Show Notes
Pain is what results from the conflict created when two creative forces go in opposing directions inside us… Naturally, everyone’s favorite direction is toward the light… But in reality, this is a world in which there are forces that oppose the light…
Take, for instance, the physical level. The entire physical being is striving for health and wholeness. When there’s a disturbance that pulls the other way, we feel pain… If we were aware that in addition to our desire for health, we have a hidden desire for non-health, the struggle would go away. For we wouldn’t be likely to hold onto a desire to be unhealthy if we were consciously aware of it…
What’s really obstructing us is the material in our unconscious. This is what creates the seeming gap between cause and effect… The cause, then, is the hidden negative wish. The effect is that there’s a disturbance in our system. The end result? Pain…
There is another plane of existence, the spiritual plane… Since the spiritual plane is where the positive direction originates, this plane doesn’t contain a negative direction. It simply cannot. This is the plane of unity… When we are free from conflict and pain, we are in unity…
The thing to remember is that under every distortion, what’s real—what’s infinitely positive—still exists… So then any time we have something negative in our make-up, it’s never all of us… The part that sides with life is going in the direction of love. The anti-life side, on the other hand, is focused on hating and isolating and staying in fear…
Listen and learn more.
Bones, Chapter 16: How Pleasure Gets Twisted into Self-Perpetuating Cycles of Pain
