The practice of creating an 'imaginary playmate' with desired qualities (wisdom, humor, rascality, emptiness, devotional heart) allows one to externalize and then internalize these qualities; one eventually realizes the playmate was as real as oneself was, since both are forms of consciousness.
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“basically what you're doing is inventing a soul to awaken you out of your ego trip...your imaginary Playmate was as real as you were because who you thought you were was just who you thought you were anyway [51:22]”
Created: 8/10/2026, 3:32:01 PM
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