Steve, in reply.

Yes, persecution, but I understand why, and it is not altogether unjustified.  It is certainly understandable given the political manipulations of the day.  
But the justification needs to be consciously and comprehensively apprehended.  If it was, or ever had been, the premise of it, reasonably should have changed by now.  Judaism is another subject. 

What my post is about is unconscious group behaviors.

I of course did not identify what we should learn.  I did imply that the ways in which the Muslims controlled their behaviors to to survive in the harsh natural conditions of the desert is something we could learn from because it was unconsciously assimilated and Sharia law was a last resort.  I've not actually seen proof that Muslims want to impose Sharia law here.   Someone told someone that is the case from what I've seen.   I do know they insist that the unseen of our unconscious existence be recognized.  They insist on Allah, but with understanding and REASON that could change.  And, I agree, otherwise it will control us and we will not know it.

What I've said was that "fundamentally" humans are controlled by their unconscious mind.  With understanding, the unconscious will relent.  That is what reason is all about, is creating understanding.

To understand the error of our ways you would have to be close enough to nature to see how it is damaged in ways that are not acceptable.  Media will not share the facts and what is shared is to creat a bias.

Would you suggest that unconscious collectivism which causes our extinction is better than consciously justified and designed Environmental Collectivism?  Can you explain what service you can provide anywhere without good air and water?
The sacrifices implied are simply reasonable, sensible uses of resource and energy while also assuring purity of air and water.

People dont walk around in an unconscious dream-state all day.

Jeeze, I hate postmodernism.

That is true Teresa, but still, the unconscious is in very much control.  In fact, if you are not consciously working to maintain a cognitive edge about each step and action, you are doing most of what you are doing unconsciously.

And Luke, the book is about memory not sociopathy:-)  Lots of words are missing!

My point rotates around the fact that psychology is not addressing the human unconscius potential, and not providing therapy based in the fact that most mental disorder is occurring in the unconscious mind.  Most therapy deals with the conscious mind, except cognitive therapy which eventually gets to the unconscious selections of distortions that the unconscious has made a pattern of using to conduct what the individual thinks is fully cognitive mental action.  The most common therapy is the prescribing of drugs, which has a detrimental effect perhaps 75% of the time.

When it comes to understanding peoples of foreign societies with ancient cultures, we are very much at a loss to apprehend much of what they do.  The resulting rejection creates problems between peoples that turn to violence.  This is a very old problem and it is very unreasonable that in this modern time that psychology has not found ways to understand the extreme fanaticism which Muslims are capable of.  Alternately, the ease by which we attack them with our developed technologies is quite unfair considering that this is the way our Romanized societies treated them many centuries ago.

In a technical sense we are developed people, but in a sense of compassion and understanding adequate to create peace and resolve the differences; such as the Muslim insistence that there is something unseen, I mean millions of them insist on this; while our societies ignore the fact of their masses in agreement, WHILE our psychologists publish books like I posted scans of, is quite disturbing.