I admit that this is an awful picture of a "crucified" woman victim. It could also be a child victim. It could be any picture of the self-victimization of the soul. All victim stories are reducible to the self-victimization, or the victimization of the inmost soul, the Inner Self, the Christ Self. Eventually the truth is discovered that the ego "crucifies" the soul. How is this so?

The soul knows the inner world and its language, but the ego mind has shut out the soul, discounted its value and language, tied it up with rope and thrown it in the closet of the shadow world. The only way the soul usually gets to speak is in dreams and in symptoms. The ego mind has repressed the innermost soul, with all of its resources and powers. The mind has to learn to listen again to the still small voice of infinity. Ego judgments, opinions and fears drown out the intuition, and make us feel like victims.

You are a spiritual being who has been on this planet for many lifetimes. You have lived and re-lived the same kind of victim story over and over. Now you have come to a crisis point in your evolution as a soul. Many kinds of experiences arise in this long spiritual journey that we are making. Conventionally a person can be ignorant of the meaning of this journey and spin quite a yarn of mis-information. This tale of woe leads into many detours and deadend streets. But we are now in position to understand why we keep repeating the same broken-record lessons over and over. If your path seems repetitive and boring, that is because you are caught in a cycle. We now have the knowledge and the tools to help anyone correct the mistakes in their puzzle of life, and to break the repetitive cycle in which we caught like a fly in a spider web: the victim experience.

"What tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive."

Sir Walter Scott.

 

The level of deception that we are speaking of here is self-deception, the most deadly of all. The language of the soul is spoken in music, art, dreams, hunches, eros, and symptoms. It is not that ego language is totally devoid of spirituality. Every action and word is full of twisted, contracted, and disguised infinity.

William Blake

Why is the soul such a threat to the ego? The soul is so huge, so rich, so unknown, so incredibly beautiful, so wise that the ego feels little, poor, known, ugly and stupid. Consequently the ego must reduce the soul to its own image. The ego perceives itself as a potential victim and so it would make everyone else a victim also. Re-birth is a letting go of the belief that the victimization experience would be catastrophic. The ego is married to its own pathetic, self-limiting story.

The caterpillar has well learned its tree-bound story and does not envision the butterfly possibility. Crawling into a cocoon type of death is reluctantly done, but remains its only hope for butterfly transformation and freedom. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly, just as the ego surrenders to the Christ-like soul, saying "Thy will be done."

How does the ego become soul? It is a letting go, awakening, self-realizing process. We are already soul but have only dreamed otherwise. As crude as it may seem, the symptom is the ego-humiliating doorway to the cocoon experience. When the ego surrenders to its polar opposite experience, wholeness returns.

And so, you believe you are or could be a victim? You have felt such humiliation before and run from it as fast and as far away as possible. You threw that experience into the shadow world of pain and powerlessness. Now you face it. Are you a victim or not?

Don’t run. Don’t flinch. Look at it. Listen to its pain. It is not so. It is a lie. Lies hurt, but they are still lies. This is not what God made. This is not what you are. You are just looking in a smoky distorted mirror. You are not a victim. That is just a nightmare. Awaken all ye that sleep. Awaken to infinity!

Yes, you may have felt crucified, but what about the rest of the story? Three days later, we have the resurrection.

Do you feel victimized? Join the club, there are six billion of us living here now on earth, no matter how it appears in the exterior story. Some of us may appear to be above it all, some of us appear to be successful abusers, some of us appear to be weary would-be rescuers, but all of us subscribe to the victim theory. The alternative offered here is called Infinity Theory, and it is free for the taking. Have some! Have it all! You don’t even have to buy a book, listen to a tape, go to a workshop, get ten years of psychotherapy, join a religion, pay for your crimes, get even with your abusers, die and re-incarnate, wait for Godot, find a lover, get rich, or move to Hawaii. Just wake up! Everything happens in your consciousness and only in your consciousness. Changing the whole world would not change your consciousness one whit. We’ve created hell in paradise since this whole story began, have we not?

Are you damaged goods?

Injured?

Hurt?

Handicapped?

Imprisoned?

Lost?

Abandoned?

Swallowed up?

Exposed?

Abused?

Put down?

Sick?

Mentally ill?

Unfortunate?

Unlucky?

Condemned?

Dying?

Broke?

Grief-stricken?

A loser?

Fat?

Old?

Brain-fried?

Burned out?

A basket case?

Hopeless?

A psychopath?

A martyr?

Good, you are qualified for awakening!

Read what the scriptures say about you:

"Let that mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."

The Apostle

• I am a child of God (John 1:12)
• I have peace with God (Romans 5:1)
• The Holy Spirit lives in me (1 Corinthians 3:16)
• I have access to God's wisdom (James 1:5)
• I am helped by God (Hebrews 4:16)
• I am reconciled to God (Romans 5:11)
• I am not condemned by God (Romans 8:1)
• I am justified (Romans 5:1)
• I have Christ's righteousness (Romans 5:19; 2 Corinthians 5:21)
• I am Christ's ambassador (2 Corinthians 5:20)
• I am completely forgiven (Colossians 1:14)
• I am tenderly loved by God (Jeremiah 31:3)
• I am the sweet fragrance of Christ to God (2 Corinthians 2:15)
• I am a temple in which God dwells (1 Corinthians 3:16)
• I am blameless and beyond reproach (Colossians 1:22)
• I am the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13)
• I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)
• I am a branch on Christ's vine (John 15:1,5)
• I am Christ's friend (John 15:5)
• I am chosen by Christ to bear fruit (John 15:6)
• I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing his inheritance with him (Romans 8:17)
• I am united to the Lord, one spirit with him (1 Corinthians 6:17)
• I am a member of Christ's body (1 Corinthians 12:27)
• I am a saint (Ephesians 1:1)
• I am hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3)
• I am chosen by God, holy and dearly loved (Colossians 3:12)
• I am a child of the light (1 Thessalonians 5:5)
• I am holy, and I share in God's heavenly calling (Hebrews 3:1)
• I am sanctified (Hebrews 2:11)
• I am one of God's living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:5)
• I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession and created to sing his praises (1 Peter 2:9-10)
• I am firmly rooted and built up in Christ (Colossians 2:7)
• I am born of God, and the evil one cannot touch me (1 John 5:18)
• I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16)
• I may approach God with boldness, freedom, and confidence (Ephesians 3:12)
• I have been rescued from Satan's domain and transferred into the kingdom of Christ (Colossians 1:13)
• I have been made complete in Christ (Colossians 2:10)
• I have been given a spirit of power, love, and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7)
• I have been given great and precious promises by God (2 Peter 1:4)
• My needs are met by God (Philippians 4:19)
• I am a prince (princess) in God's kingdom (John 1:12; 1 Timothy 6:15)
• I have been bought with a price, and I belong to God (1 Corinthians 6:19,20)
• I have been adopted as God's child (Ephesians 1:5)
• I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:18)
• I am assured that all things are working together for good (Romans 8:28)
• I am free from any condemning charges against me (Romans 8:31f)
• I cannot be separated from the love of God (Romans 8:35f)
• I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God (2 Corinthians 1:21,22)
• I am confident that the good work that God has begun in me will be perfected (Philippians 1:6)
• I am a citizen of heaven (Philippians 3:20)
• I am a personal witness of Christ's (Acts 1:8)
• I am God's coworker (2 Corinthians 6:1, 1 Corinthians 3:9)
• I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realm (Ephesians 2:6)
• I am God's workmanship (Ephesians 2:10)
• I can do all things through Christ, who gives me the strength I need (Philippians 4:13)

See Yourself as God Sees You by Josh McDowell and Extreme Faith by Neil Anderson and Dave Park.

Are you a victim? If so, did you make yourself one? If you made yourself one, can’t you un-make it? People and circumstances may seem to control your body, but only you control your consciousness. You made this mess, did you not? Are you telling yourself the same old story again today? Just change your story. You will know the truth and the truth will make you free.

You can try to change others ‘til hell freezes over and it won’t work, will it?

The "Poor Me" images shown below could unconsciously feel real to anyone on a given day: