Essays for the Enlightenment Seeker
Healing from Childhood Trauma

Sayings

  • Sibling rivalry is displaced fury at the parents
  • Betraying your parents’ needs is not a crime, but a necessity
  • Rejection by the family kills most, and enlightens a few
  • Lack of maternal enlightenment is harmful to fetal development
  • Most incest never involves physical touch
  • You can never become a true adult unless you rid yourself of your false parental figures
  • When mental illness is the norm, only extreme emotional disturbance and extreme enlightenment are considered mentally ill
  • If you think you are not mentally ill then you are either enlightened or in denial
  • Most normal people have been just unfortunate enough to be conventional in their pathology
  • People who know the exact dimensions of their craziness are on the vanguard of sanity
  • When we destroy our environment we are expressing our hatred for our children
  • War is a manifestation of the drama in your psyche
  • Repressed feelings are the ultimate carcinogen
  • Most adults are just as needy as children – they just hide it better
  • Mild alcoholism is a beneficial trait in a society that prizes numbness
  • When society supports emotional children raising children, that society should be sterilized
  • Don’t underestimate the power of psychology, only psychologists
  • If the world of liars hates you, it’s generally a good sign for your honesty
  • People kill prophets because prophets kill delusions
  • Studying the brain is checkers, studying the mind is chess
  • The easiest way to forgive your parents is to give up your own spiritual quest
  • Most artists have no idea what they’re really trying to say
  • Most people are little more than spectators in their own lives
  • Grandiosity brings self-esteem to the persona, not the person
  • If you believe you cannot heal that only goes to show how much you desperately need to
  • Self-reflection is the key to evolution
  • Question everyone’s motives, but question your own first
  • The true pacifist wages war against his inner lies
  • Study your hidden motives and you’ll discover you have a lot more in common with your enemies than you realized
  • The world’s last frontier is the psyche, and that’s the one we’ve been searching for all along
  • The more you get honest with yourself, the more inevitable your enlightenment becomes
  • Denying the truth of a child is violent
  • Tradition is only valuable where it overlaps with truth
  • We are all geniuses, just most untapped