Here is another section that I found interesting….from "Thou Shalt Not Be Aware" by Alice Miller.
"In "The Aetiology of Hysteria" Freud is struggling with this resistance on the part of the public. He knows that he has hit upon a truth that concerns everyone, i.e., the consequences of childhood trauma for later life (which is not to be equated with causal determinism), and at the same time he knows that the overwhelming majority of people will oppose him precisely because he is telling the truth."
" The content of Freud's discoveries can be so widely denied because most people ignore their unconscious, all the more so if they are dominated by it in some fateful way. After all, we all have a per-feet right to consider our dreams insignificant and to dey the existence of our unconscious. This gives rise to the paradoxical situation in which the newspaper readers described above can react to even the most bizarre human behavior without amazement and are willing to accept the most absurd reasans given for this behavior without any sign of emotion as long as they personally are left out of the picture. Yet they will react with anger, scorn if someone points out the unconscious motives for the incomprehensible behavior, for if they took these explanations seriously, the complicated defense mechanisms so essential to them would be threatened." Alice.
The truth being so widely denied comes from the unconsciousness that people ignore. And, it is the unconscious of the unconscious that is threatened.
I know this is confusing, but it is equally frustrating to be faced with. That it isn't my truth that is hard to face, but your unconsciousness you are not aware of and at the same time IT is from where you are making your choices in life.
It is not about what I am saying so much as what you are defending.
Which boils down to you are defending that which is unconscious to you.
And, it has nothing to do with me and my truths, so much as it has to do with what you are unaware of, but are defending.
As long as I didn't come near your personal unconsciousness I can be heard...and understood, but if I am hitting too close to home, I will be shut out and disbelieved.
This is true in my experience. The truth of what I have to say isn't what pushes people back, but their fear to see that which is unconsious to them...the unknown known that is reflected in their lives.
What I have come to see is that even if you can't know...and are unconscious of, your life is reflective of this unconsciousness. For it is the unconscious that is living you life.
It can't be any plainer for you are living the unconsciousness...while unaware of the why.
When you find the why, you can start living consciously.
Again, in my experience it was plainly clear that I didn't know what I didn't know...otherwise, I would have been making clearer decisions.
I would not have been with my abusers, had I known.
And, once you know, you can't not know.
I am not popular in my speaking, not for what I am saying; but rather for where the others are in their level of consciousness.
It isn't so much about the truth...but what lies unconscious with in you.
It is my passion and my desire to find all morsels of unconsciousness for I know the damage they can cause, when unaware.
