<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # To escape our anxiety we must accept, and make... > {{To escape our anxiety we must accept, and make peace, with the contradictions of life.}} Though not commonly considered, t{T{here are many non-fiction applications of suspension of disbelief, especially in a false world of illusions.}} {{Suspension of disbelief is a vital life skill for anyone who wants to live in the real world.}} {{By suspending disbelief we can believe in ourselves.}} We can and should b{B{egin to accept imagination as a part and form of reality, because human reality is inseparable from imagination.}} {{We can live life as broader spectrum beings, with the best qualities of children, by healing our affliction of adultism, which severed us from communing with our vast inner-child.}} Your inner-child, like the truly natural newborn; a sort of aboriginal proto-human of consciousness — unbound and god-like, is born into a cultural cocktail of sedation, constriction, and programming, often called, love. Natural curiosity and playful interface of innocence, only forgivable as a child, is what is seen in adults as hedonism, or insanity. {{The true loss of innocence is when freedom becomes shameful, and shame becomes freedom.}} {{We accept the mantel of shame in order to transition into the adult life of freedom. This is how we trade inhibition for tradition. This is how we lose ourselves.}} {{All loss of power begins with shame, and suppression of what is deemed bad in our nature.}} **Source:** [[books/Various Writings|Various Writings]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->