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One must purge what all the pundits, leaders, and experts have taught.  Most of them are full of themselves. We (despite thinking otherwise) live in very primitive times psychologically… and if one doesn’t figure things out for oneself, one will remain within (and “as”) the quagmire of the false and crass.  If one’s very mode and manner of thinking (and, hence, perceiving) was constructed by them, then there must be a fundamental transformation of the mind if one is to see without past corruption and without merely looking with old patterns and standard modes.  To observe without distortion, one must look without a blueprint, methodology, system, or absorbed structure; that can only take place via pristine observation that is unsullied by past dictates or precepts.  Most are unwilling or unable to do this.  They are too mesmerized by what was poured into them, unfortunately.  When they try to guide others, psychologically and spiritually, they are often (even unknowingly) merely projecting what they were taught, (which is essentially second-hand).  Direct observation, without all the garbage and distortion, is possible; deep insight and profound understanding depend upon it.

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Three’s company. (There’s a fourth, but it’s hiding.) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015