Re: Projective identification

Quote:

---

Sincere devotees come to SRF with all their defenses down, and then they receive the emotional equivalent of an attack with nuclear weapons.

---

Quote:

---

In general, these concepts might explain what has become of SRF without there being some kind of "smoking gun" or original secret that the present culture of lies and secrecy has grown up to hide.

---

RE Projective Identification

Quote:

---

"The age of commandments has passed. The age of logic is here. You must look in the face of every experience with intelligent discrimination until you understand it; then you will not be deluded anymore. There is a reason for everything. And in this age of analysis, you must seek that understanding."
---- Paramahansa Yogananda (Divine Romance p 75)

---

Quote:

---

What would be the unacceptable reality that caused the SRF projection of being surrounded by enemies in the first place. In other words, what inner enemy became projected for them as the outer enemies? I am interested in the genesis of all this.

---

Quote:

---

What would be the need that causes one to accept their projection of enemies? And the other projections of the organization? What dynamic gets the whole dance going in the first place?

---

Quote:

---

"To mix psychological frames, it is the Jungian shadow. But they know it is still part of their own self, even though it is projected, and so they try to manage it themselves by managing the
projection in others. This is one reason for the brutality: they are actually working on themselves in acting so."

---

Quote:

---

"My guess is that these folks developed very extreme dependent personalities in their time with Master, despite all his efforts to break the dependency. Once he was gone they had no tools to deal with their own shadows. And shadows they have."

---

Quote:

---

We should never forget that it was Christ himself who taught us to make usurious use of the talents entrusted to us and not hide them in the ground. One ought not to make oneself out to be more stupid and more unconscious than one really is, for in all other aspects we are called upon to be alert, critical, and self-aware, so as not to fall into temptation, and to “examine the spirits” who want to gain influence over us and “see whether they are of God,” so that we may recognize the mistakes we make. It even needs superhuman intelligence to avoid the cunning snares of Satan. These obligations inevitably sharpen our understanding, our love of truth, and the urge to know, which as well as being genuine human virtues are quite possibly effects of that spirit which “searches everything, even the depths of God.” These intellectual and moral capacities are themselves of a divine nature, and therefore cannot and must not be cut off. It is just by following Christian morality that one gets into the worst collisions of duty. Only those who habitually make five an even number can escape them. The fact that Christian ethics leads to collisions of duty speaks in its favour. By engendering insoluble conflicts and consequently an afflictio animae, it brings man nearer to a knowledge of God. All opposites are of God, therefore man must bend to this burden; and in so doing he finds that God in his “oppositeness” has taken possession of him, incarnated himself in him.

---