… Dr. #Gabor #Maté :: #Palestine & #Israel :: The roots of systemic trauma. Pathways to restore our shared humanity, taking a stand for dignity and justice.
Social systems are highly vulnerable to psychological dynamics.
Psychological Projections and “In-Groups”
The phenomenon of a group projecting its own history or guilt onto an “out-group” is a well-documented concept in social psychology known as scapegoating.
* When a society or group faces a deeply uncomfortable truth about its history, it often experiences intense cognitive dissonance.
* To alleviate this psychological discomfort, individuals or groups may seek out a historically marginalized target—an “out-group”—to carry the unconscious heavy burden of blame.
See DARVO
* This deflects accountability and allows the dominant “IN-group” to maintain a positive self-image (false ego pride).
See DARVO
The Crucifixion as a Archetypal Narrative: See DARVO
The narrative of Jesus aligns with what historians and sociologists call an archetypal human behavior pattern.
* Across different eras, human crowds frequently display a mob mentality when confronted with truth, discomfort, or societal stress.
* Rather than engaging in collective self-reflection, historical groups have repeatedly unified themselves by targeting, condemning, and punishing a single entity or minority group.
(See: scapegoating and DARVO )
* This DARVO pattern of fear based human behavior has remained remarkably consistent across thousands of years of human history.
Major fact-checking and societal hurdles: [1]
* The Trust Deficit: Research shows that individuals who are deeply entrenched in conspiracy theories or extremist echo chambers rarely change their minds when presented with an automated “false” label. Instead, they often claim the fact-checker itself is part of a biased cover-up.
* Historically, human cultures have used scapegoating during times of economic or social crisis.
[1] [ https://today.duke.edu/2021/03/don%E2%80%99t-online-outrage-look-inward )
Cognitive biases are systematic, and subconscious...
Cognitive biases are systematic, and subconscious...
Cognitive biases are systematic, subconscious errors in thinking and decision-making caused by mental shortcuts (heuristics) or personal preferences. Recognizing these twelve common biases can significantly improve your reasoning, investments, and daily judgment.
The 12 Common Cognitive Biases
Confirmation Bias: The tendency to search for, interpret, and favor information that confirms your preexisting beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
Anchoring Bias: The reliance too heavily on the first piece of information encountered (the “anchor”) when making decisions, even if it is irrelevant.
Availability Heuristic: Estimating the likelihood of events based on how easily examples come to mind, leading to an overestimation of dramatic or recent events.
Dunning-Kruger Effect: A phenomenon where people with limited knowledge or competence in a domain greatly overestimate their own expertise or intelligence.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: The continuation of a flawed endeavor because of unrecoverable resources (time, money, or effort) already invested.
Halo Effect: The tendency to let your overall impression of a person or brand influence how you feel about their specific character or traits (e.g., assuming an attractive person is also highly intelligent).
Bandwagon Effect: The adoption of certain beliefs or behaviors primarily because many other people are doing so; also known as groupthink.
Hindsight Bias: The inclination to see past events as having been entirely predictable, often summarized as the “I knew it all along” phenomenon.
Self-Serving Bias: The habit of claiming credit for personal successes while attributing failures or mistakes to external circumstances or bad luck.
Survivorship Bias: The logical error of focusing only on successful outcomes and ignoring failures, leading to a distorted perception of reality (e.g., studying only successful startups to learn how to run a business).
Ostrich Effect: The subconscious decision to ignore dangerous, negative, or painful information, equivalent to “burying your head in the sand”.
Blind Spot Bias: The tendency to see oneself as less biased and more objective than other people
Dr. Gabor Maté to address some of the pressing questions on our hearts, and to offer his insights on the unfolding tragedy in Palestine and Israel. In this Q&A session, we explore the roots of systemic violence, the impacts of historical and intergenerational trauma, and pathways to restore our shared humanity. How might we break tragic cycles of trauma transmission, widen our circles of compassion, and stand for dignity and justice?
…::“We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we created our world. ~Gabor Mate
Healing Trauma | Dr. Gabor Maté
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1. Live authentically
2. Don’t ignore the trauma
3. Reconnect with yourself
4. Live in the present moment
5. Be willing to leave
6. Relook & recognize
7. Find your true self
8. Understand the source of your pain
9. Look deeper
10. Deal with the core issue
11. Bonus: Ask for help
Dr. Gabor Maté with Diederik Wolsak
….:: Doctor Gabor Mate’s brilliant work really gets to the “heart of the matter”… millions of human beings have been routinely traumatized for thousands of years… unaware of the traumatic environment they were born into, therefore the trauma becomes unconsciously accepted (cognitive dissonance) as “normal life” and is passed on through countless generations… (often explained away as “inherited sin”)
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When Gandhi was asked, what he thought of western civilization, he humorously replied ” I think it would be a good idea”… it was the understatement of a thousand years… In my humble opinion, all Life is designed by an amazing naturally healthy guidance to live gentle and peaceful happy lives, willing to share with one another and help one another, and if that natural “lifestyle” is not experienced by humans, an unfortunate event unfolds, similar to the infamous “science experiment” of gradually bringing amphibians to a boil, humans too, will slowly accept living in a state of chronic cognitive dissonance (aka the death of the Soul)… and will slowly lose their awareness of their own Heart/Soul/Spirit/Divine-Guidance, and then living in a fearful “amygdala driven”, fearful “fight-or-flight” PTSD :: Stockholm- syndrome, fall into easily being manipulated by external forces, such as egoic dominators, obsessive consumerism habits, dependency on external pleasure-seeking addictions, fanatic patriotism, religious cults, group-think, “in-crowds”, elitism, worldly riches/power/popularity, and endless egoic hierarchy schemes, etc.
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IMHO: Until all of humanity accepts the opportunity and responsibility to stand peacefully in solidarity and “love thy neighbor as thyself”, and follow the divine guidance that is ceaselessly “calling” within the peaceful “kingdom of heaven” that is already prepared and patiently awaiting each human being to answer the calling, otherwise, humans will sleep-walk through endless lifetimes “blindly descending endless stairways” and seeking to scapegoat endless external targets in order to project unconscious dissatisfaction, leading to endless wars until each one awakens from the “dream of forgetting” the divine guidance that designed the only known life in an infinite universe that is our natural given Home to share equally in Peace.
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Thank you for listening… i feel fully heard ~LL 🙂 <3
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Real-time fMRI links subjective experience
with brain activity during focused attention
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729617/
These findings support the feasibility of using rt-fMRI to link objective measures of brain activity with reports of ongoing subjective experience in cognitive neuroscience research, and demonstrate the generalization of expertise in introspective awareness to novel contexts.
Keywords: real-time neurofeedback, real-time fMRI, focused attention, posterior cingulate cortex, default mode network, meditation
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Dr. Gabor Maté to address some of the pressing questions on our hearts, and to offer his insights on the unfolding tragedy in Palestine and Israel. In this Q&A session, we explore the roots of systemic violence, the impacts of historical and intergenerational trauma, and pathways to restore our shared humanity. How might we break tragic cycles of trauma transmission, widen our circles of compassion, and stand for dignity and justice?
