Truth vs. Falsehood by Hawkins David R

Author:Hawkins, David R. [Hawkins, David R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: book, ebook
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2013-08-23T14:00:00+00:00

Self-respect stems from self-honesty and allows for the dropping of cantankerous, contentious defensiveness and the “chip on the shoulder” attitude of ego inflation, with its focus on unrealistic expectations. In a normal childhood, the give-and-take of teasing and kidding helps the maturation process that diminishes over-sensitivity and feelings of being slighted when the ego has not been catered to. Children call each other “dumb” but learn to get over it instead of being neurotically, reactively defensive.

The secret of success is that it is quite simple to change others merely by changing oneself. Is New York City a cold, rude, callous place or friendly and polite? It all depends not on how New Yorkers are at all but on who we ourselves are. A very evolved person considers New York City a friendly, almost home-town-like place. An immature person sees it as cold and rejecting because the world mirrors the reflection of one’s own projected perceptions.

Success is the automatic byproduct of constructive attitudes and simple, common-sense basics, as were described by Jack Canfield in The Success Principles (2004). The process is not arduous but very enjoyable and self-rewarding. Success is the consequence of rather simple principles.

The development of higher mind is strongly supported by early-life exposure to aesthetics, especially classical music, the arts, ballet, and nature, as well as religious upbringing (even if it is rejected in later life), all of which have a positive influence on developing interconnected energy patterns and neuronal configurations in the physical brain itself.

Freedom and the Ego

The basis of war, crime, and all social conflict, including genocide, is diagnosed as originating from the core of the ego itself, specifically the infantile ego, with its impatient wants, loud protests, and unrealistic expectations. With maturation, the grandiosity of the ego (‘unruly ox’ of the Zen ox-herding pictures) becomes quieter, tamer, and easier to ride. The evolution of psychological consciousness occurs by several different mechanisms, as shown below.

1. Repression: The primitive drives are repressed, subsequently denied, and then projected onto others (social paranoia).

2. Surrender and Sublimation: With good parenting, narcissistic primitive drives are given up in return for a better gain, such as love, acceptance, and identification with supportive parents and authority figures.

3. Compliance: This is a way of avoiding maturation and represents the continuance of primitiveness because egocentricity is only suppressed, and the omnipotence/grandiosity of the inner narcissistic ‘king baby’ attitude persists. This results in seeing all thwarting of inner wants as arbitrary, hateful authoritarianism, which results in resentment, rebellion, defiance, and persistent immaturity. This duality also leads to serious distortions of reality, such as splitting events into the perpetrator/victim model that is then projected onto society with extremely dire consequences. It is this split in the narcissistic ego that has cost the lives of over one hundred million people in the last century.

Thus, the failure of maturation leads to pathologic personality disorders, including criminality, chronic political dissidence, and the egomania of the grandiose tyrants and dictators who kill not only their countrymen but even their own family members.

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