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Yeah totally. That would be a "distinction", or "other than experience", which thus wouldn't actually be experienced. Interestingly, it's very easy to say what isn't experience rather than what it is.

Is something "prior to experience" experienced, or is that more of what isn't experience?

Hate is a belief. It's how beliefs feel. It's not caused by women or any gender. You can debate endlessly, no statistic you find or justify to yourself will ever find a cause or solution because there isn't even a problem, as in, it will never prove cause and effect (which is the initial assumption). Jealousy and hate have no gender, it's just beliefs about yourself being projected from yourself. It's how you're relating to it.

You hate women cause they're blessed and don't suffer?

It's really just about focusing on what matters the most (the present). Fear is just the "otherness", and so, unreal.

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Yes, totally. The psychedelics "bring to light" all the different beliefs and ideas you pushed away in the sober state. In the same way how when someone gets physically ill, it "makes space" for beliefs about illness and death to be questioned. The psychedelic has brought up beliefs about yourself and your life to the forefront, and those are being felt. What I'm suggesting is that you don't actually have to do anything. All the resistance, and all of what is felt, is actually all the doing. "I have to do this, I have to do that" feels like misery. There is no difference between the idea and the emotion. In meditation, if you sit still for a while, such thoughts and feelings will literally just vanish without you having to do anything, because they are actually temporal (time-based) beliefs which aren't actually in perception. They are self-referential thoughts. Meditation allows them to "fizzle out". A fear of "things happening again" is cyclical, which indicates time or some sort of logic or belief which is "looping" as a thought-loop. It's essentially a fear of the past or future, which would be overlooking that you have never actually experienced any past or future and that you are only present.

Anything other than the truth would have to be false (resistance). ❤️ Nothing real can be lost, thoughts appear as if there is what is unreal (other than reality or the truth).

It's beliefs (about yourself) brought to the surface by the psychedelics, and therein how the beliefs feel (emotion). All assumptions and ideas about what you are, are felt as real, because you are all that is real. The "problem" is quite literally just the idea that there is a problem, and all the resulting memories and stories you have to justify it. Truth, or reality, is what is already the case prior to anything, and so it is completely effortless and non-resistant because you don't need anything to "get there". Any ideas otherwise would feel "off", or "resistant", to that which is already the case (like being miserable). Resistance requires two, whereas there is only the truth and the reality that you are, and nothing other than it. Sit with feeling (meditation). Let it completely "pass through you". Don't "deal with it", just allow yourself to feel it without moving away from it. Don't judge it or reason with it, just look at what is already the case. It is more so the desire to "solve" or "run away" from feeling which is itself the feeling (of being miserable). "Miserable" is the idea that you need to fix something or solve something about yourself. "How do I fix being miserable" is like the same idea x2. Don't get caught up in "that". Reality could not know any such thing, as it would be other than it.

It serves beliefs about how to survive, which are dysfunctional. That's just what the ego thinks that it is, and that's how the ego justifies authoritarianism to itself. The political space is a projection of beliefs from whoever is elected. Trump believes that getting rid of all the immigrants and isolating the country is what is best for functionality (because of his narcissism), so that is what he is doing. If you asked a bunch of people in a room what they believe is best for societal function, they would all give different answers depending on what beliefs they have about themselves and the world. "What I believe is best for the country" would entirely consist of people's beliefs about reality, and someone with NPD who has the power to act on those beliefs would turn to an authoritarian regime. It's still narcissistic in nature and it will have the same effect on someone as a narcissist would, it doesn't matter what the intentions are. If there is a hierarchical structure where you can't question anyone, that is the exact same structure a narcissist would use to control people, there is zero perceivable difference. The ideology of narcissism is the same ideology that controls other people for personal benefit. A teacher in North Korea might not care about Kim Jong Un, but they will still teach it to the students because they were ordered to do so from above. What they are doing is narcissistic even if they themselves are not narcissistic. When someone tells you to praise Kim Jong Un, that is narcissistic whether they themselves truly believe it or not. That being said, the key difference is that someone who is not truly narcissistic (like a soldier or North Korean teacher) would immediately stop what they are doing as the orders stop, because they have no pathology. The orders come from narcissistic structures, not the soldiers or teachers themselves. There is no incentive otherwise. They are a cog in a narcissistic structure or a narcissistic regime, otherwise there is no motivation or functionality. The bigger aspect of all this is that these kinds of indirect narcissistic structures are what traumatize people and breed narcissists in the first place. Often it comes from narcissistic parents, but these kinds of systems can also traumatize similar to how parents would.

It's so relative, in fact, that it doesn't exist. No one was born and no one dies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What isn't experience?

Of course existence applies everywhere. But you are not going to get people to stop surviving. So they will continue to have enemies. And they will continue to see their enemies downfall as good for them. It just comes down to what you believe you are.

It's all belief. There's no such thing as "putting up appearances", there's just one appearance, which is reality or "what is already the case". Anything that deviates from that would be other than reality. Also belief. There's no survival without enemies, and no enemies without survival. Both define the other. The logic loops because it's a self-perpetuating belief. In order to buy into it, it would have to be overlooked that neither actually causes the other. Narcissism is all about managing images. Yes, it gets extreme.

It seems that much of current society values or encourages appearances over authenticity. As in, it's encouraged that you don't say what you really mean. You don't wanna be too honest in your job interview. You don't wanna be too honest in the workplace. It's considered "rude". "Disruptive". "Controversial". etc. But, putting up appearances is exactly what narcissism is. Such a culture would in fact breed narcissism all over the place. They would get so good at putting up appearances that they would fool everyone. It's obvious to me who does and doesn't have NPD, but apparently not to most of the population. That being said, here is probably the truest statement you'll see on how MAGA thinks:: If you're not a clinical narcissist, you might like to blame people a lot. All that a narcissist does is blame others, that's their lifestyle. If you love to blame, you will fall hook, line and sinker for the narcissist's narrative. "It's the immigrants". "It's LGBTQ". "It's Biden". etc. Blame is a belief. Blame is cause and effect. Blame is equivalent to hate. As long as blame is held onto, there will be an "us vs. them" mentality, and Nazism, authoritarianism, Trumpism, etc., will all repeat, as history repeats.

This does not contradict either. Narcissists trick the public in order to survive. That's part of their control. They put on a public appearance. That's their whole game. Playing charismatic in public, abusing in private. That would be part of "love-bombing" or "fawning". They do it in the beginning of a relationship to hook you in. Again, it's all in the NPD literature. Yes, it is. An authoritarian doesn't come into office and say "I'm an authoritarian". They first have to build relationships through narcissistic manipulation. That's how they climb up the social and public hierarchy. The "claws" come out more so once they're at the top.

Narcissism is an "ego strategy". I don't see contradiction here. Anyone who believes that they benefit from having complete control over others regardless of the other persons wishes would indeed be a narcissist.

The motivation for it could only be narcissistic, otherwise no one gains anything from keeping the authoritarian structure up and it will collapse on its own. To clarify, I'm not saying authoritarianism only consists of narcissists. The narcissist will maintain control over any non-narcissists present in the authoritarian structure. Trump is indeed a perfect example.

It will always be correlation, never concluded or confirmed, because there is no cause and effect. It's not about "brains causing things". If there was a belief in cause and effect, like the idea that other humans are causing negative or positive emotions, that could spiral into an authoritarian pathology like NPD. That being said, something like authoritarianism is just someone with NPD who has a large span of control in their political field. You can study the literature on NPD and you will easily see the same narcissistic patterns repeating themselves everywhere. Authoritarianism isn't just in politics, it's wherever the clinical narcissist decides to exploit. History repeats if not learned from, which is to say, beliefs self-perpetuate when not seen through. All logic is circular (self-referential), and all beliefs are of logic.

No plants = no seeds. Holon. Not two. And therein, reality.

Doubt would require something other than you, like a "devil", or "someone causing thinking", or "someone causing experience", etc. etc. The doubt is the resulting questioning of experience, or the appearance that something other than experience is hiding behind experience (like a devil). It's just a matter of letting all the dualistic perceptual knots "untie" via meditation or contemplation. Therefore, enlightenment wouldn't be about knowing there is a devil and then defeating it, in the same way that removing the belief in Santa wouldn't be about knowing that there is Santa and then eventually defeating him. Both of those are the same belief or duality: that there is a devil and Santa. Babies aren't strong enough to defeat Santa or the devil, and for them, there isn't either. It's honestly about seeing that you never experienced it.

Totally. It's an interesting perceptual illusion, in that, there's no memory of death (or you'd already be dead), and there's no future experience of death (no one experiences the future), which just leaves you "here", which is always deathless by virtue of existing. The deathless can't know death, or it would be limited by it. Memory only appears to project itself into the future, but it all really just happens now. Like a thought might say "I slept before, therefore I will sleep in the future", but it actually happens in the present which is all there actually is, lol. Memory infers and then projects into the future, and that's really where all your knowledge "comes from".

Isn't this already the case? He's deporting Palestinian protestors. I consider that as being kidnapped for political criticism, even though it is not directly towards Trump. Even now, Trump's lackeys are implying that anyone criticizing America could be deported, although it is yet to be done. That being said, Trump is already a dictator. A country does not turn into a dictatorship overnight. A dictator is just a clinical narcissist with a large span of control. If you look at the things that Trump said, and if you assumed he would act on them if he was given the freedom to do so, America would 100% turn into a complete dictatorship. NPD is the pathology of dictatorship and cultism. Cults and dictatorships are what you get when someone with NPD has a wide span of control, like over a group or country.

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