I truly believe I’ve discovered something that has the potential to transform the world. It’s gonna take a lot of explaining but I’ve been studying this for a while now and I just want to share it but don’t know where to put this information.
What shapes the reality around you? Actions, your actions literally cause everything that happens in your life, plain and simple. Now what dictates those actions? Emotion, emotions are what cause our actions, no matter what action it is, it is based off of an emotion. Now what dictates our emotions? Here’s the big one, belief. Belief is the root of how everybody’s own reality is shaped. Let me give an example to fully grasp what I’m trying to say.
Example:
You go see a movie with your friend. After watching the movie, you thought it was fantastic, so you ask your friend what he thought about it, and he says it was the worst two hours of his life. Right then and there, it causes an emotion within you. Now whatever you do next is based on whatever emotion you feel in that moment. It doesn’t have to be a powerful emotion—the emotion you feel could be genuine confusion, or it could be pure anger at your friend for not seeing what you saw in the movie.
Belief isn’t just singular, however—it is a system, a belief system. Let’s go back to this example, except this time, you also hold the belief that everybody has their own opinions, and that’s okay. Now, when your friend tells you he thought the movie was bad, it causes a different emotion. You still believe the movie was good, but you also believe that everybody has their own opinions and that’s okay.
Belief causes emotion, which causes action, which causes your life—your reality.
Now that you understand belief and why it is so important, let’s now talk about delusion.
Definition:
“Something that is falsely or delusively believed.”
Belief is powerful, but delusion is a superpower. I’ll give another example to really grasp what I mean by this.
Example:
Imagine a gladiator in ancient Rome, thrown into the Colosseum against a champion warrior. The crowd is roaring, and everyone expects him to lose—after all, he’s outmatched, untrained, and barely armed. He should be afraid. He should doubt himself.
But here’s the catch—he doesn’t.
For whatever reason, whether through insanity, sheer delusion, or some divine conviction, he believes with absolute certainty that he is an immortal god of war. He doesn’t just think it. He knows it. In his mind, he has already won. Death isn’t even an option because he believes he can’t die.
Believing that he is a god of war and cannot die gives the gladiator the absolute best possible chance of winning the fight and leaving with his life. Because he delusively believes that he is a literal god of war, he’s going to fight with complete confidence.
The real superpower here is making the champion believe in your delusion. Once he starts to believe it, he will fight with no confidence that he will win—he knows he will die because of the gladiator’s delusion.
Belief is power. Delusion is a superpower.
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So now that you really got a good understanding of belief, the question that came to my mind was: How do I control my belief system? How can I train my own mind to pick and choose belief at will? Where does belief even come from? How does a new belief happen?
Too many questions that I truly wanted answers for.
Well, I found the answers I was looking for in a book called The Four Agreements. Go read it if you haven’t already—it’s an incredible book. After reading it, I understood where belief comes from, how new beliefs happen, and how to train my mind to get rid of negative beliefs. However, I wanted more—I wanted to train my mind to control my beliefs at will.
Well, that’s where I fell into the rabbit hole of astral projection.
I won’t explain astral projection in full because it is a seriously complex topic, but if you’ve seen Doctor Strange, when he meets the Ancient One (the bald chick) and she pushes his astral body out of his normal body, allowing him to see the raw, grand universe—well, that’s astral projection.
How to enter astral projection is simple: When you go to sleep, you must train your mind to stay awake while your body goes to sleep. This is called the body asleep, mind awake state. It takes practice, but it’s completely possible.
Once you enter the body asleep, mind awake state, something phenomenal happens—your entire body begins to vibrate. Not physically, but you can feel it physically. This step is vital. When you feel those vibrations, you must now step out of your sleeping body. This is your astral body, the body that is vibrating because it’s made of pure energy.
Now, you may not believe this is real—but hey, delusion is a superpower.
But seriously—it is real.
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The reason I explained this is because of the key I found—the key to having anything you want in life. But I still need to explain more to actually come to a conclusion.
This is now where the conscious and unconscious mind come into play.
The conscious mind thinks and actually wants you to have a pretty good life. The unconscious mind, however, is the program—it is the system of beliefs. It is where your beliefs live.
The unconscious mind is the program, and the programming is your belief system.
Now, when you go to sleep, you enter the unconscious mind.
The reason this is important is because, through astral projection, you are completely conscious yet asleep. When you astral project, you are merging the unconscious and conscious mind together.
This is where you gain the superpower I was searching for—where you can literally pick and choose your own beliefs at will, crafting your own belief system that you operate on. Literally editing your own programming.
And this is my conclusion:
Through astral projection, you can gain the ability to edit your own programming and create a system that does whatever you want. It’s your choice. It’s up to you.
• Do you want to be successful? Just believe that you are successful.
• Do you want to stop bad habits? Believe that you are someone who doesn’t do those things.
This literally gives you full control and freedom of your own life.
I type this in hopes of reaching somebody who will understand and care. I type this in hopes that somebody will read this and truly get it.
I want to share this because I haven’t seen this idea anywhere on the internet, and I feel I must share it.
If you stayed and read this entire thing and understood it, please reach out and let’s talk. I just want somebody to share this idea with
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I stopped reading after you said all decisions are based off of emotion. Your very premise is flawed. And yes, your actions can affect the reality around you, but outside forces shape your reality as well. Maybe go back to the drawing board and open your mind to the idea that not everything is so absolute, that life is much more nuanced than you are perceiving.
> Delusion is a superpower
Your post is not a question, but I agree with this statement. They say "neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them". I will strive to become psychotic. Thank you!
Hey, I can tell you’re excited about this, and I do see some merit in parts. but you should also know that 1. this is Self Help 101 x Intention Manifestation and 2. a bunch of the premises are flawed.
Four Agreements really is a good book, btw.
If you want to talk about the flaws and get a less magical / more grounded view of these things I’m willing to talk about it, but lemme know. I don’t want to spend a bunch of time replying if you don’t care.
It’s not even that complicated
Reality is the illusion, we’re one conscious being existing in an infinite timeline that loops to infinity.
That means reality is literally what you believe it to be, if you actually live it and believe it.
Death and reality is the real illusion.
I had a crazy girlfriend once who genuinely believed that she was immune to being attacked. Not because she thought she was some invincible god of war, but because she just thought that people didn’t hit people like her. Pretty, well off, lots of friends. Thing is, she was an absolute piece of shit and actively provoked people all day. I can assure you, when she stole our friend’s weed and our friend caught her in public kne day and beat the fuck out of her.
We could also try a scenario where being a delusional god of war leads you to fighting recklessly and being killed almost immediately because you weren’t defending your invulnerable person. Delusion can be a superpower, sure. 99 times out of 100 it is an absolute hindrance.
>What shapes the reality around you? Actions, your actions literally cause everything that happens in your life, plain and simple.
But that’s clearly false. When my apartment flooded, my actions had literally nothing to do with it. My upstairs neighbors actions did.
>Well, that’s where I fell into the rabbit hole of astral projection. I won’t explain astral projection in full because it is a seriously complex topic, but if you’ve seen Doctor Strange, when he meets the Ancient One (the bald chick) and she pushes his astral body out of his normal body, allowing him to see the raw, grand universe—well, that’s astral projection.
See, this is the problem we have with society today. People literally are incapable of differentiating fantasy from reality. The vast majority of people think we live in a movie, a story book, a fictional narrative with magic and happy endings literary devices.
Life isn’t a movie buddy. Astral projection is not real. Thats just your imagination. And your imagination isn’t going to protect you from things happening outside your control
You are, in most of your points, just outlining the philopshy of Tony Robbins which you can find in Awaken The Giant Within or Personal Power II.
Action being the key to life, the importance of state, the ability to choose your beliefs.
This itself is repackaged from
Don’t know where Astral Projection fits in and I probably would avoid that, but whatever you see results from
Flawed premise from the start. I’m not a TLDR guy, I love to read and I’m open minded… But I had to stop after the first paragraph or so because I don’t believe your assertions are correct.
Actions shape reality – actions (and their consequences) may be an element of our reality, but actions cause everything that happens? Not even close. Our reality is more shaped by our interpretations of input, our perception. Reality is utterly subjective. There are many ingredients that make a reality, I’m not sure actions are even near the top of the recipe.
All action is a result of emotion – again, demonstrably incorrect. There are innumerable actions that are uninfluenced by emotion – a loooong list of things that are catalysts for action and emotion is just one.
Belief is the source of emotion – really? So we don’t feel emotion unless it’s rooted in our belief? Of course we do. We have an amazingly wide range of emotions and some of the most profound are spontaneous, they have no connection to belief.
I admire your enthusiasm about your ideas, but your oversimplified (and kinda pedantic) delivery is not ideal. You present these flawed concepts and then a few paragraphs later are all “now that you understand how the world works”. If you want to effectively share a philosophy, it needs to stand up to scrutiny, and be based on objective truths. If I start off my pitch with “Ok, so I think we all agree that our lives are formed by wise old unicorns in the sky” – it doesn’t matter how profound my philosophy is because I annihilated my credibility from go.