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Aside from enemy war-time disinfolklore, I notice general malaise of self-imposed negativity and emotional darkness that disheartens many, preventing accomplishment and useful action. My mother was raised in a Jewish culture, where it was common to denigrate your children as a cultural norm. This is passed on generation to generation, resulting in half-born humans, crippled by their own negative reactions to anything even remotely unique or controversial. Christians are also great at this mind f*ck, installing ideas about the original sin and human insufficiency. There is a place for a simple, straight-forward reprogramming manual people can use to get rid of unhelpful trash in their minds. There are certainly many motivational authors, but a technical manual from a linguistic and emotional response perspectives could be tremendously valuable. I often find myself disheartened and negative so early in the project that it’s difficult to make progress. We need to learn to kill the trolls that slipped into our heads under the guise of “common sense,” “ordinary morality,” and “that’s how we’ve always done things.”

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Thank you Anton. I notice too that many who, for example, support Ukraine 100% fall into a mental trap of promoting Ukraine’s comparative weakness in this or that matter. While blinding ourselves to weaknesses does no-one any good, banging on about negative issues destroys the Animal Spirits / morale which, in the realm of warfare, as in economics does no-one any good, apart from our enemies.

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Agreed! I have noticed that Mana seems to be all or nothing kind of a deal. If I allow the mind to start going down rabbit holes of discursive thought, the life-force is immediately reduced in intensity. This how we lost out connection to Mana in the first place - through overthinking. Nothing is as deadly to life as thought, nothing survives it. Once doubt is introduced, Mana appears to be transmuted (re-channeled?) into a different quality of energy. Thought and doubt are simply toxic to the life-force and they cripple hero’s journey. When I’m in the flow, there is very little thinking, yet my actions produce beautiful, forceful outcomes. A true leader and revolutionary figure leads by the vibe of Mana alone, it almost doesn’t really matter what words they say. Too many words is like pouring water over the hot coals.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

– Oscar Wilde

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