At some point in working with projections, you confront the reality that everything is a projection — every thought, emotion, and sensation. The world becomes a kaleidoscope. This can be terrifying if interpreted as “I’m out of control, I don’t know what to do.” People often accept projections very slowly because they’re trying to avoid this confrontation.
But Joe reframes: this doesn’t stop you from operating at any level. “There’s this huge freedom to it — I don’t have to take anything seriously, and yet I can still enjoy myself, and yet I can still have purpose, and yet I can still be productive, but I can take everything with this light-hearted joy.” If everything is both true and not true, “then I actually just get to be who I am, who I want to be.”
You start choosing the projection that serves you best — the one that allows for more freedom, love, and joy. You can’t stop seeing through it, but you realize that choice is available. Joe could pontificate on something and genuinely respond “yep, that’s true” when told he’s wrong, because he can see correctness and fallacy in every point of view. Consequences become less important than the freedom to see yourself and the world in an enlivening way.
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