r/TheDoorsOfPerception_

After reading this, you might think I have no idea what I am talking about. And effectively, you are right, I have no idea. And I don’t even care to have one.

We are usually so focused on "the madwoman of the house" (as the mind was called by the mystic Teresa of Ávila). We trust too much in it, but, precisely, the mind is what will pull us away from God. God is not something that can be trapped or understood by the mind, because God is not a "something" nor a "someone". God is pure Being: "I Am that I Am" (Exodus 3:14). God is the loving and infinite Presence that we discover in the Silence of Stillness. Silence is the key. Because, as Rumi beautifully wrote, "Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation." It speaks without the need for words, because the silence I am talking about is a Silence in capital letters, a Silence of LOVE.

The mind is a very useful tool in conventional life if we are the ones using it and not the other way around. But it is good for little else.

People like to talk about evidence, and perhaps it seems to you that there is no evidence for what I am telling you. But the truth is, the evidence of the mystics is the direct experience of God. To experience God directly, not by hearsay, not secondhand, you must go beyond the mind and its stories. You decide.

If we want real evidence, we should go beyond the thoughts and emotions the mind enjoys ruminating on while feeding the persona (the spiritual ego).

I believe it was Rumi who said that when the pen reached LOVE, it split in two. The conceptual mind is of no use to us when it comes to embracing and experiencing, in every breath of life, that there is no distance or separation between the lover and the Beloved, between us and the One who is LOVE itself.

And this is something that must be lived in daily life, in everyday life, in every moment. Some retreat to a monastery or the countryside, and that is fine, as long as they do not forget that the true retreat is mental; that is, we retreat and detach from the mind, we go beyond the mind. And this is lived and experienced in our daily life.

Whoever believes in Jesus but does not put His teachings into practice does not truly believe in Him. But the truth is, Jesus never really spoke about mere belief; believing in Him will not save you, as they say in certain Christian circles. Not surprisingly, the mystic John of the Cross, recalling what Jesus Himself warned in Matthew 25:41-46, tells us: "In the evening of our lives, we will be examined on LOVE."

Jesus Himself also points out that, precisely by this, everyone will know that you are My disciples, by the LOVE you have for one another (John 13:35).

The Lord wants us to be one with Him, just as He is one with the Father (John 17:21). That is what He truly wants. Believing or not believing is not important at all. In fact, as I always like to say, there is a curious paradox: many who claim to believe in Jesus and label themselves as Christians are not truly His disciples; meanwhile, some who do not even believe in Him actually are.

It is one thing to be a Christian and quite another to be one of The Way. The Lord, who knows hearts, knows who are His and who are not.

Don't believe me, just do it. Surrender into the arms of the Beloved and be consumed in the Fire of His LOVE. That's the death of the character, and you are reborn as one with God.

You may, however, still be convinced of the role that belief plays in all this, and say: "Very well, Jesus emphasized Love, as is completely necessary; but He did instruct morality and beliefs on its own: 'I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me' (John 14:6); and again He says, 'My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me' (John 10:27)."

Precisely, whoever does not surrender and die to themselves, to the tiny self, to the ego created by "the madwoman of the house," cannot be reborn as One with "I Am that I Am," with God. Only by dying to the character do we discover the reality behind the scenes.

Only then do we discover LOVE in capital letters; only then do we truly know God and transform our lives.

It is not belief; it is experience. It is surrendering to the One who is LOVE itself, dying consumed in the fire of His LOVE, and being reborn One with Him, being One with Him. That is why Jesus tells us that no one comes to the Father except through Him. That is the Truth that Jesus embodied. That is the Way. That is the Life He offers us—He Himself, which is eternal life.

Jesus did not seek to make Christians (a label, by the way, popularized by pagans in Antioch much later). Instead, He wanted us to unite with the All, with God, with the One who is LOVE itself, and to be One, just as the Father and He are One.

The Lord knows who His sheep are and who are not, far beyond labels and beliefs. Today more than ever, in a world with so much mental noise but so little direct experience of God, the sheep are being silently separated from the goats, the wheat from the chaff... They are not separated by labels; they are separated by the sword of LOVE. A sword that cuts you and separates you from everything that is not truly you. Because you are One in God and with God.

But you might still question: what about all those texts, Magisterium, and Doctrine? Do you sacrifice them for the sake of direct experience? Won't what comes out of that be purely subjective?

The first problem here would be agreeing on which texts faithfully transmit the Way to follow. There will always be someone who comes along with a text they believe is more genuine or authentic. This happens a lot in Christian circles, especially following the discovery of texts that were previously silenced, such as the Gospel of Thomas, which has been documented since the second century. But focusing on the texts or looking for more texts or collections of sayings is exactly how "the madwoman of the house" keeps us entertained. Personally, I am not interested in all this conceptual, doctrinal information, nor in exploring ancient manuscripts that supposedly bring us closer.

Even Scripture itself warns against this trap of legalism and mental attachment to rules. As Paul radically stated in Galatians 5:4, "You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace." The tools we already have and people usually accept are more than enough to point to the only thing that matters: the direct, living experience of non-separation right Here and Now.

I’m not coming from a Christian perspective, nor am I interested in textual validation. My point is to use the widely accepted narrative to point toward a lived reality: non-duality and radical love. This isn’t about texts; it’s about shifting our consciousness beyond labels. Jesus knew it, and He didn't write anything. Men later thought, used by the madwoman, that they could be wiser than Jesus.

When in the post I use quotes and authors, I do it to point you toward the non-dual truth of no separation, but they are all unimportant, just like the texts, the doctrine... If in the end we do not have a direct experience of God, of the One who is LOVE itself, of the All, we can throw all texts into the trash—even those that seem the most reliable or sacred.

Jesus, One in the Father's Love, wants the same for us. He cares little for recording His exact words. Even words can be manipulated and misunderstood by the madwoman. If He had cared, He would have left it in writing, and He did not. The mind confuses us and we get lost in its stories, which are not where Jesus points: Being.

You might fear that this direct experience is something purely subjective, but the paradox is exactly the opposite. What is subjective is the unceasing chatter and the flood of emotions that the madwoman of the house loves to wallow in to sustain the illusion of separation. The direct experience of God is not a personal feeling; it is an absolute catharsis where the character ceases to exist entirely. It is terrifying to die to what you believe you are, but that fear is not yours; it is the madwoman resisting with all her might to lose control and power over you. Go beyond. Surrender, yield, die consumed in LOVE, and be reborn One with pure Being, not as an individual with opinions of its own (controlled by the mind), but as an instrument of the All, of God, as you wish to call it.

Final Note:

That is precisely what needs to be done: to set aside earthly labels and concepts. Beliefs. And embrace the direct experience of God’s presence, which is not something mental, it is not a mental exercise. It is not a cognitive or sentimental operation. A beautiful way to enter this experience is through Silence: a Silence of thoughts, concepts, labels, and all that chatter and stories that the madwoman loves so much. A mental Silence. A mental retreat, not a physical one.

And embrace that experience in every moment of our lives, just like Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, for example, who found God while turning a little omelet in his frying pan. Or like the mystic Teresa of Ávila, who found God among the pots and pans. Again, as the Apostle Paul reminds us in Galatians 5:4, if you cling to the law, you are alienated from Christ; you fall away from grace.

I don’t usually recommend books, but there is a short work that beautifully exemplifies what we are talking about here. It is The Practice of the Presence of God by the Carmelite friar Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection.

If you truly surrender to God, you will be consumed in the burning fire of His LOVE and reborn as one with the I Am that I Am. Being.

The great secret that lies at the heart of all the main religious and spiritual traditions is the understanding that the peace and happiness for which all people long can never be delivered via objective experience. It can only be found in our self, in the depths of our being.👁

The stories of "the madwoman of the house" (as the mind was called by the Mystic Teresa of Ávila) are not what is real.

Connect, Here and Now, with the space of pure consciousness that you truly are.

Silence Speaks! Listen!

For many, spiritual life is not a journey of light, but a terrifying ordeal filled with dread, paralysis, or encounters with what feel like autonomous demonic entities and dark abductions. These individuals deserve to be met with unconditional love and deep empathy, receiving not just comfort, but a real and definitive liberation from their suffering.

When caught in the grip of these heavy encounters, it is easy to fall into panic, seeking desperate shortcuts, complex rituals, or magical tricks. However, we must be cautious of advice that exploits biochemical thrills or external practices to fix an inner crisis. That is simply "the madwoman of the house" (as the mystic Teresa of Ávila called the mind) seeking a temporary escape while actually feeding the chaos. Buddhists speak of this same reality as the untamed elephant blindly driven by its impulses, or the restless "monkey mind" leaping endlessly from thought to thought. In the same way, the ancient tradition of Advaita Vedanta describes it as Maya, the powerful cosmic illusion that veils our true nature, and Ahamkara, the ego-sense that manufactures the false character we mistake for our true nature. These are simply different ways of describing the exact same thing: the mental prison.

Whether we view these dark encounters as autonomous negative entities or as deep psychological accumulations, they operate exactly like what Eckhart Tolle calls the "pain-body." This negative force acts as a parasite; it does not seek peace, but feeds on intense emotional drama, terror, and anxiety to sustain its grip. In the face of this, the mind becomes the true source of the problem, because the mind cannot fix what it has broken. When the mind takes over, it fragments reality, creates the illusion of separation, and traps us in a loop of fear.

If you look at what actually works from the perspective of pure Consciousness, the path to liberation is the exact opposite of fighting, resisting, or performing rituals: it is being intensely present in the Now. This darkness is merely the absence of light, a shadow that requires your reaction to exist. You must not repress or battle these dark impulses, for resistance only fuels them. The only true "exorcism" is Presence Here and Now. If you remain grounded in the present moment, observing the inner energy field of your body without judging, labeling, or reacting, fear has nothing to hold onto and naturally dissolves.

You must become a simple witness. Fear is born when you believe there is an "external" force separate from yourself that can launch an attack. When you remember that you are the vast space where everything happens, the illusion loses its power. There are not two forces fighting; there is only Being. As the mystic Meister Eckhart famously prayed, "I pray to God to rid me of God," urging us to empty ourselves of our own limited ideas, mental idols, and human constructs. Divine Reality is not an object to be possessed, but the pure space that remains when the madwoman of the house is silenced, and we let thoughts and emotions fall away like withered leaves.

Beyond the potential manipulations of human structures and written dogmas, these words simply point to what the heart already knows through direct experience: we are One with and in the One Who is LOVE itself, which means with the Father, the Source, God, the All, whatever you wish to call It. Truly, there is no separation or distance between lover and Beloved; truly, there never was. This absolute union is perfectly captured in the Intimate Diaries of the Blessed Mystic Bernardo de Hoyos, recorded in the biography written by his spiritual director, Father Juan de Loyola, when the Lord intimately declared to him, "From now on, you are Bernardo of Jesus, and I am Jesus of Bernardo." Remember, we are One with and in the One Who is LOVE Himself...

True spiritual strength is found in stillness and inner surrender. If you stop labeling the situation as an external threat and remain imperturbable, you starve the negativity of its fuel. Just quiet the madwoman and surrender to LOVE. Real Love is neither a thought nor an intense emotion; it is the profound, silent stillness that remains when the mind and the character (the ego) fall completely silent. Whenever you feel that heaviness, paralysis, or fear creeping in, do not fight back with mental noise. Instead, close your eyes, anchor yourself deeply in your breath, remain as a mere observer, and remember that this too shall pass. Then, repeat this silently with unwavering authority:

"I am here. I am the space of pure Consciousness. No shadow can exist, Here and Now, in the light of pure Presence. I rest in the All, in God, in the One who is Love Himself, where I am eternally safe, whole, and free."

The alien, the spirit, or the entity that violates, attacks, or abducts you lives in division, separation, and mental noise, but it is consumed in the blazing fire of the One Who is LOVE Himself, of the All, of the Source, however you wish to call Him. And between you and Him, there is no separation. We are One with and in the One Who is LOVE Himself. Always remember this; treasure it in your heart. All too often, institutions, religions, and these non-benevolent entities have tried to make you forget it. You are a spark of the Infinite Divine Light. You are light, and light illuminates the deepest darkness.

The spiritual path is found in the everyday, ordinary actions of our lives. It is about live ordinary life in an extraordinary way, turning everything we do into something sacred, because only the mind separates us from the sacred when there is actually no distance between it and us. As Teresa of Ávila beautifully reminded us, God walks among the pots and pans, and Brother Lawrence found the Divine while simply flipping an omelet in his frying pan. When you remain intensely present in every mundane and ordinary moment, these non-benevolent entities will find no way to enter or disturb you, because you have made your ordinary life a sacred temple where God, the All, dwells.

Quiet the mind, step back as the mere observer, and remember: LOVE is the true frequency of God, of the All, and of yourself.

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\*\*PERSONAL NOTE:\*\* I want to clarify that English is not my native language, and I rely on translation support to express my thoughts. I understand this can sometimes make my tone sound more blunt than intended. If any term, analogy, or metaphor used here does not resonate with you, please feel free to discard it; instead, hold onto where my words are pointing rather than the words themselves. My goal is simply to share a perspective of Peace, never to diminish anyone's experiences. Thank you for your understanding!

\*\*A FINAL NOTE ON PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE:\*\* I am not a Christian, a Buddhist, an Advaita Vedantin, or a Sufi... I am no one and nothing. I am simply someone who wishes to help you heal from these kinds of experiences and free yourself from the pain they cause, because you deserve to be happy. Please know that this post is not a mere intellectual exercise. While I quote great historical mystics and traditions, my intention is not to offer you a beautiful, abstract theory, but a real, practical solution to end your suffering. This perspective comes entirely from my own direct experience and lifelong practice. I was raised in a spiritist family, spent most of my life practicing Buddhism, including several years living as a monk, and I have fallen down and gathered the strength to stand back up many times. I have personally lived through all kinds of what the world calls "anomalous experiences." This is what worked for me when the darkness seemed overwhelming. I know it can work for you, too. Don't believe anything I tell you just for the sake of believing; put it to the test in your own life, test it as gold is tested to know if it is real. And remember, this too shall pass. May Peace be with you!

argues that naturalism cannot explain how we know subjective experience exists.