It's time for us to get serious about this work.

One of the biggest challenges with the topics that we talk about on this channel

is that I cover a lot of highly abstract, theoretical and conceptual topics,

which can get people lost into this sort of rabbit hole of theory and ideas,

and failing to distinguish between... theory and

failing to distinguish between that and what all these concepts and ideas are pointing to.

So we need to get out of fantasy, out of concepts, and out of imagination, and into the real world in touch with what is actual.

Actual, actuality. What is actual? So today we're going to be working on carving out

this distinction. This is one of the most important distinctions you can make in all of personal development and in all of spiritual work.

Is this distinction between on the one hand the actual, what is actual, and then on the other hand, concepts, beliefs, and imagination.

And people in general are very, very poor at distinguishing between these two. And this is why they get themselves to so much epistemic trouble and they struggle so much to understand reality

is because they've completely blurred this distinction such that they're living in an augmented reality. this everything that they're seeing all their interactions with actuality

are getting corrupted by all of their concepts that they got from their culture

and from their early upbringing and now they can't tell the two apart.

So let's work to correct this.

A really common mistake that people make when they think about spirituality

is they think that oh spirituality that's like a bunch of beliefs

when in fact spirituality is the exact opposite of that. Spirituality is actuality, not belief.

So let's get you in touch with that right now.

Actuality, what do we mean when we say the word actual?

So we could sit here and think about it. I can give you a bunch of interesting theories and ideas about what it all means and how it all works and none of that will actually get you closer to actuality.

So this is a very hands-on episode, no pun intended

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