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WTH Part Two: Chapter 13: June 20, 1984 4/33 (12%) Donald superbeing hero chocolate personage
– The Way Toward Health
– © 2011 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two: Starting Over
– Chapter 13: “Messages” from Gods, Demons, Heroes, and Other Prominent Persons — or, More Conflicting Beliefs
– June 20, 1984 3:50 P.M. Wednesday

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(Long pause at 4:25.) Again, let’s use a hypothetical case — this time of a man named Donald.

Donald may be so terrified of making choices, so indecisive, that he constructs an imaginary superbeing who orders him to do thus and so. If a decision comes up on a job, for example, then the superbeing will order Donald to take one course or another. Donald has given up accepting responsibility for his actions. This imaginary personage may say that it is God, or a famous hero from the present or the past, or Jesus Christ, or Mohammed, and the personality involved will be quite certain that such is the case.

Donald, for example, may hear the hallucinated voice of the god or hero. The voice may be so frequent that it becomes highly distracting, or it may only appear in times of undue stress.

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The individual, like Donald, has also given up the responsibility for his own choices, and feels that he or she cannot be held responsible for any destructive acts that might be committed.

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