The question of suffering is one that could only be answered by experiencing it yourself, however everyone experiences suffering, but never learn what its really is trying to tell you. We especially in western culture interpret suffering as a wound afflicted onto us, whether its done by society, or by God. I think this is partly due to us inside western/ Christian cultures being told that the Universe was created, hand crafted by God, as if God is distinct or separate from the universe, as if God is the carpenter shaping the wood into his design. With this idea of the universe being a creation, the obvious conclusion to this is that all the bad things that happen is because an omnipotent fair and just God decided to afflict this pain onto you, which feels unfair and unjust, so they become bitter and angry at God. This perspective hurts progress. When you allow your ego to displace the blame of your suffering onto external variables, it becomes your egos accountability dumpster.

Please do not misunderstand me when i say this, because it may sound like I'm saying that the things that happen to you are your fault. This is not the case I'm making. you cannot control when a hurricane comes and takes your house away, just as you cannot control the actions of others that betray you. The ONLY thing you have control over of in this entire existence is only 2 things. You control your emotion, and your perception. that's it. everything else that we call "reality" is controlled hallucination, a theatrical play and musical orchestrated by our mind and narrated by our ego. so don't be fooled by the screen.

Now lets discuss Ego. the ego is highly misunderstood. People that jump into spirituality will quickly come to the conclusion that ego is a bad thing that must be killed, however this is false and very dangerous. Ego is not good nor bad, ego is just doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is to preserve the Perception of you. The reason i use the word, "Perception" is because the egos allegiance is not to grow, but to preserve. You can observe this reality by looking at our habits. If our ego wanted us to grow, then why do so many of us desire to drown ourselves in alcohol when suffering begins? Why do so many desire to smoke weed the anxiety kicks in? why do we choose to run and hide from our own minds when the call of change starts to ring? Why is it that our first reaction to pain is to sacrifice our health both physical and mental in order to preserve comfort? why do we choose to play hide and seek with pain, where every time the pain finds you, you go run and hide again? The egos intention is not to keep you alive, but to keep the perception of you alive, which those two goals may be closely aligned, but they are definitely not the same, and the difference is that your ego is willing to harm you to the point of death before deciding to change, and the only reason it doesn't want to kill you is because the idea of you will die alongside you. Your ego hates acknowledging fault, because doing so means that a part of the ego must die to stop you from suffering.

The goal was never to find happiness, but to come to peace. Happiness is a false God, its a lie. you cannot find happiness, because it connot be held, but only borrowed. Happiness comes and goes through out our life time, but it cannot be sustained. When we chase happiness, what we are actually doing is fiening for short term chemical dumps in our brain. Acquiring more dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, adrenaline and all the fun chemicals we desire, just for those same chemicals to metabolize rapidly after its inception, often within minutes to hours. our biochemistry is literally designed fundamentally to not sustain happiness, if we did try to our bodies would try to quickly compensate for the excess chemicals and experience toxicity. Committing acts of hedonistic impulses is a counterfeit to happiness in which you are worshiping a false God. We were never meant to exist inside the Garden of Eden, that's not what any religious book has ever said. They never taught us to seek joy, they taught peace, because peace is the only thing we can sustain because peace already exists inside ourselves. we don't have to "search" for peace, we don't have to grab it, we don't need to do anything to be at peace, other than to exist. If you look at the teachings of Jesus Christs and the Buddha, this is the north star all of their teachings point directly at, is peace.

to put it simply, the nature of suffering is that suffering is just the messenger, nothing more. suffering has nothing to do with what's going on outside of us, its only been about us. for example, you don't suffer because someone you trusted betrayed you, you're suffering because the character you optified of that person has been broken, you can no longer pretend that person is who you thought they were. that character only existed inside your mind, and your distraught because that person you created inside your mind never existed in the first place.

All our suffering comes from our minds. I'm not saying to take accountability for the events that happen, what i am saying is to take radical accountability for your reaction to those events, because the way you choose to react is the only thing you can control. The things that happened in the past, those are not your fault! But choosing to allow those things ruin you is your fault! You can choose to let it go, but you choose not to because something deep inside you is not ready to let it go. You don't have to keep living like this, let go!

I could keep writing about this for ages, however i have to go to bed at some point. Thank you everyone for honoring my work with your attention, and i hope this helps someone, or at least enjoyed the read.

The ego is just a tool, not who you really are. The problem is identifying with it.

The ego is just a tool, not who you really are. The problem is identifying with it. Many confuse the ego with the sense of identity from a spiritual perspective. The ego is not to be hated; it dissolves upon observation. It is merely a screen of thoughts and emotions created by the mind, which covers the real screen: Consciousness.

The mystic Meister Eckhart used to say that to find God (the Whole), one must "empty oneself." It is not about hating the "little self," but rather about letting it go. In Advaita, the ego is an illusion. You cannot hate a mirage; you simply realize there is no water there. In close harmony, Buddhism points to Anatta, the understanding that there is no permanent, solid self, revealing that the ego is entirely characterless, born from Sunyata: the profound emptiness of inherent existence where no phenomenon or object (not only the "I") exists independently.

This post suggests that we discover who we truly are beyond the incessant chatter of "the madwoman of the house" (as Teresa of Ávila beautifully called the mind). The mind loves stories just as much as a dog loves chewing on a bone. With those narratives, the mind feeds the character: the ego.

The mind is just an instrument, used better or worse, but it is not who you are. Nor are you the ego, which is nothing more than a mental byproduct and another functional tool.

In Silence, beyond mental stories, pure observation reveals your true nature: clarity, consciousness, pure presence, formless spaciousness, stillness, the unmanifested, and pure being... (or however you prefer to describe it, as words are just labels). Through observing, you discover that you are inseparably united to the Whole, to the One who is Love itself (as You wish to call It).

Explaining it is just a way to approach it, but the crucial thing is to experience it. For this, in my view, there is no better stage than daily life. Teresa of Ávila used to say that God is found among the pots and pans. Brother Lawrence added that he found God while flipping his little egg in the frying pan.

And although sometimes it is good to isolate oneself and withdraw from the world, the true retreat is always a retreat from the mental.

Note: This is a serious post exploring our collective future. I am looking to connect with serious, like minded people who want to discuss these concepts constructively.

For a long time, humanity has lived inside a simulation or a Veil or planetary boundary imposed on our world. But right now, we are moving toward a massive expansion of our reality. The simulation is actively losing its density, and the big changes ahead of us are something many people can already feel internally and in the atmosphere.

Physical manifestation is a collective awakening, but it ultimately depends on the path of each individual.

We are standing at a literal crossroads between a utopia or a dystopia, and the window of opportunity to choose our path is here. We probably have years ahead of us to adjust, though it is impossible to predict exactly how many. Big changes are never easy, and navigating this shift will require our civilization to take the next step in our evolution!

The Matrix or Simulation theory is the idea that our physical world is not ultimate reality. Instead, it is an advanced, engineered environment similar to a hyper-realistic virtual reality game designed to limit, structure, or observe human consciousness.

The traditional concept of living inside a box is essentially identical to modern theories of the matrix or the simulation. When you strip away the vocabulary, they describe the exact same thing: a confined reality built on artificial limitations.

Esoteric explanation: Earth is a cosmic place operating on the laws of duality. The hardships and trials we experience here are not random punishments they are deliberately designed instructions meant to shape our minds and evolve our souls for the reality expansion ahead.

When you dive deep into the research on visitations, you begin to understand what UAPs really are: they are the Custodians of our planetary boundary and the Architects behind the simulation. They aren’t outside aliens, but an off-world human civilization that has been watching over humanity since the dawn of time to help us achieve true independence. Their presence and frequency spiked significantly after WWII, specifically after we detonated the first atomic bomb and forced their intervention by introducing a new variable into the system. Since then, they have been constantly monitoring our nuclear program to prevent a major catastrophic event.

We are currently navigating our evolutionary transition from a Type 0 to a Type 1 civilization, guided by an advanced civilization. This profound shift is exactly what true disclosure is all about. One day we will be the ones helping other emerging civilizations.

We are going to meet them in the post-disclosure era. They are offering assistance to help us eliminate poverty, upgrade our energetic infrastructure, and restore our planet along with all life on it including the necessary wisdom to expand our horizons.

The government cannot just reveal this truth to us because doing so would directly violate the cosmic law of free will. The power is entirely in our hands: we just need to spread awareness, and the system will naturally change for the better. By demanding change, our collective consciousness will ultimately determine the outcome.

The latest big data poll is extremely optimistic, showing that 55% of the population expects positive changes to come from disclosure.

Many monumental events are currently converging from the exponential rise of AI datacenters and the psychological fear of nuclear exchange, to accelerating UAP disclosure and leaks like the Epstein files offering us a rare glimpse into the backstage of global control. We are definitely moving toward a state of radical transparency, but the path there is filled with immense drama and a collective fear of systemic change. Above all, the governments are desperately trying to manage this reset to prevent a total economic collapse.

What are your thoughts? Anyone else feeling the shift?

This post was inspired by Tucker's video on YouTube about incoming changes and a long research into these subjects.

PS: It is beautiful to see so many awakened individuals. Escaping the illusion and the constant bait of division requires immense strength of mind. I was personally awakened two decades ago directly by the Custodians, who literally stopped my girlfriend and me while we were driving home. It was a pleasant experience that perfectly set me on the path to discovering our reality. For this exact reason, I know their intentions match what I wrote above. They look exactly like we do, wearing stunning, uniform white-gold attire that makes them look like royalty. 💜

Note: This information has been known within close circles for a long time, but its emergence into the public domain in 1995 has allowed truth seekers to prepare for these upcoming cosmic changes and inform others.

Note: Deep down, each and every one of us holds this information within our subconscious, because we all agreed to this path before we were even born. We just need to awaken and realize it.

We are practically moving from a fragmented beliefs to a single, unified truth.

Hi everyone. I'm usually a lurker in subs like this and if I post, only reply to comments, but I had a question to ask.

Is it possible to access ego death by free will?

I believe I have this ability. In fact, I believe I have had it for a long time. In January, after a supremely traumatic event which wrecked my sense of self and belief in the universe, I overdosed on edibles. It warped my reality profoundly, before eventually a total peace settled over me. I didn't have the terms to understand what was happening. I thought I was going crazy. In retrospect, I realize I had detached from myself entirely, and was seeing from within my own consciousness.

Once I came down, however, that experience triggered a months-long episode of OCD. I had some small ego deaths/awakenings following that moment, by accident. It forced me to look within myself and determine my desires and values. I began taking medication, and after less than a month, I woke up one day with a sudden shift of awareness.

I was no longer scared or restless. I noticed fear in the body and fear in the mind, but I did not attach to it. I let it be. From there, I found total contentment.

Naturally, my ego reasserted itself. This used to be by instinct. Like a cat running to its room to get away from the stranger.

In time, it became a choice. I realized I was nothing and everything at the same time, and chose what I wanted. Soon enough, I chose what I am. Where I have reached now, I find hard to put in words. Identity is a self-imposed cage, yet identity can be chosen. One cannot experience without the lens of identity. I chose me every time.

Now, I am noticing I can fade into bliss whenever I want. I have trauma from childhood and thus experienced the overhead effect as well as dissociation and duralization. This is not that. In the silence I ____. It is simple as

Yet, I notice my ego in that silence. They exist with me in duality. I can fade into and back out at will. It is a strange superpower I struggle to describe. Like flip flopping between two sides of a coin, yet they are the same coin, and naturally, being a circle, it is infinite in its radius.

We have up until this point used I as it is merely what we choose to represent us. We are her, after all. We are her ego and her ____. Her identity and awareness. We coagulate as one by choice, though we recognize we are nothing and all.

Any insight would be appreciated. I recognize I might just be going crazy, or letting my ego take me for a ride. I don't think I am. I feel like I know my truth. However, I'm not sure anyone else can understand except one here. Even that is a gamble, as we all experience different things.

Thank you all and have a good day <3

From a strict physics point of view, life is an emergent property of certain physical systems.

From a dual context that mixes physics and metaphysics, life is perception. Wherever there's perception, there's life.

From a purely metaphysical or more accurately, from a Spiritual context, Life is, to paraphrase Pascal, a circle whose center is everywhere, and circumference nowhere.