Unedited footage of the bombing of Nagasaki (silent)

[David Morris]

Stanislav Grof has an intriguing theory of perinatal collective unconscious
experience as the inspiration for "male birthing" imagery and symbology in
weapons of modern warfare.  The reality of the birth process as an
extremely traumatic and extended experience that often produces death and
feels like a life-threatening catastrophe after the peaceful existence in
the womb has been overlooked by most of psychology for no valid reason. The
violence of war is seen as a means of reliving that experience from the
seat of control, the one giving birth/death.

http://www.stanislavgrof.com/pdf/Roots.Human.Violence_Eranos.pdf

However, in the last several decades, psychedelic research and deep experi-
ential psychotherapies have revealed additional significant roots of
violence in deep recesses of the psyche that lie beyond postnatal biography1.
Thus feelings of vital threat, pain, and suffocation experienced for many
hours during the passage through the birth canal generate enormous amounts
of murderous aggression that remains repressed and stored in the organism.
As Sigmund Freud pointed out in his book Mourning and Melancholia,
repressed aggression turns into depression and self-destructive impulses2.
Perinatal energies and emotions thus by their very nature represent a
mixture of murderous and suicidal drives.

The reliving of birth in various forms of experiential psychotherapy is not
limited to the replay of the emotional feelings and physical sensations
experienced during the pas- sage through the birth canal; it is typically
accompanied by a variety of experiences from the collective unconscious
por- traying scenes of unimaginable violence.

On Saturday, February 8, 2014, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I seem to remember that the inserts give the reason for the painting.
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> 2014-02-08 18:16 GMT+01:00 <kelber at mindspring.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kelber at mindspring.com');>
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>> The bomb, painted for some unknown reason, looks like a swollen malignant
>> breast, as if its designers harbored a long-festering, seething rage at
>> being weaned from the breast and wanted to take it out on the women and
>> children below.
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>> Laura
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>> >From: Rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','richard.romeo at gmail.com');>
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>> >Sent: Feb 7, 2014 8:30 PM
>> >To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','against.the.dave at gmail.com');>
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>> >Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','pynchon-l at waste.org');>
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>> >Subject: Re: Unedited footage of the bombing of Nagasaki (silent)
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>> >Sorta like Spock feeling the untold millions on Vulcan dying
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>> >What hideous beauty man gets up to
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>> >> On Feb 7, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','against.the.dave at gmail.com');>>
>> wrote:
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>> >> Unedited footage of the bombing of Nagasaki (silent)<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9v5sW6t0zI>
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>> http://io9.com/silent-raw-footage-of-the-bombing-of-nagasaki-is-absolu-1518325727
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