Guilt

Guilt is an Emotion incorporated into the Physical Unit. Guilt serves as an important "out of alignment" warning single. This single is typically triggered by Monadic Consciousness in an effort to convey to a physical unit that its thoughts and actions are moving in a direction opposite of Alignment and Connection. Guilt is an extremely unpleasant emotion.

When a no more than moderately damaged physical unit is behaving in a way that is out of alignment with the animating Monadic Consciousness, then the physical unit may experience guilt as a result. The guilt is caused by the action of the animating monadic consciousness as it "caresses" the body's emotional harp. The more out of alignment the behavior is, the more intense the guilt will be. The experience of guilt can range anywhere from mild discomfort and guilt to intense physical pain, nausea, and even vomiting.

It is important to note that a severally damaged physical unit, with minimal and/or heavily repressed connection to The Fabric of Consciousness, may not experience guilt even when exhibiting holocaust like misalignment.

The physical unit has two options when it comes to alleviating the guilt that occurs under conditions of disjuncture, either straighten up and fly right (i.e. get into alignment with the animating consciousness), or suppress emotional responses, engage in defensive reactions (see Defense Mechanisms)), and attempt to disconnect from the animating consciousness so as not to feel guilt.

There are various strategies that the physical unit may use to suppress emotional responses, thereby avoiding the feeling of guilt that inevitably accompanies disjunture; these include drug and alcohol stupification, hyperactivity to the point of distraction (never slowing down enough to be "alone" with one's emotions), compulsive attention to detail, the pursuit of superficial and aggrandizing relationships (i.e. finding others who will mollify negative emotions by making excuses and enabling disjunctive behaviors), self destructive behaviours (designed to shorten the lifespan of the physical unit), and so on. Of course, use of these strategies will only succeed in throwing the body further out of alignment. A descending "spiral" (see The Spiral) is thus engaged as the individual comes to require more stupification, more distraction, more focused compulsion, and increasingly dysfunctional and delusional relationships, in order to avoid the guilt.

See Also

Toxic Socialization | Disconnection | Hell