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Dr. Robert Jay Lifton on current affairs and the importance of survivors telling their stories

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

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The Protean Style, or Many Sidedness?

Protean style is named after proteus, a greek seagard who was a shape shifter. Part of our wiring allows us to symbolize and change what we encounter. Since we're constantly recreating what we ounter, we have the capacity for many sidedness,. So that enhance a protean style. And then i raise the question since you can't just keep changing, you need something solid in your sense of self. Indeed, even to a be comfortable with changes and change one's life, one requires a certain degree of stability. That combinationa which would give one grounded forms of protens is what we need now.

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