Hey it's Leo for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about the ego's favorite defense mechanism

Distraction distraction. Sir, might I suggest the red herring, it's excellent tonight.

Why aren't more people conscious?

In a word, distraction, distraction, distraction,

distraction is such a sneaky phenomenon.

It's amazing. It will amaze you.

It will both amaze you and horrify you

once you see the full depth of it

as you get deeper and deeper into this work

and you start to really go inside, really work on yourself,

man you're in for some rude awakening. It really is a rude awakening. Now the ego has many

defense mechanisms and why is that the case?

Because they're needed to keep the illusion of the ego alive.

Now by ego, of course, I mean mean you you are the ego not some part of you but you the one that I'm talking to right now the one that I'm addressing the one that I'm pointing at that you what that thing is your entire self not a part of

yourself but yourself the very essence of yourself that thing there that's what I'm pointing to, that thing is the

illusion. And of course that thing wants to stay alive. If an illusion wants to stay alive, it has to use all sorts of

slights of hand to make it happen. You see? So even though the ego has many defense mechanisms, one of its strongest ones is distraction.

Because it's so sneaky. It's necessary because if you didn't distract yourself, you would inevitably

discover the truth about yourself, which is that there's no you in there.

And that's unacceptable to you.

You see? You see the irony here? You see the irony here you see the paradox. It's really quite a mind fuck

Now when I talk about distraction what do I mean? I'm not just talking about video games and Facebook as a distraction.

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