We Are Still Barely Conscious Of How

The Abused Child Goes On Living Within Those Who Have Survived Such Torture, A Torture That Ended With Total Repression. They Live With The Darkness Of Fear, Oppression, And Threats. When All Its Attempts To Move The Adult To Heed Its Story Have Failed, It Resorts To The Language Of Symptoms To Make Itself Heard. Enter Addiction, Psychosis, Criminality.

Don't Ever Dare To Take Your College As A Matter Of Course - Because, Like Democracy And Freedom, Many People You'll Never Know Have Broken Their Hearts To Get It For You.

Ultimately The Body Will Rebel. Even If It Can Be Temporarily Pacified With The Help Of Drugs, Cigarettes Or Medicine, It Usually Has The Last Word Because It Is Quicker To See Through Self-deception Than The Mind. We May Ignore Or Deride The Messages Of The Body, But Its Rebellion Demands To Be Heeded Because Its Language Is The Authentic Expression Of Our True Selves And Of The Strength Of Our Vitality.

In The Short Term, Corporal Punishment May Produce Obedience. But It Is A Fact Documented By Research That In The Long Term The Results Are Inability To Learn, Violence And Rage, Bullying, Cruelty, Inability To Feel Another's Pain, Especially That Of One's Own Children, Even Drug Addiction And Suicide, Unless There Are Enlightened Or At Least Helping Witnesses On Hand To Prevent That Development.

For The Human Soul Is Virtually Indestructible, And Its Ability To Rise From The Ashes Remains As Long As The Body Draws Breath.