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roydop wrote: The "voice in your head."

Then there is a simple technique from NLP called 'Stilling the inner voice' that you can use achieve this aim. You concentrate on creating an image to represent the voice or voices and then use it to turn it or them down, for example, I use an image of an old style rehostat slider and then slowly imagine turning down the volume of the inner voice until it's gone, if you have more than one voice just add more than one of whatever it is you are using as a control for each of the voices. With practice and repetition you can do away with the need for the image and just enter the state.

Enlightenment is an unlearning...not a learning...it's the endless untangling from false hopes and dreams, it is finally letting go of all the useless information you learned all your life, so that you can embrace whats true.
It means leaving 'the game' and becoming a detached observer, rather than a participant in this society, run by the insane who call themselves leaders.
At a certain point in life, everyone must do this for their own mental and emotional health, and sanity.
It usually happens to most people at mid-life. But some lucky ones are those people who wake up sooner usually around the age of when they first became self aware, when they innately knew that something was not quite right with the world in which they were born, and who instinctively had a real sense of who they actually were... for at least those people who wanted to wake up have a better chance to make a change and save themselves.
When anyone in society goes against the grain and speaks the truth, they are quickly exiled and labelled as crazy.
But society only banished those that they KNOW are a real threat. A threat against the powers that be that hold us in submission with lies and fairy tales. So be happy when they exile you, not sad. For they only exile the greatest of the great, they crucified jesus, poisoned socrates, shot john lennon. And those are only some of the few we know of.
Many, many died trying to tell the truth to mankind. For anyone who speaks the truth is destine to suffer.
Be thoughtless and selfish, to your own self be true. Only be the change you want to see in the world.

And don't be fooled by the filthy rich, they are the worst offenders of morality, a certain prince comes into mind here, and so the fairy tale is not all what it appears to be, the fairy tale is also a dark and ghastly demon.

But you can be free of these stories right here and now, just step out of your own way and allow yourself to shine for the rest of eternity as brightly as the glittering shining star you were born to be.

Glittering Lights - Martin Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFXNqlsjsA

Age wrote:
Now there is no one human being person who has their mind just like there is no one person who has their thoughts . There are no separate individual minds owned by individual separate selves . There are however individual separate people who live within individual separate human bodies . These people do not have their own minds nor thoughts these people are literally thoughts them selves . An individual separate person is just the individual separate thoughts which exists within an individual separate human body

Is all of this actually true or is it merely something you think is true
If it is actually true do you have any evidence that shows it to be so