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The Extreme Power of Belief

November 4, 2020 by Gabe Leave a Comment

Quick Facts

-Beliefs are extremely powerful. What you believe (consciously and subconsciously) most likely determines how you live your life!

-Beliefs are powerful because of the emotions they can summon.

-You can create and disidentify from beliefs! If you do these two things you can create and have complete control of your mental reality, and your mental reality is mirrored in the physical world 🙂

Intro

Almost all of us believe something! It doesn’t have to be religious and perhaps we believe in a casual sense, but almost all of us know what it’s like to believe something even if we aren’t consciously aware that we do so, and I doubt this comes as a surprise to you.

What may surprise you is how powerful beliefs actually are! When you believe the right things and when you believe them in the right way you will have great power and great influence, and in a good way!

What Is A Belief?

A belief is a repeating thought pattern that’s (usually) emotionally charged. Also, our beliefs are often sources of emotional polarity, meaning we feel positive whenever they’re agreed with and negative whenever they’re disagreed with.

An auditory thought and a belief are different because thought is fleeting, whereas a belief is a thought that’s repeated, reaffirmed, and emotionally charged over a long period of time.

Even just knowing this one truth puts you in a position to take care of yourself! But more on that in the section below.

The True Power of Belief

What tends to happen is we tend to identify with our beliefs and let them decide how we physically act, how we interact with other people, and how other people interact with us. This means that we can create a live out a set of beliefs that is very powerful and very regenerative to ourselves and others, and this is probably the best thing to do as far as beliefs are concerned.

Let’s say we identify with the belief “people love to give me money.” Since money is a positive thing and since such a belief implies that money comes effortlessly, there will be a stark absence of stress if you choose to believe it. An absence of stress usually means an increase in confidence and a state of relaxation, and both of these states are healthy, positive, and desirable for biological and psychological reasons. In other words, if you act from this belief, people will probably give you more money than if you didn’t act from this belief!

Let’s look at another belief, “life is tough, and surviving is difficult.” If you identify with this belief then you’ll be focused on surviving and not thriving, and you’ll also focus a lot of your time on being tough. You’ll probably spend a lot of time subconsciously sabotaging yourself so that surviving will be difficult to reaffirm the belief that surviving is difficult. You’ll hang around people who believe the same thing which will reaffirm your belief even more, which means you’ll probably pass on this belief to your children. Enough people are doing this at the moment to create a “survivalist world,” and I find it disgusting.

When you create and live by a belief you will literally do everything you can to reaffirm it since you subconsciously use it as a source of emotional polarity. But beyond this, identifying with a belief will also determine how other people interact with you as well since beliefs can control body language, your tone of voice, what’s being said, and your actions, all of which are picked up by others fairly quickly! Belief can be quite strong in either a positive or a negative sense, and identifying with them can make it better or worse depending on the belief.

How It Can Be Positive, and How It Can Be Negative

It’s worth mentioning that most of us have a mixture of positive and negative beliefs, and that sometimes these beliefs even contradict each other. We can believe that working hard is the right thing to do but we can simultaneously believe that surviving is difficult, and identifying with these two beliefs make for an entire life of hard work and constantly being broke.

It can be positive when you ask yourself, “what do I believe?,” write all of your beliefs down, write down a set of beliefs you’d like to adopt, disidentify from the beliefs you don’t want to live out anymore, and adopt the ones you want! How it can be negative is by simply doing nothing and letting your negative beliefs fester, or by adopting more negative beliefs for one reason or another.

It’s also worth pointing out that one belief can invoke a certain kind of emotion, and that emotion can invoke other beliefs and emotions. There is such a thing as a “core belief” where one belief is lived out and other beliefs and emotional experiences are created from that core belief. This is great when positive beliefs are core beliefs! However I feel like many of us have negative beliefs as core beliefs, and that’s partly why it’s so hard to change from negative beliefs into positive beliefs.

How To Harness Beliefs For Yourself

Of course, we can harness beliefs for our own purposes! I greatly recommend forming a purpose that is in the best interest of your wellbeing and the wellbeing of everyone around you so that your beliefs will line up in a regenerative way!

How I do it is I write down my current beliefs and the beliefs I want to add into my subconscious. I change my current beliefs to be in line with my purpose (being regenerative to myself and other people) and I disidentify from the ones I don’t want to hold onto. Then, I consciously choose to add the new beliefs (IE, “I choose to believe that I’m powerful”) on a consistent basis.

Usually, it takes a week of affirmation to truly change and add beliefs, especially if I’m trying to change a core belief. Perhaps it will be longer or shorter for you, but I recommend following the way I do it because repetition is how your current beliefs got there in the first place!

If you choose to do this, and if you really believe the best things you can possibly believe you’ll be sitting pretty in one of the best places in the world, psychologically and emotionally speaking! Physical success won’t be far behind either, of course!

Conclusion

Understanding the true power of belief and how to harness it for positive purposes is the best way to live a healthy life (alongside psychedelics ;)). I truly hope this post is informative and helpful, and I’ll see you in the next article!

Beyond Spirituality

November 2, 2020 by Gabe Leave a Comment

Quick Fact

-There is a state of being that feels like it’s beyond the current definition of spirituality we see today! This state of being can be reached through meditation and a kind of dream called a “wisdom dream,” the most powerful kind of dream!

Intro

I’ll admit – I know it’s bold to even claim that there’s anything beyond spiritual practice and experience. However, I understand that we as a modern species understand spirituality in a certain light, and I wish to convey an understanding that’s beyond this modern understanding of spirituality.

My Experience

Sometimes I will have a very, very powerful dream. This kind of dream is so vivid and so intense that I cannot convey the entirety of its meaning to you through a mode of communication so primitive as the English language… Nonetheless, I call them “wisdom dreams” or “healing dreams.”

In my most recent dream I was sitting down and I could turn a full 360 degrees to view the (rocky and desert-esque) landscape. I also had a pair of sunglasses and when I wore the sunglasses, the tone of my dream changed from color to black and white! Pretty cool all by itself, but something else would happen… A portal would appear when I had the glasses on. A small, white portal. When I looked into it I could feel something happen inside of my head, and when I looked away I would feel normal again.

My friend was sitting beside me (who happens to be extremely conscious in the waking world) and she told me, “if you look into that portal for long enough you’ll go on a DMT trip.”

I looked at her in an odd way since I… Couldn’t have a DMT trip? I mean, it was impossible since I was asleep, plus I didn’t have any on me!

I fooled around for a little while and then I decided to jump right into it. I put on the glasses, looked directly into the portal, and off I went.

To say this was a healthy experience would be an understatement – it was exactly like a DMT experience except it was fully inside of my own mind! It started out small (in other words, memorable) and I floated in space with toy dinosaurs and toy blocks floating all around me. Perhaps aliens were there as well? I don’t remember. What I do remember was the feeling of absolute transcendental bliss and the feeling like it was progressing into more of the same.

The dream progressed two more “levels” until I reached the core of the whole thing. I remember speaking with something (someone?) and I remember that their words were very meaningful but I don’t remember what they said. I woke up and spent the entire day healed of any and all psychological and emotional ailments (which is really saying something considering how broken I was at the time)!

That dream plus countless other experiences have led me to write this post – yes, all of these can be considered spiritual experiences, but they’re so meaningful and so wonderful that simply labeling them as “spiritual” seems almost insulting to the experience! And trying to reach these states by simply trying to be “spiritual” doesn’t seem to be very effective!

Objective Experiments

I wouldn’t be surprised if these states that I consider “beyond spiritual” can be accessed by you in the same way that I can.

Some objective ways to have roughly the same experience is through a large dose of psychedelic mushrooms or a good DMT journey. If I didn’t smoke DMT before I had that dream I highly doubt the dream would have been so intense, so there’s that to consider!

Something else you can try is cultivating a strong intention to have such a dream. If you do this I suggest asking yourself why you want such a dream and try to answer and heal yourself while you’re consciously reading this sentence. Perhaps you can even cultivate your intentions, go through as much healing as you can without DMT or wisdom dreams, take DMT, then you’ll have an increased chance of experiencing such a dream. Unfortunately, I’m already in the land of speculation so I’ll just say that DMT works for sure!

It’s All About Perspective

You’re reading the post of a dude on the internet through a certain perspective. I don’t know what it is, but it’s there. I encourage you to observe your own perspective and write down everything about it. I also encourage you to create the perspective you want for yourself and live it out to the best of your ability every single day.

That’s one of the more surefire ways to go “beyond spirituality” and really experience some cool things in your life!

Conclusion

I tell you about these things in the hope and desire for you to experience them, so I encourage you to have a “wisdom dream” as soon as you possibly can! Thank you for reading, I’ll see you in the next article 🙂

The Hero and the Villian

November 2, 2020 by Gabe Leave a Comment

Quick Facts

-The hero and the villain cannot exist without each other, and the show they put on is absolutely incredible!

-There are states of being that are beyond hero and villain, good and evil, and these states are very meaningful and worth living in!

Intro

Talking about the hero and villain archetypes is something so many people have done for such a long time! It can be said it’s the ultimate show, the ultimate moral question, the ultimate adventure, and one of the most meaningful dualities to watch and live out in everyday life.

Many of us wish to be the hero and many of us secretly wish to be the villain. Many of us want the battle to go on, the struggle to continue, and we see these archetypes play out in real life and, very often, in movies and cinematic films.

So what is the hero, and what is the villain? Why are these archetypes so meaningful to watch and play out? And, of course, what’s beyond the archetype duality when it’s transcended. Let’s have a wee chat :).

What Is The Hero and What Is The Villain?

Many of us consider the hero to be the protagonist, the one who saves the village from the dragon and uses the gold to repair the damages. The hero is the alpha, the leader, the one who strikes to protect and not to lash out in anger. The hero is the one most of us subconsciously identify with, which means we subconsciously disidentify from the villain.

The villain, of course, is the one who attacks to destroy. The villain almost always has a story, a terrible series of unfortunate events that inspired fear, hatred, and rage to form inside of him and control his actions. He exists to be defeated, to lead his army against the hero, and ultimately fall, and this is the story we love to watch and live out!

The hero and the villain can sometimes be swapped, or they can develop opposite traits as the story progresses – Raskolnikov in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment started out as something of a hero until his decisions slowly made him into something of a villain. It was highly considered that Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War was a strong villain until he gave his case and made us wonder if he was the hero. This happens in real life as well, someone may think they’re a hero and wish they’re a villain or vice versa since one archetype tries their best to suppress the other!

In a sense, who the hero is and who the villain is determined by which side of the moral scale they’re on. Who has the passion, the will to protect, the regenerative warrior outlook on life? And who has the negativity, the spite, and desire for revenge? Whoever makes the first attack (usually the villain unless you’re watching/reading a sequel) is less morally developed than the one who defends the attack, and this is the biggest clue!

And of course, it’s the most meaningful story in the history of mankind. Good vs. Evil! Many people wish to identify with some kind of hero, and these archetypes are so old and so buried deep within our psyche that even just mentioning them conjures feelings and images the likes of which are extremely powerful!

Why Is “The Story” So Meaningful?

The stories are emotionally gripping! We want to see the good guy win and as soon as the bad guy gets the upper hand we feel down because we want to see regenerative power take the day!

That’s partly why they’re meaningful but another reason is that these stories are the playing out of old, archetypal patterns that we can see and observe in our mind. Did we create them long ago, or do they exist within our collective consciousness as an objective fact? Either way, we attach so much emotional meaning to the playing out of these stories that if the entire planet were to turn into a hero vs. villain dynamic we would live very meaningful lives.

But the strongest reason why “the story” is so meaningful is that we attach our own emotion to it, consciously or subconsciously. Even though it provides archetypal meaning there is a higher sense of meaning to be found beyond the story of the hero and the villain, and you deserve to know this since it’s been so overplayed and so overused by our lovely modern-day corporations.

What’s Beyond It?

First I’d like to address the question, “how to go beyond it?”. I personally enjoyed watching heroic movies and reading heroic novels for a long time, and that was part of what led me past it – immersing myself in it and paying attention to my thoughts and feelings at the same time. I’d come across all kinds of desires and insecurities, and once I sorted out my psyche I stopped feeling the need to watch The Avengers for the 9th time in a row! I simply grabbed ahold of my personal power and ran with it instead of receiving it from outside sources!

And then of course, what’s beyond “the story?” I feel like it will be different for everyone but for me, it was straight emotional and psychological fulfillment, a series of meaningful spiritual happenings that didn’t occur while I was watching these kinds of movies, a kind of lifestyle that’s very introspective yet very extroverted at the same time, states of meditation that completely dwarfed any meaning I found from “the story…” and more, of course!

I guarantee that if you’re captured by the stories of the past that there’s more waiting for you if you choose to receive it 😉

Conclusion

Thank you for reading my article! I apologize for the short post on such a popular topic, but I want to help you transcend it (or even transcend into it) as much as I possibly can!

Thank you for reading my article! I’d greatly appreciate it if you meditate before reading the next post 🙂