Our guide is a co-traveler on the path to truth. He or she is striving just as hard as we are to understand and resolve his or her defences. Childhood traumas that have been repressed in the unconscious must be brought into full awareness—enlightenment—before we can become, or attain, a perfect guide. But this is a process. It takes time. Even if we, or our guide, regress into old, negative behaviours or attitudes, we remember that the essence of each of us is perfect. At the core of each is truth. If eruptions of negativity occur, we understand that the source is a wounded child within. It is the job of each guide to monitor these slips and own them—and then to resume consciously evolving to truth.
The reality is that most people skip the arduous preparation necessary to become a guide—the lonely solo journey to an autonomous self. Instead of resolving childhood issues . Finding a seemingly acceptable guide is done in place of finding our child within. Unconsciously we employ the fantasy that Prince or Princess Charming will save us from all that was wrong in our past, especially our denied childhood needs. This imperfect guide becomes the object of magical rescue or, in time, if the fantasy of magical rescue wears thin, of murderous revenge.
Another common wayward path that many people take with a guide is to assume a façade of normalcy and bourgeois conformity. While all is well on the surface, turmoil roils beneath the surface of their complacent life. The denied traumas of childhood do not go away, but manifest discretely in emotional compromise, stunted creativity, depression, damaged children, addictions of various sorts, and physical and emotional illness. These all exist to mute our denied feelings and wounds.
We must undergo extensive healing of childhood despair—which we all carry—to not play out our damage with our guides. Yet in a world full of compromised liars who make up the norm it is a great comfort and aid to seek truth with an evolved guide. With strong boundaries at our side we often can find great value in co-travelers who remind us that our journey is real and that our goal is not to conform to the comforts of psychic sleep, but to grow into consciousness and to fulfil the perfection planted in us at birth.
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