Copyright (c) 2010 Dave Smart
My usual response to television commercials is either to walk away and do housework whilst they run, or verify out what is on one more channel. But each now and then one truly hits me, not necessarily to buy the item or service advertised, but more likely the psychological effect, one possibly not intended by its creators. A couple of commercials have hit me not too long ago.
In one particular, designed by an animal advocacy group, the plight of dogs trained for (illegal in this nation) dogfights, was illustrated. "Dogs forced to fight by their owners" it said, and beyond what they showed I could see the horror: weary, injured and exhausted dogs no longer wishing to continue the fight, but being forced by their handlers to do so until the other dog was killed - or he was killed himself. What struck me was: what a horrible way for any creature, human or animal, to live - or die. Has such circumstance ever occurred to humans? We know from background that it has. The gladiators of Roman days had to fight to the death in the arenas, to please the crowds, who had been manipulated into a frenzy to demand blood. And not just the Romans. A Chinese poem says:
Minister of war, We are the kings claws and teeth. Why ought to you roll us from misery to misery, Giving us no place to come to and keep?
Indeed, in our day, the occultocracy, which is what we call the intelligence community of United States, Israel, UK and other nations' intelligence services in their effect upon our lives, understands all too properly that 'intelligence' means 'information about the enemy'. So what occurs if there is peace, and for that reason no enemy? The intelligence community ought to guarantee, or try to guarantee, that it does not come to that. I believe of a STAR TREK episode where two protagonists at war on a planet, were identified by the Star Trek crew to be victims of the culture from another planet that was secretly exacerbating their conflict, manipulating it to continue by balancing their forces, so that it would remain a continuing stalemate, and in some way harvesting their emotions of conflict and hatred. The present planet circumstance has alarming parallels.
The television commercial about the dogs is thus a paradigm of a continuing scenario among humans as properly as animals. It is a waking dream - or more aptly, a waking nightmare.
In the other tv commercial, developed by an insurance coverage business, there had been a series of scenes of someone getting a 'good Samaritan' to a stranger: retrieving a lost toy, giving a cup of coffee to a person who had none, pushing a person out of the way of a falling box, and so on. But in each and every scene there was a witness, who in the succeeding scene would himself be a excellent Samaritan. The message, possibly unintended by the creators, was of karma, but of good karma: the power of great Samaritanism can be like a living, expanding issue. It is an additional waking dream.
A planet of waking dreams is the essence of the philosophy Santayanism, which is the development of the tips of philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952), who saw both historical events and individual events in every single person's life as the re-enactment of legends from the a variety of mythologies of cultures about the planet. Mythologies are not only ancient, but modern day and contemporary. They are reflected in movies, Tv episodes supermarket paperbacks, particularly science fiction and yes, even tv commercials.
Jungian psychology and philosophy is closely associated to Santayanism. A fundamental tenet of it is: you create your personal reality. But, you do so by deciding on what legends to re-enact. If you do not decide on them at some level, conscious or otherwise, they will choose you.
But how do I go about making my personal reality?
You begin by identifying the recurring patterns in your life: those items that seem to "usually happen to me". You can sit on your pants and whine "why does this often happen to me?", or you can recognize that at some level you have chosen particular myths - or allowed them to decide on you. Your list of patterns become your catalog of myths and, as soon as you have identified them, there will be those you like and these you don't.
But before you start throwing overboard those that you do not like, bear in mind: they are a aspect of you. They are there to teach you some thing, and the lesson may possibly not be really more than. In dream work it is recognized that anything that happens in a dream, from its opening sequence to the point where you wake up from it, is meant to occur. So it is with a waking dream. But what you can do is, generate a picture of your Future Self and in that, what legends you would re-enact in some form appropriate to today's globe. In the re-enactment, the technological innovation and language would be today's, but the power, the ways of performing items and the spirit of them, would be as in the ancient legends.
Dave Intelligent, the lead coach of Self Integration Coaching, has had extensive education and knowledge in co-active coaching, and Jungian psychology. He aids clients define and live up to their Big Agenda, realizing properly that if they do not, agendas have a way of imposing themselves upon them. If you uncover your self the victim of recurring patterns of circumstance, coaching is for you. Verify out SIC's web site: http://www.selfintegrationcoach.com .
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