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Robert is the author of the Joyously inspirational book
The Dance of Wounded Souls
Attack on America - A Call for Higher Consciousness
We are at war with ourselves because we are judging and shaming ourselves for being human. We are at war with ourselves because we are carrying around suppressed grief energy that we are terrified of feeling. We are at war within because we are "damming" our own emotional process - because we were forced to become emotionally dishonest as children and had to learn ways to block and distort our emotional energy.
We cannot learn to Love ourselves and be at peace
within until we stop judging and shaming ourselves for being human and
stop fighting our own emotional process, until we stop waging war on ourselves.
(Text in this color are quotes from Codependence:
The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney)
. . . . . . . We are at war within our self because we have been unable to heal the emotional traumas we suffered in childhood - and we were programmed to define and interpret life out of a polarized intellectual paradigm that caused us to judge and shame ourselves for being human. We were also taught to look outside for our definition and worth - to look outside for something/someone to fix us/affirm our worth, or to blame for our internal suffering. We project the war within us externally in our attempts to overcome the incredible pain and shame we feel at the core of our being.
Osama bin Laden was emotionally traumatized in childhood by being the youngest child in a huge family - the only child of the fifth wife, the only one whose mother was Syrian instead of Saudi. The environment he was raised in was very privileged and extremely wealthy - and included a codependent disdain for the lower classes, the masses. He revolted against his family by aligning himself with the lower classes and adapted a religious fanaticism that made him feel superior and worthy - he is right and they are wrong. He now uses the lower classes as tools in his sick game of ego and power. His disdain for "common" people allows him to murder his own people by using them as tools to murder his enemies.
George W. Bush grew up in an emotional wasteland that was also very privileged and wealthy. He was taught to define himself according to the codependent paternalistic attitude that is the modern day version of the Divine Right of Kings. His family was also part of the ruling class - the class of elite robber barons who have held the real power in the United States for well over 100 years. He rebelled against his family also - drinking, using drugs and blowing off his education. His paternalistic views of the common people allow him to send poor prisoners to death without a qualm - and to keep impersonally bombing innocent civilians as part of his noble self image. (To actually fight the war where it needs to be fought to accomplish the stated goals - on the ground, face to face, up close and personal - would result in a lot of casualties and would erode his support and affect his ratings in the poll. That in turn would hurt his chances to take advantage of the present situation by pushing through legislation like the sweeping anti-terrorist bill and the pro-energy legislation that will allow further rape of the environment.)
Osama bin Laden turned down his families offer of 20 billion dollars
to return home and give up this silly religious stuff. George W.
Bush accepted his families offer to return to the fold. And the rest
of us are being affected by their role playing, their crusades to prove
to themselves that they are worthy and deserving of respect.
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