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SELF-DELUSION

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MASS CONFUSION INSIDE YOUR HEAD “the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.” The ego’s goal is to persuade us to believe things that are patently false, untrue, to create a distorted reality so that it can protect us. To bend and warp what we think we know and believe is its way of keeping us where it wants us – unsure, on edge, enmeshed in self-doubt. Men will exaggerate thousands of things. Collectively we misremember most events that we experience as if the odds were always in our favor. We reconfigure and reconstruct and hyperbolically color and edit and embellish.  Everyone loves a good story. That does mean we live a good one. Nostalgia takes us back and fills us with a feeling of how - perhaps we wished we felt. In actuality, the truth is hidden in a reality that we may not want to process or accept. Hindsight is 20/20 through rose-colored spectacles but there are shades of grey that we don’t see because we may not be able to come to terms w...

THE WORLD SHADOW LOOMS LARGE

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HE ISN'T THE PROBLEM HE IS A SYMPTOM Right now in the US there is a lot of ugliness and divisiveness.  Friendships and families are being torn apart. For what? Because your guy won and you may not be able to admit the fact that he is an healthy and toxic person who is working at the age old tactic of divide and conquer? What will be the cost in the end you ask? The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The environment is being destroyed with the roll back of regulations and the pillaging of our natural resources. I guess it is all well and good, just as long as you get your measly little increase in your paycheck every week; although it is only temporary.  The weird and unusual destruction of accepted norms. But, hell yeah, lets go back to the 50's where human rights were not the standard but an exception allotted the white man because we all know he is the king of his castle. So, we all have our shadow selves where our toxic nature resides...