"FIRST ONE MUST FACE HELL:"
GREAT THOUGHTS FROM SCOTT ATRAN

Human suffering is great, the human mind is complex and it resists change.  But that doesn’t mean that the cause is hopeless or that there is no path to happiness. “The Divine Comedy”  was about a man who was lost in the woods, depressed at mid-life and wanted to go straight up the mountain to heaven. But when he tried to do so, the path was blocked by two beasts.

He rushed back into the woods where he met the poet Virgil, who told him if you want to find happiness and heaven, you must first follow me down through hell, then purgatory. “The Divine Comedy” is considered one of the greatest epic poems ever written because it contains that profound piece of wisdom.

Freud was also like Virgil. He informed the world that the only way to get to heaven and to get to your fair measure of joy is to first face the hell of your own past, buried within your unconscious.

This is a bitter pill to swallow and the culture has been resisting this truth for over 70 years since the promise of the quick fixes.   am pleased to see that finally the world is coming around to this mature realization.

There is no free lunch, quick fix or magic pill. That happens only in the movies.