People Do Awful Things to Each Other

The title of this week's Episode is simply a statement of fact. How could someone who is not in charge of their own mental faculties avoid doing awful things to other people and then... do awful things, repeatedly, to themselves!?

Mindlessness is the root cause of inappropriate behaviour starting with the little throwaway remarks that we throw at our little children, throwaway remarks that we, as mindless adults, will forget 30 seconds later (assuming we even notice them in the first place!) but which will scar the little child for life. Seriously.

Then, in later life, people do awful things to us. And what do we do? We replay what they've done to us. We let what they did to us fester. We do it all over again to ourselves, again and again and again.

Is there an alternative to all this madness? And, if there is, how does this work in practice? Well you had better listen to this week's Episode, hadn't you?