Dr. James Hollis

Now,

I've said to many people who've asked that question, well, start with your own life.

Look to the patterns that you have.

A pattern is an indication of some cluster of energy, whether it's outward or whether it's inward, that you're carrying with you.

And we don't do crazy things.

We always do logical things if we understand that what we're in service to intra-psychically.

I'll give you an example.

I was working in a closed ward of a hospital many decades ago, and there was a fellow repeatedly trying to break a window.

People were assuming he was trying to escape or get a shard of glass for some nefarious purpose.

And

No one bothered to ask him why he was doing this.

And he said he had the delusion that he was, first of all, in a locked ward, so he was caught in a non-voluntary situation.

And in his psychosis, he felt that somebody was pumping air from the room.

Now, if this door was locked and the air is being pumped out of this room, the most logical thing we would do is break through a window or break down the door.

So his behavior was logical based on the premise.

Now, the premise is often inaccurate or tied to one place but gets extrapolated to another one somewhere else.

And then we are responding logically to that premise.

So you start with your own life, particularly the places where you find these are self-defeating behaviors or behaviors that are hurtful to you and someone else.

And then you say, since that's not my conscious intention, and yet there it is, it's part of my history.

then I have to say, all right, what is it within me that has the kind of power to take over my ego consciousness?