“Sol Luckman’s latest book, HOW TO RUN DOWN A DREAM, goes far beyond the usual trends of manifesting external material desires. Instead, the book runs down a very different dream: the potential that resides inside each of us to fully connect with and embody our true, authentic sovereignty.” —Trauma Matrix | Emma Lyons
The World Cult forever endeavors to convince you to sustain it by propagating the twin lies that 1) shame is necessary for morality and empathy and 2) the shame voice of the inner narcissist is the voice of reason.
The bitter irony is that shame inevitably destroys empathy, decoheres identity, makes for compliant silence, and trains individuals to outsource their ethics and morality. This renders people predictable and easy to trigger and manage.
Meanwhile, the voice of the inner narcissist is actually the voice of madness.
We’re left with a bipolar Panopticon of self-policing where well-meaning people—driven by the belief that shaming is “for our own good”—traumatize others just as they were abused, ensuring that the parasitic system is constantly fed by fresh waves of reactivity and pain.
Most poignantly, this dynamic plays out again and again in how we raise our children, guaranteeing that trauma becomes intergenerational.
—Sol Luckman, HOW TO RUN DOWN A DREAM
