When we start to hear the messages in the stages we become shocked, defensive my childhood experiences weren't that bad because we have been used to being deceived and told how grown up, adult and smart and wise and enlightened and healthy we already are.
We are actively encouraged to being told it was just fine for them to have children. We have become used to being told that our abuse of our children is not really abuse and that our conditional love for our children really was love.
We have become used to being told that our own lies and insanity are actually perfectly healthy and normal. We are used to listening to false gurus and old prophets when we have problems. We are used to being told that our mindless behaviour was wise, and that we are doing the right thing by building a wall between our consciousness and the wrenching pain of our true, deep spirit.
Lies we have got used to being told that our culture is healthy, our treatment of the earth’s resources was progressive, our romantic relationships are beautiful, our love for our parents was appropriate and warranted, our histories of abuse are overrated, our gurus are indeed gurus, our wars are largely justified, our petty prejudices are acceptable as long as we did not push them in others’ faces, and that our hatreds were rational.
We have become used to being placated and numbed and medicated and enslaved and psychically castrated by those who are profiting from our herd mentality. And we have always thought this was what love was.
We become very uncomfortable that this study course would dare to contradict everything we hold dear. And yet the Stages resonated with us on some deep and long-forgotten level. We are not used to hearing the truth. It makes us curious. And it also makes some of us violently reject this message.I was one such person but this is a course of study and experiential action with others.It is base on loving-kindness and compassion for our individual truth.
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