2. “but something stopped them from recognizing him”

4. Why don’t we recognize what Burns in our Hearts?

6. A child desires to be loved exclusively and without limit

8. This establishes a pattern of unrealistic expectations

10. Utopian expectations that needs such as safety, trust or love will be met completely and immediately.

12. A set of unconscious emotional templates are established, recreated when a need again arises, and acted out in the hope of need fulfilment.

14. The need-based, hidden, emotional templates push us into behaviours (compulsions) from within the unconscious

16. we may drag them around in life like baggage weighing us down, fragmenting us, without any real awareness of their presence.

18. We bring our lack of awareness to our relationship with God
We bring our lack of awareness to our relationship with God. Spiritual Blindness

19. Jesus tells stories about such blindness, and about coming to see again.

22. Luke 4:16-18 … Jesus went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free”

24. Basic Compulsive Stances driven by our unconscious needs

25. The Need to be Perfect

26. The Need to be Needed

27. The Need to be Successful

28. The Need to be Special

29. The Need to Know

30. The Need to be Safe

31. The Need to Avoid Pain

32. The Need to be Powerful

33. The Need to Avoid

34. COMPULSIONS IDEALIZATIONS AVOIDANCES EGO-FIXATIONS
DEFENSE - MECHANISMS
Needs that demand fulfillment
and push my behaviour.
A protective self-image that helps me to experience myself as good.
These maintain the idealization.
The shell that gives protection, security.
Helps me avoid what
threatens idealizations.
Need to be perfect
I am good because I am right
Anger / hatred
Resentment
Reaction formation, projection
Need to be needed
I am good because I am helpful
Personal needs
Flattery
Repression,
projection
Need to succeed
I am good because I am successful
Failure (especially in the eyes of others)
Vanity
Identification with
roles and images
Need to be special
I am good because I am sensitive, unique
The simple and ordinary
Melancholy
Artistic sublimation/ introjection
Need to know
I am good because I am wise, perceptive
Emptiness /
inner poverty
Stinginess
Isolation / compartmentalization
Need to protect the self
I am good because I am obedient, faithful, do what I should
Disobedience and
or deviation
Cowardice
Projection
Need to avoid pain
I am good because I am okay, fine
Pain
Planning
Sublimation of
painful experience
Need to exceed
I am good because I am powerful
Tenderness and weakness
Vengeance
Denial
Need to avoid (in general)
I am good because I am settled, tranquil
Inner conflict and turmoil
Indolence
Narcotization