Daniel Siegel and Educational Jailhouse Systems
Prefrontal Cortex Awareness: Insight… Empathy… Fear extinction… Intuition… Attuned communication… Emotional balance… Flexibility…
Discomfort Is The Price Of
Admission To A Meaningful Life
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Empathy, Group Identity, and the Mechanisms of Exclusion
Group Identity
1.4 Dissociation of Empathy: the Mechanisms of Exclusion
The genocides of the twentieth century, by which I mean the mass murders of the Armenians, Jews, Tutsi, Bosnians and others, despite all differences regarding their causes, conditions and extent, had one fundamental common feature: the genocide was preceded by an exclusion of an ethnic or religious group within the respective society. This exclusion was implemented, on the one hand, through a definition and radical separation of a “they-group” from the “we-group”; on the other hand, through an objectification and degradation by which the members of the excluded group were refused their recognition as persons and even denied their humanness. These excluding, depersonalizing and dehumanizing ideologies and policies were also able to neutralize or suspend basic empathetic feelings in the perpetrators toward their fellow humans.
In a widely respected study entitled “Ordinary men: reserve police battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland”, Browning (2001) has analyzed a piece of history of the Nazi genocide, namely the mass execution of Polish Jews by the Hamburg police battalion 101. It consisted of reservists, many ordinary family men, no fanatic Nazis, who in 1942/43 killed 38,000 Jews, men, women and children A peculiar feature was that at the beginning of the executions the policemen were explicitly given the choice whether to take part in the killings or not. Very few refrained and subsequently were not punished in any way. As Browning writes: The fundamental problem is to explain why ordinary men—shaped by a culture that had its own peculiarities but was nonetheless within the mainstream of western Christian, and Enlightenment traditions— under specific circumstances willingly carried out the most extreme genocide in human history (Browning 2001, p. 222).
Empathy, Group Identity, and the Mechanisms of Exclusion
🌱 IFS & The 8 C’s 🌿 See Chat
The 8 C’s in IFS represent qualities of the Self – your core, wise essence that naturally emerges when you’re in Self-leadership:
1. **Curiosity** – Genuine interest in understanding your parts without judgment
2. **Compassion** – Deep caring and kindness toward all your parts
3. **Calm** – Peaceful, centered presence even amid inner turmoil
4. **Clarity** – Clear seeing of what’s happening inside
5. **Confidence** – Trust in your ability to navigate internal experiences
6. **Courage** – Willingness to face difficult feelings and memories
7. **Connectedness** – Feeling linked to others and something greater
8. **Creativity** – Access to new solutions and possibilities When you lead from Self rather than from your parts, these qualities naturally arise.
For example, instead of being overwhelmed by an anxious part (which might make you act from fear),
Self-leadership allows you to approach that part with curiosity and compassion.
These Self qualities are essential for healing – they create the safe, trusting environment parts need to share their burdens and eventually let them go.
They also model how we might approach global conflicts: with curiosity about different perspectives, compassion for all involved, and the courage to find creative solutions together.
"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the seed of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is already dead.
~Albert Einstein
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..::"For me, the Jewish religion, like all others, is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions... And the Jewish people have no different quality for me than all other people".
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Einstein viewed the "cult of individuals" as unjustified and often in bad taste, noting that it was unfair to select a few for "boundless admiration" while ignoring everyone else.
(He explicitly stated he could not see anything "chosen"
about Jewish people)
”Refusing humility traps you in delusion.
One and the same.
~Marshall Rosenberg
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
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Imagine living on the only known planet in the infinite universe, where the mortified rich get richer by colonizing the people to follow debunked dogma, repeating an ancient doctrine of war, projected onto innocent children, again and again, the rich get richer, and the children inherit a brutal indoctrination instead of Living Sacred Life. https://empathymatters.org/armageddon/
The phrase “Domination leads to Ritual Sacrifice” bridges the gap between historical sociology and ancient anthropology.
Throughout history, domination—the exertion of control, barbaric power, or authority over others—has frequently been inextricably linked to ritual human sacrifice.
This connection manifests in both structural power dynamics and ancient religious practices.
The transition from domination to human sacrifice is essentially the barbaric projection of unhealed guilt onto other human beings, often innocent children.
What’s #memoricide ?
It’s time to save our stories, our history, our truth.
#emmaswords #wordsmatter
via Brad Blinstrub ” Amen. What we are seeing is the march of the Khazars. A disaster renamed Israel.
via EnterTheUnseen ” If you truly understand the bridge between Spirit & psyche, you’d NEVER condone forcing religious beliefs on others &/or disempowering people’s spiritual decision making. It’s abusive behavior that breeds religious trauma, which creates fear-based neural associations to divinity.
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