This process of socialization compounds the complex networking of the energy centers. The greater the extent to which the infant or child feels deprived of instinctual needs, the more its energies are invested in emotional programs designed to satisfy one or all of these needs. When these programs for happiness are frustrated, upsetting emotions such as grief, apathy, greed, lust, pride or anger instantly arise. If these emotions are painful enough, one is prepared to trample on the rights and needs of others, as well as on our own true good, in order to escape the pain. This leads to the behavior that we call personal sin.
Personal sin is the symptom of a disease.
As each new stage of developing human consciousness unfolds, an increasing sense of separation emerges, along with the corresponding feelings of fear and guilt. We come to full reflective self-consciousness with the pervasive sense of alienation from ourselves, other people, and God. We feel more or less alone in a potentially hostile universe. We may even look back with longing to more primitive levels of awareness when we were able to enjoy life without self-reflection and hence without guilt feelings. But instead of evaluating our emotional programs for happiness, our rational faculties justify, rationalize and even glorify them.