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I was thinking of someone "what you are showing me is not the real you, it's just your demons" as the song played. The singer said the word "demons" at exactly the same second I thought it in my mind. I had not looked at the lyrics beforehand. Weird synchronicity, right?

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Good you can share your Muse, thanks. And…having read several of your posts you might want to think about your “Muse” and if your relationship with Her is “Co-Dependent” as it seems to me to be:

“An unashamed romance. Sweet dreams, sweet dreams, the nightmare scenario, his best Lovemare.”

A good place to start to grow truly “Independent” and then have an “Interdependent” relationship with your Muse is to read The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, and maybe start around page 160 on “The Romantic Solution”:

Here for free download of The Denial of Death, page 160 “The Romantic Solution”

https://humanposthuman.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/ernest_becker_the_denial_of_deathbookfi-org.pdf Quote:

“This is the most remarkable achievement of the Christian world picture: that it could take slaves, cripples, imbeciles, the simple and the mighty, and make them all secure heroes, simply by taking a step back from the world into another dimension of things, the dimension called heaven. Or we might better say that Christianity took creature consciousness—the thing man most wanted to deny—and made it the very condition for his cosmic heroism.

Once we realize what the religious solution did, we can see how modern man edged himself into an impossible situation. He still needed to feel heroic, to know that his life mattered in the scheme of things; he still had to be specially “good” for something truly special. Also, he still had to merge himself with some higher, self-absorbing meaning, in trust and in gratitude —what we saw as the universal motive of the Agape-merger. If he no longer had God, how was he to do this? One of the first ways that occurred to him, as Rank saw, was the “romantic solution”: he fixed his urge to cosmic heroism onto another person in the form of a love object.3 The self- glorification that he needed in his innermost nature he now looked for in the love partner. The love partner becomes the divine ideal within which to fulfill one’s life. All spiritual and moral needs now become focussed in one individual. Spirituality, which once referred to another dimension of things, is now brought down to this earth and given form in another individual human being. Salvation itself is no longer referred to an abstraction like God but can be sought “in the beatification of the other.” We could call this “transference beatification.” Man now lives in a “cosmology of two.”

Man reached for a “thou” when the world-view of the great religious community overseen by God died. Modern man’s dependency on the love partner, then, is a result of the loss of spiritual ideologies, just as is his dependency on his parents or on his psychotherapist.”

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