This seems like a lot of mental gyration to me.
They could mention Hubbard or some other more modern workers, like Ian Stevenson’s team at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. But they don’t.
No one has made it because they refuse to take this “fringe” work seriously. They won’t look at the most obvious evidence for what it really shows. It’s a shame.
From my point of view, these people don’t know what they are talking about.
Childhood “adversity” (torture, etc.) triggers responses that are considered to be psychiatric disorders. But that bad treatment, as evil as it might be, does not cause these responses. The responses are chosen unconsciously from a repertoire that we all carry with us based on deep layers of past experience.
It would be great if more children could be raised totally humanely. But even then, shit does happen. True “resilience” comes from straightening out the distant past experiences so that they can no longer be triggered by something terrible that happens in this life.
Good luck making children’s lives better. I’m all for it, and it would help. But it won’t eliminate what we call “mental illness.” People who have good childhoods go bad, too. Just less often.
This seems like a lot of mental gyration to me.
They could mention Hubbard or some other more modern workers, like Ian Stevenson’s team at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. But they don’t.
No one has made it because they refuse to take this “fringe” work seriously. They won’t look at the most obvious evidence for what it really shows. It’s a shame.
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From my point of view, these people don’t know what they are talking about.
Childhood “adversity” (torture, etc.) triggers responses that are considered to be psychiatric disorders. But that bad treatment, as evil as it might be, does not cause these responses. The responses are chosen unconsciously from a repertoire that we all carry with us based on deep layers of past experience.
It would be great if more children could be raised totally humanely. But even then, shit does happen. True “resilience” comes from straightening out the distant past experiences so that they can no longer be triggered by something terrible that happens in this life.
Good luck making children’s lives better. I’m all for it, and it would help. But it won’t eliminate what we call “mental illness.” People who have good childhoods go bad, too. Just less often.
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