How the use of violence to teach lessons has outlived its authority
For years I had been working on a book on how earth-shattering catastrophes had birthed our religious and political order, and how we can heal our wounded species by reparenting ourselves with our birthright of unconditional love. A year before finishing it, I decided to experiment with Twitter. Trying my hand at various topics, I stumbled on the subject of
vaccines and discovered that the mainstream campaign to censor the truth about them left me with a lot to say.
So there I was, caught up in two different strands of thought. The first had to do with a religious and political structure forged in a cauldron of catastrophes, ten or fifteen thousand years ago. It was traditionally designed to be supported by three pillars. A body of laws enforced by punitive judgments. A penal system based on hell and damnation, torture, imprisonment and social death. And an infrastructure of war built for mass murder and mayhem. And then there was the second strand that had to do with one of 'the great triumphs of modern medicine' - vaccines.
When I was contacted for an interview by Demand the Truth, I hadn't quite figured out how, or even if, these disparate strands of thought fit together. In the few days I had to prepare for the interview, I discovered what they have in common.
They are both founded on the same teaching principle. And this teaching principle may just help us unravel the mystery of history.
Let's take it step by step. Vaccines work on the theory of using dead or inactivated viruses - along with
neurotoxic adjuvants and preservatives that would make a health inspector blanch - to teach the immune system to protect itself from disease. The problem, as we've discovered to our horror, is that vaccines instruct the immune system by catastrophically damaging it. In the course of training the body to fight disease, vaccines wage war on the immune system and wreak havoc on it with a range of afflictions - brain inflammation, cardiac arrest, central nervous system breakdowns, bowel disorders, and of course the very diseases we are being vaccinated for.
All this is not in dispute. Anyone who has studied vaccines will attest to the truth of it. The evil of vaccines can be summed up in two words: toxic teaching. The method of teaching employed by vaccines is to inflict all sorts of toxic violence on the body. Since the formal word for a teaching method is pedagogy, we could say vaccines represent a system of
toxic pedagogy.
Toxic pedagogy is nothing new. For millennia the accepted method of teaching children was through
violence. Parents hit children in the name of discipling them. Teachers cane children in the name of instructing them. Does all this violence make children better? Not in a million years! It traumatizes them. The scars on their bodies heal in a few days, the damage to their psyches lasts a lifetime. All this is common knowledge. Swiss psychologist Alice Miller helped pioneer the study of toxic pedagogy decades ago.
All that remained was to trace its origins to a series of earth-battering catastrophes that decimated life on this planet thousands of years ago.
Anthropological records are abuzz with stories of gods almost annihilating the human race. Geological records abound with evidence of interplanetary comets and asteroids colliding with earth and laying waste to it. The problem is not with falling solar system debris per se. It is with the few who survived and went on to repopulate the species. They were so traumatized that they came to terms with these cataclysmic forces by personifying them as
angry gods that passed a sentence of mass death on man. Infernal fire and brimstone from heaven were not the random outcome of astrophysical forces. They were symptomatic of
gods of wrath, determined to teach an errant species the lesson of its life. And voila! We have the origin of toxic pedagogy - the grotesque idea that the way to teach man to behave properly is through violence and destruction of a literally cosmic order. Gods modeled this toxic pedagogy for man. Man in turn modeled it for his children.
He unleashed thousands of years of violence and aggression against his own flesh and blood under the guise of punishing them, disciplining them, teaching them a lesson.
Now psychologists know how children cope with corporal punishment. Typically, they split off from the victimized part of themselves and learn to identify with their victimizers. Thus the violent things parents did to their children, their children grow up to do to
their children. It is how violence cycles from generation to generation. But in the big picture, it is the so-called
gods who got the cycle of generational abuse rolling. They are the
originators of abuse on a cosmic scale. And so the usual coping mechanism by which the child breaks his sympathetic connection with the victimized self, and goes over to the side of the victimizing parent, is now replayed in a
religious dimension between gods and humans. As man disowns his victimized self, he learns to treat human nature as an object of shame, contempt and mortification. And the gods - who are, after all, what we might call
doomsday gods - are exalted as objects of reverence and veneration.
Counterintuitive as this seems, it reprises the process by which battered children divorce their abused selves and espouse the cause of their abusers. But when it happens in a collective arena, the consequences are far more extreme than when an abused child grows up to dominate a household as an abusive parent. By framing dreaded gods of destruction as objects of worship and devotion, religion gives birth to a class of institutional guardians who presume to rule over society as the incarnation of Doomsday Gods. These quasi-divine rulers exercise their authority by passing violent judgments on mankind. They gather the reins of power by setting up elaborate penal systems to crack down on man for an endless litany of sins and crimes. From ancient kings to modern commanders-in-chief, the primary function of these leaders is to wage war. To this end, they literally
weaponize cosmic fireballs and celestial barrages of fire and brimstone - at least, as far as the state of technology enables them to do from age to age - and then they deploy these super-weapons to inflict death and destruction on errant members of the human race.
This is where we went wrong as a species. Humans are hardwired for unconditional love. Being nurtured and cherished is how we grow and thrive. But now we have a class of rulers that trade in the love that is man's birthright for the death-dealing wrath of Doomsday Gods. Their function is to maintain social control and serve as bastions of law and order. But their mission is to do so by following in the toxic steps of the Doomsday Gods. They keep humanity in line by handing down a battery of punitive judgments. They correct the transgressions of fellow humans by impersonating Doomsday Gods and hurling doom and perdition from on high. First, as flaming arrows shot from bows and fiery boulders flung from trebuchets. Then, over the course of time, as cannonballs and cluster bombs and ballistic missiles raining down from the heavens.
Thus the arsenals of war are not born of human aggression. They are born of human beings coping with their terror of monster gods as children do, by trying to imitate them and instrumentalize their fiery wrath. The whole system of corporal punishment as a disciplinary tool - of capital punishment and warfare as methods of chastisement and correction - is not inborn in humanity. It is born of a
faulty, utterly
fallacious interpretation of cosmic catastrophes.
Thus the gods did in the beginning. And thus humans (as quasi-gods)
do over the course of history.
For millennia we put our health, wealth and welfare in the hands of these psychotic specimens of divinity. Thanks to the better angels of our nature, we are finally coming to our senses. We're beginning to understand that our trust is completely misplaced in a class of pseudo-divine rulers who are more bound to grandiose delusions of godhead than bonded to the reality of their own flesh and blood. How can we entrust the administration of our laws, the governance of our lives, to those who channel the brute insentient forces of the universe, laboring under a delusion of being doom-dispensing gods? How can we delegate the burden of upholding
social order to those who embody the forces responsible for a breakdown of
cosmic order. How absurd is that?
Something profound was lost when the human spirit was acculturated to imitate the gods. We lost that loving feeling that is our main reason for being. We lost that integral connection with our inner child that is the mainspring of our empathic identification with the weak and small among us. That is what the Reparenting Movement sets out to recover. Our civilization went off the rails when, under the hammer blows of celestial catastrophes, our leaders split off from their humanity to identify with a syndicate of wrath-crazed gods. A Reparenting Revolution frees us from this mad misalliance. It creates havens of unconditional love where, by reconnecting with the violated self - the innocent victim of childhood abuse - we quit aligning with heavenly and/or earthly Father Figures that cycle and recycle the brute forces of cosmic violence and destruction.
In reparenting, we conjure up the Good Parent - the Loving Mother/Father we were always meant to have. We envision
who we would have liked our Good Parent to be. We focus on
what we would have liked our Good Parents to say. We call to mind h
ow we would have liked our Good Parent to relate to us as children. We experience the grief, anger and anguish of never being treated that way - and by virtue of experiencing it all, we're able to get it out of our system.
Deep in our DNA is an infallible blueprint of our birthright of love. Even if the Good Mother or Good Father is conjured up in our
minds, our
bodies respond as if they are actually present. We get to cry, scream, yell, and rage and do all the things we never got to do with our real parents. By modeling the Good Parent for each other, we deprogram ourselves from a cult of the Bad Parent that enslaved, exploited and exterminated us for ages. We refuse to embrace the various forms of toxic pedagogy that a majority of authority figures still practice to this day.
We are now at a crossroads of history. By realizing that violence against children is bad, we are ready to withdraw our trust from authority figures who have always used violence to teach us a lesson. And nothing brings this lesson home to us like vaccines. It turns out the pedagogy of the
Needle is as toxic as that of the
Rod. An entire book has been written on how the medical assault on the American brain has spawned an epidemic of social violence and criminality.
[1] The poisoned needle destroys our emotional intelligence, our capacity for prosocial interaction, by creating a raging inferno of
inflammation in our
brains. And the punitive rod destroys our capacity for fellow feeling, our ability to peacefully cooperate, by stimulating a cauldron of rage and aggression in our
psyches. It is no wonder, then, that guardians of public
health, armed with the
needle, have failed us as miserably as guardians of public
order armed with the
rod?
It's about time we come together to declare the age of institutional guardians over. Can we trust guardians of public order to save the world, when under the pretext of safeguarding it, they give ample proof of their
compulsion to build up the means to
destroy it? No more than we can trust guardians of public health to protect future generations, when under the guise of immunizing them, they give us abundant proof of their
obsession to do our children a
world of harm.
The thrust of progress from the Renaissance and Age of Enlightenment is towards greater autonomy, greater democratization. We abolished the Divine Right of Kings. Next up is to abrogate the Divine Right of Capital. But to truly emerge from our nonage - to genuinely co-create a world that works equally well for us all - we have to undergo two seminal shifts.
One is to be disabused of our faith in truncheons and tanks as pedagogical tools to teach a lesson.
Two is to realize the religion of power is as much a superstitious cult as the power of religion. Those playing god over us have always derived their power and authority from an
irrational, nay,
insane misreading of cosmic cataclysms! Because it is so alien to our psychobiology, the cult of authority only succeeds by brainwashing the mind and bulldozing the body. When we come from love, we are all on the same side. Love
advocates for us. It empowers us to give
voice to what ails the body and assails the soul. By definition, love is not something we fight. That which is imposed from
above us can never be congruent with that which rises up
within us - which is why it has to be rammed through with coercion and force. You want to stick it to me, better bring a Big Stick.
As it turns out, the sweeping distrust in authority figures caused by the toxic pedagogy of vaccines couldn't come at a better time in our history. It's just what the doctor ordered to give us the final push to topple an ideology of dominance and violence. For the idea of gods battering an evil species to death isn't merely the template for corporal punishment. It is also the template for racism and genocide. Gods cleansing the earth of a polluted race is the model for Kurtz in the novel
Heart of Darkness, and his demented clone in the film
Apocalypse Now. When they cry,
Exterminate all the brutes, they follow in the steps of the Doomsday Gods who did exactly that
.
In this sense, it can be said that vaccines are a veiled form of imperialism. The poor immune system is looked on as a benighted entity to be instructed and improved. That's the excuse for the needle going in to disrupt its intricate workings and ravage it with chronic ills. And that's the way the body is exploited in perpetuity by the medical industrial complex. Just as there is no appreciation that humans are designed to thrive as a communal body, there is none that the body flourishes from coexisting with trillions of bacteria and viruses.
Vaccination is based on a militaristic model of medicine.
Viruses are stigmatized as the enemy. Zap the virus, cure the disease. Many biologists don't even believe in the existence of viruses (which are free-floating bits of RNA). They believe a virus is only able to invade a cell and take it over because the cell is weakened by faulty diet, stress, lack of sleep, lack of exercise and of course, the chronic lack of love.
The same thing is true of the
bad guys. There are no human enemies, just unloving attitudes that can be changed. You don't want flesh-eating bacteria? Fine, just change the
biological terrain. You don't want mean, angry people preying on their kind? Fine, just change the
psychosocial environment. Don't abuse children. Don't abandon or neglect them. Attend to all their needs, understand and empathize with them, free them to find the joy in existence. That's the way to rule out antisocial behavior and make it impossible for evildoing to gain any traction.
The bottom line is humans are good. If it weren't for being terrorized out of their wits by celestial catastrophes, personified as imaginary gods of wrath, humans would be happy to be led by the loving kindness of their nature. Give the
body the kind of
nourishment it needs, and there is no need for the Needle to protect society from various sorts of
pathology. Give the
psyche the kind of
nurture it needs, and there is no need for all those extension of the Rod - like spears and arrows, assault rifles and missiles - to safeguard society from various forms of
psychopathology.
In the end, the iconic image of Napalm Girl, running down the street, flailing outstretched arms, merges into the autistic boy, running around flapping his arms. Both are the casualties of a militaristic mindset, harking back to the brutal absurdity of a war the gods waged on our species. Sooner or later we have to remember our religion and politics still bears the imprint of a Day of Doom when gods destroyed the world to save it. Only then will we no longer be doomed to go on mindlessly destroying the global village to save it - or wrecking the human body to protect it.
References
[1] Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality, Harris L. Coulter
Neville Raymond is the author of
The Reparenting Revolution - From a Power-Based to a Love Based Society (2018) and
The Genesis of Genocide - Breaking Through to the Heart of the Holocaust (2001). His latest book,
The Hand to Heart Book of Reparenting - Co-creating a World where the Human Race Falls in Love with Itself is due out in November 2019.
