Shocks

What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see? In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the anger, impatience, grief, loneliness, or anxiety it has seen... and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with...

Topics covered:  The last thing that we want are recurring shocks. There is a part of us that does not want to be disturbed, a part of us that avoids disturbances at all costs; The negativity that we blame on the condition was there before the condition came along to stir the negativity to the surface; Something in us believes that we have a right to be negative because we would not be negative were it not for the condition or the person that is disturbing us.

Topics covered: How do I deal with a pattern of anxiety and stress; What is Being; Why am I unable to act quickly on what I know I need to do; Our present nature is constantly in a dream; We don't see the pit coming because we're already in it. The consciousness itself is the pit; Dreaming in physical sleep versus dreaming in spiritual sleep; We dream because we want to escape what we are; Pai...