No man’s profession can exempt him from the misfortunate incident to his nature. The idea of “World pain,” I believe, can be understood more accurately as “human pain.” Of course there is physical pain. Bodily injury and biochemical disturbance can produce excruciating suffering. Psychological pain, with its locus in our sense of self and worth; sociological pain, with its locus in our sense of affiliation and alienation; spiritual pain, with its locus in our sense of power and meaning. Human pain represents the personal and social and spiritual suffering people experience in the midst of living. On the levels of community and cosmos, that pain is, indeed, World pain.  When we are experiencing any kind of pain, we are driven to understand what is happening. It our attempt to understand, we find ourselves dealing with individual as well as Universal expression of the human pilgrimage. We look to ourselves and we look to others. Even more, we look to the Universe, what it is about, how it works, what rests at its heart. Immediate concerns inevitably mere with the official distress. What happens to others happens to us; what happens to us happens to others. Human pain intensifies human meaning with special poignancy. We have to have sense of that which seems senseless. 

Such understanding requires our person participation in pain. There is continuity between ourselves and others that specific stress cannot obscure. If we are to respond helpfully, we must ourselves know of (and not merely about) pain. In this realm we cannot be too removed from reality. The difference between reality and a semblance of reality is extreme. Those are, in truth, separate realities—one immediate, vivid, substantial; the other faint, insipid, spent. The residue of others’ experience is inadequate for one’s own sustenance. If we feed our lives on the leftovers from others’ presence, the diet could leave you alienated and alone.  We who heal also require healing. The ongoing requirement for the helper to be helped is real. Our bodies and brains function on our behalf and the crucial demands we personally face when we venture to respond to pain. These demands complete the circle of caring, for having begun with ourselves and having reached out to others, we discover we are brought back to ourselves. If we are to care for others genuinely, we are forced to face openly who we are and what we want. Dependency, aging, and dying have their own specific constellations of pain. We come into this World, we pass through it, and in many cases we depart. 

No matter what we do, we risk. We risk ideas and ideals, our lives and the lives of others, we risk concerns and security and satisfaction. In no way can we avoid risk—either in life or in responding to pain. One heart beats with other hearts in the presence of human pain. We are called from beyond our own little lives to enter into the lives of others. To respond—so simple, so meaningful, so significant, so natural, so inevitable…. Of course I want to respond, I want to help, I want to heal, I want to be all that I can be with others and for others and to others. However, what sounds so right and what seems so real, upon closer examination, turns into that which is unclear and uncertain. To respond to human pain—we can too easily jump into professional performance—or at least advanced competence without initially paying the price of person discipline.  Many people only want things that benefit them. They want to come in when the cost is less and the burden light. Most would bypass the step where the cost is greater and the burden heavier. In responding to human pain, that initial cost and that first step always mean including ourselves. To give ourselves to others in ways that matter requires that we have ourselves together as ourselves in ways that matter. If we really intend to respond to human pain, then, of necessity, we have to start with ourselves.   

Most people enter helping professions—ministry, medicine, social services, teaching, psychology—out of a personal need to be needed. Some do it because others require it of them. At its core that requirement is life and health; namely, my life takes on life to the degree it is engaged with others. There can be no life without meaningful life together. However, surrounding that core of human response, we find a layer of intent: I will be needed no matter what; I will be helpful regardless; I will respond at all times to all requests as requested. It is that willful drive to respond that becomes a terrible burden upon those to whom we seek to respond. At the beginning, we cannot avoid looking at the personal cost and individual struggles which we must undertake if we are to put ourselves at the disposal of others. That is the necessary foundation if we are to have a self to give away in ways that matter. There are, however, far more subtle loneliness traps in our society. Not every lovely person is trapped by interest in career, pursuit of independence, or a love-seeking belief system. Many lonely people are not particularly hung up about these issues. Many readily admit that they would give anything if only they could find the right person with whom they could share their lives. And yet they still find themselves enmeshed in isolation. 

People seek help for unexpectedly varied expressions of pain. There are hospitalized mental patients; ambulatory neurotics often with psychosomatic complaints; those with chronic disease or disability; those in special circumstances, such as criminal offenders; those with specific stress, and those with sexual difficulties. The great majority of those seeking help are people whose adaptive capacities for coping get temporarily or periodically overtaxed. There are others who suffer from World pain. They seek help in their struggles with such problems as identity and alienation. They have a spiritual unrest or feeling that they are not getting all they should out of life. Their pain reflects the confusion of moral standards and disintegration of values in today’s World, as well as the increasing proportion of the educated and affluent who have the leisure and inclination to brood about such issues.  Many people resist the idea that there is a connection between their overeating, their lack of exercise, their smoking, their drinking, or their loneliness of their healthy. They still believe that human disease is caused by germs out there and that nothing they do matters. Very similar beliefs about mental disease dominated the nineteenth century thinking. Mental illness was thought to be caused by something foreign to the human body.  

Since it was a “mental problem,” it had to involve the human soul, and so the source of these problems was attributed to an invasion of evil spirits or possession by devils. Since the mind was a reflection of the human soul, mental disturbance could only be caused by agents which disturbed the soul, namely devils. The attitude toward human emotions followed precisely the same line of thought. Emotions were viewed as quality of the human soul; they were nonmaterial, and therefore had little to do with physical disease. Like mental disorders, emotional disorders were viewed as an indication of a disturbed soul and somehow caused by evil spirits or devils. If a person was emotionally upset, then he prayed for spiritual guidance. It is possible that demons, devils, or evil spirits are inside of some people and that is why that are so wicked and mean. “Their leader’s name is Satan, and he is the deceiver of the whole World—he was thrown down to the Earth, and his outcasts were thrown down with him,” reports Revelation 12:9. They attempt to hinder God’s people. They “devote themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,” reports 1 Timothy 4:1-3. So it is possible unholy spirits are on Earth creating physical, emotional, and mental problems for God’s people. 

For centuries these ideas remained firmly entrenched. While investigators probed deeper and deeper into the mysteries of chemistry, physics, physiology, astronomy, mathematics, and biology, most scientist continued to view human emotions, especially emotions like love, as something personal, internal, hidden, mystical, religious, and beyond scientific analysis. Such emotions could be described by mystics, poets, musicians, and artist, but clearly they were outside the scientific domain. Love and human companionship were not viewed as “things,” but rather as qualities of the human soul or the human spirit. Most eighteenth—and nineteenth—century scientist would have considered the idea of studying love scientifically absurd, perhaps humorous. However, physicians should carefully attend to human feelings; as human feelings are too often ignored or denied as an important emotion condition, and this is why many are unable to understand the roots of many crippling diseases. Digestive disorders are often misunderstood. For example, Ulcerative Colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation in the digestive tract, namely the large intestine, also known as the colon. When the lining of the colon become inflamed and develop tiny open sores or ulcers, they can sometimes bleed. The combination of inflammation and ulceration can cause abdominal discomfort and frequent emptying of the colon.  Ulcerative colitis is the result of an abnormal response by your body’s immune system. Normally, the cells and proteins that make up the immune system, protect you from infection. In people with Ulcerative Colitis (UC), however, the immune system mistakes food, bacteria, and other materials in the intestine for foreign or invading substances.

When this happens, the body send white blood cells into the lining of the intestines, where they produce chronic inflammation and ulceration. People suffering from UC often experience loss of appetite and may lose weight as a result. People with UC also should not drink at all. In addition, a feeling of low energy and fatigue is also common with UC. Ulcerative Colitis does tend to come and go, with fairly long periods in between flare-ups in which patients may experience do distress. These periods of remission can span months or even years, although symptoms do eventually return. The unpredictable course of ulcerative colitis may make it difficult for physician to evaluate whether a particular course of treatment has been effect or not. No one knows what the cause of UC is. It could be an antigen in the environment, and stress can make symptoms worse, as it damages the intestine, and can spread to other tissues like the eyes. A type of eye inflammation called anterior uveitis can stem from ulcerative colitis. Anterior uveitis is an inflammation of the middle layer of the eye. This layer includes the iris and the adjacent tissue, knows as the ciliary body. If untreated, it can cause permanent damage and loss of vision from the development of glaucoma, cataract or retinal edema. People with anterior uveitis may experience red, sore and inflamed eye. Blurred vision, sensitivity to light, and small pupil. Also, ulcerative colitis can lead to cancer. However, good human contact and a reduction of stress seem to be very powerful healing method. Very few people want to be lonely or stressed out on purpose, and it is not good for our healthy.  

We feel desperately the loss of any overall guiding framework to make sense of a World that has seemingly gone made. We experience an attack on our sensibilities because unreality and technology speeds up the breakdown and irrelevancy of coherence through the overload of sensual images that are nearly completely devoid of any intellectual or cognitive content. Americans cannot sustain for prolonged periods of time the same intensity of belief in subjective experiences because there is no hope in muting the technological forces that are at work in America, which allow people to send mean comments and anonymously terrorize others with the use of engineered images. There are fan pages online, pretending to be the celebrity they are representing and seduce fans into sending them nude pictures and even invite them out of town for the weekend. Because of technology, we may be worse off than our forefathers. We may have so atrophied our emotional lives in the intervening period that we know no other sources in which to invest our emotional experiences than in our technology or dangerous cults that promote fascist violence. We are subject to an incredible paradox. The media and internet are some of the most intense emotional experiences of the great masses of people, and they revolve around unreality, they are responsible for producing some of unreality’s strongest forms of abuse. #RandolphHarris 1 of 3

One of the things that is most interesting about various national cultures is how much similar sounding idea. Some people may act like they are all nice in person, but then use media to terrorize innocent people for many years before in is discovered that an individual is under attack by an unreality cult. Unreality is at once both its own disease. No one can fully figure out a treatment when the disease itself, social media, and the media, itself is not fully known, but it is in bad need of treatment. The media has become like a narcotic, in the sense that it is dangerous and lethal. The abuse from injections further strengthens the disease. The only truly effective cure would be to remove the conditions promoting the disease, in the case the media, in the first place.  Unreality has become so intense that some people are living lives that a dope addict lives, and in many cases do end up becoming hooked on drugs, to deal with life, until the point that it almost takes them under. Some people are truly under attacked, have been physically assaulted, stalked, had their homes broken into and vehicles vandalized and reach out for help, but no one will help them. Because of some of the rumors that are generated by unreality, people are not able to hold down jobs because they would not be able to perform them, would be too big of a distraction, or a liability. The hosts of unreality know them and try to push the victim to suicide. It gets to the point where one is a prisoner in their own homes and always alone, with no one to trust. Many people see what is going on, but do nothing.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 3

People have literally killed off, in some cases, the conditions that make it possible for heroes to emerge, to lead, to sustain, to nourish us. It seems that not only have the old gods, myths, religions, and symbols lost much, if not most of their past power in modern society, but we are sorely lacking in replacements. The old gods and myths no longer sustain us because they are no longer deeply embedded in everyday lives of people. Further, society’s present idols (celebrities) no longer, in many cases, are worthy of the role and the title of heroes, let alone gods, because the modern process of the deliberate manufacturing of pseudo heroes is complete variance with the one by which true heroes historically have risen.  Now that we have defended ourselves against the objections raised, or have at least indicated our weapons of defense, we must no longer delay entering upon the psychological investigations for which we have so long been preparing. Life is a psychic act full of import; its motive power is invariably a wish craving fulfilment; the fact that is unrecognizable as a wish, and its many peculiarities and absurdities, are due to the influence of the psychic censorship to which it has been subjected during its formation. While you will never find closure in life, stress, nightmares, and death are reminders that problems are still unsolved. I see a glimmer coming from the room in which the body is lying. Perhaps a candle has fallen over, and the child is burning!  #RandolphHarris 3 of 3

Experience, that unvarying and rational order of the World which has been the appointed instrument of man’s training since life and thought began. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. We are programmed by evolution to unreality’s special fondness for hyperactiveness. However, the brain’s receptiveness to fast moving stimuli is not sufficient in itself to account for America’s special preoccupation with unreality. More than the workings of the brain alone are required to account for the intensity with which Americans pursue unreality with a fever that approaches a national crusade. And indeed, to inveigh the phrase “national crusade” already implies that another part of the answer is to be found in American culture. Hyperactivity is not only a deeply ingrained feature of American culture by virtue of the special fortitude of those who journeyed to the new land in order to settle it—it was a dire necessity for survival—but, as a result, it has become linked with other fundamental American values and beliefs. Americans have always believed deeply in material progress. The two words “material” and “progress” are virtually inseparable. Each implies the other in the context of the American experience. The antiquated nations of the Earth creep on sluggishly; the Republic thunders past with the rush of the express. Nations like individuals can never stand still. They must always be going and changing, improving their material lot; life is a race, not a game, to be won by the swiftest and most accurate. Yet its impact has been incalculable.  

Life accounts for the relentless dynamism at the heart of capitalist development, spreading an obsessive requirement for change throughout modern culture. And for most educated and affluent Americans in the late 19^th century, “change” meant “progress.” Progress means growing, it is more than “Hope” it is more than creating massive debt and claiming, “I got this,” progress means the mortgage is paid, there is money in the bank, the light bill is paid, the car runs well and has gas, the wife and kids are happy, safe, and well dressed. Progress means we have peace and like a machine, what we put in it we get back in return. Progress is the law of human existence only because there are more poor than rich, more weak than strong, more who suffer by wrong than enjoy by injustice.  Such progress we have learned was bought at a considerable price. To the uprooting and mass migration from farms and small country hamlets into cities with their teeming slums and social problems on scales not experienced before, Americans reacted against what they experienced as the “unreality of the new social order.” Removed from nature with its natural sounds, sights, and rhythms, Americans felt a great sense of uneasiness. They found the new factories with their vast management hierarchies and impersonal rules the very epitome of everything that was unnatural, unreal, stultifying, and suffocating, like a latex balloon stuck in your esophagus. Men felt they that they were in danger of becoming the very machines with which they worked and were charged with controlling.  

This sense of unreality has become part of the hidden agenda of modernization. Throughout the 21^st century, recoil from the artificial, overcivilized qualities of modern existence has sparked a wide variety of quests for more intense experiences, ranging from the fascist fascinations with violence and death, to the cults of emotional spontaneity of Avant grade artists to popular therapies stressing instinctual liberation. Antimodern impulses, too, were rooted in longings to recapture an elusive “real life” in culture evaporating into unreality. There is a principle in the human mind destined to be eternally at war with improvement and science. In reaction to the growing sense of unreality brought on by the difficult adjustment to the new realities of modern life, Americans of all social classes retreated to and engaged in a frenzy-like search for authentic experience. To accomplish this, they extolled the virtues of manual labor and, much as busy, tired executive do in our time, they develop home workshops where handicraft projects were pursued with a vengeance. As these projects petered out, as they must eventually, Americans pursued other strains of Antimodernism. The most fascinating were a precursor to the cults of Eastern mysticism that were to capture the attention of the nation’s youth and disaffected during the Vietnam era.  Turned off by the excessive rationalization of the thoughts and habits that Eastern philosophy used to ruin lives, many bourgeois of society and the modern industrial factory system demanded, Americans, especially the educated and well-to-do—including many businessmen themselves—turned to earlier periods of world history where men were not suffocated and hemmed in by rational modes of thought. A special fascination for the medieval ages developed. The medieval mind was regarded as primitive and unspoiled. Americans saw in the primitization of the medieval intellect, if not indeed its total personality, the deep sense for passionate experience, the direct contact with intense human emotions that they had long ago abandoned for modern life with all its promises of security, progress, comforts, et cetera.

A good heart will at times betray the best head in the World. We live in a society where there are a lot of conflicts and individuals who do not get along, and you often hear the cliché phrase, “Kill them with kindness.” I do not agree with this statement. I think it is best to be direct and let people know how you are feeling. We all know those people in the office, who you have done nothing to, but are kind to your face and conspiring behind your back. Often times their poison is pretending to like you, so they can get crucial information and use it to take you down. That is their way of killing you with kindness. These types of people have the conscience of an assassin, and are often secretly haunted by a vague sense of enormous wickedness. There are concepts that help explain the basis for some of the most central figures that appear repeatedly in human culture, from the Bible through contemporary soap operas, like Secrets and Lies with Ryan Phillippe Season One. The characters that compose the basic nuclear family, i.e., father, mother, son, and daughter. Every one of these characters has both a bad and a good side. The archetypes tend to split these good and bad aspects into sharply divergent characters so that the father assumes, in general, a very different archetypal nature and character structure than that of the bad father.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

When all of the nuclear family characteristics are polarized, or split into their good and bad opposites, the following result: The good father becomes God. The bad father becomes the Devil. The good mother, the Queen. The bad mother, the Witch. The good son, the Crown Prince. The bad son, the Black Sheep. The good daughter, the princess, and finally, the bad daughter, the Harlot. The fairness of an individual should be adequate to conquer the weakness of their heart. Custom and the fashion of the World will not always stifle the voice of conscience. There are also secondary characters that also come into play. There are known as “colleagues” of the primary characters. As before, thy are split into good and bad archetypes: The good coworker becomes the faithful ally, the bad coworker becomes the disloyal subordinate, the good therapist becomes known as the Doctor, the bad therapist becomes known as the False Prophet. Once self-supported by conscience, once embarked on a career of manifest usefulness, the true Christian never yields. Neither public nor private influences produce the slightest effect on us when we have once got our mission.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

There are two additional characters whose purpose is to help the character transform themselves. Again, these as well are split into good and bad archetypal characters: The good winner or hero becomes Cinderella. The bad winner or antihero takes on a form of for example the “Godfather.” The good loser abdicates and withdraws from power and the bad loser must be removed or terminated. Some have the conscience of an angel and the impulses of a devil; and reason sits between them, for an umpire, with a fool’s cap upon their head.  To be marketed successfully, individuals are required to gain control of their images, making decisions based on a thorough understanding of all aspects of how marketing operates in the celebrity industry. The person trying to execute a high visibility plan is required to understand not just the tricks of projecting the right images, but how the best images are determined and how they can be produced. We are apt to connect the voice of conscience with the stillness of midnight. However, we wrong that innocent hour. It is that terrible “next morning,” when reason is wide awake, upon which remorse fastens its fangs. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

Some people apparently have no feeling for whatsoever is the truly explosive forces of the human personality with which they are playing. There is no doubt that individuals can delude themselves into thinking that they can choose rationally at the conscious level “the images” they wish to project. What such people almost always fail to realize is that there is a due to be paid to the devil. The reason why one is bargaining with the devil is that although archetypes are generally split by their nature into polar opposites, the splitting is never person or complete. We presented a ledger sheet off the presumed benefits versus the cost of fame, one can never guarantee that one will reap only benefits without thereby incurring terrible costs to be paid to fame. With any archetype, there is an overlap and spillover between them that is tremendous. Thus, for example, the Good Father may be on its surface primarily beneficent. However, in order to round out its character, like that of all human beings, there is always an element of the Bad Father present in the Good Father as well, and vice versa.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

It turns out that no matter how pure or one sided we attempt to make archetypal images; we can never exclude something of its opposite from intruding if only for purposes of roundness, completion, or balance. Some gloss over too quickly because they either are unaware or choose not to become aware of the dangers in “choosing our images.” It is thus oblivious to the extreme dangers with which one is playing. The dangers come in the form of suicide, depression, drug addiction, failed marriages, and the like.  The reason is that choosing an image and living it are often two very different things particularly when the image that is chosen consciously may go deeply against the grain of the archetypes that naturally constitute the deeper against the grain of the archetypes that naturally constitute the deeper layers of the psyche of a human being one is tampering with.  The pangs of conscience, so much vaunted by some, do most certainly drive ten deeper into sin where they bring one back to virtue. Whenever a lie was necessary for their occasions, they brought it out with a careless ease and breadth although untroubled by the rebuke of conscience.  #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

One could cite hundreds of cases from the “true confessions” of fallen stars, for as we noted in the previous report, the “confessions” themselves are all part of the scripted story line of being a celebrity. “For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in a White Squall. Suddenly my life was bright and I was on a soap opera and in movies. Everyone was calling me the next James Dean. They wanted to take me to lunch, or lay with me. I was constantly meeting famous people and traveling the World. I had a house the size of a castle. I remember getting my first multi-million pay check. That was amazing! I put it in the bank. There seemed to be a lot of wine, women, winning. I lost my passport in Europe and being in Cruel Intentions got me through customs,” reports Ryan Phillippe. He goes on to say, “It all sounds so exciting and glamorous, and it was. I was having the best time of my life. However, I genuinely thought that people liked me for myself—for my acting abilities and work. When I came on the scene, I was naïve. I never expected to meet some many professional parasites. We shall avoid any abuse of this mode of representation if we remember that ideas, thoughts, and an object of internal perception is virtual, like the image in the telescope produced by the crossing of light-rays.”  #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

There is another consequence to being an archetypal that has been revealed. If archetypes, no matter how one-sided they appear on the surface, contain nonetheless a strong ingredient of their opposite which can burst forth unexpectedly at any time—indeed all the more when one thinks that one can reap only the beneficial aspects—then this means that at the most fundamental layers of the human personality Boundary Warping is present.  However, no matter how deep one penetrates into the human psyche, no matter what levels of depth to which one descends, one fins a fundamental lack of clarity and sharpness between the various aspects of the mortal essence and the problems and the issues with which it is struggling.  The point is that the Boundary Warping we fine in the media and with public relations representatives, both consciously and unconsciously plays on this fundamental Boundary Warping that is present at the archetypal level. The deepest sources of Boundary Warping, in other words, emanates from humans who want to be cool by association, feel they own you or your images, or just want to hustle you for anywhere from a few hundred to a few million dollars. Celebrities have a hard time surviving and are especially ripe for exploitation by the various forms and mechanisms of unreality that we have identified. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7