What is God to you? by Shari in Consciousness

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"God" is the substance of Absolute Intelligence, Love and Willpower. From this, was created Objective realiy, seen and unseen. u/OBA is saying almost the same thing...

Can people and animals truly communicate? by Alphix in Consciousness

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There aren't 100 radio stations over the air anywhere.

Can people and animals truly communicate? by Alphix in Consciousness

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Yeah that is a very good one!

Can people and animals truly communicate? by Alphix in Consciousness

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Can people and animals truly communicate? by Alphix in Consciousness

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My tortie Yoda tells me exactly what she wants and when she wants it. I delivered her from her mother and cut her umbilical.

Can people and animals truly communicate? by Alphix in Consciousness

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What is God to you? by Shari in Consciousness

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Love.

God is love. Jesus showed a perfect life of love. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, visited the suffering and comforted them, taught the truth to those who were lost in deception... His crowning achievement was dying on the cross for all of mankind, to atone for our sins. Yet his crown was made of thorns. He was humble and kind... and still is... since he lives eternally.

Who is God? If you could see Jesus, you would see the image of the invisible God.

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Of course she is.

Beyond the mind by Bernard de Montréal - If consciousness interests you, this is a MUST READ by [deleted] in Consciousness

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This book is amazing! I will post again after I have completed it. I am only pages into it, and wow...!

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I love Marina Abramovic. Her art is spectacular and controversial. Question... is she a satanist?

Imagination and Consciousness by [deleted] in Consciousness

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I agree with you that one's imagination can take you places that are dangerous if taken too seriously. Tulpa's, for instance, are an entity that has been forcefully created in a host's mind to the point where this imagined being takes on it's own identity, personality, and vocabulary. They are created for complanionship intially, and some hosts that have a Tulpa, have been known to have lost control of their Tulpa, and it has run free until the host could erase it from their consciousness. But that is mythical. Some hosts claim that when a Tulpa is created, they knowingly dissociate from themselves, and create a whole separate entity within their consciousness. They force their thoughts into creation, and with much practice. Look up Tulpa. You will find some strange theories and facets on this one. It's a gem.

What is God to you? by Shari in Consciousness

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Objective reality, and above. Seen and unseen.

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Yes, my issue with hatred is when it is focused on living beings. I've never seen these words used, thank you.

Is it possible to truly know oneself? by [deleted] in Consciousness

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Oh yes, that is the truth about matter. The problem is, we all believe in its being solid. At least, solid matter bieng solid. ;-)

And that belief, like every other belief, is limiting.

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"I have not made up my mind and still digging around while riding spaceship Earth through the Universe at the end of spiraling Galaxy."

This made me laugh

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The solidity of matter is a tough one, but I thought science was already beginning to prove that what "solid" actually is isn't how we view it at all. That every material thing is basically vibrating light. I'm a layman, so I don't know.

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I have no beliefs to speak of. The evolutionary path that leads to the Supramental is composed in part of the destruction of any and all beliefs. By "beliefs" I don't mean "superstitions". I mean BELIEFS.

The most fundamental beliefs we have are things like the solidity of matter. I confess that I still have that one, because it is useful for me to do so. There are a few others. But there will come a time when it will be Intelligent that I remove even those. But not yet, there is work to be done before that.

I'm writing this just to give you examples of what BELIEFS are.

The removal of safeguards against toxic thoughts by [deleted] in Consciousness

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I don't think about "it all" and I have no wish to do so, nor to be "informed" how others do things. An individual is either in their experimental phase, of which spirituality is part, or in their evolutionary phase, which isn't founded so much on discovery than on destruction of all the enslaving and anti-evolutionary structures which together basically constitute the self.

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There is nothing after the Supramental but its creative endeavors, which are the reason for the creation of the human race to begin with. It is the evolutionary terminal of Man, at least as we can think of as "human".

You are perceptive in detecting anger. Anger and hatred are the mark of the Supramental. Never directed at living beings though. For example you might believe that this anger you perceive is directed at YOU but it is not: it is directed at the disinformation which your words convey and especially at the roots of this disinformation, which you, like pretty much every other human being on this planet, have integrated into your "self".

As such, it is easy to confuse righteous anger and hatred at those otherworldly intelligences that seek to enslave mankind, and do so in large part through spirituality, with anger and hatred directed at the person. Distinguishing between the two requires some degree of presence on the Supramental planes already.

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Just sharing things I found not only interesting...useful for self discover. Are you finished discovering? Am I being taught during this conversation? I am not here to TELL anyone how and what "IT ALL" is about. Simply sharing my thoughts of IT ALL and how I do it.

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The Supramental is that which is beyond thought, beyond reason, beyond ideas and conceptualization. The first GLIMPSE of the Supramental was attained by Sri Aurobindo in 1968, while its existence had been theorized before, and expressed in texts by Nietzsche and Hitler for example.

The Übermench, no matter what Hitler wrote, is an evolutionary step for ANY sub-race of man, which is equivalent to going from Homo Australopithecus to Homo Sapiens, with the major difference that the Übermensch (Overman in English) is physically indistinguishable from a Homo Sapiens. The first and only individuals to integrate the Supramental within their incarnate beings are Bernard de Montréal (RIP since 2003) and the enigmatic C. Patrick.

Maybe a previous Christ, such as "Jesus" or Horus could be said to have "integrated the Supramental" but that is not fair: They were made ("born" if you prefer) with the Supramental already implemented, which doesn't comprise the exceedingly tough challenge of performing said integration while incarnate.

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Oh no, I'm not reading any of that. "interesting" is not the same as "useful" or "needed".

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Oh no. I know both intimately. I am far beyond what any of these spiritual masters has attained and if I could consider the idea of being in their state, I don't doubt I would actually vomit. Spirituality is infinite but limited, a perfect trap. Spirituality requires that mind remain somewhat identical through the process of its 'enlightenment' whereas the Supramental requires absolute destruction of the self and its mind-attributes.

Spiritual 'enlightenment' is fully contrary and opposite to the Supramental.

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Oh, what a rabbit hole you are going to find...or so I hope so. I found meme some 20 years after Richard Dawkins wrote "The Selfish Gene". In his book he coins the word Meme and its definition. I have studied Meme and memetics for over 20 years. I found the lexicon based in the definitions of Meme and Memetics is more important than believing in Meme and it being a replicator like DNA.

Please, read as much as you can muster on the linked webpages about Meme. The lexicon gives us a new reference point from which to discuss all these thoughts we have shared today.

...create a great day...

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That is interesting. Meme and memetics, first time I hear about that. Is this a sub-field part of a greater field of study?

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That is a fool's errand, and it is impossible to attain the true higher state of the psyche that true evolution allows. But you also have no choice in the matter: either you are ready for it and YOU WILL BE FORCED IN THAT DIRECTION or you aren't and you will life a life of illusion.

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What if the Supramental, which BWT I also see the beauty within this word/idea is the same thing the masters where talking about through the word/idea "spirituality"? They use a different mechanism to walk the path up the mountain of Supramentality.

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You don't understand me because it is impossible to do so. You may empathize all you want, compassion and empathy are just the first step to true enlightenment. Those spiritual 'masters' are full of shit but they aren't evolved enough to know it.

Far, far beyond 'enlightenment' is the Supramental, the true higher state of mind. It is beyond all of spirituality, which is simply a scheme to limit man's evolution.

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Thanks for the post Horrux,

This topic directly relates to Meme and memetics: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html

Thought contagions, repeating thought patterns directly resulting in behaviors are all around us. How to protect one's self.

vaccime (pron. vak-seem) Any meta-meme which confers resistance or immunity to one or more memes, allowing that person to be exposed without acquiring an active infection. Also called an `immuno-meme.' Common immune-conferring memes are "Faith", "Loyalty", "Skepticism", and "tolerance". (See: meme-allergy.) (GMG.) Every scheme includes a vaccime to protect against rival memes. For instance:

Conservatism: automatically resist all new memes. Orthodoxy: automatically reject all new memes. Science: test new memes for theoretical consistency and(where applicable) empirical repeatability; continually re-assess old memes; accept schemes only conditionally, pending future re:-assessment. Radicalism: embrace one new scheme, reject all others. Nihilism: reject all schemes, new and old. New Age: accept all esthetically-appealing memes, new and old, regardless of empirical (or even internal) consistency; reject others. (Note that this one doesn't provide much protection.) Japanese: adapt (parts of) new schemes to the old ones.

Tolerance A meta-meme which confers resistance to a wide variety of memes (and their sociotypes), without conferring meme-allergies. In its purest form, Tolerance allows its host to be repeatedly exposed to rival memes, even intolerant rivals, without active infection or meme-allergic reaction. Tolerance is a central co-meme in a wide variety of schemes, particularly "liberalism", and "democracy". Without it, a scheme will often become exo-toxic and confer meme-allergies on its hosts. Since schemes compete for finite belief-space, tolerance is not necessarily a virtue, but it has co-evolved in the ideosphere in much the same way as co-operation has evolved in biological ecosystems. (Henson.)

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That is all illusion. You CANNOT know yourself. It is utterly impossible. As such, whenever you say you "know yourself", you believe lies about yourself. That isn't beneficial.

The self may never be static but it is garbage. Destroy the self that you believe to be, and you will be free.

Let me repeat what the article says: A being can only BE that being. To "know" a being is a falsehood, a bit like trying to catch daylight in a bag: it's not how it works. "knowing" is memory and thought. There is no intersection between "memory and thought" and "to be what I am", other than the illusion that thought and reality share some commonalities.

Thought is imaginary: it exists only in the mind. Being is real: you are. Only pollution of the mind can make one jump from one to the other with some kind of equivalence.

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I understand and empathize with you. Yet, once you come to this conclusion, what is the next step in critical thought processing for the person containing said understanding? I felt humbleness when discovering how duped I had been by the boxed reality I was born into. To realize how duped you are when going through the process of "enlightenment" can be denied, pushed aside and ignored if too much shame is felt. Yet, the key to enlightenment is the root word (verb), to lighten. Lighten what you might ask?

Once these thoughts are clear to me I don't get angry at the world cultural situation. I contain compassion and empathy for those lost "souls" if you will. Then I eat crow and feel humbleness once again. Because who am I to define them as lost?

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Since it makes no doubt that thought comes not from man but from elsewhere, I attribute everything that's wrong with the world to that.

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Yes, but you still think of yourself in certain terms. You believe you know yourself, at least somewhat.

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The Rhythm 0 art display completely relates to the Stanford Prison Psychology experiment. Give a group in this modern society total control of other human/s you get this shiz. Ah, but why? Is it humans or is it humans under the umbrella of some kinda social structure that, which creates the environment for these things to occur. Or is there even a difference between human psyche and the social structure they operate within? Is it both? Personally, the surrounding environment is my pick for the issue...not so much the individual. Why, because "The True Cost of Passive Acceptance...in this society.

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That was me.

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Is it you who described in a post a few weeks back, "good" as "life-affirming" and "evil" as "life-negating"? If so, I have to say, that really resonated with me. It's a verbatim expression of what I perceived already. But since I only use English on the Internet, I had never seen the reality of things expressed in this particular way. It resonates strongly with Objective Reality.

And yes, the stuff I speak of is WAY beyond beliefs, spirituality, new age stuff, etc.

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Because I'm not doing theory. ;-)

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This interests me greatly. You'll be hearing from me soon concerning this. Edit: the thing is, I've heard these things before, but you write about them in a way that is helping me understand in a way I hadn't before.

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"All nows are ever now." Yeah, this is how I view it. I think some new age people view it this way, but their language paints it in another picture. Like, where past and future literally don't exist, not that our ways of perceiving them are wrong.

If you really think it is happening, then I'm glad to have met you. Very few people have a bright outlook on the human race. I personally feel like we have a good chance of changing to become more life-affirming as a race.

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There are two types of death: dark death and white death. Dark death is what most people undergo: the consciousness, the soul and its accumulated karma go to the astral plane, where they will stay in suspension for a long time, but interfere and serve as material for the living. White death happens once a being's karma is destroyed and their consciousness fuses with the Cosmic Intelligence on the Universal Absolute planes of eternal existence. Once that happens, "dying" is simply the deactivation of the physical body and one retains all their abilities.

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Yes I agree, to be eternal is to be one with time, so that time becomes a non-factor. All nows are ever NOW. This is how the Cosmic Intelligence at the core of man sees things. It is very foreign to the ego incarnate and as such, fusing all the parts of such a being into one melded whole is (obviously?) difficult. But it's starting to happen.

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I actually have thought about how those memories may not be mine It helped me disassociate from some of the negative aspects of those memories, which at first crippled me.

No, it doesn't sound like mumbo jumbo, although I think my criticisms with the whole "here and now" thing stands. I think my problem with it is that I don't view the past present and future as being separate. They are, to me, part and parcel. They go together, and can all be conceptually viewed as being NOW, but are they?

I know I'm getting some (or most) of this wrong.

To be eternal is to be in the NOW, is it not? It is to experience the past present and future all together, in one soup. Not how humans view it, as being linear and segmented

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I have read some of his stuff before. You introduced me to him when I first started this account. I pulled away because I became distracted with earthly matters of health and such... I'm going back in!

Beyond the mind by Bernard de Montréal - If consciousness interests you, this is a MUST READ by [deleted] in Consciousness

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u/earendil this is ideal for you, sir.

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You carry memories of other lives on Earth, yes. That doesn't prove that "YOU" have lived them. Quotes because what is you? WHAT are you? You do not know. It is not possible to truly know oneself.

Either way, because of the way time occurs, and the interdimensional arrangement of planes that create the physical world, it remains true that the only real moment is now. And if, through the purified mind that can make other times become NOW, they are also NOW. Sounds like mumbo jumbo, I am sure. But the point is, the Universal Intelligences that represent the ultimate in terms of consciousness and power through the universe function 100% in the NOW. They are also eternal. It only seems paradoxical because our human minds are born out of a paradox.

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Look at the Bernard de Montréal links in this sub. It's a good place to start. He is the pioneer and has forced the entities at the other end of "the line" of thought to reveal their role.

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I should note that I do not like the the new-age belief that we only have the here and now, and that that is all that matters. It is a conceptual truth, therefore, not a real truth in my mind. It makes sense in the realm they created, which has SOME reality in it, but I do not think that it IS reality. For one thing, I know I have lived other lives on this Earth, whatever that means, and I know that death is not the end of whatever this experience is.

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You have mentioned this telepathic-nature of thoughts before, Horrux. I would really like to read more about this. My own experience backs this up, but I have had little reading in this regard.

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Humans generally don't have enough discernment to distinguish between vision of life in other worlds or dimensions, and purely imaginary fantasy. Those that do, will tell you the distinction is irrelevant, since the only thing that matters is the here and now, that we each have a life, that it is all we truly have, and that taking care of that is the only thing that is truly important.

Those who are capable of mental activity without use of the dimension of concepts say this: thought is purely telepathic. Being aware of telepathy, and especiallly WHAT one is conversing with, is of the utmost importance. Without this level of consciousness, it it obvious that mankind is on a road to perdition, as should have been made quite obvious lately to even those without a fully telepathic consciousness.

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I would like that, yes

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Thanks. So you think I should post more translations of the content on the original site?

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Thank you!

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Thanks!

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This is interesting. Who is the original author? What is the source?

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This is a google translate of an article originally in French. I will likely have a real translation of this someday but this will have to do for now, since this information is CRITICAL given the current state of mankind. Either way, the translation is decent. Some sentences are strangely worded, but the meaning remains.

The disappearance of safeguards against toxic thoughts

June 11, 2020 Posted by C. Patrick

In the past, humans have always resorted to thought systems, ideologies and religions that provided safeguards to protect them from toxic thoughts. Christian religions, for example, spoke of thoughts "inspired by Satan" or other demons, or simply "evil". One way or another, the believer could count on a point of reference allowing him to dismiss certain thoughts, identified by their obvious toxicity. These could take on all kinds of characters, such as sexual perversions, violence, jealousy or even, in the worst cases, psychosis wanting to make the individual believe that he is not what he is.

In Buddhist religions, it is the knowledge of the three (or five, according to) poisons of the mind that constitute the safeguard: greed, anger, ignorance, jealousy and pride. Obviously, a thought including or involving any of these poisons is perceived by practitioners to be rejected and banished.

Other true religions also include prescriptions and commandments relating to behavior judged to be good or bad. Although this does not directly concern thought, if a thought directs the individual towards a gesture prohibited by the religion in question, it comes to the same thing: the thought tempts towards sin. As for the Muslim religions, which represent the delirium of one possessed by anti-human forces, they are not included in this. Their practitioners have no safeguards either.

Since the 17th century

Since the arrival of René Descartes and his incitement to disproportionate pride included in the “I think, therefore I am,” things have changed. Since that time, a rationalist, arrogant and excessively intellectual current declares itself the only creator of thought, without any proof existing allowing to affirm such a thing.

Thus armed with pride, the rationalist intellectual - declaring himself the sole author and creator of his thought - has no other choice but to identify with it. Apart from the logical and rational rigor of the intellectual, there is then no safeguard left to protect him from particularly toxic thoughts. For decades, only intellectuals of a certain level adopted this system, without causing too many problems.

However, as this prerogative of the rationalist intellectual spreads in society, going so far as to invade the interior mores of the superstitious masses, believers and religious, the situation has changed. Indeed, we are no longer talking here of intellectuals endowed with a certain mental rigor, but of ordinary people, without great intellectual ambition. They lack the logical and rational rigor serving as a safeguard against toxic thoughts. Children are particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon, as they would need to be guided, rather than being taught implicitly that they should identify with any thought that crosses their mind.

The implicit which accompanies "I think" is that there is no distrust to maintain with regard to thought, since it is an integral part of oneself. Thus, this apparently innocent "I think" directly causes the individual to accept thoughts, however derailed, as their own. In an adult whose psychic fabric is already formed, this phenomenon creates tension and stress, since every thinking being is subject to completely unreasonable, even crazy thoughts.

In the twentieth century

When I was a teenager, one of my teachers used to walk between the aisles of the classroom ringing the coins in his pants pocket. One day, I had a very excited thought saying to me, “He's going to give me money! ". I observed the thought in bewilderment then, answering it, "No, he can't. First, he has no reason to give me money, and if he does, he will have to give some to everyone. This is a completely absurd thought! ". This is an example of unreasonable thinking well countered by a critical mind.

Here's another example when I was a young adult: I sit in the passenger seat of a friend's car. He tries to start the car, which hesitates; he has to do it several times. I then have a thought that the car is going to explode, because I saw a movie in which a car exploded when starting off. Obviously, I'm surprised that such a thought crosses my mind, but I dismiss it right away, making the ridiculous leap between fact and fiction that is offered to me.

Now imagine a being who fully identifies with the thoughts in his head and receives such a thought. He would experience strong emotions at any time and for no reason. It's not that bad, although in the long run these emotional ups and downs for no reason would certainly cause her significant stress. But now imagine that a being without a mental guardrail, as we describe, receives a thought signaling to him that his body is not of the correct sex. That he should be female, or that she should be male. Or even "non-binary", that is to say without gender. Such a being would quickly fall prey to a transsexual psychosis.

In the 21st century

This is precisely what is happening today. The disappearance of the safeguard provided by religions and other traditions leads us directly to an era of raging madness spreading like bushfire. In addition, lunatics without psychic protection who have succeeded in obtaining a status of "full person and able to participate in the normal activities of society" easily reach positions of influence or authority, such as school teachers. with children.

As a result, the transmission of their mechanisms of psychosis in children completely helpless in the face of these individuals erected in authority becomes assured, since they are told that all this is completely normal. Here is a recent example, told by the mother of a little girl. This one, who attends kindergarten, was served a speech of normalization of transsexuality by her teacher. One of the boys in his class then retired for a few minutes, then came back wearing a robe. The teacher then explained that this boy was now a girl.

For a child who has absolute confidence in the teacher, this news is enough to make the whole psyche waver: today you are a girl, maybe tomorrow you will be a boy? Any notion of identity is thus contested, if not entirely ruled out. Back home, this little girl looked at herself in the mirror and ran to her parents, weeping and terrified, asking if she was about to turn into a boy. The parents reassured her in vain, the child saw with his eyes a boy becoming a girl. She will doubt her own identity for a long time.

It must be clear to the being who questions himself somewhat about the psyche that identity is the most precious thing he can possess. I am, and in the name of what I am, I live this life. She is so because I am who I am! The other has his own life, because he is who he is! The establishment of currents favoring the questioning of identity in terms as fundamental as sex essentially constitutes total war against the individual; it is an attempt to rob him of his right to be what he is.

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Can we really know oneself?

February 9, 2017 Posted by C. Patrick

Of course, many people think they know themselves. But what does this mean? In his book Liberation from the Known, Jiddu Krishnamurti warns us that the known is not liberating. Bernard of Montreal also used this expression "to free oneself from the known", with the idea that the known imprisons and is not fundamentally creative.

Knowing yourself, a belief like any other?

Knowing anything is fundamentally a memory process. This is the very definition of “known”: “Singular masculine name: all of the things that we know, that we have experienced”. Knowledge is therefore inexorably made of the same fabric as all the rest of the experiential and memory continuum of the ego. Self-knowledge is no exception.

Thus, "to know oneself" is to have a prejudice, a fixed idea of ​​what one is. It is a belief, and like any belief, its object is not real, but imaginary. The real, the Absolute, happily dispense with human beliefs. Only the imagination depends on belief to instill in it its claim to any value.

To be or to know oneself?

A p erson is a reality and not an imaginary object. Every being in progression of consciousness knows it, even without knowing how to express this fact through a conditioned psyche. A being means IS. He can believe, have a religion, a school of thought, a philosophy of life and spirituality, but above all that, he IS. Having lost contact with this substance that he IS, he seeks himself, and this leads to the quest for self-knowledge.

As a result, "knowing" is perfectly incompatible with "being", since one designates an imaginary object, and the other a reality. Thus, the quest for self-knowledge is hopeless, since it only leads to a process of verifying the object of belief through experience, of verifying what one believes to be. We can very well verify, through an experiential process, that what we believe to be is effective, as long as we believe in it.

It goes without saying, much like confirming that you are just a physical body until you have the ability to experience the other dimensions of life. This is how many believers in rationalism manage to justify that the human is only an animal a little more sophisticated than another, and that the illusory impression of consciousness is only the result of a biochemical and electrical process of the nervous system.

In short, one can confirm the effectiveness of any belief by performing a verification experiment within the limits indicated by that belief. It does not reveal anything that is real beyond the realm of the belief in question.

Personal growth, a fundamentally hopeless quest

This is how the quest for self-knowledge, just like the quest for self-improvement, that is, the very vast industry of personal growth, is both hopeless and inconclusive. One can go around in circles for generations performing belief-limited experiments, each round verifying the effectiveness of the belief being tested. It will be awarded the qualifier of "truth" and its character will become even more fanatic.

All this circus describes our time so well, where everything is "true" but nothing is real. The beliefs thus tested and reinforced exercise a more and more complete hold on the human psyche, until it realizes one day that the belief has nothing on the Real, and "to know oneself" is a psychic poison which prevents the person from simply BEING.

So "knowing yourself" is an absurdity. The person IS what they are. Believing that she can store the substance of her being in her memory is a bit like believing that you can capture daylight in a bag. The function of knowledge is memory, while the function of being exists only in the present, only in Reality.