This hatred won't go away or can't be excised because it stems from a wound, that needs healing at its source and requires intergration emotionaly, pyschically and socially. We can't repress it or suppress it but must attend to what is at the bottom of it and is calling out to be asked what it wants, like the Jungian Shadow for example.
We need a psychological approach to what the whole person requires that can be scaled up to find how the social world works or doesn't based on how the integrated person is able to function in his or her world. Along the lines of what Rudolph Steiner had in mind with Waldorf educational principlesmodels.
Healing society is based on wholistically bringing up the children. It may be treacherous at best to endeavor now but all the tools are here. Especially nocturnal dreamwork, that can help give our daylight issues a psychical perspective so our approach is not onesided when assessing the socio-political problems at hand, and instead can see our issues with a polycentric coherent complexity that can register clarity in the situation and in consequence enable an optimism based on a rigorous multidisciplinary hermaneutics.
I agree in spirit. Ruby Sales spoke of the need for a “liberating white theology.” There is an impoverishment at both material and soul level, with intergenerational wounds that need healing.
We are however, talking about healing several hundred years of physical and psychic violence. The healing will not be quick and while we work towards it, we must also rigorously counter hatred and violence being enacted now.
Also The Road to Somewhere, which I know you know about, is a rough draft attempt to frame the problem of our contemporary malaise, especially in Britian. Kingsnorth's Against the Machince is doing the same, globally.
This hatred won't go away or can't be excised because it stems from a wound, that needs healing at its source and requires intergration emotionaly, pyschically and socially. We can't repress it or suppress it but must attend to what is at the bottom of it and is calling out to be asked what it wants, like the Jungian Shadow for example.
We need a psychological approach to what the whole person requires that can be scaled up to find how the social world works or doesn't based on how the integrated person is able to function in his or her world. Along the lines of what Rudolph Steiner had in mind with Waldorf educational principlesmodels.
Healing society is based on wholistically bringing up the children. It may be treacherous at best to endeavor now but all the tools are here. Especially nocturnal dreamwork, that can help give our daylight issues a psychical perspective so our approach is not onesided when assessing the socio-political problems at hand, and instead can see our issues with a polycentric coherent complexity that can register clarity in the situation and in consequence enable an optimism based on a rigorous multidisciplinary hermaneutics.
Thanks as always for your thoughtful comment.
I agree in spirit. Ruby Sales spoke of the need for a “liberating white theology.” There is an impoverishment at both material and soul level, with intergenerational wounds that need healing.
We are however, talking about healing several hundred years of physical and psychic violence. The healing will not be quick and while we work towards it, we must also rigorously counter hatred and violence being enacted now.
Also The Road to Somewhere, which I know you know about, is a rough draft attempt to frame the problem of our contemporary malaise, especially in Britian. Kingsnorth's Against the Machince is doing the same, globally.