jewworldorder--2020-09-12--‘Library of Exile’ exhibit opens at British Museum before resettlement in Iraq

LONDON — “ Library of Exile , ” an installation created by the acclaimed British artist and writer Edmund de Waal , was given a second chance for viewing in the artist ’ s hometown when London ’ s British Museum reopened to the public on August 27 .
The British Museum had been closed for the last five months due to the coronavirus lockdown — the longest period its doors have been shut in peacetime since the museum opened in 1759 .
Housed inside a temporary , white porcelain-covered pavilion are 2,000 books — some stacked neatly , others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writers from 88 countries in dozens of languages that were hand picked by de Waal .
They range from Ovid , Dante and Voltaire to 20th century émigrés including Walter Benjamin , the poet Marina Tsvetaeva and children ’ s writer Judith Kerr .
Get The Times of Israel ’ s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up The exhibit is deeply personal : De Waal , the grandchild of Austrian Jewish refugees , wanted to create his “ Library of Exile ” for his great-great grandfather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collection in Vienna was taken by the Nazis .
De Waal documented the library ’ s confiscation in his bestselling memoir , “ The Hare with Amber Eyes.
” De Waal told The Times of Israel that he drew the first 800 books from his own shelves , which is why there are a lot of German and Austrian works .
He said that he needed — and wanted — to make his new library “ a generative work that celebrated and commemorated.
” Following its display at the British Museum , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Mosul , Iraq , by Book Aid International , the UK ’ s leading international book donation and library development charity .
They will be donated to the University of Mosul library , which is currently being rebuilt after it was burned down by Islamic State terrorists in 2015 .
There is a painful , circulatory element to the books ’ final destination , de Waal told The Times of Israel , as Iraq was where the Babylonian Talmud originated .
As a whole , the collection represents a similar chronicle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the books are in translation , reflecting the idea of language as a form of migration .
Poignantly etched on one of the exhibit ’ s external walls are the names of some of the destroyed libraries of the world , from the ancient library of Alexandria to more recent losses in Sarajevo and Tripoli .
At the top of another wall , de Waal has inscribed the words , “ Where books are burnt , in the end people will be burnt , ” written with chilling foresight by the 19th century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the filled shelves is “ Psalm I-IV , ” a quartet of new vitrines by de Waal , whose arrangement reflects the composition of Daniel Bomberg ’ s 16th century edition of the Talmud , printed in Venice .
Structurally significant , it holds the Hebrew text , Aramaic translation and commentary on a single page .
The British Museum shut its doors soon after the installation ’ s initial opening in March .
At its festive March launch , de Waal explained that he was partly inspired by the polarized and toxic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in recent years .
To date , “ Library of Exile ” has had three homes .
It was first presented at the 16th century Ateneo Veneto in Venice last year during the Biennale , then traveled on to Dresden before arriving in London .
For de Waal , libraries have different meanings in different places , and each of the three locations of his “ Library of Exile ” have particular resonance : Venice , with its connection to Jewish life and the ghetto , and Dresden because of its tradition of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s main mediums ) , but also because of its history of book burnings in the 1930s .
London has a very straightforward connection , said de Waal .
In 1940 , a bomb fell on the British Museum , damaging a part of the King ’ s Library Gallery , destroying many books collected by King George III .
“ That ’ s obviously strong , but the real context for me is just the sheer quantity of different people and different communities that are going to come to this library @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terms of its exilic communities , ” de Waal said .
Libraries are sanctified , living spaces , believes de Waal , and the pavilion is intended as a place of contemplation and dialogue .
However , there are two things that you are not supposed to do in a library , he says : Make noise and write in books .
Inside each of the exhibit ’ s texts is an ex libris label , inviting readers to write their names in a copy that matters to them .
Back in March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Tiger Who Came to Tea , ” was the most popular and it bulged with signed plates .
De Waal also welcomes suggestions of titles that can be added to the virtual library via its website .
The visitor experience to the “ Library of Exile ” will , for now , not be as it was conceived prior to its premature closure .
There will be a one-way route through the library , with a maximum of three people able to enter at any one time .
Visitors will be prompted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in and out and there will be regular cleaning of the hard surfaces within the space .
At the time of writing , it is unclear whether visitors will be able to take books off the shelves .
Although entry to the installation is free , visitors must now book a timed slot in advance .
De Waal is delighted that the “ Library of Exile ” has reopened to the public .
“ For the last five months it has been locked away in the British Museum , unvisited , its books @ @ @ @ @ @ @ With the reopening , I feel profoundly grateful that we can experience this connection again to a real space , ” he said .
For all that technology can now connect between us , there ’ s just something about books , he said .
“ We are all learning how to be creative in the digital realm , but we need to pass a book from one hand to another , hear someone ’ s voice tell a story , read a poem , sing , ” he said .

LONDON — “Library of Exile,” an installation created by the acclaimed British artist and writer Edmund de Waal, was given a second chance for viewing in the artist’s hometown when London’s British Museum reopened to the public on August 27.
The British Museum had been closed for the last five months due to the coronavirus lockdown — the longest period its doors have been shut in peacetime since the museum opened in 1759.
Housed inside a temporary, white porcelain-covered pavilion are 2,000 books — some stacked neatly, others haphazardly piled up — written by exiled writers from 88 countries in dozens of languages that were hand picked by de Waal. They range from Ovid, Dante and Voltaire to 20th century émigrés including Walter Benjamin, the poet Marina Tsvetaeva and children’s writer Judith Kerr.
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The exhibit is deeply personal: De Waal, the grandchild of Austrian Jewish refugees, wanted to create his “Library of Exile” for his great-great grandfather, Viktor Ephrussi, whose vast book collection in Vienna was taken by the Nazis. De Waal documented the library’s confiscation in his bestselling memoir, “The Hare with Amber Eyes.”
De Waal told The Times of Israel that he drew the first 800 books from his own shelves, which is why there are a lot of German and Austrian works. He said that he needed — and wanted — to make his new library “a generative work that celebrated and commemorated.”
British Museum director Hartwig Fischer, left, with ‘Library of Exile’ creator Edmund de Waal at the installation at the British Museum. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)
Following its display at the British Museum, the trove of books will eventually be transported to Mosul, Iraq, by Book Aid International, the UK’s leading international book donation and library development charity. They will be donated to the University of Mosul library, which is currently being rebuilt after it was burned down by Islamic State terrorists in 2015.
There is a painful, circulatory element to the books’ final destination, de Waal told The Times of Israel, as Iraq was where the Babylonian Talmud originated. As a whole, the collection represents a similar chronicle of diasporic displacement throughout history. Many of the books are in translation, reflecting the idea of language as a form of migration.
The ‘Library of Exile’ installation by Edmund de Waal at the British Museum. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)
Poignantly etched on one of the exhibit’s external walls are the names of some of the destroyed libraries of the world, from the ancient library of Alexandria to more recent losses in Sarajevo and Tripoli. At the top of another wall, de Waal has inscribed the words, “Where books are burnt, in the end people will be burnt,” written with chilling foresight by the 19th century German poet, Heinrich Heine.
Alongside the filled shelves is “Psalm I-IV,” a quartet of new vitrines by de Waal, whose arrangement reflects the composition of Daniel Bomberg’s 16th century edition of the Talmud, printed in Venice. Structurally significant, it holds the Hebrew text, Aramaic translation and commentary on a single page.
‘Library of Exile’ creator Edmund de Waal, at his installation at the British Museum. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)
The British Museum shut its doors soon after the installation’s initial opening in March. At its festive March launch, de Waal explained that he was partly inspired by the polarized and toxic way in which refugees have been treated in recent years.
To date, “Library of Exile” has had three homes. It was first presented at the 16th century Ateneo Veneto in Venice last year during the Biennale, then traveled on to Dresden before arriving in London.
For de Waal, libraries have different meanings in different places, and each of the three locations of his “Library of Exile” have particular resonance: Venice, with its connection to Jewish life and the ghetto, and Dresden because of its tradition of porcelain art (one of the artist’s main mediums), but also because of its history of book burnings in the 1930s.
London has a very straightforward connection, said de Waal. In 1940, a bomb fell on the British Museum, damaging a part of the King’s Library Gallery, destroying many books collected by King George III.
“That’s obviously strong, but the real context for me is just the sheer quantity of different people and different communities that are going to come to this library. London is an extraordinary place in terms of its exilic communities,” de Waal said.
London is an extraordinary place in terms of its exilic communities
Libraries are sanctified, living spaces, believes de Waal, and the pavilion is intended as a place of contemplation and dialogue. However, there are two things that you are not supposed to do in a library, he says: Make noise and write in books. Inside each of the exhibit’s texts is an ex libris label, inviting readers to write their names in a copy that matters to them. Back in March, Kerr’s volume, “The Tiger Who Came to Tea,” was the most popular and it bulged with signed plates. De Waal also welcomes suggestions of titles that can be added to the virtual library via its website.
The visitor experience to the “Library of Exile” will, for now, not be as it was conceived prior to its premature closure. There will be a one-way route through the library, with a maximum of three people able to enter at any one time. Visitors will be prompted to use hand sanitizer on the way in and out and there will be regular cleaning of the hard surfaces within the space. At the time of writing, it is unclear whether visitors will be able to take books off the shelves. Although entry to the installation is free, visitors must now book a timed slot in advance.
De Waal is delighted that the “Library of Exile” has reopened to the public.
The ‘Library of Exile’ installation by Edmund de Waal at the British Museum. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)
“For the last five months it has been locked away in the British Museum, unvisited, its books gathering dust in an empty museum. With the reopening, I feel profoundly grateful that we can experience this connection again to a real space,” he said.
For all that technology can now connect between us, there’s just something about books, he said.
“We are all learning how to be creative in the digital realm, but we need to pass a book from one hand to another, hear someone’s voice tell a story, read a poem, sing,” he said.


jewworldorder--2020-09-12--Four men arrested in southern Italy after two British teenagers sexually assaulted

Police in southern Italy have arrested four men and are investigating another four on suspicion of sexually assaulting two British girls at a villa where a party was being held , authorities said on Friday .
The 15-year-old girls , who spoke no Italian , met one of the male suspects after arriving with one of their older sisters at the party in the southern province of Matera , according to public prosecutor Pietro Argentino .
The male suspects , whose ages range from 19-23 , won their trust by acting in a friendly manner before taking advantage of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , police said .
As the party went on inside the villa , the adult sister lost sight of the girls , investigators said .
Private surveillance video released by police showed one of the minors , stumbling and appearing to protest , being pushed by one male toward a dark corner behind the villa after midnight on September 7 , joined by three others .
Police said they were then followed by three males with the other minor .
Police said the two girls were then sexually assaulted , in separate attacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ girls contacted police several hours later and were treated in hospital .
The four arrested were positively identified by the girls , according to police , while three others were identified from the CCTV video .
Police are seeking the identity of the eighth suspect .
Police said they acted swiftly due to evidence of the ” brutality of the of the violence committed in a subtle manner that could have been repeated against other helpless women .
”

Police in southern Italy have arrested four men and are investigating another four on suspicion of sexually assaulting two British girls at a villa where a party was being held, authorities said on Friday.
The 15-year-old girls, who spoke no Italian, met one of the male suspects after arriving with one of their older sisters at the party in the southern province of Matera, according to public prosecutor Pietro Argentino.
The male suspects, whose ages range from 19-23, won their trust by acting in a friendly manner before taking advantage of the girls’ altered states due to alcohol, police said.
As the party went on inside the villa, the adult sister lost sight of the girls, investigators said.
Private surveillance video released by police showed one of the minors, stumbling and appearing to protest, being pushed by one male toward a dark corner behind the villa after midnight on September 7, joined by three others.
Police said they were then followed by three males with the other minor.
Police said the two girls were then sexually assaulted, in separate attacks that lasted about 15 minutes.
The girls contacted police several hours later and were treated in hospital.
The four arrested were positively identified by the girls, according to police, while three others were identified from the CCTV video.
Police are seeking the identity of the eighth suspect.
Police said they acted swiftly due to evidence of the ”brutality of the of the violence committed in a subtle manner that could have been repeated against other helpless women.”


jewworldorder--2020-09-12--Nazi warship found off Norway coast, 80 years after it was ordered sunk

OSLO — A World War II Nazi cruiser which was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Norway in 1940 has been found by chance at a depth of 490 meters ( 535 yards ) during a subsea power cable inspection , the engineers who discovered the wreck said Thursday .
“ Sometimes , we discover historical remains .
But I ’ ve never found anything as exciting as this one , ” Ole Petter Hobberstad , a chief engineer at Norway ’ s power network operator Statnett , told AFP .
The German navy ship Karlsruhe , measuring 174 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part in the WWII invasion of Norway .
Get The Times of Israel ’ s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up After troops had disembarked on April 9 , 1940 , the ship was hit by Norwegian artillery then torpedoed by a British submarine .
Badly damaged , it was finally ordered sunk by the German captain off the port of Kristiansand , at Norway ’ s southern tip .
Three years ago , Statnett ’ s sonars detected an unidentified wreck close to a high-tension @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the company ’ s engineers did not have time to investigate further at the time , Statnett said .
But on June 30 , after a storm in the area , a team was sent out to inspect the wreck with a remotely-operated vehicle ( ROV ) .
About 15 meters from the underwater cable , the ROV “ showed a huge shipwreck that was torpedoed .
But it was not until the cannons — and Nazi symbol — became visible on the screen that Ole Petter Hobberstad and the crew understood it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said in a statement .
Norway ’ s Maritime Museum later confirmed that there was no doubt : the wreck was indeed that of the Karlsruhe , which had never been found .
The sunken ship is located 13 nautical miles off Kristiansand .
It lies upright on the seabed , a rare sight for warships with a high center of gravity which normally list over , according to experts .
Built in Kiel in northern Germany , the cruiser was launched in 1927 .

OSLO — A World War II Nazi cruiser which was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Norway in 1940 has been found by chance at a depth of 490 meters (535 yards) during a subsea power cable inspection, the engineers who discovered the wreck said Thursday.
“Sometimes, we discover historical remains. But I’ve never found anything as exciting as this one,” Ole Petter Hobberstad, a chief engineer at Norway’s power network operator Statnett, told AFP.
The German navy ship Karlsruhe, measuring 174 meters (571 feet), took part in the WWII invasion of Norway.
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After troops had disembarked on April 9, 1940, the ship was hit by Norwegian artillery then torpedoed by a British submarine. Badly damaged, it was finally ordered sunk by the German captain off the port of Kristiansand, at Norway’s southern tip.
The wreckage of a German warship, the Karlsruhe, has been discovered off the coast of Norway, eight decades after it was sunk in a World War Two battle https://t.co/hyVoVj7d7S pic.twitter.com/M1iSfD9oUn — Reuters (@Reuters) September 7, 2020
Three years ago, Statnett’s sonars detected an unidentified wreck close to a high-tension cable between Norway and Denmark, but the company’s engineers did not have time to investigate further at the time, Statnett said.
But on June 30, after a storm in the area, a team was sent out to inspect the wreck with a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV).
About 15 meters from the underwater cable, the ROV “showed a huge shipwreck that was torpedoed. But it was not until the cannons — and Nazi symbol — became visible on the screen that Ole Petter Hobberstad and the crew understood it was from the war,” Statnett said in a statement.
Norway’s Maritime Museum later confirmed that there was no doubt: the wreck was indeed that of the Karlsruhe, which had never been found.
The sunken ship is located 13 nautical miles off Kristiansand. It lies upright on the seabed, a rare sight for warships with a high center of gravity which normally list over, according to experts.
Built in Kiel in northern Germany, the cruiser was launched in 1927.


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jewworldorder--2020-09-12--Abortionist Who Said She Cuts Baby Vocal Cords So They ‘Can’t Scream’ Loses Medical License

Dr. Leah N. Torres , the doctor who sparked intense backlash in 2018 when she gloated about cutting the vocal chords of preborn babies “ so they can ’ t scream ” while performing abortions , has had her medical license revoked .
In the tweet , which she has since deleted , the abortionist wrote : “ You know fetuses can ’ t scream , right ?
” “ I transect the cord [ first ] so there ’ s really no opportunity , if they ’ re even far enough along to have a larynx , ” she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apologize for performing medicine .
I ’ m also a ‘ uterus ripper outer , ’ if that ’ s how you ’ d like to describe hysterectomy.
” The Alabama-based abortionist has had her medical license revoked because she allegedly made fraudulent statements on her application .
The denial of application also notes she has made “ public statements related to the practice of medicine which violate the high standards of honesty , diligence , prudence , and ethical integrity demanded from physicians licensed to practice in Alabama.
” CBN report : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an application of qualification Aug. 19 and temporarily suspended Torres ’ license Aug. 27 .
A hearing is set for Dec. 21 before the Medical Licensure Commission in Montgomery .
According to the report : The letter of notice from the Board of Medical Examiners says that Torres , in her application , gave false answers to several questions including whether her staff privileges had ever been revoked or suspended at any hospital or health care facility .
It also says that Torres has made “ public statements related to the practice of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ honesty , diligence , prudence , and ethical integrity demanded from physicians licensed to practice in Alabama.
” Robin Marty , a spokesperson for the West Alabama Women ’ s Center , where Torres works , said the doctor was not available to make a comment .
She argued the board ’ s decision to suspend Torres ’ medical license is the result of some sort of “ misunderstanding.
” On Thursday , pro-life activist Lila Rose , founder of Live Action , praised the board for its decision .
She also responded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ Abortionists do not practice medicine .
Torres murdered thousands of infants.
” Rose added , “ Every state in America should suspend all abortionist licenses [ and ] refuse to allow the slaughter to continue.
” Seemingly in response to the revocation of her license , Torres blamed the “ patriarchy .
”

Dr. Leah N. Torres, the doctor who sparked intense backlash in 2018 when she gloated about cutting the vocal chords of preborn babies “so they can’t scream” while performing abortions, has had her medical license revoked.
In the tweet, which she has since deleted, the abortionist wrote: “You know fetuses can’t scream, right?”
“I transect the cord [first] so there’s really no opportunity, if they’re even far enough along to have a larynx,” she continued. “I won’t apologize for performing medicine. I’m also a ‘uterus ripper outer,’ if that’s how you’d like to describe hysterectomy.”
The Alabama-based abortionist has had her medical license revoked because she allegedly made fraudulent statements on her application. The denial of application also notes she has made “public statements related to the practice of medicine which violate the high standards of honesty, diligence, prudence, and ethical integrity demanded from physicians licensed to practice in Alabama.”
Wow! Abortionist Leah Torres (infamous for her tweet that her unborn victims can’t scream because she cuts the cord) has lost her Alabama medical license because she lied about her malpractice history on her application. pic.twitter.com/yHvvicrdMf — Secular Pro-Life (@secularprolife) September 10, 2020
CBN report: The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners denied an application of qualification Aug. 19 and temporarily suspended Torres’ license Aug. 27.
A hearing is set for Dec. 21 before the Medical Licensure Commission in Montgomery.
According to the report:
The letter of notice from the Board of Medical Examiners says that Torres, in her application, gave false answers to several questions including whether her staff privileges had ever been revoked or suspended at any hospital or health care facility.
It also says that Torres has made “public statements related to the practice of medicine which violate the high standards of honesty, diligence, prudence, and ethical integrity demanded from physicians licensed to practice in Alabama.”
Robin Marty, a spokesperson for the West Alabama Women’s Center, where Torres works, said the doctor was not available to make a comment. She argued the board’s decision to suspend Torres’ medical license is the result of some sort of “misunderstanding.”
On Thursday, pro-life activist Lila Rose, founder of Live Action, praised the board for its decision. She also responded to Torres’ since-erased tweet, writing, “Abortionists do not practice medicine. Torres murdered thousands of infants.” Rose added, “Every state in America should suspend all abortionist licenses [and] refuse to allow the slaughter to continue.”
Seemingly in response to the revocation of her license, Torres blamed the “patriarchy.”


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jewworldorder--2020-09-12--At least 13 killed as deadly clashes erupt in Bogota after a man dies in police custody

An apology from Colombia ’ s defence minister for police brutality failed to stop a third night of protests on Friday , after the death of a man in custody sparked deadly rioting in the capital and other cities .
At least 13 people were killed and more than 400 wounded during widespread disturbances on Wednesday and Thursday nights after a video released on social media showed Javier Ordonez being repeatedly tasered by police during a street arrest .
He later died in custody .
For many Colombians , it ha evoked the killing in the United States in May @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffocated after being pinned by the neck to the road under the knee of a white officer .
“ We are marching over the abuse of police power , because they really are not well trained .
Because their lethal weapons are lethal , ” protester Yuri Camargo said .
The student lost her eye when riot police fired a rubber bullet at her in 2019 .
Defence Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo on Friday expressed his “ pain and indignation ” over the death of Ordonez , an engineer and father of two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become a lawyer .
“ The national police apologize for any violation of the law or ignorance of the regulations incurred by any of the members of the institution , ” said Trujillo , the minister with responsibility for the police .
But this was not enough to calm smaller crowds of demonstrators , who clashed sporadically with police as they protested once more in the capital Friday as well as in Medellin and other cities .
“ What ’ s an apology worth when you get shot in the back , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not want to reveal his identity for fear of reprisals , in Bogota .
Some 2,000 police and military were called in to reinforce security in the capital .
A lawyer for the victim ’ s family claimed Ordonez had died after being brutally beaten at a police station , following the repeated taser shocks .
Ordonez is heard repeatedly crying “ please , no more ” in the widely circulated footage of his arrest , taken by a friend .
“ I have photos of how they left the victim .
Javier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ homicide and the crime of torture was committed , ” lawyer Vadith Gomez told Bogota ’ s Radio Blu .
Ordonez ’ s family said he had gone out to buy alcohol when he was arrested .
Police authorities have opened an internal investigation against two uniformed officers “ for the alleged crime of abuse of authority and homicide , ” the defence minister said .
Trujillo told the news conference that five other police officers had been suspended from duty .
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned the police ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in response to the demonstrations , saying the right to peaceful protest was “ essential to any democracy.
” He called for an investigation so those responsible can be “ brought to justice , and institutional measures taken to avoid any repetition .
”

An apology from Colombia’s defence minister for police brutality failed to stop a third night of protests on Friday, after the death of a man in custody sparked deadly rioting in the capital and other cities.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 400 wounded during widespread disturbances on Wednesday and Thursday nights after a video released on social media showed Javier Ordonez being repeatedly tasered by police during a street arrest. He later died in custody.
For many Colombians, it ha evoked the killing in the United States in May of African American George Floyd, who suffocated after being pinned by the neck to the road under the knee of a white officer.
“We are marching over the abuse of police power, because they really are not well trained. Because their lethal weapons are lethal,” protester Yuri Camargo said.
The student lost her eye when riot police fired a rubber bullet at her in 2019.
Defence Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo on Friday expressed his “pain and indignation” over the death of Ordonez, an engineer and father of two in his 40s who was studying to become a lawyer.
“The national police apologize for any violation of the law or ignorance of the regulations incurred by any of the members of the institution,” said Trujillo, the minister with responsibility for the police.
But this was not enough to calm smaller crowds of demonstrators, who clashed sporadically with police as they protested once more in the capital Friday as well as in Medellin and other cities.
“What’s an apology worth when you get shot in the back,” raged a 26-year-old teacher, who did not want to reveal his identity for fear of reprisals, in Bogota.
Some 2,000 police and military were called in to reinforce security in the capital.
A lawyer for the victim’s family claimed Ordonez had died after being brutally beaten at a police station, following the repeated taser shocks.
Ordonez is heard repeatedly crying “please, no more” in the widely circulated footage of his arrest, taken by a friend.
“I have photos of how they left the victim. Javier was massacred – the crime of aggravated homicide and the crime of torture was committed,” lawyer Vadith Gomez told Bogota’s Radio Blu.
Ordonez’s family said he had gone out to buy alcohol when he was arrested.
Police authorities have opened an internal investigation against two uniformed officers “for the alleged crime of abuse of authority and homicide,” the defence minister said.
Trujillo told the news conference that five other police officers had been suspended from duty.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell condemned the police’s “excessive” use of force in response to the demonstrations, saying the right to peaceful protest was “essential to any democracy.”
He called for an investigation so those responsible can be “brought to justice, and institutional measures taken to avoid any repetition.”


jewworldorder--2020-09-12--After announcement of Bahrain ties, Israel says it wants to quickly open embassy

A day after the announcement that Bahrain is establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel , a senior Foreign Ministry official said Saturday that Jerusalem would work to establish an embassy in Manama in the near future .
“ We will work to open an embassy in Bahrain as soon as possible , ” the unnamed official told Hebrew-language media .
According to the Kan public broadcaster , in addition to the establishment of embassies and the appointment of ambassadors , the two countries have also agreed to the operation of direct flights as well as a number of unspecified joint @ @ @ @ @ @ @ announced that it was opening its airspace to Israeli flights .
Get The Times of Israel ’ s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up US President Donald Trump announced the normalization deal between Israel and Bahrain on Friday , making it the second Gulf country to do so in less than a month .
A joint statement released by the White House said Bahrain ’ s King Hamad bin Salman al-Khalifa spoke earlier in the day with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “ and agreed to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
” Israel and the UAE announced they were normalizing relations on August 13 , and a signing ceremony for their accord is being held at the White House on September 15 .
Bahrain will now join that ceremony , with its foreign minister Abdullatif Al Zayani and Netanyahu signing “ a historic Declaration of Peace , ” the joint statement said .
Netanyahu hailed the agreement as part of a “ new era of peace ” and predicted more accords would follow .
The Bahraini king ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statement that the normalization deal “ sends a positive and encouraging message to the people of Israel , that a just and comprehensive peace with the Palestinian people is the best path and the true interest for their future and the future of the peoples of the region.
” The joint statement specified that the parties would continue their efforts to achieve a “ just , comprehensive and enduring resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , to enable the Palestinian people to reach their full potential.
” Nonetheless , the accord constitutes another major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who had condemned the UAE-Israel deal as despicable and a betrayal , and sought in vain to have the Arab League condemn it earlier this week .
The PA denounced the Israel-Bahrain agreement , said it “ torpedoes ” the Arab Peace Initiative , and recalled its ambassador to Manama .
“ It is delusional to believe that these concessions at the expense of the Palestinian people ’ s rights will serve peace , security , and stability in the region , ” the PA said .
The kingdom of Bahrain , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UAE and Saudi Arabia , had been expected by many to be the next country to establish relations with Israel , as it has long made public overtures to the Jewish state .
It hosted the first major gathering of the Trump administration ’ s peace effort , a Peace to Prosperity workshop , in Manama in June 2019 .
In the weeks since the normalization deal with the UAE was announced on August 13 , US and Israeli officials have said other Arab states will follow the Emirates ’ lead and normalize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ focusing on Oman and Sudan .
Jacob Magid and Raphael Ahren contributed to this report .

A day after the announcement that Bahrain is establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Saturday that Jerusalem would work to establish an embassy in Manama in the near future.
“We will work to open an embassy in Bahrain as soon as possible,” the unnamed official told Hebrew-language media.
According to the Kan public broadcaster, in addition to the establishment of embassies and the appointment of ambassadors, the two countries have also agreed to the operation of direct flights as well as a number of unspecified joint ventures. Earlier this month, Bahrain announced that it was opening its airspace to Israeli flights.
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US President Donald Trump announced the normalization deal between Israel and Bahrain on Friday, making it the second Gulf country to do so in less than a month.
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on September 11, 2020, in Washington.(AP/Andrew Harnik)
A joint statement released by the White House said Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Salman al-Khalifa spoke earlier in the day with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “and agreed to the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain.”
Israel and the UAE announced they were normalizing relations on August 13, and a signing ceremony for their accord is being held at the White House on September 15. Bahrain will now join that ceremony, with its foreign minister Abdullatif Al Zayani and Netanyahu signing “a historic Declaration of Peace,” the joint statement said.
This combination of pictures created on September 11, 2020 shows (L) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairing the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020, and (R) King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, speaking with another delegate during the 40th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit held at the Saudi capital Riyadh on December 10, 2019 ( RONEN ZVULUN and Fayez Nureldine / various sources / AFP)
Netanyahu hailed the agreement as part of a “new era of peace” and predicted more accords would follow.
The Bahraini king’s senior adviser Khalid al-Khalifa said in a statement that the normalization deal “sends a positive and encouraging message to the people of Israel, that a just and comprehensive peace with the Palestinian people is the best path and the true interest for their future and the future of the peoples of the region.”
The joint statement specified that the parties would continue their efforts to achieve a “just, comprehensive and enduring resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to enable the Palestinian people to reach their full potential.”
Nonetheless, the accord constitutes another major blow to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who had condemned the UAE-Israel deal as despicable and a betrayal, and sought in vain to have the Arab League condemn it earlier this week. The PA denounced the Israel-Bahrain agreement, said it “torpedoes” the Arab Peace Initiative, and recalled its ambassador to Manama. “It is delusional to believe that these concessions at the expense of the Palestinian people’s rights will serve peace, security, and stability in the region,” the PA said.
The kingdom of Bahrain, a tiny island nation close to the UAE and Saudi Arabia, had been expected by many to be the next country to establish relations with Israel, as it has long made public overtures to the Jewish state. It hosted the first major gathering of the Trump administration’s peace effort, a Peace to Prosperity workshop, in Manama in June 2019.
In the weeks since the normalization deal with the UAE was announced on August 13, US and Israeli officials have said other Arab states will follow the Emirates’ lead and normalize ties with Israel, with speculation also focusing on Oman and Sudan.
Jacob Magid and Raphael Ahren contributed to this report.


jewworldorder--2020-09-12--VIDEO: Students can’t answer basic questions about 9/11

Ahead of the 19th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks , Campus Reform spoke to students to see what they knew about the tragic event in the nation ’ s history .
While most students had very broad and general knowledge about the day ’ s events , many did not know basic details about which U.S. cities were attacked and who was responsible for the attacks .
“ The loss of the lives of the tower ” one student responded when asked what the country commemorates on 9/11 .
“ The two Twin Towers that were standing there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t tell you where it ’ s at , ” another student said .
In her first college visit since Ohio University last winter , Kaitlin was chased off campus by libs at the University of Central Florida .
Campus Reform then asked students if they remembered who carried out the attacks .
“ I don ’ t [ remember ] , ” one student said .
“ I think it was just two immigrants that flew planes.
” “ I know it was the Middle East , ” another added @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who exactly.
” “ Like the Taliban , or like Afghanistan , or like Iraq ” one student wondered aloud before settling on Osama bin Laden .
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Ahead of the 19th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Campus Reform spoke to students to see what they knew about the tragic event in the nation’s history.
While most students had very broad and general knowledge about the day’s events, many did not know basic details about which U.S. cities were attacked and who was responsible for the attacks.
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“The loss of the lives of the tower” one student responded when asked what the country commemorates on 9/11.
“The two Twin Towers that were standing there in, I believe it is…no I can’t tell you where it’s at,” another student said.
In her first college visit since Ohio University last winter, Kaitlin was chased off campus by libs at the University of Central Florida.
Campus Reform then asked students if they remembered who carried out the attacks.
“I don’t [remember],” one student said. “I think it was just two immigrants that flew planes.”
“I know it was the Middle East,” another added. “I’m not sure who exactly.”
“Like the Taliban, or like Afghanistan, or like Iraq” one student wondered aloud before settling on Osama bin Laden.
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jewworldorder--2020-09-12--Harvard Prof Uses 9/11 To Blame Trump For COVID Deaths

Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe used the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say that President Donald Trump is “ directly responsible ” for the coronavirus death toll , which stands at more than 180,000 Americans .
“ Tomorrow – 9/11/20 – is the 19th anniversary of the worst day in memory , a day on which 3,000 innocent Americans died needlessly , ” Tribe tweeted Thursday night from his personal Twitter account , which is linked on his official university bio .
Dr. Steve Pieczenik joins The Alex Jones Show on the 19th anniversary of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Center to expose who was really behind it all .
“ The tweet to which you refer says he is ‘ directly responsible for at least forty times that many avoidable deaths from Covid-19.
’ That ’ s 40 x 3,000 = 120,000 out of the documented American Covid-19 death toll of at least 192,000 .
I based that claim on the showing that , had the United States response been led responsibly from the time the president was privately acknowledging the danger we faced , with rapid invocation of the Defense Production @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by comparable nations under the circumstances , including rapid deployment of testing and tracing and strong pressure to socially distance and wear masks ( rather than messages discouraging both and downplaying the danger of this virus ) , our death toll would have been at least 35 % lower than it has been.
” “ Because 35 % of 192,000 is 67,200 , responsible action by President Trump and his administration would have reduced the number of fatalities by at least 124,800 .
So my figure of 120,000 was a very conservative estimate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a direct result of how President Trump chose to mislead the public and opted not to take the steps needed to contain the spread of the virus , demonstrably for the purpose of not spooking the stock market and thus , indirectly , not reducing what he saw as his chances of reelection , ” Tribe explained .
In a statement to Campus Reform on Friday , Tribe said , The comment came just days after audio surfaced of Trump saying in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward of the coronavirus pandemic , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down .
I still like playing it down , because I don ’ t want to create a panic.
” Trump has since defended that decision , saying , “ I love our country .
And I don ’ t want people to be frightened .
We have to have leadership .
We have to show leadership.
” In January , Campus Reform reported that Tribe called the American strike ordered by Trump against Iranian General Qassem Soleimani a “ murder.
” “ In the fog of war , it ’ s easy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” said Tribe .
“ Whether Soleimani posed an ‘ imminent ’ threat that killing him would assuredly end isn ’ t just a debate over labels .
It ’ s the difference btw [ between ] self-defense to protect Americans and murder to stave off Trump ’ s impeachment .
”

Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe used the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say that President Donald Trump is “directly responsible” for the coronavirus death toll, which stands at more than 180,000 Americans.
“Tomorrow – 9/11/20 – is the 19th anniversary of the worst day in memory, a day on which 3,000 innocent Americans died needlessly,” Tribe tweeted Thursday night from his personal Twitter account, which is linked on his official university bio.
Dr. Steve Pieczenik joins The Alex Jones Show on the 19th anniversary of the tragic 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center to expose who was really behind it all.
“The tweet to which you refer says he is ‘directly responsible for at least forty times that many avoidable deaths from Covid-19.’ That’s 40 x 3,000 = 120,000 out of the documented American Covid-19 death toll of at least 192,000. I based that claim on the many studies showing that, had the United States response been led responsibly from the time the president was privately acknowledging the danger we faced, with rapid invocation of the Defense Production Act and the kind of steps taken by comparable nations under the circumstances, including rapid deployment of testing and tracing and strong pressure to socially distance and wear masks (rather than messages discouraging both and downplaying the danger of this virus), our death toll would have been at least 35% lower than it has been.” “Because 35% of 192,000 is 67,200, responsible action by President Trump and his administration would have reduced the number of fatalities by at least 124,800. So my figure of 120,000 was a very conservative estimate of how many Americans died needlessly as a direct result of how President Trump chose to mislead the public and opted not to take the steps needed to contain the spread of the virus, demonstrably for the purpose of not spooking the stock market and thus, indirectly, not reducing what he saw as his chances of reelection,” Tribe explained.
In a statement to Campus Reform on Friday, Tribe said,
The comment came just days after audio surfaced of Trump saying in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward of the coronavirus pandemic, “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.” Trump has since defended that decision, saying, “I love our country. And I don’t want people to be frightened. We have to have leadership. We have to show leadership.”
In January, Campus Reform reported that Tribe called the American strike ordered by Trump against Iranian General Qassem Soleimani a “murder.”
“In the fog of war, it’s easy to lose track of what counts,” said Tribe. “Whether Soleimani posed an ‘imminent’ threat that killing him would assuredly end isn’t just a debate over labels. It’s the difference btw [between] self-defense to protect Americans and murder to stave off Trump’s impeachment.”


jewworldorder--2020-09-14--Coronavirus Israel live: Cabinet approves three-week lockdown starting Friday


jewworldorder--2020-09-14--9 Ego Defense Mechanisms That Kill Self-Growth

You ’ re hopeless , useless , burdensome .
Nothing will ever go well , everyone is always better than you , you ’ ll never be perfect .
You want to be liked , but you ’ re unlovable , and a failure at life .
Sound familiar ?
To the majority of people this language does .
Mental traps – or ego defense mechanisms – serve as the rusty cogs that continue the mechanic cycles of pain , toxic shame , and hopelessness within us .
In many instances , they are so deeply ingrained in the mind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their existence .
The most important thing to realize about these cognitive errors is that they ’ re maladaptive ways of dealing with the world and the self .
In fact , living in the world of mental distortions is like living a lie .
Your perception is constantly tainted with melancholic negativity that brings forth unrealistic and untruthful thoughts .
But it ’ s not your fault and there is a way of moving through this feeling of stuckness .
In this article , my goal is to help you identify , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mechanisms .
Doing so will allow you to experience more inner peace , self-love , groundedness , trust , and spiritual connectedness with life .
Ego defense mechanisms ( or mental traps ) are psychological strategies that help us deal with the uncertainty and ambiguity of existence .
When a painful truth or reality is too much for us to bear , you can be sure that an ego defense mechanism will jump in to save you .
Think of it like a knight in shining armor that protects your sanity .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this inner knight is unwilling to let go of its desire to protect us due to fear and trauma .
When this happens , we are left with old , outdated , and dysfunctional inner programming that runs on repeat , wreaking havoc in our lives .
17 Signs Your Ego Defenses Are Harming You Pay attention to the following signs : • You suffer from low self-esteem and self-worth • You constantly get into fights with people • You feel on-edge around others for no apparent reason • You often feel like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world is against you • You see the world in black and white ( “ good or bad , ” “ right or wrong , ” “ friend or enemy , ” “ us or them , ” etc . )
• You tend to jump to extremes in relationships , i.e.
, one day you love your partner , the next you hate them • You tend to be critical and sarcastic • You rarely accept blame ( because you “ haven ’ t done anything wrong ” ) • You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time an idealist • You have high expectations for yourself and others • You feel dissatisfied with yourself/life a lot of the time • You have an addictive personality • You tend to be obsessive • You often feel like a phony/fake • You feel disconnected from your true self and life How many signs can you relate to ?
The nine basic ego defense mechanisms are : An assumption is a supposition .
When we make an assumption , we believe that something is true based on what we think is true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about others , yourself , or a certain situation in life .
Assumptions often sound like this : “ He treats me this way because ____ ” , “ They think I ’ m a ____ ” , “ I always do this because ____ ” .
Why it ’ s harmful : Assumptions create a lot of unnecessary emotional and mental pain , especially if you always assume the worst .
Assumptions can also lead you to make false judgments about others .
This can harm and even destroy relationships with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a conviction that something is true , even if it may not be .
Often , beliefs are very extremist or black-and-white in nature .
Beliefs often sound like the following : “ I will never be able to speak normally , ” “ He/she hates me , ” “ Other people are always out to get me , ” “ No one will ever like me because I ’ m ugly.
” Like all mental traps , beliefs are unconsciously held : they can be so deep-rooted that they evade the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harmful : Beliefs are very blinding by nature .
If they ’ re false they can also affect your self-worth profoundly as they can be so deeply held .
When you struggle with low self-worth , every aspect of your life is negatively impacted and crippled .
A comparison is a judgment we make when we measure two or more people/things against each other .
Comparisons , for example , can exist between you and others , for instance , “ He ’ s way smarter than me ” and “ My body @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Comparisons can also exist between ourselves and our ideas of what should happen , e.g.
, “ I should be able to work harder , ” “ I should be better at socializing.
” Dissatisfaction and low self-esteem are the two characteristics that drive comparison : we want to be better , more perfect , more ideal , and excel over others .
Furthermore , comparison also drives competition : we use other people and our ideals as a yardstick of success .
Why it ’ s harmful : Comparison breed tremendous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pain , and frustration .
These angst-ridden emotions put a large strain on our relationships with others and frequently destroy friendships , family connections , and romantic partnerships .
To desire is to want something you don ’ t have .
We do this because we ’ re discontent and feel as though , somewhere deep inside , we ’ re lacking .
When we desire , we are plagued with the sensation that we don ’ t have enough .
WE are not enough .
Desires often sound like the following : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but I can ’ t , ” “ I want to buy ____ because it will make my life better , ” “ I want to be funny just like him.
” Desires are closely linked to comparisons .
When we compare ourselves to others or a mental ideal , we often find ourselves falling short , and thus arises desire .
Why it ’ s harmful : The basic principle of Buddhist thought is that desire equals pain .
Often , desire results in lust , and lust results in idolization and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of unhappiness , anger , and jealousy .
When we think of all the crime committed in the world ( thefts , murders , rapes , etc . )
they all result from an obsession which stems from desire .
When we desire what we can ’ t have , the result is usually pain .
To expect is to have the preconceived idea that something should happen or will happen .
Expectations are usually created by the mind that likes to possess control – even over future outcomes .
When an expectation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result is anxiety , inner turmoil , and anger/rage .
For instance , if you unconsciously expect your boss to treat you nicely , and are let down by their arrogance , you feel upset and filled with anger .
Expectations stem from misguided certainty , and this is a symptom of security-seeking behavior .
You can also create expectations for yourself , for instance , you may unconsciously think “ I will blush and start to stutter , ” and immediately … you do !
Why it ’ s harmful : Expecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disappointment , confusion , frustration , and anger – and this causes strain on our relationships .
Furthermore , setting high expectations for yourself also results in suffering as you are , after all , human and imperfect .
Expectations can also become self-fulfilling prophecies : they manipulate the outcome of a situation by predetermining whether it will be good or bad .
For example , if you expect to be anxious , 99.9 % of the time you will be .
This can have an immensely negative impact on your life when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
An ideal is an imagined perfect outcome .
One example of a common ideal is to find the “ perfect lover ” ( the “ One True Love ” ) – which is unrealistic as everyone has flaws and a shadow self .
Other ideals we may possess might include wanting to find the perfect house , perfect job , or do everything right when it comes to our self-growth .
Ideals are a symptom of perfectionismand they are usually set up as unrealistic goals that are almost always impossible to live @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harmful : Because ideals are hard to achieve , we frequently feel like failures , like our lives aren ’ t good enough , and like nothing will ever go right for us .
Additionally , ideals can cause you to live under immense pressure , creating a lot of chronic anxietythat looms in the background .
When we frequently fail to match our inner ideal with the outer reality , we experience an inward collapse which can trigger depression and sometimes an existential crisis .
Finally , as those who hold many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ones constantly feel like they ’ re “ not doing enough ” or not being enough .
This can put tremendous strain on our relationships .
In psychology the technical term is “ reaction formation ” and this is something you ’ ll observe everywhere .
The nature of the unconscious mind is that it requires absolute certainties – it needs to see the world in black or white .
There is no grey , or “ in-between.
” As a result , our minds tend to jump to one extreme or another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who have had very strict religious upbringings grow older and become disillusioned with the dogmatic ideas they ’ ve been taught .
Often , these people instantly jump onto the atheism bandwagon and become fanatical anti-God advocates – almost with the same level of dogmatism as the religion they were brought up in .
Another example of a reactive extreme is a person who struggles to accept their sexuality .
As a result , they might become actively homophobic and discriminate against the LGBTQI community ( remember Colonel Frank Fitts from the movie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s harmful : Jumping to reactive extremes , while natural , limits our capacity to experience , embrace , and express all authentic parts of us .
Not only are we usually harming others ( by reacting against them ) , but we are hurting ourselves in the process .
All too often we live with the inner tension of conflicting desires that we fear will be socially unacceptable .
Let ’ s say you want to laugh loudly and freely , but you know others will look at you strangely , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perhaps you like a movie or a song that you know your friends don ’ t like , so you bury that desire away and forget about it .
While suppression can be helpful in some situations ( like taking care of small , demanding children ) , it can be toxic when done regularly .
Suppression doesn ’ t make a feeling , impulse , or thought within you go away .
In fact , it can make it build inside like a pool of lava that is ready to explode at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ’ s harmful : Suppression is a major obstacle in self-growth and living a fulfilling life because it results in an inability to be authentic to yourself ( which is the key element in self-love ) .
The more you suppress within yourself , the more you have to adopt a false persona or mask to deal with the outer world .
The more you wear this mask , the phonier you feel , and an increasing level of disconnection from your Soul occurs .
Repression differs from suppression in one important @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conscious process of having a desire and learning to avoid or ignore it , repression is an entirely unconscious process .
For example , you might have had a traumatizing experience as a child that was so scary or unsettling that it had to be immediately buried .
Of course , this was not your fault : it happened automatically as an ego defense mechanism .
Yet , that repressed content still lies buried within your unconscious and can come out in your life in various destructive ways .
Why it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it is automatic and unconscious .
As such , we don ’ t even become aware of what our original authentic desires were because they were squashed out before they had the chance to blossom .
The result is a feeling of being out of touch with your true self and alienation from life .
The solution to this is to do some conscious inner work and go Soul searching .
Also , check out projection and splitting ( which are too long to go into here ) .
These are also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wellbeing .
The four ego defense mechanism roles are : One of the greatest hindrances in anybody ’ s journey of self-growth is to fool themselves into thinking they haven ’ t done anything wrong .
This may be why the recovering addict ’ s first step is to acknowledge that they have a problem .
Most people live in denial or avoidance , denying the need to take a good look at themselves because it keeps them from properly recognizing their more unsavory traits and capacities .
“ The world is screwed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” is their basic outlook on life .
They refuse to see the interconnection between their actions and lifestyle with the external world around them .
This defense mechanism is very similar to the Innocent Bystander , only this one avoids guilt by actively criticizing the world and people around them .
Criticizing is our way of rebelling against society and wanting to find a way out , of wanting to be outside of the ‘ herd ’ while still feeling a sense of false participation .
Don ’ t get me wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in any person ’ s self-growth .
But often these “ critics ” use critical thinking as a way of boosting their ego and to feel smarter than the ‘ herd ’ who haven ’ t realized what the critic has .
Unfortunately , noticing what ’ s wrong with the state of affairs of the world isn ’ t enough unless you actively apply a solution to the problem .
I ’ m sure we ’ ve all come across an angry victim of life , someone who blames other people or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ difficulties .
But everyone uses blame as a defense mechanism to some extent .
In truth , what we ’ re defending ourselves from is our own responsibility for dealing with the unpleasant experience we ’ ve been given .
To indulge in blame is to give up personal responsibility and mentally delegate it to someone else , convincing ourselves that we are not responsible for the state of our lives , and instead blaming it on some “ outside force.
” The blameless victim ego defense mechanism blocks us from seeing clearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own suffering .
Essentially , the blameless victim is one of the fiercest protectors of our ego .
It causes us to feel that we ’ re never failing ourselves , or that we lack the maturity or strength to come to terms with the reality of the situations we ’ re confronted with .
Instead , whatever happened is not evidence of our own inadequacy , but of someone else ’ s .
Finally , we come to the almighty controller – the ego role that adopts a guise of invincibility as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us .
Let ’ s take a moment to stop and appreciate this well-meaning part of us : after all , it just wants us to be safe .
The difficulty , however , is that this ego defense mechanism assumes a position of omnipotence .
It assumes that if we try to exert control over everything we will finally be “ safe.
” The opposite is actually true .
The more we try to control ourselves , others , and life , the more we suffer .
We end up oppressing ourselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resisting the current of life .
In reality , the true power is not in fear-based control , but loved-centered mindfulness .
We ’ ll explore this more below .
How to Free Yourself From Harmful Ego Defense Mechanisms Before you learn how to undo , rewrite , and deprogram your mind from the above ego defense mechanisms , I want to highlight something important : Not all mental patterns are bad .
Sometimes it ’ s necessary to have a certain belief in order to motivate yourself in the face of heart-breaking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to conclusions and make assumptions in order to protect ourselves from danger ( e.g.
, assuming that the guy in a dark hoodie lurking on the street corner might try and mug you . )
And without desire , there could be no progress in life .
But mental patterns become mental traps when they start interfering with our mental , emotional , and spiritual wellbeingand we struggle to free ourselves from them .
Below , I ’ ll share how to liberate yourself from the damaging impacts of these ego defense mechanisms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you , inquire into it .
Think of yourself like a psychoanalyst , teacher , scientist , observer – whatever word appeals to you – and examine the nature of it .
Ask questions such as : • What thought is at the root of this feeling ?
• What evidence can I find against this thought/feeling ?
• What might be an alternative explanation ?
• What other options do I have ?
Be as open and curious as you can .
You might even like to journal about your experiences with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ examine the energy inherent in toxic assumptions , beliefs , comparisons , desires , etc .
we see that it all stems from fear.This fear may be that we ’ re not enough , that we might miss out , that we may be hurt , that we may be abandoned – whatever the case , it ’ s all fear-based .
What is the opposite of fear ?
Fear constricts and closes whereas love opens and expands .
In order to deprogram ego defense mechanisms we need to approach ourselves , other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yes , this is easier said than done , but remember that it takes time and practice .
Even the inability to approach life with loving-kindness can be approached with compassion .
Can you be gentle with your lack of gentleness ?
Can you forgive your lack of forgiveness ?
Can you practice softness in the midst of hardness ?
If you would like to learn how to approach life with more loving-kindness , I recommend reading the following articles : 3 .
Be defiant and challenge yourself You have the right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” any time a thought about yourself or someone else arises .
By poking and prodding at the presumptions that emerge in your mind , you ’ ll be able to take away their power by undermining their authority .
After all , unchallenged thoughts can easily become like inner dictators that enslave us to painful emotions and demoralizing self-beliefs .
You don ’ t need to be a slave of your mind if you dare to question it .
Be defiant , be a rebel , be a provocateur .
When an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ask “ can I be 100 % sure that is true ?
” Such a simple question has a liberating impact on your psyche .
Meditation is an ancient technique used as a way of accessing more inner peace , clarity , and Oneness .
However , you don ’ t need to be religious or even spiritual to practice it .
In this context , meditation is a dynamic technique for learning how to witness your thoughts instead of becoming them .
Most people are so attached and identified with their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that there ’ s a great stillness inside of them that exists outside of thought .
If you ’ ve never meditated , this may sound confusing to you .
But think of it as the sky : the sky is always there , and thoughts are like clouds in that sky that come and go .
No matter what cloud ( thought ) arises , the sky is always there underneath , unchanged .
The same applies to your consciousness .
To take a step back from assumptions , beliefs , comparisons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the most direct method is to meditate .
There are many free thought-witnessing meditations on youtube you can search for , or you can try downloading a free meditation app like Calm , InsightTimer , or Headspace to create a daily practice .
Dedicate 5-10 minutes at first to meditating and try your best to be consistent .
Although the practice may be frustrating at first , it is the most powerful and scientifically validated practice I know of for undoing the damaging impacts of mental traps .
So keep persisting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first ( which you most likely will because we all do ) .
Here ’ s a simple five-minute meditation you can try : • If it helps to set the mood , play some quiet ambient music in the background • Sit down on a chair or cushion , keeping your back straight • Close your eyes ( or if you prefer , leave them slightly ajar ) • Bring your attention to your breath • Notice your chest/belly rise and fall , or the air enter and exit your nostrils ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When your thoughts wander , notice the thought , and draw your focus back to your breath • Continue this practice for five minutes • When finished , do a little stretch and slowly transition to the rest of your day Eventually , you will be able to notice the thoughts that arise more and more .
You ’ ll realize how busy and how much of a chatterbox your mind is ( don ’ t worry , all of us struggle with hyperactive minds ) .
But with constant meditation , your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ ll be able to catch ego defense mechanisms as they arise .
Don ’ t be put off by the simplicity of this practice .
It may be simple , but it is tremendously powerful and empowering .
Go easy on yourself .
It ’ s easy to have a perfectionistic mindset even about the above healing techniques .
So realize that you ’ re human , you ’ re bound to make mistakes , you very likely will mess up , and this is all normal and okay .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ room for failure , there ’ s less stress and tension .
Giving yourself permission to have a laidback mindset will also act as a natural guard against further ego defense mechanisms from taking root .
I hope the advice in this article has helped .
Remember to take your time and go easy on yourself .
Your ego is a complex and multi-layered force within you that requires time and gentleness to dismantle .
But by arming yourself with this knowledge and the above tools , you will eventually free yourself from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result will be an increased sense of inner freedom , centeredness , love , and self-understanding .
Mateo Sol is a prominent psychospiritual teacher whose work has influenced the lives of thousands of people worldwide .
Born into a family with a history of drug addiction , schizophrenia , and mental illness , Mateo Sol was taught about the plight of the human condition from a young age .
As a spiritual guide and teacher , Sol ’ s mission is to help others experience freedom , wholeness , and peace in any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his work at lonerwolf.com .
This article , 9 Ego Defense Mechanisms That Kill Self-Growth , was originally published on lonerwolf.com , reproduced with permission .

September 14th, 2020
By Mateo Sol
Guest writer for Wake Up World
You’re hopeless, useless, burdensome. Nothing will ever go well, everyone is always better than you, you’ll never be perfect. You want to be liked, but you’re unlovable, and a failure at life. Sound familiar?
To the majority of people this language does. Mental traps – or ego defense mechanisms – serve as the rusty cogs that continue the mechanic cycles of pain, toxic shame, and hopelessness within us. In many instances, they are so deeply ingrained in the mind, that we are completely oblivious of their existence.
The most important thing to realize about these cognitive errors is that they’re maladaptive ways of dealing with the world and the self. In fact, living in the world of mental distortions is like living a lie. Your perception is constantly tainted with melancholic negativity that brings forth unrealistic and untruthful thoughts.
But it’s not your fault and there is a way of moving through this feeling of stuckness.
In this article, my goal is to help you identify, reframe, and deprogram these ego defense mechanisms. Doing so will allow you to experience more inner peace, self-love, groundedness, trust, and spiritual connectedness with life.
What Are Ego Defense Mechanisms?
Ego defense mechanisms (or mental traps) are psychological strategies that help us deal with the uncertainty and ambiguity of existence. When a painful truth or reality is too much for us to bear, you can be sure that an ego defense mechanism will jump in to save you. Think of it like a knight in shining armor that protects your sanity. The only difficulty is that, often, this inner knight is unwilling to let go of its desire to protect us due to fear and trauma. When this happens, we are left with old, outdated, and dysfunctional inner programming that runs on repeat, wreaking havoc in our lives.
17 Signs Your Ego Defenses Are Harming You
Pay attention to the following signs:
You suffer from low self-esteem and self-worth
You constantly get into fights with people
You feel on-edge around others for no apparent reason
You often feel like an innocent victim
You feel like the world is against you
You see the world in black and white (“good or bad,” “right or wrong,” “friend or enemy,” “us or them,” etc.)
You tend to jump to extremes in relationships, i.e., one day you love your partner, the next you hate them
You tend to be critical and sarcastic
You rarely accept blame (because you “haven’t done anything wrong”)
You are a cynic but at the same time an idealist
You have high expectations for yourself and others
You feel dissatisfied with yourself/life a lot of the time
You have an addictive personality
You tend to be obsessive
You overthink everything
You often feel like a phony/fake
You feel disconnected from your true self and life
How many signs can you relate to?
9 Basic Ego Defense Mechanisms
The nine basic ego defense mechanisms are:
1. Making Assumptions
An assumption is a supposition. When we make an assumption, we believe that something is true based on what we think is true – without proof. Assumptions can be about others, yourself, or a certain situation in life. Assumptions often sound like this: “He treats me this way because ____”, “They think I’m a ____”, “I always do this because ____”.
Why it’s harmful: Assumptions create a lot of unnecessary emotional and mental pain, especially if you always assume the worst. Assumptions can also lead you to make false judgments about others. This can harm and even destroy relationships with the people you care about.
2. Extreme Beliefs
A belief is a conviction that something is true, even if it may not be. Often, beliefs are very extremist or black-and-white in nature. Beliefs often sound like the following: “I will never be able to speak normally,” “He/she hates me,” “Other people are always out to get me,” “No one will ever like me because I’m ugly.” Like all mental traps, beliefs are unconsciously held: they can be so deep-rooted that they evade the conscious mind.
Why it’s harmful: Beliefs are very blinding by nature. If they’re false they can also affect your self-worth profoundly as they can be so deeply held. When you struggle with low self-worth, every aspect of your life is negatively impacted and crippled.
3. Negative Comparisons
A comparison is a judgment we make when we measure two or more people/things against each other. Comparisons, for example, can exist between you and others, for instance, “He’s way smarter than me” and “My body is so fat in comparison to hers.” Comparisons can also exist between ourselves and our ideas of what should happen, e.g., “I should be able to work harder,” “I should be better at socializing.” Dissatisfaction and low self-esteem are the two characteristics that drive comparison: we want to be better, more perfect, more ideal, and excel over others. Furthermore, comparison also drives competition: we use other people and our ideals as a yardstick of success.
Why it’s harmful: Comparison breed tremendous jealousy and envy resulting in anger, pain, and frustration. These angst-ridden emotions put a large strain on our relationships with others and frequently destroy friendships, family connections, and romantic partnerships.
4. Obsessive Desires
To desire is to want something you don’t have. We do this because we’re discontent and feel as though, somewhere deep inside, we’re lacking. When we desire, we are plagued with the sensation that we don’t have enough. WE are not enough. Desires often sound like the following: “I want to be like ____ but I can’t,” “I want to buy ____ because it will make my life better,” “I want to be funny just like him.” Desires are closely linked to comparisons. When we compare ourselves to others or a mental ideal, we often find ourselves falling short, and thus arises desire.
Why it’s harmful: The basic principle of Buddhist thought is that desire equals pain. Often, desire results in lust, and lust results in idolization and obsession. The result is often feelings of unhappiness, anger, and jealousy. When we think of all the crime committed in the world (thefts, murders, rapes, etc.) they all result from an obsession which stems from desire. When we desire what we can’t have, the result is usually pain.
5. Strict Expectations
To expect is to have the preconceived idea that something should happen or will happen. Expectations are usually created by the mind that likes to possess control – even over future outcomes. When an expectation is challenged or not met, the result is anxiety, inner turmoil, and anger/rage. For instance, if you unconsciously expect your boss to treat you nicely, and are let down by their arrogance, you feel upset and filled with anger. Expectations stem from misguided certainty, and this is a symptom of security-seeking behavior. You can also create expectations for yourself, for instance, you may unconsciously think “I will blush and start to stutter,” and immediately … you do!
Why it’s harmful: Expecting certain behaviors from others usually results in disappointment, confusion, frustration, and anger – and this causes strain on our relationships. Furthermore, setting high expectations for yourself also results in suffering as you are, after all, human and imperfect. Expectations can also become self-fulfilling prophecies: they manipulate the outcome of a situation by predetermining whether it will be good or bad. For example, if you expect to be anxious, 99.9% of the time you will be. This can have an immensely negative impact on your life when your mind is already biased against you.
6. Lofty Ideals
An ideal is an imagined perfect outcome. One example of a common ideal is to find the “perfect lover” (the “One True Love”) – which is unrealistic as everyone has flaws and a shadow self. Other ideals we may possess might include wanting to find the perfect house, perfect job, or do everything right when it comes to our self-growth. Ideals are a symptom of perfectionismand they are usually set up as unrealistic goals that are almost always impossible to live up to.
Why it’s harmful: Because ideals are hard to achieve, we frequently feel like failures, like our lives aren’t good enough, and like nothing will ever go right for us. Additionally, ideals can cause you to live under immense pressure, creating a lot of chronic anxietythat looms in the background. When we frequently fail to match our inner ideal with the outer reality, we experience an inward collapse which can trigger depression and sometimes an existential crisis. Finally, as those who hold many ideals are often perfectionists, their loved ones constantly feel like they’re “not doing enough” or not being enough. This can put tremendous strain on our relationships.
7. Reactive Extremes
In psychology the technical term is “reaction formation” and this is something you’ll observe everywhere. The nature of the unconscious mind is that it requires absolute certainties – it needs to see the world in black or white. There is no grey, or “in-between.” As a result, our minds tend to jump to one extreme or another.
Many people, for example, who have had very strict religious upbringings grow older and become disillusioned with the dogmatic ideas they’ve been taught. Often, these people instantly jump onto the atheism bandwagon and become fanatical anti-God advocates – almost with the same level of dogmatism as the religion they were brought up in. Another example of a reactive extreme is a person who struggles to accept their sexuality. As a result, they might become actively homophobic and discriminate against the LGBTQI community (remember Colonel Frank Fitts from the movie American Beauty)?
Why it’s harmful: Jumping to reactive extremes, while natural, limits our capacity to experience, embrace, and express all authentic parts of us. Not only are we usually harming others (by reacting against them), but we are hurting ourselves in the process.
8. Suppression
All too often we live with the inner tension of conflicting desires that we fear will be socially unacceptable. Let’s say you want to laugh loudly and freely, but you know others will look at you strangely, so you suppress that authentic self-expression. Or perhaps you like a movie or a song that you know your friends don’t like, so you bury that desire away and forget about it.
While suppression can be helpful in some situations (like taking care of small, demanding children), it can be toxic when done regularly. Suppression doesn’t make a feeling, impulse, or thought within you go away. In fact, it can make it build inside like a pool of lava that is ready to explode at any point in the future.
Why it’s harmful: Suppression is a major obstacle in self-growth and living a fulfilling life because it results in an inability to be authentic to yourself (which is the key element in self-love). The more you suppress within yourself, the more you have to adopt a false persona or mask to deal with the outer world. The more you wear this mask, the phonier you feel, and an increasing level of disconnection from your Soul occurs.
9. Repression
Repression differs from suppression in one important way. While suppression is initially a conscious process of having a desire and learning to avoid or ignore it, repression is an entirely unconscious process.
For example, you might have had a traumatizing experience as a child that was so scary or unsettling that it had to be immediately buried. Of course, this was not your fault: it happened automatically as an ego defense mechanism. Yet, that repressed content still lies buried within your unconscious and can come out in your life in various destructive ways.
Why it’s harmful: The difficulty with repression is that it is automatic and unconscious. As such, we don’t even become aware of what our original authentic desires were because they were squashed out before they had the chance to blossom. The result is a feeling of being out of touch with your true self and alienation from life. The solution to this is to do some conscious inner work and go Soul searching.
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Also, check out projection and splitting (which are too long to go into here). These are also ego defense mechanisms that can harm our wellbeing.
4 Roles the Ego Adopts That Sabotage Self-Growth
The four ego defense mechanism roles are:
1. Innocent Bystander
One of the greatest hindrances in anybody’s journey of self-growth is to fool themselves into thinking they haven’t done anything wrong. This may be why the recovering addict’s first step is to acknowledge that they have a problem. Most people live in denial or avoidance, denying the need to take a good look at themselves because it keeps them from properly recognizing their more unsavory traits and capacities.
“The world is screwed up but I’m completely guilt-free” is their basic outlook on life. They refuse to see the interconnection between their actions and lifestyle with the external world around them.
2. Innocent Critic
This defense mechanism is very similar to the Innocent Bystander, only this one avoids guilt by actively criticizing the world and people around them. Criticizing is our way of rebelling against society and wanting to find a way out, of wanting to be outside of the ‘herd’ while still feeling a sense of false participation.
Don’t get me wrong: critical thought is a necessary instrument in any person’s self-growth. But often these “critics” use critical thinking as a way of boosting their ego and to feel smarter than the ‘herd’ who haven’t realized what the critic has. Unfortunately, noticing what’s wrong with the state of affairs of the world isn’t enough unless you actively apply a solution to the problem.
3. Blameless Victim
I’m sure we’ve all come across an angry victim of life, someone who blames other people or the world for 100% of their difficulties. But everyone uses blame as a defense mechanism to some extent. In truth, what we’re defending ourselves from is our own responsibility for dealing with the unpleasant experience we’ve been given.
To indulge in blame is to give up personal responsibility and mentally delegate it to someone else, convincing ourselves that we are not responsible for the state of our lives, and instead blaming it on some “outside force.” The blameless victim ego defense mechanism blocks us from seeing clearly just how we are contributing to our own suffering.
Essentially, the blameless victim is one of the fiercest protectors of our ego. It causes us to feel that we’re never failing ourselves, or that we lack the maturity or strength to come to terms with the reality of the situations we’re confronted with. Instead, whatever happened is not evidence of our own inadequacy, but of someone else’s.
4. Almighty Controller
Finally, we come to the almighty controller – the ego role that adopts a guise of invincibility as a way of trying to misguidedly protect us. Let’s take a moment to stop and appreciate this well-meaning part of us: after all, it just wants us to be safe. The difficulty, however, is that this ego defense mechanism assumes a position of omnipotence. It assumes that if we try to exert control over everything we will finally be “safe.”The opposite is actually true. The more we try to control ourselves, others, and life, the more we suffer. We end up oppressing ourselves, repelling our loved ones, and resisting the current of life. In reality, the true power is not in fear-based control, but loved-centered mindfulness. We’ll explore this more below.
How to Free Yourself From Harmful Ego Defense Mechanisms
Before you learn how to undo, rewrite, and deprogram your mind from the above ego defense mechanisms, I want to highlight something important:
Not all mental patterns are bad.
Sometimes it’s necessary to have a certain belief in order to motivate yourself in the face of heart-breaking difficulty. Sometimes we need to jump to conclusions and make assumptions in order to protect ourselves from danger (e.g., assuming that the guy in a dark hoodie lurking on the street corner might try and mug you.) And without desire, there could be no progress in life.
But mental patterns become mental traps when they start interfering with our mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeingand we struggle to free ourselves from them.
Below, I’ll share how to liberate yourself from the damaging impacts of these ego defense mechanisms:
1. Practice self-inquiry
When a negative emotion arises within you, inquire into it. Think of yourself like a psychoanalyst, teacher, scientist, observer – whatever word appeals to you – and examine the nature of it.
Ask questions such as:
What am I feeling?
What thought is at the root of this feeling?
What evidence can I find against this thought/feeling?
What might be an alternative explanation?
What other options do I have?
Be as open and curious as you can. You might even like to journal about your experiences with self-inquiry if it helps.
2. Approach life with loving-kindness
When we examine the energy inherent in toxic assumptions, beliefs, comparisons, desires, etc. we see that it all stems from fear.This fear may be that we’re not enough, that we might miss out, that we may be hurt, that we may be abandoned – whatever the case, it’s all fear-based.
What is the opposite of fear?
Answer: love.
Fear constricts and closes whereas love opens and expands.
In order to deprogram ego defense mechanisms we need to approach ourselves, other people, and life itself with loving-kindness. Yes, this is easier said than done, but remember that it takes time and practice.
Even the inability to approach life with loving-kindness can be approached with compassion. Can you be gentle with your lack of gentleness? Can you forgive your lack of forgiveness? Can you practice softness in the midst of hardness?
If you would like to learn how to approach life with more loving-kindness, I recommend reading the following articles:
3. Be defiant and challenge yourself
You have the right to ask “is that true?” any time a thought about yourself or someone else arises.
By poking and prodding at the presumptions that emerge in your mind, you’ll be able to take away their power by undermining their authority. After all, unchallenged thoughts can easily become like inner dictators that enslave us to painful emotions and demoralizing self-beliefs.
You don’t need to be a slave of your mind if you dare to question it.
Be defiant, be a rebel, be a provocateur. When an assumption, belief, or comparison arises, ask “can I be 100% sure that is true?” Such a simple question has a liberating impact on your psyche.
4. Meditate to develop witness consciousness
Meditation is an ancient technique used as a way of accessing more inner peace, clarity, and Oneness. However, you don’t need to be religious or even spiritual to practice it.
In this context, meditation is a dynamic technique for learning how to witness your thoughts instead of becoming them. Most people are so attached and identified with their thoughts that they aren’t aware that there’s a great stillness inside of them that exists outside of thought.
If you’ve never meditated, this may sound confusing to you. But think of it as the sky: the sky is always there, and thoughts are like clouds in that sky that come and go. No matter what cloud (thought) arises, the sky is always there underneath, unchanged. The same applies to your consciousness.
To take a step back from assumptions, beliefs, comparisons, desires, expectations, and ideals, the most direct method is to meditate. There are many free thought-witnessing meditations on youtube you can search for, or you can try downloading a free meditation app like Calm, InsightTimer, or Headspace to create a daily practice.
Dedicate 5-10 minutes at first to meditating and try your best to be consistent. Although the practice may be frustrating at first, it is the most powerful and scientifically validated practice I know of for undoing the damaging impacts of mental traps. So keep persisting, even if you suck at it at first (which you most likely will because we all do).
Here’s a simple five-minute meditation you can try:
Find a quiet and undisturbed place
If it helps to set the mood, play some quiet ambient music in the background
Sit down on a chair or cushion, keeping your back straight
Close your eyes (or if you prefer, leave them slightly ajar)
Bring your attention to your breath
Notice your chest/belly rise and fall, or the air enter and exit your nostrils (whichever is easier for you)
When your thoughts wander, notice the thought, and draw your focus back to your breath
Continue this practice for five minutes
When finished, do a little stretch and slowly transition to the rest of your day
Eventually, you will be able to notice the thoughts that arise more and more. You’ll realize how busy and how much of a chatterbox your mind is (don’t worry, all of us struggle with hyperactive minds). But with constant meditation, your mind will begin to calm down and you’ll be able to catch ego defense mechanisms as they arise. Don’t be put off by the simplicity of this practice. It may be simple, but it is tremendously powerful and empowering.
5. Cut yourself some slack
Go easy on yourself. It’s easy to have a perfectionistic mindset even about the above healing techniques. So realize that you’re human, you’re bound to make mistakes, you very likely will mess up, and this is all normal and okay.
When you adopt a relaxed attitude that allows room for failure, there’s less stress and tension. Giving yourself permission to have a laidback mindset will also act as a natural guard against further ego defense mechanisms from taking root.
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I hope the advice in this article has helped. Remember to take your time and go easy on yourself. Your ego is a complex and multi-layered force within you that requires time and gentleness to dismantle. But by arming yourself with this knowledge and the above tools, you will eventually free yourself from dysfunctional patterns and negative habits. The result will be an increased sense of inner freedom, centeredness, love, and self-understanding.
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About the author:
Mateo Sol is a prominent psychospiritual teacher whose work has influenced the lives of thousands of people worldwide. Born into a family with a history of drug addiction, schizophrenia, and mental illness, Mateo Sol was taught about the plight of the human condition from a young age. As a spiritual guide and teacher, Sol’s mission is to help others experience freedom, wholeness, and peace in any stage of life. See more of his work at lonerwolf.com.
This article, 9 Ego Defense Mechanisms That Kill Self-Growth, was originally published on lonerwolf.com, reproduced with permission.