what is the distorting mechanism/s? Personality? environment? Mental disease? After effects of rebellion? All of the above? Our physical brain?
Personality doesn’t distort. Personality is a pattern from the Universal Father on Paradise; it’s paid all its gravity debts so it’s non-distortable. Personality does have the power of choice though, and in that sense, it can create. But it can’t create without mind. Mind is its creative substance, which is why the Adjuster lives there, so we can co-create with him. What the personality chooses to create depends entirely on what’s happening in the individual mind.
Mental disease, brain damage, genetic variables affecting the function of intellect, environmental agents damaging the brain and/or distracting the intellect all play a role. In fact, there are certain racial factors too which influence the ability of the brain to make contact and respond to the adjutants. For instance, I think the blue man preferred alphabet writing, the red man preferred pictures for writing and the yellow man used symbols. These differences in preference affect the avenue in which creativity takes shape in the mind.
But the adjutants are relentless. They will continue their ministry until death do us part. Some people have legitimate reasons for their mental difficulties, some others are lazy, and some are actively resistant. Have you ever noticed that some people get pleasure from being contrary? Some folks get childish satisfaction out of being destructive rather than constructive.
As to the assault of the rebellion on the Word, we all know it happened. It was deliberate, deceitful, destructive and devastating. The rebels do their most destructive work in the mind arena. But I think it is a total cop out to blame the devil for evil thoughts. Doing so is immature and lazy. All mind ministries are urgers, prodders, coaxers and drivers toward reality (don’t forget those reality reflexes). All that far outweighs the potential stumbling blocks provided by the rebellion.
53:7.13 They continued their deceptive and seductive efforts to confuse and mislead the minds of men and angels.
