Guilt. Wow. Powerful stuff. Thankfully, I conduct my life and affairs so as to be guilt free. I think a lot of people find themselves suffering the overwhelming burden of guilt because they just blindly stumbled into it. Then they desperately need to get themselves out of it.

I suppose guilt is strongly connected to the feeling of shame, which is equally powerful.

Shame can be the self knowledge, for example, that their self is stupid, that their self is in a state of stupidity. Naturally very disturbing, and such that it could force a person to behave in ways they could not imagine, ways which force them to resort to any measure to alleviate their plight....., measures which reality and fairness would not provide, so they resort to fantasy.....making believe that fantasy is reality.

Anyway, more later................................