Superpowered Mind with Clare Dimond

You talk about not believing the mind. In my opinion that is so dangerous. Is this a cult? Is it brainwashing? Is it an attempt to shut down reason and analysis? 

hi Clare I listen to the news and I see all the terrible things going on in the world - the violence, climate change, poverty, the pandemic. We need to take action on all of this right now not sit around wondering about the self and about what I am. Spirituality seems totally self indulgent when there is so much that must be changed . We first need to sort out all the issues in the world - like climate change, racism, violence etc and only then should we  turn our attention to ourselves. 

Listener question: we're the space witnessing the program, but what questions it?   The system can't question itself, but it seems we need the mind to do so?

A brief summary of this episode

My daughter is often silenced, seemly unable to say word,s even when she has come home (from Uni) with an issue of some kind.  I ask her and eventually just offer general words of support hoping it helps.  But I am left frustrated and feeling I have failed her somehow. I have looked at where I see this in myself and know I have done the exact same thing, most often when I am anxious and afraid, which has been often over the last few years. This could be why she worries me, as I see her as being the same, I think she must be anxious and afraid too.Logically I see any number of reasons could be the cause but I am confused by my own conditioning or memories.

You've said that identity, creativity and money are made up of the same thing?I'm still not clear so I'm going to take a stab at it and you tell me what you think? Straighten me out so I can get this...Thought created - the identity (mind), what the identity thinks about money and what the identity thinks about creativity - all created from thought/conditioning/beliefs. It's ALL activity of mind. And when you say the "same thing" besides being a product of "activity of mind" what the mind thinks about the identity is the same thing it thinks about creativity and money?For instance, this identity here had the conditioning of I can't make money without struggle, I can only make a certain amount of money, I didn't go to the big elite universities where there are connections to other wealthy families, my family wasn't wealthy - so i can only make so much money. Or I'm not really creative. No one in my family paints or dances or sings or sculpts or anything creative. So creativity isn't something I have. I'm NOT creative. So those thoughts, beliefs, conditioning above about the identity/self and the identity's relationship to thoughts of money and creativity - ALL the same thing! One big masterpiece of limitation and suffering! 

Listener message: I wanted to write to you since a long time! It will be a very boring mail without any questions… I just want to thank you. Life got so much easier since I met you. Nothing in the outer world changed, one the contrary: I still am dating without success, my mother got a stroke and is now paralyzed and needs 24 hour care, my stepfather is looking after her and on the verge of breaking down, my sisters husband got diagnosed with cancer one week ago and will be in chemotherapy the next two months daily after the operation next week,… I am just writing this to say  it is not suddenly all blissful and eternal sunshine…But it got quieter.The constant chattering in my head went away. Things get done, words are spoken - but in a way I am not involved. Or very much involved, depending on the view. I burst into tears seeing a policeman organizing the traffic around the Corona-riots. Just out of admiration for him being so serious about organizing the traffic - and for the anti-vaccine-rioters for being so serious about their views… and for the pro-vaccine-rioters who were trying to prevent the riots with more rioting… Things are so serious and so not serious at the same time around me.It got clearer to me that the „I“ is a construct of multiple minds (mine and others), a device which is fed by genetics and conditioning (and when genetics is seen as conditioning of the ancestors, then there is only conditioning left = learned patterns in reaction to secure survival which made sense once or still does). Things are happening, I react, I get angry, I am sad, I am laughing, I say something or nothing - just without  the noise in my head of figuring out how I will be secured in the future or ruminating about how I was doing in the past.And so I go on listening to your podcasts - and every day a layer of the onion gets removed and it is a step deeper - or not - until it does again  :-) 

I’m also noticing a desire for this house cleaning (or weight loss/health) struggle to be serving some sort of higher purpose - or relating to struggle or lack of action in these spaces like it’s some sort of self-sabotage, but in the absence of a self…. it can’t quite be self-sabotage can it? And what’s the point to the identity of relating to one’s behavior as self-sabotage. Why would identity do that?

Listener question: I *just* realized how personally I take my husband’s criticism of our home (it’s a mess). And that got me thinking that it’s not just his criticism but my own criticism from within about what it means about me as a person, a mother, and a wife that the house is a mess. How is our own self-criticism not personal?  Is it too just a learned pattern, and how does one learn that (or unlearn it)? 

Can you talk about why each time there is suffering and resistance against something , it is an opportunity over and over again for healing? Is it that each time we see that the brain creates separation via the self concept - and this feels painful, and each time we see that it's a temporary creation then there is opportunity for healing? It feels like there's something missing here.