Today we ask that you declare peace.

Humans are at war.

Even where there are no soldiers and bombs, humans are at war.  

You could walk through a quiet suburb, and find countless humans engaging in brutal warfare.

They are at war with their neighbors.

They are at war with the “government.”

They are at war with the Tax Man.

They are at war with the Boss.

They are at war with their family members.

They are war with people who hold different religious or political views.

They are at war with their own bodies.

They are at war with their own minds.

There are countless casualties in these wars.

People who suffer from stress-related illnesses are the casualties of these wars.  Many die from these illnesses.

Most humans dwell in violent societies.  The violence is not necessarily manifested physically, although this is often the case.  But even where people outwardly appear to be physically non-violent, there can be dire emotional and mental violence occurring.

All external warfare is a manifestation of internal warfare.  External warfare cannot exist without internal warfare.

Look at your life.  Are you at war?  Do you have enemies?  Are there people who enrage you, or arouse your hatred and disgust?

Who are you at war with?

Are you at war with yourself?  Almost everyone is.

If you are miserable in your life, it is a sure sign that you are at war.

Declare peace.

Declare peace with your “enemies.”

Declare peace with those who anger and offend you.

Declare peace with corporations, and governments.

Declare peace with your family members, your bosses, your coworkers.  

This does not mean: “Let people walk all over you.”

It just means you do not have to be at war, even with crazy people.  Why would you be at war with someone who is crazy?

It is very possible to oppose a person’s actions without being at war with that person.  Can you see the distinction?

Declare peace, even with crazy, war-addicted people.  They will not understand.  But you will.  

Declare peace with those you believe have transgressed.

Declare peace with yourself.

When you declare peace, something magical will happen:

You will be at peace.

You will experience peace.

And isn’t that what you want, really?

You will never find peace through warfare.

Peace can only be found when you declare it.  Cease your endless war.

Declare peace.

Today we ask that you cease to indulge in harsh criticism of yourself and others.

You do not understand how destructive harsh criticism is.  You do not understand how destructive words of attack and cruelty are.

If you experience any form of blockage or paralysis in your life, you must cease to indulge in harsh criticism.

Humans get an addictive buzz out of criticizing other people.  Sitting in judgment over others makes you feel superior.

But all criticism of others inevitably turns back inward on the self.  When you are alone, your thoughts will attack and criticize you with terrible cruelty, and it will be even worse after you have criticized others.

This is the true cause of almost all physical and mental disease.  It is also the cause of almost all violence.

If you understand that something is not healthy for you, you know that you will be much better off if you don’t do it.

Many people quit smoking cigarettes, because they understand that smoking is unhealthy.

We will put the matter plainly:

Indulging in harsh criticism is far worse for you than cigarettes.

Whether directed toward the self or others, harsh criticism and judgment is far worse for you than cigarettes.

Harsh criticism is a direct assault on the life force.  It can, and does, cause disease.  It can even kill people.  Suicide is almost always a result of harsh self-criticism.

It is very possible to stop this behavior, but first you must believe and understand that it really is toxic for you.

It is toxic.  It is more toxic than cigarettes.  Far more.  You really cannot comprehend.

Like cigarettes, indulging in harsh criticism is highly addictive.  But it is very possible to stop the addiction.

When you notice your inner voice harshly criticizing you, STOP.  Meditate, go for a walk, do physical exercises, listen to music.  Just do not allow the voice to continue to run on unchecked.  

Do not engage in gossip.  Gossiping may seem like it’s fun and harmless.  It is certainly an activity that “everyone does.”   And it’s highly addictive.

Many decades ago, most people smoked cigarettes.  It was considered fun and harmless, albeit addictive.

Imagine every time you indulge in cruel gossip about someone, you are smoking a full pack of cigarettes.  This will give an accurate sense of the toxicity.

Do not read gossip.  Do not indulge in absorbing gossip about celebrities and famous people.  Really, it is like you are smoking cigarettes every time you do this.  

This cannot be overstated.

If you experience health problems, or areas of major blockage in your life, ending the addiction to harsh criticism and gossip will have a profound positive effect on your well-being.

It really is possible to do this.  It is one of the most self-loving actions you can take.

Please stop being so mean to yourself, in your thoughts and speech.

Please stop being so mean to the people in  your life, in your thoughts and speech.

Please stop being so mean to people you don’t even know, in your thoughts and speech.

Imagine you are smoking a pack of cigarettes every time you engage in cruel criticism directed toward yourself, or other people.   It is accurate.

Today we ask that you not be deceived by appearances.

The more someone tries to project an image of power and dominance in your world, the weaker they really are.

All the trappings of egoic success — mansions, luxury cars, trophy wives — all these things are like bandages over a raw wound.  No man is more in pain than the man who must display his power in such ways.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with beautiful houses and luxury cars.  It is good to enjoy beauty, and well-designed machines.  It is good to enjoy life.

But the people who need to show you just how powerful they are — these people are not enjoying life.  They are insecure, and live in chronic fear.

Celebrities are often terribly unhappy people.

There is of course nothing wrong with being a talented performer.  Such talent is meant to be enjoyed, and is a gift to the world.  

But such people often feel very frightened, and unloved.  That is why they become addicted to drugs, or to plastic surgery, or other forms of self-destructive behavior.

It is not because they are bad people.  Please have compassion for unhappy, confused people.

But do not be deceived by appearances.  

On the whole, the average poor African villager is more at peace with himself than the rich celebrity.

Again, this is not because the poor villager is morally superior to the rich celebrity.  Money is not bad, or evil.  Money is neither bad nor good.  It is a form of energy in your reality, that is all.  

It all depends on the intent with which it is used.

If someone buys a home in the spirit of joy and love, to create a dwelling that reflects their inner harmony — then that is beautiful.

If someone buys a home to “Keep up with the Joneses,” to show off their status — then they will find little joy in it.  Such a home can become a prison.

So do not be perceived by appearances.

When someone loudly insists that he is a powerful person, when he throws his weight around like a bully and beats his chest — that is a sign of someone who in truth feels quite powerless in his life, who feels like a victim.  He does not sleep well at night, and lives in constant fear.  Do not envy such a person, and do not fear him.  Have compassion.  He really is not in his right mind.

It is those who are humble who possess true power.  There are many people in this world who are masters of creating beauty and light in their own lives and the lives of others.  They do not need to tell everyone about it.  Their philanthropy is not status-seeking; it comes completely from the heart.  That is the person with true power in this world.

Humble people do not have to live like monks or beggars.  It is perfectly natural for humble people to create beauty around themselves. But that is never about showing off their worth to others.  It is only about what is pleasing to them, about their own joy.

Do not be deceived by appearances.

Though people with big egos may appear to be powerful, in truth they have no inner strength.

It is good to be around humble people.  They are the ones with inner strength.

Today we ask that you know your own power.

Every single one of you is a vastly powerful being.

You are all superheroes.  This may sound ridiculous, but it is true.

Your physical body may not be capable of flight, but humans do have the capacity to leave their bodies and “fly” elsewhere.

Humans are capable of great psychic awareness and precognition; lie detection; telepathy; instant healing; transmutation; telekinesis; and many other abilities.  

All these things are possible, and many humans have shown nascent forms of these abilities.

The miracles associated with Christ are entirely possible.

This may sound fanciful, but it is true.  Humans are far more powerful than they believe.

And therein lies the problem.

Human power lies within the mind, the consciousness.

If you believe you are a powerless person, then you will experience life as a powerless person.

It is as if humans are under a curse.

Like the story of “Sleeping Beauty,” humans have been bewitched, and have fallen asleep.  In this sleep, they believe they are powerless.

What is the mechanism of the curse?

Guilt, and shame.

From an early age, humans are taught to be ashamed of themselves, and to feel guilty.

This causes humans to fear their own power, and fear reality.  Feelings of shame are so painful that humans will do anything to avoid it.  They live in chronic fear of guilt, and shaming.

The only way for humans to protect themselves from this fear is by believing that they are powerless.

If you are a powerless victim, then you are not responsible for anything.  How can any judge hold you accountable, if you are a powerless victim?  You can say: “It wasn’t my fault!  I’m powerless.”

Of course, people who hold these beliefs still feel crippling shame, anyway.  But being powerless is the psyche’s greatest defense against internal and external critics and judges.

People who believe they are powerless victims are easily controlled by tyrants and dictators.   Anyone who lives in chronic fear is easily controlled.

Animals feel fear, but the fear is not associated with shame or guilt.  In animals, fear is temporary.  Only in humans is fear a permanent state — and that is because in humans, fear is linked with shame and guilt.  

This is how mankind has fallen asleep.

Without guilt and shame, you would not fear your own power.  You would not feel the need to chronically defend your actions, and justify your existence.

Pay attention.

The more guilt and shame-based a person is, the more like a powerless victim he will feel.  He will then act out aggressively toward anyone he does believe he has “power” over: like children, or underlings at work.  If he is really crazed by shame, he may even go out and shoot innocent people.

Such a person is asleep.  This person is not in his right mind.  He is sleepwalking, and hallucinating.

What made him fall asleep?  The poison of guilt and shame.

Without the poison of guilt and shame, humans are connected with their vital power and energy.  They do not fear themselves.  They do not believe they are powerless victims.  And they do not mindlessly take out their aggression on people they perceive to be even weaker and more powerless than themselves.  

Guilt and shame is what creates powerless humans, and perpetuates victimhood and an endless cycle of violence.

Humans believe a story that guilt and shame is what keeps people moral, responsible, and virtuous.

This is a great lie.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

If you look at human history, the most guilt-and-shame oriented peoples of the Earth have always been the most aggressive, and perpetuated the most atrocities.  The Crusades, the Inquisition, witch hunts… countless people have been murdered because guilt-and-shame-based beliefs justified such actions.  Far from creating a moral and just society, guilt and shame creates terrorists, mass murders, and World Wars.  

If you look at history and perceive matters truly, this will become very clear.

Free yourself.  Free yourself.  Free yourself from the tyranny of guilt and shame, from the tyranny of the internal and external voices of guilt and judgment.

Do so, and you will awaken.  You will discover that you are now, and always have been, a powerful being.

You will become a superhero.  

Today we ask that you perceive truly.

The world in which you dwell is a very strange and unreal place.

Some things are real.

Nature is real.  The trees are real.  The stars are real.

Animals are real.  Babies are real.  Very young children are real.

However, most adults are not real.  Nor are the things that most adults create real.

Adults are personas.  They are who they think they are.  They believe they are the doctor, the banker, the bartender.  They believe they are Catholic, Muslim, Hindu.  They believe they are American, Chinese, African.  They believe they are 22 years old, 45 years old, 68 years old.  They believe they have a house and children.  They believe they have a particular disease.  They believe they are too fat.  They believe they don’t have enough money.  

They are all people with stories about who they are.

And these stories are unreal.  They are exactly as unreal as the stories about people in movies or on TV.

People are “characters.”  They believe all these things about themselves.  But really they are like avatars in video games.  In video games, people play elves or wizards or gangsters or soldiers.  

It is the same with people.  They play these roles.  It is not who they really are.  It’s just a role they are playing.

There is nothing wrong with playing roles, per se.  But sometimes these roles can be terribly limiting — especially if it’s a role you didn’t choose for yourself, or have outgrown.

It can be like putting on a mask you can’t easily remove.  The mask takes on a life of its own, and resists being taken off.

So people wear the mask of the Christian schoolteacher, or the conservative accountant, or the flamboyant fashion designer, or the bored cubicle worker.  There’s nothing wrong with it.  But you may be wearing the mask of someone you don’t really wish to be — a mask that was chosen for you by your family, your culture.

You are not your mask.  You are not who you think you are.  You are not who other people think you are.

You are, in truth, an immortal and powerful being.

You are like Superman who has no idea he is Superman, and believes he’s Clark Kent.

If you are unhappy with your life, you are not stuck in it.  Many people are able to switch one mask for another.  And that is okay.  It’s better than being stuck with a mask you don’t like.  

But far better still, is to take your mask off.

Removing your mask is a challenging process.   You will experience enormous internal and external resistance.  The mask won’t want to go.  

But the more you free yourself from your mask, the better you will feel.  It’s like taking off a tight rubber coat.  You will feel much lighter and looser.  And you will find out what you really wish to do in this life.  

The people who are very invested in you wearing your current mask won’t want you to change.  They’ll fight you.  They’ll insist they liked you better before.  They’ll say you’ve betrayed them.  They’ll try to put you back in your place.  They may threaten to leave you.

Let them leave, if they must.  Do not wear old masks just to please others.

When you come into your True Self, you will attract new people who will support you.  Do not fear.  You will not be alone.

Under your mask, a real being exists.  It is not your persona.  It is You.

Awaken into your authentic being.  It is possible!

Today we ask that you not live in fear of False Gods.

A False God is anyone or anything that you give your power to, out of fear.

Anyone whose approval you seek, and whose disapproval you fear, is a False God.

Anyone who seeks to instill in you feelings of shame and worthlessness, is a False God.

So much vital energy is wasted in the worship of False Gods.  Whole lives are ruined in the worship of False Gods.

Who are your False Gods?

Who do you live in fear of?

For many people, their parents are False Gods.  Even if they are grown up and no longer have to be around their parents much, they continue to live in fear of them.  That is because people cannot stop craving the approval and fearing the disapproval of parental figures.  Even if they consciously perceive their parents as very flawed and fallible people, they cannot stop this craving for approval, and fear of disapproval.  So Mom and Dad are False Gods, and may remain False Gods even after they have left their physical bodies and are no longer on this plane.

Many people fear their “superiors” at their workplaces.  Their bosses are False Gods.

Many people fear the disapproval and gossip of so-called friends.  Many people fear the disapproval of their spouses or the people they are in relationships with.  Whenever you fear someone, you make that person into a False God.

For countless people, the God of the Bible is the ultimate False God.  That is because they are taught to perceive this “God” as a wrathful deity who sends sinners to Hell, and metes out harsh punishments to anyone who transgresses certain laws and codes.  

People are terrified of this “God.”  In ancient times, they used to sacrifice animals to please this angry deity.  Nowadays they sacrifice themselves on this deity’s altar, living lives of terror and constant self-abuse.  By indoctrinating their children with the belief in this angry, judging deity, they also attempt to sacrifice their own children to this False God.

Throughout history, all dictators and tyrants fashioned themselves as False Gods.  Humans are always looking to worship and fear something outside themselves.

Even if people no longer believe in the False God of the Bible, the fear is so deeply ingrained in people that they have internalized the False God as an angry, wrathful internal critic.  When you cower in fear of the critical voice that speaks in your own mind, you are in Hell, abasing yourself before the False, Abusive God.

Who are your False Gods?  Who do you fear, and give your power to?

That which is truly divine has nothing to do with fear, and cannot even comprehend it.

That which is truly divine is absolutely and unconditionally loving.

The True God is not outside you.  It cannot be worshipped.  You cannot win its “approval.”  The True God is within you.

It asks nothing of you.  It only invites you to remember your true nature, and in so doing completely love and accept yourself, as you are right now in this moment.

The True God does not require worship, or praise.  You do not need to go to church to pay homage to the True God.

The True God just loves you, right now.  It loves you the way a beloved, loyal dog or cat might love you, with total devotion.  It thinks you are completely wonderful, completely beautiful.  It accepts you completely.

When you love yourself, and love and appreciate the miraculous life that is yours — then you honor the True God.

Please stop worshipping False Gods.

Today we ask you to imagine who you would be, if you did not have self-attacking thoughts.

Who would you be without your self-attacking thoughts?

Self-attacking thoughts sound like:

“I’m too fat.”

“I’m a failure.”

“I can’t do anything right.”

“I should be ashamed of myself.”

“No one will ever love me.”

“There’s something wrong with me.”

“I can’t really function.”

“I’m not normal.”

“I’m ugly.”

“I don’t make enough money to show I’m worth something.”

And so on, and so on.  Perhaps you are familiar with such thoughts.

If you are like most people, thoughts like this play constantly in the back of your brain.  You can’t get through an hour of the day without a barrage of self-attacking thoughts.

It is a painful way to live.  It is like your own mind is at war with you.  People get very mentally and physically ill from chronic self-attacking thoughts.

Also, the more self-attacking you are in your thoughts, the more prone you are to attacking other people.  This includes your own children.  As much as you may love your children, if you are chronically self-attacking, then you will inevitably attack your children.  In so doing, you will teach them to be as self-attacking as you are.

The way to work on lessening your self-attacking thoughts is first by just becoming aware of them.  Listen to them.

Listen to all these mean thoughts playing in your mind.

Where did you learn these thoughts?

They didn’t come out of nowhere.  Someone taught you that you were fat.  Maybe it was a parent.  Maybe it was a kid in school.  Maybe it was a magazine article.  That’s still someone.  You have been taught that you are worthless, and can’t do anything right, and will never be good enough.  

It could have been your parents, your siblings, your teachers, or someone on TV or the internet.  At some point, someone you deem an authority figure said something, and you believed it.

But what if the things people say aren’t true?

Do you really believe that your parents, teachers, and the people on TV and the internet are always right about everything?

Consciously, you probably don’t think so.

But unconsciously, you put total faith in the things authority figures tell you.  If you believe someone is an authority figure and really knows what they’re talking about, you will believe what they say.  You are especially prone to believing things that you read in print, or believing things people say on TV.  

And that is why you have all these self-attacking thoughts.  Because you believe the things people say.  

But what if all these people are wrong?

You can see that your parents, teachers, and people writing things in print or saying things on TV might be wrong.

If they’re wrong, then that would mean your self-attacking thoughts might not be true.

Can you imagine what you’d feel like without self-attacking thoughts?

You’d feel pretty good, right?

So what’s stopping you.  Why are you attached to your self-attacking thoughts?

Do you believe such thoughts keep you “responsible”?  That you would not be an efficient worker without self-attacking thoughts?  That you would be immoral without self-attacking thoughts?

Do you believe that you would be unsafe, without your self-attacking thoughts?

These are all false beliefs.  Someone taught you to believe these things, just like everything else.  They are not true.

Unconditionally loving yourself will not make you irresponsible, unproductive, immoral, or unsafe.

Unconditionally loving yourself will create nothing but greater peace, calm, and fulfillment in your existence.  Out of this you would become a kinder, more compassionate, more creative person, with a strong desire to help others.  You would also understand that your safety cannot depend on external conditions.  You would know that you are safe because you are an immortal being who is loved utterly and completely by the Universe.

This is the Truth.

Everything else is a lie.

What would you rather believe?

Today we ask that you trust your inner guidance.

Every human possesses a spiritual body, in addition to a physical, emotional, and mental body.

While most humans have very little awareness of their spiritual body most of the time, it is quite real.

It is your True Self.  It is immortal.  It is always connected to the true nature of reality.  It is never deceived by illusions, or false beliefs.

Some people call it intuition.  However, it is a finer thing than gut instinct, which all animals possess, and is part of your physical and emotional bodies.  When you are in tune with the spiritual body, you feel a deep, unshakeable calm and peace.  You know that all is well.  Some people have “peak experiences” in which they feel this.

When people’s physical bodies die, the spiritual body emerges.  That is why the experience of physical death is — once you are past a certain point in the process — a peaceful, blissful experience.

Meditation is an excellent way of accessing the spiritual body.

It is hard to hear the spiritual body if you are always anxious and fearful.  The spiritual body is always there, but it exists at such a subtle frequency that lower frequencies like anger, fear, or neurotic thought tend to drown it out.  It is like a faint radio playing in the background of your life.  If there is always loud noise going on, you cannot hear it.

Meditation allows you to turn down all the loud noises, so that you may hear this background radio.

The spiritual song that plays on this background radio is the song of your True Self.  If you listen to it, it will ask you to move toward truth and light.

Initially, this may seem very disruptive and frightening, since you may be asked to dismantle or leave behind parts of your existence that are false, inauthentic, and harmful to your soul.  For many, this is a painful process.

Really, it is just the shedding of an old, constrictive skin — the way a snake does — so that you may grow and evolve in accordance with your unique spiritual song.

The more you fight this process, the more painful the experience.

When the universe wills you somewhere, best not to fight it.

If you consciously choose to listen to the spiritual voice, you will go with the flow, not against it.  That does not mean you will be protected from pain and discomfort.  Growth is an uncomfortable process.  However, by going with the flow, you will not exhaust yourself and create needless suffering.

Though you may feel lost in this life, you have an internal compass that always points to your own North Star.  It is the Voice of Your True Self.  Follow it!

Today we ask that you develop courage.  

Courage is a quality associated with heroes.  However, most “ordinary people” do not think of themselves as heroes.  Courage is often perceived as something foolish or foolhardy.  The main thing in life is to be safe and secure.  There’s no place for heroism and courage in that paradigm.

When you believe the main thing in life is to be safe and secure, that is what you spend your whole life trying to achieve.  You try to get good grades, a good education, a good job, and the proper mate.  All to increase your feeling of safety.  You don’t make courageous choices.  You make safe ones.

Of course, this is a direct road to lifelong misery.  It is how people wind up in loveless marriages, and careers they can’t stand.  It is why so many people’s lives feel empty, and devoid of meaning.

You cannot live life fully if you are dominated by fear, and always choose to “play it safe.”  The acquisition of money and possessions will never bring anything more than a temporary feeling of safety and satisfaction.

To live life fully, you must be courageous.  You must make choices that defy your animal need for safety and comfort, in favor of healthy challenges that may draw you well outside your comfort zone, but give you a sense of meaning and purpose.  You must follow your hearts.  You must marry for love, not money, or because you’re scared you’ll never find anyone else who wants to be with you.  You must work because you believe in what you do; not because it was the first job that came along and how else can you pay the rent.  You must bear children out of a deep desire to create a beautiful space in which a human being to grow and learn; not because it’s what you’re supposed to do, because a baby will make you feel more loved, or because it will increase your security in old age.  

You must live heroically, even if it is on a small scale.  Anyone can be a hero.  The schoolteacher, the clerk, the janitor.  It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you do, or what your history is.  It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, educated or uneducated.

Anyone can be a hero.

Though your lower self will always scream that heroism is madness, that faith will never be rewarded, that “no good deed goes unpunished,” that good guys always finish last, and that courageous action will only leave you poor, and lonely… this is not true!  These are all lies.

Though courageous action may create discomfort and upheaval in your existence temporarily, in the long term it will always lead to greater peace, joy, and fulfillment.

Fear-driven, security-seeking action will often seem like it is creating comfort and stability, and easing your anxiety.  In the short term, this may appear to be the case.  But in the long term, it will leave you feeling anxious, depressed, and empty.  The chronic fear will not go away.  It will only reemerge.  And no matter how much stuff you acquire, no matter how many pills you take, you will not assuage the fear.

This pattern is as predictable as the the waxing and waning of the moon, the passing of the seasons, the daily arc of the sun.  It is like a law of nature.  It always happens.

That is why courage and heroism is the height of true wisdom.  

It is better to die a hero than live a slave.  For death does not really happen.  No one ever truly dies.  

It is good to die to yourself in every moment.  To risk everything, in every moment.  To walk through life with a courageous heart.  It doesn’t mean you don’t feel fear.  It just means you are not dominated by it.  

Please know this truth:

Security-seeking, fear-driven action will always lead to misery, in the end.

Courageous action that comes from the heart will always lead to joy, in the end.

You are all here to learn this lesson.

Do not fall for appearances.  You may live in a mansion and drive a nice car, but if you are fear-driven, you will derive only temporary pleasure from these things.  The fear and misery will never leave you, until you find your courage.

Today we ask that you not invite vampires into your house.

In the old stories of vampires, it is said that vampires cannot enter a house unless they are invited in.  They are destroyed by sunlight.  They have no reflections in mirrors.  And they are parasites, feeding off the life energy of others.

This is an accurate description of false, destructive beliefs, and the people who are dominated by false, destructive beliefs.

False, destructive beliefs cannot survive in the light of clarity.  Like vampires, if you expose them to the light, they fall to pieces.

“Homosexuals are freaks and abhorrent to God.”

“A woman’s place is in the home, rearing children.”

“Black people are inferior to white people.”

Beliefs like this cannot survive in the sunlight of clear awareness.

They have no reflection in a mirror, because they have no substance.  They are based on nothing, and are not real.

Such beliefs are parasitic.  Once they lodge in your consciousness, they feed off your life energy.  You may compulsively spread such beliefs to others.  They are viral, in the worst sense.

Sometimes viral thoughts, like vampires, destroy their victims.  How many people who have believed themselves to be “freaks,” “inferior”, or “abhorrent to God” have committed suicide?

Do not let these beliefs in.

Do not invite them into the house of your consciousness.  Do not invite them in.

Stay conscious of what you take into your mind, when you read things on the internet, watch TV, or talk to people.  Question whether or not what you are taking in is true.  Be skeptical.  Also notice if what you are taking in arouses feelings of anger, paranoia, or harsh judgment.  

Do not invite these beliefs into your house.  They are vampires.  They will erode your life energy, and turn you into a husk of your true self.

Some people are totally dominated by false belief systems.  Such people are often very destructive.  Being around them will always make you feel drained, and exhausted.

Avoid such people, if you can.  Do not invite them into your home.  If you must deal with them, make sure to “wear garlic.”  Stay alert, clear and healthy in your perception.  Do not get hypnotized by all the negative, fearful, judgmental stories that they tell.  

In general, it is good not to invite vampires in.

Vampires are draining.  They possess no life of their own, and feed off the life essence of others.

They may seem very menacing and threatening, but check the mirror.   There’s nothing there.  It is your fear that gives them power and makes them seem solid.  Without fear, they are hollow, and empty.

False, destructive beliefs have no validity.  They are not real.  The moment you shine light upon them, they crumble.