MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of our shared current events.
Sobriety is sanity from any symptomatic compulsive behavior. Emotional sobriety is sane living from the insanity of reactive, impulsive obsessive thoughts central to acting out in all the varied symptomatic forms of addiction.
To think all that is happening is only what we think is to think thoughts are reality, truth, and always right. To fight for the right of wrong imagines chronic focus will have thought and our seeming self turned into the truth of reality. It is not sane to set this collision course up and blame life for becoming impossibly complicated.
Thinking is not our problem until it is mistakenly chosen as our only source, our only choice and all we can do and thus all we must be. This is not true. Lies have no basis in reality so entertaining them has is sickly think we can turn our back to reality. We are allergic to lying and so react abnormally and mental disorders reflect thinking that is out of order that reflects our out of order behaviors.
Reality and Truth do not change. It is our experience that suffers when we think reality and truth rely on our changing thoughts. This form of thought feels disconnected and alone and suggests we can’t, won't, or aren't imagining that it is thinking disconnected from reality that we feel.
These concessions in thought are not always welcome but that does not mean the door is not open.
Honesty does not require waiting to say the right thing. Honesty accurately assesses what is right or wrong. We know the difference. We would not struggle with feelings of guilt or shame if we didn’t know better than we think. Our nature is natural.
Consider this: if we can make believe we are not doing what we are doing then we can easily think we have nothing to do with that which is happening. The flip side of this is to begin to recognize that we don’t have to think we’re doing what we’re doing to be making what is happening - happen.
Free will is the right to choose to think what we want. This means we want what we think and the effects we create. This does not make what we think right.
The ability to respond is considerate, accountable and responsible. Reactivity is an automated defense against our practical ability to be honest. Lies rely on defense. Honesty does not make more or less of things. The weight we bear is the matter we make.
To freely choose to feel condemned and think we have nothing to do with it is insane. Cause manifests effects. Having thoughts wrong about reality is as discomforting as it is disturbing - for perfectly good reason. To think we are victims of these effects is how the lie of addiction works: everything seems backward. This is not a coincidence but the direct consequence of lying.
Principles don’t change while obsessive thoughts about reality, truth, and life always change while charging ahead in reverse as a major distraction to our greater knowing awareness - that does not disappear when we don’t look.
Fantasy as reality is fictional accounting. When things don’t seem to add up it is because they don’t. Reconciliation adds up whether the accounting starts from the top or bottom. Honesty can approach the correct result from any direction in any order. When that which is happening includes all that we see and hear - and all that we can’t see or hear that can be seen through understanding - our integrated experience notices Omniscience (Intuition / Knowing) as the stable basis for our Absolute Being Awareness and human nature.
It is not grandiose to imagine our basis is Absolute. It is grandiose and humiliating to imagine that it is not.