Lining up Your Drives

When you bring up Christianity in spiritual chat rooms, you tend to get a negative gut reaction pretty much independent of what you say. It appears that our church has destroyed way too much pottery over the centuries and it is hard to fix this psychological damage. But there is more more to the problem, by embracing Christian values, many try to aspire something they are not.  Aggression, greed, arrogance and many other emotions are swept under the carpet, and these forces simmer deep in the subconscious.

I have met Christians who do all the right things, but if you really look at them, they appear like zombies - absolutely lifeless. They try to live up to a mental image, but all their true emotions are swept into the subconscious sphere. Let go of the lofty ideals would be my advise, you can still aspire to reach that state if you like, but recognize the ugly emotions inside yourself and find creative ways to let off your steam.

Lining up your drives means that you need to find a way to express your conscious and subconscious forces at the same time.  Life has a habit of creating the situations and environments that allow you to heal yourself. Take aggression for example - a pro-football player after banging his head into others for 15 consecutive seasons probably reaches a sacred 'been there, done that' feeling. If your problem is intellectual arrogance, become a professor, and after sparring the best and brightest mentally for 30 years or so, you are perhaps ready to move on to the next spiritual level as well. You can fill in your personal challenge here, and I am sure that after a little bit of soul-searching you will find your idiosyncratic way of expressing your pent-up steam.

Line up all your forces, conscious as well as subconscious, and trust that life as is happens to offer a perfect opportunity to express them. If you encounter problems along the way, take it as a sign from the subconscious that additional creative outlets are needed. Every problem is an opportunity to penetrate a new spiritual dimension. The bigger the problem, the higher the upside would be my hunch. Life your life to the fullest and bring it all together. With it, you have a shot at becoming whole.