There is this very old trick of the ego, that when the mind sees that the Gnostic teaching is all about facing oneself to transform one's psychology, and there are no special techniques or magical remedies other than knowing and facing yourself, the egos rebel.
One trick that they use is to provoke all sorts of problems and fights within the group to draw out the ego in the students and teacher, so that they can end up saying: "Gnosis is no different, it is the same as all the rest, lots of ego and nobody does what they say.". Then the egos and the mind feel satisfied and justified in leaving...
That's more a big scale version of the negative relief valve, but we have this negative relief valve operating within us in so many smaller scales to do with individual people, events and activities.
As soon as our egos feel some kind of challenge, perhaps the challenge to feel positively, generous or kind or something we are not easily capable of, we judge negatively and based on that negative judgement, we feel justified to harbour a negative feeling towards the person, group, event or activity.
It is a simple trick of the egos within us, that with repeated observations are able to see through, separate from and therefore no longer have our consciousness fall victim to.
End (5153).
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