Stop Projecting Guilt : How to Find True Safety and Freedom

Stop Projecting Guilt : How to Find True Safety and Freedom

Hope Johnson Hope Johnson
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The World's Fundamental Lesson

The world teaches us that the more we place guilt outside of ourselves, the safer we become. This lesson, rooted in a guilt culture, suggests that by projecting guilt (blaming someone or something for the threats we perceive to be out in the world), we can protect ourselves from harm.

However, the truth is quite the opposite. The more you try to place guilt outside of yourself, the more vulnerable and controllable you become. This externalization of guilt creates a false sense of security, while internally, it fosters a deep-seated fear and anxiety that keeps us trapped in a cycle of blame and defensiveness, not unlike the shadow archetype in Jungian archetypes.

Yet, from a young age, we are conditioned to think that pointing fingers and blame shifting will shield us from consequences and danger. We see this behavior modeled in politics, media, and even personal relationships, often leading to false accusations and a shame society.

Before we began elementary school, most of us were taught to attribute our emotional and psychological turmoil to external factors. For instance, we might have learned to blame bullying by other children as the cause of our distress.

This tendency to externalize the source of our guilty projections can sometimes provide temporary relief, as it offers a clear target for our frustration and anger. However, when we project guilt over time, it prevents us from developing a deeper understanding of our own emotional responses and coping mechanisms.

Every time we place the cause of our suffering on someone or something outside of our minds, we are only projecting guilt while missing the opportunity to forgive our illusions and return to our natural state of joy, which is crucial for long-term emotional health and well-being.

As we gather more life experience, it's important to recognize that while external factors like bullying certainly seem to impact us, our reactions and the way we process these experiences play a significant role in how we ultimately feel and behave.

Developing emotional intelligence involves looking inward and reflecting on our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This self-reflection can help us understand that it's never external events that upset us but our mental landscape with a tendency toward projecting guilt that forms all of our experiences.

The Trap of Projecting Guilt

Being conditioned to fear guilty thoughts causes the mind to engage in psychological projection, creating images that appear to be threatening. This projection defense mechanism is a strategy that our minds use to avoid facing our guilty thoughts. For instance, during election seasons, many individuals become convinced that a particular presidential candidate will "destroy democracy" if elected, reflecting the ruler archetype among the 12 archetypes. This intense projection of fear onto an external figure distracts from the real issue: an internal sense of guilt and insecurity.

When you are perceiving a threat, you are neither thinking nor feeling in a rational sense. You are hallucinating, creating scenarios that feed into your fears, much like the fool archetype in the 12 Jungian archetypes pdf. This is exactly what the world's systems, often perpetuated by dominant archetypes, need you to do! By keeping you in a state of fear and projection, you become more susceptible to manipulation and social control.

The Cycle of Hallucinations and Fear

As long as you believe that you prefer hallucinations and fear over perfect love, you are looking for somewhere to unload your guilty thoughts. This creates a vicious cycle where fear perpetuates more fear, and hallucinations of threat keep you in a perpetual state of anxiety, not unlike the seeker archetype among impulse archetypes. The world's systems, including the welfare state and penal state, thrive on this cycle, keeping you in a state of dependence and reactivity. When you are constantly on the lookout for external threats, you are easily controlled by those who can manipulate your fears, leading to phenomena such as racial violence and the criminalization of race. This cycle of hallucination and fear diverts your attention away from the possibility of experiencing perfect love and peace, which remains alive and well within you.

The Power of Shared Innocence

On the other hand, everyone can become aware of the shared innocence of all beings through willingness to learn how to remove guilt from their holy mind. This leads to forgiving misperceptions of guilt, which makes us happy, uncontrollable, and invulnerable to disease and death.

Recognizing the inherent innocence in yourself and others breaks the cycle of fear and guilt. When you recognize yourself and others in perfect love and innocence, you no longer feel the need to engage in projecting feelings or shame dumping onto them.

Instead, you understand that everyone is navigating their own challenges and perceiving from their level of awareness, just like you! This perspective allows you to extend empathy and understanding, fostering a sense of unity and love. By embracing shared innocence, you create a protective shield that makes you invulnerable to the manipulations of fear-based narratives, such as those perpetuated by paranoid personalities or in honor-shame cultures.

Escaping the Trap of Guilt

The way to escape from guilt and all of its deadly forms is to recognize when you're perceiving anyone or anything as a threat. This requires a conscious effort to observe your thoughts and feelings without immediately reacting to them, a process that involves confronting the unconscious and overcoming repression. Once you identify this perception, decide that you would rather extend innocence and safety than spend any more time or energy upholding the world's insane narratives, which often lead to victim blaming and a culture of victimhood.

This decision is a powerful act of self-liberation. By choosing to see innocence instead of guilt, you dismantle the structures of fear and control that have kept you captive, such as the carceral apparatus and the moral order imposed by guilt shaming. This shift in perspective can free you from the chains of guilt and fear, leading to a more peaceful and empowered life. You begin to understand that true safety comes from within and that you have the power to create a reality based on love, not fear, transcending the limitations of a fear society or guilt society.

I have used essential oils as muses to help me identify my thought habits and release them. I find them to be wonderful allies that align with our desire to awaken to perfect love. 


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