Most of us are ruled by trauma—not truth.

Most of us are ruled by trauma—not truth. We are the norm. We remain unconscious of the legacy of dissociation that we carry from our families and ancestors. We are destructive towards ourselves, others, and our planet home. In essence, we are wounded children, seeking to exploit others and the world in order to make up for the deficits of our childhood. We are rapacious and violent—which are expressions of our childhood neglect. We befoul society with impunity. We are not sustainable. We mindlessly procreate, using our own children as a diverting dissociation from the traumas we carry but deny. We hope our children will fulfil our own thwarted dreams, and when this doesn’t happen our children receive our rage. Sadly, this is child abuse and creates yet another generation of troubled people on an already crowded planet. As we continue to lead unconscious lives, we exploit natural and human resources to a breaking point, such that our extinction looms.

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