LIBERTY INFINITY

Let me summarize a bit what has accumulated in my head. I was at a family constellations seminar recently, and the facilitator mentioned regression therapy, which prompted me to write this text.

Regression therapy is when you put a person into a trance, and they recall their past. In psychology, this refers to childhood traumas, while in esotericism, to past lives.

What I’ve understood is that there are two approaches to reincarnation: the first is linear (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), like a ray that has a beginning (Adam and Eve in Christianity) but no end. The end can be predicted end of times after Apocalypse. The other is non-linear (Hinduism and Buddhism), where you can be reborn in different eras, planets, and spaces.

They do not contradict each other; on the contrary, they complement each other.

In the linear approach, the lineage (family history) preserves memory; it has DNA. Like a life that originated with Adam and Eve and flowed through generations to present-day people – the energy of a family — for example, the tribes of Israel in the Old Testament. The lineage (family history) manifests like a water source in the subconscious, and by looking at a person’s associations with this source (e.g., muddy/clear), you can understand their attitude towards their family.

So, here’s the thing… is it possible to recall past incarnations, or is it just fantasy? I think regression therapy can be considered within the framework of the past that a person remembers. For instance, a grandmother was raped, and her granddaughter subconsciously avoids men. Or a girl grew up without a father and, in her adult life, subconsciously takes revenge on all men. Or working through the issue of a grandmother’s brother who was a criminal. Or a grandfather who hanged himself. All of this can be processed and released.

But when I hear stories about how someone was a queen or a witch in a past life (but never, for example, an ordinary housewife), I become skeptical. I also see this as fertile ground for charlatans to profit from a person’s desire for self-affirmation.

I myself am not important — it is my work that will remain.

God is one, and all religions lead to Him. And if someone says his religion is the only truth, he just wants to set us against each other.

The tendency to underestimate global threats is not a character flaw, but a feature of how our psyche works.

Here are the main psychological reasons why this happens:

1. Availability Heuristic
   We assess the probability of an event based on how easily we can imagine it or recall examples.

Global threat: Climate change is represented by abstract graphs and forecasts for 50 years from now.

Personal threat: A stolen wallet is a vivid, relatable story that’s easy to imagine.
The brain intuitively considers the latter more likely because it is more “available.”

2. Optimism Bias
   This is the tendency to believe that bad events are less likely to happen to us personally than to others.
   People might agree, “Yes, pandemics happen,” but at the same time think, “But I won’t get infected” or “Such an accident won’t happen to me.” This is a kind of psychological defense that allows us not to live in constant fear.
3. Spotlight Effect
   Every person feels like the center of their own universe. We perceive our problems, our immediate tasks (a work deadline, a family argument) as the most important thing. Global threats seem like a distant background on the periphery of our vision.
4. Decision Paralysis Due to Scale
   When a problem is too enormous (e.g., “saving the planet”) and our personal contribution seems like a drop in the ocean, it creates a feeling of powerlessness. The brain prefers to simply “discard” this task as unsolvable to avoid wasting resources. It’s easier to say, “I can’t change anything anyway,” than to constantly experience anxiety.
5. Distancing in Time and Space
   The human brain responds best to immediate and visible threats (a tiger in the bushes).
   Global threats are often perceived as something that:

Will happen not now (“sometime in the future”).

Will happen not here (“in another country”).

Will happen to someone else (“not to my family”).

6. Psychological Defense: Denial
   Acknowledging the reality of a global threat is very frightening. It undermines our basic sense of security. Therefore, the psyche activates the mechanism of denial. It’s easier to convince ourselves that “scientists are panicking” or “it’s all exaggerated” than to live with the awareness of real danger.

What can “switch on” a serious attitude?

People start taking a threat seriously when it overcomes these psychological barriers, meaning it becomes:

Personal: Someone they know got sick.

Tangible: Forest fires approached the city, smog is visible outside the window.

Immediate: An evacuation was announced.

Understandable: There are clear instructions on “what to do.”

P.S. In my childhood, I read Castaneda, and there the fundamental principle is to treat one’s death as the best advisor. Every time you need to make a decision, you should think: what would I do if I died tonight? This approach greatly influenced me; I made many life decisions without hesitation, based on this principle. Later, it became a habit.

I also want to say that Buddhism and the Latin American cult of death are largely based on this same principle. In Buddhism, for example, monks meditate on a decomposing corpse. To rid themselves of desire for a woman, monks are also instructed to imagine how her flesh ages and dies. Constant mindfulness of death is a rule of practice.

Furthermore, I think that thoughts about the reality of the End of the World are not paranoid schizophrenia, as they are often classified in modern psychiatry, but a sign of developed consciousness and awareness. Of course, without fanaticism.

If you want to find inner peace, happiness and help – accept God’s will and you will rise. This means: accept all what is happening to you as from God (not from men, demons or obstacles) because all what is happening to us cant happen without God’s will. People and obstacles are just the tools of God and often they dont understand what they do.

Если хочешь найти мир душевный, отраду и верное спасение – смирись под крепкую руку Божию, и Он вознесет тебя. Это значит: приими все случающееся с тобой, как от руки Божией (а не от человеков, бесов, обстоятельств и прочее), ибо воистину все происходящее с нами не может прийти без воли Божией. Люди и обстоятельства – только орудия Божии, часто не понимающие того, что делают.

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