The touch-and-generalized-reciprocity concept isn't new; it's ages-old. Still, in its modern application, as proposed here, a slight twist plunges to the core of how this authentic human family might operate.
First, we must set the stage:
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Hemingway
Hemingway’s quote uncovers the dark side of humanity.
His analogy between hunting and war is a subtle yet powerful joke. The hunting of armed men and liking it is the finding of sadistic pleasure in committing suicide. Since we are the other.
As psychologist Carl Jung points out, “war” represents the absurd idea that the conflict between good and evil, light and darkness, can never be reconciled. On the contrary, the "real war" was a psychic event that helps us get to know ourselves and learn the lessons of forgiveness.
Regarding learning ourselves, he points out that to the degree we condemn others and find evil in them, we are unconscious of the same thing in ourselves or at least to the potentiality of it. And by inference, the hunting of armed men and liking it is the finding of sadistic pleasure in committing suicide since we are the other.
He further points out that to condemn others and find evil in them, we unconsciously deny it in ourselves. To accept and understand the evil in ourselves, the thrill of committing violent acts, and surviving them, we must accept our dark side and do it without the negative aspect of the Shadow becoming an enemy.
Do it without being led into those thoughts, feelings, and violence towards others, which are characteristic of people projecting the devil in themselves upon the scapegoat.
Nurture kinship is one of the more potent social agencies that supply self-knowledge and forgiveness while addressing relations with the Shadow.
