The aggressor's pleasure comes from observing, or "witnessing" his target and his enablers, fulfilling his prophecy (WOW! e.s.p.) of destructive power which is now coming true in concrete reality. He was told in his training, “Ability means power.” He observes his target's fear when unable to escape his maze-like psychological trap all the while under constant group pressure to give up, and accept fate, preferably without complaint or resistance.
The more the target struggles for self control, the more certain the group becomes of the suggested madness of the target. After all, THEY don't see anything wrong. Why would they when they are not operating from the same premise, or the same starting point as the target and her protagonist, who performed the ‘set up’, and the planned ‘win,’ right from the start? Soon, they all join in looking for signs and symbols of madness everywhere EXCEPT in the aggressor and the group.
What the aggressor is doing is not reasonable; it is evil but the group is well trained to hear that judgement as another "sign" of the target's "madness."
(They "think" they see "evil.")
Remember the demo inside the training? The trainers confront the trainees on the stage (of life) and then act out their roles as victims and aggressors as opposing points of view. The aggressors threaten, frighten and intimidate their virtually captive audience of trainees. The trainers are in control; ‘total control.’ After taking turns in these roles, the trainees are asked by their trainers, “Who would you rather be with?
The leader who wrote this training programme is known to have blamed the Jews for the Nazi attack. He is now ‘Werner/Jack’ by identity, and he is the one who is ‘on top’ at the apex of his pyramid of power; the only spot where the ‘two sides’ meet as ‘one.’ However, he calls himself by the German name he gave to himself doesn’t he? To quote him, ‘It is about domination.’
Did he ‘cross the line' he set for himself?
Did he choose to be on the ‘other’ side?
Did he pick ‘power over enlightenment?
Did he pick both, in his own kind of way, with power dominating as his own personal ‘final solution’?
Is the changing of his own name from Rosenberg to Erhard an indication of just that?
Does he believe that doing so is transcendent?
Does he blame his own Jewish victim side?
Do you suppose the leader’s belief that there is no right or wrong and that life is really meaningless opened HIM up to such limitless possibilities?
If he believes that is true as an abstraction in absolute terms, then why would he feel the need to keep any opposing views suppressed?
Would that not be giving the meaningless, meaning?
How can others successfully follow his leadership from this new existential starting point of ‘meaninglessness’ to recreate reality in each one’s own terms, without imposed limits, if he gives what they decide to add to the generic abstraction his own meaning, rather then accepting that they are creating meaning of their own?
Does the imposition of his own values not then mean he contradicts his own teaching?
Does the “Jack side try to shock mental illness professionals into ‘realizing their own experience’ in this?
Does the Werner side mock them for their failure to see what is right in front of them?
Could that be why he allegedly said in the training, “either way, I win?’
I can’t help but wonder about that.
You see from MY perspective, which is outside the leader’s paradigm, the correct answer to the question, “who would you rather be with?’ is something like this: if pressed, I identify with the victims BUT, and that is my big but, the real answer is NEITHER side as they are both losing sides. This presentation of the meaning/meaningless of life is a ‘game’ for fools and madmen.
The leader may consider himself to be a winner but he is still caught himself in his recreation of the loop of destruction. He is on the edge and he will either get out of it or he will fall from the top of it when it collapses on itself. It is one helluva long way down from where he sits now. The only way to ‘win’ this ‘game’ is to stop playing it and finally get off his act.
It is my own opinion that the only place this so called ‘game’ can be acted out without any danger of it being seen as having INTENT to do harm is inside the training seminars themselves. Once outside those concrete parameters and ‘recreated’ in concrete reality, concrete evidence is also created, even if everyone involved works very hard at trying to ignore it or to keep it concealed.
Still the power is real as Fenwick tells us because of the support and enablement of the MAJORITY of people who participate in it and then when it goes bad, who agree to conceal the experience to save themselves. This ensures the targeted victim can be blamed for BEING a victim at the same time that the aggressor is enabled to avoid any consequences. It ‘shifts; the blame and ‘shifts’ the responsibility for the warped thinking and behaviour from the aggressor and his group of supporters and enablers, to the victim, who is then used as the scapegoat for ALL of them.
Do you think that is why Jack/Werner says he ‘wins’ either way?
Could it also be why he is still Werner and not Jack?
Is this what the real ‘enlightenment of this game is all about and what it has been about all along?
Back to the concepts:
The aggressor watches the target's fear grow (“let me see your fear”) as the realization comes that there is no possible escape, and no rescuer will intervene, since any "intervention" will be done to suppress the target's perception and support the aggressor’s perception/action. The ‘intervention’ will invalidate the target; not validate her.
The aggressor smirks knowingly, his eyes glowing with amusement and power, an act which if reported by the target, will be "assessed" as a perception problem of hers, along with the increase in fear, as an "inappropriate affect," since both are already listed in the DSM, in advance of the event, as more "signs." While the target knows the aggressor is acting from a lack of reason, and the aggressor knows the target knows it too, the group has been successfully mystified by the aggressor and will continue to accept the situation as the exact opposite. (The switch) If, in time, the target breaks down under group pressure, and is "successfully" disconnected from concrete reality due to the constant bombardment of contradiction and multiple versions of It, that will only be seen in the terms the observers have been trained to see It; a psychotic "episode", inside the parameters of a "disease" process of the genetic defective. It is in fact, the result (or ‘effect’) of a GROUP relationship, and NOT a cause in itself, in personal isolation, located inside the ‘diseased’ brain of the identified patient, without relationship to anything, or anyone, else. That is just what the arrogant mob wants to believe because believing that, explains it all away and gets everyone ELSE off the accountability hook. The group members can then bond with each other, and make themselves feel better, by externalizing all their own character flaws by using the target as the handy repository.
Can psychosis be triggered by other problems as well like toxins, alcoholism, brain tumours etc.? Sure. But that doesn't make the experience we all have with other people, perceiving legitimate causes in whatever way THEY choose to do so, any less real, or difficult to deal with. But for now, let's stick to my own case of aggression, denial and group pressure as the cause.
The aggressor at this point now feels the sense of "satisfaction" that comes from his false sense of omnipotent power and control, reinforcing his insane belief that reason is the LOWEST level of consciousness and "unreason" the highest. (Switch) The manipulations of the ‘game’ have brought him to this point. He now believes that he has ‘total control’ over everything that happens to him, which is, ironically, true on one level while it is utter nonsense on another. He won’t see that though until or unless, he gets caught acting it all out in concrete reality and then sees it with hindsight. He is ‘the cause’ of everything that is going to happen to him. He is creating his own pain, whether he will actually see It coming or not.
We all live as BOTH cause and effect; not one or the other. The aggressor may be caught and exposed as an individual, or may just be caught as a participant in It, along with all the other blind followers. They are on their way to bringing the whole planet to ruin with their collective, regressive, narcissistic, infantile omnipotence. Those who are the ‘cause’ may well refuse to see the truth about themselves until they feel It's full ‘effect.’ As is stated in this so called ‘game’, “reality is that which you experience…” and also “reality is substantial and will knock you on your ass.” Their leader appears to believe that experience is the best teacher, and perhaps the ONLY way they will ever become truly "enlightened."
Both the victims and those who identify with the aggressor are being constantly instructed to "let it go..." and the more both sides agree to do so, the more damage It causes for everyone, and the farther It spreads. But please look at that statement again. What does ‘letting it go’ means to an aggressor who wants to use the power to dominate others and what does it mean to a victim who wants to put a stop to this kind of power. Take the same statement and add it to each premise to see how the same WORDS do not mean the same thing from differing points of view. Meanwhile, all those who remain ‘certain that they know’ what It is, smirk to themselves with the absurdly arrogant belief that they have everything, and everyone, under control. Most of them, I'd bet, will remain deluded right up to the moment the chain reaction of their own creation has collected enough interest, and spiritual energy to bring back to them a very unexpected payoff; or should we call It the charismatic leader's payBACK.
What is the moral of this horrifying story?
Stop silencing or killing your messengers who are telling the truth that you need to know to save your own lives. What do we do about It? We see It, Understand It, and then simply expose It on a generic level of meaning.
Why generic?
Because that is how it is being delivered to us; as an absolute abstraction and it has to be understood from there so that it can be connected to ANY concrete details to which any power mad lunatic may care to connect It.
We must know that so that no one can keep It going by simply changing It's concrete form. It will be stopped only when (or if) we all see the faulty premise upon which this horror is built. It will stop ONLY when , or if, the victims stop allowing themselves to be talked into accepting responsibility for their victimization, and hand that responsibility (not the aggression) BACK to the aggressors, where It belongs AND (no "buts" here please) when the aggressors stop blaming their victims for the aggression, and start accepting responsibility for IT themselves. That will undo the mutually delusional reversal and switch things back to the use of the power of reason; ‘enlightenment’ and ‘power’ working together and not ‘either/or’ as It is presented in this ‘game.’
That is the only kind of power that is really worth having. Now that you have been "enlightened" by this experience, DO something about It.
Victim: From the Latin "victimus" which means "sacrifice." We don’t ‘choose’ to be sacrifices and therefore ‘deserve’ what we get. We are chosen by aggressors who choose to act out on us and then justify doing it by blaming their victims. That is how they keep their abuse of power ‘acceptable’ and ‘normal.’ Society as a whole tends to co-operate with aggression because it is a release of suppressed emotion.
As the Psych Professor wrote in her analysis, as the last line of her book on my protagonist's training, "The only way to stop a nightmare is to wake up."
To see more of what I have learned about psychiatry from my experience, go to my website: CounterAct
A little extra commentary for the locals involving themselves in my case:
For those university students, physicians, lawyers, nurses, city employees, fellow tenants gossiping in various buildings, and others all over town who have ‘validated themselves by invalidating’ my perception of, and reactions to, my OWN experience, I remind you of a statement made inside my protagonist’s training.
"Your education won't help you."
It was not a "defensive" statement delivered by those who were judging themselves as "less," and feeling bad about it, as the psych. professor supposed. That was HER "interpretation" of It. It was only a statement of fact. They were just following the creator's script. It is often the "educated" who tend to be "defensive" about their presumed "superior" understanding and who don’t want anyone, especially the uneducated, to tell them anything they don’t know, or think they know, better than others, by virtue of the higher education. As it is also stated in my protagonist’s training, "Finished is defined as the point where all further search stops."
In other words, if you, being educated, believe you already know all the answers and no mere, uneducated woman like little ol' me could have anything to teach brilliant you, then you won't look beyond your current understanding will you?
(You also tend to "invalidate" the other point of view.)
So, I will ask you again, fifteen years after I told you what my protagonist was doing, which you were all certain you understood better than I:
Did your education help you? It doesn’t seem to me that it has.
The educated prove very often to be the best followers. Did you know there are studies about the percentage of people who are actually followers, even though they consider themselves to be leaders? The percentages are jaw dropping.
If psychiatry became willing to give up the abuse of power as a means of control and also tried out the power of reason, many real problems could be resolved, rather than being "fixed." (Which as you know could mean either "repaired" or "held in place" depending upon your perspective on the word.)
As my protagonist's game creator heard in the "mental health system/religion" which trained HIM before he invented this version of ‘enlightenment’ to train others,
"The instant the source is touched by therapy, It's power vanishes like yesterday's headlines." (L. Ron Hubbard, in Dianetics)
The creator of my protagonist's training called himself, "the Source." He also said, “you are the source of your own pain.’ So I ‘went to Source.”
Remember that the leader says this is like dealing with children and that the way you get children to give up their game is by totally supporting them in it, so that is what I am doing here. As the leader says;
‘I am the source.’
So I am ‘touching the Source’ with therapy, on a collective metaphysical level. Therefore, according to his own logical sequence of concepts, he is ‘the source of his own pain.’
I agree with him. (“It is about your agreements;” But WHAT about them?)
Well, how about this? If he sees his ‘German’ half of the persona as the ‘side’ that is ‘at cause’ and his Jewish side as the ‘side’ that is ‘at effect’, and both sides of this are him, then the only thing that will motivate him to give up his game is to become aware of his choice to self destruct by identifying with the aggressor. The leader is the only ‘place’ in this where the two sides meet and is actually connected together. He can have both power and enlightenment but he is going to have to reintegrate his own two ‘sides.’
Everything (everyone) beneath him is NOT connected as he is at the ‘top of the experience’ and the only one who ‘gets the point.’ (At the top of the pyramid, is the literal point AND the abstract point) He fears integration as he worries that he will ‘cease to exist’ if he allows it to occur. He fears his two ‘sides’ will cancel each other out) But what he really has to do is switch the premise back (like I did) and then he can integrate his opposing sides and also survive the transition. (He can become as ‘one,’ like in real Zen, not ‘Zen-like.’) The only choice is not to be either an aggressor or a victim as he believes. It is to step OUTSIDE that binary pair and into the other universe where the premise of choice is to be neither victim nor aggressor. In the other universe, we focus on self restraint and self definition as the two ‘sides.’ We are not seeing ourselves as in a contest against others but only in a test of ourselves and our ability to self-actualize. Those of us operating in this second ‘universe’ find those operating in the universe of the power struggle very hard to understand. When we are operating from two different premises of belief, there IS no communication happening at all.
So the leader also states that the purpose of the mind is its own survival. Since he believes that, that is all that will motivate him; his own survival.
(He tells us what he needs but does not know how to get it himself now that he is alone ‘at the top.’)
To the one who wrote this, no matter how abstract and disconnected from concrete reality it may seem to others, (and it IS a disconnect from concrete reality, filled with the symbolic meaning of our collective human psychosis) he is first talking about himself and his own experience and he is doing so in his own terms. He is the “creator’ of this (or ‘God”) to himself, as we all are in one way or another, for each of us connects to our own belief systems based on what we already know, understand or believe to be true for us, based on our individual experiences. When the system used is a total abstraction like this one is, the individuals in it cannot do anything other than project their own meaning into that abstraction, or else rely on someone else, (like an ‘authority figure’ for example, to supply it with meaning FOR them.) Too often, other people’s ‘interpretations’ of our experience get FORCED on us.
The leader in this had become trapped within his own creation and did not know how to get out of It. All further search had stopped for him. Perhaps he was just too arrogant to admit that he was wrong. It happens that way more often than we want to believe.
The end of the ‘game’ and the start of the ‘game’ are at the same point. Pi is then completed. To get out of the ‘game’ altogether we must take one more step past the one who started it, by turning reality around one hundred and eighty degrees. Unless we do that, it will just keep on going.
The only two people who really understand it in my case are the original pair, and one of them understands It better than the other, though the group often assumes it to be the wrong one. The group believes what the aggressor led them to believe was reality; that he was the victim and the victim was the aggressor. The power is real.
The one who is ‘unreasonable’ by choice is now accepted by the group as the higher mind AND the one who is ‘reasonable’ is seen as the lower level of consciousness. So the protagonist who set me up for this smirks as he sees and hears he ‘recreation’ taking shape out here in concrete reality just as the training promised him he would. Switch complete; and no one other than the victim and the aggressor see the truth of It. You might say that ‘assholes’ ‘create the world’ we all must live in through the enthusiastic co-operation of the masses. This is how evil Empires are built too.
It doesn’t really matter what concrete name you assign to this ‘game’; the Master plan (or template for It), remains the same. It is the concepts behind the concrete manifestation of It that makes It work; not the details. The details are added later and they are changeable over time. Understand that and you’ve got It. After that you ‘do something about It.’ Just make certain that the ‘something ‘you do goes in the right direction, because if it doesn’t, It will go all the way to infinite destruction and there will be nothing left for anyone, anywhere, to concern him/herself with overpowering and controlling.
I am sure a mathematician (like John Nash for instance) could prove the end results for you, and you know what Simon says, (Paul) ‘Proof is the bottom line for everyone.’
Does it strike anyone as at all interesting that this training program is both literally and symbolically, a ‘family business’? You might notice that It is a real concrete example of the power of the “Family Romance.”
As It is said in the X-files, “The truth is out there.”
Do you still see no connections in any of this?
People resent the fact that I don’t ask them for ‘help,’ usually meaning some nice tranquilizer to change my emotional reactions to this. If you really want to help in a way that will work, HERE is what you can do: Speak up and Speak Out. Act like you actually know what ethics and integrity is about. Let’s SEE some integrity for a change from those who spend so much time preaching about it to others.
Don't just keep standing around, like the voyeurs in this 'snuff fantasy,' gossiping about it with everyone else for the rest of your lives and excusing yourselves by claiming there is "just nothing anyone can do." This is what you can do; so DO it.
So what really was/is my protagonist’s ‘secret’ training? Is it a revelation of, accusation against, or instruction for, the Bait and Switch con? Well, in MY 'recreation,' I think it all depends upon your ‘perspective’ on it. As the leader who ‘recreated it used to say all the time, “Reality is all a matter of perspective.”
End of your 'enlightenment'
One Final Comment here:
I have talked to a lot of psychiatrized people who have been labelled after struggling with domination types without ever resolving it. Many of them have said the same kind of thing, to which I could also relate. It goes like this:
I could not seem to reason with him/her/them no matter what I said, or how I said it, but I couldn't get him/her/them to just leave me alone either. I did not know how I could resolve this without becoming just like them and I didn't want to do that so I lost." I broke under the weight of it. "
They don't all express it exactly the same way of course but that is the general theme of it. If you are paying attention, you might notice that what they need is to