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NATURAL GRACE, THE FRAMEWORKS OF CREATIVITY, AND THE HEALTH OF YOUR BODY AND MIND. THE BIRTH OF CONSCIENCE

Chapter Nine: “Natural Grace, the Frameworks of Creativity, and the Health of Your Body and Mind. The Birth of Conscience.”

[...] Each of you may put the following in your own terms, but often it may seem as if your conscience tells you that you have “fallen out of grace,” and that some inner, mysterious, joyous sense of support no longer sustains you. Unfortunately, conscience as you think of it is an untrustworthy guide, speaking to you through the mouths of mothers and fathers, teachers and clergy — all perhaps from distant years, and each of whom had their own ideas of what was right and wrong for you and for humanity at large.

GRACE, CONSCIENCE, AND YOUR DAILY EXPERIENCE

[...] We are beginning the next chapter and the heading is: “Grace, Conscience, and Your Daily Experience.”

[...] Through such therapy, conscience is to be encountered and conquered once and for all.

(“Do you mean ‘conscience’ or ‘consciousness’?”)

Conscience. [...]

The simplicity of natural guilt does not lead to what you think of as conscience, yet conscience is also dependent upon that moment of reflection that in a large measure sets you apart from the animals. Conscience, as you think of it, is caused by a dilemma and a misunderstanding of the conditions set upon your physical existence. Conscience arose with the emergence of artificial guilt. [...]

Now: An animal has no need of conscience, in any terms.

What you consider conscience is often an applied-from-without sense of right and wrong instilled in you in your youth. [...]

[...] A sense of guilt enduring psychologically since the 1500’s is indeed carrying conscience just a bit too far. [...]

[...] He, with his remorseless conscience, welcomes the cruelties, for they make him feel as if he is doing penance, and for what?

[...] Now, for example: so as not to bother you, Ruburt made it a point of conscience to speak to your mother on the phone for you, and not call you, when he did not want to do so. [...]

[...] And do not project your conscience outward upon others and then react to them as authority figures. [...]

[...] His anxiousness led to the most severe examinations of conscience, such examinations being a recommended Catholic practice. [...]

I would not have it on my conscience. [...]

[...] He hated the Jews, but somehow he was obsessed with the idea that Moses was more powerful than Allah, and for years this was the secret sin upon his conscience. [...]

[...] It (The “sinful self” May 10, 1982) is basically an overgrown and almost cancerous super-conscience that applied brakes in the past to some extent, and now has largely taken over.