#Micro-expressions and deception

[kanemedicalaesthetic]

The Truth About Botox and Micro-Expressions | Can It Fool a Lie Detector?

Botox is widely known for its ability to smooth wrinkles and fine lines, but its impact on facial expressions goes beyond aesthetics. By relaxing specific muscles, Botox can reduce the ability to make certain expressions, including micro-expressions—those fleeting facial movements that reveal true emotions. This has led to speculation about whether Botox could be used to fool lie detectors, influence social interactions, or even make someone appear more trustworthy. But how much truth is there to these claims?

Understanding Micro-Expressions and Their Role in Communication

Micro-expressions are involuntary facial expressions that last for a fraction of a second. Unlike controlled expressions, micro-expressions occur subconsciously and can reveal hidden emotions such as fear, anger, happiness, or surprise. Psychologists and law enforcement agencies often study micro-expressions to detect deception, as they can provide insight into a person’s true feelings.

Since Botox limits muscle movement in treated areas, it may interfere with the ability to produce certain micro-expressions. This raises the question: Can Botox be used to mask emotions or even deceive a lie detector?

Botox and Its Effect on Emotional Expression

When Botox is injected into facial muscles, it temporarily blocks nerve signals that cause those muscles to contract. This means that individuals who receive Botox in areas such as the forehead or around the eyes may struggle to express emotions like surprise or concern fully.

Studies have shown that Botox affects emotional recognition—not only in how people express their emotions but also in how they interpret the emotions of others. This is known as the "facial feedback hypothesis," which suggests that the way we use our facial muscles influences how we feel and perceive emotions. If a person is unable to make a worried expression, for example, their brain may also struggle to fully process feelings of worry.

Can Botox Actually Fool a Lie Detector?

Lie detectors, or polygraph tests, measure physiological responses such as heart rate, sweating, and breathing patterns rather than facial expressions. Since Botox does not directly affect these bodily responses, it is unlikely to help someone pass a polygraph test.

However, Botox might influence deception in indirect ways:

Reduced Telltale Facial Expressions – Since Botox can limit frowning or other stress-related expressions, it might make it harder for an observer to detect nervousness or discomfort. However, experienced interrogators rely on a combination of verbal cues, body language, and physiological responses, not just facial expressions.

Blunted Emotional Responses – If Botox reduces a person’s ability to feel emotions as intensely (due to the facial feedback hypothesis), it might help someone remain calmer under pressure. This could make them appear more composed during questioning, but it would not alter the physiological signals measured by a lie detector.

Impact on Social Perception – Some research suggests that people with Botox appear more neutral or relaxed, which could influence how others perceive their honesty. A face with fewer signs of stress may seem more trustworthy, even if the person is being deceptive.

The Ethical Implications

The idea that Botox could be used to manipulate perceptions or hide emotions raises ethical concerns. While it is unlikely that Botox alone could make someone a more effective liar, it does alter natural emotional expression. This could have implications in areas such as law enforcement, job interviews, and even personal relationships.

Additionally, Botox might have unintended consequences. If a person has difficulty expressing certain emotions, it could impact their ability to connect with others. For example, a lack of expressive feedback might make conversations feel less engaging or sincere.

The Limits of Botox in Deception

Despite the speculation, Botox is not a magic tool for deception. While it can reduce visible facial expressions, it does not eliminate all forms of body language, vocal tone changes, or physiological stress responses. Professional lie detection involves analyzing multiple factors, making it unlikely that Botox alone could consistently fool a polygraph test.

Conclusion

Botox can certainly affect facial expressions and emotional perception, but it is not a foolproof method for deception. While it may make micro-expressions less noticeable, it does not alter the physiological responses that polygraph tests rely on. More research is needed to fully understand how Botox influences communication and social perception. In the end, honesty and authenticity remain far more complex than just facial movements.

[pathologicalreid]

mirrorball | s.r.

in which coping with Emily's return leads to tension between JJ and you, her sister, and Spencer, her best friend. it just ends up pushing the two of you closer together.

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who? spencer reid x fem!reader category: angst (hurt/comfort) content warnings: takes place during the events of 7x2 "proof", spencer's addiction, suicide, idiots in love word count: 2.92k a/n: happy memorial day 😎 have a fanfic, as a little treat

Durant, Oklahoma

Your sister had spoken to you ad nauseam about Spencer lashing out at her, which probably explained the way your heart rate spiked when you saw her approach Spencer in the conference room. Glancing over your shoulder, you flashed a concerned look at Emily, who had desperately been trying to smooth things over with the team since her rise from death.

“Spence,” JJ called, the nickname she’d started using when the two of them were kindred spirits and nothing more. “Look, we gotta talk about this,” she said, shaking her head in disbelief that he was acting out at work.

You weren’t surprised, though. Spencer had been holding in a lot of resentment since Emily returned from Paris and JJ left the Pentagon, and he’d been confiding in you. “I don’t want to talk about it,” Spencer answered, grabbing a file from the table and quickly flipping through it.

He wouldn’t, not at work and not in front of so many people. He’d withhold his real emotions until the sun went down, and once it was you and him in his bedroom—him lying to the team and you lying to your boyfriend—he’d talk about it until the sun rose. “I get it, okay? You’re disappointed with the way we handled Emily.” You tried to step forward, to stomp out the fire before it had a chance to ignite, but an arm reached out. Derek pulled you back, wanting to cause less of a scene.

“Listen, I have a lot going on, alright?” He said, abstaining from meeting her eyes and instead focusing on the folder in his hands. Spencer was right, the team was in the middle of a case, but you knew JJ would have a hard time working if she didn’t resolve her issues with Spencer.

She frowned, adjusting her stance like she was getting ready for a fight. “You know what I think it is?”

Exasperated, Spencer sighed, looking up at your sister expectantly, “What?” His voice was sharp, bitterness tinging his tone.

“You’re mad that Hotch and I controlled our micro-expressions at the hospital, and you weren’t able to detect our deception.” Her guess was as good as a nail in a coffin. She was making an entirely human issue about Spencer’s intelligence because that’s all he’d ever be to her—187.

He swallowed thickly, Adam’s apple bobbing as he stared your sister down with hurt, brown eyes. “You think it’s about my profiling skills?” He asked, bordering on tearful before he regained his composure, “Jennifer, listen, the only reason that you were able to manage my perceptions is because I trusted you. I came to your house for ten weeks in a row, crying over losing a friend, and not once did you have the decency to tell me the truth.”

Red rimmed your sister’s baby blue eyes as devastation sunk in, “I couldn’t.” The words were forced out of her mouth, her voice constricted by emotion.

“You couldn’t? Or you wouldn’t?” Spencer challenged, tilting his head at her in the same way he did when he was cajoling an UnSub.

You walked forward again, this time uninterrupted, so you could hear the two of them better. “No,” JJ insisted, “I couldn’t.”

Spencer didn’t look surprised. “What if I started taking Dilaudid again? Would you have let me?”

JJ faltered, her head tipping back slightly before she poked it forward, “You didn’t.”

“Yeah,” he conceded, “But I thought about it.” The worst part of it was that he wasn’t lying, and when he needed someone to tell him the truth, you’d been the one there to pick up the pieces. The one to beg him to tell you where he’d put the vials so you could properly dispose of them.

One look at her and you knew Spencer had cracked your sister’s armor, the same way yours had that night, with his head in your lap as you begged him to sleep so he wouldn’t continue to yearn for the dreams that had nearly killed him years ago. “Spence,” she said, her voice breathy with shock. “I’m sorry.”

Spencer put his hands up in surrender, stepping away from her, his back facing you. “It’s too late, alright?”

Behind his back, your eyes met JJ’s. She silently pleaded with you to say something in support of her, but instead, you stayed silent while Spencer stalked away and Emily called after him. Your sister’s glare instinctively narrowed, frowning at your refusal to take her side, but if there was anything you learned from your time as her sister, you never wanted to be in between her feuds. 

Emily faltered, thinking about following after Spencer but deciding against it, nearly tripping over her own feet when she resolved herself to stay behind. Her brown eyes found you in the chaos of her indecision, asking you to go after him, and instead, you walked to the conference room where your sister was licking her wounds. “I can’t believe him,” she muttered under her breath, fingertips trembling as she tried to grab a stack of papers from the table. 

You could. You’d seen him like this before, right after JJ had told you Emily was dead. He was hurting, and he tended to lash out when he felt vulnerable. Now this, this convoluted reciprocal grief where he—and the rest of you—were no longer mourning the loss of your friend, but the versions of yourselves that had spent six months coping with Emily’s death, only to find that she had been alive the whole time. 

On the jet, on the way to Oklahoma, you’d observed her in discreet silence, wondering what her life had looked like during that brief intermission. Had she gone to explore in Paris? Watching the twinkling lights of the Eiffel Tower while you were barely holding yourselves together. 

It wasn’t unlike yourself to push aside your own grief for the sake of someone else’s, you vaguely remember doing it when your oldest sister passed away. What a heavy burden it was, to be four years old and taking responsibility for every smile that came around in that old house. You tried now, to be someone else, setting a gentle hand on JJ’s shoulder and whispering, “It’s been hard for him. It’s one of those things where you just never know what someone else is going through.” 

You’d selected your words carefully, concerning yourself with the secrets you’d kept from your sister, protecting yourself and Spencer while trying to reassure her. You clipped the wire to a ticking time bomb, and you’d chosen the wrong one. “That’s rich, coming from you,” JJ responded, setting her jaw and looking at you expectantly. 

Forgetting yourself for a moment, you flinched back at her words as surely as she’d struck you across the face. Slowly, you looked around to see if any of your other team members had heard what she said, just to find them all still lingering by the evidence boards. 

Desperately, you found yourself staring at Hotch, parting your lips to explain your departure, but he already knew. He nodded at you once, giving you the okay to follow after Spencer, so that’s exactly what you did. Emily’s hand skimmed over your shoulders as you pointedly refrained from looking back at your sister before walking out the front door of the precinct. 

The brightness of the sun stung your eyes as you searched the parking lot, looking for Spencer before your eyes caught him, getting into the driver’s seat of one of the SUVs before starting the car. Swallowing the distaste that your sister had left in your mouth, you jogged over to the black car, opening the door and swinging yourself into the passenger seat. “Where are we going?” 

“What?” He asked, looking at you in disbelief, shocked that you had followed him into the parking lot. 

You shrugged, pulling the seat belt over your shoulder and clicking it, “There’s a park just down the road. We could go there for a little while—get some fresh air,” you offered, pointing to the left of the precinct toward the park you’d seen on your way in. 

Silently, Spencer considered your offer and put the car in reverse, pulling out of the parking lot and following your directions to the park. 

Neither of you moved to get out of the car once it was stationary. Spencer ducked his head down, digging the heels of his palms into his eyes. “Hey,” you spoke softly now, unbuckling your seatbelt and tilting your head to the side in concern. “Do you have a migraine?” 

He shook his head, mumbling something unintelligible from behind his hands before dragging them down his face, “Did you know?”

You frowned for a moment, wondering what he was asking while you unscrambled the thoughts in your mind. He was asking if you had known about Emily. If you had known the whole time he was breaking down that Emily was still alive. If you were another name he needed to add to his list of betrayers. “No,” you assured him. “I had no idea.”

Thankfully, he believed you, nodding while seemingly melting back into the driver’s seat before looking out at the playground. School was still in session, so the playground was mostly abandoned, save for a few toddlers running about. “I went to her house for ten weeks straight before… that night. She never told me anything other than how sorry she was.” 

Trying to ignore the way he stumbled over his memory of that night, you nodded, commiserating with him. After the night in question, he’d resorted to coming to you for anything he needed, the life preserver in the middle of the sea of grief that he had practically begged your sister to throw. You weren’t interested in a conversation regarding who was right and who was wrong. You knew how Spencer’s brain worked well enough to know that this wasn’t about moral philosophy, it was about how JJ left Spencer to drown when he needed her most. 

Part of you had tried to forget the night you’d gone to his apartment, convincing his neighbor to buzz you in and picking the lock to his front door before getting into a screaming match with him. A fight that had ended with his head in your lap, combing your fingers through his hair while you whispered reassuring things. Telling him childhood stories about you and JJ, a funny story about something Henry had done—anything it took to get his mind off of his grief and away from the drug that he so desperately craved.

He never intended to use his addiction as a weapon, but at some point in his time as an addict, his brain had crossed its wires. It was common for addicts, and maybe it was because you’d never known Spencer before that became part of him, but it seemed like you were able to wrap your mind around it in ways that no one else on the team could. 

“Thank you for coming after me,” Spencer said after the extended silence, reaching out for your hand before thinking better of it and returning his hand to his lap.

Your chest ached at his choice, but you understood why he’d made it. Everything about your friendship had become so convoluted, but the two of you never crossed that bridge. “I had to get out of there too,” you admitted, your eyes burning with the promise of tears, giving you the excuse to cross your arms across your chest. 

Spencer cocked his head to you, “What do you mean? What happened?” 

“Uh,” you faltered over your words, “I tried to defend you to JJ, and she… didn’t like it.” 

Across the center console from you, Spencer set his jaw, “What did she say to you?” He asked with a curiosity so genuine you wouldn’t believe it if it were coming from anyone else. 

Skipping some of the words, you picked at the skin around your nails, “How much do you know about Roslyn?” Even her name burned at your throat, vague memories of someone who shared your genes scratched at you, leaving your voice hoarse. 

“Just how she died,” Spencer admitted, unbuckling his seatbelt and turning so he could face you better. 

You frowned, avoiding his eyes at all costs, “JJ blames me for her death.” 

Though you couldn’t see him, you heard Spencer struggling with the information that you’d just given to him. He shifted uncomfortably on the seat and did the mental math in his head, “You were only four when she died. You couldn’t have caused her suicide.” 

Nodding, you spared a quick look at him, but the sympathy in his eyes was too much to bear in the confines of the car. Scrambling for the door handle, you opened the door to the car and nearly fell out, sitting yourself on the curb so you could feel the wind prick at your skin. “JJ calls me Ducky because it’s a nickname that Ros gave to me,” you explained once he came around the back of the SUV. 

“You don’t need to explain,” He tried to offer. Selfishly, you wanted him to know. You wanted him to understand you better, offering a piece of yourself that no one outside of your immediate family had. You knew Spencer would take that piece and hold it close to his heart, treating it better than anyone else ever had. 

You took a deep, trembling breath, “When I was learning how to walk, I did more of a waddle, and Ros said I looked like a little duck. She used to come to the elementary school when I was in kindergarten and walk home with me, because the kids had bullied me so badly on the bus that I was petrified of ever getting back on.” You laughed in slight disbelief, “I didn’t even ask her, she just offered to walk me home. She always stayed after the high school got out and met me in front of my school.” 

It was innocent, really, when she called out my nickname to get my attention so we could walk home, but some other kids had overheard her. The next day, we were doing a craft in school, and this one kid—Peter Fuller—dumped a bunch of glue and feathers on my seat when I got up to get a colored pencil. I sat in it, and they all stuck to me. I still remember the way it felt to have everyone point and laugh at me.” You wiped a few stray tears from your cheeks. “My mom picked me up and helped me pull the feathers off of me, but the skirt was a goner. When Ros got home, I yelled at her. I told her I hated her and that she was a bad sister, and the next day…” 

Spencer opened his mouth to speak, but you interrupted him, “JJ found her in the bathroom. She’d slit her wrists with our father’s razor blades.” You hugged yourself tightly, “Jennifer told dad what I had said, and he was the first one to blame me. She just followed suit. We’ve gotten past it, mostly, but sometimes things get ugly between us and that’s always the first shot to be fired.” 

“It’s a defense mechanism,” Spencer said, lowering himself down to the curb, sitting next to you. “She hits where it hurts because she feels like her walls are down.” 

You nodded weakly, “I know. That’s why she always goes for Ros. That’s why she went for your profiling skills.” 

“Doesn’t that bother you?” Spencer asked innocently, trying to gain insight on your sister through you. “That she can’t be confronted without returning fire?” 

Thinking about it for a moment, you shrugged, looking at him through teary eyes, “It never changes the fact that she’s my sister. We promised each other a long time ago that we’d never let anything get in between us, so, I don’t think there’s any secret we couldn’t come back from.” You watched him stand up from the curb, holding a hand out for you to take. “She’ll apologize to you in a few days, you just have to wait her out,” you told him as he pulled you to your feet. 

You looked up at him, curiously gazing into his brown eyes, he murmured, “I’m glad it’s not just me under fire.” 

Nodding, you swallowed thickly before responding to him, “I’ll always be here when you’re under siege.” You noticed the way his eyes were studying your face, “Spencer,” you whispered, “I’m—“

“How’s Garrett?” He asked abruptly, inquiring about your boyfriend unprompted, watching your facial expressions for an answer before you even opened your mouth. 

You pursed your lips thoughtfully while he took a step away from you, mindfully putting space between the two of you. “He’s okay, he asked me to move in with him, but I’m—“ 

“You should do it,” he interrupted you again, putting his hands in his pockets before rounding the car. “We should get back to the precinct,” he said, turning the key in the ignition before you could even comprehend what had just happened. 

I’m confused was what you had intended to say to him, and now you were leaving with more questions than you had arrived with. Blinding pawing at the door handle while you prepared yourself for the silent car ride back to work.

"I think I want to be in love with you, but I don't know how." — Angela Carter

[only-one-brain-cell]

Jenifer Jareau isn’t and will never be Spencer Reid’s best friend. A best friend doesn’t

-say things like “I was actually nice to everyone, even to guys like you.” When he accuses of being a mean girl and she responds in a very mean girl way.

-is visually annoyed when your bestie is talking multiple times.

-says things like “your mad that Hotch and I controlled our micro expressions at the hospital and you weren’t able to detect our deception” when that wasn’t the case at all. (Girl this isn’t about his fucking profile skills??????)

-butts into a conversation when MATT is talking to Spencer and ASKS HIM A QUESTION ONLY TO WARN THE MATT THAT SPENCER WILL RAMBLE.

-tell Luke and Tara about him being on dilaudid IMMEDIATELY Penelope wouldn’t.

-confess her love for him over a decade after being friends married with kids even though the two of them went to a baseball game which was very clearly a date and brought someone with them.

There’s probably more that I’m missing.

[hold-fast-and-rise]

"The Art of Reading Minds" by Henrik Fexeus likely explores the subtle cues and signals we unconsciously give off, and how to interpret them in others.

Here are 10 potential lessons:

1. Body Language Speaks Volumes: Pay close attention to non-verbal cues like posture, facial expressions, and gestures. They often reveal more than spoken words.

2. Micro-expressions: Learn to identify fleeting micro-expressions (like a momentary flicker of fear or joy) that can reveal true emotions.

3. The Importance of Observation: Cultivate keen observation skills to notice subtle details in people's behavior and appearance.

4. Active Listening: Truly listen to what others are saying, both verbally and nonverbally. Pay attention to tone of voice, pacing, and pauses.

5. Understanding Human Behavior: Learn about basic human psychology and how people tend to behave in different situations.

6. Building Rapport: Use your observations to build rapport and establish trust with others.

7. Detecting Deception: Learn to identify potential signs of deception, such as inconsistencies between verbal and non-verbal cues.

8. Empathy and Perspective-Taking: Use your observations to understand others' perspectives and emotions.

9. Ethical Considerations: Use your knowledge of human behavior ethically and responsibly.

10. Continuous Learning: The art of reading minds is an ongoing process. Continuously observe, learn, and refine your skills.

[roverjamball]

DAY 2 - 18.07.2023 Part III

 "Let me take care of you... please."

Raven and I walked to the front of a club’s entrance, by-passing the line, receiving myriad of dirty looks. Todd provided working capital, a portion of which Damian could use to bribe the bouncer for quick entry. 

“Lamar has prospectus for a spa, a car wash, a food truck. What do all these places have in common?

“Paper money.” Kori supplied.

“He’s shopping for a way to launder his money. He did a pretty good job in making it look like my friend Lizzy stole the money. But if he suddenly has million dollars in his bank account …” Todd trailed off

“Raising all kinds of questions.” Raven completed Todd’s thought. 

“Yeah.” Arsenal said, leaning towards Raven. Green Arrow’s protege joined their planning session right after Raven and Damian agreed to rotate as support. 

Harper, tall, muscular - had to be for effective bow work, collar-length red hair tied back, tanned skin- outdoorsy. He looked glad to have Raven on board, not at all perturbed at the loss of Kori, their usual third. 

Starfire was sitting this one out. A sabbatical Raven called it. She explained how Kori missed Mari’ first steps. And Raven confided in him that Kori was terrified that Mari would fly, or summon star bolts and Dick would be helpless. 

“He's looking for a front business, a way to make it look like he actually earned this money. “ Todd continued to fill them in. Raven and I, disguised of course, went with the outlaws to meet Lizzy. An old acquaintance of Todd’s.

“I want to meet her. Bleeding hearts, have you seen If her story checks out?”

They had, but I wanted to do my own homework. With my expertise in micro expressions and Raven’s gauge on her emotions, deception would be difficult.

Lizzy was in her late thirties, short, wide brown eyes, swarthy complexion, now deathly pale. She kept licking her lips, a nervous childish gesture.

“So he needs to clean the money. How does that help me? I do the books, any error ” Lizzy asked, looking to Todd for answers. She’s smiled at us, polite, her worry was evident. She seemed to be  under genuine pressure. It was also obvious that she had come to Todd for help. She sounded Gotham native, her English accented as if from a rough part of the town, the East side.

“I'm gonna talk to Lamar. I'm gonna convince him he should wash his money with me. And that is something you can take to your Boss.”

“Okay. Yes. Thank God.” The woman Todd promised to help said. Gratitude shinning in her eyes. She was at the end of her rope and all her hope rested on Todd making this work.

A look of determination crossed Raven’s face. She hated it when lowlives picked on the little guy. And Elizabeth a C.P.A., daughter of a working woman, the very definition of little guy. Her younger sibling, a boy got caught up in drugs on campus, but Todd as Red Hood worked up a deal in exchange for information and the boy would soon be out on early parole. 

Elizabeth aka Lizzy did the books for Valentine, a club started by residents of Crime Ally, children of  workers, pawns and enforces, who wanted something different for themselves. Something of their own, that they built from the ground up. And they did. It was a rival to Iceberg Lounge, Penguins club. 

Our way in is a money launderer. Well-known, mostly white-collar stuff. He has a thing for young men with green eyes. That’s where I come in. Raven was to act as my back-up or date, once I lure him into the club's loading bay. Then Todd’ll ask for an introduction. Our part was to lure and that’s it. No need to give away our numbers.

But their Target this night swings both ways, so Raven would either back me up or also play lure. Double the chance of success. My math was on Raven. She’s gorgeous, all dressed up for a good time, and given a choice I’d pick her to heap attention on. 

It’s difficult to play bait, to lure someone to a secluded location, against their better judgement. Come on too strong, and they’d smell the set-up. Play too hard to get and they may think, oh well plenty of fish in the sea. 

To meet his known preferences, I’ve coloured my hair light brown, Raven’s a redhead. Cover all our bases, and preferences. We want to be noticed. 

In a formfitting knockout dress of cream to showcase her complexion and green contacts Raven looks like nothing more than a confident fun loving snooty club girl looking for a good time. Primped and glossed, a look of total confidence she gracefully walks to the front of the line. 

Mesmerised the bouncer opens up the velvet rope to usher Raven inside. Putting the bribe money back in his pants pocket Damian follows her in, completely ignored by the bouncer, his eyes following Raven, till she is lost in the sea of bodies. 

You and me both, Damian thinks, as they split up. At the bar, Raven sits on one of the stools that opens up as the song changes. On the seat, eyes closed Raven sways to the beat, camouflaging the glow of her eyes at the use of her powers. Getting read on the whole club in a short period of time uses significant power. Using that much power sometimes causes Raven’s eyes to swirl with electric energy, no way mistaken for mundane.

No doubt the men and women admiring her, Raven won’t be lacking people offering to buy her drinks. The lights of the club play on her exposed skin, the white dress glows, luminescent. Just enticing enough. Noticeable, eye-catching,  but not supernatural. 

Deep shadows envelop Damian while he scans at the club’s patrons. Looking for their mark. If he goes for Raven, Damian will back her. If not after twenty minutes in the limelight, Raven will take over surveillance, while Damian puts himself on the chopping block.

Checking the feed on his smart watch, Damian recognises their Target in one of the club’s VIP alcoves. 

He is closest to the location. Should he signal Raven or make a play for the mark? 

The alcove seats six, and young men and women party hard, shots and hard liquor bottles fill the table. Some powdery substance covers the table in lines, but the mark don’t seem to partake in it, just being a good host maybe. 

Raven, catching some hint, glances over her shoulder. A coy look this way. Raven, didn’t accept any offers that came her way, no matter how beautiful they were, no matter how they smiled and laughed. Refusals were non-existent, the offerers just changed their mind, and laughed, finding other options more to their liking.

Unsurprisingly, the choice is taken from Damian when the mark comes out of the VIP area, goes straight for the red-head at the bar, leaning over her, the tall man whispers in her ear. 

Damian’s attention is split. 

Clubs are the worst for any op. Crowds of strangers to monitor, inebriated and prone to behaving oddly, making it difficult to gauge motive or intent. The loud pulsating music makes hearing impossible, and reading lips while lights flash creating sporadic darkness is a joke from hell. 

Fifteen minutes later, the mark seemed oblivious to everyone except the redhead he’d plied with drinks and now half-helped, half-lifted towards the loading bay behind the club.

“Pardon.” Raven says with a breathy laugh, in a passable French accent. Stagers and clings to the mark, further forcing him to hold her, his hands occupied and attention focused solely on her, while she subtly frisks him for weapons, disguising it as handsy passion.

Raven chose French as her cover, while Damian Italian, so they could communicate without being easily understood by others.

Out into the loading bay Raven stumbles, weaving threw a maze of boxes, leading him to the far wall, away from any windows and the club door. Cutting off all viable exists.

Catching the door before it shuts, Damian follows them, waiting for Raven’s signal. Todd is here somewhere in the shadows, ready to ambush and Damian treads lightly so as not to be heard. 

“Non, you going too fast, some fore play non?“ Raven admonishes, her signal to move in, the second part that he is armed, but the weapon is disabled. 

Todd, soundlessly came up behind them, Raven manipulated the shadows into revealing him in the most dramatic fashion. 

Red helmet gleaming, a combat knife unsheathed, Todd looks from Raven to the money launderer. 

“Take a hike.” He says to Raven pointing to the parking lot beyond the loading area. 

Raven lets out a panicked screech and rushes off, as fast as  her heels can carry her, glancing around in fright for signs of danger,  then a few moments later she is lost in the darkness of an alley. 

Turning to the shaking man, “I just want an introduction.” 

The man tries to run, Todd grabs him by the neck and putting pressure on a pulse point, waves about the serrated knife threateningly. 

“It's not too much work. Chances are good that this guy, Lamar, is talking to friends of yours. I just want to make my pitch.”

“That’s insane, I can’t do that. The next day, you go all Red Hood on his ass and stuff starts exploding. Then fingers get pointed at me, I vouched for you.”

Fear wafted from him, Damian could see it on his face,  what was bizarre was that he could now also somehow sense it. 

What was happening to him?

Twisting the knife this way and that, casually Todd spoke in the most reasonable tone, “I’m  working up a cover I.D. for an associate.”

 Better if you don’t know any names unsaid and understood. 

“Just a guy from out of town, a friend of a friend of a friend. The blow won't get back to you. Scouts honour.”

The man, skiffs his alligator leather boot off the rough ground, it's dark and quiet behind the club, soundproofing goes both ways, the techno music a low hum on the outside and the trucks and lorries of vendors, and suppliers don’t disrupt the party mood. 

“I guess I could work it through some intermediaries.”

 “Good.” Todd concludes. Letting the man go, can’t deprive of too much oxygen without him fainting on us.

“Doable.” The small man hedges. Now a few steps away. Feeling brave from that distance. He’s said yes to an introduction, but with his pride hurt, it's going to cost Todd. Or should I say Lizzy. 

Right now Damian wants to shake the greedy asshole, but if he gives this Lamar a heads up they could all be in deep shit. So the bribe money would get used up here. 

“Expensive.” The man says in the silence, brave man, taking heart from the fact that the RedHood hasn’t shot him yet. 

“How much?” Todd put much menace in his voice, the blade would cut less than his tone. 

“To get someone to vouch for you, put you in the room with the guy say a grand.” He says, but then when Todd moves to take a step towards him, he quickly qualifies, “Promise nothin' will happen to him, maybe I can do five hundred.”

”A grand, will do.” We may be putting the screws to him, but things could get bad before they got better. Todd would hate to use the girl’s money, but she had insisted. She was no charity case. Her words. 

 * * *

Well, that was a productive night. Todd waits until the calls of introductions are made, giving their mark a number to pass along to the inquiring buyer. The thief would get what was coming to him. He trusted Todd to see it through. 

Todd would run point, Harper would play the money launder with a business to clean the money and they’d call us or others in for support or fresh faces as required. 

Our part done, I sneak back into the club, walk slow, casually out the exit, looking for Raven. 

Raven finds me, still in that dress, but no longer a red-head. Drags me into a secluded clove. Raven peppers kisses all over my face, her roaming hand pulling me, clutching me to her, checking my body for harm as if I was in any danger. Satisfied, and no longer frantic, Raven moves away, much to my dismay. Looking confused at her behaviour. 

I smile, reassuring her all attention from her is always welcome. 

Always! 

Another I would not allow this possessiveness, with Raven I relived in it.  She cares, she cares, my brain told me excited at the prospect. 

Moving deeper into the shadows, Raven opens a portal to Rendezvous at Todd’s safe house/staging area for this mission. 

The whole de-brief I was busy thinking of how amazing Raven would look out of that dress. Todd’s Intel was good. Recon through. Objective achieved, without revealing Raven or my involvement. With their numbers hidden, the Outlaws would have their pick of avenues for approaching this thief who pinned his theft on Todd’s friend. It went on and on. The sound background noise, not much for the ceremony we all; Raven, I with the Outlaws, sans Kori sat in a lose circle on miss-matched furniture.

I loosened the top buttons of my shirt, it wasn’t hot, no AC, luckily the waining night was cool. Clothes for clubbing were usually uncomfortably tight, the objective was fashion, but the way Raven sneaked glances at my chest, I’d happily bare it. Not as alert as I usually was, I didn’t realise the meeting was over till Raven came towards me, her stride graceful, but tiered. 

It was her fault, I thought as I followed Raven from the Outlaw safe house via portal into Titans Tower. I’d made arrangements for Kent to monitor the city during the night as we were here with the Outlaws. 

This was not Titans Tower, I looked around after stepping out from the stark darkness that was in Raven’s portal. 

The wood work was extensive and older, chips and scars in the furniture, mostly antique and the walls were coloured all wrong for the Tower. 

It took me a moment to realise, we were at my loft. I was staring at the floor to ceiling book case and potted plant, herbs I’d bought hoping to impress Raven. And here we were. Outside my bedroom. This was not at all Titans Tower, my brain kept saying. No Logan or Kent, we were all alone.  

Relief exploded in me! Giving free reign to every other emotion I’d been holding back. Before he could think, he had Raven pressed against the wall of his living room, his mouth on hers and his hands touching her body like he’d wanted to all those nights during patrol. The whole day they’d been out, he been controlling himself.

“I want you so much,” he breathed into her ear, coming up for air. “Tell me you want me. You want this.”

“Oh Damian!” She moaned. “Don’t stop.” That was a yes. 

He let himself go, Raven wrapped her legs around his waist and kissed him as if branding his lips with hers. He’d never been so thoroughly owned, possessed. Her touch screams desperation and longing. He agreed wholeheartedly. He too could’t wait a breath longer. 

Their hands explore, Damian lifts Raven, her legs link across his lower back causing hot friction, making him unbelievably hard. 

Rethink the bedroom and almost take her against the wall, a desperate thought. Their first time, if things went that far, there was so much he wanted to do to her, every explicit fantasy he’d indulged in, tasting her, making her explode with just his mouth was the first, and then so much more, the night was young, he wasn’t going to be rushed.

Before he gave into the urge to rip her dress off like she was demanding, Damian took a fortifying breath. Discipline. He remembered years of gurgling training, patience, as he lay Raven, reverted back to her old-self, on his bed. 

So beautiful. All honey gold flesh, her lavender eyes deep purple with desire, her musk filled the air and she shed her clothes. One moment dressed, next, her dress was gone. 

She laced her fingers through his hair and pulled his mouth back down to hers. As impatient as ever. He let her take the lead, but they weren’t rushing this. Her naked flesh interrupted by her undergarments, that her slowly removed. 

He kissed her without restraint, letting his hunger tell her what words failed to convey. Her head fell back and gasps coated his lips while her nails dug into his shoulders as if she’d die if she let him go.

“Yes!” She chanted. 

“We don’t have to go further. I’ll spend the rest of the night tasting you.” He said. Raven hesitated, she was naked under him. But he wasn’t going to push. 

Raven nodded shyly, her eyes dark with desire for him, her breaths short pants, her body trembling with expectation. Expectation he wanted to fulfil. Oh yes. He’d love that.

A feeling surged in him, too ferocious to be called anything as mundane as lust or need. Before the day was done, you will know that you are mine. I am already forever yours. 

Raven’s voice deepened as he slid down her body. “Too many clothes.”

She snatched at his shoulders. His shirt disappeared, then his pants winked out of existence. Where they went he didn’t know or at the moment care. Skin on skin, Raven soft, supple, firm, against his roughness. 

Raven leaned back, looked deeply into his eyes, and that was all it took. His hand went to the back of her neck, and his mouth came down on top of hers in a scorching kiss that let her know how much he wanted her. His tongue rubbed against hers. He felt her touch on his soul, saw how she saw him, what his tongue was doing to her. 

The kiss was wet, wild, and incredibly hot. He couldn’t think. Only feel. Surreal and intense. She had the softest lips and her taste made him whole. 

He couldn’t seem to get enough of her fast enough. One kiss, and intense desire he’d never experienced before knifed through him. Raven wanted him, almost as much as he wanted her. 

Raven wasn’t passive. Every bit as wild as he. Her fingers threaded through his hair, and she let out a low groan when he ended the kiss. 

She wanted! And she let him know, another and another! More! More! 

And as he went down her body, her hand encased him, holding squeezing, stroking him and he licked her. He burst into flames and Raven arched her back, a look of shocked rapture on her face. 

*************

Damian watched Raven sleep. Her hair on his chest, one possessive leg over his, her arm on his chest. She surrounded him and he didn’t move lest he wake her. The last day had been a lot, followed by nearly a week of high alert. Magical humans were missing and JLD constantly briefed all teams. 

All this was worrisome and it ate at Raven. She tried not to show it. A soft spot for magic users. Damian could feel Raven inside him, he wasn’t sure when it started, undeniable was the place she held in his heart. And now his awareness extended to hers.

“I love you Beloved,” he murmured. Raven’s breathing stayed steady and deep. Still asleep. Wrapped in his arms, on his bed. 

He’d not planned this, but after a mission and the week they’d had tensions and emotions ran high. He hoped their time together was genuine, not a result of heightened emotions. 

For a woman to accept a man’s suit, there was usually a gift. An exchange of tokens of affection; to make them official. A jewelled switchblade sat in a velvet case. Sliver, tempered and doubled-edged, wicked sharp, shaped like a lipstick case. It had a tracker compartment, so they would always know where the other was. Raven had her empathy and he’d have a tracker. Embedded in a gift. 

All the gods above and below, but he was bad at this. 

“Sleep well beloved, see you in the morning,” and then Damian surrendered to thoughtlessness.

[fuckthemoon1]

Hello, Tim. Apologize for the deception. Why don't I anon magic you back into the trenches...

Wait- no!

[Too late, anon magic wins]

[Tim suddenly finds himself crammed into a dirty foxhole, grime coating the walls and the lead panel above slightly radiating warmth from the force of the micro-waves outside. Tim himself is dressed in disgusting grey cargo trousers and an equally filthy once-white tank top. His boots are caked in grime. Smeared across his arms, face, and everywhere else, is blood. It is half dried and sticky.

He makes a desperate grab at his neck, and pulls out two sets of dog tags. He stares for a moment, before his expression crumbles]

We- well murder all the l-lunar men with, with fury heaven sent-

[The singing is cracked, broken, as sobs threaten to tear from his throat]

And we’ll carpet Lenny’s tunnels w-with the r…r-ounds that we have spent. Th-they’ve, they’ve tried to break out firm resolve-

[Pause for a gasping breath]

But haven’t made a dent. And- and their b-blood will run like wine.

[The song is gone, as Tim tips his head forward and cries, for perhaps the first time in 15,000 years]

[thellawtoknow]

Criminal Psychology

Topic: Understanding Deception: Insights from Criminal Psychology Topic: Understanding Deception: Insights from Criminal Psychology1. Behavioral Cues and Nonverbal Communication1. Facial Expressions: Insights from Micro-Expressions2. Body Language: Gestures, Posture, and Eye Movements3. Speech Patterns: Clues in Verbal Expression2. Psychophysiological Responses1. The Science Behind…

[mindmatrixr]

7 Micro-Behaviors That Expose What They’re Really Thinking... by Mind Matrix How do FBI agents, poker players, and interrogators read people without asking questions? These 7 subtle micro-behaviors give away lies, stress, and hidden truths in seconds. Why it works: The body leaks what the mouth hides. How to use it: Watch closely. Trust patterns — not words. #MindReading #BodyLanguageSecrets #PsychologyHacks #MicroExpressions #LieDetection #ColdReading #BehavioralPsychology #DarkPsychology #SocialDecoding #NonverbalCues #TruthRevealed #EmotionalTells #HumanBehavior #MentalAwareness #ReadPeopleFast how to read people psychology microexpressions that reveal lies lie detection body language fbi body language cues micro-behaviors psychology how to spot deception psychology of subconscious behavior nonverbal signs of lying cold reading techniques eye movement and truth blinking and stress detection truth vs lie body language forced smile meaning emotional mismatch cues subconscious gestures how to decode body language stress signals in conversation face tells in psychology reading people like an fbi agent anxiety body signals how liars behave subtly facial expression decoding micro expression lie detection how to spot dishonesty read emotions from behavior social psychology tricks truth vs deception signs how to analyze people silently psych hacks to read minds emotional leak signs via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am2S76_r1vA

[trendsnova]

The Quiet Force: Why Highly Spiritual People Hold Extraordinary Power

The Misunderstood Strength of Spirituality Spiritual individuals are frequently described as gentle, serene, and detached from the madness of day-to-day existence. They are characterized by society as passive or withdrawn, drifting into meditation or abstract contemplation. Nevertheless, such a description could not be more inaccurate. Lurking beneath their tranquil façade is a strong force — one that confronts deception, deconstructs manipulation, and redefines reality. Their profound connection to higher truths and emotional mastery make them some of the most powerful and formidable people out there.

Seeing Beyond the Surface: The Human Lie Detector

Most people cover their faces, portraying edited versions of themselves to suit social conventions, workplaces, or relationships. Highly spiritual people, though, can see through these masks. They sense the lies, manipulation, and ulterior motives even before words are uttered. Studies confirm that mindfulness makes neurologic sensitivity to subtle signals, such as micro-expressions and tone change, greater. For manipulators and liars, this is disturbing; they can deceive most, but never the spiritually awakened. Unshakable Conviction Based on Wisdom

Where others yield to social, political, or emotional pressures, spiritual people do not. Their convictions are based on profound, inner wisdom and not on transient opinion. Research verifies that spirituality builds resistance to external control, developing an inner peace that is certain and commanding respect. Their sincerity and assurance tend to evoke movements and revolutions, by no means by coercion, but by the sheer power of truth they incarnate.

Immunity to Emotional Manipulation

The globe is full of emotional strategies—fear, guilt, and blackmail are favourite tools. But very spiritually evolved individuals are different, having developed outstanding emotional strength. They are calm in the midst of turmoil and do not let themselves be shaken by abuse or power games. This stability renders them resistant to manipulative games, flipping them back by revealing the genuine nature of those who seek to manipulate them. Their power lies in being able to stay anchored and clear-headed.

Intuition as an Extraordinary Gift

Spiritual people have an evolved intuition that transcends logic and rationality. They feel the changes and consequences in relationships, politics, and business ahead of time. This intuition is not just cerebral but involves the heart, brain, and gut—a triad that enables them to foresee trends and betrayals with uncanny accuracy. Their prescience tends to put them ahead by two or three moves, winning in circumstances where others are caught unawares.

Freedom From Material Fear

To most, loss of money, power, or position is frightening. But spiritual individuals don't identify with outside possessions. Studies suggest they are more satisfied with life and are willing to give up riches or power to maintain their integrity. This detachment makes them impossible to control and threatening to corrupt institutions, because they can't be bought, intimidated, or manipulated.

Influence Through Presence, Not Force

Unlike those who use persuasion or force, deeply spiritual beings shape simply by existing. Their peaceful, grounded energy transforms the vibration in any space, changing moods and initiating change without speaking. This wordless power has created numerous spiritual movements and historical revolutions. Individuals are attracted to their realness and inner strength—no ultimatums required.

Transcending Fear to Embrace the Unknown

Fear governs much of the human experience—fear of failure, rejection, and death. But spiritually awakened individuals rise above such restrictions. Meditation and spiritual practice decrease brain activity in areas responsible for fear, allowing them to stay calm under fire and take fearless, aggressive action. Mastery over fear gives them the liberty to challenge power and create new possibilities and to become powerful change agents.

A Force the World Too Often Underestimates

Spiritual individuals are highly:

Pierce through deception with ease

Resist emotional manipulation

Carve realities with their presence

Walk boldly towards their calling

To downplay their power is a serious error. They possess a silent but irrepressible power that can transform societies and bring about deep change.

If you are drawn to unleash this power within you, the journey starts with embracing inner spirituality and developing awareness. The silent force awaits.

[sku-te]

Chapter 24: The Detective and the Drowning

The tense, unspoken, and deeply exhausting cat-and-mouse game between Arthur Ainsworth and Nana Hiiragi simmered beneath the deceptively placid surface of the Third School Year for several uneasy weeks. Arthur remained relentlessly vigilant, his limited Japanese forcing him into a mode of heightened observation and carefully chosen, minimal interactions. Nana, visibly haunted and profoundly conflicted, continued her hesitant, almost reluctant pursuit, Tsuruoka’s orders a poisonous whisper in the back of her mind, her own fractured conscience a screaming counterpoint. The new intake of students, meanwhile, remained largely, blissfully oblivious to this silent, deadly undercurrent. Then, a new, entirely unexpected variable arrived on the island, an element that would irrevocably shatter the uneasy status quo and drag the island’s darkest secrets into the harsh, unforgiving light: Akari Hozumi.

Akari was a petite, unassuming girl with short, neat black hair and sharp, intelligent, almost unnervingly observant eyes that seemed to miss absolutely nothing. Her arrival was unceremonious, just another late addition to the ever-shifting student roster, assigned to fill an empty bunk in one of the dormitories. But it became rapidly, abundantly clear that she was no ordinary student. During her formal introduction to the class by a vaguely apprehensive Mr. Saito, Akari Hozumi declared her Talent with a quiet, unshakeable confidence that brooked no argument and sent a ripple of unease through her new classmates. Her ability, she stated calmly, was "Forensic Insight" – a complex combination of acute environmental analysis, the ability to reconstruct past events with uncanny, almost supernatural accuracy by observing a location or individuals involved, and a near-perfect, almost infallible capacity to detect falsehood through micro-expressions, vocal inflections, and physiological tells. She was, in her own carefully chosen words, a truth-seeker, a dedicated, amateur detective.

The island, with its hushed-up disappearances, its string of unexplained “accidents,” and the palpable undercurrent of fear and suspicion that clung to its very stones, was a veritable, irresistible playground for someone with Akari Hozumi’s unique abilities and singular, almost obsessive inclinations. She began her disquieting investigations almost immediately, her polite but relentless, deeply probing questioning unsettling students and the beleaguered teaching staff alike. Rumours of past events, half-forgotten whispers of students who had vanished without a trace or died under deeply mysterious circumstances, drew her like a bloodhound to a fresh scent. She was a small, quiet whirlwind of disconcerting inquiry.

Her razor-sharp attention, inevitably, turned towards the large, picturesque, yet strangely ominous lake on the island’s northern edge. Perhaps it was the lingering, hushed stories of Yuusuke Tachibana’s sudden disappearance nearly two years prior, or the still-discussed, unexplained phenomenon of the unseasonable, localized freezing that had sealed its surface for a time. Or maybe her unique Talent simply picked up on the dark, cold secrets hidden beneath its deceptively tranquil, sun-dappled waters.

One grey, overcast afternoon, Akari, accompanied by a small retinue of curious and now somewhat fearful fellow students, and under the clearly uncomfortable and wary eye of Mr. Saito (who had been “persuaded” to attend by Akari’s polite but unyielding insistence), focused her formidable abilities on the lake. The thick ice that Sorano Aijima had been coerced into creating had long since thawed with the changing seasons, leaving the lake’s surface murky and undisturbed. After a long period of intense, silent concentration, her gaze fixed with unnerving precision on a particular spot near a dense, overgrown patch of reed beds, Akari calmly directed two of the stronger, older male students to begin probing the area with long, sturdy poles they had brought from the school’s neglected groundskeeping shed.

There was a sickening, dull thud from beneath the water’s surface, a sound that made several students gasp. With considerable, straining effort, the two boys, their faces pale and sweating despite the cool air, dragged a sodden, heavy, and horrifyingly human-shaped form from the murky, weed-choked depths.

It was, unmistakably, the badly decomposed but still identifiable body of Yuusuke Tachibana.

A wave of collective, visceral horror rippled through the assembled students. Some cried out, others retched, their faces turning green. Tachibana’s disappearance had eventually been officially written off by the school administration as him simply running away from the pressures of the academy, or perhaps a tragic, unexplainable drowning accident while swimming alone. The sight of his preserved, mud-caked corpse, brought forth so dramatically from its watery tomb after nearly two years, was a visceral, traumatizing shock that shattered any lingering illusions about the island’s safety.

Akari Hozumi, however, her expression grim but resolute, was just beginning. Her gaze, sharp as a shard of ice and utterly accusatory, swept over the pale, horrified faces of the upperclassmen who had been present during Tachibana’s time, eventually settling with unwavering, damning intensity on Nana Hiiragi. Nana, who had been observing the grim proceedings from the edge of the crowd with a carefully constructed mask of shocked concern, felt a jolt of pure, cold terror lance through her, a premonition of impending, inescapable doom.

“Hiiragi Nana-san,” Akari Hozumi said, her voice clear, cutting, and utterly devoid of emotion, carrying easily over the terrified whispers of the other students. “My Talent reconstructs events with absolute clarity. It tells me of deception. It shows me the hidden patterns of murder.” She then proceeded, with chilling, methodical precision, to lay out the sequence of events leading to Yuusuke Tachibana’s death nearly two years prior: Nana identifying Tachibana’s dangerous Talent, her careful grooming of him, her luring him to the secluded lake, incapacitating him, and then brutally drowning him in its cold, silent depths. Akari even detailed Nana’s subsequent coercion of the terrified Sorano Aijima into freezing the lake’s surface to conceal her heinous crime. Akari might have used her Talent on Sorano earlier, who would have broken easily under such intense scrutiny, or perhaps she was directly reading Nana now, whose involuntary micro-expressions, her sudden pallor, her barely perceptible trembling, would have been an open, screaming confession to someone with Akari’s acute lie-detecting abilities.

As Akari spoke, her calm, incisive voice detailing not just Tachibana’s murder but hinting at a clear, undeniable pattern of calculated eliminations, of other convenient “accidents” and “disappearances,” Nana Hiiragi’s carefully constructed composure finally, catastrophically, shattered. Cornered, exposed, with the irrefutable, horrifying evidence of Tachibana’s decaying body lying before them on the muddy bank and Akari Hozumi’s unshakeable, terrifying certainty pinning her down like an insect under a microscope, Nana broke. In a choked, hysterical, tearful confession, her words tumbling out in a torrent of incoherent guilt, fear, and self-loathing, she admitted to killing Tachibana. More admissions, fragmented and horrified, about other “enemies,” other “threats she had neutralized for the good of the Talentless,” began to spill from her lips, though she instinctively, desperately, refrained from implicating Commander Tsuruoka or the Committee directly, that deeply ingrained, conditioned terror still holding sway even in her utter disintegration.

The reaction from the assembled student body was instantaneous, predictable, and utterly savage. The simmering fear that had lurked beneath the surface of island life for so long, the paranoia born of so many unexplained disappearances and the constant, vague threat of “Enemies of Humanity,” erupted into a violent, cathartic rage. Cries of “Monster!” “Murderer!” “She killed them all!” filled the air. The students, transformed in an instant into a terrified, enraged mob, surged forward, easily overwhelming the few panicked, ineffective teachers present, and fell upon the sobbing, collapsing Nana Hiiragi, their fists, their feet, their hoarded, improvised weapons instruments of a brutal, summary, and entirely merciless justice.

Nana curled into a tight ball on the muddy ground, trying desperately to protect her head and vital organs, but the blows rained down upon her, a furious, unending hail of pain and retribution. Arthur Ainsworth watched, his expression grim, his heart a cold, hard, unfeeling knot in his chest. A primitive, vengeful part of him, the part that had carried the unbearable weight of Nana’s countless crimes for what felt like an eternity, felt a sliver of grim, ugly satisfaction – this was justice, in its rawest, most primal, and perhaps most fitting form. Another part of him, however, the weary, fifty-one-year-old man who had witnessed too much death, too much violence, recoiled from the sheer, unbridled brutality of the scene, recognizing with a sickening clarity the dangerous, self-perpetuating cycle of violence. He thought, fleetingly, of Michiru, of Nana’s tearful, human confession at the cliff edge. But he did not move. He couldn’t. His limited Japanese would be useless against this tide of fury, and a deeper, colder part of him believed, with a chilling detachment, that Nana Hiiragi had sown this terrible whirlwind, and now, she was simply, inevitably, reaping it.

It was Kyouya Onodera, his face an impassive, unreadable mask but his movements swift, economical, and incredibly powerful, who finally, decisively intervened. Pushing his way through the frenzied, screaming mob with an almost contemptuous ease, he physically dragged students away from Nana’s battered, bleeding form. “Enough!” his voice, cold and sharp as a razor, cut through the din with an authority that momentarily stunned the attackers into a surprised, hesitant silence. “This solves nothing. This is not justice; it is barbarism. We need answers. We need understanding. Not a lynching.” He stood over Nana’s crumpled, unmoving form, a silent, formidable bulwark against the still-seething, murderous crowd, his stance clearly indicating that any further attacks on the girl would have to go through him first.

Nana Hiiragi lay on the muddy ground, bruised, bleeding, her bright pink hair, now caked with mud and her own blood, a grotesque mockery of its former vibrancy. She was broken, not just physically, but spiritually, her carefully constructed world, her entire identity, utterly demolished. Her reign of terror, her intricate, carefully woven web of lies, manipulation, and murder, had been brutally, irrevocably torn apart. Akari Hozumi stood a little apart, watching the chaotic scene with a strange, almost detached expression, her face betraying no emotion, only a stern, unwavering adherence to the terrible truth she had so ruthlessly, effectively, and devastatingly uncovered, regardless of its catastrophic consequences. The island’s dark, festering secrets were finally, violently, bleeding out into the open, and its fragile, deceptive order was irrevocably, terrifyingly shattered.

[nikshahxai]

How Nik Shah Detects Lying, Fraud, and Deceit: The Power of Accurate Truth Detection

When it comes to uncovering lies, fraud, and deceit, few are as skilled and precise as Nik Shah. Known for his innovative approaches to truth detection, Shah has earned a reputation for being an expert in uncovering dishonest behaviors across various domains. Whether it's identifying fraudulent activities in business, spotting deceptive behavior in personal interactions, or detecting lies in complex negotiations, Nik Shah's methods stand out as both effective and reliable.

This article delves into the remarkable techniques and tools Nik Shah employs to detect lying, fraud, and deceit. From understanding the psychological and behavioral cues associated with dishonesty to leveraging technology in cutting-edge ways, we’ll explore how Nik Shah’s insights can provide clarity and certainty in situations clouded by deceit.

Who is Nik Shah?

Nik Shah is a renowned expert in behavioral analysis, truth detection, and fraud prevention. With years of experience working in diverse industries, including law enforcement, corporate security, and even personal coaching, Shah has honed his ability to detect when individuals are not telling the truth. His methods integrate psychological principles with modern technology, making them effective in a wide range of settings.

Whether you are trying to detect fraud in your organization or uncover dishonesty in your personal life, Nik Shah has the knowledge and tools to assist in identifying deceptive behaviors. His unique ability to read the subtle cues that others might miss is what makes him a trusted name in the realm of truth detection.

The Psychology Behind Lying, Fraud, and Deceit

To understand how Nik Shah detects lying, fraud, and deceit, it’s crucial to first explore the psychology behind these behaviors. Lies are often motivated by the desire to gain an advantage, avoid punishment, or protect oneself from perceived threats. Fraud, on the other hand, is typically driven by a selfish desire for financial gain or power. Deceit can stem from a combination of fear, insecurity, and a desire to manipulate others.

Shah’s methods start by understanding these motivations. He uses this psychological insight to interpret behavioral cues such as facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and even micro-expressions. These subtle indicators can often give away when a person is not being truthful, even if they believe they are concealing their deception.

Key Techniques Nik Shah Uses to Detect Lying

Facial Expression Analysis

Facial expressions are one of the most accurate indicators of a person’s emotional state. Nik Shah understands that when people lie, their facial muscles often betray them in ways they don’t consciously control. This is where facial expression analysis becomes a key tool in detecting deception.

Using advanced software and personal observation, Shah is able to track the tiny movements of muscles around the eyes, mouth, and forehead that can signal stress or discomfort — common responses when a person is lying. By understanding these micro-expressions, he can spot signs of deceit that others might miss.

Voice Stress Analysis

Nik Shah also employs voice stress analysis as an effective technique for detecting lies and fraud. When people lie, their bodies often respond with increased stress, which can affect the tone and pitch of their voice. Shah uses specialized equipment that monitors these changes, providing data that can help him determine whether a person is being truthful.

This technology has been used for years in law enforcement and other high-stakes environments, but Nik Shah’s application of it has refined the process, making it both more accessible and accurate. By listening for subtle shifts in a person’s voice, Shah can quickly identify if they are trying to deceive others.

Behavioral Pattern Recognition

Another of Nik Shah’s signature techniques is behavioral pattern recognition. People often exhibit consistent patterns of behavior, and Shah is adept at recognizing when someone deviates from their normal actions. These deviations can be a sign that they are attempting to hide something, such as a lie or fraudulent activity.

By comparing a person’s current behavior to past interactions, Shah is able to spot inconsistencies that indicate dishonesty. For example, if someone who is normally calm suddenly becomes defensive or evasive, Shah can identify this shift as a potential sign of deceit.

Polygraph Testing

Polygraph tests, commonly known as lie detector tests, have been used for decades to measure physiological responses that can indicate stress caused by deception. Nik Shah incorporates polygraph testing into his approach, adding another layer of reliability to his truth-detection methods.

The polygraph measures physiological responses such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate, which tend to change when a person is lying. Shah’s deep understanding of the polygraph, combined with his keen observational skills, allows him to interpret these responses accurately and provide valuable insights.

Psychological Profiling

Psychological profiling is another tool in Nik Shah’s vast toolkit. By studying an individual’s behavior and background, Shah can identify potential motivations for lying or deceit. Whether it's a person’s past experiences or their psychological tendencies, understanding their mental and emotional makeup can provide important clues about their truthfulness.

For example, if someone has a history of financial difficulties, they might be more likely to engage in fraud or deception to escape their circumstances. By identifying these underlying psychological factors, Shah can predict deceptive behavior with greater accuracy.

Detecting Fraud in the Corporate World

In the business world, fraud can be devastating. Whether it’s financial mismanagement, embezzlement, or falsifying reports, fraud undermines trust and damages an organization’s reputation. Nik Shah’s expertise in fraud detection has made him a valuable asset to companies looking to protect themselves from these risks.

Shah’s approach to detecting fraud in business combines several techniques, including financial forensics, behavioral analysis, and internal audits. By conducting thorough investigations into an organization’s financial records and observing employees for signs of suspicious behavior, Shah can quickly uncover fraud before it escalates into a major issue.

How Nik Shah Detects Deceit in Personal Interactions

It’s not just businesses that benefit from Nik Shah’s truth-detection skills — personal relationships can also be positively impacted. Deceit in personal interactions can cause pain, mistrust, and irreparable damage. Whether it’s detecting lies in a relationship, identifying manipulation in friendships, or uncovering dishonesty in negotiations, Shah’s methods provide a reliable way to determine the truth.

One of the key tools Shah uses in personal interactions is active listening. By paying close attention to what someone says — and how they say it — he can spot inconsistencies or signs of discomfort that suggest deceit. Additionally, his ability to analyze non-verbal cues, such as body language and facial expressions, provides valuable insights into a person’s true feelings and intentions.

The Role of Technology in Nik Shah’s Approach

Nik Shah has mastered the art of combining human intuition with cutting-edge technology to enhance his truth-detection abilities. His use of artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and machine learning allows him to process vast amounts of information quickly and efficiently. This technological edge enables Shah to detect patterns and anomalies that would be impossible to spot through traditional methods alone.

For example, AI algorithms can analyze hundreds of hours of video footage or audio recordings to identify subtle cues that indicate deception. These tools are especially useful in high-stakes environments, where every detail matters, and speed is of the essence.

The Future of Truth Detection: What’s Next for Nik Shah?

As technology continues to evolve, so too does Nik Shah’s approach to truth detection. In the future, it’s likely that new technologies such as biometric sensors, advanced AI, and brainwave analysis will play an even greater role in detecting lies, fraud, and deceit. Shah is constantly exploring new advancements in these fields to stay ahead of the curve and provide even more effective solutions for his clients.

Whether through more sophisticated lie detection algorithms, real-time deception analysis, or new ways to interpret human behavior, the future of truth detection looks promising. For those who are seeking a reliable and accurate way to uncover deceit, Nik Shah remains at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field.

Conclusion: Trust Nik Shah to Detect Lying, Fraud, and Deceit

Nik Shah’s unique blend of psychological expertise, behavioral analysis, and cutting-edge technology makes him one of the most trusted names in detecting lying, fraud, and deceit. His methods are not only effective but also offer a deep understanding of the underlying causes of deception. Whether you are facing challenges in business, dealing with personal relationships, or looking to prevent fraud, Nik Shah’s insights can help you uncover the truth.

By using a combination of facial expression analysis, voice stress monitoring, polygraph testing, and psychological profiling, Nik Shah offers a comprehensive approach to detecting dishonesty in a variety of settings. His expertise can provide the clarity and certainty needed to navigate situations clouded by deception, ensuring that the truth prevails every time.

If you’re looking to uncover fraud or lies, trust in the methods that Nik Shah has perfected over the years. His ability to see through deception is unmatched, and his commitment to the truth ensures that you can make informed decisions based on solid evidence.

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➝ Higher and Lower Self Qualities. 🔑

A look at the qualities of the higher Self compared to the illusory self that is trapped in the fantasy of illusion, deceptions and lies that we falsely base our sense of self upon and construct our ego-personality-identity around.

Who are we truly?

Unless we understand who we really are we are going to remain largely powerless to make any lasting effective positive change. We have to understand what separates us from the higher aspects of ourselves.

Qualities of Higher Self

Attaining self-knowledge, self-realization and self-actualization is having come online and connected with higher levels of consciousness. It is breaking out of the mind control that keeps us in lower the vibratory state of mind and consciousness. The mind is the bridge between the body and spirit. The mind or consciousness is what comes closest to spirit.

The higher Self is non-dual in that it is only an expression of good. There is no evil existent at the highest frequency level of consciousness. Spirit is goodness, God is goodness, etc., and there is no evil present. It may not be clear yet, but by the end of the article you should understand the relation between what is right, good and true, and the higher Self, Spirit, etc. When we align, harmonize, unite, integrate and connect with the higher self then we also have a higher level of alignment with truth and expansion of consciousness. The more we and others expand and evolve consciousness, the less there will be of lies, deceptions and illusions for us to be attached to and divide us.

The higher Self exists in a domain of no separation. It is not the domain or realm of the physical reality. At a fundamental level, we are all made of the same thing (micro quantum domain of energy). At our macro level there is separation, but we should not let that separation become an obsession to the point of dominating and controlling other beings. At our macro level we all have interconnectedness. The poisonous ideologies of separation through illusions that bring harm to others are a symptom of not recognizing this interconnectedness and how we should treat other sentient beings. This is external non-duality of not letting the separation control our recognition of our connectivity. External non-duality is not the same as internal non-duality, and they both differ from the non-duality of the higher Self or Spirit. Blindly applying blanket definitions across all scales is not accurate. Non-duality is not simply a one-fit-all definition. The dualistic framework to provide us with an understanding is constructed with different properties and characteristic at these different levels.

A sovereign, self-actualized, self-realized, etc. being has aligned, harmonized and united their thoughts, emotions and actions as one. The three expressions of consciousness are non-contradictory, non-oppositional, consistent, coherent, integrated, etc. As we think, so we feel, and so we act. Thought and emotions are non-dual; knowing what is right is integrated with feeling what is right. Oppositional (Shatan) consciousness can have those two expressions in opposition, or they can be united and integrated but the action taken does not reflect the harmony of knowing and feeling what is right. Our actions betray what we know and feel to be right, betraying our minds and hearts. We choose to go against what is right, good and true because of some reason, excuse or justification. We are torn from within. We are not at one with ourselves, nor are we at one with the higher Self .

A true sovereign is a ruler of the kingdom of self. It is self-control over one’s own thoughts, emotions and actions. We are the operators of our physical vessel and we ultimately control what we think, feel and do. Uniting, harmonizing and integrating the tree aspects of consciousness will allow us to manifest at greater levels.

True freedom is the absence of self-created, self-imposed and self-inflicted suffering by one’s refusal to live in harmony with Natural Law principles. The true Self understand what true freedom is. The true Self works towards this goal of the great work, to achieve true freedom at all levels, not some foolish idea that the body doesn’t matter and only freedom of mind is required. Acceptance of this ideology kills the Sacred Masculine principle of self-defense whereby you stand down to slavery and do not take right-action in the physical world.

True freedom is freedom of the body, mind and spirit, not any New Age pseudo-spiritual nonsense of renouncing the body to focus on the spiritual. The true Self recognizes the interlinking necessity of the body, mind and spirit. To negate the importance of the body and the physical is the same as negating the importance of the soul or spirit, or outright denial that there is a spiritual domain/realm to our existence. Both of these negations are rooted in a hemispherical brain imbalance.

True freedom comes about when we truly connect with the higher Self. The spiritual higher Self can never buy into the bullshit we do on the plane of existence we operate in. Dark occultists are required to work on the realm of mind in order to physically enslave us because overt physical enslavement does not work. We have to buy into what they sell and choose to live the lies, deceptions and illusions on our own. That is how modern enslavement functions.

A sovereign, self-actualized and self-realized being has not only aligned, harmonized and united their thoughts, emotions and actions, but has also integrated, harmonized, united and aligned the trinity-as-one expressions of consciousness with what is right, good and true, which is Natural Law, higher Will, higher Self, Spirit, God, etc. Doing so will free us at the mental and physical levels from continuing to collectively co-create self-inflicted suffering. This is not individual non-attainment of personal desires that people view as “suffering”, or the generalized extreme of “physical life is suffering.” This is suffering that we all share on space-ship Earth as we are all in this together. This is the suffering of remaining attached to the lies, deceptions and illusions that prevents us from discovering, recognizing, acknowledging and aligning with Natural Law to no longer overstep the boundaries of what we have a right to do.

A true self-realized being embodies, becomes, aligns and unites with aspects or values of the higher Will and works to influence others to do the same. Mark Passio has referred to this type of person as a “Magician”. A “Sorcerer” is one who influences others to comply with their own selfish egoic will, which is what the dominators and controllers are doing. The higher Will/Self/Natural Law is the underlying intelligent principle that attempts to guide us in the right direction towards higher levels of expression. This is evolution in consciousness. The higher Will seeks to help us improve, better, change, heal, and grow, learn and mature. The guidelines of Natural Law are there to help us move towards evolution in higher consciousness.

A “Magician” practices alchemy (science and art of self-transformation) to attempt to help others move into harmony with higher Will/Natural Law. No one can do this transformative work for anyone else, but we can be an influence to assist in developing an understanding. We can understand and align with Natural Law principles and help others do the same by elaborating on the techniques we have used, by speaking the truth and letting them know we are the ones who can change our current condition. The more people embark on the True Great Work the easier it will be. As it stands, there are few who embody this unity consciousness and are taking what they know to other people. Many people are convinced there is no truth, no morality, no Natural Law governing our behavior, and believe in the legitimacy of man’s authority, i.e. slavery. We have a long road ahead of us.

The True Great Work starts with learning, understanding and aligning, harmonizing, integrating, etc. the higher Will/Self/Natural Law with our own individuated being. The next step of the True Great Work is to influence other minds that are at a lower level of consciousness by extending a helping hand to bring them up to a higher level of understanding. The person being assisted is the one who needs to develop the Care and Will to take the necessary steps towards self-knowledge themselves. The spark of Care, of inquiry and curiosity into the Truth has to come from them. They have to want to change, better, improve and heal themselves. The spark is currently so small or extinguished in many people.

Many believe there is no room for improvement from where they currently are. They believe they know all they need to know. They believe they don’t need to learn more. They believe they are perfect the way they are and no change is required. There is always room for improvement, every day, if we have the desire and develop the will to do so. Even if you think your life is perfect and there is no need to learn anything or improve anything, you are wrong and you are stuck in ego attachment to false beliefs. It reinforces your self-image, self-concept and self-perception that you are doing “good” and “right” with your life. That is just a comfortable thing to tell yourself in order for you to “feel-good” about your current condition and continue to accept it as is. “Look how great things are, don’t I feel so great about myself, I live in a perfect life, nothing needs to change, isn’t it so wonderful!”

Ignorance and apathy is the main reason for our current situation, the main reason why people do not see or understand what is going on. The old “I don’t know, and I don’t care.”

Another quality of the higher Self is the concern with the alleviation of suffering for all, not just one individuated unit of consciousness. We do not want ourselves to suffer, but the greater realization is that as long as any being suffers, we all suffer, because of our interconnectedness. If one experiences suffering of some degree, we all suffer to some degree.

We are connected. Connect comes from the Latin con: together, and nectare: bind. We are bound together. The only way out of this mess we collectively experience is change ourselves and reach enough people to have them understand the path we are taking is leading us over a cliff. Those who do not understand Natural Law principles or are trapped in ego are not connected at this level.

The higher Self understands that experiences manifested in reality are a combination of the deterministic principle which is Natural Law, in combination with the free will to live in harmony with those principles or to reject them. Natural law is not a controlling mechanism, but is there for our total freedom. Embracing that which we truly are as the higher Self, is embracing the higher Will and Natural Law, which is what is morally right, good and true. Rejection of natural law is rejecting what we are, our higher Self. The attachment to false beliefs and illusions we base our ego-personality-identity construct upon him us believing that we, or groups of individuals, are the law. The calcified ego wants to be the authority, it wants to be God. Some people are so disconnected that they think they are God.

A sovereign, self-realized being aligned and united with aspects of the higher Self uses the mind in conjunction with the body to make use of all of the individuals faculties. The being holistically unites the mind, body and spirit. Holistic care develops when connection and alignment with the true higher self is present. The mind, heart and guts are represented by the third eye chakra, the heart chakra and the solar plexus chakra, and when activated become true intelligence, true care, and true courage or true willpower. These are the three components within us we need to develop in order to affect positive change. Succumbing to ignorance (lack of intelligence), apathy (lack of care), cowardice (lack of courage) and laziness (lack of will), will not result in any change for the better.

The true Self, being what is right, good and true, encourages the destructive process of truth in shattering, destroying and breaking down the lies, deceptions and illusions of institutionalized belief systems. Erroneous belief systems are all forms of mind control. They exist to control the thought patterns of any adherent, such that the meme or ideology that they represent is protected and perpetuated by having behaviors and actions manifested into reality that are based on those erroneous belief systems.

The extent to which we are connected or not connected with the higher Self determines the extent to which we are identified with and working in institutionalized belief systems. Most people cannot handle hearing this. They want to be told what they want to hear in order to make them “feel-good” about themselves, their choices and current condition in life. This is especially true for the “New Agers” who already believe themselves to be connected to the higher Self. They want to hear how they are a good person no matter what they do. They do not want to hear that although they do some good on some level, they are ultimately participating in and perpetuating an institution of control.

Institutions are by definition hierarchically structured and compartmentalized. Then he people do their job without knowing what other people’s job is and not have a holistic picture of the true machinations of what an institution does. Financial institutions, scientific research institutions, government institutions, religious institutions, “security” institutions, media institutions, educational institutions, corporate institutions, and so-called healthcare institutions are all structured to have ranks. They are about control and subservience, control of those below and subservience to those above. Institutionalized belief systems perpetuate the force of fear. Someone or a group of people were in fear of something, they needed to do something about it, and they proposed the solution of a monolithic structure that will control a certain aspect of reality. That decision-making process is based in fear.

The true Self will seek to break down the walls, barriers and structures that divide us and keep us chained in fear and lower levels of consciousness in an effort to have us a line with our truer potential. The lower self

The calcified ego-personality-identity construct is trapped in identification with the roles that it plays. It does not recognize the actual interconnectedness with our reality. It only looks at the physical and sees everything is completely separate. A left brain imbalance leads one to believe we are completely separate and everything operates like a machine and there is no underlying consciousness involved. A right brain imbalance engenders a belief in no free will over what is happening and nothing can change because God is in control of everything. Both worldviews reflect a calcified ego in internal confusion due to lack of understanding truth.

Many people say they have morals, but when push comes to shove, they do not have true morals and are only concerned with their own lower self’s level of comfort or their immediate family. Many people also have no concern and do not care about being connected with the qualities of true intelligence, true care, true courage and true will. These qualities are insignificant for someone trapped in ego identification. They have most likely no idea what these terms mean. Many people also have not even heard of the word consciousness. They are concerned with their physical survival and daily operations in life. Consciousness and spiritual concepts have no significance for them. “What is happening to other people is happening to them and not me, all I need to worry about is my own comfort and my own survival and those of my family and others close to me.” This is a person trapped in illusion, believing in fantasy, and buying into lies about who they really are.

Know thyself. Someone trapped in the various illusions that others have constructed is under mind control and has no true concept of the true Self, higher Self, higher Will and Natural Law. Knowing the self in the mystery school traditions was to know who you are at a higher level of self-knowledge, but also to understand self-knowledge of our psychology and physiology, how energy works throughout the body, and how to take care of the vessel that hosts our consciousness

Mind control is everywhere on the planet. To come out of mind control is marvelous, magnificent and miraculous and should not be understated. Much credit is deserved to everyone who has come out of this lower modality of consciousness and has bettered, improved, changed and raised themselves to higher levels of being in alignment with the rightness, goodness and truth of Natural Law.

The lower self cannot envision true freedom from within its calcified state. There are people who are interested in more control. They may want to have more money or more of something else, so that once they have that something; they can do the thing they want to do. Money is not the solution. Money is mine control. Those trapped in a left brain imbalance have a propensity to gather information and understand concepts that others don’t, and then use that information for selfish reasons to influence and manipulate people into doing what they want them to do, such as to buy a particular product. There is information and techniques of influence to further their agenda and their lower self-serving egoic will.

As long as a calcified ego is getting what it wants from an institutional belief system, it doesn’t care what happens to others a result of the perpetuation of that system. “Someone else is suffering as a result of what the institution does, but that is not me so I don’t care.” Many people in the freedom movement do not have a higher level of consciousness than this yet. They say they want true freedom but are doing something that is helping to create and perpetuate the opposite dynamic of what they profess they want to manifest because they are still working amongst institutions and corporations.

Not many people want to hear this, not many people can handle hearing this. The truth can be uncomfortable, harsh and ugly. Once we come out of the corner we have wedged ourselves into we will notice the truth is not horrifying, depressing or negative, but is actually uplifting and empowering. The truth in its entire splendor, beauty and horror, positive and negative, is there for the self-betterment of our lower self. If we get connected and align to the higher Self then the lower self will improve its condition by understanding and coming into harmony with higher levels of conscious expression.

Our task is to understand how things fit together so that we come to a level of consciousness where we can be of help and service to others. We can all fall prey to hating what many people do in this world. We can try to help them reach a connection with the true Self and help transmute their behaviors by our Care for them to become their truer selves.

When we understand that our truer self comes into being with greater degrees of alignment with the higher Self, higher Will, Natural Law, Spirit, God, etc., we understand that it is becoming, embodying and uniting with rightness, goodness and truth. The higher Self is goodness, rightness and truth. This all comes down to truth. Truth is what is the most important to reach anything good, prosperous, beneficial, uplifting, etc. Just as we can align our perceptions with reality to understand more, the same can be done to align ourselves with the higher Self, higher Will, Natural Law, and that is what is right, good and true.

Here is the part people will really not want to hear. When someone speaks the truth to you that you may not want to hear, which may be uncomfortable, hurtful, harsh, unpleasant, etc., and you feel insulted, offended, guilty, shameful, etc., this is necessary for your positive development towards alignment with higher Self, with what is right, good and TRUE! These emotions are your compass in life giving you a signal that you need to pay attention to. It is a warning of something not right. Something may be not right with the world that you don’t want to face, or a part of yourself you don’t want to face.

Alignment with truth requires truth! The person speaking truth is speaking truth, not lies. The insult, offense, shame, guilt, etc. that you feel is generated by yourself. In your refusal to align with truth, you have aligned with falsity, lies, deceptions and illusions. When you refuse truth, you refuse the higher Self, higher Will, Natural Law, Spirit, God, etc. You insult yourself! The causal factor for why you are feeling what you are feeling is because you previously refused truth, accepted lies, and are living, being and embodying what is not true. You insult yourself by aligning with untruth. So the next time you get mad at someone for speaking a truth you don’t want to hear, take some introspection time and try to figure out why (the actual root causal factor) those feelings are being generated. The finger needs to point inward.

A question to ask is: how much do I value truth in my life?

Attachment to an erroneous belief construct used as a form of identification, self-image, self-worth, purpose, meaning, etc., is a deeply ingrained condition of the current human psyche. We identify who we are with roles we engage in. A standard topic brought in when meeting someone new is to ask them what they do, their job, where they live, etc. We are identifying with the lower physical self and always talking about physical occupancy matters or daily living and not much of any real substance such as deeper aspects of consciousness. We do this because many of us orient our lives around roles we identify with.

We think we are a teacher, a cop, a nurse, a CEO, a military officer, a politician, and that is our title. We do this career for a long time until we eventually retire. While we are doing it, we identify with it, and become attached to that thing we do. We are doing certain things, but it is not the totality of who we are. Identification with these illusions as defining who are in life is ego based identification because it is focusing on the physical self and false belief constructs that we base our ways of living upon in the physical material world. We defend, excuse, and justify many things we identify with regardless of whether those identifications are accurate, right, good and true or false, bad, wrong and inaccurate.

Our careers, companies, bosses, family, governments, nations, countries, sports teams, celebrities, religions, fashions, etc. are all examples of illusory belief systems people put their time and energy into and associate and correspond with an aspect of their identity and sense of self. We can be putting our time and energy into things that would actually produce positive results we all want that are in alignment with what is right, good and true when we understand the root causal factors and nature of the problem in order not to produce the same results. The current ways of living we choose to engage in are not conducive to what we truly want, but we continue to do the same things anyways.

Popular literature wants to convince people that they have to kill their ego, abandon it, cast it aside, etc. This view comes from seeing the ego as negative without any positive aspects. The negative ego attachments are what need to be cast aside because they are based on illusions, deceptions and lies. We all have an ego. What purpose does the conception we define as the ego serve? Our sense of ‘I’ is our ego-personality-identity construct. The ego is a tool at our disposal for interaction with the physical reality we exist in. The ego also concerns itself with self-preservation of the organism, survival, defense, etc.

For example, if we were to walk through a forest and a tree branch breaks above us and is falling towards us. Our ego, our sense of me-ness and other-ness enables us to distinguish the difference between ourselves and the various aspects of our environment. Without our ability to discern, identify, connect and separate, we would not recognize the other tree branch and it would fall on our heads. The ego is a tool for living in reality that allows us to see ourselves apart from the rest of reality. This way I can dress myself, feed myself, and live instead of being unable to interact with my enlivenment due to a lack of discernment of not being able to see myself apart from the rest of what ‘is’.

Separation, distinction, etc. are also regarded in a complete negative light by many popularizers of New Age pseudo-spirituality. We are free to see the separation, difference, distinction, etc. that exists because everything in universe has varying degrees of comparative similarity and difference. The issue with distinction, difference, etc. is when that becomes the focus in life and one is ruled by them instead of simply recognizing them as extant. Focusing and being ruled by the differences in all that ‘is’ can lead to great negative consequences such as those in our past and present who seek to control and dominate others. We are free to recognize distinction and similarity.

The comparisons that help determine the distinction, difference, sameness, similarity, etc. between various aspects of universe are often avoided by those who fear the negatives that can arise. The negative that can arise from comparison, distinction, ego, identity, etc. is not the fault of the tool at our availability. The negative that can arise from improperly using a tool lies in our hands. We are the ones acting, doing, and putting energy into a particular tool. We are the ones that determine how the tool is used. We are the ones who use specific tools for specific circumstances. We can learn how to use a tool correctly, accurately, properly, etc. Through our ignorance we use a tool ineffectively by not knowing all that it can do for us and all it cannot do for us, how it works, where to use it, when to use it, and what to use it on. Trying to hammer in a nail with a screw gun doesn’t work. Trying to screw in a screw with a hammer doesn’t work. Failure to us a tool effectively is our issue, our fault, not the tool’s fault that is here to help us perform certain functions.

Our failure to understand aspects of reality and ourselves (tools) is the reason we are not engaging, interacting and manifesting what we really want. What we really want, even if our ego-personality-identity selves are not aware of it at our particular levels of consciousness, is to be in alignment with our Higher Self and Higher Will, which is what is right, good and true. Ignorance of ourselves, our internal and external tools to operate in physical reality, is why we are where we are. It is the reason we walk false paths that are not more in alignment with Higher Will, Higher Self, goodness, rightness and trueness.

Currently, separation and difference rule many hearts and minds. This results in conflict, domination, control, etc. We are the ones who are creating the cultures we live in by choosing to exhibit certain actions, behaviors, habits, etc. As we are born, we are immersed into our environments of family, society, culture, etc. and we begin to accept and reject certain influences that act upon us through our interaction with our environment. This is how our ego-personality-identity construct comes into being. Our egos, personalities, identities get constructed primarily in our early years and become difficult to change later on. This conditioning and programming is written not by us but by all the influences we experience that shape us in our formative years. We pick role models, movies, music, books, sports, dance, etc. and build a self-concept out of them. We identify with certain things more strongly than others, while others are sometimes strongly opposed. Those aspects we take into ourselves and identify with the most are usually and unfortunately those false belief constructs and illusions (because they are so prevalent) that prevent us from learning more about who we truly are, from self-knowledge, self-realization, self-actualization, etc.

Self-knowledge, self-realization, etc. is also about self-control. This is dominion over ourselves and sovereignty, instead of being ruled by something else. Desires, likes, and attachments develop that can rule us if we do not have the self -control, self-discipline, etc. No control over our attachments has those attachments ruling over us. Our ego can similarly lack self-control and rule instead of being a tool for our use. Understanding the distinction between our physical body along with our ego-personality-identity construct, and the higher Self and Will of higher-level awareness, allows us to release our attachments to false beliefs in illusions we base our identity, ego, self-concept, etc. upon and bring ourselves into greater alignment with sovereignty, self-dominion, etc. We can develop the courage and will to actively choose to change how we express our consciousness, to change who we are. It is a big task, but there are many people who have altered their habits and behavioral programming to become better versions of who they want to be.

The ego also protects us from dangers encountered in our experiences, such as a predator or dangerous object in the physical world or perceptions of being attacked by others that promote defensive responses. Currently, it seems the protective tool has usurped the entirety of the self to keep our consciousness in lower base modalities of being and expression. Perpetual conditions of survival keep the consciousness in a lower state of self-preservation in the physical world where the ego self will dominate over our capacity to align with the higher Self. When survival and self-preservation are the dominant way of life, energy, thinking, acting and living is directed towards maintaining an existence.

Satanism holds self-preservation as its central tenant. Survival is the most important law. You can do whatever you want to “better” your position of survival in society. This is Social Darwinism. Lift yourself up no matter who you step on to get there because you have to make sure you get to survive by being on top, screw the rest, that’s life. This thinking is based in the fear of death. They need to maximize their rate of survival through control, domination, exploitation, etc. in order to determine and often create the outcome they desire so that they are already in control of it when it comes into being. Recognizing the cycle of life to get past the fear of death and overcome identification with self-preservation leads to higher levels of consciousness.

There’s nothing wrong with ego and its ability to discern distinction and separateness, and sameness and unity. The ability to differentiate also allows us to see the similarities between things as well as their differences as opposed to seeing everything as one big web of energy where there is no distinction whatsoever. Like a hammer, it has applicability and needs to be used within the design parameters it was intended for. Compared to a hammer, we are now using a hammer to open doors and screwing screws and change tires and it’s not working. The fear of survival and exclusive perception with separation to promote survival and control is the issue. The out-of-control hammer doing things it shouldn’t just like the ego is doing things and taking control of things it shouldn’t.

We can discover our higher Self, higher Will and Universal Cosmic Natural Moral Law from our current condition by shattering the barriers we ourselves have erected, put there by institutions around us, the generations before us, and the very system we live under. The system is perpetuated and fed by us and those before us who subscribe to the systems of belief that enable it. Our higher goals of peace, freedom, etc. are not being attained because we do not understand Natural Law and keep creating more self-inflicted suffering on the general worldwide scale.

The various forms of ego identification have us attached to many illusions and false beliefs. The illusions in the system are an extension of our identification with self-preservation. We think nature belongs to us and the whole system is there for us to achieve whatever we want. Conquest and exploitation is the general worldview of many people. We are actually a part of nature. Nature is not a dead mechanism for us to exploit. We are all on spaceship earth. To think one part of the body can harm another and get away with it for long is ludicrous.

Instead of attachment to illusions that are negative, disempower and harm us, we can align with what is right, good, true, positive and empowering. We can replace attachment to what produces negative results to attachment to what produces positive results.

Attachment to the physical body can be used to inform people about the health problems they may be unaware of. Attachment to money can be used to inform someone about the exploitive nature of the monetary system, or possibilities of free energy can be introduced since that would reduce the need to pay for an aspect of our lives we are accustomed to. But their attachment to certain ways of seeing things can also prevent them from perceiving the truth about what they are attached to.

Our attachments need to be recognized, identified, and worked with so that we can choose to de-identify and detach from what disempowers and brings us negative results we do not want, and instead align with real things that truly empower us to manifest what we say we want.

Admitting our mistakes and wrongdoings is very difficult at times. Abusers of intoxicating substances have trouble admitting their situation, imagine how hard it can be for someone to confront and acknowledge that their worldview is not based upon what is true. This is extremely difficult because our worldview is a part of our conception of reality. Reevaluating our sense of reality takes a lot of work, energy and courage. Most people prefer to adhere and remain attached to their sense of reality because it is much easier and comforting than to have one’s reality shattered into pieces. As uncomfortable and lost one may temporarily feel in this state, admitting wrong and destroying the lies we base our lives upon is necessary in order to align our perceptions with reality and rebuild ourselves and our view of the world in alignment with what is right, good and true instead of blindly and tacitly accepting what we are told to be true.

The calcified rigidity of the ego and its attachment to currently accepted modalities of living and being prevents an honest perception and appraisal of reality. Everyone who accepts, promotes, perpetuates, supports, etc. any institutionalized system (government, religion, police, military, etc.) is locked into ego identification.

Here is an example of how ego identification prevents someone from recognizing the truth by continuously engaging in excuses, justifications and defensive rationalizations in order to maintain attachment to their perception of reality and their self-perception, self-image, self-concept, etc. of seeing themselves as being “good”. A teacher would defend the institution of so-called education because they are involved in that institution. A government official or employee would defend government because they are engaged in its functionality and perpetuation. Perceiving reality honestly is not possible due to the blinding effect attachment with identity has. Through association, participation, correlation, etc. the person identifies an aspect of who they are with this role they have chosen to engage in. They view any negative portrayal of the institution they are a part of as a negative portrayal of themselves to which the ego-personality-identity construct views as an attack on a component of the structure of who they are. If the institution is engaging in wrongdoings and they support and perpetuate the existence of that institution that means they are engaging in wrongdoings which they cannot accept and admit to. Their self-concept is that they are not someone who does wrong but of someone who is a “good” person.

We are often blinded from seeing the truth of the illusions, deceptions and lies we have bought into because we have correlated and identified ourselves with them. Information is coming in that threatens to shatter our construct of reality, which threatens to shatter how we think of ourselves, and it makes us feel uncomfortable about ourselves. This information forces a reevaluation that many people are not willing to face. The process of cognitive dissonance emerges to deal with information that we perceive threatens us. We convince ourselves to accept what we wish and want to believe to be true and essentially deceive and delude ourselves into living in a pseudo-reality of illusions. Attachment to illusions we base our sense of self upon keeps us in denial and avoidance, making excuses, justifications, and defensive rationalizations to maintain the viability in continued acceptance and attachment to the lies we choose to buy into.

The roles we engage in are a part of who we are and we are responsible for what we choose to do in our lives, how we choose to live, etc. Engaging in false beliefs of illusions, deceptions, lies, etc. that have us creating our own suffering is our choice. We can remain ignorant of how all of this functions or we can educate ourselves out of the darkness and seek the light of truth to show us how wrong and misguided we are so that we can correct our misaligned paths and get back on track. Attachment to negative/illusory modalities of consciousness, being, living, etc. does not put us in contact with truth, good, right, Natural Law and our higher Self/Will.

The ego-personality-identity construct, having identified and attached to illusory false beliefs, is a principal force that prevents people from looking at the truth. The evidence is all around but it will not be accepted because of how it conflicts with currently comfortable, accepted and entrenched ways of living. The refusal to accept the truth is the refusal to accept who we really are and who we can be in alignment with the higher Self and higher Will of Universal Cosmic Natural Moral Law.

We can learn. We can come to greater degrees of accurately understanding various truths. We may not be able to understand the totality of everything, or what some may refer to as the “mind of God”, but that recognition is not an excuse or justification to stop us from pursuing and empowering ourselves through attainment of truth. Negative ego attachment has people believing whatever they want to believe and thinking they already know everything they need to know to get by in life, not needing to learn anything new from anyone else.

We can admit we don’t know just as we can admit we are wrong. Elevating and evolving our consciousness by getting over ourselves and our attachment to false identity constructs allows us to recognize just how fooled and wrong we were and how much we don’t know. We can begin to seriously question and look into who am I apart from these illusions I based my identity upon? Our cups were formerly filled with illusions we maintained steadfast attachment to, but now that they have been emptied to a certain extent we can reconstruct our understanding of who we are. Emptying the cup begins with admitting we are wrong and we don’t know. Gaining an accurate understanding of who we are can be done. People have and continue to understand the true psychology of how we function and who we are. We can’t simply adopt another belief or faith. We need to learn and validate things through our own understanding to determine whether it is true or not. We can learn from others who have changed themselves into greater alignment with what is good, right and true and see that process of change work in our own lives.

The attachment to identity is very strong. We all want to have a secure conception of ourselves that we are comfortable with to get us through life. Releasing attachment to the importance of having a happy feel-good comfortable self-image is empowering because it allows us to face the truth in all its beauty and horror, negative and positive, light and dark instead of burying our heads in the sand trying to sustain a self-deceptive delusion of ourselves to validate the current condition and not need to take the time, energy and effort to change anything. Freedom from the illusions we base our false identity upon is possible if we choose to understand ourselves more. We can face reality and ourselves in full honesty and self-respect to see the truth of our shadow, darkness, demon, and negative. Through recognition of the causal factors that create our collective self-inflicted suffering we can have the courage to develop the will to evolve, change, heal, purify, sublimate and transmute ourselves in alignment, harmony and unison with what is right, good and true, with Universal Cosmic Natural Moral Law, the higher Self and higher Will.

One of the scariest positions to be in is not knowing who we are. We are so identified with the physical and the correlations and associations between ourselves and everything else that when our connection to identifying with something else is broken, shattered, dissolved, etc., we find ourselves without the previous identifier to give us an anchor for understanding how we think of ourselves. It leads to an identity crisis. There is a big ball of uncertainty inside. We then feel lost. Feeling lost and not knowing who we are is an important step towards learning the truth about ourselves and letting go of deceptions. I may not know everything about myself, but I have learned a great deal about who and what I am not, and have let go of those attachments to illusions I had my sense of self tied to. It has been and continues to be very liberating.

Attachment to Institutional Belief Systems

A subset of the belief systems we get attached to and base aspects of our identity upon, are the institutions that relate to them. There are specific institutions that sustain, promote and often control the belief systems they are based upon. Banking controls the monetary system. Religion controls a spiritual aspect. Corporations control businesses that produce and service. Education controls what people learn. Marriage controls how couples live within the system. The medical establishment controls our health. And government controls many aspects of how our lives function. Ultimately, we are the ones who control it all by choosing to give power to the belief that they need to exist, and give our energy and time towards maintaining their existence.

The institutions shape our way of thinking and we in turn perpetuate and protect them through our identification. The belief system or ideology will continue as long as the institution and people supporting it continue to promote and perpetuate the false notions that pretend to be philosophies. To bring about lasting effective change we really want to have, requires detachment and dissolution of these deceptions and illusions we have bought into and given power to.

Many people require a great shift in consciousness. To think one can effect real lasting change within an institution of the system, is not to understand what is happening. The system is what keeps things this way. As long as we support, consent and participate in the sustainment and perpetuation of these institutions they will continue to exercise varying degrees of control and influence over our lives.

Most of us have many boxes of identification based on various belief systems, not based in truth. When our sense of “I”, and who we are is based on these deceptions and lies, it leads us astray. The sense of “I” gets calcified, and concretized, into a specific program ,or condition, constructed from the many boxes we accept as true and identify with. The “I’ in this solidified state becomes an ego that believes whatever it wants to, in order to substantiate a particular belief or makes it feel-good about itself. The ego has a hard time saying “I am or was wrong”, in order to learn from mistakes and change.

When we have our initial awakening to awaken, revive and resurrect Care out of the grave of apathy, and choose to seek knowledge instead of remaining in ignorance, we think we can get others to understand what we understand by simply presenting them with the same information we came across. We think the facts will speak for themselves and people will be willing to see the truth or look into it further for themselves. But this seldom happens due to the ego-personality-identity conditioning we are immersed into all of our lives. People are attached to a certain way of seeing the world and themselves in it. We accept certain things and maintain their viability in order to maintain our own identities that are based on the prior acceptance. Admitting wrong is very difficult when it will force us to reevaluate and change how we perceive many things in order to make sense of it all again. The inability to learn from mistakes keeps consciousness in a low modality of being where lies and deceptions are held onto as accurate perceptions of reality. Giving up the attachment to hardened beliefs can be too painful or dissonant to go through. Instead of reassessing our worldview to align our perceptions with reality, truth and what ‘is’, cognitive dissonance has us holding onto our current delusion and entrenching it deeper into the clasps of our ego. Our sense of “I”, the ego, holds on so tight that we become more attached to the illusions as part of who we are, instead of recognizing the deceptions for the lies they are.

Distinguishing truth from falsehood is necessary to increase, expand and evolve conscious awareness of reality. The inability to differentiate truth from lies, right from wrong, is why we continue to create self-inflicted suffering in general. It is the reason we fail to understand the root causal factors to why we have arrived at our current condition. Failure to understand the nature of the problem, and instead applying band-aids to the effects is like cutting at the leaves of the tree of evil instead of targeting the roots to prevent the evil from regrowing in our lives. The whole illusion of change within the system plays upon the desire for immediate change within existing structures and constructs of living that are familiar and comfortable. Rearranging the chairs on a sinking ship won’t do anything. The system wants people to believe they can rearrange things, cut away leaves and branches that get too deformed and corrupted in a vain fantasy, that next time the branches and leaves won’t be a part of the problem. Next time they grow, they won’t be a part of the tree of evil.

Many of us recognize the need for things to change, but unless we understand the causal factors, we are just banging on a screen, hoping for change, because we don’t like what we see. Action is required to change things, but Right-Action, not action taken without knowing the root causal factors of why and how our current condition has manifested. Acting ignorantly will most likely have us repeating the same mistakes because we have not truly understood the nature of the problem. Things will not change until each one of us changes. We are collectively choosing how to live our lives and each of us has an effect on the other.

As more people learn to unify their thoughts, emotions and actions, as they express their consciousness, as more people choose to align with what is right, good, true and in harmony with Natural Law, we will reach a critical mass where our New Way of living will become the overarching general common way of living. Discovering, recognizing, understanding and uniting with the principles of Natural Law, will bring about freedom, peace and order. Chaos is created by trying to externally control the free will of others who are not violating Natural Law. The external control is a result of ignorance and confusion, which all stem from fear.

The imbalances in our consciousness relate to our use of imagination. If we are left brain imbalanced and have a heavy materialistic physical identification, we can become locked into linear modalities of thought. Today was like yesterday, tomorrow will be like today, and each day will always be the same, nothing can really change, we are powerless, etc. This is a form victimization and learned helplessness. This is also the lack of imaginative potential. The right brain imbalanced modalities of thought can produce excessive imagination where anything and everything is possible and sought after, without critical thinking and discernment as to the likelihood or probability for the possibilities to occur. Imagination makes it possible to see what can be, to envision difference from what currently is, and understand that things do not have to be as they currently are.

There are results and consequences for our actions. We are accountable for the choices and decisions that result in specific actions and behaviors we take to manifest in the world. Cause and effect interconnects many things. What everyone else is doing affects what we do, and we are a part of the “everyone else” that affects each other individual. We are all engaging in choosing what way of life we lead collectively, and will collectively feel the consequences of negative actions applied on such a large scale. Everything we do adds up to a “quantum” (amount) effect of resulting in what we collectively experience as daily living conditions and acceptable ways of being.

The consequences and suffering for maintaining allegiance and attachment to the illusions, deceptions and lies we believe in, will continue to be felt until we recognize why and how we keep getting what we don’t want. It is possible it will require chaos and much more suffering before people will snap out of the fantasy dream they have bought into. Most people are so trapped in various barriers to self-knowledge, self-realization, consciousness, etc., living out conditioned paths with predetermined restricted choices to ensure certain outcomes within acceptable limits and margins of error or deviance to the established program of life. Things keep marching forward in the direction of those who influence our minds and exercise certain amounts of control over our lives, the direction of institutions and various belief systems.

When we realize things are not right and things need to change, we need to delve into and discover the truth, no matter how dark are uncomfortable it is. By understanding the truth we will understand what needs to change to produce what we want. There are requirements to producing certain results. Certain actions or causes are required to produce specific effects. If we don’t want to suffer, but be happy and free, then we need to engage in certain modalities of being in order to produce that reality. We can be truly free, but it requires energy and effort on all of our parts. It doesn’t just happen on its own, willy-nilly. We can continue to be as we are and continue to perpetuate this condition, or we can learn to change and better the collective general condition of humanity. If we state we want to be free, then we shouldn’t be creating controlling institutions that are antithetical to freedom. We state certain goals for life, but due to ignorance of the causal factors of our current condition, we fail to understand the nature of the problem and are not in a position to be able to remove the true cause of the problems to produce what we want instead of what we don’t want.

We are mostly ignorant of how to create those positive things we want. We continue to engage in modalities of being that will not produce those things. We don’t want to admit we don’t know and are wrong. We don’t want to learn. We say we don’t like what is going on, there’s nothing we can do about it, that it can’t be changed, or act in preconditioned limited choice paths that give the illusion of changing things while actually perpetuating what we don’t want. Few of us are willing to face the truth, and to change and align, harmonize, and unite with the principle of Truth and Universal Cosmic Natural Moral Law, and then also few of those who do actually are willing to spread the word and teach others what they have learned. This failure to learn Natural Law and spread an understanding of it, is why we are here. We are steadfast rolling down towards a condition of living where Right-Action will be disregarded in favor of the mindset of control, domination, etc., as prescribed and ordered by man’s law.

Institutional belief systems are shared amongst many people that act in certain ways that are conducive with the goals of the institutions. The belief is so ingrained in the modalities of consciousness of people in society, that no one questions why the various institutions exist, but are simply believed in unquestioningly. People lack the imagination required to see how we can possibly live, and in better conditions, without the controlling institutions in our lives. Believing in institutions, mind controls someone into thinking things cannot be another way.

Any adherence to the validity of institutional belief systems, is a result of mind control. Mind control is what keeps people under the thinking and belief that the intuitions are necessary and must exist. “Why… without institutions our world would descend into chaos and destruction!” The extermination of the imagination to fail to envision anything being different, is mind control. We are convinced institutions are required to continue taking the actions they take, otherwise chaos would emerge.

In English, the word ‘institution’ has another meaning, of being “committed to an institution”, committed to an insane asylum. In reality, when one is committed to and believes in an institution of the system, they are walking the path of insanity by following, subscribing and supporting something based in lies, deceptions and illusions. Belief in lies, deceptions and illusions invariably creates schisms in the mind, psyche and consciousness. Being “committed to an institution” of the system and being “committed to an institution” for mental healing, are indeed linked in truth. The former institutions are what create breaks from reality by adherence to lies, deceptions and illusions, while the latter institutions are allegedly there to heal us from the condition induced by the former. If you are “committed to an institution” of the system, you become invariably “committed to an institution” of insanity (untruth) and eventually will need to heal from that poisoned state of mind.

When a criticism, attack or dissolution of lies, deception and illusions is engaged in, someone who adheres and is attached to this erroneous belief they hold sacred, will see this as an attack on their own identity. If the institution is doing wrong, and you are a part of it, what does that mean for you? You have to reevaluate what you are doing with your time, attention and energy, and figure out if what you think you understand is accurate or not.

We don’t understand ourselves. We don’t want to understand. We want to waste time on watching sports, reality shows, playing games, concerts, drinking beer, taking drugs, escaping from the reality around us and submerge ourselves into something that targets a sensory perception for us to be aesthetically drawn towards in an effort to engage in frivolous pursuits of pleasure gratification. The pleasure principle rules our lives without our attention to the consequences of these pleasure driven choices and actions.

For those that do care to seek and learn about truth and themselves, this information will assist in serving that purpose. Spreading the truth is the force of Love. Not watered down Truth or compromised in any way, but straightforward, forthright and honest Truth. Facing the hard-truths again and again helps to break down the barriers to conscious awareness and expansion. None of the truth anyone expresses is theirs to command and own. Truth belongs to no one in particular. We can all discover and find aspects of truth if we take the time, effort and energy to do so. There are no gurus, advisors, leaders, etc. We need to be those things to ourselves. We can all be teachers. Elevating oneself with an illusory identity title to hold above others as some form of authority, is another ego trap.

When we engage in the roles of institutions, we identify with the roles we play. We don’t want to believe our involvement in institutions participates in perpetuating a negative condition. We don’t want to accept the harm we are a part of. People want to believe what they are doing is right and not wrong, “good” and not “bad”. They don’t want to face the facts they are involved in something wrong, that they are a part of what creates the negative and wrong by simply being a part of it. People want to do “good”, and convince themselves that all they need is the intent and thought to do “good” in a controlled, hierarchical and compartmentalized institution that creates the opposite, evil. We will never be able to effect real positive lasting change at a higher level as long as we are working with institutions and erroneous belief systems.

Staying within the confines and boxes of institutional belief systems, is not walking the spiritual path of truth to gain greater understanding. Many people are very satisfied with the explanations and answers given to them in life, they do not seek or question further. Some people never start the journey. They stay on the ground and toe the line, walking the preselected conditioned paths/choices set before them. They are uninitiated, unawakened and never start the journey or path. Other’s do start, but become tent-pitchers deciding they have gone far enough and don’t need to go any further. The path is scary and uncomfortable to go on further than where they currently are. They turn to the preselected conditioned paths set out before us, and engage in the institutions, thinking they will promote “good” this way.

Many people think they will vote the world into changing. As if no one needs to think for themselves and be responsible for their own lives; we just need to keep abdicating our personal responsibility and choose to have someone else represent us in life. We just give up our power and decision making ability for our own behaviors to live in harmony, alignment and unison with Natural Law, and instead have someone else decide for us what we can and can’t do. To control us, because we don’t want to control ourselves, because we don’t want to be masters of ourselves, because we don’t want to become true sovereigns united within ourselves and united with what is right, good and true. Only wrongness, badness and chaos can come about through this process of trying to give away something granted to each of us. Free will choice and personal responsibility for the actions we choose to engage in are the ways in which we gain Truth, Love, Freedom and Peace. Giving over these powerful capacities we have, is to give away ownership of ourselves.

Until we learn how to be responsible for our choices and actions in alignment with Natural Law, we will keep repeating the same mistakes and creating more collective self-inflicted suffering through our choice to be ignorant, apathetic, lazy cowards, living in a trance-like fantasy reality. We need to admit wrong so that we can learn how to solve our problems and get things right. We can’t force anyone to change their way of thinking, but we can influence others to help them gain an understanding of the many truths, so that they may in turn choose to change themselves in alignment with it. Most people are trapped in ego-personality-identity correlations with lies. Perhaps an increase in negative results for everyone (chaos) will bring us to a point of realization, to accept we are the problem, and point the finger at ourselves, to realize that thinking the same ways and doing the same things will not achieve the expected different results than what we are currently getting. In the end, institutions fool us and destroy consciousness.

We can become conscious co-creators of our collective shared existence, instead of unconscious co-creators following the predetermined, preselected and limited plans, paths and choices set before us by others who wish to channel our energy into vehicles of their choosing. We can choose one thing from the many possibilities. This is what discernment, differentiation, evaluation, judgment, etc. are for. The tools we have access to function properly and accurately depending on our knowledge, and previous use of the tool, to improve our understanding and ability to use the tool. The more we use something, the better we get at it. Discernment, evaluation, judgment, etc. are about learning what we need to do to create a certain result we want to achieve. If we want a different result, we need to choose a different action.

Be the change we want to see in the world. To create a better world we have to be-come and be better versions of ourselves. Many people focus on wanting something to achieve a particular desired condition. We want happiness, so we think we need to “do” something in the world which will allow us to “have” something, and once we have done or acquired this something, then we will “be” happy. “Do, have, be” is not very effective. Instead, if we choose to “be” a certain way, that is to embody and become certain expressions of consciousness, then we will recognize the conditions to “have” what we need and “do” what we want to do. To be and become, embody, align, harmonize, etc. more with one polarity, than the other, involves doing work on ourselves. In effect, being is indeed doing, and doing is an aspect of being. It may be confusing at first to grasp, but the distinction is with focusing on the order and the level.The Do-Have-Be is from the external to the internal. Be/Do-Have is working from the internal to the external.

Continue here: https://thegreatwork208716197.wordpress.com/2024/01/20/higher-and-lower-self-qualities/

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Decoding the Serial Dater: Spotting the Signs and Safeguarding Your Heart

Dating can be a thrilling adventure, but it can also be a minefield of potential pitfalls. One such pitfall is the serial dater – someone who seems to constantly be on the hunt for their next conquest. While there's nothing inherently wrong with dating multiple people at once, a serial dater's behavior can often be manipulative and emotionally draining.

So, how can you spot a serial dater?

Here are a few key signs:

The Love Bombing Expert: Serial daters are often skilled at love bombing. They shower you with affection, compliments, and grand gestures early on in the relationship. However, this intense affection often fades quickly, leaving you feeling confused and disappointed.

The Master of Disappearing Acts: They may be hot and cold, disappearing for days or weeks at a time without explanation. When they do return, they often have a plausible excuse or blame external factors for their absence.

The Expert Avoider: They may avoid discussing serious topics or future plans. They might change the subject or make vague promises.

The Social Media Sleuth: They might have a history of posting about numerous relationships on social media. It's a good idea to do a little online sleuthing to see if their online presence aligns with their stories.

The Professional Victim: They may play the victim, blaming past relationships on their ex-partners or external circumstances.

How to Protect Yourself from Serial Daters and Narcissists

Trust Your Gut: If something feels off, it probably is. Don't ignore your intuition, even if it contradicts what your head is telling you.

Set Boundaries: Don't be afraid to set boundaries and stick to them. If someone is consistently crossing your boundaries, it's time to reevaluate the relationship.

Take Things Slow: Don't rush into a serious relationship too quickly. Take your time to get to know the person and assess their intentions.

Communicate Openly and Honestly: Don't be afraid to express your feelings and concerns. Good communication is essential in any relationship.

Don't Be Afraid to Walk Away: If you realize that the relationship isn't healthy or fulfilling, don't be afraid to end it.

While there's no foolproof way to detect a liar, here are some common telltale signs that might indicate someone isn't being truthful:

Verbal Cues:

Overly defensive: They may react strongly to simple questions, becoming defensive or argumentative.

Inconsistent details: Their stories may change or contradict themselves over time.

Excessive detail: Liars may provide too much unnecessary detail, trying to sound convincing.

Hesitation and stuttering: They may pause, stutter, or stumble over their words.

Using qualifiers: Phrases like "honestly," "to tell you the truth," or "to be frank" can be used to emphasize truthfulness, but may also indicate deception.

Non-Verbal Cues:

Body language: Liars may exhibit nervous behaviors like fidgeting, sweating, or avoiding eye contact.

Facial expressions: Micro-expressions, such as a brief flash of anger or fear, can reveal underlying emotions.

Posture: They may tense their body or adopt a defensive posture.

Vocal tone and pace: Their voice may change in pitch or speed.

Remember: These are just potential signs, and not everyone exhibits them when lying. It's important to consider the context and the individual's baseline behavior. If you suspect someone is lying, it's best to gather more information and approach the situation calmly and directly.

Remember, a healthy relationship is built on mutual respect, trust, and open communication. If you find yourself in a relationship with a serial dater or narcissist, it's important to prioritize your own well-being and seek support from friends, family, or a therapist.

This blog is for information purposes only. Please consult a professional health advisor for health related concerns.

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Project Assemble

I was speaking to Gemma at my tutor meeting, she explained how my theme is too broad so we spoke about how i could change that.

Ive decided my project will explore the tension between what people say and what their bodies truly express, focusing on micro expressions and body mannerisms that occur within an individual or group focusing more on deceit and lies. These micro-expressions and mannerisms, though fleeting and often unnoticed, are powerful indicators of emotion, intention and communication. Ultimately, the project will highlight the delicate balance between deception and honesty in human interaction.

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