CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Self-Regulation and Global Crisis
1.1 Prelude Nature Idyll
1.2. Self-Regulation in Nature
1.3 Aspects of Global Self-Destruction
1.4 GLOBALIZATION
Chapter 2: Global Crisis Why is Self-Regulation Failing?
2.1. Europe and the Global Crisis
2.2 Politicians are helpless since they are influenced by lobbyists
2.3 Is there a Common Reason for the Global Lethargy and Self-Destruction?
2.4 Obedience
Chapter 3 Agentic or Autonomous Mode?
3.1 Milgram: Obedience to Authority
3.2 The Experiment
3.3 Results
3.4 Milgrams Interpretations of the Results
3.5 Reactions of Colleagues
3.6 THE CAUSES OF OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY Aspects of Civilization
3.7 OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF TRAUMA?
Chapter 4 PRIMITIVE SOCIETY
4.1. THE FIRST PEOPLE AND SELF-REGULATION
4.2 SELF and Self-regulation
4.3 Vision Quest as a Ritual of Self-Discovery
4.4 Aspects of Primitive Societies
Chapter 5: CIVILIZATION AND SELF-DOMESTICATION
5.1 ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS
5.2 Self-Domestication and Authoritarian Social Structure
5.3 Self-Domestication and SELF-Alienation
5.4 Monotheistic Religions
5.5 War, Submission and Exploitation
5.6 Aspects of Civilization
5.7 Mystical Traditions
5.8 Enlightenment and Revolutions
Chapter 6: SELF, TRAUMA AND SELF-ALIENATION
6.1 AUTONOMY AND SELF-CONNECTION
6.2 Intrinsic Motivation
6.3 The SELF and its Development
6.4 TRAUMA
6.5 Trauma Consequences
6.6 Symbiosis Pattern as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
6.7Self-Integrating Trauma Constellation
6.8 The Trauma Solution Algorithm
6.9 Case Study Insecurity in the face of Authority
6.10 Case Study Professionally unsuccessful
Chapter 7: THE CHURCH AND OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY
7.1 THE CHURCH
7.2 Connection between Religion and Power
7.3 WARNING TO READERS
7.4 THE DOUBLE MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH
Chapter 8 FROM THE MESSAGE OF JESUS TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH
8.1 The Theology of the Cross A Survival Strategy?
8.2 What Happened to the Message of Jesus?
8.3 An Almighty God who Sacrifices his only Son to Atone for the Sins of Mankind
8.4 The Reinterpretation of a Shameful Death Penalty into a Salvation Bringing Sacrificial Death
8.5 Education to a Corpse-Like Obedience
8.6 Use, be Used and Evaluate
8.7 Immaculate Conception and Virgin Birth
8.8 Debasement of Women
8.9 The Church Claims to be the Only Way to Become Blissful
8.10 Excursion Sources of Early Childhood Religiousness
Chapter 9 Ways and Means of Indoctrination
9.1 Traumatization Methods
9.2 Ceremonies
9.3 Paintings and Sculptures
9.4 The Conditioning Effect of the Sacraments
9.5 Church Hymns
9.6 ABUSE OF THE IMAGE OF AN ALMIGHTY GOD
9.7 The Almighty God a Construct to Stabilize Secular Power
9.8 Summary
9.9 Christians for Future
Chapter 10 Power Complexes and the Democratic Movement
10.1 The Enlightenment
10.2 Democracy
10.3 The Fallacy of Enlightenment
10.4 Obedience to War and Authority
10.5 How could such a Catastrophic Event Occur in a Country as Cultivated as Germany?
Chapter 11 The Global Crisis
11.1 The Military-Industrial Complex
11.2 The Development of the Capitalist Economic System
11.3 Growth Model a Cancerous Tumor
11.4 Is Democracy Failing ?
11.5 The Capitalist Economic System is Destroying the SELF-Regulatory Mechanism
11.6 Aspects of Collective SELF-Alienation
11.7 The Domesticated Person
11.8 as an Engine of Growth
11.9 The Crisis An Involuntary global Milgram Experiment?
11.10 The Capitalist Economic System is Failing
11.11 Evolution
11.12 A Second Enlightenment
11.13 System Change?
Chapter 12 Guide to Self-Empowerment
12.1 Alternative Visions
12.2 Your SELF
12.3 Recognize What is Blocking Your SELF!
12.5 Discover Your Own Potential!
12.6 THE SELF-RESPECT RITUAL
12.7 PRAYER TO THE EARTH
12.8 Release yourself from your blockades
12.9 Digression: Do it Yourself Instructions
12.10 Relief through Do it yourself
12.11 Requirements for a Species-Appropriate Society
12.12 The Crisis of the Economic System
12.13 Warriors of the Earth
12.14 Democracy is dead? Long live democracy!
12.15 Fridays4Future: Worldwide Protest against Climate Change
12.16 Extinction Rebellion
Acknowledgements
APPENDIX
Autonomy Questionnaire
AUTONOMY DIAGRAM
Chapter 1 Self-Regulation and Global Crisis
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet
Wonder about what makes the universe exist
It matters that you dont just give up.
Be curious.
And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking 2018
PREFACE
There is a widespread idea that we all have an own innate sense of autonomy, an essential being, our Self. If we are connected to this inner authority, we are able to perceive ourselves, our needs and our inclusion into a greater whole, irrespective of other peoples expectations, convictions and needs. This enables us to lead a self-determined life in accordance with a greater whole. And it enables SELF-regulation and SELF-determination.
Every day trauma therapy shows that this connection to our inner selves can be lost due to individual traumatic experiences of loss or violence with the consequence that our SELF-regulation and SELF-determination abilities are impaired.
Here the standpoint is advocated and substantiated that there is a collective traumatization over and above that, which is due to a civilization that purposefully shatters the self-connection and thus the SELF-consciousness and the self-determination of individuals. This collective SELF-alienation is the cause of the current global crisis. Consequently, individual SELF-integration becomes necessary and it is quite possible to achieve selfconnection by means of collective self-empowerment.
1.1 Prelude Nature Idyll
Ive just returned from my early morning jog in Munichs English Garden. The morning sun is shining, birds are singing. Wild garlic is blossoming; the white blossoms look like unfolding New Years Eve fireworks. The scent of garlic Morning mist is still hanging over the meadow and with every step I took I could perceive ever more clearly a flock of sheep, the bleating of lambs and a strong odor of sheeps feces
Does that sound familiar to you? A morning in a forest, a starlit night, a path between the dunes and the storm-beaten sea We are deeply touched by the beauty and grandeur of nature, which already existed long before mankind. We sense a resonance inside of ourselves as if there were a part inside of us that already existed thousands of years ago. A deep understanding that I am also a part of nature, I belong to it. A feeling of awe of something bigger, which also conceived me, which I am a part of, which I am connected to. Of its grandeur, system and majesty that I may share. I feel as if I have been bestowed upon and Im grateful and would like to contribute my part.