Projection and Negative Emotion

We live in this illusion because we are in fact delusional.

Our reality or world is a multilevel illusion. Relativity means everything is defined by its relationship to everything else. Our perceptions thus change constantly as reality fluctuates.

Further complicating things, we rarely attempt to perceive accurately. We further dilute reality by projecting our expectations upon it. We don't even see the here and now; we see the past or our twisted perception of the past and project it upon the now.

In Doing Time On Earth, Joe projects his fears of abandonment on Marie. As a child his mother left him. Now a big muscular man, he towers over Marie, who came to apologize to him. He acts like an abandoned child, emoting and releasing his pain. A frightened Marie sees her own failures as a wife and self-destructs, thinking she has hurt and ruined another man.

Joe projected his fears, hurt and anger on Marie. He wasn't seeing her. Marie projected her guilt and sense of failure on Joe. Neither one of them was seeing clearly. The emotions they projected overwhelmed the situation.

Joe frightened his girlfriend and Marie suffered a breakdown. They never could get past that tragic moment, that horrible misunderstanding.

There are many levels of truth and our reality is like an onion peeling away each layer only to reveal another layer of truth, another reality, another dimension.

Everyone who sees you will attempt to project their reality, their viewpoint, past experience, or prejudice upon you. They usually don't see you. You do the same to them. For this reason, you do not live in the present. You live in the past, which you project upon the present. This entire world is a light show, a projection and it is revealed as such in Doing Time on Earth.

To heal from this afflicted thought a mental exercise is needed. You must not only strive to perceive accurately, but you must refuse to allow yourself to react to inaccurate and especially negative projections of others. To react to them, affirms their projections, or enables them. You make it true by entering the delusion with them.

Marie knew Joe was projecting his negative expectations upon her. She reacted guiltily as though she had done what he suspected. She opened herself up to an extremely powerful charge of negative emotion, which damaged her mind; the part of her brain responsible for processing negative emotion became overwhelmed.

Years later Marie learned that negative people are responsible for their own thoughts. She resolved to worry about her own thoughts and stopped attempting to control others' perceptions. Instead she clearly communicated her own ideas and made it clear that those ideas were not relative. They were not dependent on others' agreement nor affected by others' disagreement. Immediately, Marie 's relationships with others stabilized. It became impossible for people who know her to project their misperceptions upon her, because she did not buy into their delusions. When one person sees reality, everyone else has to see it too.

The ego and its delusional thinking is responsible for creating many shadows. Our perception is clouded by fear, guilt, emotion. We need to see the world new again to release these mistakes, much less continue to repeat them.
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Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.