Yimpa

When you stop bullshitting yourself is when the real change can begin. Good luck undoing decades of bullshit, though! You best have a reality check on your expectations on how challenging this will be. I’m not calling you out specifically. Rather, I’m actually also just starting to come to this realization after more than a decade of confusion.

There’s a difference between avoiding suffering and confronting it. The danger lies in believing that suffering is to be avoided because it is wrong. My dad actually opened up to me today something he’s been keeping a secret for 15 years (ever since I got diagnosed with mental health disorders and autism). He has this belief that because I’m suffering, he wishes I was never born. The pain for my father is too great that he would rather avoid the truth of who or what I am. He instead pretended that everything was fine and continued living in a fantasy, which of course also affected my development. I’m proud of my dad for finally opening up (after I had to yell back and fourth with him, similar to what was happening on this forum… hmm!). However, I’m not proud of the fact that these wrong ideas were being perpetuated and kept secret for a profoundly long period of time. I hope this gives an idea of the dangers of dogma and group-think, and how it affects the whole.

I should’ve asked for clarification.. what do you mean by “thing”?

The mind and the thing itself are interconnected.

Thoughts are not a problem. It’s actually the suppression of thoughts that is.

That’s precisely the problem. I’m starting to realize that getting rid of undesirable parts of reality is a serious trap. Confronting uncomfortable truths about yourself is critical; it’s not going to be pretty whatsoever. But what’s the alternative? Spending the next 30 years living with delusions?

Yup, that’s the whole point of this actualized work, and always has been from the very start.

Is being abducted by aliens wrong? I legit just had an experience of being abducted by them. They transported me to an alternate timeline and dimension. I only experienced this briefly because of how radical it was. It’s actually your own doing when you convince yourself that something is “wrong” or “awful”.… that’s literally what’s preventing you from exploring CONSCIOUSNESS any further.

I love them bitches!

The aliens said that you can love humans more effectively when you yourself transcend being a human ?

It’s false in the sense that you have a fixed and extremely narrow view on how reality should be. When you realize you’re GOD, all Self-Deception is GOD’S CREATION.

I just had a pretty vivid hallucination of being abducted by an alien UFO and hearing aliens transmitting their language into me. Now that’s acting!!

Who defines Self-Deception? You, of course! To what degree is the real question.

So studying yourself

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This reminds me of an old therapist of mine. At the beginning of one of our sessions. I noticed that she was talking as if she lost her voice. She explained to me that she actually came back from a retreat. She went to one where they did a bunch of screaming and yelling. I suppose the point was to let out suppressed emotions. Perhaps you’re interested in trying that? The second option might be laughing yoga.

You indirectly answered my question as well, thanks!

It’s not that nobody cares, it’s you that doesn’t care. Contemplate that one!

@Salvijus God is actually all of that and more

Haha, yeah. The older generation can be challenging when it comes to new ideas. But in any case, nobody wants to willingly question their identity if they hold strongly to it!

@Ulax Any tips on how to meditate while dealing with pain? I’ve been exploring feeling into the pain rather than suppressing it, but it’s very challenging.

I can relate to this (I’m also the youngest child). I’m actually in the process of getting family therapy started. Perhaps you can try that with your family? Good luck trying to get them to agree, though

GOD is Infinite Self-Deception. GOD is Infinite Self. GOD is Infinite. GOD is. GOD. .

Perhaps trying to empty ourselves of… ourselves was never the right approach to begin with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s also interesting you mention yet another mental layer. If reality is infinite, then surely the amount of mental layers are also infinite. It’s kinda like if you wash your hands and convince yourself that they’re 100% clean, yet as soon as you touch something they’re gonna not be 100% clean again. So is the solution to keep washing your hands every time you touch something? I’d hope not.