Split Personalities from Abuse

[Sacred Fool]

 
Just another thought, IC.  I hope you don't worry to much about meeting standards of spirituality because it's, as your screen name suggests, an inside job.  It's just about knowing the self.

As old Agua was suggesting, when you get taken down into those stomach churning areas of the human mind (or you could say, "experience," but for this conversation mind works well), you may find there not just the ugly and the bad, but also things which are good.  And these are understandings which may not be available via any other route.  Yep, another paradox.

As to forgiving rudimentary evil, ugly stuff, you may not find yourself wandering down that road until you find hints of such inclinations in yourself, down deep someplace.  If it's true that we all carry everything, then you're bound to find stuff like that sooner or later.  At that point, the forgiveness element takes on a new dimension.  But there's no hurry.  "We're all doing time," as was mentioned in the wanderer stories thread.