projecting

[Plenum]

i'm curious to see every1's views on it bc i learned today that apparently people that are new to it will try to force-fit its operation on others, in an attempt to make sense of what they don't understand...do u agree with this?

how do u define projecting? how long have u known about it? when you discovered it did it change you? what are your opinions on it? how often do you find yourself stopping & thinking, "am i projecting here?" how often do u find yourself admitting to yourself that something u've communicated may have been mostly a projection?

projection happens because the mind is trying to show its experience to us.

for those things that have not been accepted by ourselves as being 'self', it is forced to rely on using actors or 'symbols' to show the thing that we are experiencing.

so for example, many members on these forums will have become 'classified' as being this or that, or represent certain qualities ... but that mental abstraction of who that person is is far from the totality of who that individual happens to be. The aspects that we hone in on, and react to ... these are projective tools.

in the absence of any projection, we would be able to see the 'love' of that individual, while at the same time registering certain 'facts' or aspects of experience, without any reactivity to it.

it is not too dissimilar a state to that of a healer being able to 'feel blockages' but without the slightest hint of judgement.

projection and reactivity tend to go hand in hand ... where you find one (the mechanism of projection) you will find the lived mental experience (the reactivity).

Becoming familiar and adept with working with one's projections (ie recognising quickly when it is at play, and then reverse diagnosing the blockage/causative factor) can be an immense accelerant to knowing the mind and self.