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Projection is natural, we all do it. Even human being. Robert Johnson, in
if it lands on someone and we marry his book, We, Understanding the

them, eventually consciousness enters Psychology in Romantic Love says,
the picture and this highly unconscious,

delicious state will end. No one can “Though no one notices at the time,
carry our projections forever. Becoming in-loveless obliterates the humanity
aware of our opposites is a of the beloved. One
lifetime work. No one does When we’re falling in does a curious kind

it overnight, and no one love, we’re actually of insult to another

does it in one relationship putting part of our by falling in love
even. Yet, all relationships with him, for we
begin this way as that is soul (our own inner are really looking at

the only way to recognize beloved) on that our own projection
that inner and outer are person. of God, not at the

really one unified organism. other person. If
I remind you all of the Hermetic, two people are in love, they tread
Alchemical dictum, “As Above so below, on star dust for a time and live

as within, so without.” happily ever after — that is so long
as the experience of divinity has

When we are separated from these obliterated time for them. Only
contrasexual images, we will feel what when they come down to earth
primitives called a LOSS of SOUL. do they have to look at each other

Because the carrier of the projection realistically and only then does the
has our ‘soul,’ and if the relationship possibility of mature love exist.”

is not maintained or doesn’t work
out, we are still looking for that one Robert Johnson also says that
special person to complete us. At the romantic love is narcissistic in

beginning, it is quite compelling as that we are seeking a projected
we all put on our rose-colored glasses. image of ourselves, and it will

But, as St. Paul says, “we see through a eventually end with varying
mirror darkly.” This idealization we all degrees of animosity. There is no
experience in the beginning, is actually perfect person out there who

a defense mechanism that keeps us will magically fulfill our every
from differentiating from our partners fantasy and only a child expects

as what we are seeking in romantic love perfection. Relating as an adult,
unbeknownst to us is oneness with God. we learn to compromise and
We are seeking the transcendence in a accept some of the unacceptable

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