18 March 1994
                                        Added to and issued 20 Feb 97


      USP-047  'Trying to murder actual friends - Van Gogh'


Understanding Suppression Series # 47

(See Footnote for understanding)



One of many definitions of 'Suppressive Person':

Someone who decides a Suppressive Person to him is his "friend" and
who decides that a friend is "a Suppressive Person".


Let me give you an example of this.

Vincent van Gogh, the famous painter, decided that his friend, the
painter Gauguin, with whom he lived together for some time, was a
devil, when Gauguin wanted to improve their living-conditions and
wanted to have their paintings sold. Vincent then tried to murder
Gauguin - for him wanting to improve their living-conditions.

Vincent decided that his brother, Theo van Gogh, WAS his real and
true friend.

Actually, Theo looked down on Vincent, because "his little brother
would not even care for himself but had to be supported", and "he
painted paintings that could not even be sold".

Theo intentionally kept Vincent small, in order to seem better
himself, and he sent Vincent enough money not to die, but he refused
to sell Vincent's paintings, which - admittedly - Vincent did not
WANT to have sold. Vincent WANTED to suffer the so-called "beauty of
poverty and degradation", in order to cover up that he had failed
most miserably in handling life and people.

Theo refused to point out to his brother Vincent that Vincent had
decided to destroy life (after Vincent's stay in England as an
Art-salesman) while pretending (as a short-lived priest) to help
life, amongst the coal-miners in Belgium.

Theo called this (NOT telling his brother to stop being crazy, but
validating the destructive behavior of his brother) "being the
biggest friend to Vincent", and Vincent also called Theo "being his
best friend who truly cared".


In order not to do Theo van Gogh injustice, we must keep in mind that
the intention of his brother Vincent to succumb and to live a degraded
life, was so strong that - had Theo wanted to really sell those
paintings - Theo would not have succeeded to do so against the
existing very strong intention of Vincent. Only after Vincent killed
himself, this intention not to have his paintings sold evaporated.


In order to do justice to the painter Vincent van Gogh, we must
mention him stating that his paintings WERE the only sane
communications he made.

In his paintings he did create sane communications and these were the
only communication to others from himself which he was willing to
control himself and to judge by himself in a responsible and sane way.

All his other communications - other than his paintings - to people
he did NOT want to control and judge as to whether the intention and
content of his communications was constructive or destructive, sane
or insane, beautiful or ugly, understandable for others or not.

Vincent refused to judge and examine his own behavior and his own
intentions - except in his paintings.

He could have decided to be sane in other areas of life as well,
like most successful artists, actors, architects and musicians do,
but Vincent did not WANT to.



Koos Nolst Trenite - Ambassador for Mankind
Copyright 1994, 1997 by Koos Nolst Trenite

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Footnote:

You can't have or maintain good without understanding evil.

NONE of the present sciences, therapies and religions, and
none of the "-isms" or "-ologies" of today understand evil
or suppression.

Yet they have abundant - and sometimes very expensive -
recipes for "being good forever". Even when they claim to
understand evil, they want to be unaware of and hide their
own evil and so they become evil themselves, and they meet
evil with evil in order "to defend themselves or their group".

It is not possible to handle properly someone who is evil or
something that is evil WITHOUT understanding WHAT PRECISELY
you are handling.

YOU CAN'T HANDLE AN EVIL BEING, FOR INSTANCE, UNLESS YOU
UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE HANDLING A BEING, AND THAT YOU ARE
HELPING HIM - A BEING - TO CONTROL HIS EVIL.

The Understanding Suppression Series will help you - maybe
for the first time - to understand evil well enough in order
to maintain good. I have taken care to write as easy to
understand as possible. The Series starts out very simple,
and currently consists of about 150 separate observations.

Keeping this knowledge to yourself will not maintain good
- because others, lacking understanding of evil, will
unintentionally assist evil - but you sharing this knowledge
with others WILL make you win over evil, and WILL safeguard
good.

                                    Koos Nolst Trenite