Mental Obsession Discussion / Emotional Sobriety / Spiritual Malady

- 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 Simplicity is the easiest thing to complicate What is Absolute is simple since it does not change The opposite of the Absolute is the same There is nothing unstable in what is Absolute There are no...

- 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 We are where we are, as we are, now, presently All that is and all that are, are connected There is no other place to be but where we are no matter what we think  The opposite of anything Absolute i...

- 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. SOME TOPICS EXPLORED To be or not to be? - begs the question: can we ever be where we are not, now? To think we are not where we should be is a conflict - since we are where we are To think we should not b...

- Contact - SOME TOPICS EXPLORED If we manifest the mess we manifest the rest Problems are solved or complicated in thought   Choices seem to create reality when we think thoughts are true. We have what we want - and can think we don't Simplicity does not need to be made sense of Conflicted thought leads to conflicts Shakey thinking leads to shakey actions Thinking only what we think should h...

- 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. SOME TOPICS EXPLORED :  To look for the glasses and hat you're wearing is to ask why you are looking What cannot be lost cannot be found.   Admitting THAT rather than asking why asks is stable Asking...

- 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. SOME TOPICS EXPLORED: The problem is never the problem if we are overlooking our involvement in what is happening now.  Addiction is the failed attempt to reverse the natural order of things Thoughts tryin...

- 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. SOME TOPICS EXPLORED:  Enabling does not help when it hurts. Mental addiction turns possibility into impossiblity Addiction is a lie and lies vainly attempt to reverse the natural order of things Lies appe...

- Contact - THINGS TO CONSIDER: Getting better is seeing what is wrong clearly What is happening is happening no matter what we think The Present is always Present, we're always in the present as there is no other place to be; thinking we’re not in the present is a wrong thought held in the present.   Knowing we Know stabilizes thought since we Know better than we think.   Dishonesty is not n...

- 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. Trying to feel better about what is wrong is the mental trap of addiction.  To have things as they are not asking for the opposite consequence of our seeming wants to appear unwanted, unexpected, and havin...

- 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 discussion has been held weekly for two years.  Prior to that, for many years, it was one on one.  This is the first agreed-upon group recording made available publicly.  There were as many as twelve p...

- Contact - Some Topics Discussed: Progressive means favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are. When conditions get worse it is not progress or progressive. To use worsening conditions to justify maintaining a course is an obsession with a bankrupt idea that is not ideal.  There is no fight in addressing things honestly. ...

- Contact - SOME TOPICS EXPLORED Why is it hard to let go?   Why does it seem easy to hold on?  Denial is an illusion taken seriously Isolation promotes desolation Shame and guilt as excuses to keep silent Not wanting to burden others with our problems Communication is community and communion  We share what is Absolute, if it is ours it is all of ours We manifest the world as we see it, or think i...

- Contact - Some topics explored: Problems are a misapplication of solutions Problems are exercises Math problems are solved by applying principles - so too are human problems.  Math problems are an exercise in learning Thinking is something we do not who or what we are Problems are only problems as long as what we think of them is wrong Our discussion is an exercise in talking honestly about what...

- Contact - SOME TOPICS DISCUSSED: We can’t get away from the present - since there is no past to get away from We are all always in the Present no matter what we think Judgment and contempt The imposition of the imposter we can think we are is only what we think Human functional capacity Foggy notions have no substance Functional literacy (listening to our body language and environment)  For-givi...

- Contact - Thinking, thinking to it-self, thinks up and of a self, or ego, born in thought.  Ego is not who we are, ego is who we think we are and obsessive thoughts center on egoistic thoughts thinking only of them-selves.    Beings Are, Humans do.  Beings Know and humans think using reason to try to understand.  Thought is a primary human doing or action. To think thinking is our only source cr...

- Contact - SOME TOPICS EXPLORED Carrying the message How to help homeless / others We can say hello and offer our names, get theirs If reaching out is not safe it is not suggested or required What is help?   Enabling is a primary addiction Recovery uniquely qualifies us to help others "We" can do what others fail at doing The mental obsession is the disease of addiction(s) How we think...

- Contact - There is no conflict in what we think or do until we think we shouldn't be thinking, feeling or doing what we're doing.  Once thinking is opposed it appears we should not be where we are, with what we have, while we are exactly where we are, with all we have.  This inner-reactive fight will continue as long as wrong ideas are thought to be right. Feeling conflicted is not an...

- Contact - SOME TOPICS EXPLORED Our discussion continues 24 / 7 Mental conflict is (ego) self-inflicted Obsessive thoughts are not true or real Thoughts are imagined Wrong thought to be right is a conflict Wrong as wrong is not in conflict Promoting Peace Interaction or Inter-reaction Readiness is always possible Feelings reflect what we think Life does not depend on thought Procrastination / Ine...

- Contact - SOME TOPICS EXPLORED: Micro and Macro are two sides of the same coin What is unseen is not unknown Things are as they are not as they seem Lies appear to have power, which is a lie We are as we are not who we think we are  We are all actors promoting characters Service offers a natural perspective Addiction to service is enabling Inner conflict reflects conflicted thoughts Our existenc...

- Contact - Some topics explored: Why do we have this discussion? Disease is a lack of ease Panic attacks are induced emergencies Mentally obsessive thoughts are caustic Removing symptoms reveals the problem Symptoms are effects, not causes Treating symptoms avoids the problem Responsibility is not negotiable Disease seems normal while healing is thought to be a miracle Managing obsessive thoughts...

- Contact - Jamie is editor and publisher of the Westside Current, serving LA's 11th district.   Some topics explored:  What is addiction?   Why failed results are used to justify chronic repetition.  Lies re-lie vainly on belief, faith and hope.  Lies have no basis other than thoughtlessness.   There is no vanity, grandiosity or vanity in an Absolute State of Being.  Ego is a figment of imag...

- Contact - Some topics explored: Where are we?   Managing thoughts Homeostasis, natural balance Indivisibility is visible   Insight is vision Can we get over what is bad? Can ego be satisfied? Navigating the physical world Creating a new path What is our nature? Our Absolute nature Possibilities are possible We are intuitive; knowing beings We know we know and are aware we’re aware There is no do...

- Contact - Some topics discussed:  Feelings reflect accurate and inaccurate thoughts  What is right?  Are we responsible or irresponsible?   How can we be where we are not Not looking does not make things disappear  Do kids know what is wrong? Did we?   How can I get what I want  Trauma, pain, nervous system Never be what and where I want to be Never able to arrive where I wanted to be   The use...

- Contact - Topics discussed:  Awareness and judgment  Opposites are extreme positions Material success as happiness Division defines cultures Ideals often not ideal Obsessive thoughts define conflict in history   Abundance and Scarcity Lies have no substance so enough can never be enough.   Worship / Prayer / Meditation How real is reality?   Love When is help, help?   Responsibility - irresponsi...

- Contact - Some topics for this episode: Overcoming fear   Listening to doubt   Being Present   Nature is natural   No bounds or bondage in love   Addiction is getting better at acting worse   Feeling good  Attraction / Service  Trying is not doing   Embracing wrong   Witnessing distress    Secrets cannot be kept   Delusion is never real “I’m up to something” Searching is not finding   We like wh...