Contents
Foreword
vii
Introduction
9
PART I
A RADICAL HEALING
Chapter 1:
Jill’s Story
14
PART II
CONVERSATIONS
Chapter 2:
Underlying
Assumptions
40
3:
Worlds Apart
43
4:
Accountability
57
5:
Radical Forgiveness Therapy
63
6:
Mechanisms of the Ego
69
7:
Hideouts and Scapegoats
75
8:
Attraction & Resonance
81
9:
Cause & Effect
86
10:
Mission “Forgiveness”
91
11:
Transforming the Victim Archetype
104
12:
The Ego Fights Back
111
13:
Time, Medicine & Healing.
114
14:
As Above, So Below
130
PART III ASSUMPTIONS EXPANDED
15:
Articles of Faith
137
PART IV TOOLS FOR RADICAL FORGIVENESS
16:
A Spiritual Technology
155
17:
The Five Stages of RF
161
18
Fake It ‘til You Make It
165
19:
Feeling the Pain
168
20:
Making Room for the Miracle
175
21:
Collapsing
the Story
198
22:
Four Steps to Forgiveness
209
23:
Seeing The Christ in Another
213
24:
Forgiveness Is a 3-Letter Word
214
25:
Forgiveness Rituals
216
26:
Artful Forgiveness
217
27:
“Satori” Breathwork
221
28:
The Radical Release Letter
223
29:
The
Forgiveness Rose
226
30:
Radical Self-Forgiveness
228
Afterword
233
8
Introduction
E
verywhere we look — in the newspapers, TV,
and even in our own personal lives, we see ex-
amples of egregiously hurt victims. We read,
for example, that at least one out of every five adults in
America today was either physically or sexually abused
as a child. TV news confirms
that rape and murder are
commonplace in our communities and crime against
people and property is rampant everywhere. Around
the world we see torture, repression, incarceration,
genocide, and open warfare occurring on a vast scale.
Over a period of ten years,
since I began doing for-
giveness workshops, cancer retreats and corporate
seminars, I have heard enough horror stories from quite
ordinary people to convince me that there is not a hu-
man being on the planet that has not been seriously
victimized at least once,
and in minor ways more times
than they could count. Who among us could say they
have never blamed someone else for their lack of hap-
piness? For most, if not all of us, that is simply a way
of life.
Indeed, the victim archetype is deeply engrained in all
of us, and it exerts great
power in the mass conscious-
ness. For eons we have been playing out victimhood
in every aspect of our lives, convincing ourselves that
victim consciousness is absolutely fundamental to the
human condition. The time has come to ask ourselves
the question — how can we stop creating our lives this
way and let go of the victim
archetype as the model of
how to live our lives?
To break free from such a powerful archetype, we must
replace it with something
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