Many are using chemicals such as alcohol and or drugs to create a ‘self’ that temporarily feels better. This is because they are unable to ‘feel’ what they want to feel without exposure to the addictive stimulus. The cause of what they feel when sober is not the lack of drugs or alcohol but their mind’s perception of their experiences. What changes when an individual consumes food, alcohol or recreational drugs? What changes is the body’s chemistry. The objective of addiction is to feel better. The exclusive source of our emotional responses is our perception. Our body’s neurochemistry creates all emotional feelings.
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The Ego
The ego controls the mind of the President, the politician, the film director, the bus driver, the butcher, the Christian, the journalist, the terrorist, the criminal, the Muslim and the teacher. There is only one ego. The control the ego has over each person is not absolute. It will depend on the jurisdiction into which we are born which beliefs our individual mind is programmed to worship as truth. Where freedom of expression exists some individuals may have the freedom to openly express a disbelief they have regarding the official dogma or propaganda.
Knowing
What value to us is what we know? Knowing enables us to ‘repeat’ or ‘avoid’ an experience. Knowing about danger enables us to avoid it. What we each know establishes our personal paradigm. This paradigm is real to us. Our paradigm can only continue to exist by rejecting any conflicting beliefs others use to define the same reality. What we know is not truth. What we know is just our version of the truth. Competing versions of truth cannot be true. If the concept defined by the word ‘truth’ existed we could not have evolved our technologies.
Fear
Our fear is not our fear. This is not a contradiction but reveals a mistake that exists within the minds of all those who fear. We can feel something so strong and unpleasant when we think about or are exposed to certain stimulus. These feelings are commonly defined as ‘fear’. We do not fear. What fears is a spiritual parasite that we individually create to live for us in a world that demands compliant participation in a systemic existence. We create a false self to project out to the world which will conform to the will, judgement and expectations of others.
Self-Identification and Perception
Unless branded by religion we define ourselves by what happens in our lives. This means that our perception of reality influences who we define our self to be. If I am a child and I see something then I define myself and my experiences based upon how my perception defines my experience. My perception is totally prejudiced by my collective belief system acquired from previous experience. So if I see something that looks like a dog I may say that what I see looks like a dog. In this example my perception reveals the logic used by my mind.
Conditioned Responses
The smell of bread being baked cannot bring the memory of the taste of the bread to the mind unless a person’s mind recognises the smell of the bread. Once we have tasted or smelled something that is ‘pleasant’ or ‘unpleasant’ the mind can automatically recall the thoughts and feelings of that original experience. This is because of the phenomenon of ‘sensory memory’. We have sensory memory of our previous experiences. What determines what we feel when we smell the bread baking will be influenced by how we previously felt when we smelled or tasted bread.
The Delusion of Enlightenment
The moment we define our understanding of our experience our understanding of that experience is limited to our definition of it. Nobody alive can absolutely describe or define their perceived self. If we use our previous experiences to define what we are experiencing now our beliefs about those experiences will only become truth ‘within our mind’. When anything experienced is defined it creates a criterion which the mind uses to recognise and reinforce its own judgement. This criterion exists in the form of personal beliefs.
Duality
Duality refers to the two internal realities. One reality is our imagination and one reality is what we believe. What is perceived to exist in the external world is a reflection of the words that our minds have been programmed to project and therefore create. Our beliefs sustain the authorised version of reality. The external world is seen or experienced from the perspective of the body through sensory perception. What is perceived as reality is defined with the words we use to define that reality. Our minds are collectively creating reality.
Salvation
There is only one ego. The ego exists in each one of us. It is the mind of our identity. So when one ego steals from us or murders one of us we may get angry and want to hurt or kill them. The part of us that wants vengeance or revenge is the same ego that justified the theft in the mind the one who stole from us. If we attack, injure or kill those who have ‘trespassed’ against us we allow the ego that is within them and controlled them to indirectly control us. Without forgiveness we become victims of our own judgement serving the ego that was once called Satan. So we have a dilemma.
Looking for Us in Others
We each judge and question our perceived self. Self-perception is based upon what we ‘feel’. Once we judge our self with words that describe qualities those qualities make it difficult to realise anything that is in conflict with that criteria. It is because of our ‘self-perception’ that few realise that within each one of us is the complete answer to all our questions. What people look for in other people is an answer that can only be found within. What we look for is something better than what we have judged ourselves to be. The truth of us is beyond what we define our self to be.
The Message 