Listener question: I've just finished reading 'Sane'.  A challenging read for me to stick with if I'm being honest.  I found myself constantly wanting to run ahead to the 'how to' section.  I realise from my other reading in 'the conversation' that's it's not about the how-to. What I took away from the book, and I hope this was the point you were trying to get across, is that it's not about the beliefs that I hold about myself (I), but that the 'I' itself is just a set of beliefs. Correct?  So the questions that spring to mind are, 1. how did they get there? and 2. what keeps them in place? Did I miss that in the book? Does it even matter?

Listener question: how do self fulfilling prophecies relate to this understanding? 

Exploring why the understanding that Trump is a concept created by the mind can enable us to be and do what it is we demand of him (or any one else we have a reaction to). 

Exploring what drives behaviour. As the self identity is transcended, the need to 'be someone' falls away leaving just the pure dynamic passion of life in form. 

Exploring how behaviour is not controlled by a separate self, but it revelatory about what that self is believed to be or need. 

Exploring how that thought - and the one underneath it - 'this should not be happening to me' are what fixes an apparent reality in place for the duration of that resistance. 

Exploring Paul Hedderman's term 'selfing'

Exploring the two main differences between escapism and transcendence 

Listener question: How would you explain non duality / spirituality to a ten year old? 

Looking at Gangaji's words: We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enough, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realisation of who one truly is.