(01-04-2014, 02:32 PM)rie Wrote: You can manipulate people into believing it by framing it in ways that people may digest.Usually, that manipulation is done through exploiting desires with which people perceive the framed idea holds promise to fulfill. That's "identification", an unconscious attachment - an idea association. However, that's also when one doesn't have much of a conscious choice in the matter and are relating from a "fusion" with the idea rather than to it. Only the later, conscious choice, can be truly authentic because it brings our very real limitations to bear on any relationship. So if you want to learn from a desired idea, you want to be very close to it (intimate with it). But not so close you are fused with it in some kind of all-being immanency
, which is a form of pathological "spiritual bypassing". And related to ideas of "loving", as Masters said, "Such intimacy cuts through the us-versus-them mentality and projections that plague our culture".
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