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0:00And I got some bad news for you, buddy.
0:02Religion is probably making you mentally
0:04ill.
0:05You see, here's the problem. It all
0:07begins with identity. And identity is
0:10the filter from which you perceive the
0:12world.
0:13Now, there's something in your brain
0:14called an RAS, reticular activation
0:17system.
0:19But you can just think of it as a
0:21selective focus. For example, whatever
0:23identity you have filters the way you
0:25see the world. And what happens in
0:28religion is that it puts you in this
0:29little box. Now, the box itself isn't
0:32the problem.
0:33It's what you don't allow in the box
0:35that kills you. Think about the mind,
0:37for example.
0:38Like a knife. It's a cutting tool. You
0:41you remember the wheat and the chaff?
0:43The wheat goes over here and the chaff
0:45goes over here. The chaff is the stuff
0:47that nobody wants, the um mm, whatever.
0:50And so, your mind takes all the stuff
0:52that you think is good and puts it over
0:55here in the good box.
0:58And anything that's not good puts it
0:59over here in the bad box. Now, with
1:01religion, what does it do? It's
1:04basically telling you, "Hey, be good.
1:06Don't be bad cuz if you're bad, you're
1:08going to hell. You're going to get it.
1:10You're going to get a spanking from
1:11God." And then, of course, people
1:13struggle with that because they're like,
1:14"Well,
1:15I got these problems. I have these
1:17thoughts. I have these addictions.
1:20They're not in alignment with what I'm
1:22being told is the right thing to do."
1:25We be We become conditioned. Religion
1:28tells us, "This is how you should be if
1:29you want to live a good life."
1:31And of course, there's truth to that.
1:34But the problem is
1:36human beings are full spectrum.
1:39Everybody has things about them that are
1:41dark.
1:43Everyone's got dark meat. And everyone's
1:45got light meat. You ever get that person
1:47at Thanksgiving?
1:49You put the the the white meat and the
1:50dark meat out.
1:52They're like, "Nah, I don't want I don't
1:53want no dark meat, bro." And you're
1:55like, "Come on, man.
1:57You don't like chicken thighs?"
1:58And she's like, "No, no,
2:00no." What religion does?
2:03It causes us
2:06to reject the darkness in our own
2:07selves, but the problem is you can't
2:09reject the darkness without also
2:10rejecting the light.
2:12Because darkness and light are just two
2:14opposites of the same one thing. So,
2:16with our identity, we claim this
2:18religious identity.
2:20And that causes us to selectively focus
2:22on only the things that either are in
2:25alignment with what we have selected
2:28or are not in alignment.
2:31And whatever is in alignment, we put in
2:32the good box. Yes, I'm going to keep
2:34that. This is who I am.
2:36And whatever is not in alignment, we
2:38reject and throw it out in the trash.
2:42And this is why you see people who judge
2:44non-religious people.
2:46Like the Westboro Baptist Church.
2:49They don't like gays because they are
2:50gay.
2:52Or you could say
2:54they've rejected the gay in themselves.
2:57But hey, man, everyone's gay once in a
2:58while.
2:59And the reason this makes you mentally
3:00ill is because it creates a split in
3:03your psyche, in your mind,
3:07where different parts of you are now at
3:09war with each other.
3:11Like a perfectly healthy human being
3:14who's psychically all right
3:17has all the little pieces of themselves
3:19focused in one direction. Everyone's on
3:21board. Everyone's on the same page. It's
3:23all good.
3:25But the more your psyche is split in
3:27these different directions, the more
3:29neurotic you are.
3:31And the more at war you will be all the
3:33time with yourself, and you will never
3:34be at peace. That's why you see a lot of
3:36religious people.
3:37It's like, we're striving to be at
3:39peace,
3:40but we're always being attacked by the
3:42enemy. And it's always the devil
3:43attacking us, right? And the devil is
3:46the reason we can't be at peace, right?
3:47Because he's creating suffering in our
3:49life. So, we're on this endless journey
3:51of trying to overcome the enemy and be
3:54free and strive toward God and be toward
3:56the light and reject all the darkness
3:58and run away from the earthly things,
4:00deny the flesh. Because we look at the
4:02people out there indulging in all their
4:05their their their compulsive pleasures
4:08and we're like,
4:09"No, that's not for me. I don't I'm like
4:12Khabib.
4:13Only fight, only wife,
4:17no sex and God.
4:19Very disciplined, very focused." And
4:21it's not that these things are bad, but
4:23think about the Muslim culture, for
4:25example.
4:27Why do women in that culture wear full
4:30body dresses where only their eyes are
4:32being seen?
4:34It's because men have repressed their
4:36sexuality because of the religion. And
4:39you can see the inevitable
4:42consequences of that in America. Because
4:44we have a lot of Christian values.
4:46>> [snorts]
4:47>> But like in the Victorian times, it was
4:49the same thing. People repressed their
4:51sexuality,
4:53but it was always there.
4:55And now when finally we create an
4:57environment where people are able to
4:59freely express themselves, what happens?
5:01Now they go wild. Girls gone wild.
5:05Why is this the case? Because when you
5:07put pressure
5:09on an instinct like sexuality,
5:12it's going to come back 10,000-fold
5:15and it's going to grip you from the
5:16underworld and pull you down, no matter
5:18how good you think you are.
5:20Like you have
5:22hundreds of millions of years of
5:23evolutionary instinct that don't care
5:26about your silly little moral beliefs.
5:29Which is why
5:31people experience so much suffering
5:34from religion. It's because they're
5:36fighting their body
5:37and they're fighting what they think is
5:39right.
5:41They're in conflict with who they think
5:43they are because they have things about
5:45them that aren't in alignment with this
5:47little box.
5:48You are life. You're not a You can't put
5:51life in a box. Have you not seen
5:52Jurassic Park? That was the whole movie.
5:55No matter how great you think you are in
5:56being a scientist and playing God,
6:00you cannot
6:02put nature, put life in a cage, and
6:05expect anything good to happen.
6:07And this is the reason why we suffer so
6:09much is because it's like putting a
6:11monkey in a tuxedo.
6:13You're wearing this tight tuxedo, and it
6:15sucks, and you hate it, but everyone's
6:17looking at you and saying, "Oh, look at
6:18the cute monkey." And taking pictures of
6:20you.
6:22And so you're like, "Oh, okay. Well, I'm
6:23getting attention. This is okay. I'm
6:24fitting in. This is okay, right? I can I
6:26can tolerate this for now."
6:29But you're like half dead. You're like a
6:31zombie. You're just like, "I'm just
6:33walking through life. Is this really all
6:36there is? I'm supposed to be on the
6:38godly path, but I feel like I feel like
6:42hell. Something's not right." It's
6:44because you're replacing the truth of
6:46what you are.
6:48That's what creates the sense of
6:49dissociation or not feeling alive.
6:53It's like there's the truth,
6:55and then there's your little ego
6:56suppressing the truth in the name of
6:58being a good person, being a certain
7:01kind of religious person. And the funny
7:03thing is God, if anything, is the truth.
7:06And so you actually sacrifice God for
7:08your little ego beliefs.
7:11And that is why Carl Jung said,
7:14"People follow religion so they can
7:16avoid having a direct experience of
7:19God." And you see this all the time with
7:21religious people. They go to church on
7:23Sundays, but they really It's just an
7:25ego mask that they wear.
7:27And you see their traits and their
7:29behavior patterns, and you're like,
7:30"Well, you don't really seem to be
7:31following what you preach, friend."
7:34And that's because it's not real.
7:35It's all fake. It's all ego nonsense.
7:37It's all identity.
7:39And you know someone's stuck in this is
7:41because
7:42and of course there's deeper levels
7:45but it's all about I'm right and you're
7:47wrong. So you see people who argue on
7:49social media in the comments and stuff
7:51like that. No, well you you just haven't
7:52found the right religion yet, man. We're
7:54the ones. We're the ones.
7:57And you try to convince somebody else
7:59and you try and persuade them to follow
8:01what you follow.
8:03But it's really just a survival
8:04mechanism, which is so funny. It's so
8:07funny to see because people are so into
8:09it, right? They're like No, who no, I'm
8:10this is the truth. And they don't
8:12realize that they're just being ran by
8:14automatic programming
8:16based on survival. For example
8:19this identity, this ego
8:22which I'm not saying is bad.
8:24It's like a little box from which we
8:25live our life.
8:27Imagine the ocean of chaos
8:29that is life. This is like our little
8:32sailboat, a little inflatable raft
8:36that keeps us afloat.
8:38It gives us a sense of direction.
8:40It orients us in the world, right?
8:42That's not a bad thing.
8:44But what happens?
8:45Somebody comes along
8:48who has a different boat
8:49a different way of looking at things, a
8:51different perspective
8:53different religion
8:56and these two people start communicating
8:58and it's like they're trying to stab
8:59each other's inflatable raft.
9:02My raft is good. Your raft is wrong. And
9:06what happens if you stab that raft?
9:08They start to sink. They get consumed by
9:10the ocean of chaos. It's like
9:13let's take an atheist for example,
9:14right? An atheist has little his little
9:16raft and then one day he has a
9:18transcendent experience of God.
9:21Well, now everything he's built his
9:23whole life
9:25upon
9:27now gets thrown out the window.
9:30Now he doesn't know what to believe.
9:31Like Ram Dass for example
9:33he used to be a professor at Harvard
9:36and he used to be very much in the world
9:38and science and logic and reasoning.
9:41Then he started taking psychedelics.
9:43And everything he knew about himself
9:45began to fall apart and he went on this
9:46big spiritual journey and found a guru
9:48and
9:49became this great spiritual teacher.
9:52Because eventually he realized, well,
9:53this isn't actually a safety raft. Sure,
9:56it helps keep you afloat, but it's also
9:59leaking. It gives you a temporary sense
10:01of safety
10:03because the truth is our ego identity is
10:05always changing. It's not reliable. It's
10:07like building your house on sand. It's
10:09moving all the time and it's not very
10:11It's a bad foundation.
10:13So, what do people do? They desperately
10:14hold on to this raft for dear life and
10:16anybody who comes around it and says,
10:18"No, your raft is not, you know, it's
10:20not actually helping you."
10:22They attack [snorts] the other person.
10:23And you know this is the case for you if
10:25you get triggered about religion.
10:27And it's really easy to get triggered
10:29about religion, isn't it?
10:30And mostly everybody does.
10:33Whether you're an atheist or any kind of
10:35religion, if you get triggered, it means
10:37you're holding on for dear life to this
10:38ego identity.
10:40Because if you were not attached
10:43to that identity, there would be no
10:45emotional charge attached to it.
10:47Which means that you wouldn't care what
10:49people say.
10:50And so, people get caught in this trap
10:52of sacrificing the truth for their own
10:54ego identity.
10:56And that basically
10:58begins rotting them away.
11:00Because the truth is life. And the more
11:02you're separated from life and truth,
11:03the closer you grow to
11:05So, what is the solution here?
11:07It's simple.
11:09You look at the identity that you've
11:10claimed
11:12and the traits that you find virtuous,
11:15that you want for yourself.
11:18You can ask yourself, who do you look up
11:19to?
11:21And you start writing down their traits.
11:24And you start asking yourself, what are
11:25your strengths? What do you hold as
11:27valuable?
11:29What are your values? You also look at
11:31what you're attached to.
11:32And you know what you're attached to
11:33based on what triggers you
11:35or what creates energy and also what you
11:39judge. What are the traits in others
11:42that you judge as bad or as wrong? And
11:45then what do you do?
11:46You make a second list of the opposite
11:49traits. So I guess in this case when you
11:51judge, you write what are the things
11:53that you judge other people for.
11:55Those so-called negative traits. What
11:57are the things that trigger you
11:59specifically about other people? What
12:01are the opposite of what you value?
12:04And of course what are your weaknesses?
12:06And what you begin to do is you begin to
12:07integrate the opposite energy, the
12:09opposite traits. Because so long as
12:12you're attached to one end of the
12:13spectrum,
12:14you become neurotic
12:16and you create serious problems in your
12:18life.
12:20>> [snorts]
12:20>> Like for example, let's take you're
12:22someone who follows a religion like
12:25Christianity or Islam.
12:27Well, most people on that side of the
12:29spectrum
12:30are sexually repressed because of course
12:33it values abstinence and celibacy and
12:37don't flirt and don't
12:39um
12:40don't do all that stuff.
12:43Because
12:44it's a sin
12:46and you're going to get punished. And so
12:47you say, "Okay, well, I'm going to be
12:49celibate or I'm going to find a wife.
12:50I'm going to do this. I'm going to do
12:52that."
12:54And you don't [snorts] realize that
12:55the modern world is going to eat you up
12:58and spit you out. Not only the modern
12:59world, but your biology itself that was
13:02God created, right?
13:04God created you and your biology
13:07and your fleshy nature.
13:09And so you would assume that
13:11well,
13:13why would God want you to just reject it
13:14and throw it out the the window?
13:16This is what happens with people who are
13:19either not mature or just beginning on
13:22the spiritual path.
13:24They just take things that they hear and
13:25they say, "Okay, I'm going to do it this
13:27way. But what happens?
13:29You end up being a sexual deviant
13:30anyway.
13:33Have you not heard of the Catholic
13:34Church?
13:35Why do they have the reputation they
13:37have?
13:38It's because
13:40as a little monk
13:42little monkey, bald monkey
13:45you think you can just get rid of these
13:46instincts and there's not going to be
13:48any consequences.
13:50You think you can just devote yourself
13:51to a life of celibacy
13:53and the
13:55you know, 30,000 lb T-Rex inside you is
13:57just going to stand by and
13:59yeah, okay. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah.
14:02It's not how this works.
14:04And so what? The sexual instinct gets
14:06repressed and then it just comes back as
14:08a deformed monster and destroys the host
14:12and you may have experienced this with
14:13yourself.
14:14Having these sexual addictions.
14:16If that's the case for you. But it also
14:18goes for any anything. Like you ever try
14:21to fast
14:22and then
14:24you end up just indulging in a whole
14:25bunch of food, you self-sabotage.
14:28Same kind of reason.
14:29And you look at the people of the world
14:32who are indulging in all of these
14:33pleasures and you kind of almost you
14:36sometimes get jealous. You're like, why
14:37can't I enjoy these things of the world?
14:40I'm trying to be spiritual. I'm trying
14:41to do the right thing.
14:43They seemed to be getting all the
14:45rewards.
14:46The evil people seem to be the most
14:48successful. What's going on here?
14:50And then the good people struggle their
14:51whole lives
14:52to barely make anything to barely
14:55make ends meet.
14:57What is happening here? Well, what's
14:59happening is the mind. Because the
15:01playing ground of life is fundamentally
15:03neutral.
15:04There are rules of the game, you could
15:06say.
15:08And the only thing that matters is
15:09whether or not you are in alignment with
15:11those rules or not.
15:13And the rule of life is
15:16can you guess?
15:18I'll give you a moment.
15:21I feel like we're Dora the Explorer.
15:24>> [snorts]
15:25>> The rule of life is balance, which means
15:27that if you reject the earthly for the
15:29heavenly, you have become out of balance
15:32and it will create many problems in your
15:33life.
15:34And if you reject the the earthly or the
15:37heavenly for the earthly, you're still
15:38going to experience the same problems
15:40because you're out of balance.
15:41Only when you accept and integrate both
15:44aspects equally,
15:46do you enter into a state of harmony and
15:48balance
15:49and any problem that was created from
15:51the imbalance goes away.
15:54For example,
15:56if you want to be a religious person,
15:58you also have to be in touch with your
16:00sexuality.
16:02Doesn't mean you have to go out and
16:03indulge endlessly,
16:05but that was the whole reason they were
16:06talking about marriage in the first
16:08place. Marriage was supposed to be a
16:11safe container for you to express those
16:14instincts, but people get all neurotic
16:16and then they just run wild with it.
16:19And then they just suppressing their
16:20sexual instincts. And so, in this case,
16:23you get a lot of shame around sexuality.
16:25And what does that do? It just brings
16:27you down to hell.
16:28Makes you suffer. Makes you do stupid
16:30things. And so, to return to balance,
16:32you integrate it. You realize that
16:34there's nothing wrong with being an
16:35earthly human being. That's what you
16:37are. That's the truth. It's part of you.
16:40And you can't reject any one of the
16:41parts without also rejecting the whole.
16:44So, it's a learning how to accept your
16:46earthly nature. The part of you that
16:48wants to indulge and be lazy or do this
16:52or do that.
16:53But your identity is saying, "No, these
16:55are bad things. The book tells me these
16:57are bad things."
16:59But it's yet a part of your truth. So,
17:01what do you do?
17:03That makes me bad. The book tells me
17:05these things are bad, those things are
17:06part of me, that means I'm bad.
17:09That's what makes you neurotic.
17:11Because you don't have the wisdom,
17:13the discernment [snorts]
17:14to understand what they were talking
17:16about.
17:17That's why sometimes
17:19reading these religious texts do more
17:21harm than good.
17:23Because if you don't have the wisdom
17:25to understand what they're talking
17:27about, you're just going to use it for
17:28your own little ego desires and not only
17:32create problems in yourself, but create
17:34hell for everyone around you because
17:35they have to listen to you and your
17:36nonsense.
17:38Not you specifically, but you've I'm
17:40sure you've seen these kinds of people.
17:42It's like the people on the streets with
17:43the megaphones talking about
17:45um
17:47repent or perish. Talking about the end
17:49of days. If that's not mental illness, I
17:52don't know what is. And you can see how
17:54tricky this can be because
17:56there's a lot of earthly things that we
17:59claim as bad. Like let's take discipline
18:02for example. We say discipline is good.
18:04Discipline is
18:06holy.
18:07Discipline is right. You want to be
18:09disciplined. You don't want to be lazy.
18:11But what does that happen and what does
18:12that do to your psyche?
18:15You learn that resting and relaxing is
18:18not safe
18:19because
18:21you are conditioned into believing that
18:23discipline is good, discipline is right
18:25and so you take that on as an identity,
18:27so you try and be as disciplined as
18:28possible.
18:29But then you reject the opposite. You
18:31throw the baby out with the bathwater.
18:33Why have you done this?
18:35Which is
18:36you reject the laziness, but you also
18:38reject the relaxation.
18:41Doing nothing.
18:42Allowing yourself to just be as you are
18:45and not do anything. And so anytime you
18:47try and relax and do nothing,
18:50you start to feel guilty.
18:51You feel like, oh, I got to do
18:52something. I got to feel
18:54and then
18:56your whole self-worth is
18:58determined by what you do.
19:00And so unless you're doing something,
19:01you don't feel worthy.
19:05And yet God has already given you the
19:06whole kingdom of infinite abundance
19:08without you needing to do anything. So
19:10we get in this
19:11neurotic ego holding pattern that says,
19:14"Well, I'm going to work harder and then
19:15I'll finally get what I deserve."
19:18Only until I work really hard can I one
19:20day get what I want
19:23because then I'll finally deserve it.
19:26But, it's all just ego nonsense. You
19:28don't have to do anything to deserve
19:29anything. Cuz fundamentally
19:32you are already perfect now.
19:34If you were created by God and God is
19:36perfect
19:37it means that God cannot create an
19:39imperfect creation, which means that the
19:41universe and everything in it is already
19:42perfect. But, what does your ego little
19:45mind do? It says, "No, look at all of
19:46these things that are imperfect. Look at
19:48all the suffering. Look at all the pain.
19:49Look at my own life. Look at all the
19:50things that I struggle with. I'm not
19:52perfect. I make mistakes. Only Jesus is
19:55perfect.
19:57Only these enlightened masters are
19:58perfect."
20:00But, that's not true. They just
20:02reflected back the perfect perfection in
20:05all of us so that
20:08you can see what that looks like.
20:11Because most people can't see it in
20:13themselves, they have to see it in
20:14somebody else.
20:15That's why
20:18like a lot of these ideas like you're
20:19just a filthy sinner
20:21it creates neurotic human beings
20:23and it's against God. Who would have
20:25thought?
20:26Why is it against God?
20:29First of all
20:30I think these ideas
20:33like being a filthy sinner, or not being
20:35good enough, and we all fall short of
20:36the glory of God
20:38most people aren't wise enough to
20:41understand that, what that means.
20:45And so, they just kind of take it on the
20:46surface level and say, "Okay, well, I'm
20:48bad. I'm not good enough." And that is
20:50what is against God.
20:53Which is why I said, again, the ego will
20:55take these religious teachings and
20:57manipulate them and warp them for their
20:59own personal gain.
21:02And then spread misinformation and lies
21:04to the world corrupting everyone around
21:07them. Making everyone mentally ill.
21:10And so the truth
21:11is in both
21:13integrated together.
21:15The darkness
21:16and the light.
21:18And this is the greatest problem.
21:21It's It's because if you're religious,
21:23you're at least trying to be a good
21:24person, right? Which you associate with
21:26the light. The light is good, the dark
21:28is bad. So you want to get rid of the
21:29darkness.
21:32And yet you as a human being have
21:33darkness, so you get rid of parts of
21:34yourself, it doesn't work.
21:37You just create
21:39massive problems unconsciously. While at
21:42the same time thinking that you're being
21:44a good person. Again, the microphone
21:46people, they think they're being a good
21:47person.
21:48But they're really just uh slave to the
21:50forces of darkness. And so we want to
21:52become aware of our attachments. Where
21:54do we get triggered? Where do we judge?
21:57So that we can begin integrating the
21:59opposite energy. Like a great example is
22:02um Andrew Tate. Why did Andrew Tate
22:05become famous? The most Googled person
22:07on the planet at one point.
22:09It's because he reflected the shadow
22:13of millions and millions of people.
22:16The things that they didn't want to look
22:17at. The things they wouldn't didn't want
22:19to see in them themselves, you see?
22:23>> [snorts]
22:23>> And so he triggered that.
22:25He triggered that strong emotion
22:29of judgment. Basically, he just
22:31triggered a whole bunch of people
22:33by just being himself. Because whatever
22:36you don't look at in yourself, you will
22:38get triggered back at by others, you
22:40see?
22:41And so your triggers are your teachers.
22:43But we get so caught up on the surface
22:44level. It's like, "No, I don't like
22:45them. I don't like this. I don't like
22:47that."
22:48Remain a slave to the ego. Same thing
22:51with fighting with other religions. Your
22:54religion is wrong. Look at all the
22:55evidence that I have. I'm going to quote
22:57all of the evidence of your holy book
23:00that proves that yours is wrong and uh
23:02mine is right. And yet, then wouldn't
23:04you think that God also created the
23:06other religions so that mhm different
23:08target audiences could actually
23:10understand?
23:11But again, it's just a survival
23:12mechanism. I have to be right because if
23:14I'm not right, then I don't know what is
23:16true. And if I don't know what is true,
23:18then I'm a then I'm I'm exposed to the
23:20infinite chaos of reality.
23:22So, I'm going to
23:23fight tooth and nail to reaffirm what I
23:25want and reject anything that comes into
23:27conflict with that. So, over time you
23:29become more wise.
23:31You develop a greater power of
23:32discernment. You begin listening to the
23:34other person.
23:35And instead of trying to just dismantle
23:37their argument,
23:39you try to dismantle your own argument.
23:41And you try to fight for their argument.
23:44Now, what does this mean?
23:45And why?
23:47It's because you already believe in what
23:50you believe. You don't need any more
23:51belief.
23:53In fact, you need to try and destroy
23:55that belief.
23:57Because if you believe the wrong things,
23:59you would want to know that, would you
24:01not, if you were actually trying to find
24:02the truth? Which is what religion is
24:04supposed to be.
24:06So, instead you ask, well, how is their
24:08religion right and how is mine wrong?
24:10How are they right and how am I wrong?
24:12And guess what? If you can't build an
24:15argument and you have a serious you you
24:17you attempt it seriously,
24:19well, then you must know that you're
24:20pretty
24:22you're pretty much aligned with the
24:22truth, at least for the most part.
24:25And that helps you from being so stuck
24:26in your ways. And it heals you. This is
24:29how you heal that neurotic holding
24:31pattern
24:33of having the the split in your psyche.
24:36The being too attached to one end and
24:39rejecting the other.
24:41Being too heavenly and rejecting the
24:43earthly.
24:44People on the spiritual path do this all
24:45the time.
24:47I'm going to be all love and light, but
24:49uh I can't take out the trash.
24:51And so, it is in
24:54balancing the parts of ourselves that we
24:56have rejected
24:58with the parts of ourselves that we have
24:59accepted, which allows us to enter into
25:02divine union,
25:04which brings us closer to the truth and
25:06therefore closer to God and restores
25:09harmony in our life because God created
25:12the heavens and the earth, which means
25:14that the earth isn't bad and you got to
25:16reject it and you spend your whole life
25:17trying to get out of the earth.
25:19Oh, it's the Archons, they have enslaved
25:21us.
25:23We are stuck here on this prison planet.
25:26Forget about it.
25:28It's the flat earth, forget about it.
25:30That's That's mental illness right
25:31there. Flat earth.
25:34No offense, but I'm trying to offend you
25:36because it's mental illness.
25:38And it's also as simple as
25:42Think about for example
25:44philosophy and reason
25:47and thinking.
25:49A lot of people really like thinking
25:50about things, thinking about the
25:52philosophy of religion and everything in
25:54general.
25:55And yet, a lot of these people don't
25:57actually take action in the real life.
25:59And so the cure for the thinking-minded
26:01person is to take more action, get more
26:03into their body, feel more.
26:06And the cure for the feeling person is
26:08to think more.
26:09Because we all have these strengths and
26:11these weaknesses,
26:13some from biology, from nature, and some
26:16from nurture, from our outer
26:17environment, and that will create
26:19imbalances in ourselves because we're
26:21attached to certain things, certain ways
26:23of being, and that's called karma.
26:26And that karma causes us to express
26:28ourselves in ways that either promote
26:30harmony and love and joy and abundance
26:32or create pain and suffering.
26:35So you can look at the pain and
26:37suffering in your life
26:38and you begin to understand, oh, I must
26:40have some karmic attachment associated
26:42with this. And
26:46often times,
26:48if you're spiritual
26:50or religious in nature,
26:52it has to do with the attachment to the
26:54heavenly, the spiritual, and rejection
26:56of the earthly. So what do you do? You
26:58do more earthly things. It's like, can
27:01you have a conversation with someone
27:03without making it spiritual?
27:05Or without talking about God?
27:07And you might say, well, it's good to
27:08talk about God, right? I should talk I
27:10should spread the gospel to the people
27:12around me so they are saved, their souls
27:14are saved.
27:15Not always. Not always.
27:18That's why I think it was Jesus who
27:20said, don't cast pearls before the
27:21swine.
27:23Why did he say this? It's because you
27:26wanting to talk about God all the time
27:28is your own neurotic holding pattern,
27:30disguised as virtue.
27:33And yet people cannot hear you
27:36because it's a neurotic holding pattern.
27:40And so it comes across as,
27:43okay, buddy. Have fun with that.
27:46And so what is the the purpose of what
27:48you do?
27:50You push away most people who are not in
27:52that realm,
27:53but at least you get to feel good about
27:55yourself, right?
27:56At least you get to feel like you're
27:57doing the right thing.
27:58And yet if you approached life as a
28:01normal human being
28:04and talked to people as normal human
28:06beings, guess what? You would resonate
28:08with them.
28:10And they would be open to hearing
28:12what you actually have to say.
28:14Otherwise,
28:16it's just this, oh, I get to feel good
28:17about myself because I'm better than
28:19you, kind of thing. Even though that's
28:21the quiet part said out loud,
28:24it's what's actually happening. Because
28:28we get a sense of identity based on
28:32the relationship between ourselves and
28:34those around us.
28:36So in order for you to claim an
28:39identity,
28:40you have to judge. For example, if you
28:43want to be a hero,
28:45you have to have a villain.
28:48The villain
28:50gives meaning to the hero. That's why in
28:52the Batman movie, The Dark Knight,
28:54the Joker says
28:56in response to Batman. Batman says,
28:59"Why do you want to kill me?" And And
29:00the Joker says, "Kill you? No. No, I
29:03wouldn't do that.
29:04You complete me."
29:07There is no Batman without the Joker.
29:10And there's no Joker without the Batman.
29:12The game is in the dynamic between the
29:14two.
29:15And so, if you try and be the hero, you
29:18will always attract the villain into
29:19your life. And of course, things like
29:22the Bible give you a convenient out.
29:25Oh, the villain is the devil. He's all
29:27the bad guy. Convenient for you to
29:29project all of your negativity and
29:30darkness onto somebody else.
29:33That's very virtuous of you, don't you
29:34think?
29:35Don't you think that
29:37to burden
29:38another being
29:40with all of the evil in the universe,
29:42that's like the most virtuous thing you
29:44could do, right?
29:45It's all their fault. It's all them.
29:48And you get to be the nice little hero,
29:50feeling good, being virtuous, being the
29:52hero.
29:53But what does a healthy version of this
29:55look like?
29:56Well, you begin to see
29:57that duality is an illusion.
30:00It's like saying up is different than
30:02down. Or like the head side of a coin
30:05is separate from the tails.
30:09You can't have up without down. You
30:11can't have down without up. They are
30:12linked because they're not two separate
30:14things. They're just two opposites of
30:16one thing. Equal in value and opposite
30:19in degree. Same thing with the hero and
30:21the villain. They're not separate. Same
30:23thing with
30:25Jesus and Satan. They're not separate.
30:28But it's that illusion of separation
30:30>> [snorts]
30:30>> which they talked about in the Garden of
30:32Eden, do you remember this?
30:33That creates the split in our psyche.
30:36It's our developed intelligence, the
30:38mind that acts like a sword that cuts
30:40apart reality and puts things in boxes
30:42and com- compartmentalizes things.
30:46Which is necessary, but it also comes
30:49with massive problems. And so,
30:53what is healing?
30:54What frees us from this mental illness?
30:58Is
30:59rising up from duality into unity
31:03and integrating the opposites in
31:05ourselves.
31:07Not rejecting the villain, not rejecting
31:09the dark, not rejecting the earthly,
31:12but taking a little piece of it
31:14and
31:15becoming it. Like you don't want to
31:17become the whole villain,
31:19but you want to be able
31:22to be like the villain a little bit.
31:25You take a piece of what you hate and
31:27you integrate it into yourself.
31:30You don't become the whole thing because
31:31then you're just falling to the other
31:32side. But think about how difficult that
31:34is.
31:35Everything you know, your whole identity
31:38is telling you this is wrong. This is
31:39terrible.
31:41And overall, generally, it may be.
31:44And yet,
31:46if you want to live in balance and in
31:48wholeness,
31:50you must take that, a small part of it,
31:53and become it. Like for example, if
31:56you're just a nice religious person
31:59and you don't want much and you're
32:00humble,
32:01well, what happens is that the evil
32:04people of the world just enslave you and
32:07your family. And then, what good was all
32:09that?
32:10Sure, you may experience the fruits in
32:13the afterlife, but in this life, you and
32:17everybody you love suffers miserably.
32:19But guess what?
32:20If, as the hero, you had a little bit of
32:22that villain in you, you wouldn't allow
32:25something like that to happen.
32:27Because you would know what they're
32:29like.
32:31You would think a little bit like them.
32:33You would behave a little bit like them.
32:35You would stand up. You wouldn't
32:37tolerate. You would have strong
32:39boundaries.
32:41So, you wouldn't be taken advantage of.
32:44That's why being nice is not a virtue.
32:46Being nice is just nice. That's why
32:48Jordan Peterson said you should be a
32:50monster and learn how to tame it.
32:52It's the exact same thing he was kind of
32:54talking about. And this is what people
32:56who have
32:57become religious
32:58have lost about true religion.
33:01Cuz there's a story long, long time ago.
33:03I think it was during the Crusades.
33:06And there was this group of Christians.
33:09And some evil force was coming
33:12to pillage, right?
33:14And instead of running away, they stood
33:15their ground at like a church or
33:17something. And so the the dark evil
33:19forces came.
33:21And they said,
33:24I don't know what they said. "We're
33:25going to kill you all and you better
33:27leave. We'll give you one last chance."
33:29And they said, "No, we're here.
33:31Kill us if you have to,
33:33but we are standing
33:35for what we believe in."
33:37And so they were all massacred. But
33:39think about the courage that it takes to
33:40do something like that. True religion,
33:43the true spiritual path
33:46is really only for warriors.
33:48It's not for people who can't
33:51handle
33:52suffering and pain. It's not made for
33:54people who are cowardly. It's not made
33:56for people who are nice. It's made for
33:58only the most powerful human beings.
34:01Because you have to go through this
34:02process of dissolving
34:06and reintegrating. This alchemical
34:08journey. Finding your weaknesses.
34:12That which creates suffering in your
34:13life, the imbalances.
34:15And you look
34:17at where you're falling short and you
34:19begin integrating that.
34:22You look at your enemy.
34:23And you don't become your enemy,
34:26but you take a piece of them and
34:27integrate it into yourself. That's why
34:29we love
34:31superheroes like Batman.
34:33He's a hero, but he's also kind of the
34:35villain.
34:36The dark side of the hero.
34:38Carl Jung once said,
34:40"What you are looking for is where you
34:43least want to look. The pain, the
34:46suffering, the problems."
34:48If you want to know what God is calling
34:51you to do,
34:52look at the suffering in your life. Look
34:55at the problems.
34:57You might think that
34:59God's calling for you
35:02is grand and it's amazing.
35:05It's this big dream, this big vision.
35:08But you might not realize that God's
35:10plan is fulfilled by doing what's in
35:13front of you.
35:15By facing the darkness, by facing the
35:17problems.
35:18And reflecting and realizing, "Hmm,
35:20well, where
35:22who who is call who is life calling me
35:24to become in this moment?" Because this
35:26is what will happen to you.
35:28Life will put pressure on you
35:30and it will call you
35:32to become somebody new.
35:34And if you can't do that,
35:38the pain will get worse and worse and
35:39worse until you die. But if you can rise
35:42up,
35:44you grow a little bit closer to the
35:45truth, a little bit closer to God
35:48because you're becoming whole.
35:51And all you have to do to discover,
35:53"Well, what's the next step in my
35:55spiritual journey? What do I do? How do
35:57I become mentally free?"
35:59And it's like the story of the Knights
36:00of the Round Table.
36:03One day, the knights
36:06were in search of the Holy Grail, the
36:08cup from which Jesus drank
36:11while he was being crucified.
36:13I think. Holy cup. And eventually they
36:17stumbled upon a dark forest.
36:20They all said to themselves,
36:23"We'll enter the dark forest at the
36:24place that seems darkest to us. If you
36:27want to find
36:29God, the truth, your soul, the true
36:32self,
36:34if you want to find your dream life,
36:35everything you've ever desired, the joy,
36:37the love, the abundance,
36:39it is found
36:41in the dirt and the mud in the place you
36:44least want to look. And if you're too
36:46attached to the spiritual or the
36:47heavenly
36:49or the good, you're you're going to
36:51avoid going there
36:54because you're going to say, "Well, no,
36:56that's wrong. I shouldn't be there."
36:58If I'm spiritual, I should be feeling
37:00good. I should be feeling joy. I should
37:01be at peace. But you can't have peace
37:03without war.
37:05You can't have love without loss and
37:07pain and suffering.
37:09And so, if you avoid the pain and
37:10suffering, you also can't have the love.
37:12If you avoid the war, you can't have the
37:14peace because they're not opposite and
37:16they're not
37:18separate. They're opposites. You can't
37:20reject one without also rejecting the
37:22other.
37:24And so, it's beginning to see that life
37:26is already perfect now.
37:28Darkness is equally as valuable as the
37:31light because they both equally
37:33contribute to the truth, to wholeness.
37:35So, you stop judging things that happen
37:38to you as bad
37:40and you start to see them as part of the
37:42perfection of all things.
37:44You stop rejecting the parts of yourself
37:46that you see as bad and that you judge
37:48or that you judge in others
37:51and you just begin to free yourself from
37:53the illusion
37:55because you see that the judgment
37:57creates separation and the separation
37:58creates suffering. You dive into
38:00ignorance and that ignorance separates
38:03you from truth, love, joy, God.
38:07And so, you begin paying attention. Oh,
38:08where am I attached to ignorance? Where
38:11am I attached to separation?
38:13And you make a point to integrate the
38:15opposites. Return back to unity. Return
38:18back to wholeness.
38:19And you will feel
38:21when you are on that path.
38:24Not only from the relief of the
38:26suffering
38:27that the imbalance creates, but also
38:30from the joy of growing closer to God,
38:32feeling like you're doing God's will,
38:34you're you're
38:35on the right path. But you have to
38:38understand that there is no evil villain
38:40out to get you. There is no devil.
38:44There is only God's left hand and right
38:46hand.
38:48It's all God. God is the one pushing you
38:50down and God is the one pulling you up.
38:54Because there is only one.
38:56But if you perceive the devil to be
38:58something separate attacking you, you're
39:00going to be stuck in this neurotic
39:01holding pattern. And that's how you
39:03allow the fear in and the worry in.
39:06Because if you believe there's a
39:07separate force, well, then it can
39:09manipulate you and it can do something.
39:11But once you realize there's only one
39:13power,
39:14well, that's fear begins to fall away.
39:17That's why I don't really talk about
39:18demons anymore because it's illusion.
39:21It's ignorance.
39:23On the surface, are there evil forces,
39:26psychic forces out manipulating things?
39:29Yes, there are.
39:31But on a higher truth, there's still
39:32only one,
39:34which is why every bad situation, every
39:36negative thing that happens to you
39:39can either be used for good
39:41or it can be used to destroy you based
39:43on how you perceive it. If you remain in
39:46ignorance and in separation, it will
39:47destroy you.
39:48But if you begin to see the perfection
39:51of it all,
39:52that good and evil are equally
39:54important,
39:56then you can use what happens to you
39:59for your highest spiritual growth.
40:01Because in the darkness, in the mud, in
40:03the pain and the suffering, that's where
40:04all the spiritual nutrients are. But
40:07again,
40:09if you're too cowardly to walk into that
40:10forest,
40:12you'll never find the riches. That is
40:14why Jesus said, "Don't live a lukewarm
40:15life because you won't you will taste
40:18neither the fruits of heaven or the
40:20fruits of earth. You will not be a hero
40:22nor a villain.
40:24You'll be some secondary background
40:26character
40:28with little meaning in their life. And
40:30the best place to start is feel.
40:34Where are you excited? What triggers
40:37you? What creates pain? What creates
40:39suffering?
40:40And you just begin like a scientist with
40:41curiosity
40:43with a magnifying glass just looking at
40:45it,
40:46reflecting.
40:47Why does this excite me?
40:49Why do I feel pulled in this direction?
40:52Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong.
40:53Doesn't matter if it's good or bad.
40:55But you have to have that curiosity or
40:57else you're going to be too stuck in the
40:58situation to do anything about it.
41:01Like if you have an addiction or a
41:02problem
41:03and you're suffering miserably,
41:05you're not going to have the mental
41:06resources
41:08to actually deal with a problem.
41:10You're too busy being afraid or
41:11suffering miserably.
41:13And so curiosity allows you to take a
41:15step back
41:17from that suffering
41:20and enters you into a mode where now
41:22you're doing something about it. But
41:23just remember, it's always the same
41:25thing. Tension is created by opposites.
41:30>> [clears throat]
41:32>> That's why they say opposites attract.
41:35Why do opposites attract? Because
41:37there's no separation. They're both one
41:38thing. So naturally any opposite is
41:41attracted to each other.
41:42And through opposites, there's this
41:43tension. There's energy created.
41:47Psychologically, you would call this
41:49libido. It's life energy. Where is your
41:51life energy going naturally?
41:53Where are you pulled? Where are you
41:54excited?
41:56Even what triggers you. What angers you.
41:58What causes pain and suffering.
42:00And if this is the case for you,
42:04which it is for everybody
42:07in different areas of our life.
42:10Wherever there is energy, there is
42:11opposites.
42:12Which means that you are on one end and
42:15there's this different trait,
42:18this behavior, this pattern on the other
42:20end. And life is calling you to
42:22integrate that into your life.
42:25And what happens
42:27once you integrate that?
42:29There is one.
42:31The energy dissolves.
42:33There's no longer the tension.
42:36And you return a little bit more to
42:37wholeness. I am Ra Energy. If you're
42:39tired of feeling like a slave to your
42:41mind,
42:42a slave to your thoughts, to that little
42:44ego prison, then I encourage you to
42:46check out Monkey Mind Masters Community,
42:49where I'll help you break free from the
42:51prison of your mind. Well,
42:54much peace and many blessings. And
42:55remember, just
42:58be.

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