Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Journey and the Destination: From Sponge to Filter

I recently came across two fascinating YouTube shorts featuring ChatGPT responding to deeply insightful questions.
🎥 Video 1
🎥 Video 2

These exchanges beautifully reveal the different stages of the human mind. To reach the highest stage—the one that sees clearly beyond illusion—one must find the courage to resolve childhood repression. Humanity cannot move forward without understanding where it has been.

Love has always been my compass, my primary motivator. It’s why I’ve never felt the kind of emptiness so many describe. Truth and love are the only real forces that matter. Love is the true religion.

The human mind is extraordinary. If given truth, time, courage, and a safe space, it will heal itself. Even when trauma has damaged certain pathways, the mind can form new ones. The routes may be longer, but they still lead you home. Whoever said, It’s the journey, not the destination,” never arrived—because once you do, you realize the destination is pure ecstasy. I have arrived.


From Sponge to Filter

Recently, I saw a charlatan on Facebook preaching that people should be “filters, not sponges.”
No one acknowledged my comment, of course—because connected truths are the ones no one wants to see.

Here’s what I wrote:

“I used to be a sponge; all children are sponges. But after a long self-therapy with the books and website of Alice Miller, I have become a filter. To become a filter, we must encounter an enlightened witness and have the courage to face and consciously feel all the repressed painful emotions within the context of our own childhood when triggered by present events. Otherwise, we will endlessly remain sponges—lost in projections and transferences, unconsciously reenacting the painful dramas of our past with people symbolizing our parents or caregivers.”

If I were still a sponge, I would have absorbed all the toxic energy projected onto me by the sociopaths at my former workplace. But because I became a filter, I was able to feel their evil energy consciously and release it. It returned to its source. And, in the end, my boss was the one to self-destruct.
🔗 The Big Cover-Up by Sociopaths at My Ex-Job


The Roots of Repression

Alice Miller wrote powerfully about the ways in which repression distorts the soul:

“Several mechanisms can be recognized in the defense against early feelings of abandonment. In addition to simple denial, we usually find the exhausting struggle to fulfill the old, repressed, and by now often perverted needs with the help of symbols (cults, sexual perversions, groups of all kinds, alcohol, or drugs). Intellectualization is very commonly encountered as well, since it is a defense mechanism of great power.”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child, p. 11

And again:

“We do not arrive in this world as a clean slate. Every new baby comes with a history of its own... Character depends crucially upon whether a person is given love, protection, tenderness, and understanding, or exposed to rejection, coldness, indifference, and cruelty in the early formative years... If a traumatized or neglected child can later come to know an ‘enlightened witness,’ he or she can deal positively with the effects of that childhood trauma.”
— Alice Miller

This is the truth humanity refuses to face. The monsters who rise to power, the sociopaths who manipulate and destroy, were once helpless children—emotionally abandoned, unloved, or terrorized into submission. Their cruelty is not innate; it’s reenacted pain.
🔗 Adolf Hitler: How Could a Monster Succeed?


The Price of False Freedom

The man in those YouTube videos asked questions that expose the mindset of most humans: the obsession with control, status, and external validation. But no amount of power or money can buy true freedom or peace of mind.

Yes, we need money to live—but once we are emotionally free, we no longer crave excess. Freedom, peace, and love are the ultimate wealth.

I often think of what happens when we stop being sponges for other people’s projections and transferences. We stop carrying the pain of generations, and the human ocean begins to clear. That’s when healing becomes possible—not only for individuals but for the world.

Because when you finally arrive, you realize:
Love was the destination all along.



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