Most people are DELUSIONAL: the psychosis of everyday life 

​@lain It's each and everyone of us ,we are all lost in our own ways

Using a delusion like “the Universe” theory is not a great strategy unless your signaling to others your desire to be accepted by the “trust the science” brigade. Good luck with that, I’ll stick with God.

Attempting to comment outside of delusion, I think you're a genius! Furthermore, I've found that when people are engaged in merit based activities. This is often a good way to find out what delusions a person might have. (After self-reflection.)

@@peaceonearth8693 The world is postmodern or at least that's the most rational interpretation of reality. But to reinforce our subjective interpretation, we need others to confirm our senses (flawed as the may be) are functioning as correctly as possible. Empiricism isn't everything but it's one of the most reliable forms there is. That's why it doesn't matter if you think you are above them mass "delusion" because they will deem you to be deranged if you step outside of the common perception of our experience. That's why the quote by Oscar Levant; "There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." hold so much water. To think you are "above" other people for interpreting the world this way, I'd say is a form of narcissism. And I'm of the opinion that this content creator has some of those traits by listening to him. That's how he comes across by the way he is expressing himself.

@@justanothernick3984 "That's why it doesn't matter if you think you are above them mass "delusion" because they will deem you to be deranged if you step outside of the common perception of our experience. " You don't have to be obnoxious with your knowledge, but it helps to navigate in the world, to be not used and feel resentful. This content creator has healthy level of narcissism, for some this kind of narcissism is funny, mr Orion has a bit to big of penchant for perceived status, which fundamentally makes one a slave, often happy, but a slave.

😂😂

Exactly

Yeah, those stupid others...! 😏

I usually agree, but this is the basic fact of life, true objectivity is impossible. Who would assume to be so transcendent?

@@gladius8825 I am sad to say, I've just took a scroll and I found 2 or 3. Found them rather quickly too.

A perfect encapsulization of Dr. Taraban's thesis here, I'd say.

"Perhaps a better way of looking at it is to say that we are engaged in the Herculean task of processing right-hemisphere perceptions of the world through the left hemisphere. That is, everything we experience in some way has to have a logical cause and effect relationship or we are unhappy." [The Global Village: Transformations In World Life & Media in the 21st Century, Marshall McLuhan, 1957, Sec. II: THE GLOBAL EFFECTS OF VIDEO-RELATED TECHNOLOGIES, 9: Angels to Robots: From Euclidean Space to Einsteinian Space]

@@chalinofalcone871 Marshall McLuhan, 1957, eh? So, even that far back, at least some folks knew the scoop ... whoa.

Who's Amy?

I would simply say that your outside world is a direct reflection of your inside world. Which is why phrases like “Nothing gets better till you get better” or “Your life is of your own making” make sense. So to judge the reality you are creating around you is to only to judge yourself. And that is harmful to your evolution.

Now that is a TRUE Narcissist!!! I'm just saying. 😊

Lol brilliant

A person who is truly suffering from narcissism would try everything to eliminate it's influence on their life rather then making themselves out as the victim of its abuse.

You "remonstrated". My goodness, didn't you overreact?

His analogies are amazing at proving his points

Sadly, nuance is precisely the reason he wont be massive. The highest level of popularity are reserved for polarizing figures that get clicks from love and hate.

@@healthymindhappierlife5089 wow good point. i agree. sensationalism is the only thing that sells today. plus the youtube algorithm doesn’t reward content like this

according to the doc you're delusional

@@zirvster2011 -- Orion practices some click-baiting also in the title of his videos. But the content cannot be dumbed down always.

I have tried to do that all my adult life but it is very difficult . The most deluded people are the supposedly well-educated, liberals I have always lived amongst. They consider themselves to be so intelligent and well-informed that they can't believe they could be wrong about anything. The so-called stupid uneducated slobs are more likely to give you a hearing and say "maybe you have a point there, I hadn't thought of it that way before."

While I can agree to some extent, that's a slippery slope. If you think about it, I doubt the world's greatest dictators had a much different mentality to what you just said.

I agree we must agree to be wrong but some people will never stop pushing their religious beliefs unto others. 😮

Emerson said the same.

Oh honestly though? 🤡

The majority are least equipped to be voting for anything, whether that be a political party/candidate or the wider reality. The highly suggestible and delusional hordes will continue to act against the collective good, and their own best interests, due to such intrinsic deficits. This is why “leaders” are simply puppet masters (and puppets themselves, for the most).

Lol, that's actually a great quote!

Or is it brainwashed in 🤔

@@RebornLegacy That's actually a terrible quote. Reality is reality. Let's try with a simple example: the Sun is larger than the Earth. That's reality. It's not a fantasy everyone agreed on, no matter how much you like that quote.

@@wisehippo3072 No, you just didn't understand the quote. The quote is referring to our collective understanding of reality, not objective reality, which exists independent of our senses.

Questioning everything helped you be sane? Shit a lifetime of doing that has spun my mind into so many mazes I can't find my way back!

@@ron1836 Yes what we are conditioned to believe in our youth is insane, it is completely off base of what we intrinsically value. This is the cause of so much sickness, stressed because we all feel greatly conflicted between what the external world tells us who we should be, and trying to reconcile that with who we know we deeply are. I felt insane for many years, I was technically insane, but that's based on what society has defined as insane as a means to shame and manipulate people into not straying from their predetermined path. I don't think you need to come back, enjoy exploring your unique thoughts and the places your mind wanders off to. It went there for a reason.

​@@DoriterEater Happy and fulfilling relationships, an honest and respectable life, safety and security... these are generally considered to be what humans intrinsically value... how is this so different from what we are taught as children? Were we as children really taught something so different from this that it made us insane?

@@DoriterEater what was the cause of your insanity

I had the same experience

A humble admission. Glad you changed your view. Namaste 😊

You are not alone… I as a teen believed philosophy and psychology were basically pseudosciences and complete 🐎 💩… Not knowing I would revolutionize my life. Can’t say enough about these truths today… 🕉️☯️⚛️

Agreed. The older I get the greater the percentage of people who seem to display some combination of Fundamental Attribution Error, Dunning-Kruger, Semmelweiss Reflex, and Kevin Samuels on a regular basis.

Tbh i find this liberating. Lifts the burden of having to "know" everything.

How can you make statements about what is or isn't known when you already admit you don't know it? Stop pretending to be the dictator of the universe for just one moment.

​@@xxxYYZxxx absurd comment

@@WiseOwl_1408 It's straightforward, not absurd. Speaking for others on their behalf without the possibility of knowing is the textbook definition of dictation and tyranny. Is it absolutely true that absolute truth is unknown? Those who spew patently false contradictions can't possibly be self aware, as-if anyone would fall for such a rouse.

Every single thing and animal on the planet plays a part in forming the current and future reality. From precieving in their own unique way. And being precieved in maybe ways. It's kinda cool. The uniqueness is beautiful. Even if kinda lonely

This video is basically saying that most likely there is no "one true way". Being humble is also a result of projecting yourself (your feelings of uncertainty, insecurity, lack of knowledge) onto reality. Also, any honest challenge can always be honestly challenged, so that's a never ending (and time consuming) cycle. And since it can consume a great deal of time and resources, dealing with "honest challenges" has to be done in an economical way. One shouldn't readily change their mind without challenge, based on beliefs about their own ignorance.

@Toni Sure, you'll probably always be challenged, and you can do lots of challenging, but its worth it to get to the truth if you are genuine about it. I understand time and resources potentially being an issue though. We can't deal with everything at once. When you find the truth, challenge tend to be much easier to deal with and not as time or resource consuming, because it becomes simple to understand and explain. Also, willingly humbling yourself is the path to rid yourself of uncertainty, insecurity and lack of knowledge, because you are willing to honestly admit these things about yourself to yourself, which allows you to address them and fill your knowledge gap and conquer the insecurity and become certain. Admitting one's long-held belief might be wrong when in the face of obvious proof or something that makes sense can be scary, which is why so many are unwilling to do it. Humbling yourself is just being modest, and saying "perhaps I have more to learn", which helps you to look at yourself. It allows a person to examine himself inside, which is the opposite of projection. Or, in other words, drop one's puffed up pride. When we are learning anything, we are being humble in that moment, because we have to first admit that we have no clue. So it's just ADMMITTING that we are uncertain, so that we can start down the path of eventually becoming certain. It's not that you base anything off of your ignorance. That saying just means that you are leaving yourself room to continue learning, and you aren't afraid to do some honest introspection and find the areas in which you have knowledge gaps or uncertainty. It's basically also saying to be modest.

@@Leoo117 Being humble or modest is not about admitting that everyone has uncertainties, insecurities or lack of knowledge. It's specifically about restricting yourself and countering your own pride. It's all about trying to avoid causing problems for others. It's not really a positive thing, but some people consider it as such, and even feel proud about it (though I doubt such people would say "I'm proud that I'm humble"). The path to learning and conquering your uncertainties, insecurities and lack of knowledge is not through humbleness or modesty, but through excitement and interest, and through believing in your potential. Those are the things that can really fuel your efforts over time.

@Toni I think you're right about being excited, having an interest, and believing in your potential being necessary. I also believe that you will not achieve any of these states of mind without humility. I think we just have different definitions of humility. I look at it as being the opposite of a prideful and haughty mindset. If you are haughty, then there is no reason for you to feel excited or interested, because you already know everything, so you feel above all that and like it's unnecessary. Also, you think you've already reached your potential, and you think there is nothing left to learn, therefore you block yourself from learning anything else, because you leave no room for it. Being humble just allows you to leave room to grow. That's what I mean. Perhaps you are not on the same page as me when it comes to the word humble, but you seem to agree that we need to leave ourselves room to learn. That's really the main point I'm making.

The old man lost his horse parable

That's a great one about the abiding ambiguity of reality.

Sounds like something from the Tao Te Ching.

Sounds like I think it was Hakim. He was accused of fathering an illegitimate child and when accused by the daughters parents he responded with “is that so”. They left the child with him which he raised for a few years until the girl owned up to her lie. Parents visited Hakim apologising for their accusation which he again said “is that so”.

@@opachshwee5589 Yes, that's what I was referring to. Thanks.

They will wrap it in a way that suits them.

Everyone is delusional.

​@@katieandnick4113 true but it goes in degrees some are way worse than others. Those who are coddled and protected the most are often the worst

It’s actually a pretty even mix of oversimplification and over-complication. This keeps most out of the rational middle ground.

We live by creating abstractions. That's not necessarily oversimplifying. If you abstract away the complexities of doing the dishes by using a dishwasher, then you haven't oversimplified anything. But if you think you are washing the dishes when you are using the dishwasher, then you are oversimplifying things and delusional. Yes, most people are delusional by that standard. The best example (as much as I'm not an Obama fan), is when Obama said "you didn't build that" and all these small business people got all upset. The point he was making is that we all rely on things outside ourselves, and a lot of people couldn't accept that fact (combined with a lot of out-of-context political soundbites). When you make a business, you put a lot of work into that, but unless you're the sole employee for its entire existence, what you're doing is more likely similar to using the dishwasher rather than washing the dishes. That's not to take away from the complexities of using a dishwasher, that's just calling a spade a spade.

That’s why he has a lot of videos on how to get money and sex. Once you have enough of those to you don’t need to be so pragmatic and can devote more time to these other things

Pretty sure they safeguard insanity by projecting sanity.

The minimum dose to be able to claim you have tried psilocybin mushrooms is 15 potent dried grams. This is the minimum

I find it interesting what you say. We aren't given a handbook on how live out or 70 or so years. We learn as we go along and you like say.......Trauma, tragedies could shatter someone's mind, so the mind does what it can to survive

​@@cj548 Actually according to the FDA 20g counts as one serving

@@poopmaster1911 ‘One serving’ and ‘the minimum dose’ are two different things. It’s good to know both of these things though.

All fights are bullshit.

good luck with your psychology PhD 😂

Mostly agree (not that my agreement matters) 😁 One nit: Sometimes when people talk about sin, good, bad, they aren't talking about whether they like it, but whether it matches a clearly defined external standard (note that, this doesn't deny that some/many people do actually use that language as a mere means of adding the appearance of objective legitimacy to their personal preferences)

Idk if it was just me but your post was enlightening and it shows you are aware of enough to see how other actually felt about your presence. You actually did the work with it too, that’s pretty cool

This was a veritable 'Silence of the Lambs' post

Especially obvious in politics.

Are you saying its a good idea to be cognitively dissonant? I'm not following you.

I hate people that are afraid of failure so much that they attach to it. If I fail it challenges me to overcome it, I see others fail and they're mad, that makes me upset because they'll never overcome it and just self loathe in their own failure, it's pathetic to see.

"All forms of violence are a quest for identity. When you live out in the frontier you behave no identity, therefore you get very tough. You have to prove that you are somebody, and so you become very violent. And so, identity is always accompanied by violence. This, ah, seems paradoxical to you? Ordinary people find the need for violence as they loose their identities. So it is only the threat to people's identity that make them violent... they are determined to make it somehow; to get coverage; to get noticed." [Violence As Quest For Identity, Marshall McLuhan, TVO, Canada, 1977]

@@magickinfused5230 your projected hatred is simply your own hate for yourself....prove me wrong. :) at least now you've been awakened to it. You can now process it and set it free down the river of all knowingness.

Reality is symbolized. Reality is generally better when people agree. Life is energy. Life is extended when energy is unified in agreement.

Hey, that's an interesting question. I could imagine that people without language live much more unconsciously, i.e. more delusional, than people with language. Expressing something in words requires dealing with the subject.

@@chewacan how do we arrive at agreement without disagreement?

@brad1484 Hopefully, through a peaceful process of negotiating a settlement.

You'd be fully connected to reality but unable to communicate it or your experiences to anyone else.

"Our mindful self awareness needs to be tireless." Beautifully said!

I think that was an eloquent way to say that many spiritually minded people find it hard to hide their sense of superiority and are wholly unaware that they have become an insufferable pain in the ass.

Yes you made an important point. The feeling of superiority will evolve into another instance of non-emptiness and attachment if left unchecked and without self-awareness

That's a hard pill to swallow in life. Improving your own life in any way shape or form and being successful at that will inherently give you an opportunity to attribute lots of the success to yourself and thus increasing your self worth. But this worth is actually still a delusion

It took me until my mid 30s to realise this. Way too late

Dear person...I had a number of emotional responses while reading your moving post. Mostly good. But I wold love to ask you one question, that of course you don't have to answer...but I will still ask in hopes that you do. Your first comment was where my question lies. What kind of life, family, or environment did you grow up in that would have given you the mental perspective that you mentioned you started life with? I can only guess it was very loving, very sheltered, very positive...so to speak...in many ways, for your expectations of life (or society) and humanity to be so simplistically positive? I am sorry your delusion could not have been reality for both you and all the rest of us as well. You are right...what a wonderful place that might be. Maybe! On the other hand...I say maybe because...I was raised in a very large, poor, uneducated and psychologically unhealthy environment. And yet, because of that I feel like I am a much better and healthier person because of having to work to overcome that reality. Maybe not...maybe this is just a case of sour grapes for me. Trust me, I live under no grandiose illusions that it had to be that way...or that I am fortunate because of the outcome. I just accept it was what it was! I am simply interested and curious what it was like on the opposite spectrum. P.S. I totally concur with your ending conclusions...and sadly with your comments about the America empire...and time. 😢

To think 'america' any sort of empire.....is truly truly the greatest delusion of your life. The reality it is a work camp for the King.

I AGREE. WE WANT OTHERS TO BE AS WE SRE..IM AN HONEST, TRUSTWORTHY, LOYAL, PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN RIGHT AND WRONG. OTHERS HAVE COME INTO MY LIFE WITH BAD INTENTIONS, TO USE,ABUSE AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ME FOR THEIR OWN GREEDY SELFISHNESS. LIES,TRICKERY. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS HAS COME FROM MEN. ALTHOUGH, I WOULDN'T CALL THEM MEN. BASICALLY BOTS,WHOSE PARENTS FAILED TO RAISE THEM TO KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG. THE GUYS, THEY DON'T CARE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO ME. AND THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PLAN TO DO THE RIGHT THING. THEY RATHER BE EVIL WRONG DOERS AGAINST OTHERS. NO ELSE MATTERS. JUST THERE OWN SELFISHNESS. I WAS DELUSIONS TO TRUST OR BELIEVE PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY GOOD, AND LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER. AND KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG. INSTEAD WE LIVE IN A EVIL, SELF CENTERED WORLD

Agree that narcissism is a major problem. How we treat others is essentially how we treat ourselves in the end.

We are special because we are all God's children. That being said, one of the most important laws of the universe is that you must give in order to receive and you don't need to go to church or read a Bible to observe that law in motion.

You ain’t lying…. Hell I know our pastor had us “buttered up”

Most people will embrace a flattering lie over a harsh truth because most people are fools. I should have realized this fact about human nature when I was younger. I naively assumed most people cared about the truth no matter how inconvenient or harsh it was. Nope. That's not how people are.

@@LisaCulton God is love. God is truth. Yahweh, the WarGod of the Bible, no longer exists.

@@josephrohland5604 There's on one God/Universe/ Infinite Intelligence... And then there's all these odd interpretations.

Exactly smh

@@nostalgicbliss5547 I've been suspending judgement since I was a teen. I don't share the immediate enthusiasm of social cheerleaders and their followers. Both are disastrous for society.

Likely to??? I think we already are...just like humanity before us did. Just in a different time period.

​@@SBCBears Well said@

Agreed ❗️ I believe this dynamic has everything to do with our minds self deceptive mechanism… Moreover, We are taught by society implicatively to label things. The human mind needs to understand so we label everything… And that’s a problem. Pretty Sad 😔

I personally believe its mostly a real thing. I say mostly because while you see a lot of things as they actually are, this "ability" will make you see things that are not there too

There has to be a balance betweeen the two and boundaries. Nothing is real and it is at same time. Understand this and live life respecting others. Also don’t go crazy during this beautiful process lol

Surely you could suggest that "depressive realism" is just as much a delusion as any other. Otherwise you're suggesting that 'depressive realism' is THE objectively correct way of viewing the world, and that falls into the exact trap he talks about in the video. I'm not sure he's using the world delusion correctly though. Doesn't the word 'worldview' accomplish the same thing? If we cast aside the word delusion, there's no redefining to clear things up, people have a better sense of what you're referring to when you say 'worldview'.

@@alexwr wrote, _"Surely you could suggest that 'depressive realism' is just as much a delusion as any other.'_ When you write "just as much" you're making a quantitative reference: this is _equal to_ that. I think delusions are somewhat quantifiable along a spectrum: Perhaps I believe that I'm 10-days older than I really am. It's an error of 10-days that may matter a lot in some situations, and not at all in others. Contrast that delusion with one where I believe I'm the supreme commander of an extraterrestrial fleet, and I'm here (on Earth) to take over the planet. That's a much greater delusion, that matters quite a lot in most situations. So, they would both be delusions, but one would not be 'just as much' of a delusion as the other. AWR: _"Otherwise you're suggesting that 'depressive realism' is THE objectively correct way of viewing the world, and that falls into the exact trap he talks about in the video."_ You've resorted to an all-or-nothing fallacy here. One may evaluate whether those suffering from depressive realism tend to perceive the world more accurately than those who don't experience depressive realism. It may be that they're more correct in some areas, less correct in others. But nothing in the original comment suggests that it is, or that it should be, _"THE objectively correct way of viewing the world."_ Ironically, that's you *projecting* onto what's there :) AWR: _"Doesn't the word 'worldview' accomplish the same thing?"_ Not really. A worldview is the sum total of how a person understands what they perceive. Ideally it would be 100% correct. Tragically, it could be 100% incorrect. Between these two extremes, there are 'degrees' of error. So, one could have a worldview that's, say, 5% delusional and 95% in adherence to reality as-it-is, whereas someone else might swap those percentages and have a worldview that's only 5% grounded in reality, with the remaining 95% consisting of delusions.

Depressive realism is basically a form of nihilism. It's better than being naive, but there is one step further: active optimism. Do what you can to make your life and other people's lives as 'good' as possible and accept that this is only a single life among billions. We can only try or best, and it's fine if we don't succeed

Insecurity leads to self obsession.

Or trying to get them to stop trying to constantly "give us" their perception of "the" 9:13 answers! 😅

Geniuses and really smart people, as you call them, aren't concerned with other people's realities, only their own.

​@@LisaCulton everybody is concerned about it, to the level it obstructs meaningful relationships with other people. Even geniuses have this basic need and it hurts deep down when you cannot have it met.

@@hasantylou7670 Well, a lot of what a person wants or needs out of a relationship (family, work, romantic, friends, etc.) depends on their personality type. Some people don't have a high priority on relating to and sharing (constantly) with many other people.

@@LisaCultonbeing a genius is lonely. Aka, Nikola Tesla

@@Tempusverum A genius does not mind being alone with their thoughts, ideas, activities and plans. It can keep them occupied for days, weeks, months with no thoughts of socializing and randomly chatting with others. That's much different than feeling lonely.

Advanced Buddhism lol now there's a delusion for the masses

​@@pedridemperi9872 What do you think advanced Buddhism is?

Disguise yourself in the heard so you won't be eaten

Organized religion = herd mentality

Yup

If you seek the truth and you find it, you are delusional if you don't use that truth for responding to the delusional perceptions of the deceiving world around you to survive.

I see that our brain and mind is not build for accuracy but functionality to survive not necessarily understand.

I take it you didn’t “get” the video ❓

Wonder if Orion thinks of himself as delusional, too...

Still didn't understand. This demands practical examples to comprehend

​@@eladbari"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else." - George Orwell. That's what Orion is trying to say. Everyone's mind is unique...

@@SteveMNash Thanks buddy. While I love talking abstract ideas, this is still too abstract. I wanna comprehend in what ways would a person interpret reality as we usually do (i.e- reflection of ourselves). How it influences him (as the hint here is that it's a bad influence projecting a twisted reality), and then an example of how should he/we can try to interpret the same event in a more objective way that will benefit us. 1-2 practical examples like that, to understand the way of thinking Orion suggests would help here and on any other video he makes. Sent this video to a friend and he also didn't understand..

@@SteveMNash P.S- A related example to this subject that I heard from an older woman. Her husband and her had a fight. He left home for a few days. Later she found out he slept with her (best?) friend. She decided to interpret this event not as 'my husband cheated on me with my friend", but rather "My husband slept with another woman". They're together today. I think this may represent Orion's thinking here, yet, I bet it would trigger some people to think that way.

I would say he described postmodern thought and relativism. He will likely come out with a religion is delusion video, if he hasn't already.

Omg boon you just said it perfectly and it is superrrr annoying

So true!!!

And yet you created and project the extrovert everywhere you go? Wow..... There's an old saying....never take an arsehole with you...theres always one when you get there.

I think that it is still okay to have beliefs. Just be willing to update the beliefs when something proves them wrong rather than being attached to them. You must have things you believe in order to make sense of the world enough to function right? Well wouldn’t that you are making judgements which affect how you perceive reality? I guess so, but at the same time you can use this to your advantage by believing that you are extremely capable. Believing that you can lift a certain weight and even visualizing yourself doing it boosts strength by up to 36% through something like the placebo effect.

I think you explained it better than the good doctor here.

StereoSpace wrote, _"It seems to me, one can pick a belief set of beliefs and say: Does this produce better outcomes than that belief set?"_ In order to ask whether any set of beliefs produces _'better'_ outcomes, one first must be clear on what 'better' entails. And that's a core element in the video's thesis: what we label as 'good' or 'bad', 'better' or 'worse', are oftentimes *projections* of that which is our inner architecture and scaffolding: our biases, prejudices, preferences, beliefs, feelings, etc. We're assuming our conclusion (for ), and then choosing what's best based on the conclusion we started from. Circular. Ironic, yes? :) SS: _"If we are to evaluate a moral or practical value set or life approach, we can compare its outcomes to other sets and evaluate whether we're getting closer to good outcomes or not."_ As before, you can't say what's 'good' unless you begin with an idea of what 'good' entails. Which brings us to your next point... SS: _"That said, good and bad are subjective."_ Circular argument. QED :)

I don't think this advice works. It sounds like "if you want a happy marriage... pray to God".

Out of all his videos I've watched... This episode is the most challenging

A southerner*

That's kind of dumb. If there's no objective reality, then there's no reality. If there's no escape from delusion, then there is no delusion. This is self-evidently false. The reason being is that if everything is subjective, then how could you know what subjective even is? In order to know what it is you must distinguish it from something else. In order to identify delusion, then you have to distinguish it from non-delusion. The fact that we are hard wired to be a certain way (i.e. what the greeks would call our physis or "nature"), has no bearing on whether or not we're delusional. We don't need to be masters of the universe to not be delusional, we just have to act in accordance with our nature. And saying there is no objective reality or escape from delusion goes against that nature because most of all we desire things outside ourselves. That desire is precisely the reason why getting trapped inside yourself is so terrible.

"The potter crossed his hands upon his breast and, bowing silently, shook his head, and in a voice filled with sweet humility replied: "My son, I am not god; I am only one who molds clay. I am a maker of gods, but am myself a creature of the earth."" [THE WAYS OF THE LONELY ONES: A COLLECTION OF MYSTICAL ALLEGORIES, By MANLY P. HALL, 5th REVISED ED., 1945, Ch. The Maker of Gods] "Your god is your ultimate barrier." [Joseph Campbell, with Bill Moyers]

There is "objective reality" but we are very poorly equipped to perceive it. Maths for instance expresses elements of objective reality.

It's because they have no faith in a higher-self of higher intelligence.

Somebody once said “ignorance is bliss “

@@peaceonearth351 wrote, _"It's because they have no faith in a higher-self of higher intelligence."_ No, it's more likely because they're seeing more of reality as-it-is than those who through unawareness and unconcern may tend to project their inner world onto the outer world in a way that they find self-satisfying. Seeing things as-they-are has nothing at all to do with whether one has faith in a higher power. It's simply the act of observing and describing what-is.

Remember when people thought wearing surgical masks could stop the spread of a virus? At first it was airborne we thought, which is why the masks but then strangely nobody was coughing much in public so that was muddle up and clouded up to further confuse the people. By the end nobody knew what the hell to think least of which medical doctors, who have completely embarrassed me! I feel that way for them, they dont feel that though, they still think they're God's gift and that's rather delusional considering the circumstances.

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There is no good or bad, but thinking makes it so. I think that's in the Bible...

In my experience...Spiritual people are usually a pleasurable joy to encounter. Religious people on the other hand, are not only often delusional...but can also be very annoying to be around.

@@LisaCulton Lol 😂 Actually, that was William Shakespeare

@@bklynboyeny Any way you slice it, the words tell the truth.

@@LisaCulton No worries…. I believe we all may epistemically be quoting ppl wrong.

Not most, we’re all delusional. It’s how the human mind/intellect operates … And you are absolutely correct. They don’t wanna hear it, because it’s fundamentally tied to every human beings ego.

They are comfortable in The Matrix

I agreed it is the ego. Self needs to be protected at all costs. And people take a different point of view as an attack personally.

gabriel wachong wrote, _"while perception is subjective and good or bad can change from individual, there also exists objective realities in the universe."_ This is a commonly held conclusion but it cannot be verified. It presumes that IF we can measure something, THEN it must be 'objectively' there to measure. All one needs to understand as a rebuttal is that you could be an actor in a dream, and until you wake up, your *EXPERIENCE* is that you and others have some objective externalization from your own existence. Virtual characters in a dream don't 'objectively' exist except as actors within a dream that is purely imaginal -- or, as the video calls it: delusional. You can believe that we're all real, but you can't know this. So, as soon as you claim that _"there also exists objective realities in the universe,"_ you're perhaps unwittingly projecting :)

@@RichardHarlos well actually if you read the Kybalion it very clearly states we are in fact actors in a dream, just like you propose. However the dream itself holds laws that are consistent and immutable.

@@gabrielWachong Then there aren't any "objective realities in the universe", rather, there are only 'internal consistencies within a dream' :)

@@RichardHarlos interesting spin. I guess that would be technically correct, however from our "inside the dream" perspective, that consistency works as an objective reality as well. Its a very interesting topic, Kybalion has a whole chapter exploring it. If you have not read it I recommend you look into it as it will answer many questions. Im by no means an expert, just another curious mind.

@@gabrielWachong I haven't read it but it does sound interesting. To the other point, I do think there's some merit to it, even if it turns out not to be universally true (i.e., it may be a 'useful delusion' in the context of our conversation) :) It seems to me that our 'inside the dream' perspective is a relative frame. It also seems to me that the delusions of projection spoken about in the video also constitute a relative frame. So, in this sense, I think of them as functionally the same: we project that there's an objective reality even though there may not be, and then we proceed to navigate as if our projection is the case. It could be a relatively benign distinction, but it would still be a delusion/projection, would it not?

I think you're talking more about intuition. You predicted something about a person based on subtle things you noticed. But I think what Dr. Terraban is saying is that a lot of people would see those judgements as an absolute fact, rather than just a figment of their own mind, regardless of if it turned out to be accurate or not. You may have completely misjudged a person at one point or another, but did you persist in thinking your judgement was real? You likely realized it was only a judgement within your mind, and not a concrete reality.

And then you ended up a hoarder with cats?

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