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The following is a series
of collected essays by
Bernard W. Bail, M.D.
MOTHERS SIGNATURE
© Copyright 2001
 
1990 - Documentary Tape: History of Object Relations in Los Angeles (Can be ordered by direct request to: bbail@sbcglobal.net)
1991 - Book: Freud-Klein Controversies 1973-1977  (Can be ordered by direct request to: bbail@sbcglobal.net)
On Spirituality
2012
A Moment in Time
2011
One Two Three
2011
The Challenge of Change
2011
On the Wrong Track
2011
The Internal Saboteur - The Spine of Civilization
2011
Revelations
2011
A Proposal
2011
Coming Unglued
2011
First the Bad News
2011
The Road to Dystopia
2011
The Internal Sabeteur - The Spine of Civilization
2010
Dead in the Water
2010
The Long Hello
2010
The Longest Ongoing Story in the History of the World
2010
CODA
2010
The Big White-Out
2010
The Annunciation
2010
Suffering the Truth
2010
Who Am I?
2010
The Cat's Meow
2010
The Great Unwinding
2010
I Don't Need You, Mommy
2010
Discernment and Motherhood
2010

The Prescience of Old Age - Wordsworth Remembered
2010

On Wild Surmise...
2010
An Astonishing Revelation - Charles Cohen
2010
The Consequence of Union Upon Reunion
2010
The Molecules of Love - or Not
2010
Remembrance of Things Past
2010
The Prayer and the Gift
2010
The Awakening
2010
The Old Man Again and an Inquiry into the Theory of Everything (String Theory)
2009
Further Considerations
2009
Unloveable
2009
The Awful Truth and the Freedom it Brings
2009
Certainly Past the Middle or Near Rather than Farther
2009
The Betrayal
2009
The Psychoanalytic Foundation of Politics
2009
Evolution - The Polarity Question - and Chiefdom
2009
The Long Road Home
2009
Soliloquy on Passion, Sex, Love
and its Negative
2009
Venice Beach
2009
And Now Love
2009
Risk the Ocean
2009
Tear Down the House
2009
Masters, Slaves and Imprints
2009
Roundabout
2008
Reflections on the Global Financial Crisis
2008
Where God is
2008
The Prodigal Son
2008
Lifeline
2008
Applesauce
2008
The Untold Want
2008
Dark Matter, the Unconscious and the Divine
2008
Mankind: For Whom The Truth Tolls
2008
Broken Civilization
2007
Making a Difference
2007
The Mysterious Leap from the Mind to the Body
2007

Pavor Nocturnus or Night Terrors Revisted
2006

The More Things Change
2006

The Mother’s Signature: “The Silent Struggle”
2006
Why Dr. Dombrowski Doesn’t have a Life
2005
“Living” In Two Realities Sequel to
“ Why Dr. Dombrowski Doesn’t have a Life”
2005
On Social Justice
2005
The Hum of the Universe 2004
The Very First Lie
2003
Toward a Unitary Theory of Body and Mind
2002
Addendum to a Unitary Theory of Body and Mind 2002
The Universe is a Graveyard
2002
All Things in Heaven
2002
Psychoanalysis and the Fisher King
2001
Wounded Infants of Time 2001
A Call to a Feminine Paradigm
2001
When Bion Left Los Angeles
1999
The Brazilian Paper
1979
To Practice One’s Art
1977
Who Will Talk To The Crocodile
1975
 

THE HUM OF THE UNIVERSE

(Sequel to “Why Dr. Dombrowski Doesn’t Have A Life”)

by Bernard W. Bail, M.D.

The hum of the universe is the universe alive with ceaseless activity, ceaseless change…. stars dying, stars born…with all the other entities in transition, inhabiting the infinite space so frightening for us to contemplate.

Everything is in motion in the universe.  The most stationary of rocks, seemingly unchanged  forever, are in a constant state of flux.  More obvious are our oceans in constant motion, the grass, the trees, the flowers, the creatures of the summer.

Everything is in motion except Man, restricted by his imprint*, which condemns him to a sameness of life little different in the living from his mother and father and theirs.  We are deluded into thinking technology has changed our lives.  All technologies are clever rationalizations to keep us in our internal carapace. 

We are as imprisoned as the turtle, and we are most like the turtle in that we can pull ourselves entirely into a shell.  We call it denial. 

The universe has given us a plethora of creatures like the crocodiles, the armadillos, the beetles.  A variety of creatures whose armor protects them, but also limits them and their development in evolution.  But then, these creatures do not possess higher consciousness which keeps them forever a crocodile or a turtle.  Our restriction is within, and for a 100 thousand years, it has been a hindrance to our development toward a peaceful and ever more abundant society in which each member recognizes his kinship.

We forget we all originally came from Africa and we are related.  So why do we want to kill each other.  We obviously do not recognize our brothers, our sisters.

After thousands of years, if we reach for our guns to settle a dispute of dubious origin, we are in the grip of the most raw and immature behavior that man can exhibit, no better than a crocodile that rends his prey uncomprehendingly and carelessly. There is no higher consciousness for the crocodile.

Now with this discovery of the imprint, we see that along side the discovery of DNA - the four amino acids in endless variations that is the secret of our physical and physiological life, we have the imprint that reveals the secret of our mental and emotional life.

Ultimately, it has to be recognized that the infant’s consciousness before or after birth is shattered by the unconscious projection of the mother’s unwanted feelings.  This shattering is felt by the infant to be not only a terrifying event but also one of great hatred.  It is this hatred that must be denied or split off from consciousness – to protect his/her own life -- only later to be displaced onto other persons.  In fact, it is this prime hatred that is the source of all hatred toward the other, whether it is an individual, a group, or a nation.

This paradigm is the fundamental source.  It is this paradigm that creates vendettas and war, no matter what the provocation, no matter how sophisticated the rationalization.  When that rationalization is stripped of all pretense of cleverness the crucible of the unconscious reveals, by its dreams, the truth of all things.  We are left here with the immutable truth – the hatred resulting from the shattering of the baby’s unconscious.

All wars only confine us more tightly to our inner carapaces, our prisons of destiny, the one beyond our conscious control and therefore beyond repair.

It seems Einstein is right when he says that God does not throw dice.  God has given us these twin discoveries (DNA and the psychological imprint) to hasten our way on an evolutionary swing that mankind has never before witnessed or disinterred.  The Age of Aquarius truly lies before mankind.  We have now but to grasp it.

* The imprint consists of unconscious, unwanted, unresolved and unbearably painful feelings within the mother’s mind, which she projects into her infant.  The forceful projections painfully split or shatter to one degree or another the infant’s nascent being such that who the infant was supposed to be cannot come into existence.  Instead the infant is imprinted with the unwanted aspects of his/her mother, and it is this imprint that becomes his/her destiny.

Copyright © Bernard W. Bail, M.D. 2005
June 2004
(WB2005
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