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Janov's Reflections FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012
The Aim of Cognitive Therapy (Click to access!)
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The Land of The Free?!!?
Over the last many weeks I have, stimulated by own experiences and writing and by Reflections of Art, used the words FREE / FREEDOM to express the new liberating feeling which emerges as a consequence of being able to feel / reexperience pain and to enjoy a reduced dependence of neurotic filters to cope with reality.
As a Swede and foreigner, though a friend, to the US, I have always been impressed by the so-called American Freedom. However, I did that without asking what the concept of Freedom meant. In my metaphors, I never saw any link between the American Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) and my “enemies” for those being responsible, for my “prison of pain” / repressed state. In my world cognitive therapists, drugs, painkillers, maltreatment during my life-before-birth and no-curing treatments, were but a few of the reasons that my anxiety and not-feeling-free had such an impact on me.
My thoughts often go to why so extremely few are looking, searching for help to find their inner freedom in themselves in order to fulfill their real needs. I have the impression that emotional repression, like technological development, is determined by evolution, which is turning us into unfree creatures. Technological Development = Emotional Repression.
The Constitution is being changed accordingly! The new law signed by the President on New Years Eve of 2011, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) robs all Americans of many principles and rights afforded all Americans in their Constitution and Bill of Rights, which were given by their founding fathers. Many Americans have given their lives to protect these basic and fundamental rights. This new law explicitly creates a police state in America. It strips away any rights the American people thought they had including but not limitied to free speech, free press, free access to information and the right to protest, assemble and bear arms.
Every cloud has a silver lining, and with that I refer to the new limitation to assemble and bear arms... However, the real price is and will remain: Not being FREE!
Jan Johnsson
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