[Excerpt  Be and Become, © ProCreative, Sydney 2000]

The belief in perfection ultimately translates into the belief that we are all bastard beings, innately soiled with shame and guilt that hampers our expression of our deeply innate loving and compassionate characters.

Put simply, because we believe in the existence of perfection, we feel unworthy to freely express our energy. We feel constrained. In an analogous sense we operate our lives much like driving a motor vehicle with the hand-brake on.

Religious doctrine has it that the human race has sinned and that we need forgiveness.

It’s reasonably straight forward to recognize that this “sin” which has been committed was simply the adoption of “free choice”—the evolvement of the conscious mind. Refer Figure 7.1.