“Imprisoned by fear, a man uses a labyrinth to sketch out his freedom but in the end just finds himself in a different maze.”
I wrote this story as a metaphor – the struggle between our Ego and Spirit. The Ego always trying to take control, a triggering self-defense mechanism, constantly fighting for survival and self-preservation. If we are not careful the Ego will simply move into the driver’s seat. When the Spirit tries to take back control, the Ego will use force to get back into the seat, defensiveness, an outburst, emotion, trauma, trigger. If we grow some awareness, the Ego will use its cunning to manipulate, outwit, contort the truth to take control. The Ego has one advantage, it knows us better than we know ourselves. By the time we realize the Ego has taken over it will have created a complicated, sophisticated labyrinth, too difficult to free ourselves from because the biggest trick the Ego fabricates is the illusion, belief of not even realizing we’re in a construction – the labyrinth.