Friends good morning and welcome to Day 24 of the #30daymentalchallenge. Join any time with pledge linked in bio. I was recently rewatching The Wizard of Oz (and the amazingly underrated Return to Oz) and smiled at a reference to getting “in tune with the infinite”...1/8
2/8 That’s the title of a hugely popular 1897 New Thought book that I am reintroducing. I love New Thought because I believe in its basic premise of mind causation. I have deep differences, however, with how most New Thought literature has approached suffering, hate, and...
3/8 anger. There is, I believe, too much namby-pamby denialism in traditional New Thought. In the same way that certain eastern philosophies, or their adaptations in the west, can tear seekers in two with injunctions to “non-attachment,” so can America’s homegrown metaphysics...
4/8 place an unnatural demand on the seeker (partly Christian in nature) to see good in place of evil. On the scale of the psyche, I define the good-evil divide as empathy-spite. Does denial of evil help the individual? Within New Age and New Thought settings I detect, as you...
5/8 might, an enormity of repressed anger, passive-aggression, and syrupy sweet talk with shivs at the ready. On a personal scale—and I cannot imagine that my experience is exceptional—I find denial of anger or assumptions of forgiveness depleting and unnatural. Name an...
6/8 animal that doesn’t hiss or growl when threatened. So, how do we deal with issues of umbrage within the framework of constructive positivity to which these 30 days are dedicated? I see positive thinking as the opposite polarity of passive thinking. Positivity means not...
7/8 indulging in the habitual and insidiously enjoyable pattern of mentally replaying grudges—a weakness with which I struggle. It means finding resolution on terms that you privately and authentically deem reparative. You are a mature being. You must walk this road without...
8/8 formulaic models. Feel free to throw away sweet quotations and ask yourself: what path is active and reparative, not passive and repetitive? Let that be our effort today. Wishing you all good things. -M- #PMA ✊🧷🌈

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