1.1. (Unrealistic) expectation and (real) risk

The strategy of channeling expects that the instinctual energies of a person, ambiguous as they

are, are assumed only to the extent to which they second a project elaborated by reason. Consequently there is the risk, though not fatal, that some dimensions that do not immediately fit into the schemes of what we call (or that the individual calls) perfection, are repressed, negated and cancelled, at least intentionally. But the expectation that instinctual energy is immediately in conformity with values, under pain of its elimination, seems unrealistic and ends up impoverishing the psychic life of the aspiring saint. Even if, in fact, denied powers do not disappear nor cease to exist, if anything, they remain present as negated and unaccepted. In other words, their energy is no longer a force that the individual puts to use and which she/he uses to live her ideals, but rather is like a wild (brute) force that the individual fights but which continually wants to emerge and impose itself in its own way, making a conscious life traumatic and always endangering the pursuance of the very ideal of perfection. Thus life is dangerously complicated and the original model risks being changed into a model of all-out struggle and unbearable tension in the long run.

With the result, often in our history, that many aspiring to that type of perfection, at a certain point, can no longer bear the tension and sometimes even move to the extreme opposite or prefer to let themselves go to a mediocre life.