Key Lesson Part 1
It's a great mistake to believe that negative imagination needs our involvement to trap us in fearful, conflicted, or otherwise angry states of self. The truth is just the opposite: our most familiar -- and often dominant -- sense of 'I' is shaped by the recurrence of these negative states; where our unconscious identification with this dark inner machinery is, in fact, the real source of our sense of captivity.
Part 2
Much like the tragic creature in Mary Shelley's classic book, "Frankenstein," who turned against and ultimately destroyed his creator, so too do the unconscious forces behind psychological denial -- once formed -- turn on and destroy their maker.
