This leads to all kinds of crazy, dysfunctional behavior. One of the craziest things I see happen from this situation is how people subconsciously set out to create a more heroic hero’s journey for themselves.

you’re doomed to self-sabotage because you don’t believe you deserve happiness and success. And if you do start achieving happiness and success, you’ll subconsciously feel guilty about it. (This is a huge cause of imposter syndrome.) The root cause of all your behavior from this point forward will be based on your low self-esteem. Put in emotional

Because now with the Datasphere, all of those negative, limiting, and destructive mind viruses you received from the education system, government, and organized religion get focused, amplified, and supercharged to program you for self-harm.

Now let’s explore how your love of hero’s journey stories as a child could turn into self-sabotage once you reached adulthood... Let’s suppose, like millions of others, you get infected with the “I’m not worthy” meme. Once you buy in, usually subconsciously,

When you possess self-awareness, you’re not easily manipulated because you’re always in a dual role of participant and observer. (Running the command center.) When you hear something that creates cognitive dissonance with a core belief you have, you pause, question the premise, do some critical thinking, and reach a conclusion. You may change your

Any time you are acting instinctively, impulsively, and unconsciously, you have reduced your ability for rational and critical thought. While you haven’t technically lowered your IQ, you have for all practical purposes locked a portion of it into a vault you’re unable to access. And if you can’t access that intelligence, it’s no more helpful than

THERE IS AN Ophiocordyceps fungus which invades an ant’s exoskeleton, forcing the ant to climb a tree and bite onto a twig – an act of suicide that results in its head exploding and raining down more fungus spores on the ants below, who repeat the process. Essentially, the fungal pathogen infects the ant, causing it to kill itself and perpetuate a

I am not joking about living in the Matrix. Because you really are living in a Matrix; it’s just not configured like the one in the movies. The real Matrix is a collection of machines used for surveillance and data-gathering. (This includes every online search you perform, what you buy, every website you visit, your social media posts, the things

The common denominator in all these scenarios is a futile attempt to find self-worth from external factors. And your self-worth can never come from things outside of yourself – that has to come from the inside.