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Understanding Survival - Part 1

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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The Ghost Must Maintain a Positive Self Image

When we'll talk about humans, that's really where most of our work here has to happen. And this is a very specific thing, your psyche. It has unique psychic needs, attractions and aversions. Think of the psyche like a ghost which has taken over the machine that is your body. This ghost is inside of you, pulling various levers. Every lever that it pulls is to maintain itself. That's the ghost's game. If it doesn't pull the right combination of levers, the ghost will die. When i'm talking to you, you're that ghost. You believe you are that ghost. Of course, there's no real ghost there. There's nothing there. But

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