When swimmers approach a pool they will often test the water with their toes to determine its temperature, which may alter their plans. When the surface, conscious self contemplates a new course of action, the deep subconscious attempts to gauge its riskiness by examining the akashic record (unbeknownst to the conscious self) to look for danger signs, in the form of trauma similar courses actions have generated. If it finds trouble, it seems duty-bound to communicate that in the form of stress and foreboding. If these emerging emotions are strong enough, can they discourage the conscious self into abandoning such plans? As most humans are walking wounded, is this a major reason so many people are

This is truly the case. Most people by a certain age have been deeply wounded by many encounters with obstacles they could not overcome that left them in a painful circumstance of one kind or another, either embarrassed at a failure, humiliated at a setback that others find amusing and will look down on the person, or some other circumstance that was highly unpleasant to go through, related to a failing of some kind. So that is what is evident when people are wanting to advance and the wherewithal isn’t there. Everyone is different. Some are more capable, more accomplished than others. The key is to try, but some people will fall by the wayside through competition. That is an aspect of life that serves to toughen and strengthen the majority, but it diminishes and demeans the minority who cannot compete, who cannot measure up whether in their own estimation or the judgment of others that will be made apparent when prizes are handed out, people become disqualified, and are excused or expelled from a program, and so forth. There is no other way to see it than that one is a failure. The difficulty with such enterprises is it fails to take into account the reality that each human being is a unique individual, so it is truly not appropriate to compare any two human beings side by side in a competition. It is certain that one will have a built-in advantage so, by the very nature of the exercise, it is going against logic and reason. No two people are alike or identical in what they can do. One will always win out over the other in a given exercise. So most such endeavors are a kind of pointless construct, most of the time influenced by the interlopers to be of interest and take a central importance in the activities of the day or the goals of a program, but like all hierarchical structures for governance or the organization of groups, the design is built on faulty role models who exalt in the power and control they have over others when that is never a desirable role to play in the first place, and is disordered thinking that power makes one great or reflects a desirable attribute. It is a deception and a trap and a direct exhibiting of non-divine perspectives.