A very interesting thing to note is that there is always some bit of difficulty somewhere, and this is good news because difficulty equals freedom! We don't generally realise that ‘difficulty...
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The big flaw with all our rationally-derived therapies is that they have all been put together by what we might call ‘adapted game players’. Being an adapted game player means...
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The reason positive thinking isn't genuinely helpful is because 'peace of mind' or 'a sense of inner well-being' cannot come about as a result of what we think. We can’t...
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What ‘mental health' consists of is a complete mystery. It doesn't sound right to say this of course because we always think of mental health as being something that exists...
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When we go down the road of controlling (or regulating) ourselves we open the door to a nightmare of cosmic proportions, yet we don't see it. For whatever reason, our...
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What sort of troubles could the generic self run into? What type of sticky situations might it get itself into? What issues will it face? What sort of problems does...
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When reality is replaced by the 'antithetical' or 'upside-down' version of itself then instead of happiness we have to make do with something else. Happiness is no longer on the...
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Just about every minute of every day we are enthusiastically ‘opting for an inferior self’. This sounds suspiciously like a moral kind of statement but it isn’t. This isn’t the...
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In the ‘neurotic’ conditions what has happened – across the board, for every single condition – is that our attempts to ‘fix the problem’ have become a far bigger problem...
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Our default setting for understanding both neurotic and psychotic states of mind is the ‘error paradigm’ – we see what is going on in terms of an error to be...
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In the ‘conditioned world’ where no one is permitted true existence, the only way we can gain ‘being’ is to be granted it. The only way we can be granted...
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Anxiety occurs when we send out a 'robot-self' into the world to do some sort of task and that robot self gets cut off from its source (somehow) and so...
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