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I have always worked too much; my career in finance was everything to me. When I was in my forties, I had a mental breakdown and ended up in a psychiatric ward. There, I realized that I had to change my lifestyle. I decided to become a spiritual teacher.

I created a YouTube channel (don't forget to subscribe) and wrote a book about death experiences, synchronicities, reincarnation, spirituality, love, and stuff like that. There is a huge market for these things. Go to my website and check it out. There you can order my book and find dates and tickets to my courses and lectures.

I feel so much better now. You can also find love and meaning in your life.

You shall have no other gods before me

There are so many gods to choose from. There are gods for the rich and gods for the poor, gods for the fatheads and gods for the smarty pants. There are gods for narcissists and gods for neurotics, gods for war mongers and gods for the neurotypical.

The Truth

When you have found God, and you know what he is like and what he wants from us, or, if you have found out that there is no God, when you finally understand what life is all about: money, social status and sex, to eat or be eaten, or, when you have found your true self, or that the self is an illusion, or, when you know what will happen to us after death, then you are deluded.

When you have it all figured out, this is a clear sign that you are an idiot. Later, you will realize that you had it all wrong. You had fooled yourself. And now you have found the truth, at last.  

When you know what political or philosophical system is superior, then you must ask yourself: could it be that I don't see the full picture? If the answer is no, I am right, then you can be convinced that you have been fooled.

I have lost friends to religious and spiritual cults, crazy ideas, and political convictions. And I have had friends who have lost me because of my thoughts.

Ingrained convictions are like magic spells.

Your self and my self, are the same self

I'm not a right-winger, not a left-winger, and not something in between.

I'm not an atheist, not religious, and I don't care about spiritual teachers. To me, they are as wacky as priests, pastors, mullahs, gurus, and their passionate followers. 

I'm a human being. I was born somewhere, and I will die somewhere. And I have no expectations of what will happen to me after death.

I'm not indifferent, though. Too much selfishness, greed, hypocrisy, and self-deception is not good, I believe.

If you ignore your beliefs, your worldview, your political opinions, and your general preferences, and notice your consciousness, the naked experience of being alive, do you think that this, your basic awareness, is the same as mine, as well as in all the rest of us sentient beings?

Of course, the main part of life we are living in the realm of opinions, beliefs, and worldviews, the realm of thought, fighting each other, but isn't it good to know that also the realm of pure consciousness is there, at the base of it all?

Moreover, if there are sentient beings on other planets, mustn't they also have the same experience of being alive?

Fuck around and find out

We have to live as if we have free will and that life has some meaning. Many scientists do not believe in free will or in the possibility that life and suffering may have meaning.

Of course, they may be right. You are born somewhere, and you will die somewhere, and that's it. And you can not change anything. This idea can make you cynical and coldhearted.

However, if you are deeply convinced that life is important and meaningful, this conviction can make you feel stronger and more focused. 

If it turns out that when you die, nothing happens, that there is no afterlife, that you will not be rewarded or punished for your good or bad deeds, you will not be disappointed. You are not there to notice.

Disappointment

In early August 1914, Europeans were euphoric. They cheered, sang, and waved flags. At last, there would be war; at last, they would get to fight on The Field of Honor. At last, they would find meaning in their meaningless lives. It had been a long time coming.

But the war was a disappointment. The field of honor turned out to be a run-of-the-mill farm field that reeked of corpses and feces.

In the spring of 1917, the Russians had had enough. Also, many French soldiers longed for home. By November 1918, even the Germans had grown tired of the party and left the festivities, disappointed.

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When the Germans went to the polls in November 1932, the Nazi Party won 33% of the vote and became the largest party in the Reichstag. In January 1933, a coalition government was formed, and Hitler was appointed Chancellor.

In early March 1933, elections were held again. The Nazi Party now won 43.9% of the vote. On March 23, Hitler introduced a bill in the Reichstag to transfer all power to him personally. The right-wing parties voted for the bill. Hitler became an absolute ruler, and millions of Germans were overjoyed. At last, they had regained faith in the future.

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What if you, too, have been deceived? Imagine if everything you believe in and live for is misconceptions or pure idiocy. People have always been deceived into one thing or another, only to realize later it was a misconception. Or pure idiocy.

Neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism, neo-darwinism, nihilism, postmodernism, this or that particular guru, pastor, priest, mullah, imam, or spiritual teacher. 

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It is important to be passionate about something, fired up. It doesn't matter what you are passionate about: your homeland, Jesus Christ, or the Prophet Mohammad, a free market economy, or art. An extinguished person feels tired and lonely. A passionate person, on the other hand, is full of life. It really sparkles in the eyes.  

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Words are not just words. Words are magic spells that can transform a person into pretty much anything. You can become right-wing or left-wing, religious or an atheist. You can become so unhappy that you want to kill yourself.

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If there is no afterlife, you will at least not be disappointed when you die. But if there is an afterlife, you will likely be very disappointed.

The Doomsday Clock

Humanity's defense spending now exceeds more than $2 trillion annually. But this is not enough; now it's comprehensive military rearmament that has the highest priority. The whole world is rearming. We need new nuclear weapons, new missile systems, new drones, and new submarines. We have to defend ourselves against each other. The struggle against climate change has been deprioritized.

We live in a very dangerous and crucial time. The Doomsday Clock is now at 89 seconds to midnight.