Rizwan Virk

But yeah, I view it as a challenge rather than this is just a bad thing that's happened to me.

Yeah.

Not only does it seem like the right way, I think that is part of the purpose, right?

So get back to the idea of maya or illusion, right?

So it's like we are agreeing to forget, right?

The Greeks talked about the river of forgetfulness, lethe, right?

It's one of the five rivers of the other world.

But when you incarnate,

Plato talked about this.

You cross the river and you forget everything outside of this physical world.

And in the Chinese traditions, you have the same thing.

You have Meng Po, excuse me, who's a goddess of forgetfulness.

And she brews the tea of forgetfulness and you drink it and you forget what was going on before.

And so getting back to this idea of everything being an illusion,

you kind of agree to forget, in my view, and I think within this way of viewing the world as a video game, in order to enjoy, and I put enjoy in quotes because that doesn't necessarily mean it's all fun and games, right?

It's maybe experience, right?

is a better word to use, to experience these things in life in a way that we forget.

But it's okay sometimes, I think, to step out and maybe we remember a little bit of the storyline or we recognize someone.

There was a hypnotherapist who wrote a book called Journey of Souls, Dr. Michael Newton.

I don't know if you ever have heard of it.