https://wisdomoftrauma.com/movie/
Obviously, I don’t think Trump should be compared to Kim Jung Il, but it’s interesting that I think I have a better understanding where that comes from emotionally.
We are all of us talking past one another. I myself am physically very healthy, and I think it is because however much I hurt I have always given myself permission for that. I don’t hold back and I don’t lie. These are, I see, conspicuous virtues in a world of lies and madness.
Let us continue to hope. I have proposed more than once and will propose again that understanding and identifying trauma in all areas of our collective life and culture is the only real path forward for human civilization. It is at the root of evil, of violence, of despair and ultimately of stupidity that persists.
And I will continue to insist that Capitalism is BY FAR the best economic system ever developed. But the creation of wealth is only one of four cultural tasks. Wealth does not provide meaning, it does not provide useful truth, and it does not tell us how to structure power relations in a healthy way. On the contrary. Obviously.
Money tells us nothing. Money teaches us nothing. Money creates the time and the space to begin to heal, which is to say, to begin to learn, to feel, and ultimately to hope.
And I will add that, to me, connection would logically fall with the cultural task of Meaning. The very first connection, though, the one that matters the most, is the connection each of us forms with our self, with our emotional reality, with our own deeply felt spirituality. That is the only reliable path out of the disconnected solipsism so many of us begin with.
I honestly think many of these Tibetan (and of course many others) who spend their lives in caves are HAPPIER, in all the ways we value, than those of us surrounded, like Tantalus, with the water of possible human connection that never reaches our lips. So many of us choose, as U2 sang, “the poison, from the poisoned stream” (that song always makes my cry, because I GET it), because it WORKS when nothing else does.
You know, what really makes my cry is not my own pain. It is the feeling of hope in the midst of all this. That is what hurts me, over and over. And I hope it always does.
As I say, please help this film become a blockbuster. Help it move through the world. Share it where you can.