MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion of current events.

Choice always allows not to be chosen. To act or not act reflects this freedom of choice. When we choose to think we shouldn’t be thinking what we’re thinking, while we’re thinking what we’re thinking, we’ve chosen to think that what is possible is impossible. If what we’re thinking we’re doing is impossible then thinking it can be stopped will seem impossible. If we are unwilling to embrace what we’re doing we will not think we have anything to do with it so nothing to stop.

To use freedom to feel condemned is possible. To see it accurately is to see that actual freedom imposes no restrictions. It is what we do with the absolute freedom we have to think that can impose the seemingly weighty experience of depression, dysfunction, and disintegration.

If a chosen thought can manifest conditions that depress our body’s natural systems then what is happening is not cast on us but caused by us. To think pain confirms hallucination as reality is to miss pain’s point to indicate something is wrong or at least worthy of attention.

Neutrality is the natural state of Infinite Awareness and Knowledge. It can take no position since it is not in space or time. Human neutrality is to see that taking a position confirms all other positions can be taken. To take any position in favor of dismissing, rather than confirming all other positions, puts us at odds with reality and there is no getting even as long as we continue.

This is how we feel stuck, stick to our stories, get stuck in thought, can’t stop, think thoughts intrude and attack us, think our ego can be out of control, think there’s an ego to control, think our brain acts against us, think our self is difficult to deal with. None of this is accurate but all concocted by a self born of thought, mistakenly thought to be who we are.

Once thoughts seem to be reality and truth the following tendencies follow:

We think we become the creator of reality and truth and that all we are is what we think.

As the creator - so whatever we think becomes our truth and reality and should be everyone else’s - and all that can and should happen is only what we think.

We are and thus become what we do.

We think we are at risk when what happens isn't what we thought would happen.

We have an ego, a persona, a self that seems to have us.

Ego has a mind of its own, that acts out of order, against us.

Our brain is out of our control, as though it has a life of its own.

Our thoughts can attack us.

Taking things personally is not funny while the self we take seriously is a joke.

That we become what we do.

That we need to watch our words so we don’t say things we’re afraid will come true.

That offense taken has anything to do with what someone else thinks.

That hurt feelings are caused by others.

Life depends on our body, where we think we are centered and live, in our brain.

That the brain is Mind - so what we think we know seems to be all there is to know.

That thinking of things not happening keeps us from the present; and that we can ever not be present.

These are but a few - think of some things you can take for granted and ask whether it is possible they are not true.

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