That sounds great.
I have decided to stop guiding here at LU and as I noticed you started another thread my advice is to focus on that one.
All the best and Merry Christmas!

Andrei

It doesn't seem to require the ego illusion to create suffering.
Ego illusion is just one of the many :)
It's the first step.
One feels many sensations, some are labelled as light and pleasant, others as heavy and painful.
If you go to the root cause, there is no "suffering", its just a a whole ...

Question from a fellow guide:

5) We people are empty shells, we cannot have an influence on what's going on or control our lives or anything else.
Is that true? How does it work?
Does that mean that you are powerless and have no influence at all on environment and everything that is going on ...

Could you answer the final questions again to see if anything else pops up?

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?
2) Explain in detail what the illusion of separate self is, when it starts and how it works from your own ...

What you said reminded me of something. In the ancient times when people were going to war they used to have a banner made of a wolf`s head on a pike. They kept the wolf's head high above them and the wind going through the wolf's mouth used to make an eerie noise to frightened the enemy.
That's ...

It is very likely that those energies come from the others. I guess nobody is an island. We can all feel to a degree the mood of others. That is not the problem, unless we take those emotions and we start building stories around them.

What about the self though? Is there any doubt left about seeing ...

Why are the stories scary? Do they make you weary or embarrassed or anything? And if so, how do they do that?

Im great, thanks :)
Let me know if you need any assistance.

Good then. Keep at it.
I find writing helps me a lot too.

Does this method actually helps?
Because with every illusion dispelled there should be LESS of "you" and not more.
Are you trying to dispel the stories by keep creating stories? Are you running in circles?

As soon as an illusion/story/belief pops its head out, look and see in direct experience ...

Of course! I am an empty shell, there is only this cover, there is no me. Felt stupid. And after feeling stupid I start to see how tight this kind of beliefs are.
Can you give it a couple of days, a week maybe, and live with this empty shell paradigm and see if any reactions, any hidden beliefs ...

I have the impression that you're replacing one illusion (that of an individual self) with another (that of a universal or collective self).
Am I wrong?

Let's say flow is a word ok to use to describe life, but when you say something like "oneness", well that is a concept loaded with all sorts of ...

But nothing true never dies. I'm part of everything which is the truth, the real being.

What is true?
What is this "everything"?
What is "the truth, the real being"?

Did a shift happen? Did this seeing through the illusion of fears and stories really occur or is it just the whim of the moment?
I ask because we talked about fears before once or twice, and we talked about stories countless times, and each time you come saying how you saw through the illusion and ...

Very nicely put, but do you s e e or is it just a conclusion you reached? Basically, just another story.