The Demolition of Truth-Psychologists Examine 9\11

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- What happened?

- It collapsed.

The top floors collapsed down.

- We was in an explosion.

We was in the lobby

and the third explosion

the whole lobby collapsed on us.

- What was it

like, what was it like?

- Horrible, horrible.

The whole building

just collapsed on us

inside the lobby.

- Was that

a secondary explosion?

- Yes it was

It was like three

explosions after that.

We came in after the fire,

we came when the fire

was going on already.

We was in the staging

area inside the building.

Waiting to go upstairs.

The whole lobby collapsed

on the lobby inside.

- When the first of the

towers actually started

falling down, I just

said this can't happen.

It can't happen.

And then the other

tower came down

and I said this violates

the laws of physics.

It can't happen.

Those aircraft and those

fires could not cause

those buildings to

come down in that way.

- I am the highest

ranking officer I believe

that has ever gone public

that whatever that story

was, the official story

was not true.

When you look at the

tower coming down,

what you see are at each floor,

successive puffs of smoke.

Puff, puff, puff, puff,

puff, all the way down.

What are the puffs

of smoke coming from?

Well, they claim they're

from the collapsing floors.

Uh uh, uh uh, no no no.

Those puffs of smoke are

controlled demolitions.

That's exactly what they are

because that's

exactly how they work.

- The most obvious

hypothesis for anyone looking

at the films and that

was a lot of people,

is that the buildings

came down because

there was very carefully

controlled demolition

with high explosives that

had been planted many

weeks if not months before.

- Nothing no

more is worse than this.

You're in the building

trying to help people

and it's exploding on

you inside the building

So I don't think it could

get any worse than this.

- Looking anew at 9/11

is a lot like watching

a great movie that at the

end you find out a detail

that transforms the whole

experience of the movie.

That the characters, the

scenes, all have a different

meaning that need

to be reprocessed.

Sometimes we go to

see the movie again

to understand what

was actually happening

that we didn't the first time.

Reprocessing 9/11 will

inevitably stir up new hurts.

We've already been

through the trauma,

but now realizing that

there's a different meaning

cuts in a different way,

and we have to be willing

to endure those pains,

those hurts, and those fears

that are required there.

And in some way we have

to relive 9/11 anew.

- I think we can all relate

to the initial shock and awe

of the planes approaching

the World Trade Center,

going into them, we were

terrified, we thought

the country was under attack,

and then we were given

an explanation

within 24 to 48 hours

that this was forces from

the Mid East, 19 Arabs,

and that flashbulb memory,

that traumatic event

has stayed with us ever since.

It's been called shock

and awe in another context

with Iraq, but there was a

shock and awe definitely in that

case and the media theory

says that the first story

is the one that sticks with you.

- September 11 the world

experienced a shock

and especially the

American people

and then we got disoriented

in a state of what is called

cognitive dissonance where

we had two different ideas

that did not go together.

For example, in America

we thought we were safe.

And yet now we were not.

Where were those

military airplanes

that are supposed to protect us?

We saw the airplanes

flying into the towers

and then the towers collapsing.

The explanation was somewhere

it was a structural failure.

Then later on we heard from

architects and engineer

that it was not possible.

It did not follow the

principle of physical laws.

- People continue to be

either oblivious to the fact

that this information exists

or completely resistant

to looking at this information.

So the question becomes why?

Why is it that people have

so much trouble hearing

this information?

Now as we know the horrors

of what happened on 9/11

were televised all

over the world,

and they were televised in

fact live so that millions

of people witnessed that,

and millions of Americans

witnessed what was happening,

we witnessed the deaths

of almost 3,000 of

our fellow Americans.

We know this had a very

severe and traumatic impact

on a large majority

of the population.

I myself cried for weeks

after September 11th.

So I think it's safe to say

that collectively as a nation,

because of what happened

on September 11th,

we experienced trauma.

Specifically, if we thought

the world was a safe place,

after we've experienced

or witnessed a trauma

we often think the world is

not a very safe place anymore.

And so it very much changes

our beliefs about the world,

it changes our ability

to trust other people

and to trust other entities.

- Many people have rightly

commented that 9/11

is a religious issue.

As a theologian I

agree with that.

I accept the definition of

religion given by Paul Tillich

many years ago saying

that religion deals with

matters of ultimate concern.

Now theologian John

Cobb has stated that

starting in the 15th

and 16th century

we had a major shift

in the understanding of

religious concern.

That prior to that time,

people were Christians or Jews

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