The origin of blame

From mixing with people who blame the world "out there" -- be it neighbours, partners, children or whoever -- I've been compelled to explore the energy and dynamics of blame.

First and foremost we can appreciate that those who blame are displaying a state of powerlessness - they don't believe they are able to engender, motivate or command the person(s) or circumstances to be changed to their liking. They remain victims. They remain disconnected from the result they would desire.1

This disconnect is the key to the issue of blame. Those who blame, or complain are simply telegraphing they feel cut-off from the results they seek, and are thus unable to instigate, cause, invite or attract desired outcomes. Blame involves denial of present habits and beliefs with the resultant circumstances.

The origin of that disconnect - between present and desired outcomes - extends back to the time of Plato, and it parallels the birth of science and religion.

Religion and science are central to the development of our present cultural disconnect: they've both externalised our intimate awareness of, connection to, and influencing of the deeper rhythms and energies in life.

Some of us, after deep reflection, can remember the reasons we got sick when young. It was all in response to the circumstances; of parents who were ignoring us, of stresses unfaced  or unspoken, of the myriad accepted ties to strange customs or repressive religious behaviours that caused us to burden ourselves with illness.

We can remember, if we want, those instigators of illness.  We can remember the cause (our emotional states) with the subsequent effects on our bodies.

But science and religion have relentlessly brain-washed us into being victims before a vengeful god, or an accidental universe. Stand against those beliefs, and watch the yelling and shouting that ensues. Easier to go along. Too much effort and courage required to stand alone against the onslaught of scientific and religious opinion and dogma. So we accede to old belief-systems that cause immense harm.

Where did it all begin? As explained, it all began around the time of Plato. The Pythagoreans were a little more savvy than most appreciate. They felt at-one with the universe, and understood their place within the cosmos.

But, like any child, the human race chose to ignore instinct, cutting the umbilical cord with mother-nature to explore a severed, independent reality, free to engage analytical, reasonable logic that has given us our machines and technologies. All part of growing up, up to a point.

Now it's time to reconnect, and relearn our intimate connections between our emotions and our world. To relearn that our emotions, choices and behaviours give us the reality we experience.

And that the world at large is our collective emotions, beliefs and fears writ large.

• 1. Assuming that finding fault in others, or the situation is not what is deeply desired