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Originally Posted by jippykid  How about if you've actually been to a third world country, and have seen starving children firsthand? In the SR model, should I believe that the only reason I witnessed this is because it's what I expected to witness? |
I'm witnessing starving children on TV or in a third world country to show myself there are parts of me I keep in great denial.... denial of support (living conditions), denial of my own self-nurturance (food), and denial of creatorship (lack). I know I see these conditions on the outside because I am unaware of them inside myself.
If I see the children as separate from myself, I can keep the denial in place and avoid feeling the lack I carry inside. If I see them as myself and MORE than the simple mental acknowledgment that they are me, I give myself the opportunity to go deeper and see what is behind this reflection of myself.
I'm not an SR person, but that is how I'd answer jippykid's query.