Bubble: The Worst Punishment Is Ignoring Someone

Humans are social beings whose self-images partly defined by the reflection from other bubbles. From the minute, a baby is born, one’s self-image is affected by how others define him or her. People get used to seeing the reflection of self on the outer surface of other bubbles.
Ignoring a person whose definition comes from the feedback of others is the worst punishment. That’s why long solitary confinement is so destructive. The person forgets who he or she is. It robs the person from his own self-image and identity. The lack of self-image makes everything meaningless inside the bubble. Without a protagonist or an antagonist, there is no story. Without no story, there will be no future scenarios of pleasure or beautiful meanings.

3 Layers of Reality

3 Layers of Reality (3 Parts of W2):
Understanding of 3 layers is the most important part of the journey to become a Nezman. This thinking discipline will help you to understand the making of your current reality. If you are able to pinpoint what part of your W2 body is making your reality unbearable, you can easily change it. W2 contributes greatly to the making of hologram lens that constructs your reality. The content of W2 can be divided into 3 categories (L1, L2, and L3). The content of each category gives rise to a certain type of reality.
L2: This layer captures the state of affairs in W1 (the physical world). In this layer, a rather faithful and accurate reflection of the W1 realm is stored. The more accurate your L2 layer is, the more predictive power you would have.  An accurate L2 provides an accurate model of W1 events that help you achieve your preferences related to W1 external compositions and your W1 internal body.
L2 layer is comparable to science. All branches of science are attempts to create an accurate image of W1 reality.
L1: This layer, addresses the metaphysical aspects of the world. It fills the empty portions of the reality. It is a faith with no way to prove it in W1 (or in L2). Many questions about L1 topics are irrelevant in L2. Focusing too much on L1 theses is waste of time and energy because none of these theses can find meaningful answers in L2. The goal of L1 is to fill the empty portion of the unknown (or unknowable) with personal answers that serve the feeler toward the goal of creating the highest beauty.

3 Layers of Reality

An ordinary person often has serious contradictions and incoherency between the three layers that eventually leads to destruction of castle of thoughts. Many times,  a person's L1 content contradicts those of L2 and L3. However, Nezman, through rigorous thinking disciple, has a coherent W2, whose 3 layers are in total harmony.
L3: The borders between L3 and L1 is blurry. L3 content is associated with past evaluations of the feeler. L3 content is the source of value judgement. For instance, it determines who is handsome or pretty. This layer is the most complex. Intuition, the memory of past emotions in unconscious level, suppressed past desires, and goals (desired scenarios for future) all are affecting the reality construction through this layer. L3, like L1, is a double-edged sword. It could create the most beautiful and the ugliest realities. L3 content can give rise to realities with utter happiness or realities with eternal darkness. It can create strong motivations toward success or indifference leading to utter failure. L3 content can incorporate Le1-Le5 scenarios that are creative, exciting, and ingenious, as well as those that are outlandish, fantastic, or insane.  W1 internal compositions (your physical body) also affects L3. For instance, one's attraction toward the same sex individuals may partly root in biology, but it manifest itself as a value judgement lens in your L3. All L3 content is normative. Present emotions, as well as the memories of past emotions, will affect L3. In many cases, the content of L3 becomes so distant from L2 that it becomes destructive.

Addictive Love Distorts Reality

Nez: Love is an attitude. Love is the intention to materialize the scenarios of pleasure and beautiful meanings for the the loved one (that could also be the self). Love brings the ultimate pleasure and beauty, and one's failure to materialize the goals of love causes a lot of pain.
Sometimes L1 and L3 lenses create such a pleasurable and beautiful realities that the the person distorts L2 lenses and steps into fantasy. The more a person experiences pleasure and beautiful meanings from the reality constructed by such L1 and L3 lenses, the more addictive such reality becomes. The person denies W1 and L2 (the accurate image of W1) in order to stay as long as possible in such beautiful reality. However, if the person lives long enough, eventually W1 collides with one's constructed reality.
Student: I can relate to this. there was a time when my powerful imagination created illusions of love in order to construct the most beautiful universe for me. Those illusions became so addictive and strong that I denied any other possible realities. However, when those constructs collided with W1, my castle of thoughts destroyed, and that beautiful reality shattered.
When I look back, I see that I wanted a piece of heaven. I wanted nothing less than the extreme pleasure and ultimate beauty. I tricked myself to believe that I am there because living a moment in such a heaven seemed to be worth a lifetime. I constructed my fantastic version of heaven, and I fell in love with it (and became addicted to it). My small heaven gave me strongest motivations, unstoppable will, and the most beautiful self-image.
Nez: Living in such a concrete reality far from L2 could be very dangerous. You may experience extreme pleasure and beautiful meanings, but later you will suffer much more. Such an intense experience of pleasure and beauty is so addictive that distorts L2 lenses and causes more suffering in the long-run. Collision with W1 may damage your hologram lens for years.
Student: I wanted a piece of that heaven even if it was a costly illusion. Although it was an illusion, it was the most beautiful experience of my life.
Nez: After you become a Nezman, you gain control over the three layers of L1, L2, and L3. You can experience more pleasure and beauty without W1 collision.
Your experience was short-lived, and you were fearful that you may lose it all. As a Nezman, you can decide to stay there as long as you want, and you will have no fear.

Judging Others Is Meaningless

Every individual has a unique W1 body, unique W2 body, and unique interaction with the fountain of events. You can never judge anyone because you can never know how it feels being inside another's bubble. Different W1 and W2 bodies give rise to different streams of realities that are alien to you.
You can only be compared to other versions of yourself. No two individuals can be compared with one another.
Nevertheless, for most people, comparison is an automatical, unconscious, and inevitable process. Such comparison works like a double-edged sword. When you are the winner in the comparison, it boosts your self-image, but as soon as you become the loser in this comparison, comparison destroys your self-image.
Nezman has control over his or her own L1 and L3 lenses and their interpretations. For Nezman, defeats are temporary and stepping stones towards much bigger success. Nothing in outside world can affect Nezman’s self-image. Nezman knows and defines himself or herself despite all external events and comparisons.

X Is My Astrolabe

Nez: Sailors we using astrolabe as a navigation tool to reach to their destination centuries ago, when science and technology were not advanced enough to make navigation effortless. My navigation tool to explore uncharted territories of consciousness is X.
Consciousness is the most familiar yet the most unknown entity in the universe. Consciousness is a place that the three realms meet. The construction of reality, as well as the conscious experience of reality, cannot be conveyed by the tools of language. Nevertheless, I do my best to shed light on the working of the machine that gives rise to your unique reality. X is my astrolabe to navigate in the unchartered territories of consciousness, and I use some metaphors to help you understand the magic of X. Becoming a Nezman enables you to enjoyably navigate through the ocean of unknown. Your fear is replaced with excitement and awe, your hate with love , and your despair and  hope.

First Extrovert, Then Introvert, and Lastly Extrovert Again

Your self-image, thoughts, interpretations, and memories of past events and past emotions are stored in W2. W2 bodies of most people are like junkyards of outdated thoughts, useless emotions, and suppressed desires. Such content works like a broken lens that contribute nothing valuable to hologram lens. For many, W2 is a collection of comforting and tranquilizing lenses that lead to numbness, laziness, inaction, complacency, and conformity. A period of introversion helps one to correct those lenses. One can pinpoint all lenses that create biases and negative emotional reactions due to past experiences or belief systems. Moreover, one should become introvert in order to understand how the machinery of X works.
One purpose of introversion is correct categorization of thoughts to 3 layers of L1, L2, and L3. While L2 portion of W2 is subject to the least amount of change,  L1 and L3 portion of W2 need serious overhaul in different stages of life. L2 should remain objective and without any judgement or bias. L1 and L3 are there to be filled with your creativity. Mending self-image needs contributions from all three layers though.
Nevertheless, one should become extrovert again after all these corrections. Success in W1 needs a balance between the two modes of introversion and extroversion. Becoming Nezman (and fully understanding of X) requires a long period of introversion (months or even years).
Some of the most successful people switch mode every day. After a day of extroversion (and dealing with W1 reality) would think one or two hours in order to update L2 and plan to influence W1 toward their preferences. They update L2 and plan while avoiding fantasies and comforting escapism.

Matter Is Sacred and Valuable, yet Magical and Mysterious.

Matter can create life, consciousness, pleasure, the experience of meanings, and the experience of beauty; therefore, matter is, sacred and valuable, yet magical and mysterious.
Consciousness is the product of matter plus evolution. The experience of meanings inside the bubble is also such a product. Moreover, consciousness correlates with the form and composition of matter. A new composition creates new consciousness. For instance, using drugs and alcohol changes the composition of the brain by introducing new chemicals to the existing compositions. The new composition creates altered consciousness.
Consciousness may be one potential among many potentials of matter. We are a composition of atoms, but this does not mean that we are just that.  We have found some equations to describe the state of affairs in W1, We do not even know what really matter and energy are. Our effort is aimed at prediction and utilization of this understanding toward our our preferences.
We know atoms in our body come from far away galaxies where they were made billions of years ago, but we are much more than what makes up our bodies. In fact, the whole is different that the parts. We are the matter looking at itself. Maybe still confused, but we have taken our first steps in the path of self-discovery.

W2 Makes an Imperfect Model of Unknown W1: Lowering the Standard of Intelligibility

The standard of intelligibility in an ocean of mysteries:
When Newton explained that gravity is an invisible force that affects matter from distanceit was considered absurd by common sense. Later it seemed natural. What Newton proposed was unintelligible by man's evolutionary mind. Nevertheless, it became a  part of the science. Newton lowered the standard of intelligibility for understanding of W1. Einstein's relativity, quantum physics, and neurological correlations with qualia did the same. They give us a picture of W1 that defies our common sense (which developed through encounter with mid-size realities of W1 in the path of evolution). The laws and capacities of W2 cannot accurately describe the unknown W1. In other words, the model-making capabilities of W2 have serious limitations in describing W1. This shows how our common sense (our basic understanding of W1) is illusory. We are experiencing W1 without knowing its essence, its rules, its laws, its meaning, its potential, and its relation to W2 and the feeler. We are swimming in an ocean of mysteries, and we are pretending (or falsely believe) that we understand W1, W2, and W3.

Free like an Ancient King, a Modern King, or Nezman

Free like an ancient king, a modern king, or Nezman:
Many ancient kings did whatever they wanted to without shame, guilt, regret, or second thoughts. They did not suppress their desires and lived close to their instincts. Unlike modern kings, they would show their power and kingship to the world. Some even defied gods or introduced themselves as gods or agents of gods. Such kings and their subjects lived in a more harmonious reality.
However, kings today cannot show off their wealth and power to the world. They live double lives. They create mass illusions and charades, and hide behind the walls of their castles and play chess by moving their pawns. It is more mind labor than pure instincts; therefore they hypocrites with a lot of suppression. Kings of our time have much more power, yet they have a much uglier self-image. They may do whatever they want, yet they carry the contradictions of having double lives. A king in hiding is never as free as an ancient king.
Nezman’s freedom is different though. Nezman does not suppress his desires. Nezman gets what he wants because he has control over his own desires. There is a harmony between what he desires and what he gets. He has insatiable appetite, yet he is not the slave of his appetite (his appetite is his slave). Nezman’s insatiable appetite fuels his odyssey. He enjoys the rollercoaster of reality. Both being a king and a subject are part of his journey. No king in history has ever been so free as Nezman because even the most powerful king lives in a rigid reality. Nezman as the master of reality shapes the reality and remains free no matter whether he is a king or a subject. Nezman’s self-image is independent of anything out there.

Metaphor of a Boiling Pot of W2

W2 is like a gigantic boiling pot, whose ingredients constantly interact with each other. As new ideas are poured into this boiling pot, new compositions are created. One has access only to the surface of this pot. Deep inside the pot, the remnants of one’s past ideas, interpretations, and memories have been deposited. Many of those past thoughts, interpretations, and feelings are biased, outdated, inaccurate, or false (do not reflect W1 accurately). In fact, a large portion of the content of this pot is indoctrinated ideas of childhood that corresponds to certain intolerable realities. The realities that rarely are in harmony with W1 and addresse the inherent absurdity or contradictory aspects of W1.
Any disturbance can bring unexpected compositions to the surface. The only way that one can alter the taste of this boiling pot it to add a lot of delicious new ingredients that mask or eliminate the bitter taste of the pot. The pot is like a living body composed of interacting cells. The new ingredients react with the existing ingredients and create new compositions.

Evolution of Mass Realities Throughout History

Nez: The history of ideas is the history of change and confusion. As dominant ideologies of an era change, the mass realities of that era also change. History exhibits a rollercoaster of evolving mass realities. Throughout history, thinkers have changed their focus many times. In ancient times, thinkers were looking for answer to questions such as Where are we? Who are we? or What is life? But later thinkers’ focus changed to questions such as What should we do? What are right and wrong actions? Depending on how they answered these questions (and filled up the unknown or unknowable), they constructed their own version of reality. Imagine that you were a slave building the pyramids, what reality would you have experienced? For sure, you would have experienced a different reality than that of someone who was witnessing witch-hunt in 17th Century Europe.
Nevertheless, many thinkers claimed that they have found certain and reliable answers for those questions, and by doing so, they created solid heavenly or hellish mass realities. However, all have focused on W1 and W2 (the inner image of W1), instead of focusing on X (the mechanism that gives rise to those realities).
Nezman focuses on X, as well as W2. Nezman explores the world of ideas and dives deep into the history of ideas because every idea corresponds to its peculiar reality. History is a kitchen full of different recipes to construct a variety of realities. Nezman meticulously screen and categorize ideas into three categories (L1, L2, and L3) in order to come up with his or her own answers for those fundamental questions. Nez carefully separates the fuzzy border between the knowable for unknowable. Nezman has the most organized W2. Nezman’s Castle of thoughts (the whole W2 composition) is a masterpiece that gives rise to the most beautiful qualitative experiences.

The Ugliest Thing in the World Is Intention to Harm and Inflict Pain to Others

Nez: For the feeler, intention to harm or inflict pain is the darkest and ugliest composition in the universe. The inner surface of the bubble of such a person is covered with scenarios of past and future suffering. The person is so lost in himself that cannot see other judgement centers. Thick distorted lenses (archetypes and complexes) construct a hell for such a person. This person lives in an inescapable hell and regards the universe and everything in it as one’s own enemies. He is burning inside his own hellish bubble and wants others to burn with him (which he gains satisfaction out of it). There is nothing uglier than receiving pleasure from inflicting pain or destroying beauty in others' bubbles. Nezman tries to eradicate such intention by any means. That’s why having power and control is a must for Nezman.

Pleasure, a Means That Became an End: 3 Kinds of Pleasure Alignments

Three kinds of pleasure alignments:

1. Alignment of pleasure with survival (Life's alignment with pleasure): Through the course of evolution, only life forms survived whose pleasure was aligned with survival. For instance, the offsprings who did not find sexual activity pleasurable did not pass their genes and became extinct. This means many W1 preferences are the product of natural selection through eons. What you find pleasurable today is what allowed your ancestors survive through millions of years. However, as gradually higher levels of consciousness emerged, meaning gave a new direction to pleasure.

2. Alignment of pleasure with meaning: The developement of memory and imagination in W2 created new forms of pleasure. Memory of pleasurable experiences and preferable composition could construct complex future scenarios, as well as the concept of eternal pleasure (I will address complex future scenarios when I introduce Le1 to Le5 scenarios). As the image of pleasure (or memory of pleasure) became more powerful than the first-hand experience of pleasure, all the problems began. Man became the most confused animal. In other words, as meanings became a major source of pleasure, the mankind's confusion began.

Meanings are the feeler’s evaluation of W2 compositions. The Constructs that incorporate the memory of past pleasurable states seem preferable. W2 compositions can incorporate contradictory scenarios of pain and pleasure (for instance, the past scenarios of pain and future scenarios of pleasure). There is no limit to imagination in this regard. The meaning could be so preferable that a person sacrifice present or short-term pleasure for a beautiful meaning whose future scenarios are preferable. Some of these meanings could become so perverted that they deny and contradict W1 pleasure completely. For instance, some religions create meaningful W2 compositions (that have some preferable future scenarios) and prohibit many carnal pleasures. It may seem ironic because as one breaks down any complex preferable W2 composition, one will find simple carnal pleasures as their building blocks. Pleasure can become a currency in the hand of the creators of meaning (and they can use it as they want). Different religions budget pleasure as it best suits them.

3. Alignment of pleasure with the maximum of preference fulfillment: There is no doubt that meanings can create great pleasures, but an optimum balance between W1 and W2 pleasure is needed to achieve the maximum preferences. W1 pleasure is what our evolutionary W1 body finds aligned with survival, and W2 pleasure is beautiful meanings (the evaluation of feeler of certain W2 composition). Nezman has a healthy balance between W1 body pleasure and W2 body pleasure (beautiful meanings).

In some sense, pleasure and beautiful meaning have close affinity. Pleasure is a preferable experience. Beautiful meanings also provide preferable experiences. In everyday language, beauty is the feeler’s evaluation of a W2 composition (what we feel after seeing a beautiful artwork), but pleasure is what W1 body finds preferable (what we feel when we eat a delicious meal). However, in essence they are very similar because both words describe preferable states.

The Depression and a Faulty Hologram Lens: the Depressed Gets Lost in Oneself

There are things out there in W1. Our evolutionary body works as an interpretative lens that registers and creates a personal W2 model of those external W1 things and events. Our W1 and W2 bodies give rise to a stream of reality. Different W1 and W2 bodies give rise to different realities. An intolerable, ugly, hopeless, or meaningless reality can also be an outcome. In such cases, one or both of these components (W1 and W2 bodies) may be the cause or causes. We call such experiences depression. Sometimes, one unfortunate event is enough to destroy the castle of thoughts. Other times, the person gradually grasps his or her mortality, which makes many scenarios of future meaningless or irrelevant. Even W1 body can be the culprit (such as an illness or chronic pain). A depressed person thinks that the world out there is intolerable (and the source of the problem), but the problem or problems lie inside the self (W1 body or W2 body).

Depression is a lingering and resonating scenarios of pain, ugliness, and meaninglessness in W2 (especially in L1 and L3). Since anything in W2 is just an inaccurate interpretation (or an internal model of W1), depression is one persistent illusion.The depressed person’s mind cannot imagine anything other than inescapable scenarios of past, present, and future pain and suffering (sometimes eternal suffering). A depressed person reviews the past memories with new flawed pessimistic lenses. The person forgets once he or she was living in a happier and more beautiful reality. All happy experiences fade away. A faulty hologram lens can make all past, present, and future events ugly. The depressed feels imprisoned in a concrete and inescapable ugly reality but, in fact, is stuck in the self.

Nezman is immune to depression. Nezman does not punish oneself for improbable and unknown scenarios of future pain because Nezman knows that the scenarios of future pain and suffering construct an illusive reality full of suffering that ruins this moment. For Nezman, only present pain exists (pain felt at this moment through the physical body). Nezman gets prepared for L1 future scenarios, but never lets L1 or L3 future scenarios hijack his or her reality. For Nezman, depression is one interpretation among infinite number of possible interpretations. Nezman’s W2 is open to new interpretations as Nezman is creative like a child.

The Most Important Piece of Knowledge for a Conscious Being Is Knowing That Its Conscious Experience Can Be Controlled by the Conscious Being

Consciousness is a gift. We are thrown into consciousness. We suddenly find ourselves conscious. The most important piece of knowledge for a conscious being is knowing that the conscious being can control its conscious experience.
Things exist, but we don't know why. We just register how things exist, but the meaning of things are defined by how we feel about them and how our past experiences and feelings are associated to those things. W1 exists, and we are also part of that W1 (our W1 body is part of W1 as a whole). W1, in core, is unkown or even unknowable. Our W2 registers W1, and our W3 experiences are the closest to us. For many, the machinery of X (in which quantitative content of W1 and W2 bodies give rise to our conscious experience) is an automatic and uncontrollable process. Knowing that one can control one’s qualitative experiences is the first step toward becoming a Nezman. The deep knowledge of X enables Nezman to gain mastery over his or her own body, own W2 interpretations, and own conscious experiences of stream of reality.

Our Hardware and Software Can Give Rise to a Small Portion of the Spectrum of Realities

The reality that we are experiencing is just one interpretation among infinite number of possible interpretations, yet our W1 body (our hardware) and our W2 body (our software) can give rise to a small portion of the spectrum of possible realities. To understand the limitation of our W1 component, just take a look at the way your eyes give rise to the experience of colors. We are almost blind since only 4 percent of light spectrum is visible to us. Sensitive cells inside our eyes are blind to 96 percent of light’s wavelengths. In fact, we create a partial construct of what is out there, yet it seems like a perfect reality to us. Many other realities with different qualitative experiences could be constructed with different W1 body components (hardware).

The persistent illusion that we perceive is limited by the ability of our W1 body component. We experience the world through the lens of W1 body (our hardware), yet many of us cannot imagine that different experiences are even possible. Many people look at the sky, yet there is no way to know whether they see the same blue color. Contribution of W1 body to construction of reality is mysterious and miraculous.

Most people assume that their experiences are universal and concrete. They fail to understand that their realities are arbitrary and dependent to their W1 bodies. The same is true about W2 body components. Your belief systems and your culture create one lens that contributes to your reality. Culture is a mass indoctrination. Many different belief systems can give rise to many different realities.

Nezman knows the reality he or she is experiencing is only one arbitrary interpretation among many. Nezman takes control of W1 body and W2 components as much as it is possible. Eventually, Nezman looks at W1 and W2 as a ladder to reach the highest W3 experiences.

You Fall in Love with Your Own Self-Made Constructs: What Makes Your Object of Affection Desirable Is Inside You

Love at the first sight? Infatuation? You meet someone, and immediately you feel strong attraction toward that person. How much of what you see and love is out there, and how much of it is inside you? How much of what you feel toward the object of your affection is really coming from that object? What increases your heart rate when you see the object of your affection?
You receive very little information from the person, yet huge constructions are made. Negligible bottom-up flow of information gives rise to sizable desirable constructions, but a lot comes from you (and not the person). Your past memories and interpretive L3 lenses transform small input into glamorous constructions. These lenses are so powerful that small input can create an idol. In fact, you fall in love with your own self-made constructs.
Many times, L3 lenses create false associations by overgeneralization. L3 lenses store your own golden ratios (proportions that you find beautiful because of your W1 body or because of acquired taste through past associations).
Every memory associated with pleasure and beauty creates a lens that affects your future interpretations. These small lenses melt together and form a bigger lens.
Every single thing that you want and find attractive is a package of attributes that in your memory (and your lenses) are associated with pleasure. Every new memory of pleasure is a chain that creates a new goal lens (desire lens).
In fact, the more powerful your memory, the more your future is taken hostage by the pleasurable and painful memories of past experiences. Every generalization or glamorization is an automatic outcome of such organic lenses. Nezman digs deep into making of W2 lenses (L2, L1, and L3 lenses) in order to take control of autopilot mechanism that gives rise to tastes and exaggerated constructs.

Meanings Change as Points of View Change

Depending on your point of view, the meanings change. A preferable state for one person can be an undesirable state for another person. This is a cause of never-ending contradiction and confusion for an imaginative perceiver.
For instance, being rich (or being a king) has different meanings from different viewpoints. For the rich, having wealth means security, power, and ability to fulfill their preferences. For the poor, it is hoarding of valuable resources that could have been used to serve many (instead of one). It can be construed as indifference to the suffering of the poor.
An unimaginative, narrow-minded, or selfish observer is blind to the third-party's viewpoint and cannot feel such contradiction and confusion; therefore, he or she remains more focused on selfishly pursuing his or her own preferences (ignoring others' preferences and well-being). That's why psychopaths are very successful in pursuit of their own self-interest.

Laws, Social Norms, and Morality Are Designed to Hide the War of Preferences

Societies deny and cover the hidden war of preferences and hide the conflicts of wills. Mass denial engenders more harmony and empathy in the society. Such denial used to create more harmony in the past (for instance when Christianity was more dominant), but as capitalism and materialism prevailed, it became harder to encourage empathy among competitors in a so-called free market. Denying the war of preferences gives advantage to those who are free from morality and conscience. They can gain advantages by cheating and secretly violating the laws, norms, and moral codes. That's why most successful politicians are psychopaths who have no sense of guilt or conscience. They gain their preferences of power and wealth by unethical means. If every member of society was as free as they are from social norms and morality, chaos and fierce competition would have ensued. Morality and social norms are chains that bring harmony and provide systematic advantages for the group that establish those rules. Throughout history, different groups established and controlled those rules. For instance, religious leaders such as Popes had this role when the church ruled the Europe in the Middle Ages. After industrialization, those who controlled mass media and those who controlled legislative system (the lobbyists and frontman of capitalists) controlled laws, social norms, and morality.

Metaphor Therapy

Every person lives in a constructed reality (the mechanism that constructs personal reality will be explained in depth in this blog). A person experiences a self-made reality; however, the person who is immersed in this experience fails to see the mechanism that constructs the realty (like a fish that can’t see water). It is difficult to understand the machine that gives rise to understanding itself. Metaphors are tools that can help a person to comprehend the unexplainable. Though, understanding a concept through metaphors needs powerful imagination. Once the concept of X was understood, one can detach oneself from the experience and gain control over the experience of the reality. In fact, whenever one experiences the abyss, one can shatter the solidity of that reality by remembering that all are constructions, and whenever one experiences bliss, one can intensify the experience of that reality by forgetting about the mechanism.
Depression is imprisonment in a extremely solid reality. For the depressed, the outcome of X is ugly and meaningless (full of scenarios of future pain and suffering). The cause of depression is either in W1 body (hardware malfunction rooted in your physiology) or in W2 body (software malfunction rooted in your psychology and your belief system).
Metaphor therapy, which provides a deep understanding about the machinery of X, can enable an individual to shatter the solidity of that horrible reality. Treating depression by metaphor therapy takes a long-time and intense intellectual labor. Metaphor therapy is an ideal treatment for intelligent individuals. Nevertheless, it is a bumpy road because, at first, it makes every reality an illusion. This creates a serious crisis (accompanied by pessimism or nihilism). Later, when the person gained a deeper understanding of X, he or she becomes equipped with tools and criteria to separate different realities from one another. Finally, the person learns how to evaluate any experienced reality. The person learns to analyze the components of W1 and W2 bodies, and eventually gains power over the outcome of that constructed reality. For Nezman, depression is one persistent illusion (where the stream of reality gets stuck on one reality).

Religions and Mass Depression

Nobody knows what lies beyond death (and what happens to consciousness after death). Nobody has the needed capacity and tools to fully understand what God and the whole universe are. We live in an ocean of uncertainty. Science provides minuscule certainty through the use of experiments and our experiences. Science is a small candle in the dark, and a great portion of unknown is left to be filled up with our imagination. Most religions have tried to fill up the unknown and uncertainty with some comforting scenarios. Religions have been perfecting their stories for thousands of years. Many brilliant religious thinkers have hidden contradictions and flaws of those stories (and scenarios of future). However, the changes in our lifestyle in the recent centuries have been so quick and so dramatic that most religions fell behind in updating their justifications.
One root of mass depression is that the scenarios of future proposed by existing religions are not beautiful, comfortable, and believable as they were once. The modern society needs more believable and more exciting scenarios of future. People’s imagination is expanding so quickly that soon, nothing short of becoming a god would satisfy them. The everyday reality has become so mundane, repugnant, and intolerable that people prefer to escape to virtual realities and fantasy. Capitalism has become a religion. An inefficient religion that creates beautiful, but short-lived, reality. A religion that denies death, and when its contradictions emerge, it turns into nihilism.

Depression Is Persistent Scenarios of Future Pain and Suffering

Depression is a persistent illusion. A depressed person lives in a universe (or hell) full of fear of future scenarios of pain. Bad experiences of the past construct an illusory scenarios of future pain, ugliness, or meaninglessness. A depressed person forgets the fact that future is unknowable and changeable. A depressed person does not know that mastery of X can turn hells to heavens.

For Nezman, Nothing Is Real, and Everything Is Real

Nezman knows that the reality is constructed. This knowledge will cause deep internal contradictions. On the one hand, every construction becomes an illusion (with differing degrees of affinity to W1). On the other hand, Nezman should enjoy the stream of reality as if it was a concrete reality. In a smaller scale many do it everyday (for instance, a person may suspend disbelief when watching a Sci-Fi movie in order to enjoy it).
One implication of shallow understanding of X is that everything becomes constructions and seemingly unreal. The border between real and unreal disappears. Everything becomes just degrees of illusions.
However, after Nezman gains mastery over X, all constructions become real. Nezman learns that the ultimate reality and truth lies beyond any constructed reality. The truth may even lie beyond the machine that constructs reality. Nezman learns the truth lies beyond time and space (and out of any construction). For Nezman, truth is not frightening because it is beyond constructed reality (emotions are part of X). Nezman look forward to meeting the truth, but in the meantime gains mastery over constructions and illusions. For Nezman, nothing is real, and everything is real. For Nezman, negative emotions are unreal. Nezman laughs at calamity as if he or she is touring a horror house in Disneyland.

Extreme Selfishness Leads You to Philanthropy

Selfishness is a virtue; not knowing the self is a vice. Selfishness creates a strong urge to pursue your preferences, but shortsighted and blind selfishness deprive you of achieving more valuable preferences. Blind selfishness fails to reap the fruits of love.
It may seem strange that extreme selfishness leads you to love. Only having the attitude of love (wanting others to reach their ultimate preferences and beautiful experiences) can enable you to reach your highest experiences. If you do not love the world and others, it will be hard for you to imagine that the world and others love you. The feelings between you and the external world (the world and people in it) are mutual. If you regard the world and people in it as hateful and ugly, you live in a nightmare. You should love others and make a better world for everyone in order to reach your highest experiences. Empathy is inevitable for the imaginative. After knowing the self and one’s ultimate preferences, an extremely selfish person realizes his or her preferences cannot be reached without fulfillment of others’ preferences.

The Difinition of God in 3 Realms

Student: What is God?
Nez: God in which realm?
In W1 realm, the God (if it exist separate from us) is unknowable. In fact, everything in W1 is unknowable. We can register some W2 impressions (on the surface of our bubble) of W1 entities. The God as a W1 entity is unknowable. We construct some models of W1 entity in W2 by the help of our primitive evolutionary common sense. We use weak tools of inductive and deductive reasoning (as well as principle of uniformity of nature) to make such models, and we forget how unreliable these tools are.
In W2 Realm, gods are W2 descriptions of some unknowable W1 entities. They are just a bunch of attributes, mostly contradictory, anthropomorphic, and primitive. Millions of images of god have been created in this way, and they are just some man-made illusions that are evolving over time.
In W3 Realm, those powerful and divine W2 images give rise to unique extreme religious experiences (the experience of god). It is natural that W2 image of infinity give rise to powerful experiences of fear, joy, or ecstasy.