Ego backlash in the bible

[Seiden]

Hi, the ego backlash video has helped me tremendously, really, thank you.

It also made me remember of two bible verses very related to the video, thought to share them.

 

“When an evil spirit leaves a person, it travels through the desert, looking for a place to rest.

But when it doesn't find a place, it says,

“I will go back to the home I left.”

When it gets there and finds the place clean and fixed up, it goes off and finds seven other evil spirits even worse than itself.

They all come and make their home there, and that person ends up in worse shape than before.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭11:24-26‬ ‭

 

“I know that my selfish desires won't let me do anything that is good.

Even when I want to do right, I cannot. Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭7:18-19‬ ‭

[Joseph Maynor]

Here's another great Ego Backlash story.  I recall an interview I watched between Howard Stern and Slash, the guitarist for Guns N' Roses.  Slash was talking about struggling with kicking alcohol.  He has just finished an album (I think with Velvet Revolver) and saw a bottle of Jack Daniels on the table and got triggered back into drinking.  And his lesson was, and I never forgot this, is he thought at the time that the J.D. was the perfect reward.  It looked like the perfect reward.  And I know this with my own struggles with alcohol addiction.  Here's what you gotta watch out for, and Slash put it very well.  Sometimes alcohol seems like the perfect reward.  You go off and accomplish all this shit; well, the Ego gets to a certain point where it's looking for a reward or some down-time, see.  And this is where it becomes very easy to get triggered into drinking because it feels like a reward in the moment.  It feels like you earned the right to drink, which takes all your defenses down.  So, it's using alcohol as a reward that you gotta de-program that circuity.  I've done that too where I've quit drinking and somebody gives me a bottle of champagne for the holidays or something, and I'll put it away.  But just having that in the house makes it easy to find any excuse to drink it.  Something goes well for me, it becomes very tempting to pull that bottle of champagne and see it as the most natural reward.  But see, it's the most deadly reward for me because I want to quit drinking alcohol 100%.

Edited December 10, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Seiden]

@Joseph Maynor Thats a quite eye-opening story, Thanks for sharing.

I also find it very paradoxical that sin doesn’t exist because ultimately there’s no evil nor good, but temptation is a real thing.

[Rilles]

6 minutes ago, Seiden said:

@Joseph Maynor Thats a quite eye-opening story, Thanks for sharing.

I also find it very paradoxical that sin doesn’t exist because ultimately there’s no evil nor good, but temptation is a real thing.

Temptation is a concept too, but its a useful concept when applied well.

[Seiden]

@Rilles

Yes, I mean temptation in the context of when we want to do things knowing that isn’t going to make us happy on the long run or short.

Tends to happen a lot while having a backlash.

Thanks for the reply.