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The Psychology of a Homeland

and the Aberrations Caused by Not Having One
By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok.  Copyright © 2008 by Ariel Bar Tzadok.  All rights reserved.

Modern social and political problems all exist because of preexisting psychological complexes operating in the minds of individuals.  Address the psychology of the individual and one can successfully address social and political issues.  Yet, the psychodynamics of every individual is not an island unto itself.  Every individual psyche exists in a greater ocean of consciousness and is influenced by many things.  One must be able to recognize the greater whole before one can address the individual parts.  In this respect, we are required to understand the spiritual/psychic component of the mind as an integral part of both individual and collective psychology.  We must also realize that all these components of the mind are also to connected to other elements, one important one is one’s homeland and culture.

For millennia peoples around the world have fought and died to protect and defend what for them is their homeland.  In order to understand the psychological/spiritual significance of real estate we must delve into aspects of reality known to many ancient indigenous peoples but almost unknown and ignored by those who lack any spiritual/psychic development. 

The Sage RaMBaM (Maimonides) wrote in his Mishneh Torah Law Code (Y.T.3:9) that planets themselves are actually living organisms that are conscious of themselves, the angelic order that operates physical matter and of G-d Himself.  Yes, Planet Earth is a sentient conscious personality not too unlike us.  Although it is a life form radically different from our own, it is still nonetheless a conscious, sentient independent life form.  Ultimately the Earth is alive, thinks and feels.

This fundamental knowledge has been the source of millennia of idol worship of those who worship the Earth and request from her directly her bounty.  This type of worship was well known in Biblical days (and prohibited by Torah).  This was the underlying concepts of planting the Ashera trees, which represented the power of growth in “Mother” Earth.

The Earth has always been metaphorically referred to as our “mother,” even as G-d has been referred to as our Heavenly “Father.”  Indeed, even in the story of the creation of Adam some have seen reference to this concept.  When the Torah says, “let Us create Man,” the Us in question has been interpreted by some as G-d speaking to the Earth.  G-d would form Man from the dust of the Earth and then breathe into Him the Living Soul from Heaven.  The Human species is thus a composite entity comprised of two distinct parts, physical and spiritual.  Yet, unless the two work together in harmony, neither can exist independently.

The human species is thus integrally bound to the Earth from which comes forth our flesh, and to where our flesh shall return.  Therefore all the time that we sojourn on Earth we are integrally bound to the land.  We each share a spark of the soul of the Earth.  This spark is our life-force.  In Hebrew, we call it Nefesh.  Torah states that it resides within our blood.

There is an interesting point made by the psychologist Carl Jung that is of relevance here.  His entire body of psychological/psychiatric work is build upon the premise that all humanity at our deepest psychological level are all somehow connected.  Essentially we are all parts of a greater whole.  He refers to this as the Collective Unconscious, or in his later writings as the Objective Psyche. 

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We have now turned a corner in human history and have chosen a course towards destiny.
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Time and Mind
By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok.  Copyright © 2008 by Ariel Bar Tzadok.  All rights reserved.

The speed of time is not a constant.  Time flows at different speeds depending upon one’s point of reference.  When Torah spoke of the world being created in six days, that period of time was measured by the Divine standard.  We know today that by human standards, creation occurred billions of years ago.  One does not contradict the other.  Each speaks within the context of its own relativity.  Mind you, we did not need modern science to tell us the age of the universe.  Over 800 years ago the great Torah sage, Rabbi Yitzhak of Akko wrote about this in detail.  The details of this are merely an academic curiosity.  What is important is the actual psychological nature of the relative movement of time. 

The speed of a thing is perceived relatively by those perceiving.  For some a thing moves fast, for others a thing moves slowly.  The conscious human mind is pretty much wired to focus on a specific thing for only a short amount of time.  After a specific amount of time passes with no satisfactory stimulation from an external source, the focus of the conscious mind passes on to something else from which it hopes to extract some form of stimulation.  This is a basic statement of both psychology and neurology.  The human brain likes to stay entertained; it hates to be bored.

Knowing this little piece of information makes it easier for those who wish to manipulate and direct human focus and attention.  We all think that we perceive things the same; this is definitely not true.  One of the ways to gain power over the cause of an adversary is simply to wait to fight them.  Causes, whether they are political, social or personal all share one thing in common; they are all charged by emotion.  Yet, to maintain an emotional charge for something one must keep it in focus.  Yet, when the passion of the moment or the time passes, interest in that specific cause also wanes and passes.  All the opposition then has to do is a simple mop up operation to remove whatever small and insignificant remainder of the adversary remains.  Simply being patient and allowing the other side to run out of steam is often how the weak chose to confront and defeat the mighty.

For those who have patience, time is not moving too slow.  They can wait years or even decades for the emotional fervor of their opposition to wane and eventually die.  In most cases, waits are never that long.  Usually emotional commitments to most causes are short lived.  While those so committed will continue to proclaim their beliefs in a thing, still after a short time their belief system is even subject to pursuation.  Once the emotional charge has burned itself out of a cause then all remaining intellectual attachment to that cause has no legs to stand on and quickly becomes subject to rationalization and change.  In the end, those with knowledge and patience wait out their opposition to succumb to the most fundamental of human frailties, the psychological need for continuing stimulation.  Deny the opposition conflict to further arouse their emotions and you strip from them the power to continue the fight.

Throughout history this maneuver has been used by numerous warlords and generals on the battlefield with great success.  What most of us fail to realize is that this same ancient military technique has been adopted by political organizations today and is even used by many of the world’s police departments and armies when having to face types of civil unrest too large to just destroy using violent force.  All they have to do is contain the problem.  First they limit its exposure in the media; this is done so as to not allow any further emotional eruptions.  The more people who see the beaten and oppressed minority the more people tend to take their side in sympathy. 

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