Fr. Seán ÓLaoire
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And of course he wouldn't listen.
So we'd take all the stones and we'd start pelting the screen with our stones, hoping we could intervene.
And then the big steward would come in, the lights would come on, a big steward would come in, grab two or three kids randomly, kick their asses out, and the lights would go back down and over we'd start again.
And we'd be very quiet for maybe five or six minutes until the good guy was in danger again and the stones would come out and we'd start projecting the stones at it.
Now, I think that's what we do as human beings constantly.
When we project on an individual basis, we make it difficult to have good interpersonal relationships.
When we project as a culture, we have prejudices of various kinds, and we have kind of blind spots as an entire global community.
We dump all our stuff onto nature itself.
And so there's a garbage patch in the North Pacific, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is the result of garbage that's thrown off the west coast of America, the east coast of Asia, and ships at sea.
And it's as big as the state of Texas right now, all these plastics and stuff like that.
So it's like, you can't actually throw anything away.
You're just throwing it someplace else, but you can't throw it away.
Any place you throw it, it's part of Gaia.
And so I think projection, Carl Jung spoke about projection.
He said, the shadow is actually 80% gold.
It is 80% unrealized potential.
So instead of having heroes that you kind of, you watch in television,
Why not develop the skills that you see kind of exemplified in these people?
You know, make yourself fit.
And he said it is 20% repressed traumata.