Five days ago our country was striked by catastrophic floods. Nothing like this happened before.

And my question isn't from a place so people would feel sorry for us. 

It is from observing my actions/behaviours from this experience which brings this question.

In these moments  it feels that ego is stepped from the front stage. And things I wouldn't normally do are being done. Shame and fear to protect the identity don't run the show in these circumstances. My question is if this is due to being more aligned with reality in moments like natural disasters, wars etc.?

When the real body/life existence is at stake and not the survival of the identity.

Seeing the cycle of Face Fear -> Get Painfully Knocked Down -> Repeat lead to learning and growth and improvement for some. And (apparent) maladaptive response and (possible) traumatic experience for another. And wondering how much is possible to alter/influence for such young kids. And of course to remember to start with me and all the pointers Claire has given to people in similar situations.  But seriously, can we help kids/others have less cycle of retraumatization? I’m recalling that Claire would probably say to “Show them the way.” But unfortunately, I feel like I’m still in preschool with all of this myself :)

If a spiritual teacher says that future and past are an illusion. How does one write a biography about themselves? Is that an illusion from the past? 

The world is imagination and that is all relationships are imagination. How do we navigate around arguments, disagreements, people leaving you. Is it just one illusion that we should not even investigate why it happened or should we just move on with our lives. 

It’s not really a question, more of a comment really. 

I was just listening to your podcast, which I love btw, and saw how hard I have been trying to ‘get’ what you’re sharing, so that I can see who I really am and therefore be free, happy, content etc etc. I got that there is no me, so I was trying to secure my identity on Source energy or whatever you want to call it, but of course that concept of ‘Source’ that I had created was just another concept. My mind is scraping around, confused, desperately trying to find something, anything to secure itself on yet it can’t find anything that resonates and feels true. I think it’s going to be an uncomfortable couple of days as it readjusts. All my efforts over the last few years have, unknowingly, been on this, law of attraction etc etc, just to finally get who I am so I can have a different experience, isn’t that the promise that sold?! Now it just feels a bit like all that was wasted and I’m in free fall. My mind is saying “What the hell do I do with my life now? How am I ever going to survive/cope?” 

That all

Sounds rather negative, it’s not really, it’s just another layer falling away, to reveal what I have no idea! I didn’t mean it to sound quite so negative, I am grateful to you and I am just a sharing an explanation of my experience of your podcast. 

Thank you for all you do, it’s brilliant! 

‘as long as I am clear headed and not in a mental fog I can handle the discomfort and when I’m not I can’;t. Is that actually true though?