The Leaves of a Victim never more with Steven Wilson

This episode involve the running dialogue within my group about our Judicial in America regarding pedophilia.

I take my reading from Marquis De Sade’s Dialogue “The Priest and the dying man”.

The running dialogue involves the difference between revenge and justice for those prosecuted for the crimes of sexually abusing a minor.  This is a topic which we discuss every time there is a news story about someone (teachers mostly) having a sexual relationship with a minor.

There was a time when the Catholic Church was suspect, and I suppose they still are to a certain extent, but the school system in America seems to have surpassed them in notoriety.

This episode also hints at a criticism listeners have had about my podcast: it is not positive enough.

I am not sure how to address this and perhaps I was selfish in its birth and fanciful in its utility for others.  I don’t know.

I will say that I am grateful for those of you that do listen and decide to chime in on the topics I discuss.

Today’s episode is based on my assessment of group members in regards to Aristotle’s work on friendships.

I also use Thomas Merton’s “No man is an Island”.

I find that there is a different life for those of us who were sexually abused as children when people discover that we were raped; and then discover that we attend group therapy or individual therapy.  The members of the group sounded off this week about how they are treated by family and friend in social situations.

This made me think of Aristotle and the discussions I had about his ethics with my Uncle Hogan.

I try never to become a therapist in the group, and yes, they know about this podcast.  

This podcast is a form of therapy for me.  A piece of my treatment or perhaps self-treatment.

In this episode I deal with the metaphors and analogies pertaining to life, addiction, and abuse.

War.

The term gets used , perhaps too much, which makes it devalued language game.  Often we say, “war on drugs”, “war on poverty”, “war on depression’.

I call for a war on safety…I call for a war on prevention as I believe one should embrace the chaos known as life.  I am in the hurricane.  I am in the dangerous grey of wind, and rain, and don’t fight the storm.

A life at sea is a wonderful thing.  Danger as we know it is subjective.  To commit a war on yourself is a sure fire way not to heal.

this episode is about Timing.

A time to heal, a time to live, a time to die.  I have always believed that now is the best time to do something because now is all you have.  Making plans to do something later on may make you seem civilized or adult, but it is completely illogical.   No one is guaranteed tomorrow.

I begin this episode with a letter from the Marquis De Sade to his wife.  In it he uses a simple analogy of a traveler on a road filled with traps.  He speaks of blame; for the traveler or the one who set the traps?

I have always enjoyed that as a foundation stone for philosophical discussions pertaining to desire and the concept of guilt.  It seems to get people to think about the basics of cause to effect.

This episode is based on the coping skill called repression.

I do not rebirth Freud , but rather I delve into how I used it to survive the traumatic events of my past and the sex abuse I suffered in the 7th grade.

My coping skills revolve around hedonism; sex drugs and debauchery.  All are considered to be unhealthy life choices.  All are considered to be dangerous to the self.  But these things help me now as they did back then as I am not any better at coping with my past.

This episode I talk about the Halo effect and the way judgment takes place upon us all the time.  We also judge people; based on physical traits.

The Halo effect is defined in psychology as projecting attributes upon someone based on unrelated physical appearance; for example, one might say, “she looks crazy” or “he looks smart”.

This show is in response to some feedback and comments I have gotten from listeners.

Also, I wanted to extend an invitation to you all to visit my artist website as many have asked to see some of my recent work through art therapy.

Www.stevenwilsoncreations.com

There are no pics of leather craft or pyrography done within the past year and a half.  There is a link to my fiction and poetry published under my real name.  I apologize for being tardy on this point.  It was not my intention to keep it separate; I just didn’t think you would be interested.

Halo on!

I had to upload this one again as the new upload removed this episode.  Buzz sprout doesn’t know what happened.

This episode isn’t a regular episode.

It is based on a statement from one of the guys in my adult survivor group saying that the shooting was “just another shooting”.  It was uncharacteristic of him to be indifferent about such suffering and atrocity.

Again, I did not analyze him or any other in the group but I do so now within the construct of the podcast.

Live in your heart so you don’t become numb.  If you have done so, please get back into the game, and give humanity another chance.

This episode is more of the clinical form of group dynamics as I do mention those things we have studied within psychology called group dynamics.  Here, I equate family to group dynamics.

if you listened to part 1 you will have a clearer comprehension for this episode.

Plus, you miss me reading from lovecraft’s “the thing at the door step”.