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Digital Multimedia Resource: A self-paced offering with pre-recorded audio, and slides, designed for independent learning at your own rhythm. I have wondered all of my life about what in hell makes such an intelligent species like ours so deeply unable to experience what we could call ‘happiness’ in the daily life, let alone to fulfill the potential of individual self-realization. If this planet that we live on has always been called the ‘Planet of Suffering’ by the mystics of all times, it is mainly because of the poor quality of human interactivity in personal relationships. Throughout most of our history as a species, relationships were an expression of the fundamental genetic drive to blindly reproduce ourselves driven by the power of hormones, out of which emerges the naturally sustaining force of the social construct that we call ‘the family’, with its unavoidably homogenizing and frustrating roles that most human beings resent for the rest of their adult live. Not only do we resent those roles and the way they were imposed on us by our parents, siblings and relatives, but more excruciating is the fact that most of us cannot avoid repeating those patterns and passing their conditioning on to our own children when the time for that comes. The best part of it all is the fact that nobody is to blame for any of it, for it has always been something that has programmed human behavior by exploiting the bottomless ignorance and fear that we individually carry within our own ‘shadow’, particularly in regard to sex and love, that make us all only too eager to identify with dogmas of any kind. It truly is something that needs no further explanation since everybody knows the impact and distortion of having dysfunctional and unfulfilling relationships in their lives.
