Sacred Matrix

05/31/2026

HOWARD ZINN: We the People Can Balance Societal Giving & Taking
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By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
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Watch the video beneath this post.
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INTRODUCTION
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History is not only a story of rulers and wars; it is also, albeit sub rosa, the story of ordinary people who organize, resist, and demand change.
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Howard ZINN argued that most history books focus on presidents, generals, wealthy industrialists, and empires. He said that historians should also tell of workers, women, Native peoples, enslaved Africans, immigrants, dissidents, peace activists, and social movements.
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DOMINATORS DERANGE OUR ENDEAVORS
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Our Anunnaki creators, the large Homo sapiens from the Planet Nibiru and refugees from Lyra, Mars, Maldek, and Atlas, inculcated in us Earthlings the automatic view of human interaction as pathological, murderous status obsession, unending competition, and domination dementia. Earth's rulers, the Anunnaki and the Hybrids, through whom they rule to this very day, believe that rulers, armies, elites, and empires make history.
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COOPERATORS PROPOSE PARTNERSHIP
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The partnership paradigm that the Anunnaki Great Goddess Ninmah promotes counters the claim that dominators make history. Instead, Ninmah insists we humans are intrinsically motivated to help one another. In the Partnership tradition, Howard Zinn taught that when ordinary people organize, cooperate, resist injustice, and balance what they give and what they take.
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COLUMBUS, CONQUEST, AND THE BEGINNING OF RESISTANCE
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Zinn challenged the heroic Columbus story taught in many schools. Zinn focused on the experiences of the Arawaks and other Indigenous peoples who lived in the Americas before European arrival, conquest, and enlavement. Zinn described the resistance of ordinary citizens to the invading oppressors. He dissed the Dominator propaganda that great explorers brought civilization to the Natives.
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The People, said Zinn, know that Indigenous nations already possessed civilizations and cultures; he challenges the dominators' lies — that great explorers brought civilization.
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COLONIAL AMERICA STOLE NATIVE LAND, ENSLAVED AFRICAN LABOR & RIPPED WORKERS OFF
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Dominator said that the colonies they built created opportunities for all, but the Natives know that they already had advanced civilizations, cultures, and histories.
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ONLY FREED THE COLONIAL WEALTHY
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The Colonial elite who rebelled against England proclaimed liberty for wealthy Whites and the American well-to-do descendants of Englishmen, but continued slave-like apprentice duty and servitude for other whites, all the while accepting slavery and dispossession of Native Americans and servitude of women.
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The dominators' perspective held that America achieved freedom in 1776.
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But the underclasses, the poor, women, and, occasionally, slaves knew that the colonial elite, who became the elite of the breakaway colonies, enslaved them in debt, poverty, and legal discrimination.
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SLAVERY, ABOLITION, AND THE CIVIL WAR
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Enslaved Africans actively resisted slavery and helped bring about its destruction.
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Dominators said that great leaders freed the slaves. The people seeking slave emancipation said that enslaved people, abolitionists, and soldiers forced change.
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WORKERS VS THE ROBBER BARONS
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Industrial America created enormous wealth while workers endured dangerous conditions and poverty. Labor unions emerged to challenge that imbalance.
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EMPIRE ABROAD
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Zinn criticized American imperial expansion and questioned whether military intervention actually promoted freedom. Where dominators claimed their empires spread civilization, We the People, said Zinn, clearly see that Empires serve the powerful and economically exploitative satraps.
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THE NEW DEAL AND THE PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT
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Mass economic suffering during the Great Depression forced political reforms. The New Deal emerged because ordinary people demanded action. The Anunnaki-dominator view held that markets solve everything. The Great Goddess, in the partnership view, insisted that society must protect vulnerable people.
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CIVIL RIGHTS, PEACE MOVEMENTS, AND WE THE PEOPLE
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Ordinary people repeatedly transform history through collective action. Civil rights activists, anti-war protesters, women's movements, labor organizers, and grassroots campaigns drive change.
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Dominators say that change comes from leaders; cooperator-driven citizens believe that leaders usually respond only after we, the people, pressure them with forms of non-participation (boycotts, work stoppages, strikes, roadblocks, sit-ins, pot-banging, farcical dramatics, deluges of mail, and lawsuits).
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Dare to share, help people deprogram dominator dementia, and instead balance healthy competition with humane support.

05/31/2026

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HOWARD ZINN: We the People Can Balance Societal Giving & Taking
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05/30/2026

Do-It-Yourself PSYCHOSYNTHESIS Therapy Group for YOUR SUBSELVES
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) & M.A. (Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies)*
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Psychosynthesis, one of the predecessors of Voice Dialogue, gives us a practical, step-by-step way to apply the wisdom of Jungian Psychology to our awareness. In psychosynthesis explorations, we explore our INNER VOICES, SUBSELVES, SUBPERSONALITIES, ROLES, ATTITUDES, PARTS, ALTERS, AVATARS, AND ASPECTS.
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We learn to recognize, accept, coordinate, and integrate our inner parts from our ever-evolving Center with the perspective of our neutral Inner Witness.
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"There is in each of us a diversity of these semi-autonomous subpersonalities, striving to express themselves. And when any of them succeeds, we then play the corresponding role. But during that time, the other subpersonalities are cut off. Yet they are still very much present – even though we may be unaware of them – and they are likely to create a lot of inner conflict. They may also have some very beautiful, useful qualities we may need but are not in touch with.
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"One of the easiest ways to facilitate our growth is to get to know our subpersonalities. As we understand them better, we can regulate and direct their expression according to our own needs and goals, making them our helpers and our allies, and bringing them increasingly close to each other, toward greater harmony and integration." [Vargiu: Synthesis V1]
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DO-IT-YOURSELF (or with a partner, taking turns: you read the cues below to your partner, your partner replies aloud, then your partner reads the cues, and you respond). If you do this with a partner, I suggest you take notes or record the session.)
Do this exercise with a partner (or, lacking a partner, do it alone) whom you instruct as follows:
Close your eyes. Sit calmly; breathe deeply. Relax and CENTER YOURSELF- become peaceful, open, nonjudgmental, and clear.
You are ready to lead six participants in a THERAPY GROUP with fairness and compassion. The participants are six of the SUBSELVES, personifications of your different aspects.
Imagine the door to the encounter room opens.
See the FIRST SUBSELF enter. It expresses the essence of a part of you.
1. Greet it.
2. Identify with this subself (be it); state your name (examples: Worrier, Carefree, Critic) as it.
3. Say what you are like as this subself.
4. As it is, state what you want and what you like to do.
5. Become the leader again. Ask the subself why it wants the first thing it wants.
6. Be the subself and reply. Say what you really need that creates the want you spoke of. If it is a true need, it will be good for the entire personality. (example: Angry wants to hit, but really needs attention.)
7. Be the leader again. Ask the subself why it wants the next thing it wants.
8. Be the subself again and tell what you really need, beneath this want.
9. Become the leader again. Ask the subself why it wants each of its other wants.
10. For each of the leader's questions, be the subself and reply.
11. As this subself, notice and say how you feel and what the world is like to you. Say what you need to feel good.
12. Be the leader again. Imagine what life would be like if you were this sub personality all the time. State this.
13. See the first subself sitting down.
See the door open again; picture a SECOND subself entering.
Greet it.
Identify with this subself; state your name as it.
Say what you are like as this subself.
As it, say what you want and what you like to do.
Become the leader again. Ask the subself why it wants the first thing it wants.
Be the subself and reply.
Become the leader again. Ask the subself why it wants the next thing it wants.
Be the subself again and tell what you really need, beneath this want.
Become the leader again. Ask the subself for each of its other wants why it wants each.
For each of the leader's questions, be the subself and reply.
As this subself, notice and say how you feel and what the world is like to you. Say what you need to feel good.
Be the leader again. Imagine what life would be like if you were this sub personality all the time. State this.
See the second subself sitting down.
See the door open again; picture a THIRD subself entering.
[Partner who is reading: Take your partner through the sequence of directions, numbered 1 through 13 above, for the third subself. Do likewise for a FORTH and FIFTH ones.]
Imagine, next, that five participants have arrived. The place for the sixth remains empty.
As the leader, START THE ENCOUNTER saying "Here we are. We can make this group experience what we wish."
One by one, TAKE TURNS BEING EACH SUBSELF. AS EACH, say who you are and your REACTION to being in this situation and to living in the same mind. As each, in turn, expresses the DEGREE it WANTS YOU TO PARTICIPATE and INFLUENCE the group, FEEL CLOSE to, accept, and be accepted by the others.
Alternate being different subselves; as each, express strong, SEEMINGLY INCOMPATIBLE DEMANDS for the others or the group as a whole.
Engage in a DISCUSSION which develops into escalating CONFLICT over specific issues.
As each subpersonality, say how you can FIND A RESOLUTION to the conflict by FINDING OUT HOW YOUR DEEP NEEDS ARE ULTIMATELY COMPATIBLE.
Just before the group ends, notice that no subpersonality is sitting in the empty chair. A NEW SUBSELF has taken its place in your group. Let it interact with and speak to the others.
As each subself in turn, discuss WAYS YOU CAN HELP the others and how they can help you.
Say how you could recognize, accept, coordinate, integrate and synthesize your each of the subselves that attended.
*See TA**RA FOR ALL CHAKRAS, by Dr. Lessin and Janet Kira Lessin, for advanced Psychosynthesis, under Voice Dialogue Centering
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TA**RA for ALL CHAKRAS
amazon.com/Tantra-Chakras-Sasha-Alex-Lessin/dp/1548102830
guides you through experiences that help you:
* Love each other more and better
* Open your energy vortexes (chakras) to each other
* Share your diverse inner voices
* Learn what hurts and scares your Inner Kids
* Discern when to lower your subself shields
* Share vulnerability and connect
* Synergize your inner selves' dance within and between you
* Refine how you relate
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amazon.com/Tantra-Chakras-Sasha-Alex-Lessin/dp/1548102830
guides you through experiences that help you:
* Love each other more and better
* Open your energy vortexes (chakras) to each other
* Share your diverse inner voices
* Learn what hurts and scares your Inner Kids
* Discern when to lower your subself shields
* Share vulnerability and connect
* Synergize your inner selves' dance within and between you
* Refine how you relate
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05/30/2026

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05/23/2026

INTEGRATE YOUR PERSONA & SHADOW AS YOUR DAIMON, ROLLO MAY'S IDEA OF YOUR INNER POWER
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BY SASHA ALEX LESSIN, PH.D. (ANTHROPOLOGY, UCLA) AND M.A. COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY (UNIVERSITY FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES)
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ACCORDING TO PSYCHOLOGIST ROLLO MAY, EVERY HUMAN BEING CONTAINS POWERFUL INNER FORCES THAT CAN EITHER HELP US GROW OR DESTROY US. HE CALLED THESE FORCES THE DAIMONIC.
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TODAY, PEOPLE OFTEN HEAR WORDS LIKE "DEMONIC" AND THINK ONLY OF EVIL. BUT MAY WAS USING A MUCH OLDER GREEK IDEA. ORIGINALLY, ACADEMICS UNDERSTOOD THE DAIMONIC AS A DEEP LIFE FORCE, NEITHER GOOD NOR BAD IN ITSELF. IT WAS THE ENERGY BEHIND PASSION, AMBITION, ANGER, DESIRE, COURAGE, S*XUALITY, CREATIVITY, AND THE URGE TO BECOME FULLY ALIVE.
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THE DANGER IS NOT THAT THESE FORCES EXIST. THE DANGER COMES WHEN WE REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THEM.
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MODERN SOCIETY OFTEN TEACHES PEOPLE TO SUPPRESS INTENSE EMOTIONS. OUR SAVANTS TELL US TO STAY CALM, REASONABLE, CONTROLLED, AND POLITE. THEY DISCOURAGE ANGER, TREAT STRONG DESIRE WITH SUSPICION, AND CONSIDER A HUNGER FOR POWER DANGEROUS.
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MAY, HOWEVER, ARGUED THAT THESE ENERGIES DO NOT DISAPPEAR WHEN WE REPRESS THEM. INSTEAD, THEY SINK INTO THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND, WHERE THEY GROW STRONGER AND MORE DISTORTED. A PERSON WHO DENIES ANGER MAY EXPLODE IN VIOLENCE. A PERSON WHO REFUSES TO ADMIT AMBITION MAY SECRETLY BECOME MANIPULATIVE OR CRUEL. SOMEONE WHO SUPPRESSES PASSION MAY BECOME EMOTIONALLY NUMB, DEPRESSED, OR DISCONNECTED FROM LIFE ITSELF. THE MORE UNAWARE WE ARE OF THESE FORCES, THE MORE LIKELY THEY ARE TO CONTROL US FROM BEHIND THE SCENES.
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MAY BELIEVED THIS REPRESSION AND PROJECTION OF THE DESIRES THAT MOTIVATE IT EXPLAINS MANY TRAGEDIES IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND EVERYDAY LIFE. IN SHAKESPEARE'S MACBETH, THE DESIRE FOR POWER COMPLETELY CONSUMES MACBETH UNTIL IT DESTROYS HIM. IN ROMEO AND JULIET, OVERWHELMING PASSION BLINDS THE LOVERS TO EVERYTHING ELSE AROUND THEM. THESE STORIES ARE NOT SIMPLY ABOUT "BAD CHOICES." THEY SHOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SINGLE POWERFUL FORCE TAKES OVER THE WHOLE PERSONALITY.
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YET THE SAME ENERGIES THAT CAN DESTROY US ARE ALSO THE SOURCE OF HUMAN GREATNESS. THE ARTIST WHO TRANSFORMS SORROW INTO MUSIC, PAINTING, OR POETRY IS USING DAIMONIC ENERGY CREATIVELY. THE ACTIVIST WHO CHANNELS ANGER INTO THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE IS ALSO USING IT CONSTRUCTIVELY. LOVE, IMAGINATION, COURAGE, S*XUALITY, REBELLION, AND VISIONARY CREATIVITY ALL EMERGE FROM THE SAME RAW INNER FIRE.
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FOR MAY, THE GOAL IS NOT TO ELIMINATE THESE FORCES. TRYING TO BECOME PERFECTLY "SAFE," EMOTIONLESS, OR PURELY RATIONAL WOULD PRODUCE A LIFELESS PERSON CUT OFF FROM CREATIVITY AND VITALITY. INSTEAD, THE TASK OF MATURITY IS INTEGRATION.
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DAEMONIC INTEGRATION MEANS BECOMING CONSCIOUS OF OUR INNER DARKNESS AND POWER WITHOUT BEING ENSLAVED BY IT. IT MEANS ADMITTING: YES, I CAN FEEL RAGE, A HUNGER FOR RECOGNITION, DESTRUCTIVE IMPULSES, AND A DESIRE FOR POWER, LOVE, INTENSITY, AND MEANING.
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BUT INSTEAD OF DENYING OR UNTHINKINGLY OBEYING THESE FORCES, WE LEARN TO GUIDE THEM CONSCIOUSLY. MAYS' IDEA IS SIMILAR TO CARL JUNG'S CONCEPT OF INTEGRATING THE SHADOW. HUMAN BEINGS BECOME PSYCHOLOGICALLY HEALTHIER NOT BY PRETENDING TO BE PURE, BUT BY HONESTLY CONFRONTING THE PARTS OF THEMSELVES THEY FEAR MOST.
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MAY BELIEVED THIS TAKES COURAGE. EVERY PERSON LIVES IN TENSION BETWEEN REASON AND INSTINCT, CIVILIZATION AND PRIMAL ENERGY, ORDER AND CHAOS. THE DAIMONIC IS LIKE FIRE: IT CAN WARM A HOME OR BURN IT DOWN. WE CANNOT REMOVE THE FIRE FROM HUMAN NATURE. WE CAN ONLY DECIDE WHETHER TO UNDERSTAND IT OR BE CONSUMED BY IT.
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MAY'S MESSAGE IS DEEPLY HUMANISTIC: MATURITY DOES NOT COME FROM SUPPRESSING THE POWERFUL ENERGIES WITHIN US. IT COMES FROM FACING THEM HONESTLY, LEARNING FROM THEM, AND TRANSFORMING THEM INTO CREATIVITY, LOVE, COURAGE, AND CONSCIOUS ACTION. OUR CHARACTER IS SHAPED NOT BY THE ABSENCE OF INNER CONFLICT, BUT BY HOW BRAVELY AND WISELY WE ENGAGE WITH THE FORCES INSIDE US.
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YOU CAN SEE SOME OF MAY'S WORK, AND THE WORKS FROM OTHER EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS AT
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INTEGRATE YOUR PERSONA & SHADOW AS YOUR DAIMON
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IN THE PARTNER EXERCISE BELOW, YOU GROUND THIS IDEA OF INTEGRATING YOUR EXPERIENCE OF SHADOW INTEGRATION SO YOU CAN LIVE BY IT. IN THE EXERCISE, YOU'LL IMAGINE C. YOU'LL ASK YOURSELF, "WHAT ARE YOU LIKE AS BEST YOU?" AS WORST YOU? YOU REFLECT ON EACH.
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WHEN YOU LISTEN TO YOUR INNER VOICES AND COORDINATE THEIR EXPRESSION, YOU OPEN UP POSSIBILITIES, FOSTER CREATIVITY, AND STIMULATE SYNERGY. WHEN YOU MEET AND INTEGRATE YOUR VOICES, YOU SAVE YOUR SELF-SENSE FROM SHRINKING TO THE ATTRIBUTES OF ANY SINGLE VOICE (PERSONA). YOU STOP — WHEN YOU APPRECIATE ALL YOUR VOICES — IMAGINING OTHER PEOPLE ARE LIKE YOU, DENYING YOU ARE.
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REPRESSED VOICES (YOUR SHADOW) GROW FROM BASIC (DAIMONIC) URGES (LIKE S*X, ANGER, CRAVING FOR POWER) THAT CAN DOMINATE YOU. YOUR DAIMONIC FORCE--A FORCE BOTH DESTRUCTIVE AND CREATIVE--BECOMES YOUR EVIL SHADOW, DENIED AS A PART OF YOU.
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REPRESSING YOUR SHADOW CAN LEAVE YOU FEELING APATHETIC FOR A WHILE. YOUR SHADOW, HOWEVER, EVENTUALLY BUILDS UP ENERGY AND OVERWHELMS ALL YOUR OTHER VOICES. THEN YOU EXPRESS YOUR DAIMON, MR. HYDE TURNED LOOSE, WITHOUT REGARD TO HOW YOUR EXPRESSION AFFECTS OTHER PARTS OF YOUR LIFE OR OTHER PEOPLE.
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ROLLO MAY ADVOCATES HARNESSING THE ENERGY YOU WASTE REPRESSING YOUR SHADOW (AND OPPOSING OTHERS WHO PERSONIFY IT). CONFRONT YOUR SHADOW AND ENCOUNTER YOUR OWN DAIMONIC ENERGY. ESTABLISH A DIALECTICAL, MUTUALLY GROWTHFUL DIALOGUE WITH IT. BE IT. INTEGRATE IT WITH THE REST OF WHAT YOU ARE. EXPERIENCE INCREASED ENERGY. PLAY WITH A TWO-ARMED DAIMON RATHER THAN A ONE-ARMED SHADOW AND A ONE-ARMED PERSONA.
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SEE AND ENJOY THE UNITY OF YOUR PERSONA AND YOUR SHADOW, AND YOU RISE. YOU VAULT FROM THE SUBSELF LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO THE INTEGRATED PERSONALITY LEVEL.
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MY TEACHER, DR. RENE TILLICH, TAUGHT ME THE NEXT EXERCISE. IT STIMULATES SUBSELF SYNERGY FOR YOUR DAIMON. YOU LEARN MOST WITH GROUPS OF PARTNERS, BUT YOU CAN GET THE INSIGHT YOU NEED WITH ONE PARTNER OR ALONE IN FANTASY.
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CHOOSE AS A PARTNER ONE OF THE THREE PEOPLE IN THIS EXPERIMENT.
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SIT FACING YOUR PARTNER, THEN CLOSE YOUR EYES.
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RELIVE THE WORST THING YOU EVER DID.
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IMAGINE WHAT IT MIGHT BE LIKE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOUR PARTNER.
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TELL (OR CONCEAL FROM) YOUR PARTNER THE WORST THING YOU EVER DID OR THE WAY YOU WERE THAT YOU REGRET MOST. YOUR PARTNER LISTENS AND SAYS THANK YOU WHEN YOU FINISH.
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REVERSE ROLES; INVITE YOUR PARTNER TO SHARE HER OR HIS WORST THING OR BIGGEST REGRET.
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DISCUSS WHAT YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELVES. TELL EACH OTHER THE THINGS YOU CANNOT STAND ABOUT OTHERS.
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DISCUSS THE PROBABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUR SHADOW: ELEMENTS THAT REVEAL YOUR REGRETS, WORST BEHAVIOR, DISLIKED TRAITS, AND PARTS OF OTHERS YOU DISLIKE. WORK OUT A CHARACTER DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SHADOW.
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IF YOU DO THIS EXERCISE IN A GROUP, JOIN THE OTHER PAIR OF PARTNERS IN A CIRCLE. REFLECT ALOUD ON YOUR SHADOWS. BECOME YOUR SHADOWS. EACH OF YOU PLAYS-ACTS YOUR SHADOWS. ONE BY ONE, YOU AND THE OTHERS SAY YOUR SHADOW NAMES AND STATE YOUR EXISTENCES. SAY WHAT YOU'RE LIKE.
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STAY IN YOUR ROLE AS YOUR SHADOW AFTER YOU HAVE INTRODUCED YOURSELF. INTERACT WITH THE OTHER SHADOWS FROM YOUR SHADOW EXISTENCE. MOVE ABOUT THE ROOM AS SHADOWS. STAY IN CHARACTER, EVEN HAM IT UP--EXAGGERATE IT A BIT. FEEL THE DAIMONIC ENERGY MOVING THROUGH YOU.
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JOIN A NEW PARTNER. TELL THIS PARTNER, AS SHADOW, WHAT YOU WANT. BE AS UNREASONABLE AND DEMANDING AS YOU SECRETLY IMAGINED YOU NEVER COULD.
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YOUR PARTNER ASKS YOU WHY YOU WANT WHAT YOU WANT. S/HE INTERVIEWS YOU, AND YOU RESPOND UNTIL YOU GET IN TOUCH WITH WHAT YOU REALLY NEED AND WHAT MOTIVATES YOUR WANTS.
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REVERSE ROLES, SO YOUR PARTNER HAS A TURN FINDING OUT WHAT MOTIVATES HER SHADOW'S DEMANDS.
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NOW ENACT YOUR PERSONA, THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR SHADOW. STATE YOUR EXISTENCE AS YOUR PERSONA.
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ADDRESS YOUR SHADOW. TELL IT HOW YOU FEEL TOWARD IT.
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BECOME SHADOW AGAIN AND RESPOND TO PERSONA. CARRY ON A DIALOGUE BETWEEN YOUR SHADOW AND YOUR PERSONA. PLAY EACH PART, AND SHIFT ROLES WHEN YOUR PARTNER TELLS YOU TO. ALTERNATE ROLEPLAYING YOUR PERSONA AND YOUR SHADOW AS THEY DIALOGUE ABOUT THEIR
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RESENTMENTS,
DEMANDS,
WITHHOLDS,
UNFINISHED BUSINESS AND
APPRECIATIONS
TO EACH OTHER.
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CENTER YOURSELF.
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IMAGINE YOU ARE THE FAIR WITNESS WITHIN.
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STAND FACING YOUR PERSONA AND YOUR SHADOW. EXPRESS CLEAR REFLECTION, COMPASSIONATE NEUTRALITY, AND LOVING TRUTHFULNESS IN YOUR VOICE.
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ADVISE YOUR PERSONA AND SHADOW ON THEIR RELATIONSHIP. SPEAK ALOUD SO ALL PRESENT MAY ALSO HEAR. IF YOU'RE IN A GROUP, LET EACH PERSON TAKE A TURN ENACTING THEIR FAIR WITNESS.
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NOW BECOME YOUR DAIMON.
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AS DAIMON, THE COMBINED ENERGY OF SHADOW AND PERSONA, MOVES THROUGH THE ROOM WITH THE ENERGY OF BOTH. MAKE SOUNDS OF HOW YOU FEEL. LET THE SOUND AND MOVEMENT DEVELOP.
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INTERACT WITH THE OTHER DAIMONS. EXPRESS YOUR POWER AND EXUBERANCE.
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THEN SIT WITH THE REST OF THE GROUP IN A CIRCLE AGAIN AND DISCUSS YOUR EXPERIENCE.
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WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE EXERCISE ABOUT SYNERGIZING YOUR PERSONA AND SHADOW TO THE CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL OF AN INTEGRATED PERSONALITY?
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WHO ARE YOU, THE ONE WHO KNOWS AND CONTROLS YOUR INNER VOICES AND OWNS ALL YOUR PROJECTIONS? YOU'RE THE CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE NEXT LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS--AN INTEGRATED PERSONALITY. NOW YOU CAN CHANGE FROM A SELF-IDENTIFIED ALTER EGO WITH LIMITED SUBSELVES TO A MORE COMPREHENSIVE SELF THAT INCLUDES THE SUBSELVES AS PARTS. AS A PERSON, YOUR TASK IS TO EXPERIENCE YOURSELF AS A CO-PART OF A LARGER SELF THAT EXISTS IN TIMELESS MOMENTS WITH YOUR BODY.
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05/23/2026

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Integrate your PERSONA & SHADOW as your DAIMON
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05/19/2026

THE PEOPLE CAN STOP WARS by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
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See way more on this at https://wp.me/p1TVCy-9bt
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To understand the driving force behind the ongoing armed actions by American forces against the soldiers, buildings, infrastructure, and civilians of other nations, see the video in the Fb slot below this post.
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THE PEOPLE CAN STOP WARS by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
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WARS: Here's how "We the People" stopped War 1, 2 3 3, but not 4th … yet
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Southeast Asia: draft resistance, mass marches, G.I. refusal, student uprisings, whistleblowers, Pentagon Papers, veterans against the war.
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Iraq: global antiwar marches, exposure of WMD deception, military-family resistance, public-opinion reversal, electoral pressure, withdrawal demand.
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Afghanistan: war-weariness, Gold Star families, veterans' dissent, public recognition that U.S. goals failed, majority support for withdrawal
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Iran: mass refusal before escalation: antiwar organizing, media challenge, congressional pressure, sanctions criticism, oil-war exposure, diplomacy demand
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Governments rely on obedience; when citizens, soldiers, journalists, teachers, writers, artists, and workers withdraw consent, state power weakens.
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See way more on this at https://wp.me/p1TVCy-9bt
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HOW WE CAN STOP THE WAR AGAINST IRAN BEING IRAQ REPLAY
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Expose nuclear-fear propaganda early.
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Demand Congress block unauthorized war.
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Reject oil-and-Strait-of-Hormuz panic narratives.
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Support diplomacy, not sanctions-to-bombing escalation
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Amplify the voices of Iranian civilians, U.S. soldiers, veterans, and peace advocates.
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Name the pattern: Iraq WMD script, new target.
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THE DOMINATOR IMPRINT vs THE COOPERATOR ALTERNATIVE
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The "Anunnaki" refers to the people descended mainly from refugees from the Lyran Constellation. The Anunnaki created our species and imprinted us with their obsession with status competition, class, caste, and hierarchical consciousness. The ideology they lived and instilled in us impels everyone to compete with everyone else, men to dominate women, rulers who kill to rule, slavery, wars for territory, genocide of religious rivals, and disregard for planetary ecology. Dominators preach: Order requires obedience. Peace comes through strength.
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In the dimension of giving and taking, Domination Consciousness fully embraces taking but minimizes giving.
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On Earth, NINMAH, an Anunnaki Princess on the Anunnaki Goldming Expedition to Earth from the Planet Nibiru, developed an alternative ideology to the domination dementia of her peers.
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In the dichotomy between giving and taking, Ninmah advocates a balance of giving and receiving within and between human groups, and between humans and the Earth.
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THE PEOPLE CAN STOP WARS
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"We the People" Helped End the first 3, but not the 4th. In SOUTHEAST ASIA–Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, draft resistance, mass marches, G.I. refusal, student uprisings, whistleblowers, Pentagon Papers, veterans against the war brought the War (and President Johnson's Presidency to an end.
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In IRAQ, global antiwar marches, exposure of WMD deception, military-family resistance, public-opinion reversal, electoral pressure, and withdrawal demands from the people of America finally got us out of Iraq.
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In AFGHANISTAN,war-weariness, Gold Star families, veterans' dissent, public recognition that U.S. goals failed, and majority support for withdrawal impelled President Biden to withdraw our soldiers from the country.
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Now, in Iran, it's going to take mass refusal before escalating murders of millions of innocent people. It'll take antiwar organizing, media challenge, congressional pressure, sanctions criticism, oil-war exposure, and diplomacy demands, as well as removal and imprisonment of Trump and his fellow perps from office. Still, we did it in prior wars and can do it again.
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"THE PEOPLE" PREVAILED & HELPING TERMINATE U.S. TERRORISM IN NAM, CAMBODIA & LAOS
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Ordinarily powerless, poor, and basically loving folks pressured the American militarists to stop the killing of civilians, soldiers, and forests, by protests, draft resistance, and flights to Canada, Ellsberg's revelation of the Pentagon Papers that said we could not win, as well as by G.I. resistance and veterans who braved the punishment the warmongering elite inflicted upon anti-war activists.
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For the war-enthusiastic American Dominators, Patriotism meant no criticism of the destruction our military wrought on both the enemies and the village people of the subcontinent. Despite the power of the war advocates, war opponents in America insisted that Love of America includes stopping its crimes against humanity in Nam and its neighbors.
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The common people of America overcame deliberate lies that the security of the United States depended on thwarting the Vietmese independence movement and America, for its security, must kill North Vietnamese soldiers, pro-independence Viet Cong in South Viet Nam, and lots of Vietnamese villagers as "collateral damage" in Nam and its neighbors. America's Dominator Government insisted that U.S. security necessitated preemptive war.
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The grassroots American peace movement found the murder of civilians, G.I. mass rapes of Vietnamese peasants, the planting of landmines that kill and maim forever, the burning of forests, the poisoning of G.I.s and everyone else in SE Asia with Agent Orange, immobilized America so that it finally quit and left Nam to its people.
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2001: AFGHANISTAN: THE FOREVER WAR COLLAPSED
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9/11 and the Afghanistan Invasion
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U.S President Baby Bush launched both wars. Obama reduced Iraq while escalating Afghanistan. President Trump, in his first term, negotiated the exit framework with the Taliban. POTUS Biden completed the withdrawal in 2021.
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After the September 11, 2001, attack on the Twin Towers, for which the American establishment blamed the Saudi refugee Osama bin Laden and a small group of his Al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, the U.S. demanded that Afghanistan's Taliban government hand Bin Laden over and dismantle al-Qaeda bases. Negotiations failed.
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The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 with NATO support. America's original goal — destroying al-Qaeda's sanctuary — evolved into defeating the Taliban, building a pro-Western Afghan state, training Afghan military forces, and attempting long-term "nation building. The Taliban government collapsed quickly, but the war dragged on for two decades.
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2003: Iraq Diverted Attention
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The 2003 invasion of Iraq split U.S. military and political attention. The Iraq War weakened the Afghan mission because resources, troops, intelligence focus, and diplomacy shifted toward Iraq. Nonetheless, in 2009, Obama approved a major Afghanistan troop "surge" of about 30,000 additional troops while continuing the drawdown from Iraq. He followed the Bush-era Status of Forces Agreement requiring most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011. Negotiations to keep a residual force failed, partly because the Iraqi government would not grant legal immunity to U.S. troops. So he escalated the war in Afghanistan while promising a future withdrawal timeline, starting with a troop surge in 2009–2010, followed by a gradual withdrawal beginning in 2011, and formally ending the U.S. combat mission there in 2014. He left, but thousands of U.S. troops are in Afghanistan.
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Critics on the left argued Obama prolonged an unwinnable war; hawks argued he withdrew too quickly.
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2020: Trump and the Doha Agreement
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During Donald Trump's first term as U.S. President, the U.S. negotiated directly with the Taliban in Doha in 2020. The agreement set conditions for a U.S. withdrawal.
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2021: Biden Withdrawal and Taliban Return
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President Joe Biden clumsily completed the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The Afghan government collapsed rapidly, and the Taliban regained control of Kabul.
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Both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars reveal that open-ended military intervention underplays the horrid human and financial costs.
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2026: THE U.S.–IRAN WAR–-Oil, Nukes, Sanctions, Missiles & the Threat of Regional War
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The current U.S.–Iran confrontation emerged from decades of hostility rooted in sanctions, nuclear disputes, proxy conflicts, oil geopolitics, and competing visions for control of the Middle East. In early 2026, tensions exploded into open military confrontation involving the United States, Israel, Iran, and allied regional forces. Recent fighting and negotiations have centered on Iran's nuclear program, the Strait of Hormuz, sanctions, oil exports, and the danger of a wider regional war.
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From sanctions to open war
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For years, Washington accused Iran of advancing toward nuclear-weapons capability, while Iran insisted its nuclear program was defensive and civilian in nature. The U.S. imposed escalating sanctions targeting Iran's economy, banking system, shipping networks, and oil exports. In February 2026, Washington imposed another round of sanctions tied to Iranian oil transport and regional military activity. Meanwhile, Israel and the United States increasingly portrayed Iran as the central military threat in the region. Iran, in turn, supported allied militias and governments in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen while building missile and drone capabilities.
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On February 28, 2026, coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes reportedly hit Iranian military, government, and nuclear targets. Iran responded with missile and drone attacks against Israeli targets, U.S. bases, and shipping-related infrastructure in the Gulf region. The conflict rapidly expanded with attacks around the Strait of Hormuz, missile exchanges, naval confrontations, drone warfare, cyber disruptions, and regional proxy clashes.
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Iran responded by restricting or disrupting passage through the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world's most important oil chokepoints. Oil prices surged, and global shipping markets destabilized.
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THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: THE WORLD'S OIL ARTERY
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President Trump publicly alternated between threats and negotiations throughout the crisis. He warned Iran repeatedly that "the clock is ticking," threatened renewed bombing campaigns, and demanded limits on Iran's nuclear and missile programs. At the same time, Pakistani and Omani mediators carried proposals between Washington and Tehran seeking temporary ceasefires and phased negotiations. Several temporary ceasefires partially reduced fighting, but clashes repeatedly resumed around Hormuz and Gulf shipping routes.
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THE HUMAN COST
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Like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before it, the Iran confrontation has produced:
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civilian deaths,
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economic disruption,
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refugee displacement,
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oil shocks,
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internet disruptions,
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and growing fear of wider war.
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Another open-ended Middle Eastern conflict risks repeating the same pattern seen in Iraq and Afghanistan: massive military expenditures, destabilization, civilian suffering, and no clear long-term resolution. Supporters of confrontation argue that Iran's missile systems, regional alliances, and nuclear capabilities pose unacceptable strategic dangers requiring aggressive containment.
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But competing narratives dominate the conflict.
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The Trump Administration argues that Iran threatens regional stability, Iran must not obtain nuclear weapons, and that pressure and military force are necessary deterrents. Iran's rulers argue that Iran is resisting foreign domination and sanctions, the U.S. and Israeli attacks violate Iranian sovereignty, and the leverage of Hormuz is defensive retaliation against economic warfare.
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Antiwar critics argue that the current crisis reflects recurring patterns of threat inflation, militarized diplomacy, oil geopolitics, proxy escalation, and underestimation of human consequences.
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As of May 2026, negotiations continue intermittently, ceasefires remain fragile, tensions in the Strait of Hormuz persist, sanctions remain central, and military escalation remains possible. The region remains suspended between diplomacy and renewed large-scale war.
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