Projection Defined in FUNKTIONARY

Projection - a highly emotional charged activity (dynamic energy) that occurs whenever an unknown aspect of yourself sees itself in somebody else. Whatever you're unaware of about yourself is always noticed in other people first. Remember that everything (i.e., known and disowned traits, unconscious) is projected. If you can't stand someone else for some seemingly known reason then you have the disliked feature or aspect in you but are unaware of its existence or presence within you. You notice it in someone else but its origin is in you. 2) "seeing" feelings, motives or attitudes in another that are really in ourselves only. 3) personified versions of one's own personality. 4) capacity for "charging" a particular area or energy system. 5) a false cause. 6) an unsettling hidden worry--deep seated in the psyche. Projections are illusions created by shadows of one's mind. Fear is often the template for its own manifestation. Projection is the vibration that we don't appreciate in someone else resonating with what we don't like in (or about) ourselves and is the source of most prejudice. "If you have hate for something there, this is yourself, though hard to bear. For you are I and I am thou. You hate in you what you despise. You hate yourself and think it's me." ~Frederick S. Perls. Projection takes what is happening where you look rather than where you are. “You spot it, you got it." Ultimately projection generates a great deal of pain and confusion, since you are attempting to crucify save others not from their sins, but your own. "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye." Your mind can and build a case of universal innocence as easily as it will look far personal guilt. Love is a state of being or vision for living that handles all things equally--as it. A projection into the future belies the reality of the present and relies on faith for its eventual realization. Wherever you go, there you are. (See: Perception. All, Hell, Condemnation, Semi-Projection, Self-Confrontation, prejudice, Shadow, Conscious, Archetype, Enemy, Terrorists, Collective Unconscious, Expectation, Core Beliefs, Self-Observation, "Others" & "Direct Hit")