{"id":5614,"date":"2017-11-29T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2017-11-25T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T15:30:08","slug":"start-seeing-secret-disguise-negative-states-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2017\/11\/start-seeing-secret-disguise-negative-states-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Start Seeing Through the Secret Disguise of Negative States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our resistance to any evil or otherwise corrupt character \u2013 regardless of circumstance \u2013 proves the presence of an unseen similarity; there can be no recognition of any exterior degraded nature that isn\u2019t born of our interior resonation with it. Which means&#8230;any sustained negative reaction is actually the unconscious action of that dark nature attempting to hide itself&#8230;by seeming to despise whatever it points to as being dark or evil.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this doesn&#8217;t mean that we are to agree with something we see as being evil \u2013 in ourselves \u2013 or in the world around us; only that before we take any action to right a perceived wrong, we make sure that whatever part of us \u2013 about to act for us \u2013 is <u>not<\/u> acting from (the evil) of some unseen form of secret self-righteousness.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life of Learning Singers: Hole in the World\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IP8ANuQorIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our resistance to any evil or otherwise corrupt character \u2013 regardless of circumstance \u2013 proves the presence of an unseen similarity; there can be no recognition of any exterior degraded nature that isn\u2019t born of our interior resonation with it. 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