(August 11, 2014 at 12:13 am)Esquilax Wrote: Again, the process failed for me. It failed for everyone else in this thread.Actually, I never even tried it!
I saw right through the psych therapy non-sense and dismissed it entirely.
"Assume there is a god" -> "search that god" -> "if you can't find it, you need to tweak your concept of god" -> "assume this god exists" -> "search that god" -> (repeat ad nauseum)
There's a funny thing about human psychology that politicians discovered a long time ago:
The BIG LIE
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" often attributed to Joseph Goebbels, but it's not really his.
There's something similar in Hitler's Mein Kampf, about what he claimed to be a strategem of Jewish lies using "the principle & which is quite true in itself & that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily,"
Now the creepy part, this also applies to the self!
"If you tell a lie enough times, it becomes the truth"
Many a trauma arise from such behavior.