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Eugenics prominence rose sharply under Adolf Hitler's leadership when wealthy Nazi supporters started heavily investing in it. I have touched on Eugenics and Hitler’s association with the organisation in a previous chapter so now I will elaborate. Eugenics research in Germany before and during the Nazi period was similar to that in the United States (particularly California), by which it had been partly inspired. However, its prominence rose sharply under Adolf Hitler's leadership when wealthy Nazi supporters started heavily investing in it. The programs were subsequently shaped to complement Nazi racial policies. Those humans targeted for destruction under Nazi eugenics policies were largely living in private and state-operated institutions, identified as "life unworthy of life" (German: Lebensunwertes Leben), including prisoners, degenerate, dissident, people with congenital cognitive and physical disabilities (including feebleminded, epileptic, schizophrenic, manic-depressive, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, deaf, blind) (German: erbkranken), homosexual, idle, insane, and the weak, for elimination from the chain of heredity. More than 400,000 people were sterilized against their will, while more than 70,000 were killed under Action T4, a euthanasia program. After the eugenics movement was well established in the United States, it was spread to Germany. California eugenicists began producing literature promoting eugenics and sterilization and sending it overseas to German scientists and medical professionals. By 1933, California had subjected more people to forceful sterilization than all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program engineered by the Nazis was partly inspired by California's epicenter. In 1927, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology (KWIA), an organization which concentrated on physical and social anthropology as well as human genetics, was founded in Berlin with significant financial support from the American philanthropic group, the Rockefeller Foundation. German professor of medicine, anthropology and eugenics, Eugen Fischer, was the director of this organization, a man whose work helped provide the scientific basis for the Nazis' eugenic policies. The Rockefeller Foundation even funded some of the research conducted by Josef Mengele before he went to Auschwitz. Upon returning from Germany in 1934, where more than 5,000 people per month were being forcibly sterilized, the California eugenics leader C. M. Goethe bragged to a colleague: You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought... I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people. Eugenics researcher Harry H. Laughlin often bragged that his Model Eugenic Sterilization laws had been implemented in the 1935 Nuremberg racial hygiene laws. In 1936, Laughlin was invited to an award ceremony at Heidelberg University in Germany (scheduled on the anniversary of Hitler's 1934 purge of Jews from the Heidelberg faculty), to receive an honorary doctorate for his work on the "science of racial cleansing". Due to financial limitations, Laughlin was unable to attend the ceremony and had to pick it up from the Rockefeller Institute. Afterwards, he proudly shared the award with his colleagues, remarking that he felt that it symbolized the "common understanding of German and American scientists of the nature of eugenics." Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics.
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I was born in the darkest ignorance and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge, I offer my respectful obedience’s unto him.
Religion and Spirituality are known to enhance the recovery of patients suffering from mental illness with more positive outcomes reached, therefore we should concentrate on expanding the roles of religion and spirituality, this can be done by religious-issues group therapy, a mind-body group for people with severe mental disorders, and educational and support programs for people with mental illness offered by faith communities. However, Psychiatrists and mental health professionals have concerns regarding the patients “description of their spiritual experiences”. Did it ever occur that these experiences are and where spiritual to start with, therefore need spiritual or religious healing or understanding to clear up any distortions that may mislead the patient, Instead the ideas are ignored and the client is left even more confused, which in turn has its affect. The essence of spirituality is the search for a deeper sense of self, a self-realisation and a knowing of mystical happenings, it is not really a religion although used in many religions, we begin to lose attachment to rigid beliefs and self-centeredness, material possessions and recognition are no longer necessary for our happiness, it is often called “self liberation” or “self actualisation”. Once this path is travelled, matters pertaining to the spirit awaken to something, be it a state of mind, a being, or a place, that is outside the experience of our five limited senses. It relates to the sixth sense. Spirituality can be either a part of a particular religion or independent of religion, in a self-directed and personal inner path. It can be seen as becoming in touch with Jesus Christ, for those who are religious, for those who are not religious it depicts an inner knowing and transcends material needs. Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, or one or more divine beings. A sense of connection with the divine is reached; this is in contrast with the earthly and the material. There can be separation between body and soul and connection to a metaphysical reality. The senses are developed through space and time. Spirituality pertains to mysticism and esoterism. Students in disciplines such as theology, religious studies, psychology, parapsychology, pneumatology, monadology, esoteric philosophical logic, anthropology and sociology sometimes concentrate their researches on spirituality, but the subject remains nonspecific. |
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