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Thanks Kate.
It is always very scary that the group mind - the egregore - can be so easily manipulated to direct and focus it as desired. This was one of the great powers Hitler had at his command -- and the result was catastrophic as we know.
To my mind anything that is radical/fanatical is unstable and unbalanced and therefore very easy to manipulate.
Stay away from group minds I say.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
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David Guyatt Wrote:Thanks Kate.
It is always very scary that the group mind - the egregore - can be so easily manipulated to direct and focus it as desired. This was one of the great powers Hitler had at his command -- and the result was catastrophic as we know.
To my mind anything that is radical/fanatical is unstable and unbalanced and therefore very easy to manipulate.
Stay away from group minds I say.
Example: Have you ever attended a sporting event where tempers flared between players and flowed over to the fans? Some have been quite savage and even fatal. These fans were normal, sane everyday people on their own until they became a mob. Their behavior no longer reflected their own natural state but became part of the larger 'mob rules' mind. I have even witnessed this at childrens events.
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Exactly.
Also one can experience such things at pop concerts and at religious revival festivals when euphoria is summoned. And very few are immune to it once it sweeps over them as it goes far deeper than the rational mind can fathom.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
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I thought I had posted -- it must have been in another thread, or on another web site -- the curious text drawn from "Gentleman Spy" which discussed "The Protocols", how they came to be present in and around the end of the First World War, how they came to the attention of an individual in his very first Foreign Service posting in support of the American presence at Versailles, how this diplomat -- brother of another diplomat, and otherwise well-conencted -- came to encounter the document again when, after a vacation and his wedding, he was re-assigned to Istanbul, he became convinced that "The Protocols" were a hoax, and how he got that story posted in both the prominent British publication of the day, as well as The New York Times (in between handling visas and other functions). The "gentleman spy" was Allen Dulles. It appears from here to be his first major task in myth-making and the use of mockingbirds in the press.
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