“total emancipation from our former nightmare”
Victims feel powerless, pessimistic, despairing, and negative—all afflictive emotions in Paradigm-B. “The energy for the victim-centered melodrama comes from the sensation energy center and consumes our natural joy like a psychological cancer. We identify with being a victim which frustrates our realizing our true identity which in turn drives our self-destructive behaviors.”[i]
“We can count on our own mind and the minds of others to aid and abet our self-destructive, victim tendencies [in P-B] because, after all, we are all engaged in the victim-centered narrative with victim identities.”[ii]
A worldview of duality (P-B) creates victims. For example: “Each side of the conflict, says Israeli psychiatrist Yitzhak Mendelsohn, sees itself as a victim of history struggling to survive in a hostile world, with the other side as the ultimate threat to its existence. … ‘People get hooked into a potent resentment that primes them for revenge and escalation [reaction]. Hate becomes a way to create the illusion of power.’ The task of reconciliation, he believes, is to break down the ‘symbolic scars that bind people to the group’ and offer ‘some larger sense of we’ [Oneness] to replace the victim identity.”[iii]
Insight # 89 comes to us from Roy Charles Henry (b. 1938). He is the creator of The Simple Reality Project.
“A victim consciousness can be effectively combated by the Point of Power Practice and left behind in P-B as we attain the power of Self-Reliance and total emancipation from our former nightmare and the helpless and hapless false self.”[iv]
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Additional Reading:
- Victimology, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 2
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[i] Henry, Roy Charles. “Victimology.” The ABC’s Of Simple Reality, Vol 2. May 2018, p. 329.
[ii] Ibid., p. 330.
[iii] Barasch, Marc Ian. “You Are Not My Enemy.” Shift to the Frontiers of Consciousness. Institute of Noetic Sciences: Petaluma, California, June-August 2005, p. 27.
[iv] Henry, op. cit., p. 331.
