Perpetual Cognitive Dissonance

 in response to the themes in:

Perpetual Cognitive Dissonance

https://off-guardian.org/2023/04/08/perpetual-cognitive-dissonance/

 

 

Maintaining a belonging within our primary environment or family is a survival need.

We make a mask of adaptive learning as our focus in our physical experience and socially adaptive world.

The mask then adapts and learns other families/groups, institutions, and social rituals.

A well adapted ego of its world.

Continuity of the mask is the survival of the personality or mindset that 'makes you safe' in terms of conflicts held within but suppressed - masked over or masked out.

Breakdown of the masking adjustments and alignments of our personal face of control will unmask or reveal conflicts that may not be recognised as self, but cast out to forms of exclusion or violation - so as to boost masking defences, which feeds the problem as a means to repackage it for a diminished sense of self set in relative security.

At some point the process of self-evasion becomes self-destruction, with crisis as opportunity to reintegrate to wholeness of being or progressively dis-integrate to a denial of consciousness seeking escape from conflict.

The complex of defences against reliving or owning our own conflicts are set in core beliefs and definitions that cannot be seen until they are released. Experience is then an opportunity to double-down in persistence of a believed reality or self, or to release invested identity to a recognition that it dissonance and un-fulfilment is a pattern of meaninglessness or futility that we truly and directly do not want to persist in - as in an abusive 'relationship' except we have such capacity within our self - for reasons that once paid off or still carry a pay-off but are recognised too costly or no longer applicable.

The world that we meet is the world of meanings that we give or extend it - even if we are unaware of our thoughts or depreciating of our feelings.

The felt need for casting evil seems to protect - as long as you stay 'good and well defended' against its invasion!

The psychiatric way denies the mind's validity as a way to manage the conflict - and normalise it as 'natural' or even caring and loving to sacrifice individuality to a collectively managed guilt - masked as risk modelling.

But both are polarities of a predictive mind-control, running as substitution for felt presence. Feeling-awareness, as distinct from emotionally reactive blocks to feeling - is our capacity to abide our self and life. This is the territory of willingness to heal - even if the desire to live has no word but a refusal or release of what does not truly belong now.

Presence is never past or future. But can seem to be denied by both feeding each other.