VIOLENT/NOT EVIL?

Invitation to a Meeting

There will be a live online meeting at this time (8 am UK) tomorrow (Saturday). All paid subscribers are invited.

I have two subjects in mind. One is the trauma-based mind as a foreign-entity infestation: how to live with it, how to live without it.

The other subject is related, and it is the problem of how to be a natural (Christ-ian) human who can love one’s neighbors, without trying to disown or deny that we have also an animalistic survival instinct that includes a natural, and even necessary, propensity to be violent when circumstances require it.

To be VIOLENT = NOT EVIL?

In Girardian terms, the problem is not violence but scapegoating, which is to say, dishonest forms of violence fueled by traumatic imprints (a.k.a. demons) of hostility, rage, resentment, and pride.

If Jesus was violent in the Temple, can outbreaks of force be a natural expression of the soul when something innocent or pure is in need of protecting? This is an unavoidable conclusion for any human being, including a …