SELF-RIGHTEOUS COMPUTATIONS

23 APRIL 1996

SELF-RIGHTEOUS COMPUTATION (noun)  1. a type of postulate that a person conjures up in order to make herself seem right and others seem wrong. 2. a type of postulate that a person uses to justify his or her behavior. 3. an idea that allows a person to feel superior to or better than [a particular person, a type of person, a group or type of group, or everyone else, in general].

PREMISE (noun) 1. any assumption or presupposition; postulate.

A Self-Righteous Computation is a type of postulate that a person creates to fulfill a very specific function for him: to prove the rightness of self and the wrongness of another (or others) as a way to justify any misdeeds (perpetrations) of his own. The more wrong a person feels it is, the more he “needs” the Self-Righteous Computation to save him from the pain of guilt.

When a person does something that he thinks is wrong, he has two basic options for handling it.

OPTION 1:

Acknowledge the perpetration, whether intentional or unintentional - Take responsibility for it - Forgive oneself for it - Let it go - Cycle complete.

OPTION 2:

Deny the perpetration - Fear retribution - Feel Guilty - Make someone or something else responsible for it - Attack that someone or that something else -  Hold on to it - Cycle incomplete - Commit the perpetration again - Fear retribution - Feel Guilty - Blame someone or something else - Hold on to it - Cycle incomplete - Repeat the perpetration.....

The real reason a person creates a Self-Righteous Computation is to decrease, or remove entirely, any guilt he may be carrying around because of perpetrations he has committed in the past, or continues to commit. It is an attempt to clear or vindicate himself of blame or guilt, based on data which may or may not be valid. A person uses a Self-Righteous Computation as a premise on which to base a justification for perpetrations.
An important premise in this area is: PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD. They may make mistakes, they may be cruel, stupid and vicious, etc., but nevertheless the fundamental basis of their nature is goodness; and despite apparencies to the contrary, more than anything else, they want to be congruent with their true nature.

With this premise, one can understand why it is so difficult for people to confront their perpetrations, even when they are unintended. It is more comfortable to justify or blame than to confront the idea that one has done something he thinks he shouldn’t have done, or not  done something he thinks he should have done. This is how and where the Self-Righteous Computation jumps into the picture. It does the confronting for him and already has an explanation all worked out - in advance and set in stone. Whenever it is needed, the Self-Righteous Computation will confront the situation and explain it. Any wrongness gets blotted from view in the wink of an eye. It is so entrenched and automatic that even normal Clearing processes can’t get near it.

The only way to get at and clear a Self-Righteous Computation is to sneak up on it! By this we mean, bypass the protective mechanism of the mind. The Game Sphere process questions are phenomenally successful in this regard, particularly because one is addressing Archetypes in the game, giving the apparency that the person’s own case is safely hidden from inspection.

Because the basic nature of a person is goodness, the premises he originally created were in alignment with his nature. He originally created premises such as, people are kind, the world is a beautiful place, all people are honest, and so on. But at some point this person committed a perpetration, and most likely, it was inadvertent. He didn’t mean to do it or to cause any harm. But he did. Very difficult for him to confront. The solution? Change his original premise!

Examples:

Original Premise: 		Women are sweet, loving creatures
Perpetration:				Yesterday I was mean to Sally
Changed Premise:		Women are mean, nasty creatures
Justification:				Being mean to Sally is OK

Original Premise: 		People are trustworthy
Perpetration:				I can’t stop myself from seizing control and bossing other 					people around
Changed Premise:		People are untrustworthy
Justification:				It’s my responsibility to seize control and boss other people 					around because I know I can trust myself

It is likely that a Being changed his premises a long, long time ago; that is, certainly not in this lifetime, and most likely relatively near the beginning of his Time Track. Once changed to the negative, it is then easy for him to create Self-Righteous Computations, as they will be in alignment with his deepest, oldest considerations (premises) about life.

The Game Sphere Rundown unquestionably handles a person’s Self-Righteous Computations; about this there is no doubt. And it may very well clear off enough charge so that a person may revert back to his original, “positive” premises. I’m sure that in some cases it does, but overall, there hasn’t been enough research in this area to know.

In any case, the Game Sphere Rundown is so powerful that it wipes out Self-Righteous Computations left and right, with the person laughing his butt off all the while! That’s pretty darn good, for starters!

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