest for answers to the great human questions: who are we and where do we fit in the universe?
Much of the New Age literature and pop culture references suggest that the way to true success and fulfillment lies in strengthening our awareness of and connection with our inner sacred and divine essence, through meditation or affirmations or positive thinking or any number of other methodologies. This is honourable and well intentioned, to be sure. But I’d like to suggest respectfully that it is dead wrong.
These are strong words I know, and lest I appear completely cold and merciless, let me take some time to explain myself.
First of all, this thought doesn’t just come first from my own head. I’m basing my ideas on the extraordinary work conducted over the last 35 years by the brilliant Brazilian psychotherapist Dr. Norberto Keppe. After years of clinical research with clients all over South America, Europe and the United States and after writing voluminously on his findings, Keppe has noted that one of our significant blind spots is that we have virtually no consciousness of the depths of the psychological sickness that has infected us. And because our psychology exerts the most powerful influence on our actions and behaviours, we need to have some understanding of our psychological state if we’re to live lives of more than quiet desperation. Our psyches rule the roost, it would appear.
Quite simply, we are not the people we think we are. Nor even by employing many of today’s popular self-realization techniques, are we becoming the people we think we’re becoming. Because rather than focussing on our inner, sacred essence, Keppe has determined that we need to spend almost all of our time focussed on our mistakes and flaws and problems.
This isn’t going to go down too well with Stuart Smalley or Norman Vincent Peale. But the fact that it’s flying in the face of much of what we have seen coming out of the New Age community or shouting at us from impressive dust jackets for the past 20 years warrants a closer look.
Because frankly, I don’t know where all that New Age stuff has gotten us anyway. After years of spending billions on self-realization, we are still sabotaging our lives and destroying the planet. We’ve read all about habits and agreements and conversations and shadow sides, and we’re conversant enough with our family patterns, our shadow beliefs and our wounded inner children that we can even talk about them at dinner parties and on blind dates. But for all this, we’re not much different than we ever were. We’re just more skilful at masking it under better spiritual rhetoric.
For one thing, we have a strong resistance to seeing problems¾especially if we’ve just spent thousands on the latest workshop designed to fix those problems. We either want to rationalize them, ignore them by focusing on something more “positive”, send them away with the kiss of affirmations or the non-judgement of meditation or see them as aberrations from our normal and decent nature.
But any technique that helps us avoid seeing the problems actually obscures the consciousness that those problems are trying to give us. For example, if I believe deep down that I’m an effective and efficient worker, I’m going to resist any feedback that shows me the contrary. I’ll blame circumstances, or someone else, or I’ll rationalize it as an aberration from my normally effective and efficient nature. And I’ll miss the consciousness that the problem is trying to show me. Maybe I’m not as effective and efficient as I think I am. It would be helpful to see that. And it would be a big mistake to cover that up with an affirmation, or replace the uncomfortable realization with the effort of positive thought.
Anything that leads us away from our problems leads us away from consciousness¾and consciousness is precisely the thing we most need. The challenge is that acceptance of consciousness brings us considerable awareness of our mistakes, our limited thinking and our problems. As Keppe puts it,
We have created tremendous opposition to wisdom and understanding, with the result that human beings and the society they have built have become sick and riddled with flaws because of faults they are unwilling to see. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that pathology¾ illness¾is the attitude of opposing consciousness.1
Because what we don’t become conscious of will rule us, as I discovered with my Radio students back in the ‘80s. What we don’t know will harm us. “The human being is what he doesn’t want to know,”2 to quote Keppe. What we try to hide from, what we try to keep from our awareness, rules us. The more we try to hide problems from ourselves, even with “good” techniques, the more they appear in our lives¾only they’ll be buried so deep we won’t be able to see them anymore. Although we will see the effects in increased obesity, drug and alcohol addiction, life threatening diseases, divorce, pollution, terrorism, and on and on.
Of course, there is a good and true basic internal structure to us. But here’s the thing … we don’t need to spend any time thinking or meditating about that. It can’t be improved, since it’s perfect already. It can’t be added to. It can’t be strengthened. It can only be prevented from appearing. We human beings are experts at that. In fact, it is precisely this tendency to stop our beautiful inner structure from emerging that is our biggest mistake and needs to be seen. This is a deep pathology that we all have to varying degrees. Our myriad and nefarious methods of stopping the emergence of our perfect structure are what need 100% of our attention. Here’s Keppe again:
You can’t do anything with pathology. You can’t solve it. You just need to accept it. And by accepting it, you will of course have a better life, because you will be able to correct lots of things that result from your particular pathology. So what the person has to see is exactly the problems that they have. Because what they have of good inside, they don’t need to see this. The biggest asset the human being can have is to see that which he doesn’t like. The bad things.” 3
That’s an admittedly big challenge. But imagine … self-awareness and fulfillment through focussing on problems and issues and difficulties. It’d make a provocative book idea. As Keppe says:
You don’t need to bolster people, to pump them up, because the ego of the person is already too elevated. He’s already up there, flying around. So the more you put a person on a pedestal, the more you encourage his own deliriums and fantasies.4
We don’t need any more books or techniques leading us away from consciousness, specifically the consciousness of our errors. We need a heavy dose of consciousness. Not consciousness of our angelic, true essence, but consciousness about how we are in reality, in practice. This may be quite different from what we think we are in our fantasies. Isn’t that perfect?
References:
1. The Origin of Illness, Norberto M. Keppe, Proton Editora Ltda. 2000, São Paulo, Brazil
2. The Human Being is What He Doesn’t Want to Know, Norberto R. Keppe, Trilogia Newsletter, January, 2002
3. Interview with Dr. Norberto Keppe, January 13, 2002
4. Ibid
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By Richard Jones
In 1986, I began teaching radio broadcasting in Vancouver, Canada. I came to the profession believing that the most important thing was to believe all students were able and competent, willing to learn and improve. I spent time empowering and encouraging them, validating their strengths, assuring them that they too could become successful if they only applied themselves and worked hard. I gave pep talks and filled my teaching sessions with positive thinking and optimism.
And it totally stunned me when a number of them sabotaged themselves in the face of all my cheerleading. Oh, they wanted to succeed. They said they did and they consciously tried to meet the course requirements, but still they failed. Some other process was going on deep inside them that over-rode their desires for success. I think it’s important to speak about this, because I have come to see that it has been running for years like wild dogs through my life and the lives of those I know.
…
A lot of people today would say they are on a spiritual quest for answers to the great human questions: who are we and where do we fit in the universe?
Much of the New Age literature and pop culture references suggest that the way to true success and fulfillment lies in strengthening our awareness of and connection with our inner sacred and divine essence, through meditation or affirmations or positive thinking or any number of other methodologies. This is honourable and well intentioned, to be sure. But I’d like to suggest respectfully that it is dead wrong.
These are strong words I know, and lest I appear completely cold and merciless, let me take some time to explain myself.
First of all, this thought doesn’t just come first from my own head. I’m basing my ideas on the extraordinary work conducted over the last 35 years by the brilliant Brazilian psychotherapist Dr. Norberto Keppe. After years of clinical research with clients all over South America, Europe and the United States and after writing voluminously on his findings, Keppe has noted that one of our significant blind spots is that we have virtually no consciousness of the depths of the psychological sickness that has infected us. And because our psychology exerts the most powerful influence on our actions and behaviours, we need to have some understanding of our psychological state if we’re to live lives of more than quiet desperation. Our psyches rule the roost, it would appear.
Quite simply, we are not the people we think we are. Nor even by employing many of today’s popular self-realization techniques, are we becoming the people we think we’re becoming. Because rather than focussing on our inner, sacred essence, Keppe has determined that we need to spend almost all of our time focussed on our mistakes and flaws and problems.
This isn’t going to go down too well with Stuart Smalley or Norman Vincent Peale. But the fact that it’s flying in the face of much of what we have seen coming out of the New Age community or shouting at us from impressive dust jackets for the past 20 years warrants a closer look.
Because frankly, I don’t know where all that New Age stuff has gotten us anyway. After years of spending billions on self-realization, we are still sabotaging our lives and destroying the planet. We’ve read all about habits and agreements and conversations and shadow sides, and we’re conversant enough with our family patterns, our shadow beliefs and our wounded inner children that we can even talk about them at dinner parties and on blind dates. But for all this, we’re not much different than we ever were. We’re just more skilful at masking it under better spiritual rhetoric.
For one thing, we have a strong resistance to seeing problems¾especially if we’ve just spent thousands on the latest workshop designed to fix those problems. We either want to rationalize them, ignore them by focusing on something more “positive”, send them away with the kiss of affirmations or the non-judgement of meditation or see them as aberrations from our normal and decent nature.
But any technique that helps us avoid seeing the problems actually obscures the consciousness that those problems are trying to give us. For example, if I believe deep down that I’m an effective and efficient worker, I’m going to resist any feedback that shows me the contrary. I’ll blame circumstances, or someone else, or I’ll rationalize it as an aberration from my normally effective and efficient nature. And I’ll miss the consciousness that the problem is trying to show me. Maybe I’m not as effective and efficient as I think I am. It would be helpful to see that. And it would be a big mistake to cover that up with an affirmation, or replace the uncomfortable realization with the effort of positive thought.
Anything that leads us away from our problems leads us away from consciousness¾and consciousness is precisely the thing we most need. The challenge is that acceptance of consciousness brings us considerable awareness of our mistakes, our limited thinking and our problems. As Keppe puts it,
We have created tremendous opposition to wisdom and understanding, with the result that human beings and the society they have built have become sick and riddled with flaws because of faults they are unwilling to see. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that pathology¾ illness¾is the attitude of opposing consciousness.1
Because what we don’t become conscious of will rule us, as I discovered with my Radio students back in the ‘80s. What we don’t know will harm us. “The human being is what he doesn’t want to know,”2 to quote Keppe. What we try to hide from, what we try to keep from our awareness, rules us. The more we try to hide problems from ourselves, even with “good” techniques, the more they appear in our lives¾only they’ll be buried so deep we won’t be able to see them anymore. Although we will see the effects in increased obesity, drug and alcohol addiction, life threatening diseases, divorce, pollution, terrorism, and on and on.
Of course, there is a good and true basic internal structure to us. But here’s the thing … we don’t need to spend any time thinking or meditating about that. It can’t be improved, since it’s perfect already. It can’t be added to. It can’t be strengthened. It can only be prevented from appearing. We human beings are experts at that. In fact, it is precisely this tendency to stop our beautiful inner structure from emerging that is our biggest mistake and needs to be seen. This is a deep pathology that we all have to varying degrees. Our myriad and nefarious methods of stopping the emergence of our perfect structure are what need 100% of our attention. Here’s Keppe again:
You can’t do anything with pathology. You can’t solve it. You just need to accept it. And by accepting it, you will of course have a better life, because you will be able to correct lots of things that result from your particular pathology. So what the person has to see is exactly the problems that they have. Because what they have of good inside, they don’t need to see this. The biggest asset the human being can have is to see that which he doesn’t like. The bad things.” 3
That’s an admittedly big challenge. But imagine … self-awareness and fulfillment through focussing on problems and issues and difficulties. It’d make a provocative book idea. As Keppe says:
You don’t need to bolster people, to pump them up, because the ego of the person is already too elevated. He’s already up there, flying around. So the more you put a person on a pedestal, the more you encourage his own deliriums and fantasies.4
We don’t need any more books or techniques leading us away from consciousness, specifically the consciousness of our errors. We need a heavy dose of consciousness. Not consciousness of our angelic, true essence, but consciousness about how we are in reality, in practice. This may be quite different from what we think we are in our fantasies. Isn’t that perfect?
References:
1. The Origin of Illness, Norberto M. Keppe, Proton Editora Ltda. 2000, São Paulo, Brazil
2. The Human Being is What He Doesn’t Want to Know, Norberto R. Keppe, Trilogia Newsletter, January, 2002
3. Interview with Dr. Norberto Keppe, January 13, 2002
4. Ibid
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How is Integral Psychoanalysis...
...Different from traditional types of psychotherapies?
“I have gone through within myself the philosophy of Analytical Trilogy and the method of Integral Psychoanalysis, and I feel great confidence in the veracity of it all. Therefore, I really want to help the message along. It is needed in our time.”
Johan Wretman, psychologist and writer, Tallmogarden,
Stockholm, Sweden
FAQ’s
Q. How is Integral Psychoanalysis different from traditional types of psychotherapies?
A. There are many distinctions. While most traditional psychotherapies look for answers to problems in something that occurred in the past, or in some repressed or primitive drive emanating from the unconscious, or a chemical imbalance in the body or brain, Integral Psychoanalysis proposes something dramatically different: all human problems stem from our inverted desire to destroy or deny goodness, truth and beauty which exist in the inner and outer reality.
Dr. Keppe sees the cause of man’s problems originating from his psychological life and which is the result of his Psychological Inversion. We do this because we operate primarily from strong feelings of envy, which are founded on an inverted sense of values. This is one of the great discoveries of the creator of Integral Psychoanalysis, and it is profoundly different from other psychotherapeutic or philosophical approaches.
Integral Psychoanalysis helps the individual, through the Dialectic Technique of Interiorization, to understand more clearly the feelings, thoughts and actions in his inner self and his life in general and how they adversely affect him. In this way, erroneous thoughts, actions and behaviors can be dealt with in a realistic and practical way.
Q. Isn’t the idea that we need to become conscious of our psychopathology a pessimistic one?
A. In Keppe’s view, the unconscious is not natural, but is created by us when we refuse or deny consciousness. We are not hopeless victims of something that exists outside of ourselves – childhood traumas, family problems, the environment or societal influences – but we are the creators of our own suffering.
The process of becoming conscious of our envy and inversion, which produces untold anguish and suffering in all human beings to a greater or lesser degree, allows us to truly heal, not just band-aid over the problem with more sophisticated masks, behavior strategies and defense mechanisms.
The deep psychological reasons for our attitudes, behaviors and actions cannot be addressed by simply modifying our behavior, adopting more positive thinking or taking medications. Through the correct use of the Will we can personally modify or stop the sabotaging and destructive thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviors. In other words, we are not victims.
Q. How is Integral Psychoanalysis able to help people who have emotional problems?
A. The client is brought to deeply reflect on his own attitudes, actions and behaviors to discover the truth behind his pathology. This is done through the Dialectic Technique of Interiorization, which uses facts, situations and problems in the person’s external reality or life as a mirror to understand more clearly what is going on in his inner psychological life.
Integral Psychoanalysis helps the client to see that everything on the outside happens internally first, and any “bad” or negative problems in his external life reflects something “bad” or negative that he is doing against himself. This highly effective process elicits unedited responses from the patient that reveal his innermost thoughts and feelings. In this way, the inner psychological life of the client can be brought to the patient’s awareness - in Keppe’s words, conscientized. When the problem is conscientized, we become aware of what is really going on inside of us and steps can be taken to address and correct the problem that is causing anguish and distress.
Q. I have a lot of problems and challenges with my family, co-workers and people in general. How could Integral Psychoanalysis help me deal with this?
A. The tendency of all individuals is to see that the cause of their difficult relationships lies in external factors – either in people or the specific situations involved. In most cases, the nucleus of the problem lies where we can never see it: inside of us.
In trying to solve our problems, our initial tendency leads us to destructive “solutions”, such as breaking apart important relationships, changing jobs, cities, houses – or any other external change.
By not taking responsibility for our lives, we stay stuck in our unconscious pathology. The role of Integral Psychoanalysis is to lead us to the realization of how our unconscious destructive attitudes harm us, and how we can correct them.
Q. Can Integral Psychoanalysis help children with emotional problems?
A. Yes, children are extremely responsive to Integral Psychoanalysis. Analysts trained in the method of Integral Psychoanalysis have helped many children who developed pathological behaviors and attitudes at a young age. We strongly advise the parents to also do analysis because when a parent becomes aware of their own problems and difficulties, they are more readily able to help their child.
Q. Can Integral Psychoanalysis help people with organic diseases and illnesses?
A. Dr. Norberto Keppe has specialized in the field of psychosomatic medicine. For thirty years, he worked in the largest hospital in Latin America, the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo, where he founded the Center for Psychosomatic Medicine.
His methodology has proved to be the best psychotherapeutic approach, not only as a preventative treatment but also as a curative one because it brings balance to the psychoneuroimmunological system, reinforcing the natural defenses of the organism.
This methodology achieves surprising results by curing a wide range of illnesses, including autoimmune diseases, viral-related disorders, structural and functional diseases, tumors and allergies, and helps to improve the recovery of all kinds of illnesses.
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segunda-feira, 15 de outubro de 2007
Pod cast of Richard Jones
Ouça o novo pod cast apresentado pelo jornalista e ator canadense, Richard Jones .
Science, philosophy, psychology, quantum physics, religion. There's a lot of great ideas from a lot of heads floating around out there. But how much of it is true? This is a blog and podcast that helps you separate the wheat from the chaff. Based on the landmark work of psychoanalyst and social scientist Dr. Norberto Keppe, Thinking With Somebody Else's Head leads us to question and explain our deep-seated ideas and views of the world.
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Science, philosophy, psychology, quantum physics, religion. There's a lot of great ideas from a lot of heads floating around out there. But how much of it is true? This is a blog and podcast that helps you separate the wheat from the chaff. Based on the landmark work of psychoanalyst and social scientist Dr. Norberto Keppe, Thinking With Somebody Else's Head leads us to question and explain our deep-seated ideas and views of the world.
www.somebodyelseshead.blogspot.com
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sábado, 6 de outubro de 2007
Love and Relationships
Love and Relationships
We spend our entire lives in them, looking for them, or trying
to extricate ourselves from them.Maybe we've read lots about them. Certainly
we've discussed them, agonized over them, rued the day we ever got involved in
them and celebrated them when they're going well.But how much do we really know
about the inner workings of ... our relationships.Today on Thinking with
Somebody Else's Head, Dr. Claudia Pacheco and I will turn a magnifying glass on love and relationships.A popular subject on our Podcast.First, don't forget our free book giveaway. Norberto Keppe, whose scientific philosophy underlies everything we do on this Podcast, has written a number of books that, if understood, would dramatically alter how we see ourselves and the world we live in. Keppe wrote a book about the pathology of power back in the 1980s that is still today the best, most precise and definitive critique of our so-called democracy and inverted economic system you'll ever read.
It's one of the wisest and most pointed books about the
sickness in our political and economic leaders and how this sickness is leading
us to disaster. A must read. And it's free just by e-mailing me at
rich@richjonesvoice.com A number of months ago, I produced a couple of Podcasts with Dr. Claudia Pacheco on love and relationships. A listener recently listened to those, and wrote me a nice e-mail asking me if Claudia could answer some specific questions for her about the subject. Claudia agreed, and so ... here we
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quinta-feira, 4 de outubro de 2007
What is Integral Psychoanalysis?
What is Integral Psychoanalysis(Analytical Trilogy) ?
Integral Psychoanalysis (Analytical Trilogy) is a scientific
theory and methodology developed by psychoanalyst, philosopher and social scientist, Dr. Norberto R. Keppe, which unifies the fields of science, philosophy and spirituality. Keppe has discovered that we must all become aware of the depth and extent of our psychopathology
- a condition that exists in all human beings to one degree or another - if we are to heal our damaged selves and our planet.
Integral Psychoanalysis is different from traditional psychoanalysis or alternative types of psychotherapies.
Why is Integral Psychoanalys different from other psychotherapies?
Traditional psychotherapies see the cause of man’s problems
as organic or societal. In this view, man is seen as a ‘victim’ of things
external to his own choice - things such as chemical imbalances in the brain, lack of affection, family problems, economic difficulties, etc.The Problem
Dr. Keppe is one of the few scientists who sees the cause of man’s
problems originating from the individual’s inner psychological life and which is mostly the result of his Psychological
Inversion. In this view, man is the author of his own illness, not a
victim of things external to him. Keppe defines neurosis as the attitude of denying, omitting or distorting reality which exists within and outside of himself.Psychological Inversion, Universal Envy and Theomania.
Keppe has synthesized Freud’s psychoanalytical methodology, Melanie
Klein’s observations on envy, gratitude and projective identification, Viktor Frankl’s views on existentialism, classical German psychiatric findings on megalomania and arrogance, ancient Greek Metaphysics, and Socratic and Christian dialectics with his own startling discoveries ofunconscious natural impulses and drives that we are not aware of and over which we have no control. Contrary to Freud, Keppe considers that the unconscious exists as the denial of consciousness and proposes that human pathology stems from a psychogenetically deformed structure that can be improved through the energetic influence of conscientization.
Freud believed that the cause of human problems originated inMan’s fundamental problem is the effort he makes to extinguish his own consciousness and his desire to be the ‘creator’ of his own ‘reality’ as a new god (Theomania). Man’s consciousness includes awareness of good and evil, (conscience) and he replaces truth with his fantasies and deliriums. In the act of rejection or denial of consciousness, man falls out of alignment with his true essence and sickness ultimately ensues. Envy brings alienation and an inverted perception of reality - good is bad and evil is good; reality is bad and fantasies are good, etc. This leads human beings to ‘choose’ sickness instead of sanity.
The Solution
In over thirty years of scientific research and clinical practice, Dr. Keppe has provided a solution for the root cause of mankind’s problems - our distortion, rejection and omission of the truth of ourselves.
Consciousness has a healing energetic power and it is only through conscientization of our psychopathology that the human being can gradually return to his natural condition of beauty, truth and goodness - return to his loving feelings, the right use of reason and the ability to contribute to a society based on true health, development and progress. Psychotherapy must therefore work with the patient’s censorship and with increasing the tolerance of consciousness of Envy, Theomania and pathology in general.
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