Moving Beyond Repetition

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2) the belief that one has no power to change the future and that one will always experience these discomforting emotions

If a person that held such a "belief" merely bothered to look at what constituted the "belief" itself they would see something groundless. Anything can be used as catalyst.

Discomfort exists for a reason. One ignores discomfort at the risk of their own evolutionary stagnation.

And people do not seek comfort. They tend to seek a level of discomfort they are willing to tolerate. And even then they don't actually seek it, but the habitual, unconscious questions they "ask" serve as a guide nonetheless. Confusion and distraction, a large part of our cultural overlay, helps support attitudes of acceptance for discomfort. Due to lack of awareness of self, people tend to only accept something which may promise to free themselves from such discomfort, when it is presented in a largely indirect and safe form of allegory. That unconscious longing is what makes "channeling" compelling to them.