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Jørgen writes:
“Most of our thinking is self referential. Most of our psychological suffering revolves around the seemingly permanent, stable, and separate self these thoughts and feelings seem to imply and revolve around.
So many of our conflicts, goals, and deeper fears have to do with self-deficiency stories. As the late psychiatrist Thomas Szasz used to say: “A friendship is two people who have agreed to uphold each others mythologies.”
But there is no such thing as a self. It’s an illusion.
It’s one thing to know this intellectually. It’s something else entirely to have an embodied realisation, and experience an actual shift in perception.
The intent behind this 10 session masterclass is to help you have an actual insight into the self being an illusion. To not only see it, but to experience an actual shift.
If you know it intellectually, but can’t really feel it yet, this is the course for you.
The sessions will combine awakening sessions, guided meditations, philosophical discussions, and troubleshooting.
In each session I will do my best to help at least one person experience this insight live. Not only will you get a chance to work with me live, but you will learn indirectly by watching and getting absorbed into other participants’ sessions as well.
Based upon how the live session went the participant will get specific homework to do before the next session.
Getting to not only experience yourself but watch live awakening sessions is so valuable due to the troubleshooting element. It often takes some trial and error for someone to have an actual shift. Everyone is different, and as the saying goes, its different strokes for different folks.
You will be exposed to so many different angles and ways of pointing towards this illusion that there is a good chance that something will resonate for you.
You will get a collection of guided meditations to use between sessions, as well as group hypnosis sessions where the intent is to use suggestion artistry to help the process along.
This is ideal for people who want to delve into identity and the self and experience some profound insights.
However, please note that there are also many pitfalls on this journey and ways to get stuck.
Some might get overwhelmed with emotions as the very same defences that keep the self illusion going begin to break down. Others may experience a crisis of nihilism, or deep despair around topics such as free will and agency.
As this can be a quite ‘destructive process’ it’s not for the faint of heart. Given that it can be a bumpy ride I only recommend you joint his journey if you truly are a truth seeker and want to know the truth no matter what.
If you are very emotionally unstable to begin with you might want to get some help with that first. And I don’t recommend doing this course unless you have developed a sense of an adult psychological self over time -essentially, you are psychologically and adult and have healthy boundaries and are not steeped in victimhood.
If you satisfy the above criteria then seeing through this very illusion may very well be the most important and fulfilling thing you can do.
For some reason much of awakening and meditation industry seems to have embraced a lot of outdated psychological concepts, most of which are not supported by modern psychological science and findings.
I’m talking about notions such as repression. So many teachers teach their students that they have repressed memories and repressed emotions. Other teach that ‘the body keeps the score’ and that the body stores memories and traumas and that these need to be resolved as part of the process.
Not only is the evidence behind these claims very weak. These notions often do more harm than good.
This course is not trauma informed. It’s not based in the claims of the trauma industrial complex. Neither does it push old psychodynamic theories of repressed memories and repressed emotions.
Instead, we do our best to use updated psychological maps which correspond with current research into memory, social psychology, and the role of suggestion.
If you want to join Jørgen Rasmussen for this deep exploration into the Illusion of the Self and more, register your interest using the form below and we will keep you posted.
