Blog 38 – 5.28.15

As I have shared in several articles already I think there is an ongoing struggle within each one of us for mastery. Our higher self, God if you will, battles with our lower self, Satan or Ego. Because we are so close to the struggle within ourselves it is often easier to see this battle played out in others.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a classic tale called Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde about the struggle within the mind and heart or soul of one man. Dr. Jekyll representing the man with his best intentions and Mr. Hyde representing his Id/Ego or darker side. Psychologists and psychiatrists may call this a case of schizophrenia or multiple personalities. I think we all bi-polar to some degree. Most of us just hide it better in culturally acceptable ways better than others. And then again others may see our two-faces better than we can ourselves.

I once had a manager, Mr. Bacon, who was a kind, understanding, even compassionate person but given to abrupt swings toward maniacal, hysterical, rage. I saw him once call all the shop employees into the break room and yell at them for almost a half hour about a supposed missing case of toilet paper valued at about twenty five dollars. Then a couple of weeks later one of the mechanics was test driving a new Mercedes and was punching it around the lot and hit another new Mercedes being loaded onto a car hauler. The total repair bill for the two cars was several thousand dollars. We all thought Mr. Bacon would explode in anger. Instead, he just smiled at the mechanic and said, “Boys will be boys,” It was then I first thought of the title, Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Bacon.

In the New Testament it is written that the double minded man is unstable in all his ways. There is a critical election going on all the time. Your higher self has voted for love, peace, joy, and your lower self has voted for hate, war, chaos, and misery. You and I are like Malcolm in the Middle with the deciding vote.

You alone decide the direction your life will take, no one else. Choose well.

Your Fellow Traveler,
David White