“Interdependent”Epstein

May 20, 2021 “Thought insertions” or projections can happen or “who is doing this to me”Epstein or “slings and arrows that come our way”Epstein. Projections can stimulate body, mind and emotions from quite some distance. Projections like “thought subtraction” can also happen, again “slings and arrows that come our way”Epstein. Mark Epstein talks about “diminishing reactivity”Epstein when this occurs, because we often have a reaction, which also maybe a projection. I am “Interdependent”Epstein in ways that projections speak of. “The ego is a necessary fiction”Freud, that speaks of “food can’t fill the spiritual void”Robert B., or spiritual emptiness or psychological emptiness that Epstein talks about. “Interdependent”Epstein self is the basis to understanding emptiness. Projections speak to this “interdependence” in ways that meditation practitioners know of. For example during an Buddhist Tantra Empowerment, the teacher blesses each individual for that Deity, Epstein talks about how he was blessed in silence in India in thoughts without a thinker. Mark Epstein also blessed my core and back and said “hang back just a bit”Epstein or a projection.