I would like to go back to the question of whether the belief in "self" is the origin of guilt. Imagine a world where we all perceived ourselves as one! Where those people (or residual thoughts implanted by them) who generate guilt would no longer do so because of shared knowledge that hurting any being hurts all. Is it naive to believe we can learn to decline guilt and thereby transmute some of the world pain? I believe it is possible...

Has anyone read "The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You" by Dorothy Bryant? It is an intriguing novel about enlightenment, guilt, responsibility to others etc.

Christy