If an individual's conformity to group, cultural, and national pathology is rewarded -- thereby encouraging the formation of what R.D. Laing termed, "False Self" -- how might one, stranded within the dysfunctional dynamic, resist it all and begin to work towards an awareness of their own essential nature, then perhaps arriving at an individual reckoning involving how to live, flourish, and subvert the life defying demands of the present era.

A Soul Defying, Tacit Approval Of Torture: how did we come to this?

By Phil Rockstroh

"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that False Self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality . . . and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." --R. D. Laing