We’re here because this planet is a perfect match for the negativity remaining in us. It offers conditions compatible with our inner landscape… We’re confused about reality, and our mind is full of incorrect concepts…
And wherever confusion prevails, there’s always conflict. Conflicts are split concepts that divide the psyche. They arise when some aspect, inside us, is not in truth. … So Earth is nothing more, and nothing less, than a classroom for people with inner splits…
If we look at everything we’ve managed to surface so far, including our main image and defenses, our conflicts and faults, they will reveal the basic inner attitude that is governing our life. And this attitude is always split down the middle. Meaning, we fluctuate back and forth between two essentially opposite ways of reacting… When this realization starts to take shape, we’ll see that our two fundamental attitudes are represented by our parents… .
There was no way for us to work this out before we got here. So our parents, who bring our unresolved split out into the open, couldn’t possibly be responsible for our problems… This basic conflict is so deep, it’s existence is the reason we have the human experience. But it’s not inaccessible…
We go through life, then, reacting to the person in front of us, not as them but as if they were our parents… Whenever we are negatively involved with someone, we can be sure our split is a factor in the fireworks… We firmly believe in something that isn’t true. But then our belief gets reinforced, so our split cracks open even wider…
Lack of awareness is truly a prison that makes life not worth living. Because we feel caught between two equally unappealing alternatives. We adopted a certain way of reacting to our parents, and now we keep responding that way And so we keep getting the same poor results… The way out is through awareness that we are living in a trance… Once we break this mold, though, new experiences can materialize.
Listen and learn more.
Bones, Chapter 11: Our Habit of Transferring our Split onto Everyone
Read Original Pathwork® Lecture: #118 Duality Through Illusion – Transference
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