Owen Cook - Ego Vs Self-Esteem

Owen Cook aka Tyler Durden talks about our true essence as human beings.

This is a short clip from the program "The Blueprint Decoded". If you like this stuff buy the whole DVD set at Amazon or http://www.blueprintdecoded.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Owen Cook
• Tyler Durden
• RSD
• Real Social Dynamics
• Ego
• Awareness
• State
• Self-Esteem
• The Game
• Lsd
• Acid
• Consciousness

[WorldHasToChange]

that was impressive! He just opened a door for me

[HheadHhammer]

@WorldHasToChange Check out the full version, it's a lot of this kind of stuff in it

[Rockhardbud1]

He's full of bullshit. 

[HheadHhammer]

@Rockhardbud1 lol in what way?

[Cyrusk4]

I think it's funny how this guy was the villain in "The Game" but he ends up being way more interesting and a better teacher and actually more authentic then anything Neil Strauss puts out there.

[Goldernie]

TD really lives up to his name teaching ego death to the masses.

[25psitsi]

This guy just described the exact battle I've been having with my own ego for the past 5 months. I've been keeping it hush hush and stumbled across this while browsing youtube. Unreal. I had no idea other people think and FEEL this way.

[yunikage]

He takes a really simple idea, acts like he came up with it, and then explains it as if he's talking to elementary school kids.

CHA-CHING!

[ngmyt2012]

@HheadHhammer

lol, nice drawings , Picasso.

[chevmaster1000]

@WorldHasToChange

Every one go to RSDnation . com

[ionvkch]

@BombayBadBoy10 ...is a good example of it in the extreme sense. This is really good though since now we can really see how hilarious and trite the mind can be and how it interacts with the other. Eventually the boxing gloves have to be lowered because of how hopeless it is sometimes. I find myself going through this and it's revelatory :P Just need to ease up, but the big catch22 is that I have a chatty mind FOR analysis and detail which means making careful judgements of things and people

[ionvkch]

@BombayBadBoy10 That's funny, what you wrote is really complimentary and mirrors a blog I just wrote, my very first one. Interestingly right when I pressed "post" on my first blog I started seeing its exact subject matter everywhere immediately. It's about, like you said, the mind entangled with the Other, the projection field of it, and how that "world" is both the mind's most frequent haunt and it's most favorite torture. The "over intellectualization" inherent in a good portion of the net...

[BombayBadBoy10]

@ionvkch it is important not to try and work out what I mean, because this is part of the fantasy! (i.e. the fantasy of finding the final answer, the key to the universe). There is an emphasis in our society that stems from the Enlightenment of the ability of the mind to understand and rationalise everything. People then come to depend on the 'Other' (as in 'the Laws of Nature', 'God', Capitalist Ideology) to tell them what to do, how to think.The desire to 'know' never ends, however...

[BombayBadBoy10]

...it stops becoming a burden and anxiety-creating if one avows/accepts 'the lack in the Other' (the fact that language has multifarious meanings and that knowledge is incomplete - not everything can be known). And this can only be done through practice and can take a long time - Freudian or Lacanian analytic practice is the best. I might go back on what i said about this PUA discourse though, it might be ok so long as what i just said is upheld.

[ionvkch]

@BombayBadBoy10 I know people with high anxiety are often stuck in massive amounts of "what if" type of thinking, which I guess could be interpreted as fantasy, because the only way the mind can make sense of the levels of fear coursing through the body is to find a 'reason' or some 'logic' no matter how improbable or illogical it seems. The mind simply must find a reason for the fear which leads to all manner of highly imaginative, intricate scenarios. I think that is what you mean?

[ionvkch]

@BombayBadBoy10 the existence of anxiety and it's possible reduction or even elimination in some cases is a much larger subject than that sentence. It actually doesn't make much sense from my perspective. 'Anxiety can ONLY be reduced if one accepts that true fantasy is impossible.' I keep repeating this sentence to myself like a mantra and am having a really hard time figuring out what you mean. By fantasy do you mean the fear of fear itself and the vicious albeit illusory cycling that creates?