Projection Follows Denial

A psychologist will tell you that projection always follows denial. That's because when you deny something, it has to go somewhere. Now once something is denied, it becomes unconscious, and the Course speaks volumes about denial. So you forget that you denied it, and then when it's projected outward, you think the projection you're looking at is reality. You forget that you made it, because it's been denied! So it's your projection, but you're not aware of that. And then the Course teaches that "projection makes perception." That means you actually made what you're looking at, but then you forgot, and you take it as as reality. You forget that's it's a mis-creation of your own making.

As J puts it, "Is it not strange that you believe to think you made the world you see is arrogance? God made it not. Of this you can be sure. What can He know of the ephemeral, the sinful and the guilty, the afraid, the suffering and lonely, and the mind that lives within a body that must die? You but accuse Him of insanity, to think He made a world where such things seem to have reality. He is not mad. Yet only madness makes a world like this." ~ Love Has Forgotten No One 
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