Why 'wrong' is so terrible

As long as your personality can somehow come up with the result of its interpretations as 'good' for a situation, as far as he is concerned, everything is fine. Now what is so terribly wrong about the opposite of this, that it needs intense avoidance and that its expectations are covered in sweat and fear?

As you may read in other columns, your personality creates a personal world- and self image. He knows very well this is something else than 'being your Self', however, he manages quite successfully to hide this knowledge from your awareness. When something is not good or pleasant, he judges this to be a weakness of himself, a failure to come up with a successful worldview of separation. According to his own rules, he should now expect attack, being laughed at, revenge etc., not only by other personalities (he usually believes that he can defend himself quite succesfully against those for a while, even though the result of this interpretation usually is a likewise feeling of 'wrong'), but especially from the Being whose place he believes he usurped: your Self. This is his biggest fear, and your personality puts a tremendous effort in your avoiding having to experience this.

Now this could only be true when your Self would have the same characteristics as your personality, a fact your personality conveniently overlooks. However, your Self does neither judge nor attack, does not know revenge, wretch, victory or whatever, it only gives a warm welcome to another aspect of Itself which has moved a step closer to itSelf. So there will néver be a 'penalty' from your Self when your personality perceives himself as weakened. However, it is exactly this your personality believes, fears and reacts to.

The good part of truly realizing this, is: you no longer have to compare yourself with others to make sure you are better, or to defend yourself, or to project things onto others etc., since your need for being 'good' has automatically disappeared with the understanding that there is no threat when the opposite were true. The other way around, it explains your personality drive to frantically keep on looking to make things work for you according to his standards.