Rescuing Our Pride from the Arena Zero and Causing Sorrow for Tomorrow

By Mohamed Achour

We have this Biblical story, which will be discussed later, regarding Pharaoh and Moses. It is a basic reenactment of a story with profound lessons for all governments and societies for all time. From it, we can deduce a strong correlation between contemporaneous (U.S.) geopolitical climates and Pharaoh in ancient Egyptian civilization. Pharaoh was not just the name or title of a person; it is a syndrome of grandiosity and a symbol of hegemony. Moses was not just a person; he is the unknown, antithesis force that mirrors the ultimate reality. The first consideration that is brought to the reader’s attention is why we are talking about a supposed myth. The answer is that within these supposedly mythological events we see the reenactment of the same archetypal personalities that are so prominent in our own violent, contemporary period of history.

The second consideration, one that is brought (on a pre-conscious level) to the reader’s attention, is the occurrence of those legendary events not only in the objective world, but also introspectively in the subjective world.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Mohamed Achour
• Release date: Jan 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466121850

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Rescuing Our Pride from the Arena Zero

and

Causing Sorrow for Tomorrow

MOHAMED ACHOUR

Copyright 2012 Mohamed Achour

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Prologue

Introduction

SECTION ONE

When a Nation Starts Creating Its Own Feeble Points

Chapter 1:

The First Psychic Warning Impulse

Chapter 2:

Grandiose Delusion

Chapter 3:

The Creation of a Psychic Adversary

Chapter 4:

The Wick of Terror

Chapter 5:

The Birth of an Antithesis Force

Chapter 6:

The Beginning of the Conflict

SECTION TWO

The Obscurantism and its Identity

Chapter 7:

Authoritarianism

Chapter 8:

The Underneath Echoed Images

Chapter 9:

The Role of the Magicians

Chapter 10:

Allegory of a Psychic Nation

SECTION THREE

Antithesis Force from Abroad

Chapter 11:

The Death of the Obscurantism

Chapter 12:

Inextricable Blowback

Chapter 13:

De-Institutionalism

SECTION FOUR

Antithesis Force Reaching the Administration

Chapter 14:

Flagrant Reality

Chapter 15:

Reality versus Simulacrum

Chapter 16:

The Aftermath of Mammonism

SECTION FIVE

The Temptation to Recuperate Pride

Chapter 17:

The Militarization of Space

Chapter 18:

Prevision of the Post-Pharaoh’s Era

SECTION SIX

The Self-Perdition

Chapter 19:

The Sarcophagi of the Stock Exchange

Chapter 20:

The Emperor with the Magic Clothes

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PREFACE

History has deviated far away from the study of the psychology of religion. Why? The answer lies in the fact that the psychology of religion is the only arena where vanity is considered to be the source of every chaos.

Somehow, we don’t want to be confronted by the word vanity. Nonetheless, for some reason we love vanity, and every one of us eagerly craves to show his pride. Despite the fact that we have heard a lot in the scripture about vanity and its consequential chaos, the word vanity is for us just a legendary term.

In a violent and contemporary period of history, vanity is even promoted under the guise of freedom and democracy. Parents are teaching their kids self-esteem. Some psychologists cure their patients by enhancing their feelings with self-esteem. Vanity is even encouraged in religion. In the political arena, forget it; the whole nation is driven by national pride and patriotism.

However, could it be possible that by accepting and sincerely embracing humility we can resolve all the problems of the world?

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PROLOGUE

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the sake of my country…Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. (Abraham Lincoln, November 21, 1864)

Five months later, he was assassinated …

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INTRODUCTION

According to pathology, in most illnesses, whether they are somatic or psychosomatic, the body reacts to external aggressions—physical, social, and psychological. It is an exoteric reaction. In contrast, with cancer it’s a matter of an esoteric reaction, i.e., the body rebels against its own internal organism and undoes its own structural equilibrium. It is an organic delirium.

The above scenario regarding cancer is similar to what happens on a larger scale to a nation. Objectively speaking, when a hegemonic nation reaches a certain level of omnipotence, when there is a consolidation of all functions in the technocratic machinery, and when no alternative form of thinking is allowed, what other way is there but a declaration of war against itself? Given this understanding, the preliminary symptoms of perdition that are taking place these days become unavoidable.

We have this Biblical story, which will be discussed later, regarding Pharaoh and Moses. It is a basic reenactment of a story with profound lessons for all governments and societies for all time. From it, we can deduce a strong correlation between contemporaneous (U.S.) geopolitical climates and Pharaoh in ancient Egyptian civilization.

Pharaoh was not just the name or title of a person; it is a syndrome of grandiosity and a symbol of hegemony. Moses was not just a person; he is the unknown, antithesis force that mirrors the ultimate reality.

As stated in the title, along its developmental curve, a superpower and hegemonic nation develops its own weaknesses. When those feeble points start being manifest on the surface, instead of facing the facts regarding its own weaknesses, such a nation becomes preoccupied with preserving its national pride, which ironically enough results in the development of even more weaknesses. At long last, it then collapses.

The first consideration that is brought to the reader’s attention is why we are talking about a supposed myth. The answer is that within these supposedly mythological events we see the reenactment of the same archetypal personalities that are so prominent in our own violent, contemporary period of history. The second consideration, one that is brought (on a pre-conscious level) to the reader’s attention, is the occurrence of those legendary events not only in the objective world, but also introspectively in the subjective world.

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SECTION ONE

WHEN A NATION STARTS CREATING ITS OWN FEEBLE POINTS

CHAPTER 1

THE FIRST PSYCHIC WARNING IMPULSE

No matter how cautious or negligent a person can be when it comes to acting as though he were God, he cannot avoid his psychological impulsive reaction, a tensional reaction that we can call remorse of conscience.

What God sent to Pharaoh in his palace on that particular day was just something in conformance to what was already flowing with tension in Pharaoh’s subconscious. At the time when the psychological impulse popped up to the surface of Pharaoh’s consciousness, a parallel man showed-up in the kingdom.

The stranger went straight to Pharaoh to talk to him. When he got closer, Pharaoh’s face became an angry mask. How dare a stranger be on the red carpet close to the throne of Pharaoh’s majesty without Pharaoh’s authorization! The stranger’s unauthorized presence brought an unconscious realization to Pharaoh’s consciousness of his own actual identity of weakness and fragility. It was such a painful assault on his grandiose self-perception that conscious awareness of the true state of his being had to be diverted.

Suddenly the stranger rushed to address Pharaoh with a question. O Pharaoh, the visitor politely said, Would you please tell them what must be the punishment for someone who pretends to be God?

He deserves to be drowned in the sea, replied Pharaoh, who preferred to push down his budding awareness of reality into the deepest level of his subconscious and not to face it anymore.

The noble stranger kept quiet for a moment and then said, O Pharaoh, would you please write this hieroglyphically with your signature on it, and I shall show it to everybody who pretends to be God. When Pharaoh did so, all of a sudden the stranger disappeared.

Without a doubt, Pharaoh’s nascent awareness of his true being was harshly repressed with a fabricated pretext and camouflage. Nonetheless, it threatened to come back again to the surface of Pharaoh’s consciousness, although nobody knew exactly when this would happen.

It didn’t take long after this dialogue that an external disaster hit Pharaoh’s nation in the form of a big flood. However, before that flood happened, Pharaoh’s repression gave way, and some conscious awareness began to surface.

Pharaoh’s residence was called the White Solipsistic Palace, and it was situated in the middle of the district capital. Not far away was located the Camp of Soliloquies where Pharaoh organized his secret confidential meetings with his councilors. All of these areas were protected with the most sophisticated security system in the world.

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CHAPTER 2

GRANDIOSE DELUSION

For a person with delusions of grandeur to prove his place on the podium of existence while continuously claiming victory, he has to create an adversary. The time for identifying this adversary is posterior, but the time when the adversary is created unconsciously in such a person’s mind is anterior. These are facts that such a person completely ignores.

The feeling of being down, unsecured, etc. can be the lot of everybody without exception. However, a severe case without any amelioration only results when a person initially seeks a high status and grandiosity within society, mistakenly believing that this is real self-esteem.

There is a constant manifestation of the feeling of angst in a human being; he was in the obscure world of nothingness, and then he was brought into existence. Furthermore, there is another disappearance expected and felt, which is his sudden death. Thus, he is caught in a vise between two painful absences that for him are unrealities. He is constantly in unconscious combat with this feeling, which is the repressed panic of disappearing at any moment and going back to the nothingness. In some rare cases, this unconscious fight remains internal within the self, but most of the time this combat takes external form and is directed outwardly against otherness.

This painful feeling usually spurs the individual to monopolize the material world, supposedly in an attempt to save himself from death. In turn, this provokes the person to seek an autonomous uniqueness and self-sufficiency, leading initially to self-admiration and then to outright self-aggrandizement, which takes the form of delusions of grandeur. A person caught up in this process then becomes subject to an intoxication in which he is unaware and not conscious of his mistakes and his lies, thus allowing him to transgress all bounds.

Another source has to do with the instinctual, symptomatic thrust of the Divine Oneness in this existence. This thrust demonstrates that there is a secret phenomenon infiltrated intuitively into a human being that provokes every individual to have the ambition to be unique. This ambition is not his in the first place, but it is instead a counterphobic reaction against his own dependency and against his undeniable return to the Singularity. If this ambition to be unique, which is the source of a