3.1. Knowing one’s own reality and negativity

More in particular, according to this model one’s whole interior reality (the so-called actual ego) first of all must be recognized, therefore, also identified and above all in its negative component, that which is not immediately in line with the co-respective ideal ego. Recognizing it means to give it a precise name, understand where one is especially weak, identify the areas of one’s slavery and vulnerability.

For this reason the importance of this phase in a genuinely educational journey is evident, a journey in which the first thing to do is, precisely, to know the inconsistencies, the areas of the personality that are especially closed to the action of the Spirit, on the conscious and unconscious levels, and where therefore one must work and not limit oneself to… excommunicating and expecting to destroy, maybe even with the illusion of having succeeded. Obviously, the more precise one’s identification of  weaknesses is, the more effective can be the work of purification and conversion.

It is at this point that the second phase should begin, that of real, true acceptance. Which might be clearer by what it is not, than by what it is.