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RISE UP, SPIRITUAL WARRIOR!

Now more than ever you need to ask yourself:

What is your intention in life, your purpose, your aim?
WHO ARE YOU?
WHY are you here?

Know Thyself.

Forget about the fleeting desires of your ego.
What is your soul yearning for and why did you choose to incarnate right here, right now during these times?

Deep down inside you know,. It is the true Self that KNOWS, not the personality you tend to identify with.

There is a choice to be made and there is no middle ground. It is not possible to sit on the sidelines anymore in some sort of intellectualized "neutrality".

Are you ready to answer the call, the battle cry?

Did you seriously think "awakening" is going to be a walk in the park where all of a sudden you are in love and light and bliss with angels playing harp around you?
Well, maybe if you took the New Age Pill at some point, engaged in spiritual bypassing, and mistook your DMT or mushroom trips for "awakening".

But those childish immature days are over. We are not girls and boys anymore building sandcastles. Nor is the process of awakening going according to how "you" think or want it to be with all your expectations and entitlement. It's beyond your little ego's control.

We are called to be spiritual warriors in service to the Divine, taking on the dark forces within and without - with courage, determination, humility, love, knowledge, faith, and trust.

There is work to be done and as with anything in life, you only get as much as you are willing to put the effort in and pay WITH YOURSELF.

Nothing is "FREE" in the entire universe, not even freedom. There is a price to be paid for everything - a sacrifice, to give yourself completely to the Divine without bargaining.

How sincere are you with yourself? How much are you willing to give and pay with yourself? How much do you lie to yourself?

Deep down inside you know that you have been waiting for this moment your entire life but not fully realized yet.

So, join the pilgrimage with 100% commitment, without complaining, and without looking back.

Burn in the fire of transmutation. Die to your old self; descend into the darkness within and without; join the inevitable battle with the Forces of Darkness and illuminate it all with the eternal light of the Divine shining through YOU.

Godspeed
Bernhard Guenther
VeilOfReality.com
@timeoftransition

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"This pilgrimage of ascension and this descent for the labour of transformation must be inevitably a battle, a long war with ourselves and with opposing forces around us which, while it lasts, may well seem interminable.

For all our old obscure and ignorant nature will contend repeatedly and obstinately with the transforming Influence, supported in its lagging unwillingness or its stark resistance by most of the established forces of environing universal Nature; the powers and principalities and the ruling [occult] beings of the Ignorance will not easily give up their empire.

The battle and conquest and empire in the shape of a victorious conflict with the Powers of Darkness, an entire spiritual self-rule and mastery over inward and outward Nature, a conquest by Knowledge, Love and Divine Will over the domains of the Ignorance is life's true object.”

- Sri Aurobindo
“For the sadhaka of the integral Yoga this inner or this outer solitude can only be incidents or periods in his spiritual progress.
Accepting life, he has to bear not only his own burden, but a great part of the world’s burden too along with it, as a continuation of his own sufficiently heavy load.

Therefore his Yoga has much more of the nature of a battle than others; but this is not only an individual battle, it is a collective war waged over a considerable country. He has not only to conquer in himself the forces of egoistic falsehood and disorder, but to conquer them as representatives of the same adverse and inexhaustible forces in the world.

Their representative character gives them a much more obstinate capacity of resistance, an almost endless right to recurrence. Often he finds that even after he has won persistently his own personal battle, he has still to win it over and over again in a seemingly interminable war, because his inner existence has already been so much enlarged that not only it contains his own being with its well-defined needs and experiences, but is in solidarity with the being of others, because in himself he contains the universe.

Nor is the seeker of the integral fulfilment permitted to solve too arbitrarily even the conflict of his own inner members. He has to harmonise deliberate knowledge with unquestioning faith; he must conciliate the gentle soul of love with the formidable need of power; the passivity of the soul that lives content in transcendent calm has to be fused with the activity of the divine helper and the divine warrior.

To him as to all seekers of the spirit there are offered for solution the oppositions of the reason, the clinging hold of the senses, the perturbations of the heart, the ambush of the desires, the clog of the physical body; but he has to deal in another fashion with their mutual and internal conflicts and their hindrance to his aim, for he must arrive at an infinitely more difficult perfection in the handling of all this rebel matter.

Accepting them as instruments for the divine realisation and manifestation, he has to convert their jangling discords, to enlighten their thick darknesses, to transfigure them separately and all together, harmonising them in themselves and with each other,—integrally, omitting no grain or strand or vibration, leaving no iota of imperfection anywhere. An exclusive concentration, or even a succession of concentrations of that kind, can be in his complex work only a temporary convenience; it has to be abandoned as soon as its utility is over. An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which he must labour.”

- Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Part I, Chapter II: Self-Consecration

Listen to this episode of the Cosmic Matrix podcast where Neelesh Marik and I discuss Sri Aurobindo’s life and work:

https://veilofreality.com/2020/05/07/sri-aurobindo-the-last-avatar-w-neelesh-marik-tcm-33-part-1
A wise master once asked his student, “The question remains, do you really want to awaken or just be “happy in your dream life”?’

It’s the choice between crossing the threshold to the land of Truth or staying in the world of illusion and lies.

The latter is more tempting to the ego personality and false desire soul. It’s the path of least resistance keeping man in an invisible frequency prison under the illusion of “free will”.

The first is the call of the true soul-being ready to be in the driver seat in alignment with Divine Will. It requires will, effort, sincerity, courage, humility, determination and surrender to the Divine.

The process of awakening is an internal battle first and foremost between the part that is real and all the false parts resisting illumination. As Adyashanti once said, it’s a destructive process.

Disillusionment is inevitable and that’s why so few engage in the Work. The ego [and all the wounded parts within us] is terrified of it and with good reason for it doesn’t like to give up control.

It puts the spot light on anything that is not awake within us, anything we have suppressed, avoided, and stuffed into the unconscious along with all the social and cultural programming we have mistaken for our “own”. The Light brings it all into consciousness. The only way out is in and through. It is Law.

The awakening process also stirs up all kinds of opposing forces within and without whose main agenda is to keep us asleep for their own interest as the dark guardians of the matrix.

They specifically target your blind spots, triggers, and weakness, giving you all kinds of reasons, temptations, and excuses [via thought injections, false “intuition” and artificial synchronicities] not to cross the threshold.

They keep you distracted and externally focused in endless victim/perpetrator/savior cycles as you keep looking for happiness and fulfillment externally. A futile endeavor as many growing soul will eventually realize after many lifetimes.

Yet, the Light, illumination and Divine guidance is right there for the seeker who passes the tests [for that is all they are] and crosses the threshold. As it is written, many are called, few choose to answer the call.

During this Time of Transition in the darkest period of the Kali Yuga the opportunity for a great awakening has never been bigger. Yet the temptation of the occult dark forces has also never been bigger as billions of people are already hijacked.

Make no mistake. This is multi-dimensional warfare- a war for your soul. What you see on the 3D level, the globalist communist takeover, the medical tyranny and the jab, the fake pandemic, etc. are just the tip of the iceberg of an intergalactic war that works THROUGH you and started eons ago.

Yet, you are here now and there is no escape for you chose to be here to seize the opportunity. Only the wounded ego and false parts within you complain and whine, are scared, paranoid, desperate, caught in the duality of fear and hope. And that’s exactly where the occult matrix forces tag into you to keep you disempowered and in fear.

You true Self knows and is ready to take it all on, calm, content, courageous, grounded in service of the Divine. The Great Work. What an honor to be here right now. Embrace it with a smile.

But no one is going to do it for you, nor will the external world ever change if you have not faced yourself. As Within, so Without. As Above, so Below.

Godspeed
Bernhard Guenther
VeilOfReality.com
@timeoftransition
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Absolute Irish fire, all dots connected... this is why we have won, there are many, many of us 🔥
Remember yourself: Human and divine

Good and evil.
Light and dark.
Fear and love.
One is life giving.
One is life denying.
One breeds love
The other breeds fear.

We all have both sides within us.
The good and the bad. The devil and the angel.
If we suppress or deny having any bad parts and pretend we are only the good, it ends up making us inauthentic & fake nice.

The cure for this is realness.
Realness to be who you are
And that realness is born out of wholeness.

We can be real by holding the balance and looking at these two opposites manifest in us:
Our good/bad parts,
Our light/dark sides.
As when doing so,
a third thing can emerge via the process of transformation.

For example:
By looking clearly at your own narcissistic selfish nature, you can bring to consciousness the wounds that are perhaps driving this part of your persona.

Bringing to consciousness these wounds brings the potential for healing them.

Through healing these wounds, you change. Naturally the result is that you become more open and considerate of the needs of others.

This is how Evil can turn into Good.

Another example,
Instead of suppressing difficult emotions like anger, fear, shame, sadness, you can give yourself permission to feel these feelings in a safe container—allowing the walls you have built around your heart to break open, which results in you being able to love again.
This is how Fear and other difficult emotions (when felt) can turn into Love.

Can you allow for ALL feelings to be included in your human experience?

Can you LOVE deeply, knowing that the grief of someday losing that person is also part of it?

Can you see the world’s inherent beauty, light, goodness, even when being confronted with the most evil, dark, ugly aspects of it?

How much would it take for you to embrace both sides of your dual nature:
The human and the divine?

There is a messy and the perfect side
A sacred and a profane
A light and a dark side

What arises out of holding the tension of these two parts of our experience is REAL human beings
Meaning, not pretending to be perfect
They are ordinary and extraordinary
Everything and nothing
Capable of joyfully immersing themselves in the natural beauty of this world...
But clearly don’t look like they’re from this world...

Remember yourself
Your true self
Human and divine.

- Laura Matsue

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In this episode, Bernhard and Laura discuss what it means to “cross the threshold” in light of the Great Work and what it takes to transcend the Matrix. They talk about being red-pilled from an esoteric perspective, what it means to “answer the call”, the struggle between ego and soul, soul fragmentation and soul retrieval, matrix temptations and distractions, Organic Portals and young souls, the necessity for spiritual activism and the embodiment of a new consciousness, and more.

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Listen here: https://veilofreality.com/2021/11/03/crossing-the-threshold-what-does-it-take-to-transcend-the-matrix-tcm-71-part-1/
It’s funny but also scary because the tweet is real

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FACEBOOK META - Phase 2 of the take-over

“In all seriousness, people understand what this play is, right?

Years ago, Google bought a virtual voicemail service called GrandCentral and turned it into Google Voice, and gave it away for free to people.

Why would Google invest in what is essentially a money pit?

Because the DATA - the VOICE DATA - is the most valuable thing they wanted, and voicemails provided it in spades.

This allowed them to build a voice recognition algorithm using millions of free samples, which they could then turn into automated listening devices, 24/7.

Same thing is happening here. Facebook will get all sorts of metadata about YOU - height, weight, gait, response time to physical stimuli, eye-movements, voice, and so much more.

So it begs the question...

What, exactly, are they planning to build with this data?

My guess: The single most pervasive surveillance technology known to man, which they could then license to governments for billions.

Because you might not be able to recognize a dissident if their face is masked - but watch they way they walk and move... Now you've narrowed down the selection sample by 97%.

If you know every detail about the population, you can control the population.”

- Neon Revolt , https://gab.com/NeonRevolt/posts/107242307924259364

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I’m kinda grateful that I’m in FB jail for the most part, literally for a total of 6 months my account has been suspended this year. Kinda wish they’d nuke my account entirely but I’ll leave voluntarily anyway.

Facecrack keeps people addicted to their platform mostly via dopamine hits and now they’re entering the next VR A.I. phase to get people even more hooked, out of body while collecting more and more data.

From an occult perspective, this new era of VR (virtual reality) and transhumanism creates more entry points for occult hyper-dimensional forces to occupy the vessel/body because it gets people even more out of body especially if they have taken the vaxx which also dislodges the soul from the body, especially after repeated booster shots.

I’ve written about this agenda for years way before “COVID” started and now it’s happening in front of our very eyes. The writing has been on the wall as the saying goes. The war is through you over your soul. Question is, will enough people wake up or will it plunge into another “dark night of civilization” as it happened in the last days of Atlantis?

The solution? As it’s always been (and yes, I keep repeating myself): Soul Embodiment and The Great Work, becoming a courageous force in service to the Divine. What does it take? Removing and transmuting anything within you that’s in the way of the Divine to bring forth your true self, your essence in alignment with Divine Will.

And that is the hardest part for the inner and outer resistance is strong and so are the temptations of the senses and desires all of which will be targeted and enhanced via META VR and A.I.

It takes the focused discipline of an embodied warrior to resist these temptations which are essentially agreements of entrapment, entrapping people out of their own “free will”. It’s how the “devil” works. The coming times will separate the wheat from the chaff even more as the splitting of humanity continues. Remember, the soul is what matters most.

- Bernhard Guenther
VeilOfReality.com
@timeoftransition
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Gov. Newsom Injured by Moderna Booster Shot, Source Tells The Defender.

“The source, who asked not to be identified, said Newsom’s symptoms were similar to those associated with Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), a known side effect of many vaccines.

GBS is a neurological disorder in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks part of its peripheral nervous system — the network of nerves located outside of the brain and spinal cord — and can range from a very mild case with brief weakness to paralysis to leaving the person unable to breathe independently.

The governor has not been seen in public since he was photographed Oct. 27 getting his COVID booster.”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gov-gavin-newsom-moderna-booster-vaccine/

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Shocks [facing the lies we've been living] are necessary on the path towards Awakening. Disillusionment is inevitable on this journey.

"Built into the very fabric of the system of wetiko is a progressive disincentive for its members to realize the level of depravity into which they have fallen. What keeps us stuck in denial is an inner self-protective mechanism that shields us from the overwhelming awfulness of the shock that would necessarily ensue if we were to consciously experience and shake off the lies that we have been living, a disillusionment that would be too much for most people to bear.

The major obstacle blocking us from seeing through our own self-deception is our unwillingness to consciously experience the pain, shame, guilt, mortification, and trauma of this realization. Part of this realization is dealing with the shock of realizing that we have given away our power to those in positions of power over us who have misused that power; it is quite a shock to realize that those who were supposed to be protecting us were the very ones from whom we most needed protection.

These multilevels of realization literally shatter our self-image, our identity of who we think we are, as well as our sense of belonging to a collective, social fabric. It is truly an unforgettable, soul-shattering moment when we have the courage to look in the mirror and see that we have been "out of our minds," "beside ourselves," having suffered a genuine "break from reality," in the sense that we have been unwittingly supporting the collective madness and have been complicit in our own victimization.

To see the magnitude of the depraved situation we have been faithfully living in and to realize how sick we have become can be so overwhelmingly traumatic that we shun its onset, as this horrifying realization has programmed within it a counter-incentive to fully experience itself. What is required from us is a courage and clarity analogous to that experienced by cult members who with brutal honesty snap out of their collective brainwashing and repudiate the systems of belief in which they were held in thrall.

Realizing our complicity in the collective madness is simultaneously liberating and traumatizing, creating higher orders of freedom while simultaneously inducing a form of PTSD, itself a form of madness.

In other words, to realize how we have been part of the collective madness is truly "shocking" and induces a form of madness, just as trauma can literally cause a fever in a person. The fever is potentially the organism's way of metabofizing and healing the trauma, just as the trauma of seeing how perilously asleep we've been can propel us to wake up. This form of trauma can potentially so "shake us up" that it can snap us out of our fear-based, frozen paralysis of feeling stuck and can mobilize and inspire us into empowered action.

Paradoxically, it is the trauma itself that activates the response in us which potentially leads to its own; creative resolution. In these moments of shock we have the opportunity to break our habitual patterns, see through our implicit assumptions, snap out of our denial, and step out of our programming so as to literally rewire ourselves.
These shocks are like gaps in our awareness that are open doorways to potentially higher orders of freedom.

These brief moments in time don't last very long, however, so it is important to expeditiously go through these portals and take advantage of them when they are available. If we don't, there are backup systems in place for dealing with shocks within our psyche that can override this potential opening in our awareness and re-install the ruling, reigning mechanical programming within our wetikoized mind."

- Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko

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"Buffers' are created slowly and gradually. Very many 'buffers' are created artificially through 'education.' Others are created under the hypnotic influence of all surrounding life. A man is surrounded by people who live, speak, think, and feel by means of 'buffers.' Imitating them in their opinions, actions, and words, a man involuntarily creates similar 'buffers' in himself.

'Buffers' make a man's life more easy. It is very hard to live without 'buffers.' But they keep man from the possibility of inner development because 'buffers' are made to lessen shocks and it is only shocks that can lead a man out of the state in which he lives, that is, waken him. 'Buffers' lull a man to sleep, give him the agreeable and peaceful sensation that all will be well, that no contradictions exist and that he can sleep in peace.

'Buffers' are appliances by means of -which a man can always be in the right. 'Buffers' help a man not to feel his conscience….Only a man who fully realizes the difficulty of awakening can understand the necessity of long and hard work in order to awake. Speaking in general, what is necessary to awake a sleeping man? A good shock is necessary. But when a man is fast asleep one shock is not enough. A long period of continual shocks is needed.”

- Gurdjieff, In Search of the Miraculous

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The other "topic of all topics" and why there won't be a collective awakening any time soon. A little disclaimer though: This is the most read article on my website over the past 10 years and yet this topic is still so misunderstood by many people who have read it based on emails and comments I’ve received/read. They distort the information to blame and demonize others. Even souled beings are on the level of the "Organic Portal" until they engage in consious self-work to fuse/anchor the soul, i.e. the Great Work. OPs play a natural function in light of the evolution of consciousness.

"Perhaps we are getting close to the answer, for the truth would seem to be that there is not and never has been a homogenous “we” (the human race) on the planet, “we” are not all alike, “we” do not see the world in the same way, “we” are not just a divided race, we are two different races.
[...]
We find there that many OP (Organic Portal) concepts have been utilized to coopt spiritual truth. We find many OPs, imitating souled beings in their “spiritual searching,” promoting ideas and theories that are fundamentally flawed because they are “imitations” of the real thing which the OP can never, by his very nature, perceive accurately.
[...]
Have you ever had this “nightmarish fantasy” that the world is populated by zombies ? Well, guess what, it isn’t a fantasy. Half the people out there are exactly that: “sophisticated automatons that pretend to be like you”.
[...]
Whether or not the individuals named are Organic Portals is not the issue. They may be souled individuals who have not yet been able to see behind the lie of the Personality. As long as that has not happened, souled individuals will function and see the world and themselves as if they were Organic Portals.
But it is clear that this manner of “explaining” consciousness is limited, explaining only that particular form of consciousness manifested by the Personality – the exterior man. It can describe the functioning of the OP or the exterior man; it can not do justice to the consciousness of the Seeker engaged in the work of fusion to seat the soul."

- from "Organic Portals – Soulless humans"

https://veilofreality.com/2011/04/18/organic-portals-soulless-humans/
"We can begin only by reforming ourselves. To make general demands for social and political reform is fruitless.

It is easy to say how other people should be, but students of esoteric knowledge must work in the depths and not on the surface.

It would, therefore, be quite wrong to connect the demands of esoteric schooling with any external demand for reform or even political change. The education of the spirit has nothing to do with such things.

Political activists generally know what to ask of other people, but they hardly ever talk about asking anything of themselves.

As esoteric students, we must find the middle ground between following the demands of the world and doing what we see as the right thing to do.

We must not force upon others something that they cannot understand, but at the same time we must be free of the urge to do only what those around us recognize and approve of.

Only the inner voice of the soul, as it honestly strives for higher knowledge, can confirm our truths.

Yet we must also learn as much as possible about our environment and find out what is useful and good for it.

And, if we do so, we will develop within ourselves what esoteric science calls “the spiritual scales” or the “balance”—on one of whose trays lies a helpful heart, open to the needs of the world, and on the other, inner firmness and unshakable endurance."

- Rudolf Steiner

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Kyle Rittenhouse breaking down at his trial.

This is not a “dangerous white supremacist” like mainstream media has painted him as.

This is a traumatized kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now deeply suffering for that decision, and whose life is now on the line because of it.

I pray he gets Justice in the eyes of the divine

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YouTube to hide dislike counts on all videos. Lol.

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Long Covid doesn't exist, volume one zillion
A huge French study shows BELIEVING you had Covid is associated with many later symptoms. But ACTUALLY having had Covid isn't associated with any (except loss of sense of smell).

By Alex Berenson

The Journal of the American Medical Association has another stunning paper out, this one on post-Covid symptoms in almost 27,000 French adults.
Researchers asked people to report whether they had had Covid and whether they had any of 18 lasting symptoms like insomnia, fatigue, or cough. They found that self-reported Covid was very strongly associated with nearly every symptom.

But the scientists then went a step further.
They also had Sars-Cov-2 antibody test results for the people they had surveyed, so they didn’t have to depend on self-reported Covid. They knew who really had had Covid and who had not.

They then compared self-reported symptoms in people with antibodies - that is, people who had actually been infected and recovered from Covid - to the general population. And they found no difference in almost any symptom.
Covid was not a risk factor for chest pain, or breathing difficulties, or trouble focusing, or stomach pain, or any of the many, many other complaints that long Covid “patients” and interest groups say are real. There was one interesting exception; people with Covid antibodies did have a much higher rate of anosmia, losing one’s sense of smell. Because anosmia is a known and lasting side effect, it serves as a useful control of sorts.

The researchers also found that almost 60 percent of the people with antibodies HAD NO IDEA THEY HAD EVEN HAD COVID AT ALL. Meanwhile, while more than half the people who said they had had Covid had no antibodies. (Welcome to the plague so severe most halfway healthy adults don’t even know they’ve had it.)
The study strongly suggests that many people are using previous Covid diagnoses - either real or imagined - to help explain away common physical symptoms such as joint pain or cough. It also suggests that actually being infected Covid is far less risky than THINKING you have been infected with Covid for many people.

The researchers concluded by explaining that people who claim they have long Covid may need help “to identify cognitive and behavioral mechanisms that may be targeted to relieve the symptoms.” Which is a very polite way of putting the truth.
This study should slow, if not stop, the rush to medicalize long Covid. It is yet more proof that the illness is a group of squishy (if painful and difficult) symptoms looking for a name - and more importantly a billing code.
But so many patients and physicians and public health experts are now invested (in some cases literally) in making long Covid real that the gravy train will likely roll on.

SOURCE #1: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/long-covid-doesnt-exist-volume-one
STUDY MENTIONED IN ARTICLE: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785832
Good riddance of that guy. Don’t get between the lioness and her cubs. The world needs more real men with intelligence and courage who support mothers that refuse to vaxx their kids, especially this gene altering toxic COVID jab.

But did you also notice the username of this covid cultist? It ends in .eth as in Ethereum ETH/crypto along with a NFT profile pic.

As I’ve mentioned before, I see a lot of crypto guys (especially the popular ones on social media) buying into this pandemic scam and support the vaxx.

They’d be advised to spend more time researching and working on themselves and get their eyes off the crypto charts.

You can have tens of millions in BTC, ETH, XRP or whatever but if you take the jab, you may not live long enough to enjoy your bag and “diamond hands” while losing your soul on the way.

https://veilofreality.com/2021/08/30/the-metaphysical-consequences-of-the-covid-jab-in-light-of-the-occult-matrix-and-the-way-out/
Same goes for the Great Work and the process of Awakening, i.e. the difference between bringing forth essene, the true Self/soul-being or simply engagning in peronality development [mistaken it for the true self] to adjust to a world where pathology has beocme normalized, i.e. trying tio be "happy in a dreamstate" but living in illusion:

"Truth is, many patients do not come to therapy to change. Not really. They may say & think they want to change. It soon becomes evident they want to continue being exactly the person they have been & living life in the same self-limiting ways, but 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 better doing it.

Real therapy begins with helping the person to not only understand but truly take to heart that what they want is impossible. In other words, the real work of therapy may begin with crushing disappointment, as the patient struggles to reconcile with the painful truth that neither the therapist nor anyone else has the power to give them what they want. To feel different, they must 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 different—and there is no bypass around the psychological work. Paradoxically, it is this terrible disappointment that opens the door to realistic hope.

Sadly, for every therapist who understands this and is prepared to join the patient in doing the difficult work, there are many more "therapists" happy to bolster the patient's illusion that they can can feel different without becoming different, and therapy can work by magic."

- Jonathan Shedler