We have met the enemy and he is us

That was a line from a comic, Pogo, by Walt Kelly. It is true in this program as well. We have met the enemy and he is us.

The misconception theory of a Jesuit, John Powell, stated that many of the idea we have that cause us problems are based on a misconception of the truth, reality, or what we believe. Ya Sure. But really, if it is true, then cognitively, we can correct this issue easily. Well maybe.

This would imply that we need to discover our own authentic self, and come to live within those bounds, what ever that means.  We can integrate out imprinted reaction and implied memories into the conscious mind, from the unconscious mind where they currently reside, and react calmly in present time, rationally to the current situation.

Life is a journey, not a destination. We go through life, like a pinball, but with expectations, plans, that are as often as not, acted on by fores outside of ourselves, that are not foreseeable. We just run the coarse without any real control. Time drives on. We need a belief in something that it will be OK. Be it god, or the oneness concept, or the knowledge that it will all end and does not mater much to anyone outside those we influence.

John Muir -- Most people are on the world, not in it--having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them--undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.


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