Peace be to you.

Already there is a background about original sin.

In this lesson, we are concerned with how it affects us.

In other words, it's very practical application.

Everyone is tremendously interested in psychology.

We try to understand ourselves.

We search the reasons of why we tick.

We probe and analyze our anxieties and our conflicts.

Some of us wonder why we are run down,

and others why we are wound up.

Now there are many explanations of all of these conflicts within us, but original sin alone

gives us the basic understanding of human nature. No one can understand psychology unless they understand human nature.

No one can understand human nature unless he understands original sin.

Somehow or other, the abuse that has happened to our mind or that has happened to our mind, or that has come to our mind, has been due in

some way to human freedom. Do we not feel like a radio that's tuned into two stations?

We get nothing but static. We're tuned into heaven, we're tuned into hell.

Avi, the Latin poet, described it very well.

He said, I see and I approve the better things of life.

The worst things of life I follow. I think Paul also described our inner psychology when he wrote

the good which I will to do that I do not,

the evil which I will not, that I do.

We feel dual, pulled in two different directions, as if we were a team of

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