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Mary Maddox,- Mind Freedom – Ireland

This picture was taken with my friend, Helena who publicly stated herself that she was lost to psychiatry. She was forcefully, chemically lobotomized. She spoke out against psychiatry whenever she got the opportunity. As punishment, she would receive more tortuous drugs. She was sectioned over 60 times and spent most of the last years of her life as a psychiatric prisoner. She inspired us to found MindFreedom Ireland.

She continues to inspire us to this day!

On the tyranny of goodwill Why we call ourselves psychiatric survivors

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Monopolized Property – John Adams

In 1776, America’s top household owned less than 1,000x the national median household net worth. By 1950, that figure increased to around 40,000x. Today, it exceeds 2,000,000x. Since World War II, over $30 trillion has been diverted from labor to capital relative to the 1947 labor share run-rate. The richest 1% is wealthier than the entire middle class. Such extreme wealth concentration subsists at the expense of ordinary workers: After 50 years of stagnation, wages fast fall behind living expenses. The median bank account balance is $5,000. Most Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and have under $1,000 in savings.

This rising financial insecurity of ordinary households, united with their growing awareness that the economy is corrupt and the government is inept, creates America’s greatest political challenges: The middle class declines. Upward mobility dwindles. Pessimism intensifies. Political faction escalates. Elections lose credibility. The people turn against capitalism. Socialism gains appeal. Violence looms. Crime festers. Mob rule and demagogues and authoritarianism come to destroy democracy, just as the Ancients experienced, and the Founders warned, in each case anticipating an authoritarian political trajectory for America’s future.

This political trajectory generally agrees with ancient Greek historiography on regime change (e.g. ἀνακύκλωσις) (see, e.g., Herodotus (III. 80), Thucydides (VIII. 97), Plato (Rep. VIII. 544 C) (Laws, III. 677 A), Aristotle (Pol. VI. 1293b), Polybius (Hist. VI), Dionysius (Rom. Ant. VII, 54-56)), and shares fundamental uniformities with the evolution of its nearest historical approximation: the Roman Republic (commencing with Tiberius Gracchus and ending with Caesar Augustus, c. 133BC-27BC).

The full weight of history therefore issues this warning: Without a significant and historically-informed intervention to appropriately de-concentrate household wealth, thereby de-polarizing political society and recovering a middling, moderate political disposition, the long-term survival of legitimate popular government in the United States is thus both theoretically and historically improbable.

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The Collective Unconscious Part 1

𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗢𝗡𝗘: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗲; 𝘇𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀; 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 (𝗽𝗴. 𝟭)

The collective unconscious is composed of awareized (i.e., conscious) energy as thoughtforms.

In T̲h̲e̲ ̲I̲n̲d̲i̲v̲i̲d̲u̲a̲l̲ ̲a̲n̲d̲ ̲T̲h̲e̲ ̲N̲a̲t̲u̲r̲e̲ ̲o̲f̲ ̲M̲a̲s̲s̲ ̲E̲v̲e̲n̲t̲s̲ by Jane Roberts, as she channels for the “energy personality” called Seth, his description of Jung and Freud’s collective unconscious is Framework 2. “Framework 1 is simply a term representing the everyday, linear, conscious ‘working reality’ we take for granted, the one in which ‘time’ and events automatically unfold in moment after undeniable moment.” ¹
“Framework 2 is the psychological medium in which the consciousness of the world exists,” Seth explains. Continuing, he states, “The individuals who have to one extent or another perceived Framework 2 have, then, described it according to their own beliefs, taking it for granted ‘that the part was a representative sample of the whole.’ Plato conceived [of] it as the world of ideals, seeing within it the perfect model behind each imperfect physical phenomenon.”²

Referring again to our conscious mind’s reality, Seth adds, “Your world is populated by individuals concentrating upon physical activities [i.e., Framework 1], dealing with events that are ‘finished products’ – at least in usual terms.”³ In other words, the probable versions of a particular activity would be actualized in other branches of reality, according to the Many Worlds Theory of quantum mechanics. In 1957, a Princeton physics student, Hugh Everett, invented a solution to the notorious quantum measurement problem. He called it the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics, because each time that a decision is made to collapse the sine wave, so that a probability became an actuality (i.e. each conscious interval in which we perceive alleged “solid” objects) then whatever other probabilities aren’t actualized in parallel universes with 10¹⁰⁰ possibilities constantly splitting off into further possibilities. “Your inner egos populate Framework 2, and deal with the actual creation of those events that are then objectified.⁴