"There is a cancerous strain eating away at the average American," writes C. Neil Strait.1 He continues, "It is a strain brought on by too much work and too little play; too much hatred and too little love; too much fear and too little faith. The overbalance has infected life with a strain that eats away at the energies of life like a dreadful disease. The strain that besets a lot of people is more a strain of conscience than any other single factor. Because there is a war with conscience, there is a war on all fronts of life."

"God may forgive (our) sins," writes Alfred Korzybski in the Christian Century, "but (our) nervous systems won’t." Unless we find a release, we cannot continue to live with our own particular break with reality. Guilt is a registering of something wrong deep inside…