This is kind of a continuation of my train of thought in this thread...
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...but I think it is, in itself, an important enough landmark realization to warrant its own post, which I put in the PSD forum because that's what it seems to have the most implications for. I hope it will also help those who have never experienced serious negative interference, to gain some understanding of those who do.
I personally have a lot of "warrior spirit" stuff going on. This has meant that I have had one HELL of a time reconciling that side of myself with any of what we typically hear in spiritual circles about love, peace, oneness, finding rest, stop striving and it will come, etc etc. All these concepts are totally foreign, at least in the form they're typically presented.
The warrior hears all this and thinks "are you mad?! How can I rest when the opposition is at the gates, surrounds me on all sides, and continues to attack as we speak? If I rest now, I'll be taken into captivity, tortured, ripped apart and will finally be no more!"
Telling the warrior that his opposition is imagined, and has no objective existence, does more harm than good. He is absolutely correct that if he does stop fighting in the middle of the battle, he will indeed be tortured, mangled and damaged further. He won't cease to exist as he believes, but he will be put in a position that requires more fighting to come back from. Namely, he has to fight his way to a position of safety so he can heal himself. You can't solve the warrior's problem by telling him to drop his weapons and join a monastery, because that's not who he IS -- if he did that, he'd just be taking the battle into a new setting. What's more, if he takes these sorts of suggestions onboard, he may lose his will to fight -- this is the worst thing that can happen! All such suggestions that amount to "just stop being a warrior" are just as much of an attack on him as everything else he's enduring. "Warrior" may be another image, but it's also a tool, and the warrior can't just drop his tools and adopt yours anymore than you can just one day choose to put on his armor, pick up his weapons and take on his role.
The way to peace is found, not in the cessation of fighting -- the warrior fights because that's part of who he is -- but in the realization of what he's fighting for.
The warrior fights for his right to exist (honor), and to have his existence affirmed (glory), in the face of everything about his experience trying to take those two things away.
Both of those things, as well as rest, are found in love, as is being explored in the thread I linked.
The function of all negative interference is to draw attention to the false images. The problem is that they do so in such a way that is so violent and painful that usually, more attention is focused on ending the pain, first by destroying opposition and then by healing damage, rather than examining the images. You can never end a neg interference problem by destroying enough of them -- but you can at least hack out temporary positions of enough safety to gain more objectivity before the battle resumes.
The other problem is that negative interference (and often those trying to "help", for that matter) attempts to rip those images away. You can't TAKE something from a warrior -- even if it is something not worth having, just the fact that you are trying to take it will provoke him to defend it till the bitter end as a matter of principle. In the case of false images, he will defend them until he reaches "higher ground," the place where he has some temporary room to breathe, enough times to fully examine them for what they are, so he can relinquish them voluntarily. For the warrior, relinquishing his delusions are not an act of submission, but an act of will.
As I said in the other thread, "love is where the rest is." Find love, and the "honor and glory" which are the warrior-spin on the basic need for approval and self-affirmation, will manifest.
This is why all campaigns of neg interference start by attacking the heart chakra.
Shut that down so the warrior doesn't have access to love, and you can continue to mount attacks which serve to distract him from ever finding it.
Create a safe space in which to find love, and all the attacks cease -- not because they were never "real," not because the attackers didn't really exist -- but because with the false images gone, there's nothing left to attack. There is only what IS, which cannot be attacked or distorted once recognized.
I'm hoping to put this one into "polished article" form sometime soon, but it was one of those things that insisted "express me! NOW!" Woo...
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