Who you really are

*Everything is clean (once you clean the dirt off it)*

Who are you really? You are the human riding the horse. The horse is your animal mind. The animal mind is mainly concerned with bodily functions feelings and urges. The animal mind does whatever it feels like doing whenever it feels like doing it.

You are the observer of the animal mind. You are the human mind. The human mind is the rational mind that objectively observes all things. You observe the external world and your internal world. Externally you observe what is or could happen and internally you observe what things you enjoy and what things you dont. Most importantly you observe the connections between events and whether or not you will enjoy the outcome. You do not "think". You make observations.

The rational mind emerges from the animal mind over a period of years. But the rational mind cannot emerge from the animal mind as long as it is enslaved to the animal mind. The rational mind is enslaved by the animal mind by the alarm system which is a part of the animal mind. The alarm system is infinitely powerful. (It wouldn't be a very good alarm system if it wasn't). The rational mind is not powerful enough to fight the alarm system but the rational mind can turn the alarms off one by one and thereby free itself. See this page to learn how to do that. Once you are free your eyes will be opened. Before you do this you might want to strengthen your "dark" muscle (the anti-brotherly-love muscle) which acts as a filter for your eyes (like sunglasses).

Once the rational mind and the animal mind are separate the animal mind can experience pain, or rather fear, while the rational mind knows the danger is only an illusion and that it is safe thus creating the experience of good pain. Good pain has all the thrill and excitement of danger but none of the fear that so greatly interferes with ones ability to enjoy oneself. Good pain is a fundamentally different sensation from bad pain. They are two completely different things. See: Discipline.

Do not fall into the trap of defense mechanisms:

* *Theistic repression* declaring all dirty thoughts or impulses to be evil (thus inadvertently making them more dirty) with the intension of distancing oneself from them (even though the person doing so may be guilty of them himself).

* *Atheistic identification*, incorporating an object or thought into oneself. The exact opposite of repression. In other words, regarding all dirty thoughts and deeds to be clean no matter how much dirt is on them. Dirt = irrational fear

What is the purpose of living? Living IS the purpose. What is the purpose of our purpose? It doesn't have one. It doesn't need one.

## Irrational fears

*Fear is like dirt and it washes right off.*
*All things are clean (after you clean the dirt off them)*
*The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference.*

Civilized laws exist to increase your freedom. Not decrease it.

Should people be free to enslave other people? Of course not!

Having a law against slavery increases peoples freedom.

Want to be free of murderers, thieves, and rapists? Then you need laws (and jails).

Yet many people have an irrational fear of authority.

Seeing something that you have an irrational fear of causes alarms to go off inside your head.

The alarms going off inside your head causes you pain.

The pain causes you to have an irrational fear of the thing that caused the alarms which caused the pain.

Its a never ending vicious cycle.

The important thing to note is that it is the alarms that are painful. Not the original stimulus.

Therefore you can break out of that vicious cycle by turning those alarms off.

No alarms = no pain

No pain = no fear

No fear = no alarms

Another way of saying this is that if you believe that it will hurt then it does hurt.

But if you dont believe that it will hurt then it doesnt hurt.

You only need to suspend your disbelief for a few seconds to break out of the cycle

This isn't rocket science or time travel. All you do is pretend for a few seconds. You do not ingest anything.

If you can turn the alarms off and thereby stop the pain then why would you not do so?

Things that you have an irrational fear of seem "dirty" to you. After you turn the alarms off they no longer seem dirty. You have "cleaned" it. (If its dirty its drugs. If its clean its food.)

Note: Cleaning is not the same thing as being happy. Thats totally different. Cleaning is pretending to be happy. Not being happy.

## Neurosis

*You 'desire' things because they are desirable. But you 'crave' things because you think they are (infinitely) forbidden*.

Freud defined libido as the instinct energy or force.

* Freud later added the death drive as a second source of mental energy.

Libido can be thought of as "flowing" like a river and branching out into a delta at its end.

There are four pairs of "rivers":

Myers–Briggs
 Inductive

Each "river" corresponds to one of the eight Myers–Briggs types.

Myers–Briggs
 Inductive

Fear can cause one of a rivers distributaries to get dammed up. This fear causes a perverse craving (death drive) for the very thing you fear. This is called a neurosis and it results in a personality disorder. A neurosis can be cured by eliminating the fear as explained above.

A neurosis can be so complete that the entire "river", not just one of its distributaries, is blocked. This is often due to some sort of trauma. The water, being imprisoned, has no outlet at all and the result is extremely painful for the person experiencing it. If this pain continues long enough the person might become suicidal. See Running amok.

When one river is completely blocked then this can cause other rivers to become blocked.

* Anti-empathy being blocked leads to Anti-curiosity becoming blocked
* Anti-sympathy being blocked leads to Anti-time becoming blocked
	+ Anti-time being blocked manifests as depression and possibly even catatonia

If both of each pair is completely blocked then the person is inwardly normal but outwardly their behavior is similar to autism, aspergers, schizoid, or schizophrenia.

Myers–Briggs
 Inductive

## The future of humanity

While individual persons can turn off individual alarms, humanity as a whole will remain enslaved to terrorists and their kin until we turn the entire alarm system itself off for good.

Perhaps it can be replaced by a greatly improved midbrain. (Show me what's wrong and what to do about it. Don't just yell at me.)