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A caution. An inducement. No snooze button.
As long as that pseudo-self is taken irrationally for the real self no progress will be made.
We are not who we grew up thinking we are. When these guys bring up mind control, they're not talking something theatrical, like a Manchurian Candidate. If you were born and were named and listened to your parents and teachers and friends and bosses and coworkers... if you grew up here... you are mind controlled. The self is not the thoughts and experiences, or even what you can make of them. It's apart from all that. Figuring out what you like and claiming that as your identity is role playing. You want to get out of that habit, those mind manacles....
