"Hi Gene, I'm wondering what the gnostic teachings would say about insecurity and low self-esteem...
they don't seem to fit into any of the seven deadly sins" ~ Right, good question, I'll just throw
my phone there so the seven deadly sins are in the gnostic teachings more known as seven capitals
in our psychological city within so the gnostic teachings recognizes that within each one of
us there is a psychological city and you might try and think like okay it's not an actual city
yes it really is you can go into the astral and you can really explore
and you can really you don't even have to go into the astral you can through meditation and
this path of self-knowledge you can really get to know all of the different eyes right all of the
different memes which are in the thousands living within us that influence the way we are the way we
see the world the way we think the way we feel and our life choices and everything so
the seven deadly sins you can think of them as seven major corporations that are controlling
the world not the external world but our inner our internal world of our psychology remember
that the word psychology comes from the word psyche psyche meaning soul okay so when you're
reflecting about your path when you're really trying to identify the obstacles that are stopping
you from awakening when you're trying to explore your own psychological city and your conditioning
and everything that makes you who you are right now in this state of consciousness
then you may find and see certain things that you can label for example in this case low self-esteem
and insecurity now as a general rule of thumb as a general tool with this knowledge of these seven
deadly sins these seven capitals or corporations controlling us it's always good to self-inquire
and ask the question is this low self-esteem related to one of these seven capital sins
maybe it's not uh connected to one of them you know but generally any other kind of
negative mood negative uh feeling or reaction or depression or anything like that is a product of
one of these corporations so you can think of this um self-esteem or this insecurity as
well let's take insecurity for example this can come from the seven one of the seven deadly sins
from envy and jealousy so if we went into the astral and we asked ourselves okay bring me to
the city of envy of jealousy in some people it might be just a small little city for some very
jealous people it might be this huge uh demonic world right but um and you know you can go there
and you know you don't have to go there astrally you can just self-reflect and self-observe
um but you may be able to see that in this city of jealousy uh one of the products or
one of the right a product i'm not just you know that's not just a figure of speech they it
literally has created a like a a product right so this corporation might have created
a i don't know a burger joint down the road or something right a really like gross one okay so
it's not the actual corporation but it's spreading out its negative energy into different or all
different other sub types of egos that come under this capital ego of envy and jealousy so usually
envy and jealousy come from this insecurity right comparing ourselves to others this is why we a lot
of the time while we feel insecure and then you maybe even be able to go deeper you know maybe in
a past life you uh cheated on one of your partners and in this life uh someone else you know you've
put that energy out what goes out always returns you know not always if we have transcended our
karma but in most people it does and maybe in this life uh you know someone cheats on you and
then you have this feeling of envy and jealousy so yes generally these sub moods and these negative
moods and low self-esteem are always connected in some way to this these seven capital uh
corporations of our psychological city and we can always relate them to everything so self-esteem
why am i really feeling bad and of course you know i can't really tell you why you have low
self-esteem you have to self-reflect you have to self-inquire pose the question in the space of
the being and then you may get some answers such as maybe i'm too prideful to accept this certain
job that i was supposed to do in alignment with my higher being maybe you could be jealous about
someone's career or someone's relationship maybe you have some kind of rebellious ego that never
wanted to uh lose weight you know and that's the ego of laziness and this and because you never
acted on what you were really supposed to do in your being to maybe go to the gym or whatever
you wanted to do uh this later gives rise to another ego of this self at this low self-esteem
and it's maybe maybe there are some eyes if you listen carefully some me me voices saying uh
you know i don't feel good and self-pity right so yeah all of these sub uh things that we all
identify that uh control our way of being that if we can see it clearly that's very good if we can
uh pinpoint certain negative things about ourself and destructive or you know lower behaviors that
are controlling us then we can reflect further with this knowledge of the seven sins and then
we can really try to get to know ourselves and why really that has manifested within us