During witch-hunting, virtually all people, including majority of alleged witches themselves, believed that witches were indeed guilty in bad weather, food spoilage, misfortune, natural disasters, and other effects and phenomena. It was presence and gradualism of torture that was one of the factors that made most witches convinced in being possessed by evil spirits. Hence, witch-hunters could get more confidence, when witnessing how "witches" exposed their "real nature" and admitted being possessed. This uniform belief was one of the key factors in longevity of mass witch-hunting that spread for about 3 centuries with large numbers of witches being burned or killed (up to about 100,000 victims according to many sources). In such conditions, there were very few, if any, cases, when a witch-hunter could get insight ("Aha!" experience) and realize absurdity of their own behaviour.
During Nazi's Holocaust, some Jews could believe in their own inferiority. However, most of them were still not convinced, even after spending months or years in concentrations camps, that they were inferior in relation to the Arian race. Hence, behaviour of Holocaust victims was characterised by resistance and preservation of their original beliefs. Similarly, other nations did not buy the idea about one super race on Earth. Uncooperative behaviour of Holocaust victims and other nations undermined the spirit of Nazis so that it existence was limited by about 13 years. Resistance of Jews, disapproval of Nazism by other nations, and public trials (like Nuremberg process) made many Nazis grasp their heads in the astonishment and shock in relation to their past actions.
Under conditions of severe torture, as it was the case with most witches, victims are able to recreate and falsify their testimonies so that to fit the ideas and suggestions imposed by the persecutors. This was also the case with thousands of Soviet civilians persecuted by the Soviet regime, especially in the 1930s-1950s. Stalin's pupils were looking for organizations and names of other "enemies of people". Their suspects, under conditions of extreme suffering, could often provide names of numerous "accomplices" who were also, as they believed, cooperated and directed from and by the enemy (western capitalism).
In exploring one's feelings, what's most interesting to note is how a specific emotion, and its perspective fit into the whole of who we are. Viewed this way the emotion has brought us a message that probably offers some new information about ourselves, and how we relate to the spontaneous experience that triggered the feeling and its attitude. In other words, it offers us something to learn about ourselves.
-Residual prejudice: This form of social psychological discrimination is not as easy to see. This essentially is when an individual adamantly claims that they are not prejudice, when ultimately their actions and behavior patterns prove otherwise. This is one of the harder forms of social psychological discrimination to see.
This expose of how we use fear doesn't mean that nobody treats it differently. There are lots of people who have come to realize the enormous power-potential of learning more about them selves by exploring their emotional experience. Yet in that process of discovery, fear is the hardest emotion to feel without dissolving into impulsive panicky action to try and discharge it, to get rid of it. As many wise people have said, what we fear most is fear itself - perhaps more than anything else. It's very difficult to study something we're afraid of.
During Nazi's Holocaust, some Jews could believe in their own inferiority. However, most of them were still not convinced, even after spending months or years in concentrations camps, that they were inferior in relation to the Arian race. Hence, behaviour of Holocaust victims was characterised by resistance and preservation of their original beliefs. Similarly, other nations did not buy the idea about one super race on Earth. Uncooperative behaviour of Holocaust victims and other nations undermined the spirit of Nazis so that it existence was limited by about 13 years. Resistance of Jews, disapproval of Nazism by other nations, and public trials (like Nuremberg process) made many Nazis grasp their heads in the astonishment and shock in relation to their past actions.
Under conditions of severe torture, as it was the case with most witches, victims are able to recreate and falsify their testimonies so that to fit the ideas and suggestions imposed by the persecutors. This was also the case with thousands of Soviet civilians persecuted by the Soviet regime, especially in the 1930s-1950s. Stalin's pupils were looking for organizations and names of other "enemies of people". Their suspects, under conditions of extreme suffering, could often provide names of numerous "accomplices" who were also, as they believed, cooperated and directed from and by the enemy (western capitalism).
In exploring one's feelings, what's most interesting to note is how a specific emotion, and its perspective fit into the whole of who we are. Viewed this way the emotion has brought us a message that probably offers some new information about ourselves, and how we relate to the spontaneous experience that triggered the feeling and its attitude. In other words, it offers us something to learn about ourselves.
-Residual prejudice: This form of social psychological discrimination is not as easy to see. This essentially is when an individual adamantly claims that they are not prejudice, when ultimately their actions and behavior patterns prove otherwise. This is one of the harder forms of social psychological discrimination to see.
This expose of how we use fear doesn't mean that nobody treats it differently. There are lots of people who have come to realize the enormous power-potential of learning more about them selves by exploring their emotional experience. Yet in that process of discovery, fear is the hardest emotion to feel without dissolving into impulsive panicky action to try and discharge it, to get rid of it. As many wise people have said, what we fear most is fear itself - perhaps more than anything else. It's very difficult to study something we're afraid of.
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