Vercingetorix

I think Leo is referring to processes that take a considerable amount of time. Will it still be true in 100 years? 200? The world is becoming increasingly homogeneous, and although I agree that many countries have taken in too many immigrants at the moment, I ultimately believe we are evolving in the Spiral to higher stages that do not care about nationalities.

@Never_give_up Maybe the way you feel is not connected to what you have, but to your identity. Maybe you have unhealed trauma, which is shame, guilt, and regrets that you feel, and corresponding beliefs about yourself - I am not worthy, I am not capable, I don't deserve...This creates the Identity of a person who believes "I am not ok as I am". So I believe the first step would be to work on that, to get to the point where you can say: I AM OK AS I AM. I accept myself, regardless of what I have and what I am capable of. What do you think about that?

@Aaron p yeah @vibv Poetry , Congrats on 1111 posts. @Salvijus @Breakingthewall @James123 Beautiful

Is everything I think is real just a figment of my imagination? Does the duality of reality - Imagination ultimately collapse? Sometimes, it seems so...

@Puer Aeternus Cool! What are the underlying therapy principles that your technique is based on?

@Aaron p my intention of asking this question is that I had this intuitive idea that is backed up by a lot of experience is that only when you surrender to something you are free of it, like you say. To be happy I need to emotionally accept the idea that I will never be happy. To feel one with the world I have to emotionally accept that no one exist. Etc.

@James123 Ok @James123

Do you believe that the only way to gain the world is to truly accept to lose it?

You have to understand how the subconscious mind works. Whatever you believe is true will tend to manifest, or in other words: Your life is the Placebo effect. So if your subconscious mind believes something is true, you will find the proof for it. Maybe in more advanced states, it's possible to objectively change the world through your will alone. I'll tell you if I ever get there.

Congrats. What are the main points of your book?

What's the reason you want to love how you look? The first step would be to just "be ok" with how you look. Come to terms with your looks.

Good luck on your way, Brother!

@Someone here True but you can have an ego death, be conscious of Solipsism, then fall back asleep to the dream, and still remember what you experienced.

That's why I condition it to "if (metaphysical) Solipsism is true" - which means that only my experience is real. Yeah, I think it's more accurate than Joy. Epistemic = related to knowledge - so it would be "I know only that I am real, I don't know if others are real or not - maybe they are, maybe not. Metaphysical = related to what exists - so it would be "Only I exist, others do not". It was quite shocking and felt impossible. I was conscious of how my mind created everything - the past, other people, the world - how everything exists just in my mind.

Under the assumption that Solipsism is true, life exists only for me, so it solves this problem. But let's assume it's not the case - I agree there is a lot of suffering, although I believe it's possible to find joy in almost any circumstance, like Victor Frank, who managed to find it in a concentration camp. I don't know if Solipsism is true, although I did have a solipsistic awakening experience. I think it's good to be open to all possibilities, so I entertain and try to come to peace with this possibility. I agree it could be dangerous, but I think we are after the truth, regardless of the consequences.