“All the people on this planet – every single one of us – are literally a cumulative dumping ground of ancestral emotions, the most powerful of which are shame, guilt, remorse, humiliation, self-hatred, dishonor, disgrace, and mortification – all the emotions that arise around the concept of sin and the belief that we are terrible, rotten people. These deeply corrosive emotions have been passed down from adults to their children for over a hundred generations.
And we wonder, why all the struggle with self-esteem issues? Hello? Maybe I’ve lived an incredibly sheltered life, but personally I haven’t met anybody who was so “sin-full” that they deserved to suffer eternal damnation. I mean, how many people have you met who deserve hellfire? I don’t care how awful your ex is, nobody deserves that.
I’ve traveled from England through Europe into Russia and Turkey. I’ve spent months in the Amazon jungles of Peru and Ecuador in South America, lived for years in Central America and briefly lived in South Africa and India. And the people in all the places I lived were generally decent and kind. Everywhere in the world – even in LA, London and New York – everybody I’ve ever met wants the same thing: To be left alone to do what makes them happy, find a mate, raise their kids to be healthy and happy, contribute to their community as much as they can and feel fulfilled by living a loving, productive life.”
Cate Montana, in “Cracking the Matrix: 14 Keys to Individual & Global Freedom”
Compiler’s Note: I purchased this book a couple of nights ago for my Kindle and started reading it immediately. I found it really hard to put it down and wound up finishing nearly a quarter of it in one sitting. I found the author’s writing style to be refreshingly authentic, and the content to be fascinating, particularly to a long-time reader of spiritual growth books like me. Note that this book challenges many conventional religious, spiritual, and cultural teachings, so being open-minded is a requirement for reading it.
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