Mental Obsession Discussion / Emotional Sobriety / Spiritual Malady

- Contact - David is a very close friend and neighbor who starting as a teenager was incarcerated for over twenty years.  He talks openly about how he matured "in the box" where he learned about responsibility and accountability.  Since his release, he has been active in gang intervention and worked in many of our local schools to help guide children at risk.  He also offered some great...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. Emotional sobriety is sane living. There is nothing sane about thinking who we are is what we think.  Trying constantly to feel better about thinking that is worse is silly.  Yet taking what we think so se...

- Contact - This audio commentary is synchronous with an email Introduction participants receive prior to our Sunday discussions. This segment stands for 2023 MOD XXVII for February 5, 2023.  Anyone interested in our announcements or attending our Zoom discussion is welcome to send their email and will be added to our list:  contact@mentalobsession.com QUOTE: This week from John P:  “Every man tak...

- Contact - Mental Obsession Monologue.  If the premise of our use of thought has been problematic throughout human history it is well worth considering the root of that problem.  This is not to suggest what is said here does that - while the chance to reinforce the value of our experiences is the chance to recognize what we share in common and thus know .  This segment broadly makes several point...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. Beings Are, Humans do. Beings know, humans think. Our brain's mission is to serve our body so we can be of maximum productive and constructive use to all that are and all that is. Thoughts are designe...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. Thinking about thinking is not a problem. Thinking about itself - thinking thinks up a self-centered only in thought.  This self has no basis in reality or truth.  To think our thoughts are the creators of...

- Contact - Our third conversation focuses on Moein's multi-year exploration between stimulus and non-stimulus - and his resulting insight.   After we spoke Moein introduced his thoughts on how Rumi got his start and we may do a fourth episode to explore that aspect of Persian history since it is a poetic record of the infinite nature of existence.   We Know We Know.  We Are Aware We Are Awar...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events Things are as they are. That means thoughts are thoughts, truth is true, reality is reality and fantasy is fantasy like imagination is imagination.  Thoughts are imagined conclusions largely based on limite...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. The hardest place to find is where we are when we don’t think we’re there. To look through the lens of this thought will have us feel lost everywhere we go. There is no loss in what cannot be found as ther...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS Our fund-a-mental human well-being is a byproduct of an Absolute Source:  We Know We Know We Are Aware We Are Aware. Our Knowing Awareness is not created by thought. Thinking, like our body's d...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS : Love is Absolute and does not change when how we think changes Truth is True.  Reality is Real.  Things are as they are. We are as we are. The present is where all that is happening is happening,...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS Feeling better about what is worse promotes addiction Thinking THAT what is happening is happening fosters assurance Doubt is a sign of doubtful thoughts Thoughts are thoughts to think they are true...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS Reality and Truth cannot be fixed since they are unbreakable.   Thoughts are not real or true they are imagined.  Illusions, like imagination, thought to be real are delusional.   To think delusion...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. Our conversation has developed to allow us not only to consider the impact thinking has on our own experience, but the consequential impact it has on others.   Seeing things accurately provides freedom and...

- Contact - Our exploration continued about Moein's cycle of 31 days on anything he wants and 40 days off everything including caffeine and sugar. TOPICS Intention is happening Desire is an awareness of knowing there is more than thought Attachment to desire - Buddha said was the source of suffering - and is addiction Knowing is Absolute - so is it possible we don't know? Thinking is rel...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS: The immediacy of the moment We are always present The Present is where all that is happening, happens The Present is where all that is, is The Present is always new After Life, Present Life Life af...

- Contact - Moein is on a many-year-long quest that will end on his 40th birthday shifting between 31 days on anything he wants to ingest and 40 days off everything that alters perception, including caffeine. He began several years ago and has several years to go.  He will explain his purpose and intent.  Our discussion is pulling apart notions while acknowledging common ground.  TOPICS Peace / Lo...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS LOVE  LIFE  LIGHT  PEACE EXISTENCE  MIND: KNOWING PRESENT AWARENESS ABSOLUTE, INFINITE, UNLIMITED, OMNIPOTENT CONSCIOSNESS Assurance, stability.  Current - Now, Current - Flow - always new now Healt...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS: Problems occur in thought - it is what we think of what is happening that primarily causes our struggles  Thinking of things as we think of them is not thinking of things but how we think Conceding...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. Topics Beings Are not things, but Present Awareness, not in space or time What is not in space or time is what we have to express in space and time What we have we don't have to express since we are f...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events.. Consider this: Consideration is an awakened meditation. We Are As We Are.  We Know We Know.  We Are Aware We Are Aware.  We Are. We are not who we think we are.  Any self-born of thought, thinking of itse...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. Topics Explored:  We Know We Know and are Aware We Are Aware. Expressing Knowledge is thought's function.  What is simple is Absolute: Truth is True and Reality is Real.  Thinking is not complicated b...

- Contact - Our MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect current events. TOPICS : All that has happened and is happening happens only in the immediacy of the moment.  The Present is the culmination of everything that has ever happened as everything that is happening. We are as we are not as we...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. TOPICS : Acceptance determines our relationship, not the things related to What is simple does not change, What is Absolute is simple Truth, Reality, and Life are not complicated because we think they are...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - they will always in all ways reflect the moving nature of current events. Consider the following: Simple is not complicated What is simple does not change  What changes can appear complicated Thoughts can have things seem complicated Nature is not complicated -  Our universe is...