Humanity is living a trouble era, Some madman think they can repair the world by killing all that do not accept their religious ideas. They forget that God can be called by different names. We have to understand Jihad to try to protect our countries from the craziness of such madman.

1. Art: Nicole Lanza
Jihad.
Would you want to get killed in the
name of God?

2. I’m Roberto, and I believe that our
objective in life is to be happy, and
that Spirituality and Jungian
psychology, my main areas of
interest, can help us in this search
for happiness.
Roberto Lima Netto, Ph.D.
Stanford University

3. Jihad.
How can we explain killings in the
name of God?
How can we explain the attacks on
American Embassies in North
Africa after the strong support the
US gave to these people?
To understand the problem, we
have to resort to psychology.

4. A study by Martha Stout, published
in her book The Sociopath Next
Door, claims that 4% of the
population is sociopath, defined as
one that knows what is right or
wrong, but feels no remorse for his
acts.

5. But the problem is that the distribution of
the 4% is not homogeneous. In politics, in
big business and in prisons, the percentage
of sociopaths is much higher.
This should give us great concern.
Our politicians, the ones that decide the
life of our nations, the ones that decide to
go to war in Vietnam and send our youth
to die, may be psychopaths.

6. This also explains the psychology of
Al Qaeda and other similar
organizations. Their leaders are
sociopaths, madman that explore
persons who fall for their
fundamentalist preaching.

7. But how to explain the attitude of
the ones that carry the bombs. Are
all of them sociopaths?
I don’t think so.
They are under the grip of a
charismatic leader, and they are
prepared to deliver their lives to
their causes.

8. This possession of human minds by
charismatic leaders, sociopaths,
psychological unbalanced
madman, did happen in the
Western world.

9. Remember Reverend Jones and the
mass suicide in 1978.
Or the 75 followers of David Koresh
1993, in Waco, Texas.

10. Fundamentalism, defined by
Wikipedia as the demand for a
strict adherence to specific
theological doctrines, is thriving all
over the world, and can be
explained by a sense of despair,
worthlessness that dominate many
young people

11. We are living in a new era when
some of the pillars that sustained
our lives are crumbling. Modern
man is desperately seeking a new
footing, a new platform were to
stand.
Paraphrasing Jung:
modern man is in search of a soul.

12. In 1925, Jung visited the Pueblo
Indians, in Southwestern United
States. This people defined
themselves as Children of the Sun.
Their myth holds that to keep the
sun moving, they had to pray for
the Father Sun. Otherwise, in ten
years the sun would no longer
illuminate the Earth.

13. The Chief Mountain Lake said, with
the conviction of one who is saving
the world: “The Americans want to
destroy our religion. Why don’t
they leave us quiet? What we do,
we do not only for us, but for them
too. We do this for everyone.”

14. Do you believe that the sun would no
longer rise if the Pueblos stopped
praying for it?
It matters little for the survival of the
Pueblos if you believe it or not. It does
matter that they do believe.
Saving the world was the central
motivation in their lives, their reason
for living.
And what a strong motivation this is!

15. Edward Edinger, a well-known Jungian
psychologist and prolific writer, opens
his book, The Creation of
Consciousness, saying:
“History and anthropology teach us
that human society cannot long
survive unless its members are
psychologically contained in a central
living myth, Such myth provides the
individual with a reason for being.”

16. Unfortunately, while we search
for a new myth to sustain our
civilization, we should expect
such weird episodes, like Jihad,
to continue to happen.

17. I invite you to visit my site for additional
information and to download a free eBook.
“Shortcuts to happiness”
www.HappinessAcademyOnline.org

18. I wish you HAPPINESS.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Roberto Lima Netto
www.HappinessAcademyOnline.org.