Compensations

The very nature of our inner, personal world is a system of images from our memory arranged according to our individual psychosomatic structures into compensations.

These compensations keep us from feeling that we're not the center of the universe, by structuring a universe in our mind that is centered on us.


What do these compensations compensate for?

Our illusory belief that we're separated from Reality.

This feeling is captured poignantly in the opening lines of a poem by Richard Rose,

"A Worm Beneath a Highway":

I was an earthworm yesterday


And all my life I lived in clay


And did aspire the light....


To understand our compensations, the starting point is to look at our values