Analytical Trilogy and #Occupy Wall St.

Fresh from the march in support of #Occupy Wall St. that occurred down here in São Paulo on Oct. 15, 2011, I have some things to add to the movement. There are protests happening in many cities in North America and Europe, and of course, the Arab Spring continues. Even totally censored China has activists plying the social networks to build support for their causes.

So, things are changing. And all this is welcome. We human beings that make up the 99%, and even some in the 1%, are waking up to the very disagreeable social situation and saying, “Hey wait a minute. This sucks!”

But I’m struck as I follow all this that now more than ever we need an orientation that goes beyond party politics and personal agendas and really gets us to the root causes of this mess. And then lays out a game plan for how to change things. Once and for all.

I have been living and broadcasting and teaching from the International Society of Analytical Trilogy for 10 years now, and become conscious every day of how the science Norberto Keppe has elaborated can help us in this struggle for our freedom. And I’d like to apply that science to the #Occupy Wall St. movement today on our program.

Analytical Trilogy and #Occupy Wall St., today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head.

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Sex, Lies and Real Deadly Sins

The feeding frenzy arising from the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn stimulate analysis. How we in the public rise up in collective indignation at suggestions of sexual impropriety while hardly looking up from our breakfast cereal at revelations of the lies that pushed us to war! Not to diminish the charges in any way, but there’s more going on here than first glance would tell us. Deeper explanations are needed … and fast.

Especially when we consider Strauss-Kahn’s prominent role in criticizing the global financial system while moving to reduce the importance of the dollar in IMF negotiations.

How to look at this terrible situation with consciousness, humility and even wisdom? We’ll conduct an Analytical Trilogy psycho-socio analysis of the DSK affair, and consider what real malfeasance goes on around us all the time unnoticed and even supported.

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The Science of Transcendence

What is the true nature of man? Is it good, beautiful and true? Or a mix of those elements with corruption and evil?

That question strikes deep to the issue philosophers have struggled to answer for centuries. Today, we are very fortunate to have some conclusions on the subject, originating from Norberto Keppe‘s school of Analytical Trilogy.

And the conclusions reached at Keppe’s scientific society allow us to look with new eyes on transcendence, psychic phenomena, death and human meaning. All of which we’ll do on our program today.

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Truth and Reconciliation, Analytical Trilogy Style

Bin Laden’s death. A major victory by the good guys over the bad guys? Or an inverted celebration based on a false sense of unity? We make a strong argument for the latter this week on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. You see, when the celebration fades away, the real problems will appear again. The economy, the growing gap between the poor and the extremely rich, the scandalous profits made by pharmaceutical companies that poison us with unnecessary medicines, the millions in drug cartel money laundered by the U.S. banking system … those are the real dangers facing America, not some obscure Al Qaeda terrorist network hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan.

And these real problems we’re not addressing. There are enormous dangers of using outside scapegoats to mask our deep societal problems, and we’ll explore all that on this week’s program with Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco.

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The Persecution of Truth: the Attacks Against Norberto Keppe

Norberto Keppe was well established in the U.S. in the 1980s. And his science of Analytical Trilogy was having a big effect – which the powerful didn’t like all that much.

Meaning that Keppe and his team of researchers were attacked relentlessly – especially when it became clear that Keppe was touching a sensitive nerve and making a lot of people conscious of the pathology of power and how it was leading America to ruin. Didn’t get Keppe too many invites to State Department soirees back then. And this was extremely unfortunate. If we had listened to Keppe back then – if we’d been given the chance to listen to him – things would be very different in America today.

Here’s the story of what happened, today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. Comments welcome at joneshealing@gmail.com

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True Meaning of Christmas

We put up the decorations. We send out the cards with the heartfelt wishes for peace and goodwill. We sometimes sing the songs.

But the desires for peace on earth and remembrances of the real meaning have long been obscured in the frustration of finding a blasted parking spot. Joyous Christmas time is not much of that anymore.

Today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, let’s re-visit the True Meaning of Christmas.

I remember in my youth waiting for the Christmas spirit. That elusive feeling of peace and spirituality that would kick in at some point in the holiday season. It could be a cold evening visit from a group of carollers that did it. Or a visit from a much-loved but little-seen relative. Or maybe Scrooge’s transformation in the annual family viewing of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

And now I’m dating myself, aren’t I? It even starts to sound like I’m talking about the 19th Century!

But it was something that did take over at some point: the Christmas spirit. For a short time, all would really be calm, all would really be bright.

But around 2:00 pm on Christmas Day, we’d all start to feel the restlessness kick in. No stores to go to. Nothing open. Nothing to do. Actually, maybe that’s why they instituted Christmas Day NBA games. Everyone just go too bored.

And I don’t think it’s any coincidence either that the 26th – Boxing Day in Canada – is the biggest sales day of the year in my country. People are so jumpy they’ll start lining up at 5:30 in the cold morning to be the first to slap credit cards on the counter to get the deeply discounted Blu-Ray DVD player or next year’s Christmas wrap.

But let’s try to return today if we can to remember the true spirit of Christmas. Let’s see if we can’t overcome our materialism a little to have a new spirit this year – and one that is much needed.

Dr. Norberto Keppe‘s Analytical Trilogy gives us a beautiful perspective – a theological, philosophical and even scientific insight into what should be our most precious and spiritual time of the year.

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The Roots of, and Solutions to, our Destruction

Everybody has theories about what’s causing our current economic breakdown. Those raised on the French philosophy of Sartre and Voltaire might lay the blame at the feet of society. More existential thinking would point the finger at individual responsibility. But only Norberto Keppe‘s new science gives us the tools to do a more complete analysis.

Today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, we’ll look at the roots of our destruction, and what we have to know about ourselves in order to stop, which is the crux of the thing, isn’t it? I’m Richard Lloyd Jones.

Well, one of the very clear problems we run into when tackling the issue of what’s going on these days is that we always wind up in the same place. There’s this theory over here, that one over there, three more somewhere in the middle. How in the world does the ordinary citizen make sense of it all? There are so many problems in so many areas.

The Comptroller General of the U.S. shocks us on 60 Minutes by talking about fiscal cancer and all that entails.

Al Gore’s excellent documentary warns us that the catastrophic deep freeze produced by special effects wizards in The Day After Tomorrow movie could actually happen.

Fanatics talk about Divine retribution.

You can get an earful in whichever direction you turn. But is there any way to boil all this chaos and crisis down to something chewable? Is there any way to point to an overarching and principal problem? And perhaps more importantly, if there is a defining explanation, can it also offer us a solution or two?

I think “yes” on all those counts. You see, our difficulties begin in our way of seeing and relating to the world. We and the society we live in are products of what’s going on in our philosophies of life, in our psyches.

And there’s one point from which we must start in considering this: we are not the latest editions of the human species standing on the most recent rung of the evolutionary ladder. We’re not like software upgrades – the latest version with considerable improvements over Zinzanthropus Man from several million years ago.

This is a key aspect of Brazilian psychoanalyst, Norberto Keppe‘s work: that we have all perfection inside us. As nature is complets, so are we. Our problem is that we deny and even destroy what we are. This makes our problem not one of not having arrived, of not knowing any better. No. It’s more serious. We know what is right, what we should do individually and collectively to have a better world, to have the paradise we should live in. We know … but we don’t do it. This is something deep inside the human psyche, which is why it took a psychoanalyst to discover it. Dr. Norberto Keppe‘s work is totally about helping us understand this dynamic.

And it’s what we explore all the time in this Podcast. And what we’ll be expanding into an Internet radio show coming in January. Make sure you get on the mailing list to be informed about that: rich@richjonesvoice.com

That show will be conducted with psychoanalyst, Dr. Claudia Pacheco, who joins me on today’s podcast as well.

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Society on the Couch

Normally we see a person with serious problems we recommend professional help. After all, we go to the gym to keep our bodies toned, we go to the driving range. Why wouldn’t we do something to address those psychological glitches that pop up in all of us?

But what do we do when our whole society is showing signs of breakdown?

Today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, we’ll try to put “society on the couch”.

But a couple of things first. I always appreciate hearing from you. Your feedback is really helpful in helping me shape the program, so don’t hesitate if you’ve got a point or a question to raise. I’m always available – rich@richjonesvoice.com. If it takes me a day or two to get back to you, hang in. I’m getting to it.

If you’ve listened to the Podcast for awhile, you’ll know Dr. Claudia Pacheco very well. She’s a frequent contributor here and frankly is indispensable to this program – and indeed to everything we are doing down here in Brazil at the International Society of Analytical Trilogy. Well, Claudia and I are working on something really interesting … a live, Internet call-in radio program which we’re targeting to launch in January 2009. Make sure you’re on the mailing list to learn more – rich@richjonesvoice.com

What this’ll be is an online advice show with Claudia, who has 25 years of experience in Norberto Keppe’s Analytical Trilogy – to my mind, the most innovative, effective and powerful form of psychoanalysis on the planet. Anyone who’s got any experience with Trilogical analysis knows the experience of taking a long-standing issue to a session and getting a completely fresh take on it from the analyst.

“Wow! I never saw it that way before,” is a common comment.

Keppe’s Analytical Trilogy goes to the root of the problem, which is always something deep inside us, hidden from view. This is true deep psychology, often helping us see clearly for the first time long-standing issues that have been blocking us from achieving what we feel we have the potential to achieve. And who doesn’t feel that? And after Norberto Keppe himself, Dr. Claudia Pacheco is the best in the world at helping people at this deep level. So this radio program will be very cool. To have a chance to listen to her weekly will be a great opportunity to address some of the core issues of human beings … and you’ll be able to call in personally with individual questions and issues.

We’re calling the program “Healing Through Consciousness”, and we’re both pretty excited about it. Make sure you get on the mailing list. We’ll keep you updated.

You know, we’ve had a lot of response to the last 3 podcasts looking at the roots of the economic crisis. A few thousand downloads of those programs – giving a pretty loud message that people are looking for some answers, some ways to understand what is going on.

One of the applications of Keppe’s work is in the area of social psychology – analyzing the society as we would a person’s neurosis. And why not? The corporation’s been given the same rights as a human being through some decision of Congress way back along the way. As the Federal Reserve – a mostly private institution – was created by Congress back in the early 1900s, even though they had no constitutional basis to do so. So why wouldn’t we hold society’s systems up to scrutiny?

In fact, we must. I noticed in the N.Y. Times earlier this week that European and North American political leaders admit they may not be willing to fulfill their commitments to cap harmful carbon emissions or phase out polluting factories because of the slumping economy. A European Commission spokeswoman said, “Investing in reducing emissions is more difficult to do in times of economic downturn.”

This is simply hard to believe, isn’t it? How in 2008 can we make decisions based on profits over the environment? Hard to believe unless you understand about Inversion, Keppe’s seminal psychological discovery. Keppe says in his beautiful book, Glorification, “Inversion, sickness, is the act of rejecting life, labeling it as bad; it is the attitude of denying truth, “seeing” it as negative; it is the wish to alter reality, “believing” it to be harmful – all because of the great envy, the enormous envy, we feel toward the Creator. We want to take His place by substituting what is fictitious for what is real, and we are assailed by the most terrible anxiety. If we were thankful for what is good we would be happy, but we constantly destroy all that is sound in ourselves because it was not created by any decision of our own.”

Isn’t that something to think about? Let’s bring Dr. Claudia Pacheco in here today to explore this more.

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Economic Crisis III – Psychoanalysis of Society

We’ve got change in the White House. And in the tennis ATP rankings. A change in Madonna’s marital status, too … for what that’s worth. Not that those last 2 mean much. And whether the first is truly meaningful remains to be seen, doesn’t it?

One thing is clear, though … there’s not much change in the economic picture.

Today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, we’ll continue our series looking at the causes of the economic crisis.

Well, after a historic day at the polls, America has woken up to the same scary reality as before. Jobless rates are up, stock prices are generally down … well, you know the story. Some of you much better than me, actually. But what I’ve been trying to do in this series of podcasts over the past few weeks is investigate some of the reasons for the mess. And I don’t mean in terms of explaining how the sub-prime mortgage market suddenly went south. No. But one thing I can help with is getting at the causes of all this. This is no small feat, in reality, and can be done because of the expansive work done on the subject at the Brazilian school of Analytical Trilogy founded by Dr. Norberto Keppe.

Look, one of the hardest things about trying to get a handle on what’s really going on is the style of the media. You watch CNN or CBS, and you get volumes of information. Analysis of the sub-prime aspect, reporting of G-20 meetings with ex-president Bush (and man, does it feel good to say ex-president Bush) … you get opinions and policies and figures, and spin, glorious spin. But it’s extremely difficult to pick your way through the information.

It’s always been like this. In our Information Age, we’re bombarded with information but starving for perspective. You have to know how to understand all this, and I don’t mean in the sense of being able to debate economic policy – the benefits of government stimulus packages over tighter regulations and broader oversight, or vice versa. No, there’s got to be an overall view to be had.

And it’s exactly here that Norberto Keppe’s work does what was before him very hard to do. Because of his success at mapping the human psyche, Keppe was also able to apply those findings to the society as a whole – verifying that what the human being does outside he first does inside himself. That our external social structures are simply the reflection of ways of seeing the world, of philosophies and biases and often questionnable reasoning.

One of Keppe’s landmark discoveries is that we are inverted. We act against our nature now in favor of our inverted values. “Cash flow is more important than your mother,” as one Wall Street broker termed it. This Inversion stems from inside us. I want to start there today because understanding our psyche leads to understanding our society. And that means putting the finger on causes, so that we can take real steps to change, not just rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. As always, love to hear your thoughts … rich@richjonesvoice.com

Sari Koivukangas, a professor at the Keppe/Pacheco Educational Institute here in São Paulo joins me today.

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Hope for a Troubled World

We’ve been in the dark about ourselves for a long time. But writers and thinkers from Homer to Schopenhauer have always known there was something powerful going on below the surface of our demeanor. “There’s daggers in men’s smiles,” as Shakespeare put it. But with the help of a brilliant Brazilian psychoanalyst, the way is becoming clear.

Today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, Hope for a Troubled World.

Norberto R. Keppe has been plying his trade for half a century or so. And it’s a difficult trade indeed … developing a theoretical, philosophical base to understand, and a therapeutic methodology to treat, the human psyche. That vast, murky part of us that lurks in the shadows has been perceived but never brought fully out into the lights.

Freud caught a whiff of it in his early reading of Schopenhauer and his early studies with the great hypnotist and neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. The subject fascinated him sufficiently to dedicate his life’s work to developing a way to treat what we couldn’t see, and worse, didn’t want to see all that much. Humankind’s greatest artists depicted kingdoms being lost and lives being destroyed by the machinations of this unexplored netherworld. And those dark, unfathomable passions lay deep inside us, as well we ordinary humans suspected in our quiet moments when we were alone with our thoughts.

The problem was, Freud and Jung and Kraepelin and the other founding fathers of psychology didn’t get it quite right. And that left a void in understanding, and a hodge-podge of theories and opinions that have often conflicted. Certainly, they’ve confused us, and led some of us to discredit psychology. “We’ve had 100 years of psychotherapy and the world’s getting worse,” as James Hillman and Michael Ventura put it in their critical analysis 15 years ago.

But that’s only because they haven’t read Keppe’s work yet. Norberto Keppe has discovered some answers for us. For example, that we are not unconscious at all, but conscious of much more than we realize. There is great hope in Keppe’s science of Analytical Trilogy, which we’ll explore soon at our World Conference of Analytical Trilogy, Sept. 24 – 27, 2008 in San Diego. And that we’ll explore today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head with Dr. Claudia Pacheco.

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