Picture your personality as a fairy-tale kingdom. It has borders, beyond which lie foreign lands. In its villages and towns, people toil. A wise king rules here.
Questions bubble up, curious and sharp. For instance: “Who’s an honest citizen, and who’s a murderer, thief, or liar?” There’s always someone stirring trouble, breaking the peace.
Say a villain’s caught. But here’s the hitch—threats and punishments don’t faze him. He only grows crueler, vowing to wreak havoc with cunning as long as he breathes.
So, what do you do with this criminal? It’s your call, for you are the Law. Lock him in a dungeon, destroy him, or banish him from your land? Problem solved?
Not quite. “The repressed returns,” Freud warned. In dreams, in slips of the tongue, and most of all in those “unexplained” flashes of hurt, irritation, sadness, or rage. The impostor has taken your throne.
Here’s a secret: there’s NOTHING spare, alien, or harmful in you. Everything matters—especially what stirs confusion, scorn, shame, anxiety, disgust, horror, embarrassment, or guilt.
Treasures hide where taboos lock your gaze. It’s tough to see the good beneath a repulsive mask.
But if you do, reality will surprise you:
The “criminal” was breaking a law that no longer made sense.
The “thief” was taking what demanded creative reworking.
The “killer” was trying to free you from delusions.
The “outsider” was a messenger of your true Self—God’s image.
This shift isn’t easy to embrace. But the effort pays off.
Richly blooms the land where its dirt is blessed.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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