Greg.See-Kee@p0.f404.n714.z3.fidonet.org (Greg See-Kee) (02/28/90)
Index Number: 6987
V*> talking about labels that hurt, devide, emphasize
negatives, then
V*> I am dead against your position and contention concerning
the
V*> lack of importance of terminology and behaviour. I think
you are
V*> very wrong.
Some of the "New Age" practitioners say:
"Who is HURT? Who causes the HURT?
If it's not them, then it must be YOU!!"
The flaw in this "New Age" BLAMING either of two causes, they are
ignoring a third cause: the existence of Social Psychology,
Sociology and Politics.
(all very new Sciences - see my discussions in the Fidonet
Science conference).
I think New Age people are SOCIO-ILLITERATE.
As well, many political activists are PSYCHO-ILLITERATE, and
many drug-prescribers are SOMATO-ILLITERATE.
But returning to the topic:
HURT & BLAME
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Most of us are SOCIO-LITERATE. We can "read" (sense &
understand) our social environments.
For instance, most women in Australian cities are
socio-literate enough to know that if they walk the
city-streets alone at night, they will probably attract abuse
and unwanted attention (verbal or physical).
So the experience of HURT is not necessarily in YOU nor ME. It
could also be in our ENVIRONMENT.
Because we have intelligence, we can sense and understand
ENVIRONMENTAL HURT before it happens, and during and after it
ever happens.
This kind of INTELLECTUAL HURT is not caused by you nor me.
Because we have intellectual structures around us, it is those
intellectual structures that do the hurting sensation for us.
For example, remember how it hurt when you last fell down. Now
do you fell hurt if I am about to make you fall down again.
This Intellectual Hurt uses SOFTWARE devices which have a
parallel existence with actual HARDWARE devices.
The Intellectual Environment is the "software" representation of
the real hardware environment.
We imagine/ remember the incident. We hurt from the incident.
If and when it happens to the us physically, we also hurt from
the incident.
Somehow, Albert Ellis described it when he invented
"RATIONAL-EMOTIVE THERAPY" [many books of the same or similar
names].
Treatment for INTELLECTUAL HURT should not just be that used by
the New Age people. Rather than ignoring the Intellectual
Environment by just blaming YOU or ME, we can treat this
"software" representations of the real hardware environment.
There are several ways. Rational Emotive is just one way. If
you are interested further, please respond with your opinions,
experiences, arguements, etc.
Closely linked with the treatment of HURT, is my study of the
GRIEF/ BEREAVEMENT.
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