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You can take a shortcut and go to "This is Me" FIRST. This means accepting that Me == All Good which requires embracing internal darkness. This is a trick. Because embracing good/bad as good is impossible semantically and logically.

That is, the "shortcut" is actually the long way because it's impossible, you have to loop back and start at the other end. FIRST you go to This-is-Good, THEN you got to This-is-Me.

There are 2 primary traps, the trap of the Fool, and the trap of the Monster. The Monster trap is to embrace the good/bad world as Reality, thus creating a "Me" that is always in survival mode, afraid of monsters.

The Fool trap is to just pretend to say "This is Good" to everything without understanding. Like stealing answers to a test. The Fool trap is exacerbated because NO ONE thinks they're ever lying. A lie is actually just successful self-delusion.

If you think the 80% of people think they are above-average drivers fallacy is bad. Wait till you see how bad it is for an accurate estimate of self-delusion. Something like "I'm 100% not self-deluded for topics of up to Infinity complexity".

So the question then to always be asking is: "If this is good, what is preventing me from seeing it. Which of my assumptions must I break to shatter this spell of self-delusion?"

Note that to notice you asking the question requires the trigger of seeing something as Bad. If you're always pretending everything is good and forget that you're pretending, you NEVER activate the growth trigger!

Notice how the opposite of this is what usually disillusions someone to God. The inability to resolve the "Question of Evil." or have an authority/parent/priest figure who can create a "Fall".