Stepping up: One Friend’s experience of self-reconciliation

‘How do I reconcile the inner critical parent and the inner light?’

by Following the principle established by twelve-step fellowships, the author is anonymous. 16th December 2022

I attempt a process of mutual forgiveness and reconciliation. There are two parts of me, in conflict. I could call them God and Mammon: I cannot serve both. I am one human being, with two different selves. I have sought to understand, through reading psychology, theology, mystic wisdom, and other people’s explorations of their hidden selves. I have looked at concepts such as yin and yang, conscious self and shadow, Jekyll and Hyde, ego and id, or self-concept and organismic self. I found those different parts when I worshipped.