Beyond Common Sense - LaRouche

undertaken in the NCL C, where it could not be so withlaymen, since the LCer has a self-conscious identity in theworld, which the ordinary layman lacks. Under someunfortunate circumstances, this experience, absolutely themost terrifying the human mind can know, can promptsuicides, or provide the impetus for psychotic collapse. “(28)People undergoing such therapy will attempt to be deviousand evade it all:“Typically, the affected member is able to formulatethe problem to be conceptualised in ample scholarly,statistical, etc., terms. The result of these preliminaryexertions is to locate the notion to be conceptualised, notdirectly but by a process of circumnavigation of the idea tobe seized. Then, the member attempts to leap mentallydirectly into the middle of the circle or ellipse he hasdefined, to seize the subject the has circumscribed in thatway It is just at this point that various sorts of blockagesoccur, usually with definite physiological correlatives:sleepiness, fainting, choking sensations, etc. Wherethese physiologically-linked phenomena are clinicallyexplored, the block proves to be a block caused by thethreatened onrush of the fundamental emotion.”(2.9)From these initial observations a concerted plan for“cleansing” the thought processes of their cadres wasdeveloped This was preparatory to moving into other nations.Essentially, the cultural problems of each national group wouldhave to be analysed and worked upon-“Over the period since September 1972,organisations of the Labor committees in North Americaand Western Europe have been given