Not Guilty — What Might Your Subconscious Mind Be Trying to Tell You?

“The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves.”

– Stephen Hawking

Survivor’s guilt, as you may know, is a mental condition that occurs when a person believes they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic or tragic event when others did not.

This, of course, is both irrational and ridiculous. Unfortunately, however, it is also very real for many people. Also unfortunate is the simple fact that most people are not aware they have this guilt. Why? Because it has gone underground…buried deep within the subconscious mind.

Four years after my husband John’s death, I had an unsettling but telling dream.

In my dream, he had survived his fall but had been left with serious brain injuries and was in a vegetative state; alive but not able to communicate or care for himself. In the dream, I was pushing him in his wheelchair along the hard-packed sand of a beautiful beach. Then I turned his wheelchair towards the water…and pushed it right into the water.

I continued pushing the wheelchair until the water reached his chest. Then I walked around the wheelchair and gently pulled him out of…