dealing with guilt and shame

[Plenum]

it seems quite interesting that Ra does NOT use the word guilt or shame at all in their communications. Maybe those words are just too loaded for us.

there are a couple of extant threads on these 2 topics:

on guilt: http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=1354
on shame: http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=1383

but in terms of balancing, both Guilt and Shame seem to be 2 big areas. Actually, maybe they are just 2 different manifestations of the one root phenomena; that of not being good enough, or doing something wrong, or breaking some sort of moral or spiritual code.

both seem like instruments of self-attack; a way of diminishing the self in relation to others. It's a form of comparing, and finding that you yourself are not up to scratch.

the insidious thing is that it becomes a self-imposed torture chamber.

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I have some repressed memories of shoplifting when I was very young. I was caught twice, and the guilt somehow became detached from the circumstance, and became a thing in itself. I can see how it has been present as a 'monster' in my consciousness for most of my life; because I never dealt honestly with the originating event.

there is a lot of inner work to make peace with this guilt force.