Chris Krause on Nostr: "[...] What I don't regret is seeing how much people want to be deluded. How much ...

"[...] What I don't regret is seeing how much people want to be deluded. How much they'll delude themselves. I got to see that up close and personal. In a way few people do. Understand? And I'll tell you another unpleasant truth. Every great spiritual leader has seen the same thing. He's seen how much delusion people want and how much they want it. My path was to pile on the delusions. But I'll never regret seeing how people want a world made for them that they can believe in. And it all goes back to the void and Tibet, where a long time ago, their sages said, "If you can't stand the silence, the nothing, you're a chump." They knew the score. Now, that's all translated into: people have their own belief systems. That's a joke. That's a very pale representation of the truth. That's a slogan for chumps. The real psychology is all about void and non-void, being able to sit in the big silence and enjoy it. And lucky for me, 99.999 percent of the people can't do it. They wouldn't want to try. They're scared of that. They think something bad will happen to them. And here's another very unpleasant truth. People know, unconsciously, they KNOW...that the best way to escape being in the void is to accept a delusion, to live with delusions and get all wrapped up in them. People will never admit it to themselves, but that's the way they are. And in that sense, truth is for suckers."