Written by Mathew
Naismith
Most often our past
determines our future and most often our past, especially when related to
trauma in some way, to something we desire to stay unaware of, isn't something
we desire to be self-honest with. So what do we do? We only live within the
present while saying the past and future are irrelevant or an illusion. This
is while time is the predominant influence in our everyday life at present!!
See how dishonest we can be to ourselves? Time of course represents a past,
present and future, a state of union instead of separation, especially the
separation of one energy source from another to escape facing our traumas
personally and collectively.
It is common practice
for a consciousness in trauma, either personally or collectively, to use every
means possible to escape facing trauma. Of course to do this, we must turn away
from being of self-honesty and become dishonest with ourselves, and of course
everybody else.
Extract: Throughout history, deception has been an effective
survival strategy. Yet, like all primitive survival strategies, when deception
becomes habitual and is not directly about survival, it prevents us from
continuing growth. For each of us, to the degree that we are not real with
ourselves or that we withhold important truths from others, we just cannot keep
evolving.
I
wrote the following reply to a query in relation to my last post,
"Assisting a Consciousness in Trauma".
Basically, what you
are doing is guiding them instead of pushing them towards a goal.
My father was
trained to do this as a foreman. I tend to do this myself, my downfall is I
also express self-honesty, it is funny how this psychologically freaks people
out. Actually, when it does freak people out, their reactions tell me a lot
about them. It is not that people react, it is how they react and what they
react to.
Our consciousness
collectively isn't conditioned to being self-honest. How many of us don't look
at what our own country/culture has done and is doing to others in the world,
but we will point the finger at other cultures. Bringing a person out of the
affects of trauma takes one to become gradually self-honest, not an easy thing
to face, especially when we are conditioned to be self-dishonest with
ourselves.
I have someone at
present under my wing that is not good physically and mentally, the fits,
blackouts and the scaring to the brain certainly don't help. I am slowly
coaxing (guiding) them to be self-honest without causing more anxiety attacks.
This has done it, I
am going to right up something about self-honesty.
Spiritually, how dare I
turn to science and psychology for the answers, this is while our minds are
predominantly influenced psychology. On the other hand, how dare I turn to
spirituality for the answers, even though science has proven a number of
spiritual practices to be highly beneficial to us!! From atheism/materialism to
spirituality/religion, dishonesty predominantly influences our lives, this is
instead of self-honesty.
The article I have
inserted is worth reading through, but only if you are a self-honest
atheist/materialist or spiritual/religious, etc, person. If you are not into
self-honesty, the article supplied will only represent a threat to your psyche
and be promptly denounced in some way. Yes, by all means go into protective
state of mind but do this honestly. All that dishonesty will create, either
personally or collectively, is more of the same trauma, if not to you someone
else.
Yes, I can get into a
conscious state of timelessness, where there is no past or future, only the
present moment, a state perceived by my ego to be of utter bliss. At
no time is this separate to time where a past and future exist. Of course when
a consciousness experiences time, a past and future, trauma is sure to exist as
time is of cycles and endless changes. Spirituality is about how you cope with
the associated trauma in relation to time, not how you try to escape from time
and times association with trauma. I could not think of a higher level of fear
and self-deceptiveness, which spiritually is suppose to be not about,
or am I simply being naive here?
A number of people
might relate better to the following article.
Extract: The topic of brutal self-honesty is consciously looked
upon as worthy of pursuing but the majority of people don’t have the emotional
maturity to follow through with such a concept.
Brutal self-honesty requires hard,
emotional labor. It requires the individual to engage with the following:
Ego Dissolution
The ego wants you to stay
unconscious. It doesn’t want you to be brutally honest with yourself because
that means that the ego must change and change is not what it wants —comfort
is what the ego wants.
