EGO

Created as man and woman — mankind thus makes his own hell and sometimes seeks his own immortality in unrecognized sexuality. Man stumbles upon power that distracts him from the original cause. He finds violence, wealth, knowledge, beauty, and mistaken love as power vehicles to leverage physical events and people that become the illusions which he buys into. He becomes selfish and seeks via some power phase, to build frequency of gratification to tickle his ego or psyche. To these ends he becomes addicted to power and gratification thus allowing obsession to take over his life. Seeking the way of Spirit slows or ends.

Why alcohol, drugs, prostitution, and pornography (including child pornography) exist in our modern world?

Because there are many people who crave for it and buy it. Without demand there would be no supply… The pornography industry has larger revenues than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix combined. 2006 Worldwide Pornography Revenues ballooned to $97.06 billion.

We humans are capable of immense love and sensitivity but we have also been capable of greed, hatred, brutality, rape, murder and war. Prejudice, racism, grievance, intolerance, aggression, injustice, oppression – they all start small, and we need to spot and stop them in our own local orbits before they grow and get out of control.  Understanding these will help to avert future horrors.

The murder rate among minors was twice as high in low-income countries than in the developed world, the report found. But sexual abuse in the home is a blight shared by all nations. In 21 countries, most of them industrialized, as many as 36 per cent of women and 29 per cent of men said they had been the victims of sexual abuse during childhood. “Most of the abuse occurred within the family circle,” the report said.

"But who shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."