Show Notes
about this thing we call life… Something unfortunate happens—one of the many unavoidable hardships of life—and we make a generalization based on it. Roll things forward a while, and now we have a rock-solid, preconceived idea about the way things are. The only problem is, most of the time our conclusions are wrong…
They are really just our emotional reactions to life’s events. They are based on a certain limited child logic, but they are nonetheless in error. As we grow up, these wrong conclusions, along with the attitudes they sprout, sink out of our awareness. There, in our unconscious, they settle in and start molding how our life will look… The word the Guide uses to refer to these wrong conclusions is “images”…
The list of damages caused by images is practically endless… Here’s another way to know an image is at work. There’s a repetition of incidents we didn’t ask for and don’t want. Images always form patterns… We draw people and events to us like bees to honey on account of our images…
Listen and learn more.
Bones, Chapter 9: Images and the Deep, Deep Damage They Do
