Carl Jung ascribed the Root of Human Evil to "The Refusal to Meet the Shadow."
In fact, the evil are often highly intelligent people, who may be quite conscious in most respects but have a very specific unwillingness to acknowledge their Shadow.
The gift of appropriate guilt is precisely what keeps national sins from getting out of hand.
It is and shall remain nations most effective Safeguard against those who have a proclivity for Evil.
So, there is yet another reason to seek greater consciousness.
It is the foundation of mental and spiritual growth. And it is though this growth that we become ever more competent.
Simple English: "When your Stuck" there's no need for therapy where you clearly grow well without it. But when we're not growing,when we're stuck and spinning our wheels, we're obviously in a condition of inefficiency.
Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking, and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.
Anytime there is a failure in thinking, there is corresponding deficit in a persons level of consciousness. Thus all human behavior - the good, the bad, and the indifferent - is determined by the extent, or lack thereof, of the quality of thinking and consciousness involved.
In the beginning God told Adam and Eve that they were free to eat of every tree in The Garden of Eden but one (Genesis 2:16-17).
One Tree belonged to God Alone.
If they ate of this forbidden tree, they would die. That was reality!
Eventually Adam and Eve decided the couldn't Live with God deciding the nature of what was Good and Bad.
They wanted to choose what was good and bad for themselves.
THEY WANTED TO DETERMINE THEIR OWN REALITY.
SO ADAM AND EVE BECAME THE FIRST TRUTH "SPINNERS."
IT BEGAN BY LYING TO THEMSELVES ABOUT THE TRUE NATURE OF THE TREE AND GOD'S COMMAND CONCERNING IT. IN EFFECT, THE SPIN WAS, "GOD IS HOLDING OUT ON US." THAT SPIN LET TO OTHERS SPINS, AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT THEY WERE HIDING FROM AND LYING TO GOD AND ONE ANOTHER.
BUT GOD REFUSES TO LET LIES HAVE THE LAST WORD.
God looked for Adam and Eve in an attempt to reconcile their broken relationship, reclaim truth and restore reality (Genesis 3:9,15).
The rest of the Bible is the story of how God mends the tear in the fabric of creation who began with a lie about reality.
Like Adam and Eve before us, we are truth spinners who want to define our own realities.
*We Pad Expense Accounts with Rationalizations and Denials.
*We Back Our of Commitments with Blame and Deceit.
*Advertisers, Corporations, Government agencies, Educational Institutions Spin the Truth.
Everything from ruining the environment to Insider Trading Gets The Spin.
It's not hard to understand why Americas people don't know Who or What to Believe.
BUT LIES THAT SUBSTITUTE FOR REALITY DON'T LAST FOREVER.
TRUTH ALONE HAS STAYING POWER. JESUS SAYS TELLING THE TRUTH BEGINS WITH SMALL THINGS. DON'T SAY 'YES' WHEN YOU INTEND TO BACK OUT OF IT: "SIMPLY LET YOUR "YES" BE "YES" AND YOUR "NO' BE "NO"; ANYTHING BEYOND THIS COMES FROM THE EVIL ONE" (MATHEW 5:37).
BEGIN TO RECLAIM THE TRUTH ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR WORDS BY HONORING THE CREATOR AND REALITY AS HE DEFINES IT.
"HOLINESS IS NOT A CONDITION INTO WHICH WE DRIFT.
TRUTH TELLING INVOLVES SPEAKING IN A WAY THAT DOES NOT
EXAGGERATE,DENY,RATIONALIZE OR MANAGE THE TRUTH.
GOD COMMANDS PROBATIONARY BIRTH RIGHT:TO SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY!
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