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The Way Out

by Dieter Duhm and Rudolf Hansel Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 at 12:06 PM
marc1seed@yahoo.com

Peace can and should be lived - now and by all of us, regardless of the often wrong decisions made by those in power. Small communities in which traumas are dealt with and loving interaction with one another is practiced can become the seeds of something new that can help this often seemingly hopeless world to heal.

The way out

The killings in Israel and Palestine can end if more people remember the sacred that unites us all.

The Jewish people were severely traumatized when the state of Israel was founded in 1948. Unfortunately, the trauma was often "coped with" by Jews perpetrating violence against Palestinians - with moral support from the former perpetrator country: Germany. A chain of events was set in motion that has resulted in much bloodshed to this day through strikes and counter-strikes. However, Dieter Duhm, co-founder of the Tamera Healing Biotope in Portugal, points to a loving and peaceful space behind the superficially raging conflicts. We can connect with this space and draw the strength for reconciliation from it again and again. Peace can and should be lived - now and by all of us, regardless of the often wrong decisions made by those in power. Small communities in which traumas are dealt with and loving interaction with one another is practiced can become the seeds of something new that can help this often seemingly hopeless world to heal.

by Dieter Duhm

[This article posted on 12/1/2023 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.manova.news/artikel/der-ausweg-5.]

The fate of the Jewish people

The peoples who are fighting each other today all come from a very dark history of expulsion, war and persecution. They all carry this history within them as an inherited memory. The Jewish people have been hit particularly hard. Since the Crusades, they have been persecuted and killed everywhere.

The climax of this collective tragedy was the murder of millions of Jews in Nazi Germany, which was declared the raison d'être of the "Aryan" people after the Reichspogromnacht on November 9, 1938. What then happened in the concentration camps was so horrific that it defies our imagination. This is the first chapter of the terrible history that we are now reliving. But the story continues. When the new state of Israel was founded under Ben Gurion in 1948, there was a struggle with the surrounding Arab peoples that continues to this day.

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Painting by Dieter Duhm at the age of 16, 1959

The cycle of victim and perpetrator

When Germany became a democratic state after the Second World War, it wanted to make amends for past crimes by proclaiming an inseparable friendship and solidarity with the Israeli state and protecting Israel from all Arab attacks.

Now Israel could do whatever it wanted. They expelled the Palestinians and destroyed their villages. They built forbidden settlements in Palestinian territory and bombed civilian homes in the Gaza Strip even during relatively harmless attacks by Hamas. Of course, far more civilians died in the process than Hamas activists.

But Germany remained silent and continued to hold its protective hand over Israel. Anyone who raised their voice against the Israelis' actions, which violated human rights, was labeled an anti-Semite and silenced. It was forgotten that the surrounding peoples are also Semites. What the Israeli military has done in Gaza over the last 20 years has been just as anti-Semitic as what has been done to the Jews.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas' most horrific acts of revenge to date began. No human being could endure the bestial atrocities now committed by Hamas terrorists.

But we should also reflect on whether this revenge would have been so bad if Germany and other countries had put the brakes on the actions of the Israeli military in Gaza over the last 20 years.

I have nothing to do with hatred of Jews and certainly nothing to do with the demonstrations in support of Hamas. I am only saying what many others have thought but not said because they were afraid of the consequences of this truth. It is the Ahrimanic principle of evil in its purest form that is now bringing about the terrible things that have long been latent in the fate of the peoples involved. Those who have experienced violence are almost always prepared to pass this violence on to others.

Glimmers of hope

The situation of the hostages and the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza is so terrible that it can hardly be described. According to the World Children's Fund, around 3,500 children have been killed since the beginning of the Israeli invasion until November 1, 2023, and an average of 400 more children are injured or killed every day. What would we do if it were our own children?

Gaza is about to turn into one big children's graveyard. There is no way out for anyone involved. With every Israeli counter-attack, many more civilians are killed than Hamas activists, and whether the 240 hostages can be freed alive this way is more than questionable.

The main suffering lies with the civilian population. The people have too little water, food and fuel to care for their sick and survive the winter. The Israeli side is blocking the delivery of fuel, which all hospitals need above all, arguing that Hamas could use the fuel for their evil purposes.

One ray of hope is the new corridor to an Egyptian military hospital, which the Egyptians have set up for humanitarian reasons in order to save the most seriously injured Palestinians. This showed that a human heart still beats in the midst of terror.

Another ray of hope was the courageous words of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who pointed out in succinct words that the Hamas murders did not happen "in a vacuum". Today, more and more movements have the courage to speak the truth.

It is to be expected that large demonstrations against the Israeli war in Gaza will soon take place in Germany too. I don't mean hate demonstrations. I mean humanitarian demonstrations by people who are taking to the streets for ethical reasons.

The bombed refugee camps and the now almost 4,000 dead children can no longer be justified by the fact that Israel has to defend its country, because the children have done nothing to them.

As long as violence is met with counter-violence, everything will get worse. We must find other ways before the dreaded conflagration involves all the surrounding peoples. We now need very courageous groups from Israel and other countries to do everything they can to stop the atrocities. I still believe that new humane forces can then form, from which new concepts for peace can emerge.

The light of the world

After the atrocities committed by Hamas, my mind was in a state of shock for days. Then finally came the experience of light again, which revealed a completely different world. I saw the fundamental love of human beings and their togetherness with all fellow creatures. I saw a world without enmity and war. I saw it clearly and distinctly. This vision was not a fantasy, but a perfect reality. It exists as a very real possibility in our human world.

Behind or above all misery there objectively exists the other reality, which I described in my book as the "sacred matrix". All people, even the worst, are connected to the sacred matrix, otherwise they could not live at all. And all people, even the worst, carry an ethical imprint of the sacred matrix within them. Everyone could therefore live in absolute peace with each other if their soul cellars were not filled with the traumatic events of war history over the last five thousand years.

The cure is to build spiritual spaces where the sacred power of life is more powerful than any trauma. I believe that there are already some groups on earth today who have taken on this task.

Liberation from the hypnosis of war

Imagine a new kind of event taking place on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Jews, Christians, Mohammedans and perhaps also some people from the Hamas movement meet for a joint peace action. I know how naïve that sounds, and yet I can no longer rule out such possibilities, which come from a deeper soul reason of the divine world.

As a result of my spiritual life experiences, I also cannot rule out the possibility that Hamas will make a humanitarian gesture that will change the situation. At the same time, groups of Israelis and Palestinians are meeting in mutual friendship to build new peace centers. They are being supported by the many groups around the world who are laying down their lives to end these senseless wars around the world.

Slowly but surely, more and more humane centers will emerge in all continents of the earth, whose order of life is in accordance with the principles of the sacred matrix. This will create a new code for life on earth, which will be the same in all countries. The new information is transmitted to all people and all groups who have decided to live a new life. Science refers to this as "genetic resonance".

Imagine, furthermore, that the former enemies meet in real friendship. I have experienced several times how supposed enemies have turned into friends when I have met them without fear and defense. The same principle applies in love and in every war.

Real peace can never be established through weapons, but only through the solidarity and cooperation of awakened people who have seen the light. They are not really enemies at all. They only encounter each other as enemies because they carry their traumatic pasts within them and because they have not yet been given the opportunity to free themselves from this mental grip.

If they were liberated, they would sing songs together, say prayers together and work together to build new centers of peace. They would build this new world of light in such a way that enmity could no longer arise. People who were just about to kill each other would now live together in peace and solidarity, perhaps even in deep human love.

This is much more than a naïve pipe dream, because there is a power in human nature that makes such transformations possible. Above all, there is still a power that is higher than all violence. We can call it the "Christ power" or simply "God".

When I speak of God, I do not mean the punishing monster of old, nor do I mean a power that is above all things, but I mean the power that brought us all into being and that is active in all beings. God is not outside of man, but belongs to human nature just as much as love and togetherness with all fellow creatures.

The counteraction

Very similar things that I have just said about the Middle East war apply to all wars in the world, and now especially to the Ukraine war. Here, too, people are meeting as enemies who could just as well be friends. To put an end to this madness, we need a radical counteraction. Condemnation and partisanship no longer make sense here.

Even the terrorists of Hamas were once children who loved their mothers. A humane counteraction can be achieved if people have the courage to stand up to the public propaganda of governments and the media and build a new order of life based on truth and solidarity.

A humane counter-control happens when people unite in the name of the sacred matrix and its ethics and thereby enter new inner information into the global biocomputer. A few determined peace groups would be enough to bring the human world into the resonance field of the sacred matrix.

We can only change hell if we know heaven. Heaven is part of our spiritual and genetic equipment and can of course be realized by people who are able to overcome their own trauma and switch their soul life to the higher world. For this we need spiritual spaces in which people are willing and able to make such a switch. We speak here of "healing biotopes".

If such spaces really exist, then the miracle of a life without a traumatic past arises in the participants. They no longer need their underlying enmities, rivalries and power struggles, which have caused almost all communities to fail. They live in full trust with each other and in this way open themselves up to the influx of divine forces. Now they can do things they would never have thought of, because now they are under the umbrella of a power that is higher than any enmity. Now they begin to understand how and why every war on earth can be ended.

Main disease of our time

All wars have arisen from destroyed human relationships. This also means destroyed relationships between people who once loved each other. We have coined the phrase:

"There can be no peace in the world as long as there is war in love."

This refers to love between the sexes and every other kind of love. The main disease of our time is unhappiness in love. When love turns into hatred, you need someone to blame against whom the hatred can be unleashed without restraint. This is often the unconscious background to war and other acts of violence.

Private relationship wars, like public wars, come from a psychological underground which, as a result of several thousand years of war history, is stored as a collective hereditary memory in the soul cellars of the whole of humanity. Our higher ethical and spiritual powers are often destroyed and devoured in the process. Today, humanity as a whole is in a deep crisis that can no longer be resolved by conventional means.

But today we are experiencing a time of transformation in which the light forces of many people are being reactivated. Together with these forces, we are saying "No"! No to the public propaganda of lies and all ideological distractions, No to weapons and the arms industry, No to all violence against humans and animals, No to factory farming and slaughterhouses, No to the destruction of nature in the name of profit and the much-vaunted international "competitiveness".

We are working on autonomous regions that free themselves from the grip of the existing great powers and reintegrate themselves into the orgonotic overall system of life. The divine world provides us with the things we need to live for free if we follow the laws of nature and not those of money and profit. It also provides us with the spiritual forces we need to find a higher solution instead of permanent murder.

We understand the human horror, despair and impotent hatred that the Hamas terrorists have unleashed through the massacre in Israel on October 7th. We understand why the many Israeli protesters who had previously taken to the streets against Netanyahu's government policy have come together again under these new circumstances and demanded revenge. And yet I have one big request: don't let your emotions get the better of you, because that will only make things worse. Let me remind you of Goethe's words:

"That is the curse of the evil deed, that it must continually give birth to evil."

The world needs your help now. We ask all those who are still able to do so to help stop the murder. You are not alone. Help prevent hatred and revenge from taking on a life of their own forever this time. Demonstrate for peace.

If the people of peace from Israel were to stand in front of the entry roads to Gaza in their thousands, the tanks would no longer be able to get through. We are entering a new time and a new reality that is no longer governed by the rules of hatred, but by the rules of our divine origin beyond all religions and parties.

Detach yourselves from the bad things your ancestors had to suffer and establish bases for a new Israel. If this succeeds in Israel, it will succeed in the whole world.

In memory of our brothers and sisters who have lost their loved ones and now have to live in cruel conditions, let us do everything we can while we can still live in freedom. With the determination to overcome all kinds of violence, injustice and lies, we invest our energy and our money in the issues of a new human culture and humanity.

On behalf of all those who are forced to live in inhumane conditions, we call on all our many Israeli friends to use all human, journalistic, financial and spiritual forces to end the pain. Deeply convinced that there is a non-violent way, we will do all that is possible in the divine world from which we have all emerged.

Shalom and Salaam!

Dieter Duhm, born in 1942, is an art historian, psychoanalyst and sociologist with a doctorate. He became known for his book "Angst im Kapitalismus" (Fear in Capitalism). Based on scientific, political and spiritual insights, he developed a global peace plan. Since spring 1978, together with Sabine Lichtenfels and others, he has been setting up the Healing Biotopes project, initially in Germany and since 1995 in Portugal under the name "Tamera": a center for concrete utopia and international peace work. Further information at dieter-duhm.com.

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Pausing at the abyss

Enlightenment is only successful if it can change people's consciousness.

At a time when the use of nuclear bombs threatens the annihilation of humanity, we are more dependent than ever on independent and courageous intellectuals to enlighten people, to teach them what is truth and what is a lie. However, this enlightenment can only be successful or effective if it reaches people's consciousness, i.e. their attitudes and appeals to their emotions. Otherwise, as pure information, it only remains on the surface. A few examples will illustrate this.

by Rudolf Hänsel

[This article posted on 11/16/2023 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.manova.news/artikel/innehalten-am-abgrund.]

One problem is that people are not aware of their individual and collective prejudices, so they cannot be held accountable. In order to be able to give up these prejudices, they must be made conscious through psychotherapy. This is possible at any time.

Cleansing individual and collective prejudices

As a psychologist, I agree with my teacher Friedrich Liebling, who commented on the problem of enlightenment half a century ago:

"Politics is prepared in the minds and hearts of men; men act tomorrow as they think today, therefore enlightenment is a concern whose importance cannot be overestimated.

The purpose of enlightenment efforts is to purify human consciousness of individual and collective prejudices. The future of our culture will essentially depend on whether there will be enough 'enlighteners' who will be able to remove from the prepared masses those prejudices which are the ideological background of the catastrophes of humanity" (1).

Individual prejudices

A frequently encountered prejudice, for example, is that it is "not good to eat cherries" with people, that people are not good or social and that we should therefore be afraid of our fellow human beings. However, this attitude, like many other prejudices, has its origins in childhood. A violent upbringing by parents and teachers can lead to a child slowly developing this negative view of other people. It is usually "dragged along" into adulthood, and the person then acts accordingly.

In fact, as psychology research has shown, humans are by nature social, peaceful and rational creatures who like to associate with others. This talent is not innate, but is acquired in childhood and can therefore be encouraged at any time.

Collective prejudices

Individual prejudices are often also collective prejudices. Collective prejudices, which are found in the majority of a society and lead to human catastrophes, are well known from the time of colonization, from the two world wars and also from the current wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and therefore do not need to be listed in detail. They are always seen and used by the political "elite" as a "tried and tested" means of instigating wars against another people.

Raising awareness through psychotherapy

As already mentioned, it is a problem that people are not aware of prejudices and therefore cannot be held responsible for their devastating consequences. One exception is the actions of unscrupulous, powerful "world leaders" who are well aware of the prejudices and use them "profitably" against the people.

To ensure that enlightening information does not live a shadowy existence on the surface of human consciousness, it is necessary for both individual and collective prejudices to be made conscious in psychotherapy.

Only when a person's emotional life can be addressed will they be able to question and abandon the prejudices they have been made aware of in their relationship of trust with the psychotherapist. As a result, they will begin to feel, think - and act - in accordance with their nature (2).

The exclusion of new ways of thinking and living has not only existed since corona. We can counter it through self-criticism and training in peace skills. Exclusive reprint from "The sacred matrix".

06.12.2023 by Dieter Duhm

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