UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF MASTERY AND WORKING WITH YOUR TRUE NATURE  

 

Why is it so challenging for people to change into a truly healthy and happy beings? Why are there so few masters of themselves in the world?

 

The answer is very simple. Because most people don’t really want it. They may think they do and signal and gesture that they do but, on another level, (subconscious sabotage) they don’t. This is also because there is a confusion and conflict within most people that stops them from taking effective steps and actions.

 

 

Transformation into a healthy and happy version of yourself is also challenging because we have lost the WAY to effectively achieve this.

 

Most people have forgotten to value or know much of mastery or higher purpose in action and without a correct understanding and path of what it means to really transform into that, they will most probably misunderstand what it means to be a master of themselves even if they are told.

 

The first and most important thing to become a more aligned and healthier being that is even able to start the path of mastery Is to really want it. To want it so much that it becomes a very significant and consistent desire within yourself over time. It does not have to be a specific vision or behaviour but a general trend of desire to be your best. To be masterful, elite, self-controlled and heroic in your life. Not because you want to have power over others or make yourself better than others but because you thirst for more. Because you want to serve and express yourself in your true potential manifest.  

 

Change of your character and inner being cannot be a simple passing desire, or a vague fantasy of change based on momentary dissatisfaction and reaction to external conditions.

 

This kind of motivation may give you short impulses to do something different for a time and to apply some new perspective or tools, but ultimately without a deeper structure and strategy it will not create an effectively sufficient drive to really do the work of becoming a master of yourself.

 

The evolution of a human depends on the understanding of what they

may get (expanded and more fulfilling meaning and experience) and what they must give (the relinquishing of self-sabotage, illusion and negative self-destructive tendencies) in order for it to really happen.

If man does not truly want to master himself, or if he does not want it strongly

enough, and does not make committed necessary efforts over his lifetime, he will never

truly achieve the aim of self-mastery.

 

The truth is that most people don’t know their own limitations or possibilities.

They do not even know to how much they don’t know themself.

 

In our modern lives we have invented many sophisticated machines and technologies, and we know that complex machines and technologies needs a great deal of study and understanding to be able to really understand them. A pilot or aerospace engineer or even a computer technician can take years of careful study and practice before they are capable of effectively doing their job with their machine or technology

 

We expect that to become proficient and masterful with a skill that it will take many thousands of hours. Why then is it so difficult to apply this same expectation and discipline to the knowledge and mastery of our self?

A human being is much more miraculous and complicated than any known technology or machine we have invented.

 

The sad situation is that most people have has all sorts of wrong ideas about themselves.

 

First and foremost, the typical person does not realise let alone acknowledge that they are very conditioned and programmable in their nature. We can understand an algorithm in a computer system but we cant see it in ourselves.

 

This is a key point that most humans are programmed and behave more or less like a machine.

 

What does that really mean?

 

It means that without self-awareness and training humans tend to fall back on unconscious conditioning that limits their ability to think independently and create the freedom inside or outside of themselves we really desire.

 

Many people are unfortunately just going through the motions of life. They have been taught to live without much more than the basic choice to react too thoughts, feelings and experiences based on the past in reaction to external influences and impacts.

 

When we forget that we are capable of creative and transformative things All our movements, actions, words, ideas, emotions, moods and thoughts are produced

From the past and triggered by external influences.

 

This is a dangerous position to be in because at this point, we really do become robot like.

An organic automaton with memories of previous experiences, and energy to play out our behaviours in reflection to that conditioning.

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We must understand that without the vision of transformation and healthy connection to our true potential we can do nothing with any real effectiveness.

 

It is because most people do not realise this yet they like to believe they are free and they are masterful that they are stuck in a herd like mentality of simplistic reactive living.

 

 

This is one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves. That we are free when we are not, that we are powerful and smart when we are weak and know little.

  

An unconscious human cannot move, think or speak for themselves because they don’t even know what their self is.

 

Living an unconscious life is like being a marionette pulled here and there by invisible strings.

 

If you understand this, maybe you can learn more about yourself, and possibly then things may begin to change for you.

 

If you cannot face and realise your unconscious flaws and limitations. If you cannot admit and work with your conditioning or if you not wish to accept it as a fact that you are programmed and reactive to your environment, you can’t learn to change anything significant and things will continue to be out of your control in terms of personal mastery and engineering your destiny.

 

 

We are very interesting creatures because we are programmed but in right circumstances, and with right treatment, we can know we are programmed, and if we realise how and why we have been programmed in a given way we can find the ways to step out of this programming or create more appropriate and effective conscious programs.

 

Humans are like a programmable machine that does not have an instruction manual. Not only do we not have an instructional manual we are also an extremely complex machine and we think we can just wing it. Fly by the seat of your pants. This is what gets us into trouble.

 

If you sincerely apply yourself to figuring it out and look into what it takes to constrict your own manual of how you work from reliable and effective sources you may be able to make yourself a lot more functional and in reflection your life may become a lot more fulfilling and effective.

 

To do this begins with observing the inner functional mechanics of your mind. Tracking how you operate, react. Judge, lie.

 

When you can track things and understand them things run much smoother. You have more ability to shed neurosis and expand and adopt functional adaptive awareness.

 

This is the great Work the pursuit of excellence and harmony with your true nature. It is the exploration and unification with your highest and best potentials. Just like the ideal of the impeccable warrior or the masterful sage, you become the centre of a journey into conscious creation and knowing yourself.

 

This includes the curious pursuit and direct experiential analysis of:

1) your consciousness and the nature of existence itself.

 

Some primary questions to pursue here are:

 

What is the ultimate truth and context of my existence?

What is the platform from which my life and experience arises?

What is Chaos?

What is Emptiness?

What is Consciousness?

 

2) An understanding of yourself

 

Some primary questions to pursue here are:

 

What is myself?

What are the levels or dimensions of my “selfing” experience?

What are the focused and contexts that myself is engaged in?

What are the focused and contexts that are actually important and valuable for my “self” to engaged in?

 

3) An understanding of others

 

Some primary questions to pursue here are:

 

What is my relationship to others? (focus on specific contexts and individuals as well as in general)

What is important to understand about others that I relate to?

What is my actually important and valuable in my relationship to others?

 

4)An understanding of the territory

 

Some primary questions to pursue here are:

 

What is the world to me and how do I relate with is?

What contexts and domains of focus do I interact with in my life?

What is important to understand about the world?

 

5) What is your purpose, truth and mission?

 

Some primary questions to pursue here are:

 

What is meaningful

What is useful?

What is valuable and important to you and why?

 

These are just priming questions but the idea here is to begin to explore and track your actual experience and personal relationship to it. Even just reading over those questions you can sense how much you may have already done some of that inquiry or not.

 

What do you spend your time and energy on?

 

If you are like most people you find yourself absorbed into a life of varied distractions and problems.

 

The process of self-liberation and transformation is a serious project that requires time and focus, it is more realistically a long-term project.

 

It requires that you observe and acknowledge your conditioning and habitual behaviours. Your Thoughts, anger, addictions, Judgments, obsessive compulsive behaviours.

 

Ask yourself how different your life would be If you could control these things.

 

(If you want an exercise write as many reasons as you can WHY this would be a good thing and the result of this. What is important about being successful in your own self mastery and transformation. Write 30 or more reasons.

 

Conversely write 30 or more reasons of what will happen if you do not do something about this and you fail?)

 

If we know it’s so good to be a master of our habits and behaviours How come it’s so difficult to change?

 

How come we have bad relationships, Addictions and bad habits

 

• Smoking
• Drinking
• Sex addictions
• Struggle with success and money
• Issues with family members
• Perfectionism and self-doubt
• Workaholic behaviours.
• Losing weight or being healthy

 

These are all symptoms of conditioning and self-awareness that’s out of order.

 

Its common that we get conditioned and taught these unconscious strategies from others that just winged it themselves. This is to be expected because most people are unaware and thus, they teach others unawareness. Blind leading the blind, Habits teaching habits.

 

If you think you are already aware without training and skills in self-inquiry and mastery. If you think you have free will and that you are a self-willing individual, you run the risk of claiming greatness before you have attained it. You may instead be lulled into not bothering to try and get yourself together.

 

Without the clarity of your own or others errors and suffering How would you identify the work required?

 

What would give you the references to need to find a way to move ahead?

 

It is necessary for a person to know how limited they really are and how bad it really is before they will have the drive to do the work and commit to what’s required for success and this is why most people will not develop themselves.

 

The good news is, it possible to acquire command over the fleeting moments of real connection and awareness of consciousness. You can learn to evoke them more often, and to keep them longer om your focus and nervous system, or even make them permanent in your psyche.

 

 In other words, is it possible to become a conscious masterful human?

 

This is the most important point in life when it is understood, and it must be understood at

the very beginning of this study that this point even as a solid theory has been entirely missed by must psychological and self-development schools. It is a rare exception to find a clearly laid out path and structure for effectiveness and self-mastery.

 

But with right methods and the right efforts a human can acquire self-awareness and heightened control of consciousness, and can become conscious of the truth of self with all

that it implies.

 

To the typical modern human, we cannot even imagine what that really means

 

Only after this point has been understood does serious study of self-development and true psychology become possible.

 

This study must begin with the investigation of obstacles to awakened consciousness in ourselves, because consciousness can only begin to grow when at least some of these obstacles are removed.

 

We must understand self-development and psychology really means the study and mastery of self in reality.

 

One cannot study the nature of consciousness and true self development as separate from your self-experience.

 

This is not like an objective science that is approached as apart from oneself.

 

This is an empirical study of what is true and important, what the principles of reality and self really are.

 

This is a dedicated study as serious as any other important hard science though. It is as if you are learning to master a new and complicated technology.

 

One must know the mechanisms and processes of this technology. its chief functions, the conditions of effectiveness vs dysfunction and maladaptive limitations, the causes of dysfunction and limitation, and many other things related to the learning and mastery of this technology of self are difficult to describe without using a specific and dedicated language.

 

As with all great and important fields of study there is a need for a literacy and competency of explanation of the important aspects of the technology you are working with. In other words, you need to be able to understand define and explain at least some of the most important parts of the technology otherwise you literally have no labels to hang your ideas and understandings on.

 

It is necessary to know an effective map and order to be able to study the self.

 

Any effective psychology of self-development or spiritual system has to allow for the most important and vert different functions of the human being and condition.

 

The human being has seven different functions:

 

1. Thinking (or intellect).
2. Feeling (or emotions).
3. unconscious function (all inner work of the organism).
4. physiological function (all outer work of the organism,

movement in space, and so on).

5. Sexual drive and identity (the function of procreation, unification and elevation through the two principles, male and female, in all their manifestations).
6. Awareness (The function of consciousness in its paw form of presence)
7. Connection and mapping meaning of relationship of self to others

 

As already mentioned, It’s really important that we study what obstacles are present and relative to our personal and collective consciousness. In short, the lying the distractions, the criticisms, the negative reactions that you respond to. The more you see these things the more you open the path to your meta awareness.

 

The main features of our self-perpetuating obstacles are:

 

1. Lying
2. Imagining fantasies that take you away from reality
3. Talking to yourself and others in distracting ways
4. Negative emotions
5. Distractions that simply take you away from yourself
6. Criticism and judgment

 

1. Lying - the illusions you are invested in that serve you to uphold your idea of yourself and the world. Unchecked assumptions…

 

2. Imagining - fantasy mode of the future and the past. Telling yourself about all the things that you need to do or want to do or should of done or should do. This robs you of your free NOW consciousness.

 

3. Talking - your talking all the time to yourself. Instead of self-observation you are talking and making up stories all the time. This is a manifestation of not being able to be silent. Afraid of silence.

 

4. Negative emotions - emotions that pull you into unconscious reactions.

 

5. Distraction - all the things that distract you from developing awareness. Perfecting your image for others, Entertainment, sensational pursuit, artifices of modern society

 

6. External criticism and judgment - Focusing your judgment and criticism on others. It’s a giant sham. Your life is expiring and you're not looking inward.

  

 

Within the framework of self-mastery, We are here to shine light on these things so you can finally get to the point you can realise oh I see my lack of awareness and I can raise it and improve my choices in this context.

The overarching intent is to live in a spirit of love peace and harmony with self, others and nature and willingly want to smooth out personal inconsistencies in the name of truly understanding how your mind and true nature works.

 

To learn about meditation, awareness, connection, transformation and will or lack of it.

 

Until you recognise the urgency of such a course of action you are more or less asleep.

 

Even realising this is just a start.

 

It’s a very important part of the process to move along the path from sleeping damaged and unconscious human to awakened whole and consciously creating human. Seeing and accepting that there is a map to change and you are on that journey of learning to use it and make it your own is only the first step.

 

Once you realise the purpose of life in some sense of to reclaim and be worthy of your own sovereign nature you begin to see All the absurdities and all the contradictions of people making more sense. You begin to see that a vast amount of humanity is experiencing life in an unconscious and generally self-absorbed existence. It does not mean that you as one that see this are better or that you have some right or power that they don’t but you do  become increasingly capable of understanding and ideally navigating yourself through those people that live in sleep. It is quite amazing that most of society operates thanks to the many that do everything in sleep, and do not know that they are asleep. If you are freshly awakening from this sleep yourself, you know it all to well and you may have great empathy and compassion for those unconscious others. This is also the birth of the heroic ideal to serve and awaken those that are read also. To take the quest, find the others and work with the tools and skills you have to do your best with what you have.

 

Who knows maybe you will change the world, at least you will change yours and you may well change the world for many others as well?

 

It is very important to understand one of the most common and powerful obstacles on the path of self-development and mastery of consciousness is the pride of egoic self.

The “ego” is a word that gets used a lot and, in many ways, misused. This is a tricky thing with language because we hear words that have been used in multiple ways and they get convoluted and confused in some sense.

In my definition of ego, it is like an avatar of your true self. It includes your personas and sense of identified self. Think of it like a character that you occupy.

The interesting thing about the “Ego” is that likes to think it is in control and it wants to have a kind of lock down on your experience. It is not very happy or excited about you discovering yourself outside of its defined rules so some one of the best ways it keeps you misdirected and occupied with things is to get you hooked on some part of your self-image and make you feel proud and attached to it.

 

There is nothing wrong with being certain and confidant but when you are certain and confidant about a false identity it just traps you in an illusion. This is why dogma in religion, or any field of study is dangerous. Dogma is only useful as a means to an end. The same goes for yourself. Your ego and its personas as only useful as a means to expressing and knowing your true nature.

 

The false self-image that you already possess self-mastery and high levels of proficiency over your life when you actually know little about the reality of your consciousness and life purpose is a trap for many beginners on the path.

The world is full of people trying to tell others how to live yet they have not really learned to walk their own path first.    

 

Another form of this egoic complacency is the sense that we can always start later. Or that we have the required abilities and qualities to succeed we just have not done anything about it yet. This false sense of I could but I don’t need to do it now is really a kind of distractive safety blanket. that we can have what we really need and want any time we just need to do it. The fact is that when you really apply yourself to something then you learn the real truth about the situation. Only with meeting reality with your actual experience will you find if your assumptions are correct of not.

 

Many people are afraid to check their assumptions in reality because if they do not get what they desire in reality it means that some part of their self-image is wrong and therefore its better and more comfortable to just avoid testing it for fear of failing and needing to face some real uncomfortable feeling that is under the surface like unworthiness or failure. Or defectiveness etc.

When our ego is invested in something It is very difficult to see outside that investment unless we are willing to question and really check it. This makes change particularly difficult for most people because they are afraid their sense of self (Which is really their false sense of egoic self) is not good enough. This is actually true by the way because a false image of our self will never be satisfying or good enough compared to knowing our true nature.

 

The egoic sense of self is particularly difficult to see through though because it plays funny tricks on us. When we ask ourselves what is my “self”? Or how do I know what my self is the mental idea of who we are (the egoic construct) produces all kinds of clever answers. I am my body, my job, my history, my status, my name etc. this seems to be a satisfactory answer on a superficial level, but it fails to really cut to what the nature of self really is. If you press the ego to answer and look inside itself for its nature it gets afraid and self-protective. It avoids and fights to maintain its habitual mental image of itself. This is in some sense the source of our greatest inner conflict.

 

If you ask yourself if you are really conscious and capable of being truly aware, you thits a silly question because you are asking the question and thinking of answers. How could you not be aware? You must be aware In order to even understand the question.

 

This partly true that you are conscious and capable of being truly aware but at the same time its not true as if you really pay attention and track yourself you will see that you are in fact more habitual programs and reactions than capable of any consistent true awareness.

 

It is a trick of the mental to convince you that your “self” is  aware when in fact  you are only vaguely conscious for a moment. And the Next

moment awareness will disappear.

 

You may remember what you asked yourself and what you answered, and your mental self will consider its idea of “self” conscious

 

As long as you are trapped in a mental definition of your self-image alone then you cannot even consider how asleep you are because the very mechanism of even experiencing what you are is inaccessible.

 

The state of mental attachment to an idea of consciousness keeps your stuck.

 

This type of pattern goes for all kinds of mental models and templates that you hold about yourself and the world.

 

Is that bad or good news? On one hand it is not so good because you are asleep. On the other you have a big potential to gain more awakening.

 

What might that mean? How much qualitative improvement might be possible if you became more aware?

 

Self inquiry and investigation in conjunction with intuitive pursuit of wisdom is what is required.

 

In reality, acquiring self mastery with consciousness means real

Work on how you think and relate and create your life with daily and momentary decisions.

 

If for some reason or another a person does not see the value in becoming self-aware and masterful or they believe that already possesses it.

They will not begin this work and will not consider it necessary until they understand they suffer because they do not actually have self-consciousness or mastery nor are they connected with it.

 

This is very sad because it creates a psychological block between the their true nature and their ability to access it.

 

Many people also think they are doing the right things to awaken themselves to their potential and they may be doing some good things but they are still in some sense asleep.

 

You be doing some practices or study over and over and think you are awakening yet you are only touching the surface or self mastery and you may even create a new level of egoic identification. Spiritual materialism and egoic attachment to significance and superiority only serves to actually halt your progress in true self growth and awareness.

 

The intention here is not demonise these tendencies either. Your habitual patterning is vast and in some sense it is a force of nature..

 

These functions and your egoic sense of identity is set up to perpetuate themselves automatically, and if you look into them clearly you ultimately find they are only support mechanisms seeking to survive and make sense of things by answering 2 important questions.

1) Who am I (In this given context).
2) How does it work? (How are you supposed to most effectively behave in a given context).

 

These 2 questions drive your sense of identity in any given moment and your ability to effectively answer them or not will define how you feel about yourself as well as how you will behave.

 

The context of self mastery is big and confronting and if we are not prepared for it we will hide behind our false assumptions to protect us from the potential ugly truth that 1) We don’t know who we are and maybe we are meaningless and insignificant and 2) We have no Idea how life really works or what its about or how to really behave beyond serving our own self image.

 

The uncomfortable reality of not really applying yourself to a deeper path of self-transformation and mastery in alignment with your true nature is that if you try and avoid it whatever you do to satisfy yourself and really be yourself will be a goose chase of desire fulfillment followed by dissatisfaction and doubt and this more and more is required. You don’t know what worthy or unworthy or when your desire fulfillment is enough, so you are always hungry but never fulfilled. This is what living with lack of awareness is like.

 

We cannot pretend we know the truth without lying to ourselves, and when we do This we base our life on a fundamental lie of self image worship and  delusional pursuits this is a false and flawed ideology.

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If we worship our self image above the pursuit and understanding of our true nature and its relationship to actual reality Lying fills all our life.

 

Look around People pretend that they know the truth of all sorts of

things: about the world, about the future life, about the universe, about

the origin of and potential of humanity, about evolution, about everything; but in reality they more often than not miss the fundamental keys that allow them to really relate and understand themselves, others, the territory or their true mission and purpose.

In other words they do not know anything, even about themselves. And every time they speak about something they do not know as though they

knew it, they lie.

 

Consequently, the study of self  honesty and self delusion  is of primary  importance in the psychology of self mastery.

Self mastery needs to be particularly concerned with the tracking of self-delusions and misperceptions that take us away from our self mastery. What you say and thinks about yourself, others and the world is where the work begins.

 

This is the real study and because of the reasons mentioned most men find it very challenging. We don’t want to think of ourselves as inauthentic and fake. We don’t want to admit our flaws and blind spots and challenge our comfort zone of mental laziness by honestly looking into our present and past for how we habitually create our own suffering. We don’t want to face the responsibility of transforming our unrefined world view that is full of imitation and fallacy and transform it into a life of substance and value.

 

If you are honest you will find you are invested in your collection of false notions and lazy assumptions and this is the crux of how you deceive yourself.

 

You say things that are half true in order to feel right, or good or control your life. Of course you are probably not conscious of why or how these seemingly small and acceptable lies affect you and the quality of your relationship with your true nature. After all you are just living your life as you believe it be best lived.

 

You probably think its ok to do this because maybe there is no real way to live and know yourself. Or because everyone does it and you get certain benefits from this behaviour. Its how the world is but that too is part of the lie.

Lies comes from lack of awareness. One of the first things to get a handle on is how you lie to yourself.

 

To know thyself—this was the first principle and the first

demand of old psychological schools. We still remember these

words, but have lost their meaning. We think that to know

ourselves, means to know our individual traits, our desires, our tastes,

our capacities and our intentions, when in reality it means to

know ourselves as a divine being as well as a machine like creature of habit. The purpose of this knowing is so that when you see and understand the structure of your programming and habit you can do something about it that is more functional and conscious and invite your otherwise sleeping potential to come into manifest reality through your and your egoic avatar/

 

To know thyself is to study its parts and functions of the different parts. To understand the conditions that influence your self’s parts and functions and to become a student of governing the self in a mature and healthy way.

 

A masterful human realises in a general way that they cannot know everything but at the same time they cannot have any real skill or personal transformation without some accurate understanding of what their true nature is and how it relates and is effected by the reality it is embedded within.

 

We must remember our desires to be masterful and conscious and to relate to ourselves in a healthy and purposeful way that creates purpose and meaning. You must study your own conditioning and strategies as a programmer.

 

The means of study begins with self-observation and tracking whats going on. There is no other way and no one can do this work for you. you must do it yourself.

 

Before self observe it is important that you learn how to observe.

 

You can begin today and this week. Start with what are you actually doing with your time? How are you using your focus? Can you write as much down as possible about what’s going in in your life and day?

 

What are the specific ways that you go unconscious in your day? How do you block or sabotage yourself? What habits are you using to compensate for your lack of satisfaction?

 

What are the specific ways that you lie, distract, judge criticise, talk, get lost in fantasy and imagination, get lost in ego and emotions.  This is the stuff that you should be studying to know yourself. Do this even for a day and you will be surprised at what you learn. Do it over a number of days or every few days until you have captured some decent data on your self workings.  

 

Such observations will very soon give results. First of all you may notice

That you resist and don’t want to track yourself. Next you may become frustrated that you are blind to many things and cannot observe everything you wish to master in your.

You may find that you find it very time consuming or distracting to be aware of yourself. See if you can find effective but efficient ways of tracking yourself. Take voice notes. Keep a notepad or write notes in a computer program that is tracking your time.

You may find that Some thoughts and activities please you, especially when you meet desired expectations or fulfill some need that you are seeking.

 

In other times you may find that you get annoyed, irritated or even disgusted by yourself.

Both are great and necessary. You are learning about your habits, goals, values, attachment and beliefs.  The process cannot be otherwise.

 

You cannot only study your life and self in objective detachment as if looking in a microscope at a curious creature.

 

Quite naturally you will begin to learn and discover what helps you development and what makes it more difficult, or even impossible. This means that very soon after starting to observe your self, he will begin to distinguish useful on track and off track behaviours. You will begin to understand what is useful and harmful in your perception and behaviours.

This is the beginning of an inner compass of self guidance and real knowledge of self.

 

When you understand through first hand awareness and analysis what is useful or harmful to your pursuit of self mastery you will develop a sharper skill in seeing and shaping sides of yourself which can become more conscious, and sides which have become unconscious and must

be transformed and transmuted into new conscious and healthy aspects of your self uniting with its true nature .

 

 In observing yourself you must always remember that this

self-study is the first step towards all other true evolution.

 

The point of doing comprehensive and critical self-observation is to find what is tricky and self-sabotaging to your true potential and happiness.

 

Because you have biases in yourself. It may be hard to really see what you cannot see.

 

Because you are being asked to be the judge and master of your testing and development and you may resist putting the spotlight on yourself especially if you have a lot of compensatory mechanisms at work.

 

To be honest with your self if to admit when you are guilty of self delusion and sabotage. To admit that you are killing yourself slowly or running from your true desires and  you may not want to do that .

 

You may want to consider yourself good enough and perfect, as innocent without doing the work of actually reclaiming and understanding these qualities in yourself.  

 

This is where honest observation of the facts of your thoughts, words and deeds van reveal that you are in fact deceiving yourself. You are in fact killing yourself, keeping yourself our own prisoner. Hiding truth from yourself. This can be horrifying.

 

We don’t want to know that we are self-deceptive and even if we do we want to look at it with the cold eye of objective analysis.

 

Looking at things through "Science" alone will not liberate you or anyone because science is not an active and personal awareness developing process. You need to study yourself.

 

Only you can know and truly study yourself. Investigating your self is more than a science. Science is not well equipped to study the inside of the mind mostly because it cannot prove subjectivity, so therefore is tries to deny its value and relevance to our human experience.

 

In the mean time  you have to do your own heavy lifting and observe yourself from the inside from a place of non-bias and honest analysis as best as possible as you go.

 

If you observe yourself through a previously existing ideological frame of acquired belief about yourself or the world like religion or even strict atheism it stops the free and true exploration and observation of self in reality. 

 

Unless you are able to see around your own beliefs you cannot see what actually is going on beyond your biases.

 

Knowing things is not enough to liberate yourself. All the logical understanding in the world will not help you. Many of the ways that people see the world are actually viruses of the mind.

 

Become aware of your lack of awareness and correct it to save yourself from suffering. This is the noble path of the romantic adventurer and spiritual warrior.  

 

Begin to track yourself this week and see what you find. If you are honest you will see that you are at odds with yourself in some sense. You will see that you have a fragmented nature. One part that works against you and your efforts and one that helps you promote your forward momentum.

Working with your true nature to create unification and self-transformation is what this is all about.

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