Each of these is a doorway that leads to other doorways. Everyday we are surrounded by portals to universes more infinite than an infinitely deep pool. The fear and anxiety should be immense. Why doesn't it?
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With the body, the main universe where you move around, doesn't feel infinite because you can cut down and limit the universe to walkable distance. The resolution of the universe is reduced to a manageable size using labels like Bird that collapse ∞ fractal reality into 1 byte
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With the ego, the universe is cut down to the bare minimum necessary to continue the hero story. As long as there is a villain and there is hope everything is great. Remove either villain or hope and ego goes nuts. It'll exaggerate the smallest difference into a Unforgiveable Sin
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When "we" move around in the world it is the contents of our awareness shifting around. Even if the contents are feelings of body movement, visual change, passage of time sense (boredom), feelings etc... the fundamental unit of movement is always a movement within awareness.
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The exploring mindstates example above isn't a metaphor but what reality *actually* is. Using physical reality like where our bodies are doesn't capture the vast distances we can be crossing in our minds.
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The body and ego anchors are like mantras. It's like repeatedly saying "I am <name>" to yourself b/c you're afraid you'll forget your name. Except it's affirming your physical form and chosen heroic story. (ur 'name' is complex)
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Because these mantras are in every mindstate they create a sense of familiarity. E.g. every moment of awareness is framed in a gold "I'm a very smart person b/c I went to an Ivy League school." frame.
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That frame actually takes up SPACE in awareness. It limits the amount of energy can be used to BE in the current mindspace. It's rationalized b/c a targeting reticle is useful when u don't have the Force.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuKqcfO31is …
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When you are close to "home" the targeting reticle is more useful. A better analogy is that you have more 'power' bc you have more familiarity. You know the neighbors, the friends, the favors you can call on, the connections, etc...
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While you can feel powerful and important in a 'home', by definition it limits the amount of newness that can come. It overlays a protective field across reality as an aid for those who cannot use the Force.
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Aside: male/female relationship to home: Men feel at home when at the 'head' of the household. They need their little (benign) dictatorships to truly feel at home. It's optional for women (and for many, an unwanted burden to be so necessarily tyrannical)
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Back to main thread: The body/ego anchors create a giant Island of Meness that serves as a giant floating anchor. It can travel into any mindspace as long as all of it can it. Every new experience is capture by the island's gatekeepers and converted into something safe.
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It's like a spaceship converting hydrogen into oxygen. Or like telling the story of World War II but with muppets. The island protects. The ego protects. It chews your food for you, presenting a far more easily digested reality.
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When the safety mechanism is made too opaque, there is an inability to move into expanded states of consciousness. If I want to learn more about where my meat comes I first learn about fish heads and chicken feet. Then I visit the farm.
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If these intermediate states aren't presented in a workable gradient we are shocked away from these mindstates, labelling it "here be living dragons" and then weld them away behind steel doors hoping they'll starve to death and the problem will go away
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If taking apart my computer reveals 100 lifetimes of learning then wtf lifetime am I supposed to choose if I can choose only one. It's better to just stay Home.
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The massive revealed volume of possible mindstates makes us feel lost and afraid because we have no way of seeing how to build the bridge to any of them. We also lose touch w/ our hearts b/c of all the outside mindstates invasively competing for our attention.
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There's a drive to retreat to a macro perspective. To find the One True Knowledge that will help us not feel lost in the world (and so feel at home). spiritual paths for e.g. are about finding this one true knowledge so that the constant anxiety keeping up can stop
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Going into VC or climbing the ranks are also similar, by heading towards the top you can see farther at the cost of lower resolution. Why is everyone climbing these fucking mountains. The valley is the only thing that supports life.
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There's a kind of pompousness that can shine through b/c of the message "Ah I've reached the top, I guess the only thing left for me to do is to Ascend into Fucking Heaven." The spiritual desire is driven by the same energy that desired to look down upon the world.
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Yet ironically the lessons learned on this spiritual path are about not associating with the body/ego anchors. They reveal the Infinite to those who spent their whole lives trying to contain, manage, and utilize the Infinite.
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What can often happen is a desperate Final Ultimate Labelling. The label experts, in one final desperate move, call this infinity God and so believe they have swallowed the ocean while floating within it.
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Expert climbers have wonderful map making skills and techniques. The maps are also always somewhat useful. Look at someone's map, how big is the black spot that says "Here be dragons". How big is yours?
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What is the degree to which fear rules your life. What is the degree to which you have to tiptoe around people and subjects and what is the degree you force others to do so around you?
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At every moment you are capable of seeing the infinite. If you don't see the stars, the galaxies, and the universes surrounding you you should check behind the black dark curtain labeled "Fear" that is contracting your awareness.
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It should feel like jumping into a cold pool. Pretend you're not a cat and just jump in.
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