69. Idealisation

Principle

When a person creates their own myths, sooner or later they are always dispelled. If you don’t want to experience disappointment, observe the ‘three don’t’s rule’. Whatever happens, don’t increase your levels of attributed importance. Nothing is quite as important as it would wish to appear. Don’t make an idol of anyone. They are much more earth-bound than they look. Don’t sugarcoat reality. Everything is really quite prosaic. Strive always to evaluate reality in a sober manner.

Interpretation

When you think that there is something somewhere, which does not actually exist, excess potential appears creating a distortion in the surrounding energy fi eld. Balancing forces try to eliminate the heterogeneity and, in the majority of cases, their action is aimed at ‘debunking the myth’. For example, a young, romantic, dreamy lad imagines the object of his love to be an ‘angel of pure beauty’. In reality, it turns out that she is a very down-to-earth young lady, who loves her fun and is not remotely inclined to share the tragic dreaming of the starry-eyed youth. Or, a woman paints a mental portrait of her ideal husband. The firmer her belief that he should be exactly as she has pictured him, the more powerful the excess potential that is created. Only a character with completely the opposite qualities can discharge it. And vice versa, if a woman really detests drunkenness and rudeness, she will fall into the trap of finding someone who is an alcoholic or an outright yob. People attract the things they actively dislike and vice versa, if they begin to idealise something excessively, balancing forces will force them to face a harsh reality.