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Our discussion has been held weekly for two years. Prior to that, for many years, it was one on one. This is the first agreed-upon group recording made available publicly. There were as many as twelve people today some silently listening
Considering ideas openly can be highly volatile when vrelief is explosive. This tendency reflects thoughts, thought to be hidden as anyone nears the defensive pressure of the stress maintaining them. Reactions are defenses fighting for a supposed life maintained by chronic thoughts thinking only of them “selves”.
Maintaining this chronic mental anguish can seem inescapable. When an imagined thought is thought to be true they appear real as though they have a life of their own. These thoughts, our brain, ego and all other seemingly outside forces posing any conflict seem to be intrusive, aggressive, offensive and appear to attack us and happen to us rather than be created by us. There is no greater persistent enemy than the internal conflict and turmoil we create twenty-four-hours a day when we think we’re not entertaining obsessive thoughts.
Thoughts are thoughts, not real or true but imagined, something we do not who or what we are. . To think thoughts are true is fantasy, to think fantasy is true is delusion. To act on this basis is insane. It does not require exhibiting the worst conditions possible to have an idea that is not sane. To any degree we miss this subtle point we nurture conditions that will get worse as they get harder to ignore.
To trigger someone is to act in a way that exposes their readiness to release the explosive buildup of pressure and stress they may have thought was under control. To think getting triggered is someone else’s fault misses the value of perspective they offer to help us see what we think has nothing to do with what we’re thinking. To think thoughts are real and true is to think our life is threatened when what we think is challenged. This leap is like placing your hands over your eyes and imagining the world has disappeared.
The breadth of our discussion can offer perspective on how we have collectively learned to function and dysfunction. Cultures and convention are based on many ideas that are not true serving only the culture’s thinking and not always well. Many myths and superstitions have been developed to make sense of irrational fears induced by thoughts that seem normal within the bounds of stagnant convention.
Our discussion offers a view that may allow you to more easily consider things that may initially seem hard or even impossible to imagine sharing or hearing from anyone else. We are here to explore what we do so you can start by considering your responses or reactions privately.
It is not a coincidence that we think we have great clarity in addressing and defining the wrongs in society and each other while struggling with uncertainty and doubt about our “self”. It is what we are thinking that primarily defines our experience as thoughts are the primary lens through which we see the world. To think the world is only as we think it is overlooks the limited impact of what we think and reduces all that is happening to only what we think is happening. This egoistic approach to life is a commitment to anxiety and stress since it is based on limited self-serving conclusions that can’t be true or real.
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