Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Exercise in Transformation
To transform the victim archetype, practice the follow-
ing: Every time you watch the news, shift your con-
sciousness from one of judgment to one of seeing the
perfection in the situation. Instead of accepting at face
value a story about racial prejudice, for example, help
transform the energy of racial disharmony. Do so by
looking at the person or situation that would ordinarily
receive your judgment and censure and see if you can
move into a space of loving acceptance. Know that the
people in the story are living out their part in the Divine
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plan. Do not see anyone as a victim and refuse to la-
bel anyone as a villain. People are just acting in dra-
mas being played out so healing can occur. 
Remem-
ber, God does not make mistakes!
12: The Ego Fights Back
B
y reminding us that we are spiritual beings hav-
ing a human experience, Radical Forgiveness
raises our vibration and moves us in the direc-
tion of spiritual evolution.
Such growth represents a real threat to the Ego (de-
fined as the deep-seated, complex belief system that
says we are separated from God and that He will one
day punish us for choosing that). This is because the
more spiritually evolved we become, the more likely it
will be that we will remember who we are — and that
we are one with God.
Once we have this realization, the Ego must die. If there
is one thing we know about belief systems of any kind,
they resist all attempts at making them wrong and the
Ego is no exception. (People demonstrate all the time
that they would rather be right than happy).
The more we use Radical Forgiveness therefore, the
more the Ego fights back and tries to seduce us into
remaining addicted to the victim archetype. One way it
accomplishes this task is by using our own tools of spiri-
tual growth. A good example of this is found in the Ego’s
use of
inner
child work
to meet its own ends.
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Inner child work gives us a way to look within and to
heal the wounds of childhood that we still carry within
us as adults and that continue to affect our lives today.
However, in our focus on our woundedness, the Ego
sees an opportunity for its own survival . It exploits that
kind of inner child work that uses the inner child as a
metaphor for our woundedness to strengthen our at-
tachment to the victim archetype. The behavior that this
gives rise to is the constant revisiting of our wounds;
giving them power through constantly speaking about
them; projecting them onto a so-called inner child and
using them as the means to finding intimacy.