Introduction
For the work on some egos working on ‘perceived needs’ is
very helpful in weakening the hypnotic grip that these egos have over our free
essence.
This post offers an investigation on this point of ‘perceived
needs’ that are not really real needs.
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| The 'false needs' are of the egos and appear as real ones, and there we get confused and tricked by our own egos. |
That Which is a Need Can’t be Ignored
A need is something that we have to have, or something that
we can not go without. Just like food, water, air, clothing and shelter, we
have to have them to live. If something is a need for us we have to have it,
and that is where a large part of the strength of the ego resides.
So then when we perceive something as a need we become
convinced that we have to have that thing or do that thing, and that thing can
be anything from an object to an apology, to a desire, to a justification, to receiving
a thank you or to an astral experience etc. etc.
Symptoms of ‘Perceived Needs’
When we perceive something as a need we feel that we are
missing something, that we lack something, that something is not right, we feel
restless without it, we feel unbalanced and unstable, we feel incomplete, we
feel almost obsessed in the pursuit of it etc. etc. All because we perceive something
as a need, and the most important question to ask ourselves is it a real need?
There is Something True in Them and Something False
Just as an aside, when there is the perception of a need
sometimes there is something there that has to be done or balanced or
compensated. And very true it must be balanced or compensated and this can be
done perfectly through practical action or from within ourselves and not
fulfilling the need exactly like the ego wishes it to be fulfilled.
For example, at work you are told that a document you produced
is not very good and needs improvement. Suddenly you feel the need to justify.
Well, true something has to be done, and the way to do it is to get to work and
improve it and go within and use the truth to balance that apparent need by telling
yourself, well true: “I see their point and implementing the improvements will
benefit everyone, they will appreciate it, I will learn something, I will learn
how to be a little freer from justification and attachment to my self-image
etc.”. So within ourselves as soon as we perceive a benefit then we come to
balance within, and the ‘need’ to justify becomes a false need and one which we can now discard.
How the Hypnotic Grip Uses ‘Perceived Needs’
The ego uses the perception of a need as part of its
hypnotic grip on us or on the free essence. I say hypnotic grip because ‘the
need’ is not really a real need and so the ego does a work of hypnotising or
making the free essence, which is us, to believe that we need that thing, when
we really don’t.
The first step to get free from this hypnotic grip is to
make complete our realisation that the perception or feeling of a need that the
ego proposes is not a real need at all. We have to drill down deep into it to
discover if it is a real need or not, and then drum this understanding (that it
is not a real need) deep into ourselves, all the way into our subconscious. I
stress though that before we do the latter, we have to have logically and truthfully
come to the conclusion that it is not a real need. If not it won’t work.
How it Blinds Us
When we have the perception of a need we can’t and don’t see
that what is going on in us, what is thinking and feeling in us is an ego. We
remain oblivious to that.
We tend to see it as something natural and biological for
example, or something that we need for our well-being or the fault of another
etc. etc.
What it really is, is an ego that is like a spoilt kid relentlessly
wanting something and kicking up a big storm within us when it is not getting
what it wants. It uses beguiling thoughts and images and compelling emotions to
get what it wants.
In the Egos
In Lust
These false but perceived as real needs are many, and this
ego uses these perceived needs a lot. I’m not really going to mention any because,
oh I don’t know, you may even be reading this line anyway, so here are some,
only because it may be more useful than me saying “discover them for yourself”.
We feel we need company of the opposite sex, someone of the opposite
sex to love us, someone of the opposite sex for us to love, someone of the
opposite sex to look after us, someone of the opposite sex to express sexually
with, etc. etc. You may say that this is all fine and maybe they are, just look
inside to see where these things come from. They are worth an examination.
In Pride
This ego uses these not real needs but perceived as real
needs a lot as well. The need to be respected, to be esteemed, to be thought of
well, to be cared for, to be taken into account, to be included, to be loved,
to be listened to, to be smiled at, to be spoken to respectfully, to be
welcomed, to receive kindness, to be treated equally and not less, to be
rewarded, etc.
Conclusion
When we say the words “I need” or simply that we feel that we need
something and that something we know is mixed up with an ego, go straight away
to investigate the truth of that perceived need.
Even in any ego, drill down deep into it to find out what its
needs are. Then armed with the truth go to break it open and reveal in truth
whether it is really needed.
End (1120).
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