Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

And so the projection, we project onto our heroes and we project onto the villains instead of acknowledging our own abilities and our own darkness.

And so I think we've done this in SPID.

We do it in interpersonal dynamics.

We do it in intercultural warfare.

We do it at a global level with nature itself.

And I think we do it on the cosmos.

We have created this character of God built in our own image and likeness.

So he has all our good traits and he's got all our bad traits.

And so the book, the last book that I wrote, I put this God in triumph, you know, for crimes against humanity.

How could he have done all this evil stuff that he did to us, which is recorded, you know, in the scriptures?

And come to the realization, so I had a defense and a prosecution.

In the prosecution, I had a Bible scholar, and I had a clinical psychologist, and I had a contract lawyer.

And in the defense, I had a union analyst, I had an archaeologist, another Bible scholar, and a mythologist.

And so they duked it out between them to find out.

And the verdict finally was that, you know, the God that's on trial is a projection of the human shadow.

You know, it is not really God.

And so setting God free was, if we set God free from our projections, God sets us free from our illusions.

And that's the contract.

So it's a bilateral agreement.

That to the extent that we can set God free from our projections onto God, then God sets us free from our illusions about who God is and who we are and what our purpose is.