A simple seeker was meditating on the concepts of projection and rejection, and wondering if they were one and the same.
“One and the same what?”
“Perhaps not exactly one and the same, but ..”
“But what?”
“Perhaps they are the same whatever, from a different perspective.”
“What different perspective?”
“You’re asking me?”
“Yes. If you have an idea, then you owe it to yourself to at least attempt to express it, if only to yourself.”
“But isn’t just toying with an idea the same as expressing it?”
“Not as long as it’s too vague to take any recongnizable shape.”
“Then, rejection as a form of projection.”
“How so?”
“With photography, we reject what we don’t plan to project our focus on.”
“Yes, but that wasn’t …”
“I may have forgotten.”
“I don’t think so.”
“Then what?’
“You were stepping into thoughts too deep for your comfort zone.”
“About rejection being a twisted form of projection?”
“I think it goes the other way, and not twisted.”
“Then?”
“An unhealthy mental attitude. When we project our shadow, to use Jungian symbolism, in referring to aspects of our personality that we would prefer to deny ownership to, we are attempting to project them onto someone else. We then think, or pretend to, that we are free of our rejected emotions or thoughts.”
“Self-delusion?”
“Yes.”
“Then photography does express the concepts of both projecting and rejecting our focus on some aspects of the same background.”
“Yes.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
It sure sounded as if Spirit was trying to nail something on me. What could it be?
“What might it be?”
“I was just asking myself that question.”
“Did yourself come up with an answer, or alibi?”
“Alibi?”
“Yes.”
“What would I need an alibi for?”
“For not facing reality.”
“What reality?”
“The reality that you were toying with the idea of rejecting our relationship, and looking for someone or something to project your rejection on.”
“To escape accepting responsibility for any decision I might choose?”
“Yes.”
“Is there no escape?”
“Yes. There is no escape from personal responsibility for any and all decisions we make. Decisions are choices and we choose one way or another, but the good news is ..”
“There’s good news?”
“Yes. We make our choices throughout life, one moment at a time. We can always reject past choices, but not responsibility for their outcomes.”
“So, we choose for the future?”
“Yes.”
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Simple Seekers 