The Reincarnation Trap — Instructions for Logging Out of Project Earth? John Veto

Veto emphasizes that the ego is not the enemy — it is an integral part of the avatar's software, responsible for its safety. The problem is not its existence, but that in most cases, people are completely unaware of its operation. Parents pacify children, teachers pacify students, students pacify teachers — everywhere the ego takes control without the person's awareness.

The process Veto himself underwent consists of several stages. First: identify that there is a personality within me that has 'uncool traits'. Second: start observing when it reveals itself — in what circumstances, under what conditions. Third: ask myself if I am able — often having only 3 seconds to decide — to notice its appearance and consciously give up the egotistical reaction. Initially, there is an internal conflict because we identify with the ego ('I am the ego'). But after 10, 15, 20 times of giving it up, Veto noticed that he becomes increasingly free, and the ego manifests to a lesser and lesser degree.

Veto draws this practice from Eckhart Tolle's 'The Power of Now' — it's about entering the state 'between one thought and the next, which hasn't appeared'. He describes it as his personal, great success: maintaining a state of mental non-engagement for 60 seconds. It's not about forcefully suppressing thoughts, but about a loose approach — the more you try, the stronger the ego. The more loosely you approach, after a few seconds the mind's 'suggestions' are erased, extinguished.

Veto emphasizes the fundamental difference between this state and states of high exaltation: this is not a state of high vibrations in the sense of excitement or elation. It is a state of quieting — low frequencies, like the sound 'om'. And it is precisely in this quieting that one achieves inner peace and euphoria that do not come from an external stimulus.

Veto describes this using his own example: for over a dozen years he collected material attributes — money, successes — believing they would satisfy his needs. He reached a point where he understood that 'whatever I might possess in this matter, it is absolutely unable to satisfy my deep needs'. This understanding came only after fully experiencing material well-being — it couldn't come earlier, because earlier he believed that was exactly what he lacked.

The key is the moment of saturation — like with his view of the Bieszczady mountains: he loves them, has gone there since childhood, they will always deeply move him, but at the same time he feels he is already saturated. If the Bieszczady disappeared tomorrow, he would accept it calmly. This is not indifference — it is a fullness that no longer needs more.

Veto emphasizes that he struggles most with the factor of relationships — especially with his daughter — and that this is the only thing that still holds him. He would not make the decision to leave until he works through this attachment.

Veto contrasts this practice with popular approaches in his environment that involve assigning deep meaning through rituals, communication with the body, 'ringing bells'. For him, the master of reduction is Eckhart Tolle. It's not about doing nothing — it's about doing without egotistical narrative superstructure.

He uses the example of a race: you can win and be first, but the key is from what place you make decisions — whether from ego ('I must win') or from the self ('I will stop and help'). Reduction of meaning does not mean giving up action, only giving up the egotistical meaning assigned to the action.

Veto illustrates this with an elaborate parable about a race: you are second, just before the finish line the leader's car breaks down. The ego says: 'Drive, you'll be first'. If you drive on — the ego has possessed you. If you stop, attach a tow rope, and pull him across the finish line first, and yourself second — you won, but from a different place. Everyone sees what you did and respects you, because 'we, possessing this divine element, know what is right'.

This parable shows the subtle difference we don't perceive in everyday life. It's not about stopping winning — it's about winning (or losing) from the level of the self, not from the level of the ego. 'You are to win, you are to be first. But remember at what cost you do it.'

Veto argues that the Earth simulation is purposefully designed to addict the self through four pillars. Power gives illusory control and feeds the ego. Matter binds through consumption and accumulation of goods — he describes this using the example of an S-Class Mercedes, which from an object of desire becomes a source of enslavement requiring more and more time and money. Relationships are the strongest prison — Veto himself admits he struggles most with detaching from children. Knowledge acts as a trap at an advanced stage: it begins to generate informational noise and blur the picture instead of sharpening it.

The key insight is that you cannot skip any of these stages. A self that has not experienced power will return to it in subsequent incarnations. A self deprived of deep relationships will desire them. Therefore, exiting the cycle is not about denying desires, but about fully living them until the moment of surfeit — like with the view of the Bieszczady mountains, which Veto loves, but feels already saturated with.

Paradoxically, knowledge — which initially is necessary to ask fundamental questions — at a certain point becomes an obstacle. Veto describes how, during a psychedelic journey, answers began to precede questions, and the amount of incoming information exceeded the avatar's capacity to process it, creating noise. Only consciously stopping this wheel ('Stop!') opened the 'I am' state.

Veto distinguishes the 'I am' state from all other states available in the simulation. Every experience here — even the greatest euphoria, like orgasm or falling in love — is subject to entropy: it builds, peaks, and then inevitably declines. In the 'I am' state, this mechanism does not exist. It is not a moment of ecstasy that passes — it is a permanent growth curve. 'Stagnation does not exist. There is only eternally growing happiness.'

Importantly, Veto emphasizes that this state is incommunicable in words. The avatar is too perceptually and linguistically impoverished to describe it. It can only be experienced — and after experiencing it, only a clumsy attempt to approximate it with metaphors remains. The comparison to a tenfold orgasm is the 'poorest' approximation he is able to give.

Veto also indicates that entering this state required consciously stopping the 'wheel' — it was not an intellectual decision, but a voice saying 'Stop'. Only after stopping the drive of questions and answers did 'I am' occur.

Veto demonstrates this principle live in conversation, proposing an experiment: he poses the thesis 'We only live once', then shows that for every thesis, an antithesis is immediately born, and for that another — and so on ad infinitum. There is no final argument to confirm or refute anything.

In science, it works identically: even a repeatedly confirmed experiment will find a scientist who questions its validity. Thanks to this, we never reach a final answer to any question. This is not a bug of the simulation — it's its feature.

The consequences are devastating for all conflicts: since objective truth does not exist, no religious war, no ideological dispute has any basis. The problem arises when a strong ego of an individual or a state apparatus decides they have enough power to impose their 'truth' by force — then armed conflict becomes real, even though its philosophical basis is illusory.

Veto uses a social analogy: if someone enters a stranger's house and doesn't say 'good morning', and no one ever pointed it out to them, they don't know they're committing a faux pas. Only when a mentor points out the mistake and they themselves acknowledge it, can they correct the behavior. It's the same with incarnation — until the self acknowledges that entering this simulation was a mistake, it cannot take real steps to exit it.

The ego is the main obstacle in this process — 'the ego is never wrong'. It doesn't allow admitting that something was done wrong. That's why publicly naming this mistake was a fundamental act for Veto: 'Only then can I make a correction.'

Veto emphasizes, however, that this is his personal conclusion, not a universal truth — each self has its own path and its own moment of eventual recognition.

According to Veto, the moment right after the avatar's death is crucial. The self, which was previously 'glued' to the avatar (as in OBE descriptions, where the soul detaches from the body before an accident), finds itself in a state where it has a short window to make a decision. If it hasn't worked through attachments — if it is still addicted to relationships, matter, power, or knowledge — its natural reflex will be to return.

Veto vividly describes this as a situation where 'they tear you away from the keyboard' and offer a new incarnation: 'Listen man, you will incarnate as your daughter's daughter.' If you are unprepared, if you still feel you must supervise your children or finish things, you immediately return.

The key is that a declaration made during life ('I'm not coming back') is worthless — the decision must be supported by actual saturation and detachment, because at the critical moment, the default addiction program will activate.