The Search For Being Murray Bowen's Perspective - Part 5

The topic of Differentiation is very timely as I post this today, Sept. 8. President Obama is about to give a speech to try to sell the Authorization for An Attack on Syria. Videos have been released which purportedly have been knitted together from you tube showing the chemical attack by the leader of Syria. It seems, in this war, as in the march to the War on Iraq, our government played on our emotions. Then there was the specter of a mushroom cloud over our country from alleged weapons of mass destruction. There was little debate over the War in Iraq because the emotions of 9/11 were still raw. Emotion played a large part in rallying Americans to go to War. It seems with the timing of the release of the video of the alleged chemical attack the same emotion card is being played again. What we learn in this video on Differentiation is that people with a higher level of differentiation of self will be less likely to succumb to the playing on their emotions. They will have spent a long time thinking about the principles they believe in and have a more solid sense of self, more separation of their emotional system and their intellectual system, than people with a lower level of differentiation of self. Bowen tells us we primarily get our level of differentiation of self in family systems. I believe we also get it from schools and through the intellectual activity of thinking. In schools where getting an "A" is the important thing, where students are required to memorize material and give back to the teacher what the teacher gave to them, I think, we will have students with a lower level of differentiation of self - just the kind of person Elite political leaders can manipulate by playing on their emotions. Is it an accident that our mass educational system doesn't encourage independent thinking? http://www.wholenewparadigm.com This is a chapter from my book, The Search For Being, http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0033743049/The-Search-for-Being.aspx -

Видео The Search For Being Murray Bowen's Perspective - Part 5 канала bonnieleec