The definition of dystopia might also be applied to emotional and mental disturbance. Anyone who has ever consulted an analyst or psychiatrist would say that dystopia describes exactly how they feel.

I daresay few people read Aesop's Fables anymore. It would seem a book more suited for simpler times. When I was a child I read these cautionary tales with delight, although I probably did not understand the significance of the stories. I came to appreciate them later in life; there was a simple satisfaction looking on the world and the follies man commits, and that I committed, and recalling, "Oh, that's the story of the grasshopper and the ant," etc.

It astonishes me to realize that human behavior has not changed all that much between then and now. We are given men and women, like Aesop, of great prescience and great talent. Some of them have written books appropriate for our times with cautionary warnings for our times. Some of these books are fanciful, describing utopias—scenarios of how men and women might ideally live. In fact, some of these utopias have been tried. To my knowledge none have succeeded. One of these talented men, James Hilton, wrote a book called Lost Horizon which described a utopian society. It made a beautiful and compelling movie. It is a simple story of how good may prevail, but only if it is hidden away from the ills of the world, the ills of mankind.

Along with Lost Horizon came the Aldous Huxley book Brave New World. I imagine that the devastation of World War I played a large part in the creation of these books. Then along came World War II followed by George Orwell's book 1984. Huxley takes a libidinal view where one could get besotted with spectacle and entertainment leading to boredom and triviality until people no longer cared about anything. Orwell takes a darker view. Author and critic Chris Hedges thinks Orwell’s view is more accurate, and so do I. The important fact is that both paths lead to submission.

What Huxley and Orwell say and what Hedges emphasizes is that society is slowly on its way to becoming an Orwellian society. The absolutely clear thing about this process, which is described by Hedges, is how this has happened. Hedges’ book, The Death of the Liberal Class, and his blogs show that mankind is unconsciously aiding in its own enslavement. It could even be said that the unconscious of mankind reveals humanity already encircled and enslaved by its imprint and its internal saboteur. An individual's imprint leaves a person devoid of feelings and a prisoner to their mother who put it there unconsciously. (See my essay, "The Mother's Signature.”)

Analysis of this problem reveals that all analytic patients will fight against their freedom with every means at their unconscious disposal. The internal saboteur, that product of the imprint, is an agent that monitors the individual. It constantly reports any intention to break away from the corporate state of its unconscious ego. The dream below (Dream 1) is a good example of this operation. Note that the patient will mutilate herself in order to stay an obedient child.

Orwell describes fear as the prime factor in mankind’s enslavement. He is closer to the truth of the psyche than the other writers I have mentioned. I have never done an analysis that does not contain this essential struggle. In an analysis the bonds of slavery are constantly revealed to the patient. This is absolutely necessary, for the analyst requires that the patient see all the ways they have engineered their life to be submissive to a tyrannical regime. The patient's entire life is devoted unconsciously to this agenda.

From this fact it is a hop, skip, and a jump into an external state mirroring such slavery. This can more easily be effected because patients (read world) feel they deserve to be enslaved.

Publications by people like Hedges (and others who are chronicling man's fall into the abyss of serfdom) are essential to a free society. They are essential in the struggle against this happening. However valuable their work is, though, it will not be enough unless people first escape from the unconscious prototype of this manifest destiny. Every effort must be made in every media to put out to the public what they are unconsciously conspiring to accomplish, else they will wake up to an unpleasant reality—dystopia—enslavement both inward and outward. They and their children will be in chains inside and out. There is a desperate need for haste.

THE INTERNAL SABOTEUR / THE “OTHER”

I consider that the single most important element prompting patients to leave analysis is the internal saboteur. This unconscious part of the psyche often plans to attack the analysis in a way unanticipated by either patient or analyst. It usually begins planning a long time before a danger signal becomes clear to the analyst. Money is the most frequent rationale for stopping the analysis or evading its goal. However, the real reason is fear—fear of change, fear of going into what the patient feels to be an abyss. I have come to this crossroad with patients again and again in my practice.

This is of crucial importance to the individual as well as the mass unconscious. This crafty entity keeps mankind scrambling for the necessities of survival. When these have been obtained, it causes men and women to use their rage toward the mother in other ways. For the pain of the imprint to shift, this aggression must go outward to the external world. This has resulted in thousands of years of preoccupation with war and has engendered hatred for the "other." This hatred has been exploited by the people in power—chiefs, kings, emperors, prime ministers, presidents—to wage wars, increasing the hatred that men have for the "other." Over millennia it has become complicated and inscrutable—war over religion, over wealth, over oil and other natural resources, over different cultures and different languages—all to do with conflict with the "other." War and its collateral damage leave scars and cause us to plant seeds for revenge.

So is mankind occupied in deadly pursuits, but we are fundamentally unaware of the greater damage the internal saboteur causes to the progression of evolution of mankind. If the fear is great within the individual, how much greater is it in the mass unconscious? That fear makes the internal saboteur more crafty and more powerful. It keeps mankind preoccupied with conflict, disease, famine, and great natural disasters, all of which distracts us from concentrating on ourselves and doing what can be done to combat these perennial problems. How can anyone, regardless of faith or conviction, explain and excuse the conditions of the children of the world or the precarious place that women occupy in this world? Why has "don't ask, don't tell" been so arduous a problem? Other countries long ago decided this was a nonissue. This fact raises the possibility that there is a great regressive tendency to find and persecute the "other" wherever we can. Anything that stops people from understanding the larger issue of evolution for themselves, has to suggest the internal saboteur is at work.

DREAM 1

I have a patient who recently told me her dream. She is currently struggling with leaving her family and with her mother's imprint, which for many years of her life has been very deleterious.

In her dream adults are in her childhood school. Something happens and she sees that all the adults are fleeing. She pulls on the skin of her left ear and tears it, causing it to bleed.

ASSOCIATIONS

The associations had to do with idealizing other members of the family. These other members, because of their wealth, could ignore their own current reality. When I interpreted, in view of her associations, that the adults fleeing this school were indeed being asked to leave their childhood, she said, "I would not have to leave because my ear was bleeding." This was a self-induced wound which indicated that she, also an adult, did not want to leave childhood and the family of her childhood, as broken as that family was.

Our larger family, our country, is broken too. The Republicans plan to take charge and repeal or reverse programs that benefit millions of needy Americans. Soon we too shall know the austerity of Ireland, Greece, Portugal, England, and Germany. It is always this way, but it has never been so clearly visible. When the rich and powerful have gambled and lost, the people have to pay. It doesn't seem fair; and what can be done, if there is anything to do? Of course, no one dares say the emperor has no clothes and no one dares say let’s stop trumped-up wars costing trillions of dollars a year.

So Washington pursues its heroic role in the world. Its right hand is up, touting democracy and human rights. This I like—the moral high ground. With the publication of Wikileaks, we find its left hand has got its fingers in every country’s ass, trying to control, advise, corrupt, or assassinate anyone who intractably gets in the way of government’s secret purposes. This is not the moral high ground. In fact, it decimates our position of being a moral force. That position can only be attained when we are moral with both hands and stop meddling with other countries and their governments. This is akin to meddling with one's children while they are growing up and then continuing to meddle when they are grown up.

There are already two powerful forces meddling with everyone's life, forces which have never been revealed or acknowledged. We have never known this. I am referring to the mother's imprint and its ally, the internal saboteur, which subverts the life of our pristine souls. In fact it is these two forces that have enabled the sorry history of mankind to unfold. As long as we are slaves to these two hitherto unknown forces, we will be slaves in consciousness every day. Even the masters are slaves, though they do not know it. If an entity like Wikileaks has come into existence, it must be that Divine mind has created the conditions for its emergence and for the consequences of its revelations. Far too long has the playing field been uneven. It is only when it evens up that we can get on with the evolution of our maturity.

Our technical advances are prodigious. They have been the result of our left-brain thinking. This usage has hypertrophied the left brain until it dominates everything, and the emotional part has remained essentially unused and has atrophied. A number of patients’ dreams indicate that the right brain (dealing with emotions and the feminine unconscious) has been suffering almost forever. Maturity cannot be gained by sending a spaceship to Mars. Nor can it be gained by building more nuclear weapons. The world is at greater risk every day because the people who are in charge of these weapons are disastrously immature (although most would not recognize or acknowledge this immaturity). For there to be growth in the right brain there must be an acknowledgement of its existence, which means an open recognition of the unconscious, and there must be a conscious, deliberate use of that faculty to begin solving the real problems of the planet. This is not the time for schoolboy lunacy to invade our lives as it invades our Washington scene and the halls of power in other countries as well.

In our America the parties cannot joust as if they are enemies. They must see their roles and their jobs as looking after the best interest of the people. The people have got to stop being patsies for all the high jinks of the wealthy and privileged. That long-standing paradigm has been played out in every country in the world and must come to an end. The world must stop and listen to the feminine unconscious and to the inner dimensions it can show us. There is no other way to go, though I don't doubt "the best and brightest" will come up with another Band-aid solution such as that which has brought us exactly to here. The planet has arrived at the brink of no return. The cheerless, chilling state that Hedges described, by way of Orwell, is a reality already. The mass unconscious is living that reality because the imprint and the internal saboteur have seen to it. They are the unconscious internal corporate state, and police us as surely as any dictator.

DREAM 2

The patient from my essay “Venice Beach” presented a dream which I thought was appropriate to include in this essay.

There was an election represented by a marriage. Money was not accepted by the people. The new regime had not really started since there had to be a bible read and seconded and this was to be repeated.

COMMENTARY

If you remember from my “Venice Beach” essay this patient has been greatly concerned, as are many people, with the course our government has taken. Finally I said to him, "This is your unconscious concern of the government. You say the bible was read or seconded."

I have talked about Obama and other politicians, who may be likened to the ruling class. However, the mass unconscious has everything to do with the elected officials; they represent the fears of the mass unconscious, which picks people who will best serve these fears. Despite the repeated question of when Obama will change his tactics, why this, why that, the answer is he cannot change his tactics. The mass unconscious is also greatly conservative and, when it feels it has gone too far and deserves less than it has, it puts people in power who will ensure their fears manifest. This is why it is so vitally important for individuals, the country, and the world to understand the unconscious and access its knowledge.

Here it is! This is the picture! Washington is flush with success. Lots of big legislation has been passed. Christmas sales are good and it is said there is an uptick in the business community, though I do not know why we should trust that pronouncement. However, some economists (other than those talking for the White House) have seen another picture with a grim future. They have their facts, their arguments, and their historical precedents to prove it.

The world is not in good shape. There is muttering about the Euro. Germany, which is the bastion of the Euro currency, gained, but it paid a price with an austerity plan for the workers and they are beginning to grumble.

What is emerging from this crisis is the fact that the rich have gambled and lost. However, they rationalize these events since they are in power and have bought lawmakers who passed legislation which allowed them to escape the consequences of their recklessness.

Instead, everywhere the people have been forced to accept a stringent austerity program in order to replenish the losses of the state, and the people are grumbling. Not so much yet in the United States. We are a docile people, far from the heroic posture of the Wild West and its independent-minded men. That myth has been found useful by certain groups of people who pushed it in patriotic slogans.

Europe has been traumatized by over 2000 years of war and natural disasters; consequently they are more sensible and see the value of cooperation and union when providing essential needs to their people. We in America have yet to learn that. This is no longer the Old West and John Doe is not a rancher with a thousand head of cattle to protect from the homesteaders or the sheep owners.

Americans will have to come of age. No one comes of age easily. No one goes through adolescence singing and dancing with joy. Rather there is doubt, fear, depression and anxiety, possibly alcohol and drugs. Everyone picks his poison. In the end no one makes it through easily or without scars. One often wonders whether one can get through adulthood. Adolescence is never far behind us or below the surface; life is such that it is easy to fall backward into that darkness.

DREAM 3

A patient dreamed he couldn't get into a car parked in his parents’ driveway and leave and drive away.

COMMENTARY

So I reiterate the state of the world, being oblivious of the its' imprint, is stationary like the patient above. These parents are among the most destructive I have ever had to deal with. So far two of their adult children have died. The other two are very badly emotionally damaged and have no real life. Mankind it seems is equally stuck and it cannot get unstuck until it comes to this clarity, to this immense awareness we all have, this enemy that we fear beyond comprehension. In this essay I speak more about the mother's imprint and the internal saboteur as lived by one person. It is a real phenomenon. It causes real suffering. This person has been willing to go the distance to bring home the message to all of us.

DREAM 4

The old man of Venice Beach was talking. He said, "I had this terrible dream.”

There were people to be braised, not killed. The individual was a thin, dark- complexioned man. He was subjected to it. This was a debt. He could not escape it. It was done. I felt it was hard to watch, almost impossible for me to watch.

ASSOCIATIONS

Patient: I cannot tell you what a horror it was, almost a nightmare, that people could do this to other people. Yet I thought, as I was walking on the beach, there was a Hitler and a Stalin and later there was a Bosnia, a Darfur, a Sudan, and before that there was an Armenian genocide by the Turks and pogroms by Russian Cossacks designed to kill Jews. I have only mentioned a few.

Dr. B: What about it being a debt?

Patient: A debt you can't escape. Sounds like a good idea, to die or declare bankruptcy.

Dr. B: That's escaping. Wasn't this inescapable?

Patient: Yeh. I don't know.

Dr. B: It seems to me you were talking about karma, but is this you or are you dreaming for the mass unconscious? After all, you are not a Communist or Nazi or Muslim or Turk. So I think you are dreaming for the mass unconscious, carrying a burden of this knowledge, and according to the law of cause and effect, which is what we are about these days, really all days and all time. Debts will be paid.

Patient: I had another dream.

DREAM 5

We were at a resort. There is a man, very handsome, in a beautiful suit with two other men by his side. They looked a little less dressed-up, a bit more casual. All were wearing dark suits. The very handsome man was saying, "I bought this eight-story building. I bought it for security." I thought when he said that, "Of course, you can live in the building and collect rent." But I wondered, why was this man saying this? He seemed young, by which I mean about forty, and strong. Why would he be concerned about security?

Then my wife and I were in a restaurant and we were seated on the right side of the restaurant which was divided like a movie theater. There was a screen in front. These three men came in and sat behind us. I cannot stress enough how impeccably dressed he was. It was also it seemed a movie house and I don't remember that we ever got served food. A movie came on but we were so far to the right and so close to the screen that we could not see the movie. Somehow we were told if you held up your phone camera you would be able to see the movie. I didn't know how that would work.

Dr. B: Why are you dreaming these dreams? They don't seem to be issues in your life.

Patient: I don't know. I am not worried about security. I have my security, having worked many, many years, and it didn't seem to me that this man would be concerned about his security. The two people with him did not speak nor did he speak after the comment about this eight-story building. I have no real associations to any of this dream and I cannot imagine why I am dreaming the content. You know what occupies me mostly: politics in America and politics across the world, and nowhere do I see a glimmer of hope. What I do see is lots of denial and more of the same, people in high places saying the same thing. The wars go on, corruption goes on. It is an endlessly boring and depressing cycle and I wonder when it is all going to fall down.

I thought a lot about this dream. I felt drawn to it and compelled by it.

Dr. B: What do you think did that?

Patient: It was this striking looking man. Why did he need this building for security? That did not make sense. You see, I am thinking the way you do, or I try. After all, he was young and had two aides or friends. He looked wealthy. He looked strong. He looked like an entrepreneur and he looked like an old movie actor, a Tyrone Power, Gregory Peck type.

Dr. B: What did you conclude?

Patient: I thought about the number eight. You see, you have taught me well, and I have my own long life to dwell upon and make comparisons of relationships from my experience. When I was that age, about forty, I was full of passion and the feeling I could do anything. Security was not on my mind. Who needs security? Old people. We have Social Security, thanks to FDR.

Dr. B: True, and all of this thinking and puzzling out is wonderful. Let me ask you this. Agreed, old people need security and should have it. I think I will give away the answer in asking the question. What else is old and needs social security?

Patient: (Laughing) I got you. The planet and the people on the planet and the people yet to come will need the security of their lives.

Dr. B: You make my work easy. I feel l can say, as one old man to another, that we are closer to this entity called Source consciousness, and I think the two aides in the dream makes three. So I deduce that this is the holy trinity you are dreaming about. The building represents mankind. It represents the planet. We all belong, so to speak, to him. We are his production. We are part of his being. The man in your dream is looking to see and to tell us we are secure and we have nothing essentially to fear no matter how grave or dark it appears, no matter how we think or feel. This is a fantastic message you are bringing.

Patient: I am reluctant to agree but I see no other way to look at it.

Dr. B: What did you puzzle out about the second part?

Patient: In the dream I did not think these things out as we have done here. I simply thought we came to a high-class resort and were going to a high-class restaurant. I was surprised to find rows of seats and no tables. Now I think the meal was the film. In thinking on my feet I would say the meal must be the movie. That is the message we got from where we sat on the right side, but we could not see. These guys were immediately behind us. They left before we did. In fact, I don't recall us leaving. The dream ended and that was all. I just couldn't see the movie. It must be, I'm thinking out loud here, the Divine giving new ways of feeling, thinking, and being on earth. Now I am thinking, if I am right, that heaven and earth are being combined. That we are being recognized here on earth and in heaven. Perhaps our phone camera can take up the vision of that script and perhaps there is a recording going on in our unconscious that will allow us on earth to see our future; that we will later see and live the gift of the Divine in what will be a new world. I can't believe I said what I have just said, but I did, so I will let it stand.

Dr. B: Well, I think to a lot of people your comments would seem very fanciful. However, there are many sci-fi movies that are made with equally fanciful ideas. Isn't that true?

Patient: With all I have spoken about here, about our lives on the planet, about how desperate people must feel in their beleaguered countries beset by political rivalry, about politicians scrambling for power and all that it brings, about a willingness to kill anyone if it will bring victory and power, I think of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. There is just no way to patch up the world and all its people. Something new has to be designed and we have to be designed and new, so to speak.

Dr. B: We have talked about this many times and it has to be possible, just as your mind has turned around from its pessimism and darkness. Only we cannot analyze the world as we analyze you. The world currently does not even know they have an unconscious. We need a game change, a real game change.

DREAM 6

I end with a dream of a patient who was in her home town and sees a young boy going to school. The boy sees a man in a tree. The man comes down and gives the boy a chocolate bar. It is covered with worms. The patient (the young boy) complains. The man says, "Flick the worms off."

ASSOCIATIONS

The associations led to the fact that worms were good. They aerated the soil. Likewise sometimes people have to be seduced into the unconscious, the worms being essential to aerate that soil.

The times are gone for fables and fairytales where lessons might be learned and dangers avoided by the thoughtful. These times call for the straight-out identification of the facts. People like Hedges and a few others who are mightily concerned with trend of the present are doing that and confront us with that present and the future of captivity.

CONCLUSION

The universe is run by laws. Cause and effect is one of them. We on earth are subject to these laws. To pay one's debts—whether individual or mass, one person or one country, all people and all countries—is another karmic message. There is such an entity—cause and effect. Each of us is called upon on a personal level to bring ourselves back to the center, back to balance, to make the dynamic changes, to break down the old customs of seeking old feelings which are a comfort in our discomfort. We must live so that we may take on the new levels of Divine light passing through us, creating a world in which compassion is the greater part of our living.

References:

Chris Hedges' book Death of the Liberal Class and blog "Brave New Dystopia"

See www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011/abravenewdystopia

January 2011