/ world at the moment information/ I do not know if it is a signal of destiny, but it surely so occurred that I proceed the fifth chapter – about freedom and unfreedom, from my new e book “The Crucial Psychology of Existential Experiences” within the situations of the pandemic and the state of emergency within the nation, after as I comparatively “calmly” completed the earlier ones – the introduction, the chapter on
loss of life, the chapter on suicide and the chapter on the which means of life. Properly, I had slightly hassle three months in the past – a suspicion of bladder most cancers, but it surely turned out that I used to be wholesome, and the expectation of the ultimate prognosis was related with experiences that I’ve been studying for 20 years in my lectures in regards to the loss of life of scholars, described already and on this e book. If God has stated it, I’ll write the final chapter – the one about love, though if one thing occurs, I believe that the “St. Kliment Ohridski” College Publishing Home can publish solely the textual content up so far – I am certain it is going to arouse curiosity, just like my earlier e book – “The Crucial Psychology of Bulgarian Historical past”. A lot for private issues – I am sharing them to make my beginning positions clearer!…
I’ve identified for a very long time that the fashionable Western and former Catholic-Protestant civilization, to which Bulgaria by no means traditionally belongs, is continually killing the human in man, hypocritically changing it with the imagined Euro-Atlantic values of free motion of individuals, items and capital. The regulative psychic motion of this ideological development truly creates and reproduces that alienated being – the mass
a man-consumer, he imagined that he was free solely as a result of he had damaged with the traditions – tribal, spiritual, of the group by which he lived.
“The worldwide man on the whole” – the fashionable liberal ideologeme – can be
as concurrently contrived and unfree as was “communist man on the whole” – the previous communist ideologeme. That’s the reason Georges Bernanos stated that “whether or not it’s liberal or Marxist, it doesn’t matter in any respect, as a result of fashionable Western society is continually destroying man’s resistance forces”, turning him, within the phrases of Hermann Hesse, solely right into a “lonely howling wolf of alienation”. Kurt Vonnegut even recommended that planet Earth “be
free from this mass man in order that she herself might survive”…
It’s absurd to suppose {that a} common definition of freedom is feasible, as a result of there is no such thing as a common freedom – we will know and expertise particular person concrete manifestations of freedom, however we will by no means have a sensible concept of ”freedom on the whole”, as a result of such a merely it doesn’t exist – all the pieces else is ideological hypothesis, whether or not liberal or Marxist, it doesn’t matter in any respect.
All which means any specific freedom is primarily religiously or culturally decided, and it could solely be understood and felt if the person human communities by which individuals occur to stay their lives between beginning and loss of life are understood. The present world state of affairs surrounding the pandemic associated to the coronavirus solely confirms this basic thesis of my proposal for a unique psychological paradigm – that of Crucial Psychology. Particularly after we take into account the truth that at the moment’s common human expertise of COVID 19 is in truth an expression of the common human worry of loss of life, because the virus clearly additionally implies a deadly consequence, whereas, in flip, particular religiously and culturally decided existential patterns “are known as upon” truly reduce that worry to make life extra bearable. In different phrases, as can be evident within the present state of affairs, completely different spiritual and cultural human communities and their individuals take care of the expertise of at the moment’s worry otherwise…
It’s apparent, following this logic, that fashionable China has handled the menace very efficiently not as a result of it’s “communist”, however as a result of it – one of many two oldest a number of thousand 12 months previous written civilizations (together with India), within the depths of its collective psyche is Confucian, which suggests a concrete and particular expertise of freedom, incomprehensible to the mass Western client. Tons of medical gear from China and 9 Chinese language docs – specialists within the coronavirus – arrived in Italy to assist, whereas the “legendary” European Union watched the Botusha state of affairs extensively
closed eyes. What better hypocrisy than this typical Western mimicry – till a month in the past you talked in regards to the European Union as the best political creation, and at the moment the member international locations are closing their borders, isolating themselves, with no drop of compassion and solidarity amongst themselves. That is proper – cash would not convey freedom, you should purchase issues with it, you might be an incorrigible client, however freedom is a mind-set, not of the physique. And when for Western societies and folks the Spirit is an pointless relic of the previous, how will you suppose you’re
free?!…
The trainer Petar Danov, whom the Bulgarian group nonetheless doesn’t wish to acknowledge as a world genius, used to say that “humility is probably the most direct approach to God”. Humility doesn’t imply to give up, however fairly the other – humility implies the potential for realizing your obligatory extremeness, and exactly this expertise is freedom – private and social, by way of which individually and collectively to hunt an account of the nothingness clothed in energy, who’re unable to meet the primary function of politics, as Aristotle believed: “To always increase the standard of lifetime of the individuals”. Having found God in himself by way of humility and felt his freedom on this manner, each individual is prepared for something – the trainer Petar Danov known as for simply such a mind-set: “God will not be within the church, God is in every one in every of us and if discover inside ourselves, that may set us free.” This is the reason the Bulgarian Orthodox Church anathematized the Grasp, and we, the Bulgarian group, proceed to be within the situation he described way back: “Even when I harnessed you with 9 pairs of buffaloes, I nonetheless can’t get you out of the swamp by which you’re caught!” …
However, if by way of humility yow will discover God in your self, and God in you is the opposite identify of non-public freedom, then Georges Bernanos is totally proper when he claims: “Freedom is just in you, fools!”…
That is the state of affairs, women and gents, my expensive comrades! Nobody could make you free – not a chief minister, not a prosecutor, not a professor normal, not events and occasion leaders, till you your self discover freedom in your self!
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