In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about how we are presently not in charge of our own mind, and what we must do in order to be free of its authority over us.

We don't usually think to ourselves that we're asleep and that our entire identity is the moment to moment fabrication of what we are reacting to in that instant. Until there is something that rides the waves of these reactions and sees them crest and fall, we will appear and disappear with every last wave. In watching the waves we will not mistake ourselves for being the waves.

Topics covered: We cannot have a change in life until we have a change in light. Which means that we need a new kind of understanding that allows us to see each moment and our relationship with it; With thought we try to figure out what to do with moments, figure out whether or not we want them, instead of being present to the moment, which includes all the right instructions about any possible actions to take.

Topics covered: Feeling tested and running into limitation; What is spiritual growth; We feel inconvenienced by life; In the same way we have a physical appetite we also have a psychological appetite; We are human ruminants; You see but don't see, you hear but don't hear, you touch but don't touch; Nature uses resistance for her perfection...